My buddy mains charge blade and I main switch axe. Basically I use an axe that turns into a sword, and he uses a sword that turns into an axe.

"You can consider the Ultra Burst kind of a consequence if you do not pull out" --GaijinHunter

1:00 Concepts 1:42 Guild Sword 5:11 Guild Axe 9:14 Charged Axe 11:53 Shield Charge 17:09 Guarding 17:44 Review 18:28 Striker Style 19:32 Aerial Style 21:00 Adept Style 22:23 Hunter Arts 24:15 Final Thoughts 24:48 Changes 25:08 Alchemy Style 26:09 Valor Style 28:14 New Art 28:38 Overall

Things you missed in Valor style: - In Axe mode, you can hold Y then press X+A to use super/ultra as a cancel attack, both in and out of Valor. - In Valor mode you can use shield thrust after a dodge. - In Valor mode you can press A after a shield thrust to do Alchemy's auto charge. - In Valor mode, pressing A after phial charge will go into Elemental 2 instead of 1. - In Valor mode, Blue shield doesn't give mini explosion after a GP, which makes it somewhat worse than red shield when going against certain monsters. - Even tho you lose the GP after the round slash, but that's in SnS mode only. You still get that GP when morphing from Axe to SnS.

Whenever someone asks me how much fun the customisation of playstyles are in Monster Hunter, I always go onto explain the simpler weapons like the S&S, Lance and Great Sword, then I describe the Charge Blade and the sheer whiplash that they suffer is beautiful.

I’d like to note something about the energy blade art: the damage itself isn’t great, BUT the part breaking potential is insane! 90% of the time you WILL cut a tail, break a horn/fang or clip a wing. The animation can be a bit weird trying to connect if another part of the monster gets in the way though

My brain hurts learning this

I've been watching the GU tutorials again for fun, and the nostalgia in this one hit hard. Having mained adept charge blade all through generations and valor charge blade through GU, watching this brought back a lot of old memories

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"Once you are in Valor mode tho, the fun begin" This is turning into a talk along series and I love it

A new thing I stumbled upon today, that wasn't covered in this video: In Adept Style, after an adept evade while the weapon is sheathed, another option besides X (to draw into downward slam), is to do R+X+A to draw into Elemental Burst II. Love this series! Fun and *very* informative :)

28:13 ahh, the one signature Art that foresaw Iceborne's iteration of the Charge Blade

Honestly I have nothing but admiration for the design team behind this weapon. Such an incredibly technical weapon, in the hands of a pro it's like watching poetry in motion. I'm an sns main, but if there was one weapon I would wish to be a pro with, it's the charge blade.

FYI guys there are followups after the brave evades. In sword mode you can immediately do a shield thrust after the guardpoint dash, and as has been pointed out, you can follow up with the charged double slash, without having to rely on valor stance to access it. In axe mode after a valor step you do a very quick side chop with x, and with a its the same thing but with a phial discharge. Really useful to get the combo going or get a few quick hits in Finally brave stance in axe mode x+a and you can do the AED, but it has a much quicker windup. Its useful to know it's there. It also builds up a nice amount of valor gauge. In brave, phials charge much faster. I think brave has something like innate Focus but better. A shield thrust into double slash brings you all the way in the red phials, really encourages axe play.

Striker w/ Overlimit & EnagyBlade "Ore wa Gundam da Raiser SWORD!!!!!"

Thank you! This tutorial really helped me improve my game.

I remembered hunting Molten Tigrex with the CB the bravest way I know how. Stunning him with Guard Points . It was so satisfying ending the hunt solo. Now I have to relearn the weapon again!

There I was looking for something to watch As I almost gave up I got a notification and I was saved Immediately clicked and screamed a little in excitement

Thank you Hunter Dad, bless you and the funnest weapon

I had no idea about the sequence of going from storing vials straight to an elemental axe swing, and I realised I've been stunting my dps in other aspects aswell, thank you for the very useful info

Just now I recognized the Soulseer CB in the thumbnail. LOVE the design of this weapon; most Deviant weapons are basically just tweaked repaints of the basic version, but Soulseer's Charge Blade looks completely different from the standard Mizu CB. Also, recently switched from mainly Guild CB to Adept CB and am loving the heck out of it. The moveset doesn't sacrifice ANYTHING that I use routinely, and the Adept Guard is just too much fun (plus how quickly it activates red shield mode).

charge blade logic: complexity = power

that comment about the healing slash explains so much about your mhw tutorials and reviews. Also we really need styles and hunter arts in mhw. Hopefully that comment about new moves in iceborn was refering to arts or styles.

CB is my main ever since 4U, I went nuts with Adept CB in XX last year, and now I wanna give Brave CB another shot with GU and go absolutely nuts with it as well

I fell in love with this weapon at first sight in mh4u demo i wouldnt get a chance to play 4u until later. But i used it in world and now seeing in generations/gu some how made me love my favorite weapon even more. I am calling the sword art giant lightsaber mode now. Thank you capcom for this beast of a weapon.

