Protip for anyone in 2023 watching this video: A very niche use case but I found the Balanced Kinsect with the Triple Up to be amazing specifically against Ukanlos because of its "green extract heals everyone" effect. Ukanlos's tail is really easy to hit which means constant free potions for the whole party. Of course it's still great on just you, it's infinite healing. And if you have a culldrone you'll eventually cut the tail too!
If you wanna go on healing yourself use the Weight 2 kinsect. Not only is it the best KO bug, but with right stats as cutting type, you can off his tail with ease. Only spam charged kinsect attack (you got fast charge with this kinsect type).
Tony Tran Speed when solo and Balance when you play multiplayer or your weapon has 35% affinity (with Tenderizer you do 100% critiva damahe in the weak spots)
@@litsoul6427 I have this Insect Glaive Fully Upgraded: mhgu.kiranico.com/weapon/5aa7b I also play Aerial Style What would be better Speed Bug 30% Affinity or Balance Bug For Triple Up Longer Buffs.
A little more than half a day's wait! Just wanted to take a sec to thank you for the hard work you put into not only these guides but this channel in general. I was so lost back in 2014 when I blindly popped MH3U into my 3DS and your channel has me coming back 4 years later. If not for the people in the community such as yourself I wouldn't have such a deep love for Monster Hunter. I can't wait to see what content you have planned for the future and know that you have a fan here always! Happy Hunting Adam.
No I've played it. I started with MH3U back in 2014 and put 500 hours into it. Then I moved to MH4U and put 700 hours into it. Now I'm playing Gen and World.
I always wanted a Bo Staff like weapon so when this weapon was introduced I was hyped and haven't been dissatisfied since, before that I always used Dual Blades or Longsword but they never really clicked with me.
Long Sword was my first love, but when MH4U came out, and I picked up the Glaive, it became my new favorite. To this day, it's the weapon I use when I'm up against a new boss monster or multiple monsters at once.
My first game was Monster Hunter World. I'm more of a sword guy myself, but my options were "Very Big Sword", "Very Long Sword", "Toothpick with Shield" and "Dual Toothpicks". So I decided to go with my second favorite type of weapon, Double Bladed Glaives. I thought the insect was stupid and I didn't really care for the aerial attacks, but I do not regret choosing it. Been maining it since, basically easy mode, and makes me look like an absolute badass.
Actually, marking a monster is useful for these things: 1 - Unlike MHW, you *can not* aim the Kinsect vertically 2 - You can tell the Kinsect to attack repeatedly without recalling it (possibly snagging a different buff); 3rd attack in a row is automatically a charged attack.
Also, the lvl 9 Speed Kinsect has the old "Pierce up" from 4U, which means that if you use a blunt kinsect and mark the head, you can get a KO with your bug Fairly easily.
Insect Glaive has always been my go-to weapon when I'm up against more than one monster at a time or a boss that gives me a hard time. Aerial style just confirmed it for life.
I find that the marking shot comes in handy when you either cant seem to hit a spot thats too high up like wings. Or, when you swear you hit every inch of this monster and cant figure out where to get the orange buff from. Also, if you need a buff off the monsters back, which is normally never exposed or readily targetable and you're using aerial style. Jump off it and shoot the back
Lavos2007 I didn’t say you were, it’s just too many nargacugas are dying. If you haven’t seen the nargacuga animation by nhc productions, go watch it, you’ll feel bad...
Really appreciate the guides as always. I got MHGU on switch last year and never gave it the time it deserves so I restarted and picked IG I think movement was a big turn off for me but aerial glaive doing wonders
I have been waiting for this video! This was my second weapon (after gun lance) when I first started playing and I studied your old video so many I knew it by heart. Can't wait to try Valor Style tomorrow! Thanks!!
I just tried messing around with the glaive for the first time, not realizing that I was using striker style. So I thought this is how the weapon works: X=attack with glaive, A=send Kinsect, R= Mark. I didn't quite get what the colors meant, so I thought I'd look into it a little more. But before trying the games tutorial/training missions, I remembered your turotial videos. Holy jesus, this thing looks absolutely crazy with the other styles especially the vaults you can do. Of course, only playing with striker style so far, I didn't know what this weapon was capable of. Looks extremely fun, but also quite the contrast from my usual main weapon the great sword. Thanks for this nice tutorial, I think I'm gonna try this ;)
Aerial Glaive: Imma just YEET myself. That is the sole reason I do Aerial Glaive. You lose practically nothing, and you can just rapidly approach with the new glaive vault.
Thanks so much for this video! This and all of your others helped me try every weapon, but I learned that I love playing Insect Glaive! This was super helpful and love all of them!
Honestly, it's been a relief to hear throughout these tutorials that Alchemy Style, for some of the weapons I'm using in Generations, aren't "They get heavily nerfed, but you get this barrel as compensation", especially the likes of the Hammer and Insect Glaive. While I'll probably be using Striker Lance and Guild/Aerial SnS and Hunting Horn, I'll probably be using Alchemy for Hammer, Charge Blade, and Insect Glaive
picked MHGU up again and the glaive is fun. i like that you start a monster encounter with a buff-fishing phase at medium range, you can mostly focus on dodging and working out some of the tells before you close distance. some of the easiest mount initiation in the game, too, especially in aerial style. something worth noting: the pheromone shot (R) can detonate barrel bombs from a decent distance (a bit longer than kinsect attack range), which is a somewhat unique property for a blademaster weapon and a useful niche for a weapon skill that otherwise falls out of usefulness when you develop your kinsect to be speedier
Cant wait for that new kinsect video. I havent been able to find any info on the new so idk where to go from here x.x. changing bugs to different builds was so amazing though.
