Monster Hunter Rise - Long Sword Guide (with Timestamps)
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Today I'm bringing you my Long Sword Guide for Monster Hunter Rise. There's timestamps to specific mechanics, but this guide works best when watched in sequence due to layering of complex mechanics. Enjoy!
This title is currently available Nintendo Switch.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:48 Draw Attacks
1:33 Basic Attacks
3:18 Fade Slash
4:09 Spirit Gauge / Spirit Combo
6:42 Special Sheathe / Iai Slash
8:00 Soaring Kick
8:40 Helmbreaker
9:35 Foresight Slash
11:57 Iai Spirit Slash
13:45 Serene Pose
15:59 Drawn Double Slash
16:58 Spirit Reckoning Combo
18:49 Silkbind Sakura Slash
21:11 Suggested Combos
26:11 Final Thoughts - Ігри
TDS_Peppo Feedback on the video:
Hello, nice video! Sorry if I might bother you but I wanted to add something you missed in this video I consider important for people who approach LS for the first time:
1) Foresight slash activation requires a min amount of spirit bar in order to work as you intended in the video.
2) You always wanna play with QS not only "if you're struggling to land these counters with the Iai Spirit Slash".
3) Quick sheath is not only for the Iai Spirit Slash but it also helps when it comes to speed up your combos. For example, a good combo if you don't have any spirit bar at all is: drawn double slash -> special sheath -> iai slash -> spirit combo.
4) Quick sheath level 3 removes the back step on the animation, so you not only are clearly faster but you also don't go back when sheathing.
5) Double drawn slash gives you hyper armor on the first frames of the unsheathing animation, so you can use it for dodging a monster's roar for example.
There are many other little things I'd like to point out but I think that might be a bit too much considering the target of the video is for beginner LS players.
Getting a feedback from probably the best LS user in this game was fantastic, ur lucky ruri 😂 anyways thank you for the content and keep it up!!
i'm not sure if this was mentioned or not, but using foresight also drains your spirit gauge completely. however, if you timed it correctly and hit w/ the slash after the dodge, your spirit gauge will be completely full. at that point, you can hit zr and do the roundslash and level up your gauge.
some other things that i've seen art of longsword do is cancelling the foresight to do quick sheathe or helm breaker (basically doing either move immediately after dodging). you can also go into helm breaker immediately after an iai spirit slash. utilizing those techniques can help improve your chances to do helm breakers by evading a roar or an attack and doing a helm breaker while their attack animation is still finishing. personally, i still need to work on that.
one use for sakura slash could be for arena quests fighting multiple monsters at once, or rampages. with rampages, your gauge will probably be pretty low when the counter gong goes off, so using sakura slash will help level up your gauge pretty quickly. i had to use sakura slash to beat the village arena quest against rajang and friends, so if you have trouble fighting multiple monsters at once, it's an option.
@@ohata0 sakura slash is also better for elemental longsword builds since helm breaker does not scale with elemental damage.
@@ohata0 Sakura Slash goes from meeeeh to really good in Rampages, yes. It's very hard to build up your Spirit gauge in these, because monster move a lot, are very aggressive in the case of Apexes, or they just die very quickly. Sakura Slash not only allows you to instantly build up gauge, but will often hit multiple monsters, and can be enough to finish them.
LS is a sleek, minimalistic weapon that wasn't made for either multiplayer or Rampages. It's like Lance or GL in that regard, the more aggro there is on you, the better. Sakura Slash is a nice bandaid for a lot of its issues in those instances where too much is happening at once. And while it doesn't have hyperarmor afaik, the low stance you assume while performing it allows you to naturally evade a good number of horizontal attacks.
For the combos, the best way to go from zero gauge to enough gauge to do a full spirit combo is two X's, one fade slash, and then go to a spirit jumping slash and finish your combo.
I can't imagine the physical and mental strain this must have placed on you. thank you for your sacrifice
And emotional. He may never recover.
Ah yes Ruri’s favorite weapon
If you listen closely you can hear the pain Rurikhan went through while making this video. I can only wait for the bow video, if he ever decides to make it.
