After over 600 hunts with IG and over 1000 hours in Sunbreak, I did not know that cutting insects inherit your weapon's elemental damage. I wish Capcom was better at tutorializing their games.
It sounds more like incidental code than intentional feature imho. The glaive uses cutting damage, so I assume that somewhere in the coding there's an attribute that simply copies and pastes certain points of data to the cutting insect. This would mean the elemental damage would have also been incidentally cut and paste. The only thing that makes sense as to why blunt bugs don't get anything.
Never become complacent with your weapon. A lot of people just stop looking for info because they feel they know all there is, but you can always learn more! I've played Gunlance since MH3U and still learn new things all the time. I do agree though that it does suck that MH has never gone out of its way to teach you a LOT of things. 🥲
One thing I'll add since you mentioned using powder mantle with the kinsect: you can actually trigger it with that pellet shot the glaive has that I'm pretty sure no one ever uses. The pellet is just designed to give your kinsect an area to gravitate towards when you send it out, but it does like 5 damage, so funnily enough, it'll proc powder mantle as well.
Pretty sure it marks the monster and sends your kinsect out. Great for powder kinsect to generate clouds if you can’t get close. Also when you mark and the kinsect attacks, it will cycle through the buffs (for the most part). Decent way of getting tricky colours from certain monsters.
@@Shaklor It only sends out the kinsect automatically depending on the kinsect type. For example, I use the lv1 healing kinsect all the time, and it never goes out when I shoot a pellet. I think it's only powder kinsects that get sent out automatically with a marker.
Why not use the rarity 7 assist kinsects? Especially with tetraseal slash you basically never lose your triple buff, they're also a bit stronger on the damage side. Also now with the kinsect supercharge rampage deco, Awakened Kinsect Attack (the third silkbind that overrides Diving wyvern, which you can just leave on second scroll) deals massive damage with the rarity 7 one and you can pretty much spam it because of the triple buff powder clouds. Sure Aka is slow and you might lose some dps if you spam it, but when a monster is down, you can animation cancel the last part of Tetraseal Slash into Aka and doing that also speeds up Aka's animation a lot, its essentialy instant 1500 damage and then if you get red from it you can use the spiker attack right after jumping off the monster after hitting it with Aka. This combo will require you to have a triple buff powercloud nearby to get your buffs back but after a leaping into tetraseal at the start of the combo that is pretty much guaranteed. Although you lose the dual buffs gathering but the only value i give to that is getting through the first roar easily which doesnt seem that important and you can use the "counter" attack that lunges you forward, that you can put in one of your scrolls and then swap to the other for leaping, to get past the roar anyways, this aldo puts you in the air to gather buffs with kinsect slash or to go immediately for red buff into spike attack. In most monsters gathering all 3 buffs is quite easy and then if you play accordingly you will almost never lose the triple with the rar 7 ones. Then again that's just my take on it. Also the rarity 7 speed kinsects have their own uses imo, in elemental builds with the kinsect deco, the severing one deals actually quite ridiculous amounts of damage (although i still have yet to test wether that damage is more than whar Elemembane Jewel gives but i think so, its more than a 1.5 multiplier in damage) and you can animation cancel everything with Kinsect Attack instead of Kinsect Recall and get good damage from it that way. The blunt one is an absolute stun machine if we are willing to sacrifice some damage for an easier time.
Same bro! I use the same strategy, with the rarity seven kinsect you can use the aka three times in a row, wich is like 4500 damage, also, i recommend having diving wyvern in the another scroll since you dont have the extract cloud thing all the time, just switch to aka when you get it and everything goes brr.
Kinsect Slash does draw the bug away from attacking powder though, so if you have a powder-focused bug the jumping advancing slash allows it to continue doing it's spam. Also, Awakened Kinsect Attack is also more of a powder (and if you're a masochist the charge) kinsect skills. It's not great on the Assist bugs at all but the hit with a powder bug leaves like 5 or 6 clouds which can immediately be popped with a follow-up heavy attack after you're dragged into range.