I picked up GU recently and gravitated towards long sword. I still love it but I was struggling with one of the early monsters, so I changed to an IG for the fight because I had tried and liked it. The fight became so easy I was honestly worried that the thing might be designed for beginners and I was now effectively cheating. With this video though, I realize I'm just scratching the surface on how to use this thing and I'm pretty darn excited to learn. Still love things like LS, SA, and CB, but I think the glaive may become my main now.
Thanks for this guide gaijin! Was an sns main and tried a bit of db’s in MHGU but insect glaive really suits my playstyle. Now I’m mastering it really hard! More power and much appreciation.
Striker style moving Kinsect control to A allows you to charge the Kinsect attack while doing your main combo (hold A with your knuckle, press X with your thumb tip), so it's another good power type option and can ko surprisingly quickly. The b&b combo is more of an X X release-A than an X X A, but it works I guess. It's still not better than the others tho.
I personally made a couple of Insect Glaives myself, mostly because there are two types of damage Kinsects can deal. That being: Impact and Cutting, just as a way of giving me options.
I never bothered learning more about the styles until G rank lol. I just watched this video and decided to try out aerial style. Since I got very used to Striker, I think that its main benefit might be better aiming - the first few hits of the combo are somewhat stationary and allow me to easily hit whichever part I like. By comparison, the aerial style seems to follow a "constantly hit the monster no matter where" philosophy. Or maybe I just suck with it but I thought that the seeming "controllability" of the striker style was something that might be worth mentioning.
Some words on marking, using the mid combo mark swipe allows the kinsect to build up elemental damage without having to send it out over and over again as it dosen't come back unless called or runs out of energy. You usualy dont want to use marking for collecting extracts though as stated its inconsistant. Hope that helps :)
The final Generations Ultimate Weapon Tutorial and Insect Glaive is the best choice here. Swapping bugs from one Glaive to one another is stupidly awesome, as it decreases your overall grinding by 40% (rough calculation) here. Alchemy...? Dunno for this one... Valor? Power Kinsect, it's your turn to shine here! And I hope if they're gonna make a Switch original MH, that Valor Kinsect combo returns. The new Art, Bug Majeure, while useful in Valor, is quite useless for other Styles seemingly. Enjoy your Generations Ultimate tomorrow, Switch players! While you all playing, I'll sit here while looking forward on what's to come.
There is apparently one restriction: unlike MHW where you freely mix-and-match glaives and bugs, MHGU requires it to be the same bug type (cutting vs. blunt) for the staff. Nonetheless...
@@Stratelier Nontheless...not even a problem here, seriously. The only thing that matters now is that whenever you forged a new Insect Glaive, you don't have to upgrade your Kinsect again from scratch like crazy, as you can just search for an upgraded ones with a compatible type and equip it.
@@Stratelier If you're going for a Speed Type, you'll need Speartunas and Ancient Fishes which is ridiculous, and this new change pretty much saves you 30% from constantly farming these damn fishes.
Awesome Vid! Looking forward to learning the IG - Just a heads up, the video says there is a link in the description for the Kinsect upgrades and I do not see that!
@@michalinaw2587 Yeah kinsect info on this guide only has Generations level of Kinsect upgradex, XX added more kinsects at the end of the tree which are interesting sidegrades depending on the monster you will face For complete info check out the "yet another insect glaive guide" EDIT: YAIGG has some errors in what kinsect upgrades into what, so don't follow those, but read what each skill does, and the hidden skill of tier 2 when it reaches level 9, specially the full speed kinsect, which receives minds eye with the white extract. the upgrade to the full speed one which gives tremor resist with orange, cool stuff
So, this is one of those weapons that's soooo easy to over commit an action with. I find frequently that it's hard to determine when the end of an attack has occurred and so I hit the button again and the weapon does the next several attacks afterwards and the monster is long gone and I can't evade out of the attack or anything. Definitely a lack of experience with the weapon but it sure is easy to over commit.
about Striker style: it is the only style where you can charge your kinsect WHILE doing attacks, vaulting, evading, and even in hunter arts! That's the selling point of it for the trade off. Also the "didn't border to talk about" part is the only useful combo of this style. "X→X→forward X" is the combo that matters instead of the one you have covered.
I held out on MHGU hoping they would port it to 3DS since the japanese version was there because I wasn't sold on the Switch, so I'm a bit late to this party. I actually used marking shot alot(I use the aerial marking shot to help reposition if I missed my jump) as well as the charged kinsect throw, alot of times the monster would be out of bounds for an extended amount of time spamming lasers or fireballs, so I send my mark em and let my kinsect (I call her Rosie) wail on him. Also, I didn't have a problem with striker, but I may give that alchemy style a try for it (I know aerial glaive is the hype, it didn't click for me.)
so if the new art (Bug Majeure) increases the power of the kinsect, and not just its precision as its description says, then it would probably be very good for power bugs and blunt bugs especially. ive also read that the weight stat governs a bug's ability to flinch (and/or possibly knock over) a monster rather than its stamina. so if thats true, even a weight bug would greatly benefit from this art more than something like a speed bug would
Marking a monster is actually very useful in certain situations and I highly recommend that you learn to use it properly. It comes in handy when you have the art attacking that buffs the insect and gives it an additional attack, and for monsters that constantly fly. If you send you insect up to a marked monster, it’s bound to hit the point you need at least once. And I’m not saying that as a 50/50 thing It literally always does
So for Aerial style, make a Kinsect that's, either, Balanced or Speed focused. For Valor, make a Kinsect that's, either, Balanced or Power to pair with the new hunter art (what I recommend from playing MHXX). My personal favorite weapon is actually better than it was in 4U
Can you argue that the new art+valor style also make blunt/impact type kinsects much better at wracking up KO damage? Because I've been really interested in that new art but rarely see anyone talk about it
Striker Glaive is actually really good once you get use to the combos. No different from playing Striker SnS and rolling out of a combo to start another.