He hates the long sword so much that he chose an invisible one for the tutorial 😂
It's sooo good
He treated it like a hammer in his mental image
So we don't see his face filled with disgust
Tip you can counter roars
I hope y’all see this
"S-sh-shshshields up i-ironbreakers.....R-Rurik-khan here coming at you with the l...*gags* with the lo-*sputters*ngs*ugh*....longsword....guide...."
Underrated comment
Only time ls is good is when ur boyfriend lets u play for 5 minutes in a random low rank q cuz it doesn't matter if u triple cart.
The Long Sword was a shield all along.
Additional Tips:
Foresight Slash: By using the Left Stick you can change the direction of the dodge. You can also change the direction of the second step, for example when the Monster moves or to evade a follow-up attack.
Helmbreaker: After you land you can also use the Special Sheathe.
Iai Spirit Slash: If performed successfully you can immediately go into another Special Sheathe or follow up with a Spirit Combo.
Special Sheathe: Can be used to change the direction your Hunter is facing. Especially useful against Barioth. You can also dodge roll out of the stance.
Reconing combo, has a run forward if you are holding a direction during the last part of the combo.
I was really hoping this was gunna be a 7 second video that just had you saying "Nah I don't like it"
Same here I'm.gobsmacked the vid is so long
So something I didn't recall you mentioning which is important. You can go from a foresight slash into a special special sheath. You can also immediately go into a special sheath after successfully performing an Iai spirit slash. This is important because a lot of monsters like to combo and having the ability to go from one counter to the next will help you survive.
Two strong points to note incase anyone wondering what Reckoning has over Roundslash beside more damage:
- 3rd strike (Dividing Slash) is faster (1 hit, while Spirit Blade III does 3 hits) and can be used for repositioning (move the directional stick/buttons while doing this will make the hunter run a short distance in that direction before slashing)
- You can transition directly into other attacks like Soaring Kick and the others instead of having to go through Special Sheathe like with Roundslash because Reckoning doesn't automatically sheathe your sword at the end.
Ruri making a longsword guide? Whats next Arekkz making a Pea Shooter guide? Cows fly? Covid Gone?
Yeah now singapore is lockdown due to this video
I was fully expecting a 1 minute video of you just saying "no! Bad weebs!"
Drawn double Slash also give you armor guys, similar to a Great Sword tackle. So you still take the damage (unlike other LS counter moves) but your animation won't get interrupted.
I told you guys! Ruri is secretly a longsword main, he's the biggest longsword fan. He always sharpens his longsword before he goes to bed every night
Ayo mad
LOL nice 1
After the helmbreaker you can surprise surprise special sheath.
If you happen to miss your ISS and not get hit you can sorta kinda cancel the end lag by 1. Rolling or 2. Pressing R to sheath your weapon (this "special" sheath animation works with spirit reckonings final slash as well)
Happy tripping.
Part of me was hoping the guide would have a section focused on finding and staggering your team. "how to prevent people from placing turrets in a rampage."
Then adding *you should slot in flinch free* . And I know cuz my friend uses long sword. Thankfully he doesn't do it purposefully.
Let's gooooo about time u covered ur main! :D
Subscribed! I enjoy your guides out of all the ones out there. It's super clear, super simple, informative, and easy to follow. MHR is my first entry to the game, so it was hard for me to keep track of all the combos, Switch Skills, and when each should be used. Thank you for making them.
Just like gaijin said, saving the best to the end
@@gamecavalier3230 and he won't, he said it himself lol
3rd hit of Spirit Reckoning combo can be moved with a directional input. If you want to go forward, just hold forward and you will move then cut, which can then lead to Spirit Reckoning with another press of ZR
Wish this would have been a pure parody video lol nice job as always Ruri!
I've waited a long time for this moment.
You can absolutely hear the repressed and pure LOVE for this weapon. Ruri-chan is so tsundere, when it comes to his favourite weapon...
Rurikhan: I HATE LONGSWORD.
Also Rurikhan : Making a comprehensive guide on how to use longsword.
I'm really thank you for doing this because I'm learning how to play longsword.
When I saw this I thought I had gone into a coma and woke up on April 1st.
Edit: As a mediocre LS main, I think it was a good guide! The only thing I would say is that if you try to foresight slash with 0 spirit meter, you don't get the guard point. It uses all of your current meter for the guard point backstep, then fills your meter completely if you connect with the slash at the end.
