Gun lance is a weapon that really rewards you for knowing the monsters moveset. Most monsters have quite a few openings for full shelling and even when those options aren't available you can always poke shell for reliable damage too. I will say that building for it kinda sucks until post game though. You're kinda stuck using the basarios/hoplite gear until you hit post game where your decorations and gear options just explode and you can start doing crazy things with it, but oh my GOD when you hit that point though it is so much fun.

As a fellow gunlancer myself, have my like! Sunbreak/Rise is by far the best Gunlance iteration ever! Hope they stick blast dash in future instalments of the game!

I love hearing people talking about the gunlance

For me I love the gunlance cus it’s fun to use. Sure hunts might take a bit longer but I love the satisfaction of full bursts and blast dashing to avoid or close the gap between you and the monster. It’s definitely my second main in rise. Oh and it’s fun to annoy friends in multiplayer with wyvern blast. Never gets old

The problem with shelling is it's almost forced to be underpowered. If my shelling combo's are doing as much damage on the head as a great sword, thats balanced right? Well, not really. If I can attack the monster on its head and do as much damage, I can attack worse hitzones and do way more damage than a great sword, because of the shelling's static damage. So shelling needs to do less damage. But that means if I attack a weak spot im not only doing less damage than great sword, but im also not taking advantage of the main strength of shelling. This is the conundrum of the gunlance, its either a weapon that does as much damage as everything else, thus invalidating everything else, or underpowered and unfair to gunlance players. Its probably why charge blade works like an alternate version of gunlance. They learned from what did and didnt work, and made it not only work with elemental options, but made it easier to balance. This all being said, I love gunlance, I even main it. And I really hope one day we'll get a gunlance that is balanced for all shelling types, while still being great at solo, since thats the main way I play.

great vid. In base rise i played a lot of GL and in sunbreak i'm playing mostly Lance. I find it pretty funny that most YT channels talking about Lance still think the weapon uses the triple poke, but this random video about GL gets it right. (though the best dps for lance right now isn't the slap but guard advance leaping thrust and well insta block ofcourse, which is pretty easy to land now after the buff it got in sunbreak)

well it's kinda sucks to build in early, since your sharpness still low and artillery is available after certain time. but once we know what to build, it's straight bombing everywhere and the MR bazelgeuse set is just perfect in rise, got everything we need like artillery + load shells + guard + guard up + razor sharp it's good to go further to the end game imo without changing much, just build different type of gunlances and we good to go

I agree with you. Just got rise on my ps5, and started with hunting horn, but as soon as I saw blast dashing, I KNEW I had to play gun lance. I have something like 850 hours in iceborne and gunlance was 5th least use weapon due to its usually terrible Mobility that makes the weapon unusable in higher ranks and with faster/larger monsters. BUT, rise fixed all that with blast dashing! Blast dashing is infinitely better than charged shelling that it should be the standard for gunlance in the next monster hunter game! Is so much fun! Also the decos for gunlance are way easier to make and farm for, so switching my build was surprisingly easy

Great video, ngl while watching the video I was expecting to see people in the comments saying "yeah but it's easy if you only play multiplayer as you show on the video" or whatever but honestly I'm a GL main solo player, and I don't think the weapon is as bad as people think.

I think my only gripe with this weapon is that it needs something for the shield, it's just so underwhelming compared to lance where you use it a lot more

Im gunlance main since switch rise release and still play just gunlance. Everything you v said is true. And there is one rly cool thing about base rise at consoles right now, shelling is buffed there so gunlance has more dmg then it had first time in base rise.

the Funlance, that it has more than one way to play each shell type is the best part, normal burst, long burst, long poke shell, wide poke shell, wide charge shell, wide no-shell, long wyrmstake focus, wide stunstake focus, switch evade bullet barrage spam, full guard, full evade, guard-evade hybrid, and probably some other i forgot so much stuff to do and mix and match on a single weapon

This is better than any of my GL videos! Nice job.

As someone who has been using gunlance since Freedom Unite, I'm glad we've come so far with what gunlance is now. From pew pew pew to jet noises.

