I am sure I missed a lot (please fill it in with comments!) but so many people wanted a bowgun guide it only felt right to do my best. Happy holidays everyone.
copyright has triggered on the preview vids so I am unable to cover them I am afraid. Only figured that out after spending 8-10 hours on part 2...which i released on Twitter
Mega Blaziken not at all. check out mai lbg. he uses great raw lbg sets. basically, a rapid fire pierce bowgun has great raw out put (stay away from pierce lv2)
It is just weird. A random channel on youtube did a compilation video, which is basically stitching all Brave videos into one, and it is still online as of this writing. You break the footage down and you got flagged? Regarding your idea on explaining all the LBG/HBG ammo, I will suggest holding on that until MHXX is out; just in case new internal shots are added.
Hmm I've been looking to try one of the ranged weapons for the first time (bow too), have never tried a ranged weapon in MH ever lol might as well give them a shot since they all seem inviting in Gen.
Amazing Guide but one thing I feel you missed was that you can use the gunpowder infusion art while reloading in order to cancel the reload animation, one small thing I use all the time.
Bit of a slip there Gaijin. Recoil applies to more than just pierce, though it's more noticeable there, since Pierce is very popular. Recoil applies to Pierce Shots, Pellet Shots, Crag Shots, Clust Shots, All the status shots and Dragon Shot, but not Normal Shot or the Elemental shots (except Dragon.) It also applies to certain Internal Shots. Keep in mind Recoil varies with the level of the shots. Level 1 Status shots have less than level 2 shots. In fact you need to get to "Minimal" Recoil to completely eliminate recoil on Status Lv 2 shots. You only need "Low" (or "Very Low") to eliminate recoil on Status Lv 1 Shots.
JUST in time as I completed my first of many Gunner sets and a handful of ranged weapons, thanks for a great reference on how to get a hang of the bowguns!
Gunner main here! Fun thing about hunter arts, they can be activated while reloading, which cancels the animation and replaces it with the art one but still reloads the gun. This is especially useful on heavy bowguns as the long reload time is usually greater than the gunpowder infusion art which charges so fast that with certain guns you will never be reloading normally. Also lets you reload a rapid shot with a lower level full house before you unlock level 3 with light bowgun.
If you press the circle pad towards the monster for adept for either bowgun, you'll be facing the monster during the power reload/run. This lets you get a few pot shots off before needing to evade, sometimes getting off the entire mag. Also, the increased power from the reload only lasts 10-15 seconds, so you can only really get one magazine worth of shots before the buff expires. And for arts in adept/aerial, Full House for lbg and Gunpowder Infusion for hbg. One nice thing about Gunpowder Infusion is that it increases the motion value of each shot passively, so it charges up even faster and you can keep it up the entire hunt once used as long as you don't cart.
thanks man! your tutorials really help me out. I have a problem with generations, and it's that there's too many options XD I don't know where to start, but you show me the way
For HBG: You can also crouch fire directly after an unsheathe by pressing and leaving pressed until it goes into siege R+X+A. Super useful since it reloads and sieges right after.
Since this video covers both HBG and LBG I would like it if you could add timestamps in the description so we can jump to specific parts for rewatching. I've watched all of these weapon tutorials several times and I spend a bit of time jumping back and forth through the video to follow along or hear the breakdown again. Just a thought. I'm sure these are too out of date for anyone but me to care. Thanks anything
Great tutorial. There's nothing like your tutorials. It's so detailed compared to others. Some feedback on the editing: Some of the volumes aren't leveled, especially when you announce the hunting art. So it sounds like it goes from 100% volume to 150% and back down to 100%. Which I can understand because you record that part separately and add it in. Just a minor feedback from a headphone user.
Thanks. I rushed to get out those punch in takes and realized after the fact that I didn't review the audio well enough. All a good learning experience I suppose! Hope the audio overall is better as i recently upgraded my setup ^^
The only thing I wish you covered was explosive gunning(Crag & Cluster). Back in the day it was still pretty niche and really resource-oriented but it was still cool as hell.
Without aerial LBG, (don't know about HBG) after the downward shot (not rapid), you can fire off another shot using just A. It fires the shot in the direction your camera is facing. I like to do the down shot then after a little bit when I'm still in the air, I L target the monster and fire off the second shot. It helps sometimes.
For all the info you had to cover, I'd say just one blunder is pretty outstanding! I've been maining gunner weapons since 3 ult (mostly on bow) so I know it can be difficult to remembeer everything xD
1:00 "It throws you far away into a safe distance" - summarizes why Aerial Style's one of my favorites. Because the Heavy Bowgun would've been perfect if I had some way to get brief, but large mobility boost, to reposition, or distance away from the big ones.
