"We Insect Glaive mains" I have never heard someone try to bury their past quite so forthrightly

The ash of war on this weapon looks insane, I have to fight Rykard with this thing.

I had always alternated between Switch axe/Great Sword/ and the LBG. Oh how blind I was. Then about two months ago while I was preparing for my future Sunbreak adventures by creating the various meta sets for each weapon class...I came across the Insect Glaive....My brothers in Christ how my senses were overwhelmed by the freedom of flight! I lifted off from the accursed dirt and felt the wind whip over my body. Oh my brothers I was in the heavens. I aimed my trusty insect ally and fired! He soon returned with the invigorating essence that sharpened my senses, invigorated my muscles, and dulled out the hateful roars of my prey. Higher and higher I soared, my vorpal blade a blur of spinning death. My form a parade of cascading after-images. Blink and you'll be left wondering if I was ever there. The skies are my home now. The clouds my family. The grit and grime of the dusty mundane ground no longer hold sway over me. I am reborn and the grass will only ever get to touch my brilliance when I'm feeling merciful. - Newly enlightened Insect Glaive enthusiast

"To crawl upon the earth, like worms, like vermin, like Longsword players, completely bereft of intelligence or grace" oof, you didnt have to do us like that. 😂

"The non-aerial Hunters souls' are weighed down by gravity." -Char Aznable, probably

I have only ever used insect glave for its aerial gameplay. That is what makes insect glave fun and different. Anyone who disagrees is allowed to have their opinion. But they are 1000% wrong.

That poetry at the start was truly beautiful.

You’re my favorite insect Glaive main, been following since your 4U days.

As an Insect Glaive flyer, I'm in love with the new ariel move. It's so fun. All the buffs the Glaive got was beautiful.

IG Players can finally be the beautiful fairy dancers they always meant to be

Bro even in world I always hated the fact that ground glaive is considered "optimal", when I could always more consistently hit the monsters without taking damage, and more consistently finish my combos in the air therefore doing more overall damage (especially with the 20 percent aerial damage boost decoration)

I'm a GS main, glad you got over your weab phase, my friend started out Longsword but realized how busted it was and transitioned away from it to IG too, so I'll link this to him. I love your content, I love MonHun and I love Soulsborne so I'm here just for support.

Pf "we insect glaive mains" says the fallen long sword weebo But for making this video i grant you a place in our ranks

thank you for showing me you can AIM the kinsect slash, that's SO COOL

World was my first MH game. and I choose the IG first because of the ariel moves. I never gave into the meta to begin with, it was just too much fun to avoid the ariel play style. With that said, I am happy with the current state of this weapon. I'm having fun, while at the same time doing good enough damage that I'm not handicapping myself by playing the way I want.

Great guide, I especially liked your detailed explanation on the dual colour (defense) kinsect. I really enjoy using the insect glaive with jumping advance slash, but I need to try out kinsect slash now (especially now that I know I need to change the gunner reticle speed lol)

really love the BG sound, its just like receiving the briefings during formal lectures before going to hunt/war ^^

"Never Touch Grass Again" - will this make me immune to grass pollen allergies? 😁

Yes! Preach, my friend, PREACH! 😆 I’m getting back into MH a whole year after Rise endgame didn’t quite capture me- looking forward to the new switch skills after watching this! #TheGroundIsGross

Thanks to you, I've been transformed to a true aerial ig main. My biggest nemesis is the ground and Rajang

I know this is SUCH a niche comment but the background music you used REALLY took me back to the Xenosaga days. Thank you for the in depth explanation as well as the nostalgia today! Much love man

Full Glaive Party: 1 Ariel Glaive with Assist Kinsect as described in video 1 Speed Kinsect user to focus on severing tails and other targeted attacks 1 Powder with Heal powder 1 Powder with a Status powder

This looks incredible. I loved literally flying in World.

Ratatoskr I thought you were one of those ground loving longsword mains. Come to find out you were really one of us all along. Glaive gang for life.

after playing aerial Insect Glaive in Rise I CANNOT go back to playing this weapon in any other Monster Hunter, it's just SOOOO GOOOD

I like how you speak, very eloquent. You're also very funny on top of that. But the biggest W is that you didn't curse at all. I really appreciate that and all the information you stated 15/10 video. If this is how you speak regularly, you're quite the character, a rare one indeed. Thanks again Rata, have a blessed day.

How about the best thing about this is that you can finally play the insect glaive without having to spend time gathering essence, you just go straight into combat. This was my initial issue with Insect Glaive. Nothing sucks the fun out of the weapon like stopping your attacks because you need to buff some arbitrary buff. I pray that this becomes a mainstay after this monster hunter, or another nice thing would be if assist kinsects got essences while you attacked, that would also be useful. I might actually play Insect Glaive again, I haven't since MH4.

