MH4U: My Top 5 Switch Axes
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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Disclaimer: I have not used every single SA in the game and there are lots of other good ones, so don't take this as definitive or correct. I just wanted to share the top 5 that I've used so far, please leave comments on other ones you love!
Wanted to use concept art but could not find any. :(
Happy Hunting!
lotsa charge blade in the background, don't forget to turn off layers from previous videos :3
God damn beer and editing do not mix :(
gaijin hunter My favorite SA is the Diablos. With my set it got 10 % Affinity, long white sharpness and 2000!!! damage.
Shaco Reloaded Yepp. With my set it got 2000 damage as well. Such a beast!
gaijin hunter watcha tryin'a say?! Charge blade makes Switchaxe obsolete?!
gaijin hunter also behind the Stygian right as it appears you see punk rathian C.B
In 4U when I lance, I hate every weapon equally...
I hated it at first until I learned you can switch between the two forms mid combo
Noob
@@himathyjenkins bruh
@@himathyjenkins wow
@@himathyjenkins Jesus Christ
switch axe will always have a place in my heart smashin' those jaggis
what about diablos SA with honed blade/critical eye +3 and honed with attack, it would have over 2000 raw attack
This is an old comment but thought I’d comments on it anyways. It doesn’t make up for it not having power Phial and Purple sharpness, as that’s a whole of 34% damage lost on it, where as the SA’s with weaker raw having purple and the power phial will outperform it unless it had a significantly less raw. All the Power Phials shown in the video outdo it in damage, but that’s not to say that it’s bad weapon as exhaust Phial certainly has its place and if people enjoy it then that works too.
First weapon I ever used and fell in love with it. My friends said it was the most complicated and I took it as a personal challenge. Really fun! Keep up the videos!
Charge blade in the corner like complicated huh?
I just looked up the final form of the dalamadur sa... AND GOOD LORD!! High attack, blast element, 3 slots, def boost, power phial and good design... GOOD LORD!!!
Amen brother, that shits my baby
+taylor wold hey , a query. I main charge blade . I am in G2. Should I pick the SA or just pour my time into Charge Blade and master guard points???plz reply. Thanks in advance.
go with CB if you want to go with a safer playstyle and switch axe if you want a more unique playstyle(I know I'm extremely late).
P.S CB is basically a swiss army knife in MH weapon form lol
Oh your were a lance player? Good to see someone who knows the pain. Like you said for me it is the long sword. I began to hate the weapon so much and their users back in MH3. Nowadays I did become a lot better, position myself the right way and even use advantage of the team attacks to use my Shield counter.
TherókMSM dont forget felyne feet or rock steady!
J. Sal You still get interrupted
I'm a Lance main also, but I didn't play online too much in Tri. (Which is when I first started playing MH.) With 4U though, EVERYONE uses a Charge Blades online and they knock me over ALL THE TIME. If I play with 1 or more CB users at a time, I have to stay away from them unless I want to get knocked on my ass. It's at its worst when a monster gets knocked down and the CB user(s) along with myself, go for the head....
Conor McDonald When I'm fighting and people like that stand right next to me, even though I am already targeting the not so important body part so I dont get interupted, and keep knocking me over that hunt, the next hunt I'll use a Gunlance, just to be mean sometimes which isn't really the right way to handle this, but feels good to knock them away with a lance!
TherókMSM Same gose for me but I use Gunlace mainly.
Um, what's up with the crimson fatalistic charge blade...? 0:56
Lol fatalistic
In my opinion, you should to the "Thoughts On X Weapon" for every one of these top five videos. I thoroughly enjoyed that segment.
I use, LS, and sometimes I bumb other players too (accidentally), but often I don't realise that I maybe really piss them off. I hope that many people see that a LS/SA user 1. doesn't always realise that he has bumped you and 2. doesn't do it intentional. So please have a bit indulgence with us. Sometimes it's not even our fault. (A hammer player once ran into me while I was attacking the tail and then has given me a lecture!)
Mr. Largee Correcting your mistake quickly is also important. Big LS user here, and I'd like to think over the years that I've gotten good enough at coordinating my strikes so that I dont hit other players, but I still slip up from time to time and poke a lancer on their ass. I always make sure to INSTANTLY roll and reposition myself after doing so to give the other weapons their room.