Worth noting Helmbreaker and Serene Pose do vastly decreased damage outside of Red Spirit Gauge. It’s much more than just the Red Spirit bonus, so don’t perform these attacks with yellow or white gauges. It’s not worth the animations.
Sakura Slash does not have this same fall off, it does more damage at Red Spirit Gauge but not to such an extreme degree.
Sakura Slash + Spirit Round Slash also works nicely with Double Drawn slash as each are routes into a regular sheath which get you the double drawn for some sweet spirit gauge. This lets you focus on Serene Poses instead of Helmbreakers, it’s an interesting play style.
Fade Slash goes directly into Spirit Combo 2, allowing you to land a full spirit combo without needing the juice for Spirit 1. Overhead into fade slash into spirit 2, 3, and 4
Foresight Slash must both absorb an attack, and land the attack that follows the movement in order to fill your gauge to full and allow for an instant Round Slash. If you miss that attack, even if you absorb a hit and hear the sound cue, you get no gauge and cannot follow it up.
Spirit Roundslash is easier to land after counter attacks as well, you can sometimes catch a monster that charges past you. It also brings you to a normal sheath which lets you loop back to the Double Drawn Slash which fills most of your spirit gauge if you land both strikes.
Very helpful, last played World and picking up PC version this week so this is a great refresher
What an amazing series. Always get something new out of my weapons when I watch Rurikhan
Ayyyy just in time, was gonna start trying to learn longsword
Oh how long I’ve wanted this.... thank you.
Still coming back for your guides since PC version hit. Thanks for this wonderful material.
thanks for the help!
New follower and player. Thank you for all your guides. I main dual blades and am working on mastery of this weapon. I didn't know the slash counter and why I couldn't do the helm breaker. Thank you for all this!
Wow the girth of this playlist 😮 can't wait to glean any information I can from this.
For sake of LS Spirit it is similar to previous titles but changed a bit in Rise being
1.05/1.1/1.2x Base Raw Multiplier
1.05/1.1/1.2x Base Element Multiplier
White/Yellow/Red
In World and I believe all previous iterations it only affected your Raw attack and was Total Raw, by being Base now it does NOT affect any bonus attack you have (Peak Performance, Charm/Talon/Petalace etc), for sake of things like Attack boost that also have Base Raw multipliers those things will multiply together
For sake of Spirit Helmbreaker and Serene pose their damage uses a base value with the raw portion multiplied by 2/3/5 and Element portion multiplied by 1/1.1/1.3x (for the element this is in addition to the element multiplier the attack itself has), and for sake of the above multipliers per spirit tier to your stats (the 1.05/1.1/1.2) Spirit Helmbreaker will always use the set from after the spirit drop associated with the attack, and Serene Pose uses the Raw multiplier after the spirit drop (except for extreme inconsistent exceptions) and Element Multiplier from before the drop
One thing to keep in mind is that foresight slash will drain any spirit gauge you have (meaning the bar, not the actual level)
Cool guide! Don't know if someone commented this, but you can still spend the spirit gauge with the alternative to helmbreaker in your Serene Pose.
Im dissapointed, actually hoped for a 10 second guide on the longsword before you release the legit version of it xD
man I love the time stamps!
Thanks Ruri for the great tutorial! I main LS (although GL is my second weapon), and it was a really well-done guide! I hope making it helps you stomach LS a little better but totally get if you're more disgusted haha. I think you especially did a good job capturing like the philosophy of the weapon, between using counters to raise gauge and helm-splitter to spend it. I also liked how you recommended Sakura Slash as an easier alternative to beginners. It's a stylish and cool-looking move and the ease of raising gauge is definitely helpful so hunters new to LS have one less thing to worry about when trying to learn counters. A couple interesting things that could be added (unless I somehow missed them in the combo section), going into the spirit combo after double slash lets you skip Spirit Slash I, and go straight to II. If you're using Step Slash, you have to go through Spirit Slash I first.
Another thing is that if you hit an Iai Spirit Slash, hitting ZR will bring you to Spirit Slash III (or Dividing Slash) which skips the first two Spirit Slashes. If you nail the counter and hit the monster, then hit the two final Spirit Slashes, it'll level up your gauge twice which is super great. Finally you can special sheathe to cancel a Foresight Slash, even before the attack comes out in case you happen to miss it. Your gauge will be depleted still but you have a chance to counter again quickly. Also Foresight Slash won't act as a counter if your spirit gauge is empty, so Iai Slash to keep it passively refilling is super great.