I just got MH Rise myself a couple weeks ago and I've already hunted over 200 monsters using the Gunlance - nothing else comes even close to how incredibly fun this thing is to use and learn how to master!

I only played World and Iceborn. When I firs saw gunlance in the weapon list, I knew: this was IT. The love at first sight. What's not to love? I mean, it's a friggin' WW2 anti-tank cannon with a bayonet and revolver drum. On a stick. And a shield that weights like at least quarter of ton. Ridiculous? Yes. Stupid? Maybe. But damn I love my GLs.

Honestly as somebody new to gunlance (trying to learn the basics of every weapon) I think it's a little weird how little damage shells do relative to just swinging it.

Gun lance main sinces freedom unite. Played through all of rise and just starting with sunbreak using nothing but the GL with no issues. Only reason i even took a break was cause it felt to easy and lost interest. Came back and had a blast. Still have yet to use any other weapon. Even now i am just using the highest normal shelling gunlance (for burst attack shelling spam) only skills i prioritize for my builds is artillery, guard, guard up, and capacity increase, everything else is free game. One thing most don't realize is that each shelling is for a specific play type and does more damage in depending on when the shelling is used. For example normal does more damage when using burst firing of any type, wide does its most when just firing normally, and long does the best when using it for charges shots and wyverns fire, also long has higher stagger. One thing that gets missed as well is that the shelling is doing true damage rather then crit or anything else, the shelling does consistent damage instead which makes it more reliable in the long run

As someone who has played both Lance and Gunlance extensively I'd also reinforce that they play extremely differently. Even from the surface level lance can't rely on that flat damage Gunlance has with it's shells. And while the slap is very powerful now, it's such a commitment in frames to use that 90% of your fight will still be pokes or guard counters when the monster isn't down for whatever reason (sleep, paralysis, stun etc.). And thank god they boosted just about every value including the 4 frame insta-guard because in base Rise you could line up an even more strick 1-2 frame insta-guard to hit twice in a good hitzone... for almost no damage. But to stop ranting because I could talk about how Gunlance has gotten the shaft before, I'll give my best pitch for both for those who haven't tried either in this game. Lance at it's best is hyper offensive despite what you might think by the shield... you use the shield well so your always in position to hit vital areas and at the peak your never sheathing while always being in the monsters face doing significant damage. Gunlance is a swiss army knife where you can choose to go from offense to defense in an instant. Need to just wait out an enraged state while still keeping some damage uptime? Go to safer positions and hit rougher zones with shelling since you won't bounce and you'll get flat, guaranteed damage (and if your a good teammate get the parts that are sometimes hardest to acquire from breaks). Need burst damage for a short opening? Use both a good hitzone for your stabs and add shelling to barrage an enemy, use multiple combo strings to get to a full burst or wyvernstake finisher, or just use the wyvern fire which is a slow but powerful blast on a recharge meter. I haven't played Sunbreak in a while since after clearing up its first Free DLC update, but I hope these weapons are used a bit more by the playerbase despite the bad reputation I think they've had before.

i fell in love with GL in sunbreak, although im still a swaxe main, i pick up GL and GS sometimes for variety and fun

Another perk imo, Gunlance is perhaps the all around best "Part breaking" weapon, only with Gunlance I've been able to get Barroths scalp AND tail in the same hunt, also Wyrmstake is great for tail cuts (if your aim is good). Other benefits include ..... Easiest weapon to cure Frenzy One of the best weapons to deal with Rajang in Kaioken mode Can do insane DPS against the Metal Raths and Espinases when their armor isn't in a soft state And of course, the biggest thing ...... 🌽

Great video. You made some very good points while making me laugh!

I've loved Gunlance since Mh GenU (my first Mh) and am having even more fun than back then

My defense of Gunlance B l a s t d a s h Explosions And Reverse Blast Dash to just guard through attacks

Gunlance is really fun to play. That's why it's one of the many weapons I like using. I cannot comprehend why so many people a) obsessively main only one weapon and b) give a shit about minute differences in DPS between weapons.