Alex Rasmussen It happens: I main the HH and some time I do it as well. Its just that those weapons have bigger range, so it is easier to do a mistake. On a side note, my biggest problem was the CB's at Low Rank, and even at some High Rank Quests
I'll be honest. I hate it when a LS user joins my gathering hall. I don't say anything, but I cringe everytime. Granted, if you actually pay attention to the weapon's moves when around others instead of fade slashing our asses to the ground then we're golden. However, you got to ask yourself if LS is really that versatile in certain hunts since you should be limiting your combos to avoid interrupting others' attacks; and since LS really shines in its combos and long reach, you'll be limiting your overall DPS. I'm not saying that LS is a bad weapon in general, but I honestly think that it's the worst weapon to use in multiplayer.
***** No, I'd disagree with you on that. I can understand where that mentality is coming from, but it's really not a matter of limiting your combos to hunt effectively with it, it's more about positioning.
Fade slash is much better to use when the monster is mobile, especially when it's aggroing you. It's not something you really want to use on a downed monster, regardless of if everyone's huddled up around it or not. The biggest thing you'll have to limit is your spirit combo, but that's as easy as starting it in a position away from players and either keeping the trajectory out of their line, or shifting it during the combo, which is really, quite easy. Of course, this requires your team mates to not be blind, sometimes. I've had many a time where I've started the spirit combo on a monster, in a safe position, only to have a lance user choose to position themselves in front of me with their side hops. But when that happens, that's on the other player, not the LS user..
LS is too fluid of a weapon even during aggro states to discount it simply because you cant spam Fade Slash and the Spirit combo when it's downed.
Alex Rasmussen I understand your points on positioning, but if a player hops in front of you while you're doing a Spirit Combo, that's not really anyone's fault. We either literally can't see you (if you're out of the screen frame), or we're too focused on hitting the monster and trying to predict its next move to notice what you're doing.
I started playing Monster Hunter with Tri for the Wii. Back then the Switch Axe was pretty much the only weapon I'd call myself good at back then (though I can't say I had really came anywhere near close to mastering it until I watched your tutorial video the other day. Thanks for that.) Really, much of what you said about it feeling powerful yet agile was a big part of what drew me to it. The Great Sword just felt too slow paced for me, and I felt like the sword and shield was just doing scratch damage in my hands (though I started using it in a secondary file after watching your S and S tutorial, and have been doing very good with it; maybe even better than I was with the SA. Thanks... again :P ). The SA just felt like it was in that perfectly balanced area for my taste.
My favorite blademaster weapon since 3u, i love regios SA in this game.
Please do Top 5 HBG, because the best 3 HBG (Gigacannon, Livid, and Destiny arm) are ass ugly and I need guidence
TheGrandRevo I know those ones are statistically the best, but the only two I ever really use are the Vampire Blaster (Nersylla) and the Violet Punisher (Purple Hermitaur), they're both gorgeous and a lot of fun!
I've been using empress flower for a while it's hands down the best looking HBG with Destiny arm being the ugliest
IG,LS,SA all keep tripping me, the poor SnS
That's why I completely gave up with Swordmastery xD
i tried Switch axes but being a GS user they felt a little clunky and not too satisfying in comparison granted ive been with hunters that were an absolute badass with one but they weren't for me
By the way the Stygian Vanagloria has 350 dragon not 250.
I have to give a shout-out to the Rathian line of Switch Axes.
In particular the Azure Rose has been really useful. It's Element Phial but the Azure Rose has 360 poison, 972 attack and some slots
the final one, Azure Straybloom has 1512 attack and 400 poison. I'll probably go for making that one when I get far enough but for now the Azure Rose has been nice against something like Deviljho or Daora
MrRaui The Warglare has more purple sharpness
MrRaui Really? I've got the dragonmaiden axe+ right now and im thinking of selling it and making a seregios SA because poison tends ot be weaker in high and G rank because of its fixed damage and the hp increase. Should I stick with this SA?
Jeffery Ronald Yeah but you can make Rathian line much sooner so there's that.
Gage Wileman Well personally I don't like selling weapons unless I get an abundance of them from shards or they're something like rough edge, gaiasp, etc.
So I'd say keep it around and maybe upgrade it later and just make that Seregios SA when you can. I've yet to make that one myself.
MrRaui I can make it already. I'm on 9* caravan. I'm trying to find the best hammer and the best slash axe and the best sns.
Got an excavated weapon.
Level 10 Deluge.
1660 atk
10% affinity right off the bat.
MASSIVE white sharpness with a hint of purple.
210 Sleep
And best of all. 3 slots.
Excellent skin
Nice attack with a small bonus
Decent sharpness (that purple is basically non-existent by the sounds of it)
3 slots is great
Sleep is... eh
@@argiebargyplays That weapon sounded beautiful dude
I am imagining all the monsters screaming their names as if they were pokemon
Your Giaprey is evolving!
