DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT listen to this video and use evade extender!!!!! I performed a long back hop and it jumped my character so far back I am now playing Monster Hunter Tri.
Gotta apply that information to have it stick. This morning I spent 15 minutes practicing the full burst chain combo, because I had never been able to do repeated full bursts before. I got it down in the training room and am now out on low rank hunts to build the fundamentals skills required to successfully use gun lance.
@@jaredaadland9692 yep agree, touched it in Rise the first time in my MH carrier (first fleeter btw). It is so much fun. Also evade extender is op in Rise. 👍
At first I was scared because the video was 50mins and i literally just picked up this weapon, but after the first 30mins I learned more than I even thought I could lol thanks for teaching me some tricks!
@@MasterLink19 While I DO miss Valor GL; I absolutely love how it is now. Maybe when Rise Ultimate comes out, we can swap another switch skill for the crazy fast shelling.
I believe the one thing you forgot is the upward poke while shielding. Easy access to heads/flying monsters that way, and you can shell afterwards too. Also shelling from the the upward swing can do the same.
It's also extremely safe if you aren't sure you have a window for bigger attacks. You can return to a block really quickly from this move. I've blocked so many attacks directly after doing this that I could swear should have absolutely hit me. It isn't strong, but it's quite nice in its versatility.
@@non_da You're right that it's stronger, but it doesn't really matter, because the times at which you can and have reason to use either are so different that they really don't compete at all. You cannot uppercut straight out of guard (and using a Guard Thrust into the uppercut is faster than dropping guard first). You typically have no reason to Guard Thrust if you weren't guarding just before, fringe cases or safe play aside. If you're doing either to aim a shell or stake, it literally doesn't matter, you use what you need. If you play a sweep combo playstyle (full burst or swinglance), you just use whichever gets you into the combo loop faster, which depends on the starting position. Both have their uses, and they differ too much to say one is better.
Rurikhan, Hail Cutter can be used anytime midair where it goes straight to the reload and then to the vent upon reaching the ground, skipping the rising up part that occurs when it is used on the ground. Notably it can be used after Aerial Shelling. One of my favorite combos is Blast Dash -> Aerial Shelling -> Hail Cutter. I Blast Dash to a spot above the monster, Aerial Shell to adjust which direction I am facing, and then reload plus WF vent with Hail Cutter when going down to the ground. It lets me use Hail Cutter from further away and from a safer position (midair) compared to the normal grounded version.
I can't quite put to words how much I appreciated this guide. I was already playing very similarly to this but with holes in it, so my fighting felt disjointed. Integrating a few things I was missing really made me more effective overall. Recommending it to everyone in my hunting circle with an interest in this awesome dumb boomstick.
I just made a huge discovery that wasn't in the video. You can change the angle of charged shelling by moving the left stick while the shot is charging
So I was playing around in the training room thinking to myself: “I wonder if Ruri put out anything about Gunlance yet”. Decided to check: “Posted 18 minutes ago” YES!!!! Thank you man, you are one of the main reasons I keep coming back to this wonderful weapon.
I'm literally blown away by the changes to gunlance in this game- blast dash was so much fun in GU and the extra shell is just nice- but it kinda feels like they hate wide.
@@thatparkerkid368 I mean, I hope stun skills work for wide, since apparently focus doesn't do anything for it. I'm a little baffled about it otherwise.
I don't really feel like I need blast dash when using evade extender on long shelling. I really love having charged shells to keep cranking out fast wyrmstakes since it ticks 2 more times. Charged shells on long truly makes it feel like long can do it all. It really puts the "Gun" in Gunlance.
Love how detailed this guide is. Started playing with gunlance as a secondary weapon while deco farming and this is one of the only guides I’ve found to be helpful.
Hell yes Ruri, this is possibly your best weapon guide yet. Your love for the game and the weapon really shines through every frame. I was considering maining gunlance for the story in Rise but wasn’t really sure about it. Thanks to your video I now feel like I have all the information I need to understand and be effective with the weapon, and I’m super excited to try it out! Thank you sir.
Thank you for this video, gunlance is the one weapon I have avoided for years due to ignorance and unwillingness to learn. I’m definitely going to practice and use your video as reference in the future so I can really give this weapon a chance that it deserves.
With the release of 3.0, my friend who got less interested because he hit a wall against Chameleos, came back with newer vigor and interest to the game. He did a little weapon searching since he found Hunting Horn boring, longsword too much, and bow too demanding of inputs. He said he wanted to try gunlance. And I showed him a clip of mine doing hail cutter on Ibushi in rampage with counter signal. Aerial shelled him to bring it down with the aerial slam while Proof of a Hero played in the background. He got sold. And I showed him your guide to gunlance. He feels much more at home now. And feel so proud to have converted him to the FUNLANCE gang.
Finally getting to play this with the PC release. Gunlance was my favorite in World and watching this it looks even better in Rise! I love the Aerial shelling. The wire bug opens up a lot of possibilities and new found mobility that I felt the weapon was missing. The guide itself is very well put together. Good formatting and in-depth explanation!