Haven't quite tested this myself yet, but I think you can prevent yourself from being knocked out of the air during a Blast Dash by incorporating the Jump Master skill into your build Or use Earplugs, but you do you

As soon as I saw the blast dash, I was like: Imma be a valstrax main xP

Been on since 2004 and fell in love with GL the first time I used one in the franchise.

Even though I prefer regular lance, I do respect a good pew pew pokey stick

all i got to say is blast dash better become a stable going forward lol

am i the only gunlance main that did not care for blast dash? i used charged shelling until Sunbreak, i rarely need to move that fast since the sheild blocks 99 precent of attacks

in MHW:IB, i agree about GL is hella hard to build(if you want to play normal GL/Full burst). at least in Rise GL got mobility from both blast dash and wire bug so it is more comfortable to go unga bunga.

I main the Insect Glaive, but I always have this beast in my back pocket!

GL deserves to be underrated. Capcom has give no love for the weapon, it's much more weak than it was back. I am a GL main since 2014, Rise has made me change my mind, a lot of headache for no reward, just multiple window of vulnerability and no damage reward. I say, you're pretty much right about every point, but in my point of view it's just for people who don't care about wasting more time in a quest, trying to figure ways of doing damage and avoiding damage, while other options just does very much better with less efforts.

best part about GL is that it is the weapon with the most variety of combos and switch skills THAT ALL WORK im a dual blades main we have 2 choices... demon flight and spiral slash THOSE ARE THE ONLY 2 GOOD OPTIONS 1 FOR IFRAM WHILE HITTING AND THE OTHER FOR PURE DPS thats why i only play rise when update drops now it gets... stale all the fun combos got nerfed to the ground to the point that they feel bad when i played GL i had a LOT of fun and was considering playing it more but then went to MH sever gunlance channel and people are mad im not using "slap lance" build saying shelling damage isnt worth it.. AT THAT POINT I WILL PLAY LANCE BUT I WANT BOOM BOOMS and just dropped the weapon (its not the weapons fault but i was turned off from that interaction)

GunLance may not be my favorite but it's the best for humiliating Monsters along with Hunting Horn

I'll play what I want on the little off-time I have In other words, yeah I'm a gunlance main

To be fair I don’t think anyone bad talks the Gunlance out of hate but in fact out of love we want it to be better

When people start complaining about GL, its when I start Bullet Barrage everything. The tinnitus you'd get from the explosions would prevent you from hearing complaints and it's made better when you realize... Flinch free doesn't do shit about BB. Hehehehe.

This video inspires me to play gunlance

I would recommend using a dps calculator if you are going to talk about damage. It can seem like you are doing damage when you are not, and most arguments are based on actual data.

i love hearing commentary of the weapon and the player. there's one thing underrated i noticed, evade extender is a must. try to change my mind.

Great video my man. I feel like the people complaining about sunbreak gunlance is just paranoid about how capcom have been shafting gunlance for years, and hence blinded to how good gunlance actually is in sunbreak. I do feel for them. For the record I think gunlance is one of the best designed weapon in sunbreak overall, I only wish we still have iceborne wyrmstake (my beloved). Ps. As a casual lance/gunlance speedrunner, I feel called out at 4:57

Preach!

gunlance main here it is quite good if you can read the monsters moves to be rewarded the gunlance is also a good in-between of defense and offense i do have to understand why people hate being blasted by wyvern blast though we won't ever trump long sword on interrupting teammates

On you stating that the gunlance is a flawless weapon, I kind of agree but also disagree. It's flawless because of its flaws: its a jack of all trades weapon. It's great when you know how to position yourself with monsters, but GS is in the same boat but its risk/reward seems to be better. It provides great defence at the cost of some mobility, but sns does the same thing with more quality of life along with metsu being baller. It's damage leaves something to be desired, but offers a lot of security. Just like the HH, I think it's a great litmus test on whether or not the player is capable of having/being fun

Idk who it was but I saw someone absolutely obliterate (as far as gl goes) a monster by spamming blast dash into full burst, so saying gl can't do damage is imo just false in sunbreak, tbf tho it's damage isn't as great in base rise

came out of retirement and immediately played Rise after I last played 4 Ultimate, and boy, I'm surprised by the improvements in the funlance gameplay. My only gripe was capcom locking artillery very late in the game, and also them limiting the armor set you can craft for it early on so I had to resort to evasion lancing til I have the decorations unlocked

Used to be a basic bitch sword and shield user back in mhw, then tried out the gunlance for the first time in Monster Hunter Rise and I will never go back, I live and die by the gunlance.

