Which behavior do you use for your buddies?

Greatsword guide breakdown: 5% - TCS 5% - Dunks 90% - Bro let me show you all the cool ways you can combo in and out of shoulder bash bro you're gonna love it

This is by far the most useful no bs guide for GS. I’m excited to become a GS in MHR and use all of these

Really well done Xan. This is well-explained, easy to follow, and, most importantly, extremely informative. It's amazing how well you've managed to convey these concepts in a manner that anyone, beginner or veteran, can get something useful out of. Double thumbs up for the narration too, Paolo kills it again!

I've been using greatsword since starting Rise, and granted, I'm not super far into the game. That being the case, I still felt like I was missing stuff after watching a few guides. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, and the production value is also chefs kiss. Great work

That buddy tip was really nice, thanks for this great guide man!

This video proves that button mashing is definitely not the way to play a Monster Hunter game. Great content that inspires me to try a different weapon type (gunlance main). Honestly, I'm interested in any content you provide!

I am really new to GS and this videos made not only understand better the weapon but monster behavior. I've deen some improvement after playing GS and Hammer. I loved the video ❤

This was super helpful. I've watched a couple other people go over the GS but in terms of what you mention from your beginner video to here is very very informative and tbh I love that you mention which moves are clearly useless in your beginner one. Helped jumpstart me using GS even though I still need to get used to patterns.

Wow. Easily the best adv vid for GS, one of the best weapon vids I've watched period. Keep it up mate, you earned your sub

Don't think I'll ever have the time and patience to actually learn all monster animations beyond some basic muscle memory things but even then, I still learned about the unsheathing by guarding strat, so thanks!

5:18 nice transition :)

xan the man does it again

These are some really good tips for the greatsword users out their. Learned a couple of things myself 👍🏻 The guard unsheathe has changed the way I play. Thanks!

Great guide! I've been somewhat struggeling getting into 5th gen gs after mostly playing old world gs and this really helped

You're always so amazingly thourogh with these guides! Clips that perfectly illustrate every point and not a single stone left unturned. Excellent work again, Xan!

Still a useful video after sunbreak, tyty for the hard work/time u fellows put in on these

Greatest GS video on KZfaq! 👍🏻😁

definitely advices from true veteran. Great video!

I started playing mh again after a several month hiatus with the demo out and this has helped massively to prepare for Sunbreak, thanks!

Holy cow this was so packed with good information. Thanks so much!!

Great vid!!! Thanks Xan sensei!

Nice guide! Very informative and well-organized content. Btw I'd like to add one more step to improve on GS or any other weapons, which is to watch others' speedruns, try to understand and copy what they're doing.

Awesome information. If only more people paid attention to guys like this..Keep up the great work!

I was doing a few of these things but i definitely learned some new stuff lol. I was a GS main until 4th gen and after seeing the new combos in sunbreak ive since picked it back up. Thanks for the tips ^^

I really like the GS I’m replaying mhr on my first play through I used insect glaive and I’m so used to not dodging because the leap does it for me so this guide was very helpful thanks

I really hope to see more of this come Sunbreak, as you've managed to actually teach me a weapon I've previously thought I was completely incapable of learning. I could never get GS to click for me. I've been a IG, SA, CB, GL and HH player, basically adding those weapons to that list as they were added. GS was one I tried every game starting in 2 and bounced hard off of. I can confidently pick up any weapon and use it effectively to a G Rank level, except GS. At least until now. This and the basics video finally got me understanding GS, and while I'm still learning, I'm definitely not far behind my SA clear times now, which is my main weapon in Rise. I'm even beating my best times on some monsters with other weapons first time with GS. GS is definitely going to be one weapon I use in Sunbreak when I decide to grind it's better match ups.

Extreeeemely good video guide. I even learnt a few extra tidbits. Great work.

Bro you’re a wizard. Thanks for the tips! Very informative video brotha! Keep it up 👍🏽

This guide was the best greatsword guide I’ve seen! The part about the dogs charging their weapon with mine blew my mind! Th Al you so much! If you could make a video about which monsters I should use TCS on and which ones to use rage slash on that would be awesome

Great video. Rage Slash was a lot more fun and cinematic for me when I played the switch version, but I feel like I might switch back to TCS purely for the numbers.