Just made my first gunlance build because of you. Blast dash has fixed my only problem ive had with the weapon which was repositioning made me feel like I was in one of those dreams where your in a hurry to get somewhere and your running but somehow your going slower than a turtle. This thing is awesome now!
Just so you know, this guide made me love gunlace, especially for the infinite burst combo, the amount of times I broke parts of monsters or knocked them down was impressive
Im not even remotely interested in the Gunlance because im a hunting horn main... but this guide made me feel like i have finally mastered Gunlance gameplay...
This is absolutely the best weapon tutorial for any weapon and any Monster Hunter game. The patient demonstrations, thorough explanations, very good organization in general. This video is the sole responsible for bringing me into the Funlance Fray. Thank you very much for this video tutorial, definitely one of the best (if not the very best) for MH!
I picked up Gunlance for the PC release because it's the one weapon I never understood and couldn't get to work for me in any MH game. It just never felt good. And this time I was not going to quit, even if it felt bad I would persevere and learn the darn thing. This guide changed everything. You ever watch a speedrun or an experienced player use a weapon and you just think "damn, I wish I knew how to do that!" Well, this guide taught me all that! It finally shown me how to play this weapon without it feeling like a clunky mess. I played through about 10 low rank hunts with it now and it already feels amazing! It clicked and it clicked really hard, I am enjoying it so much more than I thought I could. It's amazing how much of a change a good guide makes. Hats off Rurikhan, splendid job.
forgot to mention that Long (and i think normal as well) do cutting dmg on wyrmstake, meaning you can cut tails. while Wide wyrmstake does impact, meaning you can stun monsters by putting the wyrmstake in the monster's head.
Remember that you can change the direction of charged shells flicking your movement analog up and down. Also, when you are guarding, press X to do an upward poke (less dmg than a normal poke) and this can also be used to shell higher places, same applies to the upswing.
Thanks for putting this guide out. I just started watching it now. But I appreciate you doing this. I’ve always been curious about the Gunlance. But I don’t know what it’s “bread and butter combos” are so this is good for me to watch. Also I really hope you do a video on my main weapon the Hammer. I don’t have the game quite yet because my copy was caught in a shipping delay. But I would love to watch a guide on the weapon before I get my copy. Whenever that may be.
As a fellow hammer boy myself I can tell you it's pretty much the same as it is in world but now has the addition of the silk bind skills. Its fantastic and I've destroyed almost every monster in the game so far with it.
I appreciate you going through things in full and not just assuming knowledge of world. I even played through world, but it's been a while and I barely remembered how gunlance worked.
Pro tip: watch this video in segments and go back and do a hunt with Gunlance and apply what you just watched, increasing the difficulty of the quest each time. If you watch the whole 50 minutes at once you definitely won't remember everything.
Also, stupid thing that worked for me, sleep on it. I watched this video at night, tried to pull off moves in hunts, got frustrated then went to sleep. The next day I was much quicker to remember attack strings and counters. It's just like studying. A good night's effort and a good night's sleep will help you learn quickly.
Also an important thing is that while you are charging the shells you can move forward the left joystick and instead of shoot the shells on front of you , you'll shoot them a bit higher; really useful to aim the Wyrmstake and hit a specific monster part I've just realised that I said the wrong Joystick it's the left not the right I already changed it
You can actually pick any of the three shelling angles this way (neutral/guard poke/upswing), each time you tap up or down it changes the angle by one step. Wide gives you more time to aim but it works with every type.
Monster Hunter Rise was my first in the series so coming in I picked the gunlance because I thought it was coolest. Thanks to your tutorial I better understood the weapon and fast forward to 80+ hours into the game it's still my go to
Lifetime ranged player here, been maining light bowgun in Rise. Was thinking about trying GL, cause I enjoyed it in the demo. I found your video, and just wanted to say: Thank you! This video was so incredibly in depth, and helped me switch from just flailing around to actually USING the weapon. Ive been a ranged player since I started playing in 4U, so trying melee I always struggle on the whole idea of waiting your turn, doing the parts of your combo you can, and then backing off again. But after finding and watching through your entire guide, I got back out there and felt SOO much more confident in what I was doing. Managed to kill an HR Ratholos without dying (which when melee is great for me) and felt like such a chad when I combo'd into the wyrmstake to cut off the tail. Great guide, thank you for all the time and info, it helped so much to not only hear the combos, but how and when to utilize what parts of them. Gonna be sticking with GL for a while, and may try actually shifting into maining it a bit more
this guide is literally the meme "but wait...there's more" however thanks to you i finally picked up the gunlance and love every second of it thanks c:
Misc info: While charging your shells, you can flick up or down to choose which of the 3 angles you wanna fire in. (Forward/angled/upward) After guard reloading, shelling immediately keeps the angle of your last shell. Also you can poke then charge shell rather than just charge shell, for about the same amount of time. Ground Splitter can combo into wyrmstake that can be directed 360° You can also go from guard reload to guard thrust for small openings. Since multiple charged shells don't combo into wyrmstake, firing upward is good against flying mons in rampage. The skill Offensive Guard can be activated with guard reload or Guard Edge if timed right. Guard thrust into guard reload is pretty quick. After rising slash(x+a) you can shell, rising slash (just x), shell, ect. Good for heads and tails. A neat combo Thrust, cancel into ch. shell, wyrmstake, guard reload, guard thrust. (Or normal thrust for looping combo) Some of the guard reload stuff might work for quick reload, I haven't tested quick reload extensively.