Solo'd the demo Valstrax with Valor CB, so much fun! Thanks for the guide, good for pointers when GU releases! I never played Gen so great tips here!

When in valor mode, if you hold A after a sheild thrust then you can do the charge for the double slash without having to do the valor sheath.

Valor style has to be my favorite for the CB. You can get into valor mode super quick and you also get the dope GS fast side step. It's just so much fun to use!

The reason I fell in love with charge blade is because of one simple reason. S H O T G U N A X E

Thanks man, I've been waiting for this video all week, amazing work as always!

Thanks a lot for all your weapons tutorials, quality and infos are always there!

Man, after a while I realized I was just hearing, but didn't retain any info at all. Too much, back to sword and shield I guess lol

Gajinhunter: you can no longer super or ultra burst from a guard Mhw charge blade: allow me to introduce myself

Honestly, i don't touch at all the charge blade on MHGU... this video show me i was wrong ! the valor and striker looks pretty good, thanks

There's so much content in this game you can always go back to it when you get bored of grinding anomilies or something.

3 daayyssss!!! So hyped!!! I actually just started college and this game is perfect for table top play in my dorm when i have free time!!

I've been AMPED for this upload. ;)

I was considering playing cb but i really liked the red sword mode like in mhw. I might play sns instead. Great tutorial though. Excited to play mhgu

Charge Blade mechanics are so much fun! thanks for the tutorial.

Been watching all your monster hunter GU vids, and to this day, they are simply amazing, thanks man and keep it up 👍

Just picked up the game for switch after 600 hours in world, IM SO EXCITED

I just got a switch so now I just need to buy this game 🙂

Just remembered the charge blade guide in world being a 40min video and it gave me a headache just watching this. btw im a charge blade main in world

Adept Style + full Rustrazor set + Fulgent Annihilator/Gant Blade/Authority Telelblade + 10 KO 3 slot charm + artillery novice = fantastic axe boom boom comfy build. Been trying it out against Savagejho, Rajang, Furious Rajang, Ahtal-Ka, Valstrax, and it is just fun. I've even been able to KO/trip monsters that normally couldn't very easily in Grank hub quests and get to enjoy seeing my teammates wail on the monsters.

Love the vids, missed two things. 1, you can shield jab right out of a valor dash. 2, the new finisher to the elemental loop attack, that can be done with the R button.

the biggest nerf in my opinion is the inability to charge from corpses in this game unlike other games but you can charge phials from the monster's death animation that and the aed/saed shortcut from shieldbash both missing in this game specifically but restored in world and rise. you still got the sideswing out of a charge but it eats up a phial takes longer to get into position for aed too.

After watching this video a bunch and not giving up finally learn3d how to charge my shield and vials and what discharges are

I definitely need to pick this weapon up and learn Valor mode, it looks insane and like a lot of fun! Would be useful for solo so I don’t have to worry about my friends :) And I’m thinking of going sword and shield or maybe lance as a weapon for team hunts. If I go lance though I’ll use anything I can to make sure the monsters attention is focused on me using the right charms and armor abilities . In the wise words of Reinhardt from Overwatch, “Stand behind me, I will be your shield!”

I've been trying to do the Shield Thrust in Striker mode, and now I why I couldn't after watching this video. Thank you!

Damn I kept trying to charge my sword like you could in MHW.

thank you Gaijin 👍 still coming back to this

This is a great tutorial, thank you!

Basically, Valor CB seems to be for speed runners or for those that like heavy offense, while Alchemy CB is more for casual players. Really good guide btw, GaijinHunter!

As a CB main, this was a lot of new info! My main takeaway was that 4 CB wasn't as strong, and the Valor step GP.

I started to learn charge blade a few weeks ago in XX and dropped it due to the complexity Think im going to pick it up again after this video!!

So excited for the mhr update that I'm just watching all this old stuff to satiate myself.

Thank you for this tutorial, I can't wait to use this in real life. i'm planning on visiting Amazon this week😁

Great stuff! Do you still recommend Aerial and Adept, or does Valor take the top spot for your Charge Blade style of choice?

The only weapon that has ever just made sense for me.

ITS COMING BOYS!! Brace yourself for some MONSTER HUNTING

Just want to throw this out there gaijin,sir u forgot the instant charge attack you can do that by doing a shield thrust press A you'll be able to instant charge and it's super helpful hope this helps to all those valor cb users.....🤗🤗🤗🤗

I went from 3U to World to XX so I thought i had an idea of what CB would be like in older monster hunter. Then several rank 1 quests and an absolutely useless CB tutorial mission later I was wondering how the heck the weapon works. I checked a bunch of written guides and none of them gave accurate info, whenever i tried using the combos listed they didn't work. Randomly though, they WOULD work and for a moment it would feel like i was playing World style CB. Finally a friend linked me this and my reaction was "OOOOHHHH I get it now, there's just a slight issue with how VALOR COMPLETELY CHANGES EVERYTHING."