Congratulations, it became a Giadrome!
"Gia! Gia!"
I tend to gravitate towards new weapons in each installment before going back to old favorites like the GS or Hammer. This time around I've been switching between switch axe and charge blade because they both have aspects I love. The axe mode of SA has more reach and an infinity swing combo that arguably deals more dps than wyvern fire as long as you use dash juice. But, I also like how the CB has more synergy between the modes. You can charge your shield to make it's guard as strong as a gunlance's shield. Or you can switch your charged shield into axe mode and benefit from 20% more damage. Or you can take a risky option and use a special move that opens you up for attacks. The sword mode of the switch axe never really appealed to me because it never felt like you were doing as much damage as the axe mode even if it technically is the higher damage mode. It felt as slow as a great sword, but it never had the impact I thought it should have.
I just got this on my recommendations, RUclips is trying to tell me something.
My personal favorite SA in 4U has to be the Crazed Grisaxe. Like the Nainokami in 3U, the Exhaust Phial SA is extremely underrated. Any opportunity to exhaust a monster is well appreciated by almost any hunter. Plus, you're making the job of your HH and Hammer party members that much easier. Also, it doesn't hurt that the weapon has an insane amount of white sharpness, 1566 attack and 35% affinity.
I recently got into SA and this really helped.
my preferred weapons are the SA, CB, LS, Hammer, LBG, and SnS for status weapons.
In MH3U i never really used the heavy weapons because i like being mobile and prefer not having my speed cut in half. Why block an attack if you can dodge it entirely?
Id only block if i had yellow or red charge for the CB as i know i wont take chip damage, and with SnS if dodging isnt possible. But hey, to each his own.
I love Monster Hunter because the Switch Axe is in it. MHTri was my first MH as well, but I never got too far into single player mode to unlock the SA. Instead I found out about it in the arena while trying to beat the A rank on the first 3 monsters with some friends. It was an absolute nightmare, specially since the 3rd arena, the Barroth one, didn't have the Hammer, the one weapon I was sort of good with. Instead it had this weird, battery based transformable slow ass weapon, and an energy based nimble katana. No one dared using the transformable one, but from the moment I saw it transforming into a chunky sword I discovered the meaning of the phrase "Love at first sight".
Today I can't play a MH that has the SA and not use it for at least 5 missions whenever I try out different weapons, except for the Horn, which is my second favorite weapon post Gen 2. No weapon has quite the same feeling of movement, precision and weight as the SA, and the versatility it brings from having both modes funcion so independently from each other means you can switch around freely depending on what you need during a fight. Comboing while switching also feels so good. And I don't care about using elemental discharge and getting punished after it, either from the monster itself or from the lost sharpness, it's just such a satisfying move to land that I can't supress the urge to use it on the smallest windows available.
I love this weapon.
Switch Axe is my favorite as well, but it's not what I'm best with so I tend to stay with Great Sword especially when playing online.
For you the dreaded weapon that people piss you off with is switch axe, for others it's long sword. For me: GUNLANCE GUNLANCE GUNLANCE.
Aron Angstenberger yea im a gunlance user but i never shoot near people unless your an HR 60 special g permit, a person who acts like a jerk, or trips me alot for the first 2 i make it so they cant get carves and trip them but the 3rd i just stop caring and shoot and attack near them so if i trip them i dont really care its a really good system cause you get lots of friends by tripping people who trips the group all the time or if theyre a jerk you make them quit and the other people wanted to (if the guy was the host) so yea road rage (also my dreaded weapon is my favorite weapon: insect glaive)
I actually prefer the name Slash Axe rather than Switch Axe
Marcus Beeman It sounds more "slashing"
Galaxy's Zhire I see what you did there
How does elemental work for True Ruiner's Bane? Does the 660 blast get boosted in sword mode or something?
***** it might only be in sword mode atleast thats how the deviljho weapon is
Just started using the SA regularly and absolutely loving the thing! That Dalamadur SA is absolutely insane and so much fun to use. XD
O dear
This was absolutely my experience with Switch Axe. it was very weird and intimidating and the first time i used it it was messy and i had a hard time controling myself. After a while i picked it up again and it was alot of fun
I use the Waxglare Wand (Chameleos). It's downright amazing. If you hone it for power, you downright delete monsters, even G-Rank.
Rax G I freaking adore that weapon, I gave mine Life though because(Say it with me)FREE POTS.
