Hey y'all. This is a pretty long, in depth tutorial, and it can be a bit of information overload if you're brand new to the series. Use the timestamps in description if you wish to navigate to specific information(or the chapters in video). If you're looking for a much quicker tutorial that gives you just enough information to get started with hammer in Monster Hunter Rise, I recommend KRRool's "5 Minute Hammer Guide"(I have no affiliation with KRRool, I simply think he made a good tutorial). Thank you for watching! Things I missed: You only need focus lv2 in order for your lv2 courage hammer charge attack to insta charge. Impact burst(the attack part, not the buff part) stun values are pretty good as long as all six hits connect(better than lv 2 charge, for example). The hammer's upswing(both the lvl 2 charge and the golfswing) can send teammates flying in multiplayer. Just something to be mindful of. When you cancel a spinning bludgeon: charge back into courage charge, if it's a level 1 or 2 charge, it will be a fully charged level 1 or 2(with the additional hit). Additionally, immediately after performing a spinning bludgeon: charge cancel into courage, you can also quickly perform a dodge to maintain your charge, much like how you can do so when going from one charge level to the next in courage charge. Your level 1 and 2 charge attacks will cover more distance in the direction you hold the analog stick, as opposed to performing them without analog input. Helps close the gap between you and the monster, this is especially true for strength hammer. In strength charge, your level 2 charge(upswing) has a better vertical hitbox than in yellow or courage.

Now this is how a weapon guide is supposed to look like. Well earned sub

I have more than a thousand hours as a hammer main between World, Iceborne, Rise, and Sunbreak. I didn't expect to learn anything, in fact I was primed to cover what you missed. You sir, have humbled me, and I thank you for it. This tutorial is A++

As a lifetime hammer main Keeping Sway and Water Strike are exactly what I've always wanted for the weapon. The added defensive utility is so valuable and it makes hammer so fluid. Also impact burst + crater is sexy

Loved this guide, very clear and easy to follow! Having all 3 button types on screen at all times is super useful as well! Haven't seen that in any other guides and it makes translating the buttons super easy.

Gunlance main swapping to hammer in sunbreak. You helped me very much to discover all the hidden combos and understand all the new switch skills!

Best hammer tutorial I've seen, good job!!

You're a legend, Amazing work. Well earned sub 🎉

Your content is valuable and carefully chosen. Good script, good structure, good footage. Well explained. Great job! Even I as a mh hammef veteran learned a few new details thanks to your video. Bonk on!

Very great guide, it has helped me to get in touch with these new skills more rapidly. It would be great to see some builds videos/recommended skills for hammer in the future. Thanks a lot for all of your efforts, have a nice time in Sunbreak 😉

This is very well put together! I've been curious about the Hammer lately and this video has made it the next weapon I'll try. That it's up to date for Sunbreak, which as you say made some major tweaks, is huge. You make some pretty complex interactions very clear while providing excellent guidance on ways to put it all together - all in 20 minutes. Bravo!

Haven't watched it yet but I know this will be so helpful! Been playing rise for about a week with friends and came across your videos. Keep up the good work you're really helping us out man

I really appreciate putting the controllers in notations In the top left. When I read a guide after picking it back up recently I forgot Rise was a switch exclusive and thought the internet was having a stroke with all the A and X button talk

This is the best tutorial I've seen for the hammer so far. Great camera angles, paced well and very well spoken. I learned way more from this than I did looking through 4-5 others (including some really long 40 minute ones). Nice job man! Subbed. @FlorBroM

Thanks for this bro.. Very nice tutorial you made here!.. Good info, detailed but you managed to make it not sound too over complicated etc.. Appreciate your effort here bro, thank you!.. 😎👌

Incredible tutorial. I've played lots of monster hunter but new to rise. This was perfect. Well earned sub bro

Detailed, covered things I have been confused about for a while, 10/10 thank you so much

Did longsword throughout rise base game- doing hammer in sun break and I’m loving it now! Thanks for the vid! Helps a ton

been looking for an actual informative video about hammers for a long time lol this was far down in my search result list but im glad i found it. i was a hammer main in freedom unite and this is the first other monster hunter im playing, and i was so damn confused by hammery, this video defenutely will help me finally freaking get back into HAMMER TIME

Great guide! Really helped me with understanding the new switch skills. Keeping sway is my favorite, a very good utility skill.

I'm glad you covered the chaining from the triangle combo to the various courage charges, I watched a speedrunner the other day that didn't do it

Awesome guide, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Closest to a gaijin hunter hammer tutorial I've seen.