Right now, I'm going through my Only Bow Challenge (Basically beat the game only using bow), but I will be keeping this in mind for my future Only IG Challenge. Thanks for the great video!
The rank 2 foebeetle is a massive game changer for me, had no idea it was that good, now i can spam awakened kinsect attack which looks so good, and i get 2 extracts back instantly after it connect
Thanks to this video i started playing IG today and within all of today I’ve gotten faster time on most hunts, and killed primalzeno. Originally ChB was my most used weapon, and I shyed away from IG because i didnt like the Kinsect gimmick, but it’s actually not bad, i kinda like that it can give me blunt damage as well, as i prefer to go for the head even with a severing weapon
I just wing it when i play IG. Sometimes i pull off the flashiest anime moves, and other times i look like a parapalegic doing somersaults on an ice skating rink.
If you didnt k ow if you mark the monster when ever u see out the kincest it will go to that part. Good to mark the head and hit it with blunt kincest and call it back with areial moves
So apparently there was a leak saying we will get a powered Mazleno & Amatsu probably & a title update 6 ofc we don’t know if that’s true but I hope so.
i completely forgot about the existance of kinsect slash even though I'm a insect gtlaive main and have been using jumping advanced slash all this time and now I'm split on using kinsect slash or the move I have been relying on for all this time
@@Pyrac so I hold the trigger and press a at the same time? I appreciate the response. I’ve watched all your hammer vids (hammer main), but I’m getting bored of bonks. I’ve got all the hammers and multiple maxed builds, figured I’d pick up IG now for a complete change.
Here’s a small tip you can know about kinsects. Ignore their rarity, as all it does is tell you when the kinsect is available to use in game (for example, a rarity one kinsect is an equally viable choice as a rarity 7 kinsect. Their stats are nearly the same minus a 1-3 point stat difference on some aspects). Basically, look at what makes that kinsect unique and determine whether or not it fits your play style. Popular kinsects used are the rarity 1 kinsects (I would love to tell you why, but I honestly don’t know) a rarity 3 kinsect that gives dual defense (mentioned in this video), and the 2 rarity 7 kinsects in sunbreak that release a powder that either adds 30 secs to your extract duration or completely refills your extract gauges when empty. Edit: decided to look up why people like rarity 1 kinsects. Apparently they have a bonus in that they will heal you every single time you extract a buff from a monster
After over 600 hunts with IG and over 1000 hours in Sunbreak, I did not know that cutting insects inherit your weapon's elemental damage. I wish Capcom was better at tutorializing their games.
It sounds more like incidental code than intentional feature imho.
The glaive uses cutting damage, so I assume that somewhere in the coding there's an attribute that simply copies and pastes certain points of data to the cutting insect. This would mean the elemental damage would have also been incidentally cut and paste. The only thing that makes sense as to why blunt bugs don't get anything.
Never become complacent with your weapon. A lot of people just stop looking for info because they feel they know all there is, but you can always learn more! I've played Gunlance since MH3U and still learn new things all the time. I do agree though that it does suck that MH has never gone out of its way to teach you a LOT of things. 🥲
@@Exalted-Belethit’s loaded with tutorials for all the useless info though so that’s something
@@Exalted-Beleth If they did have stuff for every aspect then the game might be 5 times the size due to tutorials lol.
if capcom did a turtorial for every weapon in that much depth, there wouldnt be anything left for actual gameplay
2:21 Got over 500 hours in rise sunbreak as a glaive main, never knew the aerial vault silkbind sped up the dyving wyvern attack by one hit
One thing I'll add since you mentioned using powder mantle with the kinsect: you can actually trigger it with that pellet shot the glaive has that I'm pretty sure no one ever uses. The pellet is just designed to give your kinsect an area to gravitate towards when you send it out, but it does like 5 damage, so funnily enough, it'll proc powder mantle as well.
