You can also add element damage to the Kinsect itself, it really helps add to the damage and you can use the same or a different element to capitalize and the monsters multiply weaknesses. There’s also two types of Kinsects, severing and blunt which can be effected by certain glaives
7:18 Yes I am. I have been doing this kinsect only full game run and I gotta say, the kinesct during early Icebrone is a BEAST. The huge movility and the fact all your skills are defensive makes the hunts ez as cake. For as long as yourr glaive has elemental boost and your kinsect drips some lvl 20 elemtal damage you're set for any 3 star weakness (MR vaal is the only one with no 3 star weakness) and any quest last for arround 20 min. Needless to say alatreon DPS check melts when facing a kinsect. I got to seal him twice with ice element in ice active alatreon during draco phase. The main downsides are the huge amount of clicks for the kinesct to work and the hunts being 20 minute average and really hard to get any faster. 100% recommended for any hunter who's into dumb challenges or looking for a secret meta strat. Sorry for my terrible english.
I started with insect glaive then started to mess around with Charge blade now I bounce between them both but this video taught me some things I didn’t know about the insect glaive
There’s also a “technique” called kinsect drill when you use your descending thrust while the kisect is on you: when you press the input in the air for your descending thrust the kinsect detach from your body and when you land the second hit that marks a body part of the monster, the kinsect will fly straight for that point hitting everything in the way. Can be tricky at times but camera angles and positioning helps a lot For maximising damage you wanna be using a kinsect with low speed e maximum strength so it can hit more times and harder (pause). Very nice vid man!
IG is my main. I love the weapon and how versatile it can be. Would love to see more updated IG builds that people are playing with in 2024! Nice video!
You should definitely try the Agitator Secret + Master Touch Build with 2 pieces Raging Brachy and 3 pieces Teos, add more Expert Jewel, Evade Window, Constitution... For comfort. If you want more damage, go for Crit Boost, Weakness Exploit, Partbreaker and 4 levels of Attack Boost since it gives you 5% affinity as well.
Also, you can be a madman like me and try a funny build with 2 pieces of Ruiner Nergi for Hasten Recovery, 2 pieces of Raging Brachy for Agitator Secret, 1 piece of Blackvail + A Safi glaive with Vaal Soulvein, and finally, Health Augment... Yeah, a vampiric build, pretty funny to try.
This weapon was literary made for me I’ve always liked the concept of flying spears and halberds have always been my favorite kind of weapons and I’ve always liked little insect companions that’s why this weapon is my main
If you want to make ay of the clutch claw an instant tenderize, equip the 3 slot Deco called "shaver". You have to go to the melder and use some decorations you don't use/like. It is expensive but it is such a game changer
Omg. I remember playing world long before iceborne was a thing. I played solo, and the insect glaive was my go-to way back then. I was underutilizing a lot of its ground combos, and I DEFINITELY didn't know you could charge the kinsect! I recently started playing on my ps5, and I've been branching out to more melee weapons - especially the switch axe atm - but still have a collection of insect glaives at the ready. Learning the switch axe has made me utilize the ground combos of the glaive way more effectively, and because I still have a faint memory of how a lot of the monsters work, I rarely take any damage. But thats insane that I didn't know the insect could be charged too. There are so many monsters I can kill in one buff window without the charge (still early game), but this tiny fact will 100% increase my effectiveness for heftier prey down the road
Flinch Free is your best friend and you can play with two mindsets: Either spam divebombs during openings and let your kinsect drill through monsters and retrieve repeatedly (if you have the iceborne doc) or go for mounting damage and evade when necessary while the kinsect produces powders around the monster for team support But one thing that’s important when playing the IG is using the kinsect and never forget you have your little buddy to provide you support to you and your team either with damage, crowd control, or healing as a lot of players new to IG tend to forget about insect and focus on the glaive.
I mained IG for a long while, but moved to Lance since guarding felt more comfy and personally easier for tackling the story monsters with for me. Still, there's just something about the Glaive and the little bug friend that makes me go back to it, especially with more Evade skills in my kit.