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I remember my first game for Gun. I was playing on a PSP at the time. It's funny that this is the only weapon I've been able to master. I've always had problems with other weapons.

I played MH2U, MH4U, MHGU and MHW I always played gunlance. I tried normal lance and other cool looking ones, like chargeblade or heavy bowgun, as I like to be tanky still I stayed with Gunlance as my main weapon, specially GL with long ammu why? idk really, it just feel like an upgrade to lance, as you have a shotgun in your damm lance xD in world the difference got bigger, as lance can go in train mod, but still: wyvern fire or that oversized pin charge are quite fun and helps to dmg deep parts next is: your shell deal fixed dmg, so if your poki poki does barely any dmg, you can be sure that your shell will still deal some nice numbers //copy from a other video about gunlance, because I don't want to type it again xD

You deserve way more subs.

i used to be a a switch axe main since mhtri, but got so bored with how easy it is. been playing gunlance since world, for the big brain gameplay

I disagree with almost everything you said, with some exceptions. First off, there's no sweet-talking the Gunlance's damage. That does not have to be related to speedrunning or player count. Yes, if you play MP with players of - and I really do not wish to sound like an asshole here, I am honestly sorry if I do - below average skill, you will deal more damage than them IN COMPARISON. That is because, yes, you can just unload shells from behind with Sneak Attack whereas the others struggle with hitting meaningful weak spots. But with the EXTREME mobility Rise grants you and considering the fact that a SwAx or GS or a few other weapons can hit the monster even with worse HZVs and still outdamage you, it really takes a casual to lose this race (nothing wrong with being a casual or playing casually, mind you, no elitist talk here). You might "honestly" outperform something like SnS which is reliant on hitting good Metsus on cooldown and one or two other weapons, but that does not make your DPS great overall. And with the element meta becoming more and more ridiculous while not giving meaningful damage buffs to the GL, the weapon will just fall behind more and more, Singleplayer or Multiplayer, doesn't really matter. In addition, just assuming that your average player has perfect mastery over Reverse Blast Dash chaining while claiming that underperforming is not the weapon's fault while also assuming that the other members of your party don't have comparable skill is quite a bit unbalanced in terms of reasoning. So yes, the data for GL's damage in MP shows that it does not perform worse than other weapons, but that is not because it's not underperforming, it's because most players you meet in MP are, and GL suffers less from that than average. As for consistent match-ups, I do believe some weapons performing worse against specific monsters is just an urban legend. Well, mostly. There will always be some discrepancies, and there may always be "that one singular monster your weapon is super good against for some reason that may or may not apply to the wider playerbase", but all in all mastering the weapon and the match-up should yield sort of consistent results, even if the damage is lower simply due to the weapon being weaker overall. Only very rarely will results differ in a meaningful way just because it's a different monster. Do you even understand how "easy" it is to get constant Insta-Blocks starting with Sunbreak? They nerfed the FRAME PERFECTION that was required to pull it off during base Rise times to the ground. You can be NOTICEABLY late, with your shield almost ready to quit the crucial part of the animation. 95% of the attacks that would've hit you pre Sunbreak will now successfully trigger your Insta-Block. It isn't reliant on skill anymore. Well, maybe a little bit, but even my little niece who is literally nine years old has mastery over Insta-Block, and trust me, she does have a life outside of MH. But yes, I naturally do agree with Lance and GL not being the same weapon. You got to be drunk to believe that just because they both have "Lance" in their names they'd be the same. The playstyles are entirely different. Listen, man, if you like Gunlance, that's completely fine. You don't have to justify your love for the weapon. But it's not "underrated". Many people dislike it not because it's weak, but because the playstyle can feel very sluggish and boring. "Can". That is no objectively true observation, but it's what quite a number of people will tell you if you ask them. There is no "secret hidden formula" that suddenly makes the Gunlance more beloved than it really is. People didn't stop playing LS just because its damage sorta dropped quite a lot with Sunbreak. They keep playing it because they love that it's this cool DMC Vergil anime samurai katana. Personally I hate LS for those very reasons, but that does not make the weapon "overrated".