Your Gunlance tutorial is what got me to play GL as a seconday so it's cool to see you finish off your series with LS. Thanks for the great video!
Woah I liked your reposted feh meme videos
@@nutmilk5016 Oh a fan from FEH! Thanks! :)
I like to use Sakura slash and spend the gauge on Serene pose. You can deal good burst damage and get a knockdown on the monster.
Been waiting for this and I’m 2 days late lol
I had no idea you could level up the gauge
from foresight slash so I already learned something
Still the best monster hunter guides in my opinion. Got rise for a second time on steam since I played 140 hours on switch. Decided I’ll play game as long sword to keep things fresh. Yah I’m terrible at counters so it’s not going well. Just gonna keep watching over and over haha. I hope you come back to rise at some point man!! Maybe before next game comes out
perfect timing! i got a wex 2 quich sheath 1 3-1-0 talisman yesterday, i think the game is telling me to play ls
I was looking forward to this video for so long. So glad yousaved the best for last, right Rurikhan?
Thanks for the tutorial... really appreciate it. I played MHW previously and it was either I forgot the essential combos or the combos in Rise is slightly different. Either way this was a good refresher video thanks again!!!
First of all, thanks Rurikan for taking the guide seriously. I know how much that probably hurt you. Your dedication to making MH continue yo ne a warm and welcoming community is appreciated though. I promise to only trip you twice if I'm running LS during a hunt with you.
Secondly, just a little bit of added information on Sakura Slash vs. Spirit Helmbreaker for people that haven't done a lot of work on LS (and even some that have, but make assumptions about DPS based on a certain speedrunning team's videos). It's NOT QUITE as simple as "easy mode special" vs. "harder special".
Sakura slash is the easier special to hit, but there are certain cases where you may want to switch over to it.
The Sakura slash (from what I hear, I haven't gotten to test this specific bit) does a few more hits than Helmbreaker. This means that, if you're running an elemental sword for a specific monster weakness, Sakura slash will make up its damage deficiency fairly easily (between the extra elemental damage and the extra time on red bar vs. yellow bar). If you're not running max end drugs and pills and seeds at all time, the effect should actually favor Sakura Slash here since elemental damage is flat.
This also means that before endgame, your Sakura might actually do more damage.
Sakura also has a longer charge up, but on monsters that have LONG periods between decent punishment windows, this won't be as notcieable. If, on average, your team is taking 30-45 seconds between stuns and trips, you won't notice this as much. Technically, Sakura can land while a monster is moving fairly easily, but if you're playing fairly conservatively with a monster and waiting for moments when you can hit a weakpoint easily with a special, you won't notice as much.
This all is important for one VERY big reason...
A certain endgame Thunder Serpent has a massive dragon weakness AND long windows between her stun windows that let you hit a VERY obvious weakspot. This combined with how hard it is to land foresight slashes and ISS counters on a flying monster means that a dragon sword with elemental boost and crit with Sakura Slash should, for 95% of the playerbase, outdamage spirit helmbreaker.
If you decided you hate rampages and want to farm dragons for talisman mats, this should be very important information to you. Even if you moved onto something like Chameleos, Cham's heavy fire weakness should be very handy here.
...but yeah. If you're not a master LS user that's not dropping full red spirit helmbreakers every 25 seconds, you'd be surprised how close the damage is between Sakura and Helm. There's no shame in using Sakura if you're running an elemental set, running online random groups and can't easily guess monster aggro, or if you just need more time to learn a monster before you can find a good window to hit an actual weakspot with Helmbreaker instead of the monster's wings.
Even outside those situations, what's optimum is going to rely HEAVILY on your item loadout, your build, and the specific hunt. So, contrary to what a lot of people will tell you, you are not REQUIRED to run Helmbreaker.
I'm a new-ish longsword main (started playing it in Rise because of how satisfying it feels to use), and as far as guides go, this isn't too bad. You covered most important things, but didn't mention some aspects. Most important thing you missed is that you need some gauge to be able to use Foresight Slash - without it, you don't get the counter an s.