Hey man, just saw your video two weeks ago and now I’m here to give you the 411. Your guide is really good. I was pretty ignorant about hammer but just like learning a monster; I learn something everyday. Can’t really call myself a hammer bro yet but I’m finally having a lot of fun playing hammer. Keep up the work.

This was very well done. Seriously, great job on this. 👍

Thanks for the in depth guide! Dont worry about putting up too little content. (: Hammer is a lot to take in and I will slowly start to give it a shot, I'll patiently await your other videos on it, cheers!

LET'S GO!!! So excited for this vid 🥳

Hey, great video!! Keep it up 🙂 I don't play hammer much and this was super informative, I didn't know you could go into so many different attacks from others, but I'm interested in playing with it a bit more sometime, this is pretty helpful for that.

Amazing, never seen such a good tutorial for a weapon before, thank you so much. You got my sub for sure :)

Incredible guide, answered so much - thank you!

Almost one Year later and still one of the Best weapon guides I found!!! Great job and!!! I'm Not Hammer main but I like the weapon a lot and with this new infos my gameplay will inprove and extract more fun!! Thanks a Lot!!

Well made guide. Picked up with my only exp in the weapon was mhfu on the psp but progressed fairly decently thanks to the guide and the weapon not being that complex in few hours. Cheers

Great guide! I’ve picked up the hammer for the first time to play Rise/Sunbreak, and it’s been really fun, but I’ve been overwhelmed by some of the switch skills, this takes my hammer game to a new level!

This is so good! I played hammer on world, so I have an idea, but your tutorial is so in-depth, I learnt a lot more. Thank you for this! Subbed!

Simple yet awesome tutorial. Thanks a lot💯

Great guide! Keep up the good work mate.

Great guide. It’s been about a year since I played base Rise and I forgot everything so this came in handy.

Hey hammer bro! You did a great job with this. I really slept on Keeping Sway. I'm gonna start using that more. I hope to see many more hammers in the wild now!

This is all I want in a weapon guide. Made me consider trying the hammer. Keep up the good work.

I was literally just looking for this. Never played base Rise so I'm quite confused by the changes. Thanks!

I just recently picked up the hammer, this definitely helped! Thanks

Thank you for this awesome guide!

Damn this is such a great guide, I was looking for a new weapon to master for Sunbreak and after watching your video, I LOVED the Hammer and I'm still not even half good with it, I'll appreciate it even more once I'll have mastered it

Thanks for the video!!! Stuff like this is a lifesaver when I decide to try out a new weapon for a breath of fresh air after 100 hours into the game

Fantastic Tutorial! Immensely helpful!

Great guide!! Keep it up... I will have to go through it more times for sure xD

This is so comprehensive and so nicely explained, i loved it. I've been in a pretty consistent on/off will they/wont they relationship with the Hammer ever since Tri and gave it a somewhat fair shot in pretty much every game since. It always felt satisfying but also like there was something missing. Sunbreaks new additions really feel like they allow you to roll with the punches a lot more, plus having dedicated ways to directly interact with the monsters attacks seems like it might be just the thing that will get me to dig my teeth into it to the extent i did with LS, IG and Lance. Also in part because after this video i feel like i have a very solid grip on what my options are, when to use them and what strengths and weaknesses they have, thanks to you sir. One little suggestion i have to make these videos even easier and more comfortable to understand would be to always show the switch skill tree when youre announcing the next move to be covered while hovering over its place with your cursor so its absolutely crystal clear what you can exchange for what in your moveset. I personally find myself getting confused by that more than ever in Sunbreak with the crazy amount of options at your disposal. That being said, please understand this is nitpicking to an absurd degree and you did a marvelous job at breaking this weapon down for all of us apprentice hammer bros. Much love

Earned yourself a liked, for someone finally explained spinning bludgeons moveset. I feel like most hunters don't realize that you can combo things right after a spinning bludgeon.

this is a really nice guide, new sub here

Loved this tutorial. In-depth. I am enjoying hammer so much now.

Just wanted to chime in and say this helped me a lot. I used to main hammer in the 3DS days but sort of neglected it since world, so the 'blue charge' was sort of foreign to me and I was a bit too risky and dumb with it anyway. I picked up the hammer again and things made LESS sense, but your video has helped out a lot. I'll be referring to it as I return to my head-smashing roots. There are a lot of unexplained intricacies about the hammer that the game does not explain, so I really appreciate you taking the time to spell it out! Great video. 👍

This is a great video! I learned a lot of things i didnt know before on hammer! Ive mainly played courage in Sunbreak thanks to the buffs it got and i thought I would mention two things about spinning bludgeon charge and courage. Like you said, During spinning bludgeon charge, you can cancel it at anytime with a to switch to blue and depending on when you switch you get a lv 1, 2, or 3 charge. Its the same for courage but it will always be the max charge no matter when you switch. So you can switch back to blue after one hit and go into a maxed lv 1 hit, then max 2 then max 3 or throw in a impact crater immediately at any one of those points. Also small thing, you mentioned that courage hammer can do a roll right after charging the hammer to the next lv and it will keep that charge during that roll. when you swap after spinning bludgeon charge in courage, you can get a quick roll in and still keep the charge for whatever charge you swapped to. Really nice for repositioning or if you have evade extender so that you can get back to the head after a swap without losing the charge. Sorry for the info dump, thanks for the indeph video! Lets go Hammer bros!