I just got the game as my first MH last week and after trying out the Longsword and not really feeling it, I fell in love with the Gunlance, so this was very helpful! Thank you!
23:02 I’m having a lot of success with Hail Cutter over Ground Splitter with a normal lance set up. The double Full Burst combo into Wyrmfire or Wyrmstake is a huge punish on any immobilized monster, and the fact that it works in the air lets me spend multiple shells to approach with Blast Dash and still land with a full burst. In addition, it makes Wyrmfire actually impactful in multiplayer hunts where one shot isn’t enough to get consistent part breaks and stuns. Not that Ground Splitter is bad, but give Hail Cutter another chance!
I regret I have but one like to give for this video. This is the kind of content that we genuinely appreciate! Thank you for the time you put into making it!
This video made Gunlance click for me. I've hated this weapon for so long, but watching this video, sleeping on it, and using it a bit in Rise has turned it into one of my favorites. Hell, I'm even using it in 4U now. Thank you.
Ok, after getting evade extender 3, I was able to get Basel armour, and I’m loving gunlance again! Took down all elders first try. My advice for everyone struggling with gunlance… if you time out your hunts, go evade extender first, than artillery and attack boost or offensive guard. If you don’t time out hunts but struggle to survive, get guard, guard up, evade extender, and only after go for damage skills. As for wide/normal/long… I guess the proper way is, if you can consistently full burst, go for the one with most shells. If all you can consistently do is shell, shell-shell and poke shell, wide is the one to go for!
Such a good guide. I main GL, and this helped me understand all the capabilities in Rise. Its long, but with the chapters you can just come back in a practice the moves you need. Thank you!
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Great guide. One thing you forgot to mention is that Guard Reload only loads 3 shells, which is terrible for the Full Burst gameplay, but not a problem at all for Wide Shell.
One big thing about Hail Cutter that kinda redeems it: You can use it mid-air (with weapon drawn) to skip the lengthy first half of the animation. You still get the reload, you still get the slam (which is stronger than a normal slam), you still get the cooldown reduction. One combo that I've been using is Blast Dash -> Single shell (to stop forward momentum) ->Hail Cutter. This is useful if you want to lean into Wyvern Fire alot (with a Long shelling GL for instance). Also, even though it requires two wirebugs, they come back way faster than Ground Splitter. Hail Cutter cooldown is 10 seconds per bug (20 total for both), Ground Splitter 30 seconds for the one bug.
I just did a hunt with Lagombi and the gun lance and it was great! I have been playing for years and avoided the GL but I actually really enjoyed that. Thank you!
One thing you forgot is that after Ground Splitter, you can tap A to shell (also has the 360 pivot thing if you dashed past the monster) or hold A to do charged shells (very useful for Wide GLs because you can supercharge shells).
i love how every gunlance guide that goes over Ground Splitter always mentions the shells and wyrm stake glowing to show its buffed, not the literal burning gunlance :D
I don't normally leave too many comments or likes but this video deserves it, breaks down everything. Even helpful for me who has been maining gunlance since freedom unite. Great job.
Been maining Greatsword in World (my first MH game) and also in Ultimate and decided to find a new weapon for Rise, and after watching this guide gave the gunlance a serious try for the first time and holy shit it's so much fun!
I was a GL main in MHFU, then dropped it in favor of chargeblade since MH4U and decided to pick it up again when 2.0 arrived. Thank you for such a detailed guide
I discovered something new (to me) recently. If you are airborne and you hit ZR+A you do a horizontal aerial full burst, Aerial Burst in game. This works under most circumstances when airborne but it requires you to have Charged Shelling selected. If you have Blast Dash as your chosen Switch Skill this combo will instead instantly Blast Dash. Along with Aerial Burst you can fall while doing a Charged Shell. You can perform either of these aerial actions at the absolute peak of Hail Cutter (input it right after the reload) but it will interrupt the slam and thus remove the Wyvern's Fire gauge reduction effect. Performing Aerial Burst will also disable the ability to perform any other actions till you land. This means you can't transition into a slam, but you can perform the same Wyrmstake combo once you land as a normal Full Burst, either Wide Sweep into Wyrmstake or just land into Wyrmstake. Additionally, falling Charged Shelling works the same as grounded, you can transition into a quick Wyrmstake upon landing. Lastly, Charged Shelling while falling will auto fire once you land. If you fall for far enough while charging however (or release it early), even for Wide Shelling's longer charge, you will fire it and can fire more shells or do an Aerial Burst. Releasing a Charged Shell while airborne will knock you up the same height as a normal Aerial Shell, meaning if you're high enough or quick enough you can do it multiple times. Do note again though that neither of these mechanics are present when you have Blast Dash equipped. These can be useful and/or fun anti-air strategies, especially when paired with Hail Cutter.