A tip that still works from the old world is head sniping. It’s simple to perform, simply position yourself beside or to the rear of a monster and time the charge to the turn of the weakspot. This is better if your running punish draw and crit draw on your set so you can optimize the effects of those skills

Here we go. Hyped for this. Okay, so now I know I want dogs rather then my cats. Even know what to equip now. Maybe some day I will be able to master TCS, but it frustrated me alot in World. RS seems more forgiven and beginner friendly, but less strong. Can't wait for Sunbreak and/or your next GS video. Cheers.

Guides have been helpful. I've been thinking to switch over to being a Greatsword main. I like the idea of 2 doggos for optimization

Yo, my brain and gamer inside thank you for the enlightening knowledge fr fr

Go for it, more knowledge for the best weapon in the series is always needed !

I'm been a GS main since I've been playing MH, some of these techniques I never even considered before now. That's what I love about the Monster Hunter franchise. You can play for years and still not know everything, but you also don't necessarily need to in order to succeed.

woah that had a ton of great information, thanks so much !

The guard roll is insane i've never thought of transforming a defensive move into an offensive one, this will greatly increase my style of play in rise, this and figure it out how i can shorten my adamant slash dash, i still don't get it ^^. Thumb up 👍👍 Edit: I finish watching the beginner guide so shorten the adamante slash invole to not put a direction while you do the move it as to be neutral, got it ^^.

just discovered your channel, learning 2 new weapons for Sunbreak (SnS then GS), and your video is eye opening. I am really an amateur and I am not very good with monster's patterns. If you can do few videos on monsters' patterns and positioning that would be amazing (It can be youtube shorts for instance). Like your clip at 2:28 I never noticed that Magnamolo, after a charge like this, does a slow stomp and you can do your full combo at a distance easily like this. GS is very very intimidating due to the placement!

Most informative channel I've found :D

Woooah! What a guide! Thank you dude. You did a lot of work right here. I really appreciate it. Cuz. most give common knowledge for nubies in general or just pretend to be professionals. You are different. Thanks! Have a nice day.)

Having playing MHW so long, i forgot how beautiful those weapon designs used to

Top tier guide. Thanks a lot for sharing. Please do a guide (or guides) for specific monsters. It would really help to learn to read the monsters if there was a guide on patterns and attack sequences for each of them, and tips on where to stand and which moves to use to take advantage of em.

Love the content. Excellent work putting those GS skills into words!

Thank you for the video , my issue with GS is mostly with more aggressive / faster monsters . I think that would make great follow up videos , just a suggestion though .

This is awesome... actual advancd tips. Thank you

Great guide bro. Good work

I watch this every week

So excited to see what you can do with the new sunbreak moves

Nice video and very well explained, good job.

Hey I know you don't like Amuldron, but neither does anyone else so a monster moveset analysis video or something of the sort would be really cool.

Good stuff, thank you for the guide!

Hey, great video! Actually it would be cool to see some match up tips for the end game monsters. Like how to avoid and punish some of the moves as great sword I think we're lacking this type of content in English.

I’ve been maining GS since 4U and I love how I subconsciously do these things now after many hours of using this weapon. Really and I mean really great guide man, it summarizes the playstyle and mindset of using Great Sword in a short and concise way.

It would be awesome to get specific monster videos showing what attacks to use in different openings.

Hello, do you plan on doing a low rank -> high rank gs progression guide? Or would you have any Gs you would recommend for each?

I can’t wait for follow you on sunbreak content.

Awesome video. Thank you!

Thoughts on Gathering Cats? I've been exclusively using Gathering cats to get more monster parts, and I've heard discussions that gathering cats are the most useful for this reason. But as you mentioned Dog deals more status damage, which can be useful.(i just wanna hear what other people think)

Best guide out there.