Also some intersting things:
- You can cancel the second half of Foresight slash with either Soaring Kick or special sheath. This could be used for some of the attacks like for example double tail slap of Nargacuga. Some people flex on Bazarios triple fire burst by using something like Serene Pose -> Foresight -> Special Sheath -> Iai Spirit Slash. (that's too bigbrain for me, I don't do that)
- You can also special sheathe after successful Iai Spirit Slash (cannot do so if you missed the counter window) or after Helmbreaker.
- You can also follow successful Iai Spirit Slash with steps 3 and 4 of the Spirit Combo, which allows to get the gauge faster. In fact common opening on some monsters is to poke -> Special Sheath -> Iai Spirit Slash countering the roar -> Dividing Slash (or Spirit Blade III) -> Spirit Reckoning (or Spirit Roundslash).
- Drawn Double Slash it actually has some hyper armor, but it's really small window, and isn't too practical, but it's there nonetheless.
- Sakura Slash is also kinda good for Rampages from what I heard (I don't like Rampages much, so I barely done them), so can keep that in mind I suppose.
- If you use Spirit Reckoning combo, the Diving Slash (the move that comes before the finisher) can be used stationary, like you've shown in the video, or can act as a gap closer if you input the direction.
I might have forgotten some things myself, but yea. Overall this isn't a bad guide, good job.
I can't believe I am watching a Long Sword video from you... am I dreaming?
Good guide from a non-longsword main. The only things I would add are that foresight slash is much less useful in this game becuase of how insanely no-drawback Iai spirit slash is, and that the weapon is entirely counter driven and because of ISS sakura slash is pretty obsolete once you learn the weapon. Also a small note is that you can use 1 normal attack between each of the spirit combo hits to gain meter if you don't have enough to finish the combo. It will make the combo noticably slower though so it's mostly only for when you get a knockdown or stun to build gage faster. One last note, you can cancel foresight slash after the backhop into special sheath to retreat into special sheath, and even cancel foresight into helm breaker if a monster is going for a bite or claw.
Goat bro you nailed it I'm a longsword main and you nailed it bro
Lol good guide actually. You covered most things pretty well. Just curiosity. Is the long sword opinion something you had since you started in Tri? Or has it been more of a recent thing with World and Rise (or just rise).
finally doing your FAVOURITE weapon i see 😏😏😏
Rurikhan your gonna scream at the screen for this comment but i have found during my playtime in rise i have been tripped more by wyverns fire than LS. 🤣 Great video as always
With Silkbind Sakura Slash, you can still spend the red gauge on your LS with Serene Pose, which uses 2 wirebugs to deal damage comparable to Spirit Helm Breaker but charges faster than 1 use of Silkbind Sakura Slash.
True. My only problem with that is that it makes the weapon super wirebug hungry and basically required wirebug whisperer and a third bug to get good damage out of.
one thing about the Serene Pose that I'd like to mention is that although it is probably weaker than Helmsplitter overall... it is the undisputed best wake-up hit that the LS has!! Especially since the Wirebugs regenerate the moment that you mount the monster!
Why would anyone hate the LS? It surely is not the best MP-weapon but one of the most fluent and aggressively playable solo weapons. Also, bonus for style compared to some other crappy looking weapons (coughSAcough). Yea, no shield.. why block when you can kill instead
Hi there is there a video for heavy or light bow gun or the bow? couldnt find any well made tutorials
He really did it
You can also skip a spirit blade step after drawn double slash or iai slash (sp sheath -> X).
You said that with Sakura Slash you don't have anything to spend Spirit Gauge on, but you can spend it on Serene Pose, which does I believe +300% extra damage at red compared to uncharged (from what I remember). It's only a single powerful hit, so still not as good as Helmbreaker, but at the highest level it's essentiall a free hit that about the same damage as a full spirit combo. I think this option is for new players who are still learning how to time the other, more difficult counters. It's also useful against a new monster where you don't know the moveset well enough yet to pull off the other counters. You also made this vid a year ago, so it could be that this changed since then. Thanks for the vid.
Coming from MH Generations I opted out of the helm splitter for the Sakura slash, double slash, I use the menacing scythe (poison one) still working on incorporating foresight slash into my play
He finally made a guide for his favorite weapon!
O lawd he actually did it, I didnt think it was possible...
Ruri making a LS tutorial... That's like asking a Carnivore how to make spinach.