I see 50 minutes i was scared but i watch all the video every information is good and im happy that the first weapon you do a Ultimate guide is the gun lance good job !
I'm at 12:40 and been watching and taking note for each moves and choose what to use for me. Feels like I'm back in college lmfao What's more insane is it's just for the one of 14 weapons in MH Rize :D lol
When using charged shells, you can redirect your gunlance to face 90° upwards and follow that up into fast wyrmstake might be useful for aiming at the head with wide GL. Just letting you know because it wasn't mentioned.
"I have evade extender so my hops will be slightly longer"
*Jumps into another continent*
Is that evade extender at max lvl or....
Honestly tho just having level 2 and you’re flying everywhere
@@hit9819 me too it’s awesome.
If you're using GL, you can actually do that.
I sidestepped once and now I'm back in Pokke
I did the double back hop with evade extender and flew back into last week! Now I have to wait for the game to come out again.
Just so you know, I spit out my water at this. Still giggling about it.
@@matthewfera2954 this got a proper chuckle out of me as well hahaha
I got a good cackle out of that
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmaoooooooo
DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT listen to this video and use evade extender!!!!! I performed a long back hop and it jumped my character so far back I am now playing Monster Hunter Tri.
Not bad tbh
Is the online still broken with hacks?? Lol
😂😂🤣🤣
Goddamned 😭
Hhahhahaha
Right after watching = I am now a master of the Gunlance.
In game = I don't remember a damn thing i just watched. 😐
Right after watching: this'll be a helpful guide to help me fight strategically!
When fighting: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
Right after watching: Nice weapon have to try it
In Game = Or I stay with my heavy bowgun „Ratttattttttta“
Right after watching: this should be an easy switch from my lance
After trying in game: naw I think I shall just poke things normally
After he finished a section I copied what he did in my game until it stuck
Gotta apply that information to have it stick. This morning I spent 15 minutes practicing the full burst chain combo, because I had never been able to do repeated full bursts before. I got it down in the training room and am now out on low rank hunts to build the fundamentals skills required to successfully use gun lance.
Whaaat? 50 minutes? This is some masterclass level material.
gunlace masterclass
Good lord I’m about to learn so much
Didnt realise it was 50mins til i read this comment!
Except he doesn't have a clue about how to use wide shelling properly...
@@manuelmsp how do i use wide shelling properly then mate?
A 50 minute guide for gunlance... you really do love the heck out of this weapon.
It's understandable, the gunlance is an awesome weapon.
Boom stick
@@jaredaadland9692 yep agree, touched it in Rise the first time in my MH carrier (first fleeter btw). It is so much fun. Also evade extender is op in Rise. 👍
@@johannesnagengast7643 monster hunter world was my first mh game. I got generations ultimate later and I thoroughly enjoyed gunlance in both games.
Yes we all like the walking artillery unit
At first I was scared because the video was 50mins and i literally just picked up this weapon, but after the first 30mins I learned more than I even thought I could lol thanks for teaching me some tricks!
I literally learnt all I know about Gunlance through Rurikhans videos lol
This is literally the best the GL has ever been.
Hell, its really hard to go back to previous versions of this weapon.
I was happy that it was closer to Worlds, but Capcon outdone themself, this time around.
@@MasterLink19 While I DO miss Valor GL; I absolutely love how it is now.
Maybe when Rise Ultimate comes out, we can swap another switch skill for the crazy fast shelling.
@@pockystyx4087 hopefully in less than 2 years
@@MasterLink19 data leaks said something about a 1+ year; but that was before Covid.
I can wait though; team deserves a rest.
Ehhh not sure bout that one cheif. I missing being able to keep a monster tripped and not to mention the shelling nerf…
Stop making me fall in love with the Gunlance all over again
I believe the one thing you forgot is the upward poke while shielding. Easy access to heads/flying monsters that way, and you can shell afterwards too. Also shelling from the the upward swing can do the same.
Very useful against Rathalos
mhr decided to give gl a vertical wyrmstake - almost like there would be things over our heads and not just a angled up shot either lol
It's also extremely safe if you aren't sure you have a window for bigger attacks. You can return to a block really quickly from this move. I've blocked so many attacks directly after doing this that I could swear should have absolutely hit me. It isn't strong, but it's quite nice in its versatility.
that's a really weak attack and you shouldn't use it in most cases, honestly. the X+A is far stronger.
@@non_da You're right that it's stronger, but it doesn't really matter, because the times at which you can and have reason to use either are so different that they really don't compete at all.