I'm so glad to hear insect glaive his got so much love this time around

you outdid yourself with that intro

6:32 that poor bombadgy D:

I don’t main Insect Glaive for optimal damage, I main Insect Glaive because I want to play Spider-Man for PS5 while I play Monster Hunter on Nintendo Switch. Thanks for helping me stay away from that icky nasty ground even better than before! (jokes aside, it’s nice to know aerial IG isn’t as bad as I thought. I was still gonna play aerial, but at least now I know I’m actually contributing to hunts and not just looking cool)

Okay long comment up ahead I got me MHRise for the switch about a year ago (first MH ever for me, mind you) and at first, I tought it may not be my cup of tea. Well, slowly but surely I got the hang of it, started maining the hammer, but never came to love it, than I watched some guy online going all out with the insect glaive. I was stunned, the guy would rack hit after hit, move in and out of the fight quickly, going all gracefully dancing in the air. I knew it then and there I had to master the insect glaive. Now, about 180 hours later I ONLY play insect glaive, I find it impossible to use other weapons (like for arena challenges). Now with the new expansion, the insect glaive just became more viable, I swear I'm tearing through monsters now. I like what they did with the expansion, and I like what the weapon was before, just because it forced you to become proficient in avoiding damage.

Je suis monté.

After playing Glaive hundreds of hours in MH world and Rise, I was reluctant to try kinsect slash, and at first it did feel very awkward. After a day practicing with it, I think this it is _probably_ superior to jumping slash. First off, it seems I'm knocked out of the air way less often, which makes sense given it's animation. It's also much faster than jumping slash, so you don't miss the monster as much, it really allows you to stay on top of it. I was already using the 'blunt dual color defense kinsect because I just think it's the best overall, but he's right, it pairs nicely.

I'm practicing this and so far, once I got a handle on it, it's been incredibly fun and effective too. I always loved to just hop around above monsters and dodging their ground sweep attacks while breaking wings and this will just enhance my favourite playstyle a lot. Thanks for posting this. :D

The levels of memery in blideo blames will make future historians cry

There is an extract priority with the assist kinsects that is hard to put in simple words but white, red, then orange. Example if you hit a part that matches what your kinsects forced extract, the second color will always be white, except when using the white extract kinsect, then you will get red.

Can't wait for mods to update so I can check my DPS on this - I've been a puny ground glaive plebian all my life and I think this doubles my DPS. It certainly FEELS cooler, and that's reason enough to join our airborne alliance.

The intro to this video explains the mindset of all IG mains perfectly, and I'll be talking like that on voice forever from now on.

Rise has the best ig in the series

Holy shit I didn't expect to find xenosaga soundtrack in your videos

This is super helpful and I don't wanna undermine that, but the Xenosaga music got me all nostalgic I got teary eyed! I loved it!

Greatly appreciate the Metroid music in the background.

I immediately hit like button the moment I heard the "Long library" ost of SOTN kicks in.

Thanks for showing me alternative way to play IG, ground IG is still very fun and at some point I will probably settle for mixed playstyle, but at this moment I am having a blast with aerial IG, aiming felt a bit awkward but after listening to your advice about settings and a couple hunts I mostly gotten used to it. Not an IG main, but I played a bit of IG in Rise and world before, just hated coptering in world, felt very unresponsive and wonky (the fact that it didn't deal that much damage in base world didn't even matter, it was just not fun), Rise made aerial IG a lot more fun, especially SB.

I've been experimenting with the new kinsects, especially the one that charges (that does a surprising amount of damage and it KOs monsters quite easily) but this playstyle also seems quite fun. Gotta be honest I thought the new moves were pretty mediocre and got disappointed, but looks like I was wrong. Definitely gonna try this out. Thanks for the video!

I started watching your channel when I found your Dark Souls 3 videos. I have never played a second of Monster Hunter but I still enjoy watching these videos hahaha

Nice informative video, the Metroid music was a nice touch.

ive switched to IG 2 days ago in Sunbreak and i absolutely love it. your video is superb

This is BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you for the tips!! I can't wait to start air dancing!!!!

This guide was absolutely amazing ! You did a great job at explaining everythig in a way everyone would understand. I just wish you'd show preffered skills, weapons and armor.

Decided to pick IG back up for Sunbreak and its been a humbling experience feeling like a scrub again. I only used it a bit in 4U and base World so I never truly mastered it. In Sunbreak its honesty like a dream to use. Still a bit clumsy but slowly getting more confident with the flow and moveset.

As many others in this comment section, I once mained some other mundane weapon when I decided to give the insect glaive a shot and it changed my life forever, I honestly cannot ever go back to anything with less mobility, such a fun weapon

This was my go to in mhw, just started playing rise and it felt off in mhr, but now I'm seeing its actually pretty good, been using bow because I love moving around fast.

Thanks a lot, finally imma be the king of the skies ☁️

A fellow OG intellectual, I see

Love it! Glad to see you back over in MH land!

Home sweet home. They skies.

Thanks for putting kezhu gear on the thumbnail and giving me nightmares again!

Loving Charge Blade. I can stun, trip and stagger a monster so often that they can't even run away. All while barely having to move, like some kind of murder turtle.

this simply feels better than what I was using before (aerial hammer)

I had no idea that how the defensive vs attack kinsect type changed what extract you pulled, or that the kinsect slash pulled extract at all!. So much great info in this Video! Thank you for making it,

I appreciate this video as a new ish IG user!