Me who wants the Gunlance to be the strongest weapon: Can I has more shells and faster animations plz

Whats your current build like for normal? I did enjoy the video. Still love playing it on psp sometimes

every time i play gunlance i remeber a quote. "Hey, kids, you remember I’m a professional, don’t try this at home!"

it is my favorite weapon too, but all the points made in the video don't make it the best weapon, because that is subjectiv. in DPS it is not the best weapon for example, mobility good but not the best, ignoring enemeys defence because of shelling it is the best in that, beginner friendly also not the best, the most fun also subjectiv.... etc absolute statements carry a lots of wrong with them I think.

I dunno why but i picked GL as my first weapon in Rise before even making research about weapons (first time playing MH) but i came to love my Boom Stick a LOT! Fun to play, fun to look at animations and fun to BOOM!

This gotta be satire. Because I can't help but see this as such. Gunlance skills are pretty long. Because you want protective polish or razor sharp. And crit boosting skills. You are talking about what the bare bones of skills to incorporate. Artillery, load shells are the most important to have. Guard/guard up are not that important. Gunlance doesn't play the defense side like say Lance. So gunlance users don't focus into pumping that into builds. Not to mention normal, long and wide can't fit that in without sacrificing to much. You want crit, crit boost. Wex. Defiance, Bloodlust. Wind mantle/Wire bug whisperer to help get your wire bugs back for hail cuter/B.B/Reverse blast dash etc. Evade extender is pretty much mandatory to make Gunlance more maneuverable. And onto the note about gunlance not being weak. I do agree that it's not weak. But it isn't strong enough. To get it to its best form. You'll need to agument with the qurio crafting system. To get lvl 8 shelling that's locked at 141 for lvl 7 and 181 for lvl 6 shelling. Until then you will feel heavily restricted in what gunlances you can use.

Done over 250 hunts with Gunlance in Rise and Sunbreak. Hate Charged Shelling and Blast Dash. They're too slow to even begin, and for their time requirements, they just feel strictly worse than doing literally anything else; I'd rather use Quick Sheathe for convenience and repositioning than fish for "Hope I don't get interrupted lol!" moments with Blast Dash.

Man I hate lance in rise it's so undignified compared to it's older game counterparts insta-block is also the bane of my existence

Man I love me some blast dash ❤

i get your point, i truly do... i love gunlance and the american lance is my second main (first one being switch axe) but you know... having a somewhat high dps even in solo hunts for the sake of time efficiency is kinda important in a game when you are supposed to take down over and over the same monster

wwait i thought it was insect glaive that got shafted

As a GL main myself (its in the name) you really show the ins and outs of the gunlance with good clarity hahaha

Hey dude, been a Gunlance main since MH3U and its so nice to see someone finally shed light on this weapon. You speak straight up facts and GL is better than its ever been in Rise. It's such a fun and rewarding weapon in my opinion. 💖

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Guys, Blast Dash that like button

Gunlance is based as hell

As a gunlance main, my favorite part of the Rise is how they added more than two or three gunlances to the game last year. It was really weird playing through all of the base game and sunbreak with only two options, I don't understand how they could just forget to add them into the game until nearly a year after the expansion released

My friend who doesn’t play the games hates gunlance just because it’s such an insane idea for a weapon

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Just wanna mention how good guard edge is. Like the end lag on that move is so nonexistent that it's definitely one of the least punishing counters in game. It's the only reason I could beat risen valstrax for the first time before I fully knew their moveset. Very underrated weapon.

Funlance is the best one

maybe it's just me but because the gl is such an underrated and unpopular weapon, not many in-depth guide videos can be found and that's what make new gl players have problems with.

Never played rise, but blast dash, so can't disagree.

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