You cannot uppercut straight out of guard (and using a Guard Thrust into the uppercut is faster than dropping guard first). You typically have no reason to Guard Thrust if you weren't guarding just before, fringe cases or safe play aside. If you're doing either to aim a shell or stake, it literally doesn't matter, you use what you need. If you play a sweep combo playstyle (full burst or swinglance), you just use whichever gets you into the combo loop faster, which depends on the starting position.
Both have their uses, and they differ too much to say one is better.
Rurikhan, Hail Cutter can be used anytime midair where it goes straight to the reload and then to the vent upon reaching the ground, skipping the rising up part that occurs when it is used on the ground.
Notably it can be used after Aerial Shelling. One of my favorite combos is Blast Dash -> Aerial Shelling -> Hail Cutter. I Blast Dash to a spot above the monster, Aerial Shell to adjust which direction I am facing, and then reload plus WF vent with Hail Cutter when going down to the ground. It lets me use Hail Cutter from further away and from a safer position (midair) compared to the normal grounded version.
This is the ultimate use for Hail Cutter. I'm impressed it has no comments and only 6 likes. Thanks a lot for this information!
Also Hail seems to be atleast decent w/ wideshelling, as u can get faster Wyvernfire, that can stun.
Amazing, I love Gunlance
I don’t even play gunlance. I just like watching your videos.
I can't quite put to words how much I appreciated this guide. I was already playing very similarly to this but with holes in it, so my fighting felt disjointed. Integrating a few things I was missing really made me more effective overall. Recommending it to everyone in my hunting circle with an interest in this awesome dumb boomstick.
I just made a huge discovery that wasn't in the video. You can change the angle of charged shelling by moving the left stick while the shot is charging
I noticed he accidentally did it at 38:40. :3
So I was playing around in the training room thinking to myself: “I wonder if Ruri put out anything about Gunlance yet”. Decided to check: “Posted 18 minutes ago” YES!!!! Thank you man, you are one of the main reasons I keep coming back to this wonderful weapon.
50 minutes?! On a guide for Gunlance!?
*O* *H* *Y* *E* *A* *H*
I'm literally blown away by the changes to gunlance in this game- blast dash was so much fun in GU and the extra shell is just nice- but it kinda feels like they hate wide.
@@thatparkerkid368 I mean, I hope stun skills work for wide, since apparently focus doesn't do anything for it. I'm a little baffled about it otherwise.
Thank you so much for this video. Gunlance mains rise up baby!!!! 💪🏽🙌🏽💪🏽🙌🏽
Pun intended?
The only gunlance guide on RUclips that matters.
@@gamecavalier3230 right?
I don't really feel like I need blast dash when using evade extender on long shelling. I really love having charged shells to keep cranking out fast wyrmstakes since it ticks 2 more times. Charged shells on long truly makes it feel like long can do it all. It really puts the "Gun" in Gunlance.
This is what's beautiful about the switch skill system, it let's everyone play how they want to play and keeps the community unique and fresh!
Why is this more clear and comprehensive than most of my university courses were?
Because this is probably something you are genuinely interested in and are paying attention to
because this is teaching you skills/information instead of how to pass an exam/assessment
Love how detailed this guide is. Started playing with gunlance as a secondary weapon while deco farming and this is one of the only guides I’ve found to be helpful.
Hell yes Ruri, this is possibly your best weapon guide yet. Your love for the game and the weapon really shines through every frame. I was considering maining gunlance for the story in Rise but wasn’t really sure about it. Thanks to your video I now feel like I have all the information I need to understand and be effective with the weapon, and I’m super excited to try it out! Thank you sir.
Thank you for this video, gunlance is the one weapon I have avoided for years due to ignorance and unwillingness to learn. I’m definitely going to practice and use your video as reference in the future so I can really give this weapon a chance that it deserves.
With the release of 3.0, my friend who got less interested because he hit a wall against Chameleos, came back with newer vigor and interest to the game.
He did a little weapon searching since he found Hunting Horn boring, longsword too much, and bow too demanding of inputs.
He said he wanted to try gunlance. And I showed him a clip of mine doing hail cutter on Ibushi in rampage with counter signal. Aerial shelled him to bring it down with the aerial slam while Proof of a Hero played in the background.
He got sold. And I showed him your guide to gunlance. He feels much more at home now. And feel so proud to have converted him to the FUNLANCE gang.
Ah the gentlemen that taught me how to be OP with the GL in World. Is back.
*with a 50 fucking minute video*.
Finally getting to play this with the PC release. Gunlance was my favorite in World and watching this it looks even better in Rise! I love the Aerial shelling. The wire bug opens up a lot of possibilities and new found mobility that I felt the weapon was missing.
The guide itself is very well put together. Good formatting and in-depth explanation!
Just made my first gunlance build because of you. Blast dash has fixed my only problem ive had with the weapon which was repositioning made me feel like I was in one of those dreams where your in a hurry to get somewhere and your running but somehow your going slower than a turtle. This thing is awesome now!