Never been a fan of the longsword but I just might pick it up now because it looks super satisfying
That is the primary reason I main it. I like other weapons but pulling off counters just feels so good
@@Batterskull Yeah I main charge blade and counter peak performance just doesn't do it for me anymore. Switched it out for axe hopper as soon as I got it.
For the serene pose, what buttons are that on Xbox remote?
Funny thing, LS essentially has FOUR counters since the drawn double slash has a guard point to its animation! 🤣
Man longsword is sick
Bruv I gotta ask. Do you know if gajin hunter is in Capcom's pocket?
Does the iai spirit slash level up your gauge in mhw as well?
Hehehehehehehe I’m never going to use this weapon but I’ve been waiting for this guide
In the G version think they will add more skills to select for weapons? I would love if each slot has 2x more skills to choose from so you can customize playstyle even more.
Also some weapon specific skills would be cool to make choosing more than just the stats. Kind of similar how the Horn has different ones on each
It would have been kinda funny if you had first released like a 30 second video before with: "Longsword guide: Don't use it" and that's it. Also is that the Chameleos LS? That's awesome as hell
Long Sword is in a weird place right now. It's overpowered as fuck yes but it's also such a joy to play with
Yeah, lots of people would play with it even if it sucked, it's just so stylish. Being overpowered on top is a bad look.
The fact this isn't just the video of throwing a long sword in the bin makes me disappointed, in all seriousness nice work on the guide despite your personal bias on the weapon
I recently tried the LS for the first time since MHFU because I got a Quicksheath 3 tali with a Lv3 slot.
And let me tell you, while I have a lot of fun with the weapon, I'm an absolute noob with it. I built a Crit Draw set that lets me get to 100% affinity after special sheath (with Narga weapons) but I barely ever land (or attempt) counters. It's really fun dancing around the monster with a mobile weapon like that, but I'm still not ballsy enough to counter everything. It speaks volumes to me about MH that the most popular weapon is actually the parry machine.
I don't plan to ever play the long sword but still watched the whole video because i know how painful it must have been for you to make it.
One thing you missed is drawn double slash goes into the second hit of spirit combo
One thing about sakura slash, it's the best to do to charge up to a battle. Find some small monsters on the way, and then just sakura through them and BOOM, full gauge pre fight...
better way to start off would be quicksheath - zr the roar then spam zr cuz u can get to orange that way faster since you will shorten the combo by 1 part
As a long sword main, I agree that 3 counters is too many. I use serene pose for wake up hits, but otherwise I’m using wirebugs for helmsplitters and wirefalls. I wish there was an alternate option for it.
I don't like serene pose either. I also only really use it for wakeup with small barrel bombs.
what is the layerd armor youre using here.
How do I unlock the other two switch skills?
I watched this video a year ago when I first picked up MHR. After practicing for a while, I got REALLY good at using it. Now it's like second nature to me. My advice is don't just button mash and spam your combos. Be patient and pay attention to the monsters' movements so you can land those counters. With each hit, wait a moment to see what the monster is about to do. If there's an opening, continue your combos, if your monster looks like it might be about to attack, prepare to counter. Foresight slash is the easiest counter but it has a smaller window. Serene pose is a costly counter but it has a huge window and you can transition into the middle of the spirit combo if it lands. If you use serene pose and the monster doesn't even attack you, you're stuck in that pose for a bit so be mindful of that.
Best weapon in the game by the way
Goodbye everybody, i feel the ban hammer XD
Feel my teddy bear hammer bonk
hey are you using a and x for your attacks? for me its b and y
Switch button layout is different from Xbox controllers. This was for the switch, so it uses the switch button layout.
Sometimes I'll continue to press A before I use foresight slash to draw out the animation so I can counter whenever I need
Ruri was definitely dying inside while making this 🤣 LS main FTW ✊
Holding forward with reckoning combo will slide you forward before the second to last hit.
Are iai stance's attacks considered a draw attacks, since the stance will make you sheath your sword?
They are. I'm guessing you're thinking of Critical Draw and/or Punishing Draw.
Short answer: they both work.