I’m a Glaive user and I’m level 10 and I’ve found it a lot of fun and big damage, when I started I was a bow and longbow user now I have switched over to the bug side and I have the healing which comes in clutch for both me and others
i think all monster hunter 4 ultimate weapons are most fun to play with for me. i usualy use chargeblade but insecglave is always fun to jump around with
@@LightItUpDan but hey... you say like dont stay in the air for too long but i stay in the air as mutch as possible. i dont care if i take 30 minutes on my hunt but its just fun to jump around like that. 😄
@@stormoceaninslowmotion you can play it like that if you want to, it can be fun! in multiplayer though it'll mean your team mates have to pick up the slack, which can lead to frustration
@@LightItUpDan yeah i mean like of course, everyone their own fun time right? but the thing with me is i dont have any friends so i dont know how it is to play in a group
I love this weapon. I do stay too much in the air, but if the monster doesn't stop for a second in MR, there's nothing to do, but to fly away XD I don't want to change my Kinsect, because of affection reasons XD So Pallo will come with me even if it's not a meta kinsect, but just a little, chubby, round ladybug
Descending thurst (DT) move feels like bit tricky to use, it can do huge damage before get red kinsect buff and if kinsect pierce along monster body with slower speed, it could surpass Tornado slash total damage. But this move has less reliability cuz it require proper move control and positioning. I remember when Banbaro exhausted and cluggering getting one shot from DT ruining my investigation quest wasting my supply :v
I Used to Just a LS player..but when I learn how to used this weapon and understand how to use it, I Regret that why I never used this weapon in My First time play MHW..haha..
Like he said, the frostfang barioth insect glaive. In case you never found it, it’s called Fenrir Rose, which you can either sidegrade from the barioth tree, or straight up craft by spending some more resources
I know the insect glaive isn’t an S tier weapon, but i really just can’t let it go, I tried going back to LS SA even tried Hammer, DB, but IG is just so much fun lol
IG is considered raw weapon. It has really bad elemental values on attacks and going element is rather bad. Other then that you can say it's a really good beginer introduction to the weapon.
Everything is considered a raw weapon in World, other than for very few specific circumstances on certain enemies with high ass elemental hit zones, it’s by far the best. So I dunno, I find it a bit redundant to talk about the weapons’ elemental values/boosts on attacks. It hits fast and plentiful, so it can work great with elemental, it doesn’t need to be more complex than that 🤷
You forget about if people are doing it a solo run without any help would it be still op weapon because for me it doesn't matter what I do I always get hit or feel like I'm not doing any damage
@@LightItUpDan it just I don't know if i did something wrong but I feel like I don't do any damage in master rank and it takes me to beat monster 25 minutes or even more minutes to beat 2 monsters
@@michaelnazario8019 try to upgrade your weapons so you have as much raw, affinity, and sharpness as possible. use ground combos against the monster's head rather than aerial attacks (I mention this in the video)
I overall like the weapon but I really dislike the way insects look, such a shame really. That's why the Behemoth's layered armor giving you a mini dragon instead is so fucking goated for me, too bad rise doesn't have it or anything similar
Dont take this the wrong way because who am i. But are you gay? Not that there is anything wrong with it. Thats justwhat i hear when you speak. If you are not. I would want some one to tell me. But besides that love how short simple you explained. Good video.
Let's hunt together! ▶ discord.gg/lightitupdan
You can also add element damage to the Kinsect itself, it really helps add to the damage and you can use the same or a different element to capitalize and the monsters multiply weaknesses. There’s also two types of Kinsects, severing and blunt which can be effected by certain glaives
for sure yeah! Kinsects are like a whole additional weapon added into the Glaive haha
7:18 Yes I am. I have been doing this kinsect only full game run and I gotta say, the kinesct during early Icebrone is a BEAST. The huge movility and the fact all your skills are defensive makes the hunts ez as cake. For as long as yourr glaive has elemental boost and your kinsect drips some lvl 20 elemtal damage you're set for any 3 star weakness (MR vaal is the only one with no 3 star weakness) and any quest last for arround 20 min.
Needless to say alatreon DPS check melts when facing a kinsect. I got to seal him twice with ice element in ice active alatreon during draco phase.
The main downsides are the huge amount of clicks for the kinesct to work and the hunts being 20 minute average and really hard to get any faster.
100% recommended for any hunter who's into dumb challenges or looking for a secret meta strat.
Sorry for my terrible english.
that's SO wild mate haha, absolutely love it!! 😄
When i started playing world people were on rise. When i got rise people came back to world. The heck is happening
You need to work on your timing!
But u got both games and both still have alright playerbase on pc so just play both
Play what you like, screw others.
@@ok_listenits more about making friends lmao
Ppl preparing for wilds
I started with insect glaive then started to mess around with Charge blade now I bounce between them both but this video taught me some things I didn’t know about the insect glaive
Nice! The more weapons you play, the more fun you can have, imo
There’s also a “technique” called kinsect drill when you use your descending thrust while the kisect is on you: when you press the input in the air for your descending thrust the kinsect detach from your body and when you land the second hit that marks a body part of the monster, the kinsect will fly straight for that point hitting everything in the way.
Can be tricky at times but camera angles and positioning helps a lot
For maximising damage you wanna be using a kinsect with low speed e maximum strength so it can hit more times and harder (pause).
Very nice vid man!