If you want a good water Switch Axe that you can make earlier then I'd have to recommend the Tidal Najarala line of Switch Axes
1458 attack, power phial, 380 water, 3 slots. Plenty of white and a good bit of purple too. -15% affinity isn't too bad.
He didnt put my love of my life, TEOSTRA'S CASTLE SWITCH AXE!, you meanii :'(
+Akatsuki Sasuke it's not that good though... The crimson fatalis switch axe completely eclipses it.
Greetings gaijin hunter, Bracchydios Switch Axe is a great choice or not? thanks for you response
It's a great sA!
thanks :)
gaijin hunter I'm not really a fan of how the Fatalis weapons look tbh. Is it worth making the Teostra Axe?
Once G Dalamadur comes around, how would his SA compare. That's some INSANE Raw power, great white, 3 slots, and decent blast and element phial.
I'm really liking that one over the other blast SA's
gaijin hunter I dont really like brachy Slash axe to the others. It seems.. somewhat bland to me
I remember back when I had 3U and a got my friend into playing it. I was already breaking G rank by that time so I as well soloed G rank all the way through. When I used to help him hunt and git gud, he chose to use the SA and would ALWAYS trip me up. I was a DB user, so at least the demon mode helped a little.
I used to main Switch Axes back in 3U, which was also my first Monster Hunter, so I liked hearing your thoughts on the weapon.
Using them with Evade Distance and Evasion +3 is my favourite way to play them.
Why didn't you mention Nether Excellion? It's very similar to the Ceadeed one, with minimum decrease in stats, but has more purple sharpness.
What about Mundus Regius? Althougt it has low attack, 720 dragon is a hellish amount, what makes it one of the best elemental switchaxes. And the design is simply beautiful
Guys what about the Tigrex SA? Hows the exhaust effect? Is it good?
Harvey Kent It's really not that great. All the exhaust phial does is give your attacks the same 1/3 chance of dealing KO/exhaust damage (like other status weapons). It's... really not worth giving up the damage boost from a power or element phial for it.
Pretty sure Ceadeus is pronounced Sea-a-dee-us.
BiasBomb23
lol you have problems.
BiasBomb23
Wow you do have a problem little troll.
Nuke2099 Yeah, it's pretty obviously a soft C in English. I don't know how it is in the Japanese spelling or pronunciation, though, so those may be coloring Gaijin's perception.
Nuke2099 I was under the impression Ceadeus was pronounced "Sea-dooce," as in, a literal form of Sea God. I hear Deus in Ceadeus and a phrase that comes to mind is Deus Ex Machina, hence the conclusion I came to about that pronunciation.
AlTheHoly
Its possible :)
The Akantor Divider is also a good weapon for me but it's true that he shouldn't be in the top 5:
-1836 attack wich is a really massive attack, I think it's the most highest attack in the game.
-380 dragon element but only work with the awakeness talent..."bad luck Brian!"
-40% of affinity, that's a very high percentage.
-Dragon phial, as you can see.
-No slot...no comment...
-A very bad sharpness because he cannot reach the white level, this is the sharpness who unable this weapon to be in the top 5 I think, but the massive attack and affinity of the weapon replace a bit the sharpness wich is rather logic.
When I got MH3 Tri for Wii, the weapon that I used more the anything else was the SA; its a well balanced weapon in my opinion. I've since used Bow on MH3 U and IG for MH4 U; but I still make my axes and bows when I need them since I've been using IG more often.
Can you add more stories like the one at the end of this video to every video from here on out? I wasn't expecting it but I think it adds something cool to every video.
Love your content and I discovered my love for this series through watching your videos and learning from them along with playing online. Keep doing what you're doing! Thanks!
the zamtreacherous maw is so good, that thing got me through basically all of g2 and most of g3. It's one of, if not THE, first max upgrade switch axe you can make with the standard of at least 270 true raw and a power phial. On top of that great raw it also has decent paralysis, and that's incredible because it lets you take advantage of the paralysis yourself, and as a switch axe user, any time a monster is down is an awesome time because your hack and slash, sword vertical, and sword double slash combos all do great dps and are all infinite.
My personal favorite is the Excellion Nether.
Awesome design, decent raw and sharpness. It's a shame that you can't use it as freely since it's element, but when I can, I always bring it
I play switch axe all the time and I have confess that I enjoy knocking my friends across the map with my discharge. I don't intentionally do it but I laugh when it happens.
Your reason not to use a SA for so long is the same as mine. I also had a friend who loved SA in MH3 and Lance was also my main weapon back then. I always thought the SA looked and felt rather weird while fighting. A week ago I choose the deviljho arena quest and there was no weapon I liked so I chose SA. I saw your SA guide before and knew how to use it. And I fell in love. I'm working on a SA set now.