Both Guard and Guard Up work for HBG in MHGen. It's really fun because instead of dodging around, you can stick to one spot and just stop shooting when you think you're gonna get hit, and the guard skills make it so that you don't suffer too much knockback/chip damage. I wouldn't recommend a style that only has one HA because I always take Hunter's Oasis to heal my chip damage.
In Adept and Aerial Heavy Bowgun, you can roll out of Crouching Fire instantly whereas in Guild you can't roll until you completely stand up -it's even slower than it was in 4 Ultimate-.
Question, also the main thing I was hoping to see in this to know, do you know how much HBG Gunpowder Infusion powers up shots? I want to know how good it is, and how is it for lvl 1 and 2, also?
I feel like rapid fire hunter art is very underrated because it shoots a lot of bullets (WITHOUT wasting any ammo) giving you potentially more shots for the rapid ones and on top of that it charges very quickly. I don't really see full house all that useful because you can always reload when you want if you get the opening and with adept evading if you switch to the ammo before you evade you will automatically reload it, so i see full house for the "lazy" people xD also you put the blue version of nakarkos lbg but the normal version has a bigger ammo capacity with 9,8,9 normal and 6,5,5 pierce, (not counting load up skill) and it even comes with better internal and better rapid then the polar version.
hey Gaijin got a small Gunner question: is the low-rank version of the mixed Jaggi/Bulldrome armor still about the same efficacy in high rank? cus while my low rank Gourmew armor has been a real help, its defense is starting to be rather lacking even when maxed out (not quite at max yet, but it will only take a few Accolades and i know where to get those) and while it IS a fun low rank set, sadly the high rank version does NOT automatically come with the Ammo Saver skill, which is half the fun of the armorset especially with low-ammo Internal types like Dazzling or Triblast, i once shot Dazzling 9 times with a total of 5 ammo cus the Ammo Saver triggered on 4 diff shots but im looking to get a set with higher defense after upgrades, and i dont remember the stats on the low rank Mixed Set of Jaggi and Bulldrome, i just know with a handful of Attack jewels it was ablwe to get Attack Up L and was a really solid Mixed Set for low-rank i just wanted to know if the High Rank version is the same or at least close in terms of what it generally offers
Casey Jo | Go to your Palico Board and go to select Palicoes and deselect the ones you have active. The should have a red and blue icon near their names.
If you are gunning solo, having two protection palicoes is a godsend. I wouldn't recommend turning them off. They are free opportunities to either unload a clip or siege up.
I ve 2 more questions: 1. Pellet has no crit distance, so is it 1.5 all the time meaning u are always in crit distance or 1.0 all the tine meaning that u dont get crit distance multiplayer 2. U said that elemental shots also depend on ur atk but i thought they had fixed elemantal values so how to understand this?
I wonder if it's possible to fully rely on the HBG burning weapons art and forget about putting recoil skills on armor or using a bowgun with reduced recoil. Although I doubt it.
You mentioned 150 fixed for center, and a lesser amount for the edge. Is it one or the other, based on how well you aim, or can both hit? Also, thanks for all the content and stuff you put out. It's well appreciated.
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I am sure I missed a lot (please fill it in with comments!) but so many people wanted a bowgun guide it only felt right to do my best. Happy holidays everyone.
When do we get the other Brave Style vids?
copyright has triggered on the preview vids so I am unable to cover them I am afraid. Only figured that out after spending 8-10 hours on part 2...which i released on Twitter
Is it wrong to run raw damage lbg sets?
Mega Blaziken not at all. check out mai lbg. he uses great raw lbg sets. basically, a rapid fire pierce bowgun has great raw out put (stay away from pierce lv2)
It is just weird. A random channel on youtube did a compilation video, which is basically stitching all Brave videos into one, and it is still online as of this writing. You break the footage down and you got flagged?
Regarding your idea on explaining all the LBG/HBG ammo, I will suggest holding on that until MHXX is out; just in case new internal shots are added.
11:52
"Against, recoil you might need to skill down to use this."
Stay golden, Gaijin Hunter.
Stay golden, Ponyboy.
after a while, critical distance kinda becomes instinct
Gaming oD | Dazzling Shot has no Crit Distance, it does max damage at all ranges, iirc.
+Gaming oD South said "Instinct" as in knowing what's Crit Distance and what's not comes natural.
Hmm I've been looking to try one of the ranged weapons for the first time (bow too), have never tried a ranged weapon in MH ever lol might as well give them a shot since they all seem inviting in Gen.