I love this I've cut a tail this way it was wild.
Thanks man! Appreciate you posting this tip for everyone too, it’s fun messing about with the drills haha
Using anything but the fastest kinsect can be clasified as a torture method
IG is my main. I love the weapon and how versatile it can be. Would love to see more updated IG builds that people are playing with in 2024! Nice video!
it’s a great choice, I have a load of fun with it!
You should definitely try the Agitator Secret + Master Touch Build with 2 pieces Raging Brachy and 3 pieces Teos, add more Expert Jewel, Evade Window, Constitution... For comfort. If you want more damage, go for Crit Boost, Weakness Exploit, Partbreaker and 4 levels of Attack Boost since it gives you 5% affinity as well.
Also, you can be a madman like me and try a funny build with 2 pieces of Ruiner Nergi for Hasten Recovery, 2 pieces of Raging Brachy for Agitator Secret, 1 piece of Blackvail + A Safi glaive with Vaal Soulvein, and finally, Health Augment...
Yeah, a vampiric build, pretty funny to try.
This weapon was literary made for me I’ve always liked the concept of flying spears and halberds have always been my favorite kind of weapons and I’ve always liked little insect companions that’s why this weapon is my main
haha it’s your true calling! 😤
@@LightItUpDan Yeah literally It was actually the first weapon I started playing the game with
If you want to make ay of the clutch claw an instant tenderize, equip the 3 slot Deco called "shaver". You have to go to the melder and use some decorations you don't use/like. It is expensive but it is such a game changer
yeah it's really useful for sure!
Omg. I remember playing world long before iceborne was a thing. I played solo, and the insect glaive was my go-to way back then. I was underutilizing a lot of its ground combos, and I DEFINITELY didn't know you could charge the kinsect! I recently started playing on my ps5, and I've been branching out to more melee weapons - especially the switch axe atm - but still have a collection of insect glaives at the ready. Learning the switch axe has made me utilize the ground combos of the glaive way more effectively, and because I still have a faint memory of how a lot of the monsters work, I rarely take any damage. But thats insane that I didn't know the insect could be charged too. There are so many monsters I can kill in one buff window without the charge (still early game), but this tiny fact will 100% increase my effectiveness for heftier prey down the road
Let’s go!
Such a perfect timing lol I just made an insect glaive build but don't know what to do with the weapon
Flinch Free is your best friend and you can play with two mindsets: Either spam divebombs during openings and let your kinsect drill through monsters and retrieve repeatedly (if you have the iceborne doc) or go for mounting damage and evade when necessary while the kinsect produces powders around the monster for team support
But one thing that’s important when playing the IG is using the kinsect and never forget you have your little buddy to provide you support to you and your team either with damage, crowd control, or healing as a lot of players new to IG tend to forget about insect and focus on the glaive.
haha awesome, hopefully it’s been some help!
So thankful people are still making content for this amazing game!!
Appreciate you enjoying it!
I mained IG for a long while, but moved to Lance since guarding felt more comfy and personally easier for tackling the story monsters with for me. Still, there's just something about the Glaive and the little bug friend that makes me go back to it, especially with more Evade skills in my kit.
it’s super fun and capable of a tremendous amount of damage!
Ive been an insect glaive main since it came out in 4u! I love having constitution on my builds to help with stamina usage
I’m a Glaive user and I’m level 10 and I’ve found it a lot of fun and big damage, when I started I was a bow and longbow user now I have switched over to the bug side and I have the healing which comes in clutch for both me and others
It’s so versatile and strong! Such a great weapon
I do enjoy insect glaive, but I had /no idea/ charging your kinsect with slinger ammo was a thing, this has changed my life
Let’s go!
I was diagnosed with insect glaive one tricking in rise. Came back to world to try out insect glaive and beat the game. Its so much stronger in world
IG ground combos absolutely shred in World
i think all monster hunter 4 ultimate weapons are most fun to play with for me.
i usualy use chargeblade but insecglave is always fun to jump around with
IG is a really good time for sure!
@@LightItUpDan but hey... you say like dont stay in the air for too long but i stay in the air as mutch as possible.
i dont care if i take 30 minutes on my hunt but its just fun to jump around like that. 😄
@@stormoceaninslowmotion you can play it like that if you want to, it can be fun! in multiplayer though it'll mean your team mates have to pick up the slack, which can lead to frustration
@@LightItUpDan yeah i mean like of course, everyone their own fun time right? but the thing with me is i dont have any friends so i dont know how it is to play in a group
@@stormoceaninslowmotion join my Discord, you'll make LOTS of friends!