Thanks for the guide. I use hammer just because of the design of the valstrax hammer alone and It's nice to see a well made guide such as this. I did not expect such a guide to be this informative XD

Just subbed. Great guide. Checking out your other videos now.

This is amazing! Thank you soo much

This was an amazing video and helped me a lot! Thank you!!!

Thanks bro! I don't speak English as my principal language but I can understand all the video, what a good job!

i'm having extreme fun with hammer on mhr sunbreak, just like gs :) thanks for covering some stuff i didnt know

Wow this guide is simply amazing. Your choice of words is spot on, simple and ez to understand even when u talks fast. Im not even natives. U just got sub bro. Well done.

Great video. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 thanks for sharing

I love hammer, i think im decent at it. This was a great tutorial. Thank you for this

Thank you for the tutorial. It is excellent

Thank you for the guide! Time to bonk monsters real good

I watched this video when you released it, I was still an insect glaive main looking to diversify. Now 4 months later I rewatched it and I’m happy to report that I’ve pretty much learned all there is to learn in terms of actual moves and stuff. Hammer had just been incredibly fun, most weapons have you choose between either heavy attacks or hit and run but we get to do both here which is amazing. Also water strike is an absolute game changer and I’m never taking it off. Also also switch scrolls can die on a fire 😂

Played hammer since Freedom 2 and I have always loved the simple play pattern of holding charge and waiting for the right moment. As soon as I started playing Courage hammer I realized just how much they have added to my favorite weapon. I am now a combo heavy machine that can parry dangerous attacks, as well as run elemental builds. I hadn't realized how stale the weapon had started to feel but all the tools in Sunbreak have been such an amazing breath of fresh air. Hammer bro for life.

Wow Hammer has so many moves in this game, I was really surprised how much I learned here. I had no idea courage had those ways to get to higher charges.

This is a fantastic guide, thank you for sharing it. I think anyone watching this can tell that you've been playing Hammer for a long time and really understand the weapon. So many people, even those who've played Hammer for a little while (I'm including myself in this group) just unga-bunga with the same three attacks on repeat, and feel a little bored or frustrated with what seems like far less options compared to the other weapons, but this video does a really good job of showing that there's a complexity to Hammer play that's not immediately obvious. Also, your production value and showcasing of each of the things you're talking about are incredible for the amount of subs you have. I've seen people with 10k+ subs on KZfaq put out videos that look like potatoes compared to this. Keep up the good work, I'm sure your sub numbers will Rise (not sorry for the pun) with more videos like this.

Really well done guide. So glad we finally have a good resource for Hammer moves tutorial. Covers basically everything. Well done, man. 13:24 Actually, Focus 2 is enough to insta-charge your 2nd Courage attack

actually incredible video

I'm not a hammer main. It's one of my least used weapons. Even so this guide was so well done I may end up needing to re evaluate the next weapon on my rotatation of grinding out. Excellent video.

This is so in depth, I'm a HBG main, but my secondary weapons are hammer and dual blades. Thanks for the video))

Damn what timing, decided to try Sunbreak Hammer today after maining it in World and IB but not quite getting the hang of it in Rise. Great tutorial!

Finally someone experience do tutorial video and also i really really digging the offer that you put the button for other devices for more clear all control well done you get new sub continue doing other weapons if you play them 😂😊

ZR swings on Courage grant a level of Flinch Free. Really useful when Long Swords are (always) out of position and find themselves trying to split helms rather than tails.

Thanks very much mate. Hammer Fer life!!

Great video

Finally, a hammer guide with a sense of taste. Mid-air spinning bludgeon doesn't get enough love, and all the guides I've seen so far say it's bad. I say they just hate having fun, and KOing monsters outta nowhere.

awesome; you earned a new sub

I don't really know why I watched this(I play every weapon a ton and already knew almost all of the information provided) but it is by far the best weapon guide I've seen, even with the mistakes you corrected in the pinned comment. I think something that a lot of guides miss is that people aren't going to retain the information provided if you don't put it in context. I like that you briefly gave scenarios in which each attack is useful/not useful and took the time to actually show some of the slightly obscure combo chains like being able to level2 charge after most attacks in courage. Also formatting the video to cover each individual move in their own sections is great for players who want to use this as a quick reference, I would have loved if people had done this when I was still learning and looking at guides. I don't know if you play much of the other weapons but I'd love to see more of these guides if you do.