Take it from an SA main since Tri, Axes are very versatile and seeing this makes me want to finish up G2 solo
My first experience with monster hunter was with a demo disc for monster hunter tri on the wii. I tried all the weapons in the demo, and the one that I loved the most was, the Switch Axe. It was one of the only weapons I used through that game, until i got my Alatreon hammer. The Switch Axe is awesome.
The Switch Axe was the weapon which motivated me to play MH3.
The first time I played MH3... I hated so much talk and nothing to do but killing aptonoths... and I even quitted for a while ¬_¬
Later, my brother was playing the game for me just for see and was mocking me for play It again... I played again :U
I was bored... very very bored... until they gave me a Switch Axe =o
I was so *Oh the Hell! It´s an Axe AND a blade In one weapon! It´s so awesome!* and I loved the game xD
Switch Axe was my favorite weapon In 3. It felt so powerful, so fluid, so "Perfect-Dodger" and was my forte on MH3/3U/4U. [I even made them all In 3-3U]
Althought.. It doesn´t seem as strong as In 3 now :l
In MH4U every damage I do on monsters feels almost the same, even the ones with purple sharpness on weak parts, and Idk If I´m really doing a lot of damage. I guess G-monsters In 4U are more resistant than In 3U. That, or Idk what´s the proper use for SA In 4U... [Someone help me with that ~_~]
Hey guys! This may be a little bit off-topic but I have a question that has to do with element damage and calcs.
I have 2 weapons. They are both used against the azure rathalos (Weakness Ice).
Aksa Switch+ 1080 dmg, white sharpness, power phial, 10% affinity
and Kirin Thunderbolt, 702 dmg, 520 ice, white sharpness, ELEMENTAL phial.
If i only consider the axe mode i`m pretty sure that Aksa>Kirin , but how does the damage work in sword mode? Because the ice damage gets even more intense? need some math skillz please :D
eldaora's Farasa man. I'm campig at 1965 attack w/ XL attack boost and power hone, after I eat I'm at 2003 before even eating a power seed on the mission lol.. Massive blue sharpness and even some white/purple. Only drawback is -40% affinity. Also has 150 ice damage
I enjoyed your "rambling" about this weapon and it's great to hear how it has grown on you after you've been hating it for such a long time. The reasons you mentioned (being powerful AND agile) are exactly why I've come to like this weapon so much. In 3U the long sword was my main weapon, but this time I wanted something different, chose the switch axe and I'm still very happy with it.
It's so versatile, fun to use and I like the enormous reach of the axe a lot. At the moment I have one switch axe for every element (will replace my current water and ice axes with the Ceadeed Axe and Daora's Janah in the future) and I'm aiming for the Waxglare Wand and Zamtreacherous Maw as well, might even add a blast axe later.
From my experience I agree with what you said about the Stygian Vanagloria and long hunts. My Brimstren Drakefang (an earlier version of it) and its good sharpness helped me get through the Caravaneer's Challenge quite recently.
I didn't do the math, but I'd also recommend Rathscension if you're looking for a fire elemental weapon. Power phial, 1458 attack, 10% affinity, one slot and 450 fire damage. The only downside: It's quite similar to the Ceadeed Axe when it comes to sharpness, so razor sharp is a skill to go for.
The Nether Excellion is also a great weapon if you don't mind that is has an element phial. 1512 attack, 10% affinity, one slot, 360 thunder damage and incredibly long white sharpness.
But maybe you'd have mentioned these anyway. As you said, the variety of good switch axes is huge. :)
Funnily enough I played through 3U (my first MH game) all the way to up (not including) G rank using lance solo, and through all of caravan low rank in 4U. It wasn't until I started playing online and I started using SA I realized that super armor (or poise or whatever you want to call it) was actually a mechanic in the game. It really does help give you perspective when you try out the various weapons. I try to be careful around others, especially lancers, when I play online.
I currently use the Volvidon SA (para+element phial) for online hunts and my friend who is much, much, much more experienced than me was very impressed with how quickly and often I was able to stun monsters (especially Akantor, apparently, not even using status+ skill). The SA's elemental discharge attack really emphasizes how much this is a 'feel good' weapon, as you described. Getting those big attacks off are so satisfying, something you can't quite emulate with a lance (unless you count mounting from flat ground).