Pretty sure it marks the monster and sends your kinsect out. Great for powder kinsect to generate clouds if you can’t get close.
Also when you mark and the kinsect attacks, it will cycle through the buffs (for the most part). Decent way of getting tricky colours from certain monsters.
@@Shaklor It only sends out the kinsect automatically depending on the kinsect type. For example, I use the lv1 healing kinsect all the time, and it never goes out when I shoot a pellet. I think it's only powder kinsects that get sent out automatically with a marker.
Why not use the rarity 7 assist kinsects? Especially with tetraseal slash you basically never lose your triple buff, they're also a bit stronger on the damage side. Also now with the kinsect supercharge rampage deco, Awakened Kinsect Attack (the third silkbind that overrides Diving wyvern, which you can just leave on second scroll) deals massive damage with the rarity 7 one and you can pretty much spam it because of the triple buff powder clouds. Sure Aka is slow and you might lose some dps if you spam it, but when a monster is down, you can animation cancel the last part of Tetraseal Slash into Aka and doing that also speeds up Aka's animation a lot, its essentialy instant 1500 damage and then if you get red from it you can use the spiker attack right after jumping off the monster after hitting it with Aka. This combo will require you to have a triple buff powercloud nearby to get your buffs back but after a leaping into tetraseal at the start of the combo that is pretty much guaranteed. Although you lose the dual buffs gathering but the only value i give to that is getting through the first roar easily which doesnt seem that important and you can use the "counter" attack that lunges you forward, that you can put in one of your scrolls and then swap to the other for leaping, to get past the roar anyways, this aldo puts you in the air to gather buffs with kinsect slash or to go immediately for red buff into spike attack. In most monsters gathering all 3 buffs is quite easy and then if you play accordingly you will almost never lose the triple with the rar 7 ones. Then again that's just my take on it.
Also the rarity 7 speed kinsects have their own uses imo, in elemental builds with the kinsect deco, the severing one deals actually quite ridiculous amounts of damage (although i still have yet to test wether that damage is more than whar Elemembane Jewel gives but i think so, its more than a 1.5 multiplier in damage) and you can animation cancel everything with Kinsect Attack instead of Kinsect Recall and get good damage from it that way. The blunt one is an absolute stun machine if we are willing to sacrifice some damage for an easier time.
Same bro! I use the same strategy, with the rarity seven kinsect you can use the aka three times in a row, wich is like 4500 damage, also, i recommend having diving wyvern in the another scroll since you dont have the extract cloud thing all the time, just switch to aka when you get it and everything goes brr.
Jumping advance slash on Ibushi, Narwa, and Gaismagorm is a fun way to pass the time!
Kinsect Slash does draw the bug away from attacking powder though, so if you have a powder-focused bug the jumping advancing slash allows it to continue doing it's spam.
Also, Awakened Kinsect Attack is also more of a powder (and if you're a masochist the charge) kinsect skills. It's not great on the Assist bugs at all but the hit with a powder bug leaves like 5 or 6 clouds which can immediately be popped with a follow-up heavy attack after you're dragged into range.
Right now, I'm going through my Only Bow Challenge (Basically beat the game only using bow), but I will be keeping this in mind for my future Only IG Challenge.
Thanks for the great video!
I only used longsword and charge blade but now I switch to sns and ig and love it
The rank 2 foebeetle is a massive game changer for me, had no idea it was that good, now i can spam awakened kinsect attack which looks so good, and i get 2 extracts back instantly after it connect
Thanks to this video i started playing IG today and within all of today I’ve gotten faster time on most hunts, and killed primalzeno. Originally ChB was my most used weapon, and I shyed away from IG because i didnt like the Kinsect gimmick, but it’s actually not bad, i kinda like that it can give me blunt damage as well, as i prefer to go for the head even with a severing weapon
I just wing it when i play IG.
Sometimes i pull off the flashiest anime moves, and other times i look like a parapalegic doing somersaults on an ice skating rink.