Hey gajin wonderful video. Glaive has been my favorite weapon since 4. Valor style looks like its gonna be my favorite. A question regarding the brave dash tho. Is it affected by evasion abilities like evade extender and evasion+2?
Just starting to get into GU. I played an insect glaive during MHW, but wanted to change to switch axe since I really enjoyed it in parts of Iceborne. I think I also picked the striker style glaive early on and was wondering, what the hell did they do to it?! Might go back and pick up an aerial glaive to help deal with the faster monsters the switch axe struggles with.
@@siediousswift8088 I was talking about the insect glaive specifically, not the whole "World vs GU" argument. (though I'm pretty sure they would have localized it anyway. If anything World is probably the reason they took so long to do it.)
I also think we would have gotten it regardless. The game was completely finished and at least half of it was already localized when MHW came out. This is easy money.
Gunna have to disagree with you at the 2 minute point about the holding R aiming feature. Once I’ve got a body part marked I especially love spamming the insect to get in multiple hits to stack up that elemental damage with the added bonus of a buff coming my way. Super useful for when dodging long distance attacks from monsters and even more fun to have the kinsect attack on one side, call it back, and then rush in to do my own flurry of combos, meeting it halfway. The aiming feature also just feels more natural to me as I’m a convert from bow maining.
It certainly does seem that way, but oddly easier than it looks. If you haven't tried it, I would give it a look. The basic thing I say is try to go for white and red extracts, and hopefully get that orange. A Triple buff is basically full on Cuisinart mode for Glaives, and literally is a Monster Wrecker. Lots of quick damage, plenty of critical hits, and parts just start breaking. You simply feel like nothing stops you. And woe to any smaller monster that tries to get in there and interrupt a triple buffed Glaive user during the Bread and Butter combo (typically an annoyance for other weapons). Also, the Red extract Aerial Spin attack (which I call the Sonic spin, or Samus Screw Attack) has a hidden secret. Often works as a good way to penetrate hard parts of a monster even if your weapon, in its current level of sharpness, otherwise, wont go through the hide.
as an bug stick user, I agree with your statement, I am ashamed by most other bug stick users that continuously jump. I am a rare breed that focuses on getting buffs then pulling off combos.
Good strat is go for white+red, then have your kinsect grab orange, but dont recall. When it runs out of energy, it'll automatically recall and you'll get the triple buff, which is your cue to go wild.
after hours of using extract hunter, I don't think I can say that it's good. it's good if you can hit it, but you're more likely to miss it 70% of the time, even when a monster is standing still, the enviroment and the monster's movement hinder it a lot. it also has a way too long cooldown, so you're just waiting a long time, and then not getting any use out of the art. it would be useful if it was just as inaccurate, but had a shorter cooldown, but an XL timer for something so inaccurate is simply not worth it, in my opinion.
I agree with DIABLONAMEK on this one. Often the weapon you do best with, is the one that literally has the play-style you personally *get*. And it's often not just one weapon. It's often when you click with that 2nd and 3rd weapon when you feel you have the arsenal to take on everything due to experience and recognizing the advantages each of your best weapons have.
It's funny how the tagging mechanics in MH4/X were basically worthless but they turned it into a really important mechanic in World. Not having Dust sucks but Aerial IG is so good.
The valor step seems to be really good regardless of the weapon. In fact, the whole style seems to be the META. Honestly, it doesn't bother me that much, given how much I liked Adept in MHGen, but it makes me wonder whether any of the other styles are really worth using...
It's actually not meta for many weapons. Well, meta is relative this time around anyways, because there are only few styles that are actively horrible. You can EASILY do whatever you like most and do well.
I think that's also a very good way of looking at it. Gee, when I started out I was playing Aerial Switch Axe and managed to get through all of low-rank, even though a lot of forum posts claim that Adept and Striker are the only ways to play it. Which are the horrible styles? I'm guessing they must also vary somewhat, but I've heard that Aerial and Alchemy aren't very good
they do vary, based on weapon actually, not all styles are the most effective for all weapons, it really depends on you and what you wanna do with a weapon
i personally do use Striker for IG lol i find being able to use all 3 of its arts to be very helpful, i know theres downsides of course, and with Alchemy im probly gonna swap away from Striker for IG i mean Striker is real hit-n-miss because it does vary heavily on the weapon of choice, some weapons it hits harder than others, but you always have to sacrifice some aspect of the weapon because of the bonuses of 3 hunter arts AND quicker charging of them, but thats the whole point of Striker Style is to go heavy on Hunting Arts! but they have to balance it out elsewhere to account for that, and some Arts like Supernova for HBG, are pretty strong AND charge up relatively fast even WITHOUT Striker Style so it makes sense that the axe something else such as in that case Crouching Fire
yep, in general I think he undersold striker style, just because the main combo is boring. easy acces to kinsect attack together with 3 art on IG, where every single art is really good, and a good main combo makes this style actually good. sure, quite boring after some time, but still good.
@@Dr.AvenVon agreed with you. You can also cancel out your combo by throwing out your kinsect and just restart combo all over again. This makes your char also more stationary, unlike when extending full combo - which makes you move around like a slippery fish.