Very well written intro. About to head to the training area to try this stuff out!

ty so much for this i have played up till mr 50 so far with ig and i had no idea you could even aim kinset slash, like bruh im so dumb this changes so much LMAO, i already loved the skill so now im gonna extra love it

This is exactly the video I was looking for to justify never touching grass again, thankyou sir

Been maining glaive for 50h since it just clicked for me unlike the other weapons but never really stayed from the switch skills from base rise but this has made me consider using the others skills after i unlock more switch skills in sunbreak

lmao it's called MH RISEEE what the hell are ppl doing on the ground in the first place

as main insect glaive since MH4U, I felt really sad for the way that this weapon was so... despised at the beginning of Rise, because all the weapons then had the power of flying around and doing "aerial combos", while the move set of the glaive was so lame, specially in the air. The rest of weapons were flying and laughing at us... IN OUR TERRITORY. But now with the new combos (speciffically the shown by you) the glorious sky will be taken back to its true master! . . . . . . . . drama apart, thanks for showing how taking advantage of the assist dual color defense kinsect, I underestimated it and I owe it an apologize

Perfect timing, just picked up rise to play with my work buddies and was keen to reenact monkey King. Thanks for the info

Had no idea you could aim the slashes I'm so happy omg (been playing since 3 and got introduced to IG in 4 haven't looked back!)

I already main IG ran into your channel have not purchased sunbreak yet but I will soon you're getting me hyped to run the sky again

Having they blunt kinsect with (charged chain attack) and doing kinsect slash feels soooo OP, you should try it.

Gunlance welcomes you to the air!

i'm so fucking happy that Switch Skills is a thing now so that I can go in with a ground and an aerial loadout and switch it up as the situation calls. I'm absolutely loving sunbreak. The thing I like about games like this is experimenting with builds, and they cranked that up to 11

Good that IG users can finally scratch the surface of what us Gigachad Aerial DB users have been doing since base rise. Welcome back to the skies, brothers.

as a glaive main, im loving the glaive superiority in this video

I've been using IG since 4U and have never had nearly this much fun with it. This weapon has so much versatility.

MH has slowly turned into Toukiden, lol

Imagine old rata reacting to ig rata now. Nice video, it's pretty interesting to hear this way to play ig.

yes, once again Kinsect Glave proven to still be the King of the Sky

Just wanted to thank u for the vid. Awesome content 👏

I haven't had the chance to try IG in Sunbreak yet because I'm too in love with GL and learning GS, but in Rise, IG was my main weapon all throughout. The blunt defense kinsect was always my go to and Diving Wyvern was always my goal. I played aerial IG SO much in Rise, because the changes to mounting meant that my aerial combos would take WAY WAY longer before they'd get broken by a forced mount (my biggest pet peeve about IG before Rise). Everything IG got in Sunbreak only supports that playstyle. I think unless the Tornado Slash (IG's bread and butter on the ground) got significantly buffed, this aerial style may well be meta or close to it. At least I hope so. Spamming Tornado Slash is really quick. By the way. I personally REALLY like using gyro aiming with IG. It frees up my right thumb and makes this way more comfortable. Gyro camera might help too, but this may or may not be too disorienting. I tend to turn on gyro aim and turn off gyro camera, because that way, the gyro resets just by releasing the reticle. It takes a bit of getting used to, but if you ever feel playing like this is too straining on your fingers, try it. You can aim the camera with the stick and fine tune with the gyro as well, as a sort of combo.

Thank you for showcasing this playstyle. I personally don’t care if it isn’t “meta” caused if I cared about the meta then I’d be using Bow

Floor is lava!! We IG users rule the skies!! Consider turning on gyroscope for aiming. It can help on aiming and keeping track of the monster with kinsect slash. Might be time to bring out your controllers with paddles or dust off those claw grip skills. Being able to keep your thumb on R stick for camera movement to keep track of the monster wherever they go is is a godsend when using kinsect slash!!!

i dont play the insect glaive as of now, but i liked the meme + serious mix of this video

Probably played IG the most in base rise, but haven’t touched it yet in sunbreak. (Been running through the story solo on lance and having a blast.) But its good to know that the new switch skills can really change things up. Ill be sure to try this out when I get back to running IG.

As an aspiring ig main. I will be watching all your vids

excellent guide, can't wait to try this style

As a player who has started playing insect glaive as my main weapon from World to Sunbreak I approve this message

Watched this for the amazing title 10/10

Your opening dialogue got you the sub from me it was incredible

hey man, join the gunlance tribe. We got rocket dashes.

Insect glaive for life!

Latent power from the blood orange bishaten armor has helped me a lot with stamina management

6:33 that bombadgy got fuuuurked! 🤣

Based intro and great video overall

Ratatoskr's first sunbreak weapon video is aerial IG GOATED

IG was so much fun. Played aerial almost exclusive with the exception of few monsters. IG let’s you leave your corporeal form

Haven’t felt the need to play rise to be honest. Was tired of my glaive being laughed at during multiplier of I wanted to be flashy like a long sword or a charge blade. Now the time of reckoning has come. Can’t wait to get back to flying