3:19
Can't staph me. The style point is worth it. The sky is now my home , ':^)
not stopping you, but your damage is gonna suck lol
I love this weapon. I do stay too much in the air, but if the monster doesn't stop for a second in MR, there's nothing to do, but to fly away XD I don't want to change my Kinsect, because of affection reasons XD So Pallo will come with me even if it's not a meta kinsect, but just a little, chubby, round ladybug
ladybugs are adorable so I support this 🐞
7:45 how do you get that armor set?
6:45 Pretty sure Airborne doesn't affect Decending Thrust. Any IG mains can confirm?
Hmmm I’m pretty sure from IB onwards it affects all aerial IG attacks, would have to test it, happy to be corrected if I misspoke!
Descending thurst (DT) move feels like bit tricky to use, it can do huge damage before get red kinsect buff and if kinsect pierce along monster body with slower speed, it could surpass Tornado slash total damage. But this move has less reliability cuz it require proper move control and positioning. I remember when Banbaro exhausted and cluggering getting one shot from DT ruining my investigation quest wasting my supply :v
It really packs a punch
how do i get both kinsect charge buff like 4:45
If your IG has the spirit and strength boost it’ll do both
I Used to Just a LS player..but when I learn how to used this weapon and understand how to use it, I Regret that why I never used this weapon in My First time play MHW..haha..
It's so fun and POWERFUL!
Who else have killed a monster with their kinsect as the last hit🤣
😂
I just killed Zinogre with JUST my kinsect. Even got the tail cut. 😁😁😁
Which insect glaive are u using at 6:21
Frostfang Barioth
Like he said, the frostfang barioth insect glaive. In case you never found it, it’s called Fenrir Rose, which you can either sidegrade from the barioth tree, or straight up craft by spending some more resources
Thanks for the advance i use glave
I know the insect glaive isn’t an S tier weapon, but i really just can’t let it go, I tried going back to LS SA even tried Hammer, DB, but IG is just so much fun lol
It can really dish out pain, I’ve seen it looking practically broken for damage!
Airborne style for the win. I don't care that it's less damage, it's more FUN... and that's why I play.
fair enough 🤝
is jump master a good skill to add for IG?
I think with the innate flinch free from powering up your IG it's not really something worth going out of your way for
Iirc it doesn’t count for vaulting either, it’s only for leaping off a ledge
Insect glaive was my starter why no one tell me you can charge the kinsect
this is why using the training area is so important!
How do you get the training dummy wagon thing? I can't seem to find an answer on the web anywhere
you talk to the house keeper palico in the training area and ask it to change the training area equipment
@@LightItUpDan Well, I feel stupid lol. I figured it was simple enough. Thx!
IG is considered raw weapon. It has really bad elemental values on attacks and going element is rather bad. Other then that you can say it's a really good beginer introduction to the weapon.
Everything is considered a raw weapon in World, other than for very few specific circumstances on certain enemies with high ass elemental hit zones, it’s by far the best. So I dunno, I find it a bit redundant to talk about the weapons’ elemental values/boosts on attacks. It hits fast and plentiful, so it can work great with elemental, it doesn’t need to be more complex than that 🤷
how do i unlock the diving move? been playing for a week now and still can't use that move. pls help 🙏🏻
Just sprint and dodge away
You forget about if people are doing it a solo run without any help would it be still op weapon because for me it doesn't matter what I do I always get hit or feel like I'm not doing any damage
it has some very strong quick combos, with great hit & run options!
@@LightItUpDan it just I don't know if i did something wrong but I feel like I don't do any damage in master rank and it takes me to beat monster 25 minutes or even more minutes to beat 2 monsters
@@michaelnazario8019 try to upgrade your weapons so you have as much raw, affinity, and sharpness as possible. use ground combos against the monster's head rather than aerial attacks (I mention this in the video)
@@LightItUpDan I would like to show you all of my thing but I don't know how to show you
I overall like the weapon but I really dislike the way insects look, such a shame really. That's why the Behemoth's layered armor giving you a mini dragon instead is so fucking goated for me, too bad rise doesn't have it or anything similar
yeah the dragon soul Kinect is stunning
Is that the lightbreak hammer?
in the intro? yeah
some additional tips... use 3 flinch free and 2 earplugs to be a god in the air
😤
Absolutely! Don't leave base camp without them. Even if not earplugs, flinch free and power prolonger are essentials.
Sorry Im confused can anyone translate the controls to PS4 controller? Triangle, swuare circle
I’m sure if you Google it you’ll be able to compare inputs easily enough
Dont take this the wrong way because who am i. But are you gay? Not that there is anything wrong with it. Thats justwhat i hear when you speak. If you are not. I would want some one to tell me. But besides that love how short simple you explained. Good video.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! My sexual orientation is my business, you shouldn’t be asking ✌️
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IG for life since it came out in MH4U
Ayo