Long answer:
* Crit Draw is bad. Not actively detrimental, but it takes up valuable skill slots for something that you want to build for anyway. See, LS as a weapon wants very standard close-combat skills: Atk Boost, Crit Boost, Weakness Exploit, Crit Eye, etc. Its only required skill is Quick Sheathe (and even that's new in Rise), everything else you build towards either damage or comfort (stun resist, etc.). It's easy to build for 100% affinity, or very close, even in HR. Which also coincidentally allows you to slot in Master's Touch, a very important skill for the weapon because of how deceptively sharpness-hungry it can be. Suddenly, when all your attacks have 80%+ affinity, Crit Draw becomes useless.
* Punishing Draw is fun, god it's SO FUN. It's also bad, but it's absolutely worth it if you like the playstyle. I play 5 different weapons. None equal the sheer ecstasy of landing a Iai Spirit Slash on a charging monster and knocking it down in the same move. It's just way too cool. Now, let me state the obvious: a PD build will deal less damage, because it takes up skill slots that could be dedicated to DPS, especially in HR where the skill economy is strict. Even when accounting for the extra KOs and exhaust (more on that in a second).
If you're playing well, you should cancel a lot of your moves into Iai Sheathe. Do you then hit the monster's head? Great, you're closer to knocking it down! But what about other parts? It builds up exhaust! Because that's how KO damage works when applied anywhere but the head. Exhaust makes the monster tired: they will be slower and more manageable AND if you build enough exhaust, they'll fall similar to a KO, but for a shorter duration. Exhaust is especially good against fast, unpredictable monsters.
Now for some pointers: Punishing Draw 3 or nothing. The way PD works is exponential: PD3 is way more powerful than just 3 instances of PD1. PD1 and PD2 do almost nothing and are a waste of skill slots. You can totally settle for PD3 and be done with it. But if you really want to lean on that playstyle, consider Slugger and Stamina Thief. Beware, you're entering meme territory. But did I mention how fun it is?
Slugger and ST are pretty self-explanatory, although do note that Slugger will not contribute towards Exhaust, only KO (so, hits on the head). It's weird like that. It's also a level 2 deco, whereas ST is only level 1. If you play a raw LS, you know the pain: those level 1 deco slots are going to waste after you've slotted Stun Resist. This is the perfect opportunity to use the slots usually reserved to speed sharpening (not *that* useful on a Master's Touch LS) and put a few points in Stamina Thief. Do keep in mind it will be very difficult to build for PD until endgame without severely gimping yourself, and it will only get better when MR is released.
tl;dr: Crit Draw is bad. Punishing Draw is a niche but fun playstyle.
I’m gonna try making a tigrex build with Sakura slash and wirebug expert. I probably would use serene pose instead of iai spirit counter. I’m betting that for me it is fairly quick compared to normal.
So you saved the best for last, huh?
It’s hella OP
I use long sword for a decade now. But i'm still watching this because it's Ruri's favorite weapon.
When I saw the thumbnail and seeing the video is 27 minutes I was thinking: "damn, that's a long way of saying don't play this weapon"
So you cant do the big leaping downward slash from world?
Kinda late but I assume you mean Helmsplitter? If so then it's in the Soaring Kick silkbind, it's called Spirit Helm Breaker now.
Any chance at a full build?
Just started using this after using duel blades for 185 hours lol.
I miss my demon mode 😭
One thing he forgot to mention, he says that if you choose Sakura Slash you don't have anything to use the spirit gauge on. This is untrue, as you always have Serene Pose to spend gauge to do some pretty decent damage.
yeah, despite everyone in the demo saying "Don't use Serene Pose, it's a waste of space!!" it is actually VERY potent, for example, it's great for when you see a monster about to roar or jump at you and you know full well that you are too far away for successfully Foresight Slash (by that I mean Foresight Slash and the actually hit the monster with said Foresight Slash) and the Iai Spirit Slash is either too hard to pull off or you don't have enough time, use Serene Pose and you can both prevent the stagger and in return deal massive damage to the monster
With my current LS build (a Dragonheart set with max Dragon Attack, Crit Boost, WEX, etc using the Valstrax LS with Valstrax Soul) I can deal over 1000 damage on the Toadversary if I have the Red Spirit Level, as well as getting a critical hit when I use the Serene Pose counter (fun fact, the best way to set it off in the training area is to use a small barrel bomb, unsheath your weapon and then immediately use Serene Pose)
It's bloody good!