If you didnt k ow if you mark the monster when ever u see out the kincest it will go to that part. Good to mark the head and hit it with blunt kincest and call it back with areial moves
Thanks for this video! IG newbie here o/ I know I'm m a bit late to the party but...what are the best/optimal camera settings for comfy IG gameplay?
whatever settings work for you it's different player to player
So apparently there was a leak saying we will get a powered Mazleno & Amatsu probably & a title update 6 ofc we don’t know if that’s true but I hope so.
We better get a powered malzeno they've done nothing with him
Well. Yes.
We did indeed get a new malzeno
@@SwichplayzAnd he's whooping my butt.
@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon I could help u if you want, but that's only if your playing in Xbox since I don't have sunbreak on anything else.
i completely forgot about the existance of kinsect slash even though I'm a insect gtlaive main and have been using jumping advanced slash all this time and now I'm split on using kinsect slash or the move I have been relying on for all this time
Triangle, Triangle, Circle combo isn't new to MH in general actually. It's the main looping combo you use in GU on downed monsters as well.
as a former IG MHW player
the only way to play is to try hardest not touching the ground
Also use severing kinsects for tails and blunts for the head
one skill i really like is constitution for IG because i can just be 70% midair throughout the hunt
someone already asked but what armor set are you wearing?? it looks awesome and i would like it for myself ;-;
I focus more on charging and hitting three targets so I can use my switch skill for triple aerial attacks tbh
I like it and it helps 😅 thanks
Just started playing MH Rise and was wondering how i can get the 4th and 5th switch skill. Am i stuck with 3 until i get the dlc?
Hey great video but i didnt hear you at all mentions anything about the vortex skill.. so strong . Blast/heal
Pretty sure i made this guide before powder vortex got buffed so it was just kind of a memey thing back then
So just to be clear, when you have all three extracts, should you keep the kinsect with you or should you let the kinsect fly?
If you dont plan on doing many descending thrusts keep it out
Hello can I ask what was your armor/weapon build for this one? Thanks!
If you're still wondering it looks like he's using hazy caster (chameleos' glaive) in a raw set
How are yall doing that much dmg?? I have rarity 10 weapon and armor and don't understand why my damage is like half this
How do you aim your air attacks (kin slash?) my attacks never have a downward angle and always move 2 dimensionaly
It'll be whatever the button that aims your Kinsect is
@@Pyrac so I hold the trigger and press a at the same time? I appreciate the response. I’ve watched all your hammer vids (hammer main), but I’m getting bored of bonks. I’ve got all the hammers and multiple maxed builds, figured I’d pick up IG now for a complete change.
Are you using jumping advancing slash? You need to change the your switch skill to kinsect slash at loadout
How do you unlock all those switch skill I only have 2
just playing through the game should give them too you
Would mind do a kinsect guide there are some kinsects I’m curious about
I may have to there appears to be a serious lack of knowledge on them x.x
Gaijin Hunter and SkySensei have a few good videos!
Here’s a small tip you can know about kinsects. Ignore their rarity, as all it does is tell you when the kinsect is available to use in game (for example, a rarity one kinsect is an equally viable choice as a rarity 7 kinsect. Their stats are nearly the same minus a 1-3 point stat difference on some aspects). Basically, look at what makes that kinsect unique and determine whether or not it fits your play style. Popular kinsects used are the rarity 1 kinsects (I would love to tell you why, but I honestly don’t know) a rarity 3 kinsect that gives dual defense (mentioned in this video), and the 2 rarity 7 kinsects in sunbreak that release a powder that either adds 30 secs to your extract duration or completely refills your extract gauges when empty.
Edit: decided to look up why people like rarity 1 kinsects. Apparently they have a bonus in that they will heal you every single time you extract a buff from a monster
Too bad monster hitboxes are 30 meters tall in this game, I would love to utilize some aerial moves 😂
Teach me how to dragoon.