Plus, with evade extender, you can chain launch people after quests for fun if you time your roll+attack correctly =D
I thin that there is one too strong axe in game. OP axe. Dalamadur axes final form Praying Dalamadur
Attack: 1620
nice white sharpness
330 blast
3 slots
defense +50
Affinity minus 10
And if I would hone it to defense it would have +110 to defense. I just got to wait for the event to come...
Switch axe is love. Switch axe is life
Small question. The Switch Axe seems like a downgraded Charge Blade to me(Even though the SA came first). Is there any particular reason this weapon type is better to use? Like, Pros and Cons against CB? I may pick this up, looking at the numbers for Raw Damage.
I latched onto the Swaxe in MHTri, my first game, and in 3U, no other weapon on the usage bar graph got close to the monolith that was Switch Axe. That and the Gunlance, I was all about them. The funky fusion weapons are what get me, like I can fight with a sword or bow in any other game, but a lace that is also A GUN?! In 4U, I've been really mainlining Charge Blade and Insect Glaive just for the new funky styles, but Swaxe is making a comeback with that Waxglare Wand. And the Gogmazios Swaxe? Oh my goodness.
I recommend constitution+evade distance+r. sharp for the the seregios SA. You can keep your weapon out almost the entire fight and literally just roll to keep up with mobile monsters. Kujula set is great for it,
I also recommend NOT using it against large monsters like Dalamadur, Akantor, Ukanlos, and D. Mohran. It can work, but you'll find yourself needing to roll when you couldve easily continued a combo.
Azure Straybloom is relatively good and I chose it as my early G-Rank weapon clearing in some hunts. But I didn't see Zamtreacherous Maw potential... Also, 4:55 - 5:04. What a Swag axe hame!
The Kushala Daora switch ax is also very decent. It has decent purple and white with really long blue, 1458 power (which is solid) with 350 ice, and 10% affinity. The only problems are that it has no slots and that it's an Ancient Shard weapon, making it annoying to find and it requires Earth Crystals to start up.
Greetings Gaijinhunter :)
I have been a viewer of your channel for the past month wherein I took up MH4U, and have thoroughly enjoyed, and partaken of, the helpful material you put up here in your channel and More so from the various articles of yours I found online! Particularly your starter sets and ideas on HH sets and skillsets, that post was invaluable in helping me decide what to shoot all throughout Low/High Rank. Many thanks for all the effort you put in to aid those new to the game understand it better :)
I have now taken to the Switch Axe, for G rank monsters were too Hard/Agile/Damaging to reliably take on with HH solo, and I wanted to ask on account of your 5th Pick being the Zamtreacherous Maw, had you given Cryoseism/Illuyanka a consideration? It is also quite easy to make, has about the same power although Paralysis does look more appealing than a Water element, but the main selling point of this SA for me were the 3 slots! I will be using it until I can replace it with Waxglare Wand, then return to customising my Dream HH set for use online :) It really allows for some pretty neat customizations that other SA's don't, though completely outshined by Waxglare Wand overall.
A simple Yes or No will ofc suffice if you feel like answering :) I will thank you one last time within this post for all the effort you put into sharing this content with everyone here, my very Best wishes for whatever comes ahead :D
your MH3G story sounds like mine with MH4U. I actually know a lot of people who played, but our schedules never meet other than when the game first came out. They helped me do Great Jaggi twice. After that I've been all solo up until G1. Took me a while, but I did it and am happy since this is my first MH game I really played. I was too afraid of being a noob online to play with randoms lol. Hopefully I can actually play with people this weekend at fanime. Switch axe was my first weapon I used a lot, but since became a hunting horn main, with some SnS, LBG, and GS for good measure haha. This video makes me want to play switch axe again.
Hey man, I'm using Vermilion Bloodaxe for my paralysis weapon instead of Zamtreacherous Maw. Vermilion has 440 para element. Which one do you think is better, Vermilion or Zamtreacherous?
Hum gaijin hunter ... Savage Deviljho SA doesn´t have a Element Phial... It has a Dragon Phial. Just a reminder :P
I use 3 weapons in this game.. Switch Axe - SnS and hammer. the Switch axe since MH3U is my favourite weapon. the armor I use can also be used with hammer and "some of them" with SnS...
anyways. I use these 3 weapons depending the monster. Ceadeed is a BEAST. No idea why but holy!
Hello gaijin, I have concerned your video for a long time. Your concentration on making video of Monster Hunter make me feel exciting. It is really good. And I'm a player from China .Now I am studying in Melbourne. Do you know how can I find other players from Australia? Since we can play 4G through the Internet, I think it is more difficult to find players who want to play 4G face to face anymore.