Yes! Another video I will watch now, later and when ever I have a question later on 😁

Hey Gaijin, first of all thank you so much for this video, your tutorials are amazing but I have a question, yesterday while trying Valor CB, when I went into Blue shield and blocked an attack from the Maccao the shield had the same recoil as if it wasn't charged, are the guarding capabilities really the same as standard red shield?

There's also AED Valor cancel attack by pressing Y and X+A.

this is the one i have been waiting for charge blade is so good. :D however after seeing all the other videos i might have to try more weapons out

Amazing review as always I cant wait to try this weapon style out

It’s been years and I still don’t have my degree in Charge Bladeology

the fact that valor cb makes it have mhw charged shield and that you can now do aerial super instead of only aerial ultra makes me happy since in mhgen i had a hard time dealing with the changes

im a CB main... but the only styles i could use are guild and valor style learning the advantages and disadvantages of striker style makes me wanna try it even more

What's the benefit of using guard points over regular guarding if they both give you the mini explosion? I remember guard points being very important in 4U, but did the mechanics change for Generations?

I just wish I didn’t have to watch 7 hours of these videos to understand every style for every weapon in this game damn

Thanks for bringing me back to big ol boi status. A few days and I'll be G rank again.

I wich there was an actual chainsaw in the game. Capcom: here you go!

That pickle did not have a chance!

Nice, i didnt sleep for this :v

Just got the game. My brain is overheating with this much information.

Nice little tutorial though I personally think the ultimate attack where you use up your phials and charge shield can be great, the down side to me is it's a slow wind up and most of the monsters aren't gonna stay still for you. The way I see it, only use it when the monster is stunned, trapped or exhausted basically if you want a guaranteed hit like you said not an attack really for spamming. Same for energy blade though I'm no expert in the game. I use guild style since that's the one I'm uses to makes it easier to use for me. I can see the healing phial having some use like healing while dealing damage to monsters cause I always take a lot of damage and use up almost all my healing items. In short it all depends how you use them, thats what I believe but like I said I'm no expert I just found about those arts yesterday and I just learned about red shield today from you so yeah.

Watching this after the MH Sunbreak CB video got released makes me realize what CB could have gotten

I know I'm a but late to the party, but healing phial art was buffed. It will still buff your shield when you do the round slash for the heal. Also, higher levels seem to heal you when you fill your phials as well for a faster heal, though I don't know if that heal is an aoe as well. Further testing is required.

I love this weapon. I main it in World so it's fun to see how it plays on Generation.

I can easily say that you done a wonderful job at explaining the CB!!! *obvious CB main*

Im currently using CB as my main weapon, but as MHGU is my first MH game, I do not know which weapon I should spend my resources onto crafting and upgrading, as I do not wish to waste my resources, I hope to get some proper guides as to which weapon and equipments I should craft for CB

So one thing I don't think he mentioned is, you can do a shield jab out of a valor evade, then chain it into a charge slash.

So still no morph attacks after Adept Guard and Adept Evade? That's a bit disappointing, but it's still so much fun, I won't complain too loudly about it. :)

I'm pretty sure that with Valor, you can sheath cancel to the Super as well with X+A, which gives you a ton of valor gauge. Edit: Yes, you can do a Valor Super. While it's not the end-all-be-all, it doesn't take longer to do than a normal Super. Also, when in Valor mode, you can sheath cancel into a Valor Ultra, which feels much stronger than a normal Ultra, so that might be something to look into.

I'm very hyped to play CB in MHGU.

Something to note which I’ve found: it’s possible to get the yellow charge in adept style by using the ripper shield

in summary: valor mode+any weapon=OP

One thing you didn’t mention with valor style is that you cant do a charge attack from idle during valor mode but you can go right into the charge after a shield thrust. I love that cause shield thrust is my favorite move in the game.

thank you for the instructions! it's really helpful :)

My friend plays support cb by using the phials up thing, the buzzsaw for quick charging, and healing bottle. I’ve had runs at things like alatreon where I literally never have to heal because he can pop a heal out of his ass every 30 seconds

You forgot to add that the Energy Blade gets a 200% part breaker bonus.

Makes me want to try CB that new valor move looks like a damn hammer just so great

I use charge blade in world and I absolutely love it. I have a huge obsession with monster Hunter cause I played Tri on the wii but was a little to young to comprehend it. It sucks cause now that I wanna play the older ones I can’t cause there only on Nintendo consoles and I have nun of those. I want a switch so badly

Anyone remeber this mh4u trailer with this charge blade user that invented alchemy style by just throwing stuff in random bottles?

i’m a gunlance main, and i decided to try this weapon out of pure curiosity, to see if it’s as confusing as everyone says it is. it is lmao- but i’m starting to get the hang of it and this tutorial helped a lot :)

26:04 u know gaijin was just too happy there

Already liked the video as soon as I pressed play! ;)

Why am I liking these charge blades and their animations more than mh world?