Amazing Guide but one thing I feel you missed was that you can use the gunpowder infusion art while reloading in order to cancel the reload animation, one small thing I use all the time.
It's been 80 years....
(thanks man!)
Lol
It's a Christmas Miracle! Now to learn how to use Bowguns at long last! *Hits play*
Weeb
Bit of a slip there Gaijin.
Recoil applies to more than just pierce, though it's more noticeable there, since Pierce is very popular.
Recoil applies to Pierce Shots, Pellet Shots, Crag Shots, Clust Shots, All the status shots and Dragon Shot, but not Normal Shot or the Elemental shots (except Dragon.) It also applies to certain Internal Shots.
Keep in mind Recoil varies with the level of the shots. Level 1 Status shots have less than level 2 shots. In fact you need to get to "Minimal" Recoil to completely eliminate recoil on Status Lv 2 shots. You only need "Low" (or "Very Low") to eliminate recoil on Status Lv 1 Shots.
This video is an unexpected early christmas present! :D good to see you!
as a main gunner since Tri, its nice to see some bow gun love
sry4gotmyusername omg yes I feel you
Holy crap! Four months later and we get a Bow guns tutorial? Looks like christmas came early.
I started MHGen with LBG thanks to your Seregios LBG mixed set from MH4U. and i've waited so long for this video to come out, thank you.
JUST in time as I completed my first of many Gunner sets and a handful of ranged weapons, thanks for a great reference on how to get a hang of the bowguns!
What a Christmas gift! Glad to finally see this :P
I just now decide to get into bowguns and gaijin Hunter just now drops a guide on it!?!? Christmas came early this year!
Can't wait to see you cover my favorite shots: Clusters! :D
i prefer Crag and Triblast myself, but Cluster is pretty nice if you can land it properly...which isnt terribly hard to do with consistency most times
same man, the lost musket and it's cannon shots make gunning so much fun
An in depth guide would be amazing, I just recently picked it up again because of this video. Aerial HBG is nuts and feels so safe
"Aerial HBG is nuts" yeah especially with Pellet shots xD
It’s a 6 year gap, but I found my people
Gunner main here! Fun thing about hunter arts, they can be activated while reloading, which cancels the animation and replaces it with the art one but still reloads the gun.
This is especially useful on heavy bowguns as the long reload time is usually greater than the gunpowder infusion art which charges so fast that with certain guns you will never be reloading normally. Also lets you reload a rapid shot with a lower level full house before you unlock level 3 with light bowgun.
was hoping for more discussion on the arts themselves, but still a great video, thanks for making it! :D
its been 100 years GAiJIN! XD ive been waiting for this for the longest!
If you press the circle pad towards the monster for adept for either bowgun, you'll be facing the monster during the power reload/run. This lets you get a few pot shots off before needing to evade, sometimes getting off the entire mag. Also, the increased power from the reload only lasts 10-15 seconds, so you can only really get one magazine worth of shots before the buff expires. And for arts in adept/aerial, Full House for lbg and Gunpowder Infusion for hbg. One nice thing about Gunpowder Infusion is that it increases the motion value of each shot passively, so it charges up even faster and you can keep it up the entire hunt once used as long as you don't cart.
*Insert meme "aerial pellet hgb is viable" here
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But is it tho?
thanks man! your tutorials really help me out. I have a problem with generations, and it's that there's too many options XD I don't know where to start, but you show me the way
Thanks, Gaijin! The only thing I really needed to know was the Supernova Shot's motion value c:
For HBG: You can also crouch fire directly after an unsheathe by pressing and leaving pressed until it goes into siege R+X+A. Super useful since it reloads and sieges right after.
5:17 "Gog sin."
Yup.
Crime Close enough
How come this aren't posted with those in the past ?
In the video you stated that Aerial LBG had no hops period, however you can side/back hop after a shot (once).
I like the armor set you have at the beginning.
Since this video covers both HBG and LBG I would like it if you could add timestamps in the description so we can jump to specific parts for rewatching. I've watched all of these weapon tutorials several times and I spend a bit of time jumping back and forth through the video to follow along or hear the breakdown again. Just a thought. I'm sure these are too out of date for anyone but me to care. Thanks anything
Was gonna go to sleep, but this is something I need to see, hyuk.
I hope on your shot guide you can show off good bowguns for each shot such as longshot and the hunter rifle.
Great tutorial. There's nothing like your tutorials. It's so detailed compared to others.
Some feedback on the editing: Some of the volumes aren't leveled, especially when you announce the hunting art. So it sounds like it goes from 100% volume to 150% and back down to 100%. Which I can understand because you record that part separately and add it in. Just a minor feedback from a headphone user.