Gaijin please help! Can you clarify Kinsect skills such as "extra stun scales" "pierce skills up" and "Arts up"? I cannot find any clarification on what these are and how they work! So frustrating.. Thankyou!
the only link posted in the video description is to the changes and last three styles...thats honestly what i wanted to see most since it seemed rather complicated and a turn off in 4U 16:54 what the hell was that noise? lol
Sooo... in valor you can combo a poke (forward+X), the kinsect-recalling A strike, then either X for the vertical triple hit then A for the super kinsect-sending tornado slash move which also has high motion value itself, or directly the tornado slash (also with A), and repeat. Broken ? Noooo... Totally broken with the new hunter art and a power kinsect ? Nooooo... Oh and not mentioning the valor step which Capcom should never ever have given for a weapon like insect glaive which is already very mobile and versatile (and even more with valor sheathe). Luckily they nerfed mounting, otherwise IG would be twice as powerful as it was in 4u,in which it was broken because you could mount monstrs all the time (I know what I'm saying, I'm playing it in 4u a lot)
Embarrassed to ask this but I just can’t figure out the Extract Hunter Art. I’ve used it over 20 times and every time it fires off in a random direction. I’ll be standing 5 feet from a monster, camera pointed right at it, but when I press up on D pad to activate the Extract Hunter Art, my character performs that elaborate animation and promptly fires the kinsect 90° to the right or the left or generally anywhere except straight in front of me where the monster is standing. I’ve never been so frustrated or felt so dumb. Any tips or ideas?
Phil Spunkt For sure. My character will be pointing right at him, sometimes even aiming with the R button, thr reticle right on the monster, then I’ll press the button to activate the Art and it fires off directly left or right. It’s baffling but I never played the original so I am not sure where I’m going wrong. I’ve literally never hit a monster with it
00:39 Weapon Concept
05:33 Guild Style
11:50 Aerial Style
13:11 Striker Style
14:14 Adept Style
15:29 Note on Kinsects
16:21 Hunter Arts
18:24 Final Thoughts
19:16 Changes
19:34 Alchemy Style
20:19 Valor Style
22:11 New Art
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@@deadiarl6417 And I love you, random citizen
Thanks!!
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Protip for anyone in 2023 watching this video: A very niche use case but I found the Balanced Kinsect with the Triple Up to be amazing specifically against Ukanlos because of its "green extract heals everyone" effect. Ukanlos's tail is really easy to hit which means constant free potions for the whole party. Of course it's still great on just you, it's infinite healing. And if you have a culldrone you'll eventually cut the tail too!
If you wanna go on healing yourself use the Weight 2 kinsect. Not only is it the best KO bug, but with right stats as cutting type, you can off his tail with ease. Only spam charged kinsect attack (you got fast charge with this kinsect type).
Just started playing a week ago total loving this game
Im there with you! Began playing around 3 weeks ago. 50-hours-save so far. Loving it ^^@@gflovemyweebow6094
This is the same with palicos, even if they are recovering underground so for solo it's helpful for that
19:16 for those on mobile for changes, alchemy, valor, new art
Will u also bring back top 5 weapon series for MHGen ultimate?
gaijin hunter Where's the MHXX Kinsect Tutorial?
Yes you did one but for MHX
Now are more Kinsects so... Its time for some tutorial!
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on Nintendo Switch.
Speed Bug Double Up or Balance Bug Triple Up ?
Tony Tran Speed when solo and Balance when you play multiplayer or your weapon has 35% affinity (with Tenderizer you do 100% critiva damahe in the weak spots)
@@litsoul6427
I have this Insect Glaive Fully Upgraded:
mhgu.kiranico.com/weapon/5aa7b
I also play Aerial Style What would be better Speed Bug 30% Affinity or Balance Bug For Triple Up Longer Buffs.
Waking up to a new weapon tutorial everyday for the two weeks has been a joy! Thanks Gaijin! Now to delve into the game itself!
A little more than half a day's wait! Just wanted to take a sec to thank you for the hard work you put into not only these guides but this channel in general. I was so lost back in 2014 when I blindly popped MH3U into my 3DS and your channel has me coming back 4 years later. If not for the people in the community such as yourself I wouldn't have such a deep love for Monster Hunter. I can't wait to see what content you have planned for the future and know that you have a fan here always! Happy Hunting Adam.
jysaw
You have not played MH4U?
I can only recommend it to catch up.
No I've played it. I started with MH3U back in 2014 and put 500 hours into it. Then I moved to MH4U and put 700 hours into it. Now I'm playing Gen and World.
jysaw
I started with MHF on PSP (its a port of MH1 from PS2)
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Midnight Launch hunters, ready, GOOOOOOOOOO!
jysaw I feel the same way! Gaijin....I love you man lol
16:55 scared the heck out of me holy moley.
What's that noise
@@saltyluigi4011 a goat
...but not THE goat.
I probably would have never got in Monster Hunter without the Insect Glaive.
Same. The Insect Glaive was a selling point for me.
Same i hated all the weapons I tried at first until I tried insect glaive
I always wanted a Bo Staff like weapon so when this weapon was introduced I was hyped and haven't been dissatisfied since, before that I always used Dual Blades or Longsword but they never really clicked with me.
Long Sword was my first love, but when MH4U came out, and I picked up the Glaive, it became my new favorite. To this day, it's the weapon I use when I'm up against a new boss monster or multiple monsters at once.
My first game was Monster Hunter World. I'm more of a sword guy myself, but my options were "Very Big Sword", "Very Long Sword", "Toothpick with Shield" and "Dual Toothpicks". So I decided to go with my second favorite type of weapon, Double Bladed Glaives. I thought the insect was stupid and I didn't really care for the aerial attacks, but I do not regret choosing it. Been maining it since, basically easy mode, and makes me look like an absolute badass.
Actually, marking a monster is useful for these things:
1 - Unlike MHW, you *can not* aim the Kinsect vertically
2 - You can tell the Kinsect to attack repeatedly without recalling it (possibly snagging a different buff); 3rd attack in a row is automatically a charged attack.