Just so you know, this guide made me love gunlace, especially for the infinite burst combo, the amount of times I broke parts of monsters or knocked them down was impressive
Im not even remotely interested in the Gunlance because im a hunting horn main... but this guide made me feel like i have finally mastered Gunlance gameplay...
After they massacred the hunting horn I have come to be a gun lance main for this game
@@GG4GJake Weird way to spell massively improved
@@Mare_Man
Massively made more boring to play. I don't care if it's better or not.
I didn't know a lot of this about the Gunlance! The aerial shelling I discovered, but not the full burst! Amazing.
This is absolutely the best weapon tutorial for any weapon and any Monster Hunter game. The patient demonstrations, thorough explanations, very good organization in general. This video is the sole responsible for bringing me into the Funlance Fray. Thank you very much for this video tutorial, definitely one of the best (if not the very best) for MH!
I ain't a gunlance main, hell, I don't even own a switch to play the game, but damn this is a good guide
My mind was blown when I found out u can charge shells in the air 👌🏻 Not a game changer but still so fun. Glad GL got so much love this time around
I picked up Gunlance for the PC release because it's the one weapon I never understood and couldn't get to work for me in any MH game. It just never felt good. And this time I was not going to quit, even if it felt bad I would persevere and learn the darn thing.
This guide changed everything. You ever watch a speedrun or an experienced player use a weapon and you just think "damn, I wish I knew how to do that!" Well, this guide taught me all that! It finally shown me how to play this weapon without it feeling like a clunky mess. I played through about 10 low rank hunts with it now and it already feels amazing! It clicked and it clicked really hard, I am enjoying it so much more than I thought I could. It's amazing how much of a change a good guide makes. Hats off Rurikhan, splendid job.
I always wanted to try out gunlace, this video is the last straw that I needed to finally learn it, Tha KS 😁😁
forgot to mention that Long (and i think normal as well) do cutting dmg on wyrmstake, meaning you can cut tails. while Wide wyrmstake does impact, meaning you can stun monsters by putting the wyrmstake in the monster's head.
was cool to have this type of guide for all weapons
Remember that you can change the direction of charged shells flicking your movement analog up and down. Also, when you are guarding, press X to do an upward poke (less dmg than a normal poke) and this can also be used to shell higher places, same applies to the upswing.
Thanks for putting this guide out. I just started watching it now. But I appreciate you doing this. I’ve always been curious about the Gunlance. But I don’t know what it’s “bread and butter combos” are so this is good for me to watch.
Also I really hope you do a video on my main weapon the Hammer. I don’t have the game quite yet because my copy was caught in a shipping delay. But I would love to watch a guide on the weapon before I get my copy. Whenever that may be.
As a fellow hammer boy myself I can tell you it's pretty much the same as it is in world but now has the addition of the silk bind skills. Its fantastic and I've destroyed almost every monster in the game so far with it.
I'm so happy with gunlance in this game, it really got the additions I needed to commit entirely to it
I appreciate you going through things in full and not just assuming knowledge of world. I even played through world, but it's been a while and I barely remembered how gunlance worked.
What a legend just picked up gunlance for the first time ever in any game since my gf said it looked cool and I based my character on her. Hyped ash
Thank you! I've been looking for a good comprehensive guide for gunlance and this came out just in time.
Your actually the best mh rise content creator right now. Only person I feel like I learned more then reading the hunter notes from lol
Pro tip: watch this video in segments and go back and do a hunt with Gunlance and apply what you just watched, increasing the difficulty of the quest each time. If you watch the whole 50 minutes at once you definitely won't remember everything.
Also, stupid thing that worked for me, sleep on it. I watched this video at night, tried to pull off moves in hunts, got frustrated then went to sleep. The next day I was much quicker to remember attack strings and counters.
It's just like studying. A good night's effort and a good night's sleep will help you learn quickly.
Also an important thing is that while you are charging the shells you can move forward the left joystick and instead of shoot the shells on front of you , you'll shoot them a bit higher; really useful to aim the Wyrmstake and hit a specific monster part
I've just realised that I said the wrong Joystick it's the left not the right I already changed it
You can actually pick any of the three shelling angles this way (neutral/guard poke/upswing), each time you tap up or down it changes the angle by one step. Wide gives you more time to aim but it works with every type.
Evade extender two and window three make the gunlance into an evade lancer's dream. So many good hops
Monster Hunter Rise was my first in the series so coming in I picked the gunlance because I thought it was coolest. Thanks to your tutorial I better understood the weapon and fast forward to 80+ hours into the game it's still my go to
Kind of funny because Gunlance is kind of a terrible beginner weapon, slow with awkward attack strings. Just goes to show how amazing this guide is!