Thanks. I rushed to get out those punch in takes and realized after the fact that I didn't review the audio well enough. All a good learning experience I suppose! Hope the audio overall is better as i recently upgraded my setup ^^
Kan Biiru You see ladies and gentlemen? This is called constructive criticism...
Great guide Gaijin
just 1 thing i notice... 4:28 siege mode doesn't give you recoil reduction
Thanks GH Merry Christmas!
Lol just a few months late
Gaming oD No reason for that
i just tried out light bowgun and i really didn't think i'd like it that much but i really do
Thank you GH I need this.
Not sure if he mentioned it, but with Gunpowder Infusion you can use it mid-reload to get both the reload and the HA off
thank you been waiting for this
The only thing I wish you covered was explosive gunning(Crag & Cluster). Back in the day it was still pretty niche and really resource-oriented but it was still cool as hell.
getting this tomorrow. So Stoked :D
As a ranged main, I approve. But mostly LBG. Nice to have ya back gaijin.
For Striker Style you also get faster charge on your hunter arts, I don't think it was said in the video or I might of missed it.
Without aerial LBG, (don't know about HBG) after the downward shot (not rapid), you can fire off another shot using just A. It fires the shot in the direction your camera is facing. I like to do the down shot then after a little bit when I'm still in the air, I L target the monster and fire off the second shot. It helps sometimes.
1:14 How do you open that equipment menu??
I believe you can also roll out of siege mode with aerial style
Isaac Leighton adept as well
Isaac Leighton my bad didn't finish the video before replyin lol
Nice video, gaijin, thanks as always for your hardwork :)
I'll always love Heavy gunning. Siege mode is hilarious with an Aerial friend.
Of the gunner weapons, Ive only really played lbg in 3U and 4U, but with Adept ive really gotten into the HBG. Really fun stuff.
Yeah adept makes bow gun so much fun because you can reposition so quick after an adept evade atleast that's what i think
Just woke up to see this.
You didn't really mention what gunpowder infusion did.
Just a power boost, 5% I think, but not sure. I knew I'd have at least one blunder in the vid! :(
For all the info you had to cover, I'd say just one blunder is pretty outstanding! I've been maining gunner weapons since 3 ult (mostly on bow) so I know it can be difficult to remembeer everything xD
@Gaijin, from what I've seen, Gunpowder is a 15% boost.
oh really? niiiiice!
1:00
"It throws you far away into a safe distance" - summarizes why Aerial Style's one of my favorites. Because the Heavy Bowgun would've been perfect if I had some way to get brief, but large mobility boost, to reposition, or distance away from the big ones.
omg is this real life? gaijin bowgun! ive been waiting since forever
Its took years... I grew a lady beard ~_~
+Captan Suzy
Hope that thing has decoration slots.
I'm pretty sure aerial HBG also allows evading out of crouching fire.
Omg thank you , u really helped me to hunt well!
nice I was just looking for this guide yesterday. Guess you read my mind.
Feels like beating a Vault Monster in Borderlands.
9:14 how much bonus damage?
Also... it's *Geyser* gaijin, not geiser... it's great to have you back
Both Guard and Guard Up work for HBG in MHGen. It's really fun because instead of dodging around, you can stick to one spot and just stop shooting when you think you're gonna get hit, and the guard skills make it so that you don't suffer too much knockback/chip damage. I wouldn't recommend a style that only has one HA because I always take Hunter's Oasis to heal my chip damage.
@11:07 the damage reduces to x0.08? :P
So happy for this. Now just waiting for MHGen live streaming crusades like you did with mh4u
Waited for this
Does the shaking of the screen still apply to the other MH games?
Whooo! just in time for Double Cross!
gaijn hunter you got aerials moveset wrong you can still do single hops steps in aerial style and a back hop after you fire
Aerial pellet HBG is viable
I've heard that it's disgusting.
Whatever that means.
heh. check out ApexGaming's video on that
In Adept and Aerial Heavy Bowgun, you can roll out of Crouching Fire instantly whereas in Guild you can't roll until you completely stand up -it's even slower than it was in 4 Ultimate-.
And 3U I think.
Better late than never
Question, also the main thing I was hoping to see in this to know, do you know how much HBG Gunpowder Infusion powers up shots? I want to know how good it is, and how is it for lvl 1 and 2, also?
Can you upgrade the amount of bullets in a clip for heavy bowgun
You can roll out of crouch in aerial, too :D
mhg was released in 2015 but looks like it was released in 2005
W H Y ?
it was originally made to run on Nintendo 3DS hardware.