Yeah, I really like marking a monster once and angling myself around it to get the various buffs without having to turn to face the monster.
Thanks to you I might actually use marking shots :)
Also, the lvl 9 Speed Kinsect has the old "Pierce up" from 4U, which means that if you use a blunt kinsect and mark the head, you can get a KO with your bug Fairly easily.
Unlike MHW, you can not aim the Kinsect at ALL :)) It flies in the direction of your character ignoring aim and camera direction. This is terrible:)
Insect Glaive has always been my go-to weapon when I'm up against more than one monster at a time or a boss that gives me a hard time. Aerial style just confirmed it for life.
Those IG mains sure are quite the buggers
Aaaaayyyyeee
I find that the marking shot comes in handy when you either cant seem to hit a spot thats too high up like wings. Or, when you swear you hit every inch of this monster and cant figure out where to get the orange buff from.
Also, if you need a buff off the monsters back, which is normally never exposed or readily targetable and you're using aerial style. Jump off it and shoot the back
I’m starting a petition to stop nargacuga abuse
Cloak Kip
Coincidence, I think NOT!
ill sign a counter-petition to keep abusing it and make awesome armor and stuff out of it :D
Lavos2007
Or you could get astalos armour, that armour is just amazing
i dont beleive i was making any comparisons, and Astalos armor is good...in certain cases
Lavos2007
I didn’t say you were, it’s just too many nargacugas are dying. If you haven’t seen the nargacuga animation by nhc productions, go watch it, you’ll feel bad...
thanks for the guide, came here from mhw and aiming is so different cuz it aims from the direction ur character is facing..
I can't thank you enough for this video. Without it, I don't think I would have enjoyed the game nearelly as much. Thank you.
2 years later, and you never made an update video for the Kinsects....
Really appreciate the guides as always. I got MHGU on switch last year and never gave it the time it deserves so I restarted and picked IG I think movement was a big turn off for me but aerial glaive doing wonders
I have been waiting for this video! This was my second weapon (after gun lance) when I first started playing and I studied your old video so many I knew it by heart. Can't wait to try Valor Style tomorrow! Thanks!!
I just tried messing around with the glaive for the first time, not realizing that I was using striker style. So I thought this is how the weapon works: X=attack with glaive, A=send Kinsect, R= Mark. I didn't quite get what the colors meant, so I thought I'd look into it a little more. But before trying the games tutorial/training missions, I remembered your turotial videos. Holy jesus, this thing looks absolutely crazy with the other styles especially the vaults you can do. Of course, only playing with striker style so far, I didn't know what this weapon was capable of. Looks extremely fun, but also quite the contrast from my usual main weapon the great sword. Thanks for this nice tutorial, I think I'm gonna try this ;)
Aerial Glaive: Imma just YEET myself.
That is the sole reason I do Aerial Glaive. You lose practically nothing, and you can just rapidly approach with the new glaive vault.
wait a minute.. you're from discord right?
you cant recall your bug which I find the most annoying thing with this style, honestly ruins it for me.
oh wait AHAH, sorry. Confused arial with adept. Never use adept with IG in MHGU
Thanks so much for this video! This and all of your others helped me try every weapon, but I learned that I love playing Insect Glaive! This was super helpful and love all of them!
Honestly, it's been a relief to hear throughout these tutorials that Alchemy Style, for some of the weapons I'm using in Generations, aren't "They get heavily nerfed, but you get this barrel as compensation", especially the likes of the Hammer and Insect Glaive. While I'll probably be using Striker Lance and Guild/Aerial SnS and Hunting Horn, I'll probably be using Alchemy for Hammer, Charge Blade, and Insect Glaive
Alchemy Switch Axe is apparently pretty good, too
Extract Hunter is by far my favorite hunter art. The joy I get when I kill the monster with it is immeasurable
Can't wait to play this for the first time, tomorrow.
picked MHGU up again and the glaive is fun. i like that you start a monster encounter with a buff-fishing phase at medium range, you can mostly focus on dodging and working out some of the tells before you close distance. some of the easiest mount initiation in the game, too, especially in aerial style.
something worth noting: the pheromone shot (R) can detonate barrel bombs from a decent distance (a bit longer than kinsect attack range), which is a somewhat unique property for a blademaster weapon and a useful niche for a weapon skill that otherwise falls out of usefulness when you develop your kinsect to be speedier
Cant wait for that new kinsect video. I havent been able to find any info on the new so idk where to go from here x.x. changing bugs to different builds was so amazing though.
I picked up GU recently and gravitated towards long sword. I still love it but I was struggling with one of the early monsters, so I changed to an IG for the fight because I had tried and liked it. The fight became so easy I was honestly worried that the thing might be designed for beginners and I was now effectively cheating. With this video though, I realize I'm just scratching the surface on how to use this thing and I'm pretty darn excited to learn. Still love things like LS, SA, and CB, but I think the glaive may become my main now.
Thanks for this guide gaijin! Was an sns main and tried a bit of db’s in MHGU but insect glaive really suits my playstyle. Now I’m mastering it really hard! More power and much appreciation.
Btw I’m aerial IG, so flashy. 😁
Feels like one of them top tier weapons one has to use in certain matchups.
Teo/kush/cham, dreadking, etc
Gammoth in the room😂
That line was underrated XD
Thank you gaijin for all the help. You helped me big time with mh world and now Im playing mhgu and this is a big help
Striker style moving Kinsect control to A allows you to charge the Kinsect attack while doing your main combo (hold A with your knuckle, press X with your thumb tip), so it's another good power type option and can ko surprisingly quickly. The b&b combo is more of an X X release-A than an X X A, but it works I guess. It's still not better than the others tho.