Very informative. Cool.

Thank u ur videos help a lot 🙏

Incredible guide. I have nearly 400 hours on the hammer and for some reason Keeping Sway just didn't click with me. This guide made me try it out.

This was just what I needed! I always only had hammer as a fun pocket pick and didn't fully commit to it. It was always really fun, but I was too nervous about getting KOs so I never committed. In Sunbreak though, it finally clicked and I went from playing GL and IG to almost exclusively Hammer, specifically Courage Hammer. It's SO satisfying, even when I didn't know the nuances of the weapon (that I now know thanks to this video). The Spinning Bludgeon Charge in particular still kind of makes my head spin. From the ingame description, I thought I had to press A to initiate it and it was weird. I even had to rewind the video a bunch for the explanation. The move is weird, but it seems like an interesting option (especially because I avoid the regular spinning attack anyway) I absolutely feel that last bit about slopes though. Just last week end, I had a Barioth camping near an area transition and I kept sliding and sliding. It was pretty annoying. And also carted me once. I kind of hoped there was a trick to it when I clicked on this tutorial, but I guess not.

incredible guide

I'm glad Im not the only one who thought slopes and unintentional / accidental sliding was a problem. It got me carted a few times too.

combining Dash Breaker and Hellfire Cloak is one of the most fun things I experienced in playing MH for so many years

awesome video thanks for your effort

This guide is on part with Arrekz’s guide (tho he doesn’t do guide anymore 🙁) and I love it! Keep up your good work! Also no need to stress about upload frequency, everyone has a life. :)

Great tutorial. I'm surprised you didn't mention the infinite ledge hopping during the ledge attack portion but otherwise, very good video. I was confused by the two charge states for hammer so I didn't bother with it upon starting Rise... Which is fine because I'm now a Gunlance main but I've been wanting to create an elemental hammer build for the Astalos hammer.

"rare problem, doesn't happen to often" I have had that stupid sliding shit happen to me so god damn often. Great video though! Nice to see hammer bro vids.

Very good tutorial. I like how you made it chronological according to the story when you get the skills, but you forgot to mention ledge hammer spam, the thing everyone tried after the TSC videos in MH World lol.

Been maining Hammer since I started in 3U. Somehow didnt know some of this stuff, specifically the spinning bludgeon cutting off parts of the big bang combo, thats kinda busted. Its definitely crazy how different Hammer was in Rise let alone Sunbreak and I'm happy to see someone make a video confirming most of my assumptions of what I've found abt the weapon for the expansion. Didnt know about quite a few of the things for Courage as I didnt mess around with it too much, but ive been using it because of the charged bludgeon attack and it synergize well, so good to know how I can use it more efficiently. Even though I highly doubt anyone uses side smash at all after figuring out water strike, I believe you missed in the video that although side smash isnt as strong as the first move in the golf swing combo it actually has higher stun damage. This of course leads to it being easier to get that stun damage off after hitting some of the charge attacks since its so fast. Traditionally this is how I personally got stuns really fast in old games and it still does seem to be efficient in small windows still if someone may not want to use water strike. Good video tho, cant wait to watch ur other hammer content!

Thank you for mentioning the slopes. My friend thought I am overreacting when I complain about slopes. Now I just wait for the monster to get out of the passage.

Ok that kezu tip is fantastic. Evade ailments, however you can push through a Rathalos' fireballs, but maybe evade roars.

Great and comprehensive explanation. Appreciate it. Btw, what's the bgm though? It's actually so nice

Such a good video thanks heaps

a very nice and detailed video, subbing for a possible Great Sword in depth tutorial =)

Great guide! I never expected to play hammer in rise since I never played in previous games but ended up beating the story with it and really enjoy it, specifically courage hammer since it’s so fresh compared to the more typical style of strength. What fashion is that in the video?

I like Dash Breaker a lot because it allows me to play the hammer like a high responsiveness greatsword. It gives hyper armor and is fun for head-on attacks, and keeping the charge allows for great follow-up attacks. The wirebug for it also charges REALLY fast.

Great guide thnx

ive been playing hammer a ton in sunbreak and I have to agree im always swapping my scrolls around because there are so many different setups i can choose that are fun. Like urself lately ive been really liking having courage on one scroll and strength on the other. I love both styles but i think i like strength more just cuz i love the more slow and meaty feel.