I remember using gods isle with a Dahmohren set for 6 shot rapid fire, not too practical but fun.
are you going to play MH World in 2018? You. would greatly help a lot of players that will try the game out next year with your in depth knowledge
//sobbing
Thank you Santa
"Kept you waiting huh?"
Oh hey, an update on your old one, didn't notice this.
dahren mohren clip is from mh4u right?
lol and I thought you said you're not gonna make a tutorial of these. tnx regardless
I feel like rapid fire hunter art is very underrated because it shoots a lot of bullets (WITHOUT wasting any ammo) giving you potentially more shots for the rapid ones and on top of that it charges very quickly. I don't really see full house all that useful because you can always reload when you want if you get the opening and with adept evading if you switch to the ammo before you evade you will automatically reload it, so i see full house for the "lazy" people xD also you put the blue version of nakarkos lbg but the normal version has a bigger ammo capacity with 9,8,9 normal and 6,5,5 pierce, (not counting load up skill) and it even comes with better internal and better rapid then the polar version.
And I'm just sitting here still in HR2 even though I got MH:G the day it came out in the west.
How do you level up in monster hunter generations so I can access better ammo
hey Gaijin got a small Gunner question: is the low-rank version of the mixed Jaggi/Bulldrome armor still about the same efficacy in high rank?
cus while my low rank Gourmew armor has been a real help, its defense is starting to be rather lacking even when maxed out (not quite at max yet, but it will only take a few Accolades and i know where to get those)
and while it IS a fun low rank set, sadly the high rank version does NOT automatically come with the Ammo Saver skill, which is half the fun of the armorset especially with low-ammo Internal types like Dazzling or Triblast, i once shot Dazzling 9 times with a total of 5 ammo cus the Ammo Saver triggered on 4 diff shots
but im looking to get a set with higher defense after upgrades, and i dont remember the stats on the low rank Mixed Set of Jaggi and Bulldrome, i just know with a handful of Attack jewels it was ablwe to get Attack Up L and was a really solid Mixed Set for low-rank
i just wanted to know if the High Rank version is the same or at least close in terms of what it generally offers
thanks for the video
Is there a good gun with sleep and internal slicing?
how do you "disable" your palicos so that they don't come with you on quests?
Casey Jo | Go to your Palico Board and go to select Palicoes and deselect the ones you have active. The should have a red and blue icon near their names.
thank you very much
If you are gunning solo, having two protection palicoes is a godsend. I wouldn't recommend turning them off. They are free opportunities to either unload a clip or siege up.
Adept hbg actually loses the ability to side roll in crouch fire so it does lose a little bit
nice! Thanks a lot
I can’t seem to access my armor that matches my bowgun it won’t allow me to, why is that??
I ve 2 more questions:
1. Pellet has no crit distance, so is it 1.5 all the time meaning u are always in crit distance or 1.0 all the tine meaning that u dont get crit distance multiplayer
2. U said that elemental shots also depend on ur atk but i thought they had fixed elemantal values so how to understand this?
TIL you could vault-fire downward.
What does the power reload bonus gives?
I wonder if it's possible to fully rely on the HBG burning weapons art and forget about putting recoil skills on armor or using a bowgun with reduced recoil. Although I doubt it.
Question, is it possible for deviation to affect upward or downward trajectory ?
nope
gaijin hunter that's very strange, I swear I saw my shots going upward or downward at some point.
They go up/down if you are on uneven ground, but deviation woudl not affect that.
gaijin hunter oh that makes plenty of sense now, thank you so much!
Some shots do get a drop in altitude at a distance (status, at medium-long range or heavy at close range, for instance)
soooo.... how do u think about Arial pellet HBG? :^)
Wait the supernova is only 3 motion?
150 fixed damage for the center though. The motion value is literally just the initial hit
gaijin hunter oh ok, thanks
You mentioned 150 fixed for center, and a lesser amount for the edge. Is it one or the other, based on how well you aim, or can both hit?
Also, thanks for all the content and stuff you put out. It's well appreciated.
Angani | If aimed correctly, the center and outer explosion deal massive damage. Supernova annihilates big Monsters, like Akantor and Gammoth.
But can it cut tails. Didn't think so that the reason I can't use it.
Sora Shiun'in Not so fast, buddy. You can load slicing shots into both LBG, and HBG. Those do tailcutting damage.
Never really used much by way of slicing shots, could someone who solos in the guild take enough to actually cut a tail?
Question. Does the Guard Up skill effect the shields damage reduction?
Bradley Miller they're not greyed out so yes
a good way to learn bowguns is to start a new save file using bowgun only, you will learn whats effective easily