I personally made a couple of Insect Glaives myself, mostly because there are two types of damage Kinsects can deal. That being: Impact and Cutting, just as a way of giving me options.
I never bothered learning more about the styles until G rank lol. I just watched this video and decided to try out aerial style.
Since I got very used to Striker, I think that its main benefit might be better aiming - the first few hits of the combo are somewhat stationary and allow me to easily hit whichever part I like. By comparison, the aerial style seems to follow a "constantly hit the monster no matter where" philosophy. Or maybe I just suck with it but I thought that the seeming "controllability" of the striker style was something that might be worth mentioning.
Some words on marking, using the mid combo mark swipe allows the kinsect to build up elemental damage without having to send it out over and over again as it dosen't come back unless called or runs out of energy. You usualy dont want to use marking for collecting extracts though as stated its inconsistant. Hope that helps :)
Actually you _do_ need to keep telling the Kinsect to attack the marked part, because this isn't MHW we're talking about.
Maybe i have been playing too much MHW then, been getting back into gen preparing. Guess i mixed them up
My favorite weapon in terms of finesse and support
The final Generations Ultimate Weapon Tutorial and Insect Glaive is the best choice here.
Swapping bugs from one Glaive to one another is stupidly awesome, as it decreases your overall grinding by 40% (rough calculation) here.
Alchemy...? Dunno for this one...
Valor? Power Kinsect, it's your turn to shine here! And I hope if they're gonna make a Switch original MH, that Valor Kinsect combo returns.
The new Art, Bug Majeure, while useful in Valor, is quite useless for other Styles seemingly.
Enjoy your Generations Ultimate tomorrow, Switch players! While you all playing, I'll sit here while looking forward on what's to come.
There is apparently one restriction: unlike MHW where you freely mix-and-match glaives and bugs, MHGU requires it to be the same bug type (cutting vs. blunt) for the staff. Nonetheless...
@@Stratelier Nontheless...not even a problem here, seriously.
The only thing that matters now is that whenever you forged a new Insect Glaive, you don't have to upgrade your Kinsect again from scratch like crazy, as you can just search for an upgraded ones with a compatible type and equip it.
Yeah, what was it, the Lv.4 upgrade or something that requires a (deceptively rare) Monster Bone L?
@@Stratelier If you're going for a Speed Type, you'll need Speartunas and Ancient Fishes which is ridiculous, and this new change pretty much saves you 30% from constantly farming these damn fishes.
Awesome Vid! Looking forward to learning the IG - Just a heads up, the video says there is a link in the description for the Kinsect upgrades and I do not see that!
Two years in; still no video. :-(
@@michalinaw2587 Yeah kinsect info on this guide only has Generations level of Kinsect upgradex, XX added more kinsects at the end of the tree which are interesting sidegrades depending on the monster you will face
For complete info check out the "yet another insect glaive guide"
EDIT: YAIGG has some errors in what kinsect upgrades into what, so don't follow those, but read what each skill does, and the hidden skill of tier 2 when it reaches level 9, specially the full speed kinsect, which receives minds eye with the white extract. the upgrade to the full speed one which gives tremor resist with orange, cool stuff
So, this is one of those weapons that's soooo easy to over commit an action with. I find frequently that it's hard to determine when the end of an attack has occurred and so I hit the button again and the weapon does the next several attacks afterwards and the monster is long gone and I can't evade out of the attack or anything. Definitely a lack of experience with the weapon but it sure is easy to over commit.
just bought this game and choosing weapon for the first time. I'm sold
about Striker style: it is the only style where you can charge your kinsect WHILE doing attacks, vaulting, evading, and even in hunter arts! That's the selling point of it for the trade off. Also the "didn't border to talk about" part is the only useful combo of this style. "X→X→forward X" is the combo that matters instead of the one you have covered.
I held out on MHGU hoping they would port it to 3DS since the japanese version was there because I wasn't sold on the Switch, so I'm a bit late to this party.
I actually used marking shot alot(I use the aerial marking shot to help reposition if I missed my jump) as well as the charged kinsect throw, alot of times the monster would be out of bounds for an extended amount of time spamming lasers or fireballs, so I send my mark em and let my kinsect (I call her Rosie) wail on him. Also, I didn't have a problem with striker, but I may give that alchemy style a try for it (I know aerial glaive is the hype, it didn't click for me.)
so if the new art (Bug Majeure) increases the power of the kinsect, and not just its precision as its description says, then it would probably be very good for power bugs and blunt bugs especially. ive also read that the weight stat governs a bug's ability to flinch (and/or possibly knock over) a monster rather than its stamina. so if thats true, even a weight bug would greatly benefit from this art more than something like a speed bug would
Marking a monster is actually very useful in certain situations and I highly recommend that you learn to use it properly. It comes in handy when you have the art attacking that buffs the insect and gives it an additional attack, and for monsters that constantly fly. If you send you insect up to a marked monster, it’s bound to hit the point you need at least once. And I’m not saying that as a 50/50 thing It literally always does
Where is the link for the Kinsect guide or Kinsect progression?
So for Aerial style, make a Kinsect that's, either, Balanced or Speed focused. For Valor, make a Kinsect that's, either, Balanced or Power to pair with the new hunter art (what I recommend from playing MHXX). My personal favorite weapon is actually better than it was in 4U
My first monster hunter weapon ever (in 4ultimate). Still love it!
Key note
Balanced Kinsects can spread their buffs to non Glaive users in genU, however it’s half of what the glaive user gets+no rock steady
Insect glaive is always my go to 🤷🏻♂️
Now THIS is something I like.