Lifetime ranged player here, been maining light bowgun in Rise. Was thinking about trying GL, cause I enjoyed it in the demo. I found your video, and just wanted to say:
Thank you! This video was so incredibly in depth, and helped me switch from just flailing around to actually USING the weapon. Ive been a ranged player since I started playing in 4U, so trying melee I always struggle on the whole idea of waiting your turn, doing the parts of your combo you can, and then backing off again. But after finding and watching through your entire guide, I got back out there and felt SOO much more confident in what I was doing. Managed to kill an HR Ratholos without dying (which when melee is great for me) and felt like such a chad when I combo'd into the wyrmstake to cut off the tail.
Great guide, thank you for all the time and info, it helped so much to not only hear the combos, but how and when to utilize what parts of them. Gonna be sticking with GL for a while, and may try actually shifting into maining it a bit more
this guide is literally the meme "but wait...there's more"
however thanks to you i finally picked up the gunlance and love every second of it
thanks c:
Never played a Monster Hunter game and this video deftly help out a lot.
Can you also make life guide's ? Holy f*** ,there's a Lot of passion and knowledge here, no joke's i'm amazed .
Misc info:
While charging your shells, you can flick up or down to choose which of the 3 angles you wanna fire in.
(Forward/angled/upward)
After guard reloading, shelling immediately keeps the angle of your last shell.
Also you can poke then charge shell rather than just charge shell, for about the same amount of time.
Ground Splitter can combo into wyrmstake that can be directed 360°
You can also go from guard reload to guard thrust for small openings.
Since multiple charged shells don't combo into wyrmstake, firing upward is good against flying mons in rampage.
The skill Offensive Guard can be activated with guard reload or Guard Edge if timed right.
Guard thrust into guard reload is pretty quick.
After rising slash(x+a) you can shell, rising slash (just x), shell, ect.
Good for heads and tails.
A neat combo
Thrust, cancel into ch. shell, wyrmstake, guard reload, guard thrust.
(Or normal thrust for looping combo)
Some of the guard reload stuff might work for quick reload, I haven't tested quick reload extensively.
I just got the game as my first MH last week and after trying out the Longsword and not really feeling it, I fell in love with the Gunlance, so this was very helpful! Thank you!
Brilliantly narrated guide to the Gunlance. Exactly what I needed. You've done a great job here boss.
23:02 I’m having a lot of success with Hail Cutter over Ground Splitter with a normal lance set up. The double Full Burst combo into Wyrmfire or Wyrmstake is a huge punish on any immobilized monster, and the fact that it works in the air lets me spend multiple shells to approach with Blast Dash and still land with a full burst.
In addition, it makes Wyrmfire actually impactful in multiplayer hunts where one shot isn’t enough to get consistent part breaks and stuns.
Not that Ground Splitter is bad, but give Hail Cutter another chance!
This has to be the best gunlance Guide ever. Thank you lad.
A GunLance main from 2nd Fleet, still watching this kind of videos.
Keep the booming!
I regret I have but one like to give for this video. This is the kind of content that we genuinely appreciate! Thank you for the time you put into making it!
This video made Gunlance click for me. I've hated this weapon for so long, but watching this video, sleeping on it, and using it a bit in Rise has turned it into one of my favorites. Hell, I'm even using it in 4U now. Thank you.
Ok, after getting evade extender 3, I was able to get Basel armour, and I’m loving gunlance again! Took down all elders first try. My advice for everyone struggling with gunlance… if you time out your hunts, go evade extender first, than artillery and attack boost or offensive guard. If you don’t time out hunts but struggle to survive, get guard, guard up, evade extender, and only after go for damage skills. As for wide/normal/long… I guess the proper way is, if you can consistently full burst, go for the one with most shells. If all you can consistently do is shell, shell-shell and poke shell, wide is the one to go for!
My copy of Rise won't arrive until Monday so I've been trying to avoid spoilers, but watching Rurikhan play Monster Hunter is too much fun lol
How do you like it? (:
I've had the game for about a week and love it so far.
I've been playing Gunlance for a bit now and after deciding to main it I found this video and learned so much. Thanks a lot for your amazing guide!
Such a good guide. I main GL, and this helped me understand all the capabilities in Rise. Its long, but with the chapters you can just come back in a practice the moves you need. Thank you!
Great guide. One thing you forgot to mention is that Guard Reload only loads 3 shells, which is terrible for the Full Burst gameplay, but not a problem at all for Wide Shell.
Never really been a fan of the slower weapons, but I've been trying the gunlance these days and it's so cool! This guide is a 10/10!
Been waiting for this guide before starting gunlance. Can’t wait to go brrrrrrrrrr
you've convinced me to main the gunlance when i eventually pick up MH Rise on the pc. heck might even try it out in iceborne
I've watched 50 minutes of video about gunlance and I'm really happy with all of that
Trying MH games for the first time with MH Rise and this video was very very useful. Thank you Ruri!