SA had my most uses by over 100 in 3G. Now in 4G I have been using evasion +3 with my SA and with good dodge timing you can play it like a SnS with 1500 atk. O and that reach for chopping tails :)
Then there’s me, the GS/Hammer main
Tripping me in the middle of charging my damn weapon.
All the damage = nonexistent
When I play with LS mains lmao
If you’re playing with other people please, mind where you’re attacking
Thank goodness in MH world you can kick people from your team hahahaha
I can't put my finger on exactly why, but the SA always seemed really...well, boring to me. I've been learning to use CB lately and I love the 'ebb and flow' of it - you constantly feel like you're doing something. I always assumed the Switch Axe was basically just Charge Blade Lite, but after making one to take out on low-rank hunts when I'm bored, I'm a lot more interested in taking the time to learn it. I agree about using the HH (and now SA), they're weapons you can really feel the weight of when you swing them around, and it adds a lot to their appeal I find.
Hey GaijinHunter, which weapons you used to solo G-Rank when you had no friends to play in Japan?
For me the game is not that fun in multiplayer (maybe with 1 friend) so i decided to solo the game and i just got to G1 and i'm being completely destroyed. Does the armor sets later in g-rank tank the monsters a little more or it's always massive damage as in the beginning of G1?
Also, is the sword and shield as stylish bomber a viable option for going solo? Which other weapons do you recommend?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english, not my first language !
When I first started out Monster Hunter i started with 3U and my very first weapon choice was the Switch Axe.... and it didn't end well for me. After the first fight with Duramboros which basically took the whole time allotted, I stopped and went to using Dual Blades. Later on I realized that I just wasn't really using them to their full potential, and now I think Switch Axes are one of the coolest weapons.
I mained lance while climbing the ranks in 4U... it seemed like NOBODY cared that I was *supposed* to be DPS >.>
I had the same experience.. to bowguns... dang it I'm the weirdest
Nice to see I'm not the only one to have this affinity for Switch Axe, it's odd when you find this weapon type you just constantly feel right (to me it's that and Hammers). I'm fully aware Charge Blades or Insect Glaive are amazing, but they don't feel as natural to me (on that note, relearning LS is kind of a pain)
My go to swagaxe is stygian zinogre's. Looks really cool, 1500 raw, power phial and one of the best elements against elder dragons. It's also easier to hone being just a rarity 9 weapon. I've also made the Ceadeed and Chameleos axes, but I just keep going back to stygian
When starting 3U, I didn't understand the SA. I prefer being mobile, a thing that the SA didn't feel like at the beginning. When I did pick it up right before 4U came out, it was not only mobile, but large power combined with that mobility. I prefer being in ax-mode as the movement speed is the same as the LS, which I mained in 3U. However, it has much better reach, power, and attack speed than the LS to me. It is my main weapon both solo and online now.
Gaijin, at 1:40, you have a pic of the Azure Rath Charge Blade in the background xD Not trying to be mean, just pointing it out! Otherwise, great video :)
Wow wait, Gaijin you started with 3G?
Have you gave FG a go? Some really good monsters in it, although the hit boxes can be really bs and soloing the GH Urgents takes soooo long.
Hammer and HBG were so OP back then
Wow Thx u very much man! thx to this video i started using switch axe i rly underestimated that weapon i used to play IG and BOW but this weapon is rly HUGE thx! :D (also your tutorial bout the weapon helped a lot)
I want to use the lance but it's just too difficult.. >_< I main the transforming duo, Switch Axe & Charge Blade.
gaijin hunter White Fatalis Slash Axe is a monster of a weapon. Power Phial, low sharpness but nice purple with sharp +1 and 1458 attack with 440 thunder is a pretty beast weapon. It does lose out to some others but it is still a monster in my regards. I still haven't decided whether to add honed blade or Steady hand to the set it will go with but in all regards white fatalis weapons and armor (Aside from the hammer because that eye is creepy as all hell) Are just amazing to look at :D
Lol black gravios sa is best dmg sa (with honed blade 2008 atk) purple sharpness and only expert+1 for 0% negative affinity
As a fellow Lance lover, I can confirm that SA is extremely irritating if not positioned correctly. Same goes to IG and LS, but SA was the first to get on my nerves way back when, so it holds a special place as my least favorite weapon to hunt alongside. No offense to SA users, just watch your positioning.
Surprised you never brought up Nether Excellion, the Abyssal Lagiacrus Switchaxe. That thing is a beast and it is so strong.