You already know I preordered this in a snap
I like the IG, really fun weapon to use.
Gaijin Must Be A Master At Nargacuga!
That shout thing shocked & scared me XD
Can you argue that the new art+valor style also make blunt/impact type kinsects much better at wracking up KO damage? Because I've been really interested in that new art but rarely see anyone talk about it
Striker Glaive is actually really good once you get use to the combos. No different from playing Striker SnS and rolling out of a combo to start another.
pecobro 64 I thought I was the only one who used striker
@@infrarogue it's my go to Glaive style.
This is all well and good but how do you get that targeting reticle?
Could u put in your describtions, also the relative videos for your Top 5 "weapon type"? That would be pretty nice :)
Hey gajin wonderful video. Glaive has been my favorite weapon since 4. Valor style looks like its gonna be my favorite. A question regarding the brave dash tho. Is it affected by evasion abilities like evade extender and evasion+2?
the most hurting insect glaive nerf for me is the removal of the extract extender kinsect
Did gaijin ever actually make the updated Kinsect guide? Can only find the MHX one
Just starting to get into GU. I played an insect glaive during MHW, but wanted to change to switch axe since I really enjoyed it in parts of Iceborne. I think I also picked the striker style glaive early on and was wondering, what the hell did they do to it?! Might go back and pick up an aerial glaive to help deal with the faster monsters the switch axe struggles with.
I will say though, Bushido style is pretty good if you like being super aggressive, and once you know how to judge your windows.
Insect Glaive is my favorite weapon and the best weapon in the game imo you know next to sword and sheild but I use the IG because it *bugs* monsters
Looks like we gettin that triple color bug move in sunbreak. Hopefully we get the aerial style moves too!
Yea im maining that. Valor makes it pop even more for me.
Well,the marking is still useful againts monster with hard-to-reach parts to get red/white extract (especially with speed kinsect).
I don't care what anyone says, world's glaive wishes it could be as good as this.
Dequan Milete we probably wouldn’t even get this in the West had world not sold well.
@@siediousswift8088 I was talking about the insect glaive specifically, not the whole "World vs GU" argument. (though I'm pretty sure they would have localized it anyway. If anything World is probably the reason they took so long to do it.)
I also think we would have gotten it regardless. The game was completely finished and at least half of it was already localized when MHW came out. This is easy money.
Thanks dude you really helped me out. I love insect glaive weapon, but so far I only mastering using striker style. Looks like aerial worth to try
Just pick up this game yesterday cause I think it's still too early to play RISE.
and I want to learn this cool weapon thanks!
Hi gaijin on your video you said you will link the description of the guide for building kinsect but all i see is for MHX not for MHXX or MHGU
Gunna have to disagree with you at the 2 minute point about the holding R aiming feature. Once I’ve got a body part marked I especially love spamming the insect to get in multiple hits to stack up that elemental damage with the added bonus of a buff coming my way. Super useful for when dodging long distance attacks from monsters and even more fun to have the kinsect attack on one side, call it back, and then rush in to do my own flurry of combos, meeting it halfway. The aiming feature also just feels more natural to me as I’m a convert from bow maining.
So gaijin how about that new kinsect guide you were talking about
Are you reuploading videos because of the new port of monster hunter? These videos feel oddly familiar as if I've watched them before.
Disclaimer at the beginning XD
oh egg on my face for skipping the intro haha
The kinsect element is intimidating, but I should try it again some day!
It certainly does seem that way, but oddly easier than it looks. If you haven't tried it, I would give it a look. The basic thing I say is try to go for white and red extracts, and hopefully get that orange. A Triple buff is basically full on Cuisinart mode for Glaives, and literally is a Monster Wrecker. Lots of quick damage, plenty of critical hits, and parts just start breaking. You simply feel like nothing stops you. And woe to any smaller monster that tries to get in there and interrupt a triple buffed Glaive user during the Bread and Butter combo (typically an annoyance for other weapons). Also, the Red extract Aerial Spin attack (which I call the Sonic spin, or Samus Screw Attack) has a hidden secret. Often works as a good way to penetrate hard parts of a monster even if your weapon, in its current level of sharpness, otherwise, wont go through the hide.
all you really needed to say was "extract hunter is the big yeet"
Where's the G Rank kinsects video? Can't find it in your video history
Please take note, folks. You see all the fight after the "changes" section? No jumping. Your combos are savage, please stop exclusively jumping. lol
i will stop exclusively jumping when i am a corpse
as an bug stick user, I agree with your statement, I am ashamed by most other bug stick users that continuously jump. I am a rare breed that focuses on getting buffs then pulling off combos.
@@thetriggeredmimikyu3277 I normally buff first but if I have to I'll yeet myself out of the way of an attack
19:28 did he ever do a video about the new kinsects?
Kinsect tutorial when?
Im waiting too
i haven't played this game yet but i hope this weapon is worthy of receiving the title of best weapon like in mhw (imo)
Pretty sure "Best Weapon" in MHW was by far the CB
@@Razertas yeah, but i couldn't use it cuz i'm stoopid, so insect glaive, also, it's the only weapon that can fly
I honestly never aim for triple up because you can’t refresh it mid-buff
Good strat is go for white+red, then have your kinsect grab orange, but dont recall. When it runs out of energy, it'll automatically recall and you'll get the triple buff, which is your cue to go wild.
after hours of using extract hunter, I don't think I can say that it's good.
it's good if you can hit it, but you're more likely to miss it 70% of the time, even when a monster is standing still, the enviroment and the monster's movement hinder it a lot. it also has a way too long cooldown, so you're just waiting a long time, and then not getting any use out of the art.
it would be useful if it was just as inaccurate, but had a shorter cooldown, but an XL timer for something so inaccurate is simply not worth it, in my opinion.