Thank you sensei

Hey Xan! Great video! I really want to main greatsword and I'm just curious about your approach to learning each monster that you fight in Rise. How much practice do you put into each fight that you post on your channel? Do you use any resources to learn a monsters attack patterns and movesets? Thanks in advance for any information or knowledge you can provide to us noobies!

Another xan banger

wtf, that first trick I've been doing and I've never had a name for it nor have I consciously thought about that I've been doing it.

never knew the double dog was more dps, insane

Please do more with other weapon types

Oh wow never knew palamute scrolls were a thing.....neato!

AMAZING GUIDE

excellent thank you

What's your thought on using 2 trapper palicos, each with 2 separate trap skill. At the same time, our hunter carrying 4 traps (with trap tool). Wouldn't this open up at least 5-6 openings for TCS and possibly cause topple and or stun for even more TCS?

Like the NileRed of Monster Hunter. Edited-forgot a period

I'm still a super noob with GS, but keep randomly having my next charge do a little slap instead which really throws me off. i'm assuming its what i'm pressing but havent figured it out :( Cant wait to get that strong arm stance later on!

I had no clue shoulder reset the stun 😅

I'm assuming the threshold resets after everytime a monster flinch right? I tried the luring technique demonstrated during the goss horag charge part. But what ends up happening usually is that as soon as I release my charged rage slash /TCS, I still get blown away because the monster didnt flinch after landing it on their head lol. It's funny.

guard sheathing... of course dawg I feel so dumb like when Fry from futurama took a dump everywhere instead of the corner while in a dungeon prison. the corner of course!! guard sheathing course!! 😂 same energy

My favourite GS main Paolo xD

A really good guide xanbro :peepoflushed: nice and compact, perfect for a relaxing watch. ...tho where is 30 minute segment praising hunting edge :peepoangry:

Hey Xan do you have any tips to perform guard kick on 60 fps ? The timing feels way more tight and hard to do than on the switch or at 30fps where it feels like you can buffer the kick

I was wondering why roll dodge was so different from World, guard rolling.

So i watched Darkside gaming do a wyvern riding monster kill only. so i decided to look up videos on getting the wyvern skill to pop up easier. Everyone seems to use the S&S skill for the example because (its the least use weapon or whatever excuse the give) I think its because the silk bind skill is so easy to use to get wyvern riding to pop up. I can seem to get wyvern riding skill to pop up well or quickly with the great sword. I attack the non quest monster and it still takes forever. I should be hitting the monster with adamant slash correct? what am i doing wrong? i generally see someone get the wyvern riding skill to pop up with 1 S&S silkbind move.

0:08 was that a dragon ball reference

I can't find the music that starts at 2:30. What version of proof of a hero is that?

Would you recommend play the game without palicos and palamutes help? Since they split the monster attention making it more unpredictable.

I suck at learning monsters lol mostly because i havent had to kill any specific one more then like 2 or 3 times yet

Dark of Night: attack boost or affinity boost rampage skill?

Do you have any recommendations on early high rank gear?

If I press my block button it doesn't draw the weapon on block, what am I doing wrong? do I have to turn any settings on?

Been teaching myself great sword just don’t like any of the other weapons and I’m a beginners hunter Great Sword just feels easiest to me

What is tht greatsword at 6:15?

Ah yes. My favoprite weapon. It's not good sword, it's not okay sword, and most fucking certainly not Long or And Shield. It's GREAT sword.

For a man who has never touched a playstation controller all his life, this is hella confusing. Great guide tho!

I'm surprised that headturns DO work on Rise. Maybe not in the same deterministic way it was before, but at least it's a bit different from World when sometimes you're left thinking "this could have been a headturn" but the monster just turns immediately and does something else.

HOW are you doing 1000+ damage?

Ironic GS is one of the more unga bunga weapons but literally requires you learn Monster behavior/strategize

Great info! Someone call Peta. Is crit boost good in Rise? Can we please get clutch claw back! #Claggers

Who is Paolo?

On point

Awesome guide too bad I'm a noob.

This is way too big brain for me lol