Gunlance was one of my mains in MHW and I still learned a bunch from this video. Thanks a lot 👍🏻
I was dead set on mastering the LS, and after this vid and your "objective review of the GL", back on blasting mons.... *blast away*
I’m a gunlance main and 14:30 in has just revolutionized the way I play
One big thing about Hail Cutter that kinda redeems it: You can use it mid-air (with weapon drawn) to skip the lengthy first half of the animation. You still get the reload, you still get the slam (which is stronger than a normal slam), you still get the cooldown reduction. One combo that I've been using is Blast Dash -> Single shell (to stop forward momentum) ->Hail Cutter. This is useful if you want to lean into Wyvern Fire alot (with a Long shelling GL for instance). Also, even though it requires two wirebugs, they come back way faster than Ground Splitter. Hail Cutter cooldown is 10 seconds per bug (20 total for both), Ground Splitter 30 seconds for the one bug.
I just did a hunt with Lagombi and the gun lance and it was great! I have been playing for years and avoided the GL but I actually really enjoyed that. Thank you!
I'm 25hrs in with gunlance main and you showed me attacks amd combos i still didn't know existed.
On a whim i decided to try Gunlance during the demo and i was surprised by how much i liked it. This video has been super helpful, thanks!
I'm currently on the grind on making all weapons and learning / using them on the way, just finish with the GS and now I'm tackling Gunlance
Masterclass on gunlance... have been trying to master the gunlance since iceborne after studying your video.... rise just make gunlance life easier
Dude again your style is great, so glad to find these now that I'm finally playing rise
Wow, coming here from the switch ax video. I thought that weapon was complicated but this one takes it to a whole other level
One thing you forgot is that after Ground Splitter, you can tap A to shell (also has the 360 pivot thing if you dashed past the monster) or hold A to do charged shells (very useful for Wide GLs because you can supercharge shells).
Really glad I picked up gunlance in rise! Super fun weapon!
I appreciate you going into the full details of the weapon. A guide for the ages!
i love how every gunlance guide that goes over Ground Splitter always mentions the shells and wyrm stake glowing to show its buffed, not the literal burning gunlance :D
I don't normally leave too many comments or likes but this video deserves it, breaks down everything. Even helpful for me who has been maining gunlance since freedom unite. Great job.
Outstanding! Thank you, brother. Would love see a Sword & Shield Ultimate Guide next! My wife just started MWR and that weapon suits her atm.
I've been waiting to pick up the gunlance until after you made a video like this. Now I feel prepared for gunlancing.
I decided to main Gunlance during Rise, and this video really helped give me some tips.
I cant wait for you to make an ultimate longsword guide. That and an ultimate bow guide. Those two weapons are 🔥
Been maining Greatsword in World (my first MH game) and also in Ultimate and decided to find a new weapon for Rise, and after watching this guide gave the gunlance a serious try for the first time and holy shit it's so much fun!
I was a GL main in MHFU, then dropped it in favor of chargeblade since MH4U and decided to pick it up again when 2.0 arrived. Thank you for such a detailed guide
Not a gunlance main, but always fun to hear about other weapons while playing.
I discovered something new (to me) recently. If you are airborne and you hit ZR+A you do a horizontal aerial full burst, Aerial Burst in game. This works under most circumstances when airborne but it requires you to have Charged Shelling selected. If you have Blast Dash as your chosen Switch Skill this combo will instead instantly Blast Dash. Along with Aerial Burst you can fall while doing a Charged Shell. You can perform either of these aerial actions at the absolute peak of Hail Cutter (input it right after the reload) but it will interrupt the slam and thus remove the Wyvern's Fire gauge reduction effect. Performing Aerial Burst will also disable the ability to perform any other actions till you land. This means you can't transition into a slam, but you can perform the same Wyrmstake combo once you land as a normal Full Burst, either Wide Sweep into Wyrmstake or just land into Wyrmstake. Additionally, falling Charged Shelling works the same as grounded, you can transition into a quick Wyrmstake upon landing. Lastly, Charged Shelling while falling will auto fire once you land. If you fall for far enough while charging however (or release it early), even for Wide Shelling's longer charge, you will fire it and can fire more shells or do an Aerial Burst. Releasing a Charged Shell while airborne will knock you up the same height as a normal Aerial Shell, meaning if you're high enough or quick enough you can do it multiple times. Do note again though that neither of these mechanics are present when you have Blast Dash equipped. These can be useful and/or fun anti-air strategies, especially when paired with Hail Cutter.
I see 50 minutes i was scared but i watch all the video every information is good and im happy that the first weapon you do a Ultimate guide is the gun lance good job !
I'm at 12:40 and been watching and taking note for each moves and choose what to use for me. Feels like I'm back in college lmfao
What's more insane is it's just for the one of 14 weapons in MH Rize :D lol
I played this series since MH 3 and I’m a main dual blade&long sword player, thx to this tutorial I think I would now start to play gun lance
Its pretty cool that you put “ultimate” in the title and it truly is
When using charged shells, you can redirect your gunlance to face 90° upwards and follow that up into fast wyrmstake might be useful for aiming at the head with wide GL. Just letting you know because it wasn't mentioned.