YAAS FINALLY INSECT GLAIVE
I finally got mhgu not that long ago but I’m so torn between sns, ig, lance and cb
Just use everything
I agree with DIABLONAMEK on this one. Often the weapon you do best with, is the one that literally has the play-style you personally *get*. And it's often not just one weapon. It's often when you click with that 2nd and 3rd weapon when you feel you have the arsenal to take on everything due to experience and recognizing the advantages each of your best weapons have.
So... is that G-rank insect guide out yet?
would appreciate this as well
It's funny how the tagging mechanics in MH4/X were basically worthless but they turned it into a really important mechanic in World. Not having Dust sucks but Aerial IG is so good.
In actuality, the marking ability is MORE useful in 4U through GU because you can't aim your bug vertically, and marking is your only way to do so.
The valor step seems to be really good regardless of the weapon. In fact, the whole style seems to be the META. Honestly, it doesn't bother me that much, given how much I liked Adept in MHGen, but it makes me wonder whether any of the other styles are really worth using...
It's actually not meta for many weapons. Well, meta is relative this time around anyways, because there are only few styles that are actively horrible. You can EASILY do whatever you like most and do well.
I think that's also a very good way of looking at it. Gee, when I started out I was playing Aerial Switch Axe and managed to get through all of low-rank, even though a lot of forum posts claim that Adept and Striker are the only ways to play it. Which are the horrible styles? I'm guessing they must also vary somewhat, but I've heard that Aerial and Alchemy aren't very good
they do vary, based on weapon actually, not all styles are the most effective for all weapons, it really depends on you and what you wanna do with a weapon
Like GH mentioned just in this video. Striker Glaive isn't really that good, while Striker SnS is one of the best ways to go. It varies!
i personally do use Striker for IG lol
i find being able to use all 3 of its arts to be very helpful, i know theres downsides of course, and with Alchemy im probly gonna swap away from Striker for IG
i mean Striker is real hit-n-miss because it does vary heavily on the weapon of choice, some weapons it hits harder than others, but you always have to sacrifice some aspect of the weapon because of the bonuses of 3 hunter arts AND quicker charging of them, but thats the whole point of Striker Style is to go heavy on Hunting Arts! but they have to balance it out elsewhere to account for that, and some Arts like Supernova for HBG, are pretty strong AND charge up relatively fast even WITHOUT Striker Style so it makes sense that the axe something else such as in that case Crouching Fire
I personally like Striker style. I am pretty ok with it. I use it mostly for my arts, for synergy w my set. Startup for attacks is too slow tho.
yep, in general I think he undersold striker style, just because the main combo is boring. easy acces to kinsect attack together with 3 art on IG, where every single art is really good, and a good main combo makes this style actually good. sure, quite boring after some time, but still good.
@@Dr.AvenVon agreed with you. You can also cancel out your combo by throwing out your kinsect and just restart combo all over again. This makes your char also more stationary, unlike when extending full combo - which makes you move around like a slippery fish.
Waiting on that kinsect video..
Gaijin please help! Can you clarify Kinsect skills such as "extra stun scales" "pierce skills up" and "Arts up"? I cannot find any clarification on what these are and how they work! So frustrating.. Thankyou!
the only link posted in the video description is to the changes and last three styles...thats honestly what i wanted to see most since it seemed rather complicated and a turn off in 4U
16:54 what the hell was that noise? lol
Um no with red the forward poke does do second hit. However the forward lunge indeed does not 10:00
He didn't do a video about the new kinsects, right? I look everywhere but it seems to not exist
wait... you can change the kinsect?!!! was waiting for that for so long
Ive been playing MH XX (Japanese ver.), is it possible to move my progress to MH Ultimate Generation (English ver.)?
Yes
Sooo... in valor you can combo a poke (forward+X), the kinsect-recalling A strike, then either X for the vertical triple hit then A for the super kinsect-sending tornado slash move which also has high motion value itself, or directly the tornado slash (also with A), and repeat. Broken ? Noooo...
Totally broken with the new hunter art and a power kinsect ? Nooooo...
Oh and not mentioning the valor step which Capcom should never ever have given for a weapon like insect glaive which is already very mobile and versatile (and even more with valor sheathe). Luckily they nerfed mounting, otherwise IG would be twice as powerful as it was in 4u,in which it was broken because you could mount monstrs all the time (I know what I'm saying, I'm playing it in 4u a lot)
Its hard to pull of that combo consistently. Seems like i have to get the timing on point
Ie been playing MH XX (Japanese ver.), is it possible to move my progress to MH Ultimate Generation (English ver.)?
Embarrassed to ask this but I just can’t figure out the Extract Hunter Art. I’ve used it over 20 times and every time it fires off in a random direction. I’ll be standing 5 feet from a monster, camera pointed right at it, but when I press up on D pad to activate the Extract Hunter Art, my character performs that elaborate animation and promptly fires the kinsect 90° to the right or the left or generally anywhere except straight in front of me where the monster is standing. I’ve never been so frustrated or felt so dumb. Any tips or ideas?
just in case, it is your character that needs to face the monster, not the camera
Phil Spunkt For sure. My character will be pointing right at him, sometimes even aiming with the R button, thr reticle right on the monster, then I’ll press the button to activate the Art and it fires off directly left or right. It’s baffling but I never played the original so I am not sure where I’m going wrong. I’ve literally never hit a monster with it
@@Lady_Vengeance I think you're putting way to much through into it. It shoots from the front of your character. 😂
So here I was thinking I needed to get red in each a lot to get the red boost and was wondering why I couldn’t get full red lulz