This is off topic, but what is with hame hbguners? Someone joined my lv 136 rajang/styg lobby today and noticed I wasn't using a hame set. I just wanted to hunt causually with my friends, and this person had the nerve to tell me my set was shit. I am all in for speed runs and what not, but some people are the biggest douches over the smallest reasons!
i've always mainly used the long sword (and now the insect glaive) when hunting, but for some reason whenever a quest has been extremely difficult i always fall back to a switch axe class. I couldn't complete "the masters test' with a long sword or an insect glaive, but i beat it first try with a switch axe. So strange :P
Switch/Slash Axe for life! And I know that lancer feel, always being tripped up...I just try to stay on the other side if the monster.
I just wish that G-rank Savage Deviljho wasn't such a bastard to fight. I don't find it too hard, it just doesn't have any dedicated quests to fight it. The only way to fight it is to do maxed Deviljho guild quests and hope it appears instead.
That's interesting. I hate switchaxe for similar reasons, but I had to use it to s-rank grudge match: duel devils.
I still would rather use other weapons, but that's just me.
Great video as always.
As a Lance user in 4U, I hate LSs and IGs, especially when I go to a spot to attack and they go right beside me and keep tripping me all over the place. That said, I still do use and enjoy all the weapons. Faves are Lance, DS and CB
don't take this comment wrong, i don't want to offend anyone with this; but i remember that somewhere some time ago, there was a post on the net, where the switch axe was depicted as the "obsolete weapon", let me explain: the author was writing about "what weapons is the best for doing the speedrun", and he was arguing that mostly of the weapon are good, especially the SnS for it's ability to use item while in "combact mode", but the SA was not balanced in comparison to the other weapon, beacouse of it's poor agility, and slow movement. So i've tried myslef if this was true, and i realized that it's sort of; i mean is fun to use becouse it really gives you the sensation of the "power", but compared to similar weapon, like the GS, this weapon seems less effective, it's slow and the only power attack it's very long and cannot be spammed like the gs charge lv3, slow initiative, so you can't just hit and run away, you have to do multiple attack in order to do some damage, and there's no really "big" difference in the 2 mod. of the weapon like the CB, so you will essentially use the sword mode as main, and axe as a replace when the gauge isn't filled. So with this point of view i will ask to you users of SA, i should just git gud? beacouse i'm pretty varied as an hunter, i use the weapon that suit most the situation that i'm going to fight, so i don't stick with weapon trough the entire game, but i've never find a situation where the SA can be optimal compared to other weapon (mostly, against slow moster i can use the SA to spam sword mode, but it's more effective to spam lv. 3 charged). So what is your opinion? let me know, so i can better appriciate this weapon :)
i main SA as well, since i started using it in MH3U... what happened was we had an SA master at our group.... i was the status SnS... when he retired from MH it felt really lacking not seeing those cool SA moves, so i decided to give it a try... it was a hard transition since i was used to weapons with block befoore... so having a weapon w/o block made me feel naked.. however, due to constant practice and lots of carting(hehehe) i was finally able to use it to its full potential....
For me, I wasn't too into the Switch Axe until I saw the sexiness that is the Daora and Teostra Switch Axes. They look awesome, and are pretty effective in my opinion. They are now some of my most favorite weapons, especially Daora's.
Hey Gaijin, whats your opinion on the Crazed Grisaxe? It's looks pretty damn good on paper, but it doesn't seem to perform well(for me at least)
PLEASE do hunting horns next!
Maybe do rank by use, then rank by sound. I don't find the gog horn too useful, but I love it's sound.
Thoughts on Daora's Janah? No slots hinders it a lot (especially since it has similar stats to the Waxglare Wand) but it's the only Power Phial (I think) ice element Axe in the game.
i did the True Ruiner's Bane, and using the Honed Blade set and with the weapon honed with zenith, i'm with 1620 of attack, and the 660 blast
ive never been big on bows personally, i like melee wepons like SA, DB, CB, and Hammer... only because i can mess with stupid players like bowmen who keep shooting while im mounted, most of the time i fling them out of the area
The Akantor Divider is an extremely underrated weapon, for so many people it is hard to get past the sharpness, but in all honesty, since you use switch axes in sword mode mostly, due to the 1.2x damage boost, sharpness isn't necessary for anything but additional damage, and taking into consideration it's atk, even with only green sharpness, it's still hitting harder than any other switch axe in the game, not to mention it's great +40% affinity. That paired with atk up large from eating, large from hunting horn, and extra large from armor skills makes it one of the hardest hitting weapon in the game period. Not saying its the best per se, because all weapons are situational, and it's axe mode is sub par at best, but it is a beast of a weapon for sure.