Not sure how many people will see this, but something you didn't mention about the Adept guard for Lance, Gunlance, and Charge Blade that I think is somewhat helpful. After a successful Adept guard, not only can you do the standard counterattack or other Adept actions, you can actually press the guard button again to instantaneously do ANOTHER Adept guard. While it isn't a huge window to do so, this can be helpful for dealing with monsters that attack multiple times in quick succession, such as Valstrax's double wing thrust, though I discovered it myself while dealing with the wind pressure off of Rathalos's flying charge. Again, no clue how many people will see this, but I hope more people discover this mechanic because it makes Adept guarding that much cooler.

You do so much good work for the community. Thanks for making these guides.

00:40 Guild Style 6:02 Aerial Style 6:26 Striker Style 7:06 Adept Style 7:57 Hunter Arts 9:08 Final Thoughts 10:06 Changes 10:22 Alchemy Style 10:56 Valor Style 12:03 New Art 12:38 Overall

Learned more in this tutorial than I did in college

Aerial style lance is stupid good. He never mentions that you can cancel your third thrust's end lag into aerial dodge, allowing you to jump over the monster and do an aerial attack with mounting damage that also leads back into your triple thrust. It's an infinite combo that has crazy good repositioning.

Honestly think you are the best mh youtuber around (don't tell arekkz I said that)

Lance is one of the few weapons in this game that feels like it has to make huge sacrifices for each style. Like SnS, for example, hardly gives up anything for any of the styles. The guns pretty much give up nothing for Adept and Valor. Then you have lance, where you have to give up bread n' butter skills like the counter, which pretty much changes the entire approach of the weapon. It's also the only weapon where they changed the combo for the guild style, at least to my knowledge. I don't know why they treat the lance so differently from everything else.

I really like when you can hear the younger GaijinHunter at like 10:00 and then he passes the mike to his older brother, HuntingGaijin for the changes.

I miss watching these type of videos from Gajin. His freedom unite videos really helped me .

These guides and the demo are the only thing holding me over until MHGU finally releases, thank you Gaijin Hunter!! I probably would have died of anticipation otherwise haha

Your guides are great, but all of your Lance and Gunlance guides fail to mention a mechanic unique to them among all the melee weapons: Both types of lances will switch between doing Impact and Cutting damage depending on whichever the body part you hit is weakest to, the sparks you'll sometimes see shoot out of the impact point indicate that the lance used impact damage instead of cutting damage. This is pretty important since it means lancers can focus on more of a monster than any other weapon in the game. Also the strong poke has super armor iirc (which is something lancers have sorely needed in previous generations) but it's been awhile since I'd played MHG so I might be remembering wrong.

The lance is such an underrated weapon, i never see anyone use it, im a proud lance main

I spent a long while trying to beat Valstrax in the Demo with Valor GS and Aerial CB to no avail. I watched this vid and managed to down him with Striker Lance after the better part of an afternoon. Thank you so much for making such amazing guides

I fell in love with the Lance in MHW and plan on starting fresh as a Lance in MHGU!

LANCE MAINS UNITE!!!!

Love these guides man! I just started streaming about 5 months ago, already affiliate after my first month, and this is my next BIG game to play! I’m super stoked!

Good Tutorial. I'm a Hammer main from MHW. NM found your Hammer Tutorial lol 😀

I love aerial lance being able to run around and close distance with the charge and be super precise with my jumping hits is honestly perfect (also those multihits are too good), plus I have defense for when I get knocked out of the air, I also really enjoy striker, as expected, but valor is kinda interesting too.

"Oh hey an Odogaron Lance. Wait..."

They absolutely looked to Dragon's Dogma for that new Hunter Art. The Mystic Knight vocation had a magick shield skill called "Holy Grace" that healed you when you blocked. Of course, in this case it doesn't matter if you time your block perfectly but still. It's good to see!

Playing Lance since the first Monster Hunter, and I'm still not sure which Style to play. Currently, with about 70 hours in MHGU, I'm using practically only Bushido Style, just because I love the thought of being able to parry theoretically everything, I just need to be good enough in doing so. The Art I mainly used was Enraged Guard, but it often resulted in me using it just as the Monster seemed to lose interest or when the Monster jumped over me etc. (Also, funnily enough, teammates can proc Enraged Guard by attacking you during the block, or even just by kicking you during the block) Then I changed to Corkscrew Thrust, as it seemed to pretty well replace the Charged up Counter (always used that when the Monsters slept, to give them a strong hit when they sleep, but lost that due to Bushido Style), and it does tons of damage. But I'm still unsure and feel like other Styles look great as well. Capcom gave me too much freedom of choice with this one ._."

im a guard lancer and despite the adept counter, i still prefer to run striker for the useful arts and the regular pokes

Played XX but never used lance in it, after mainly using it in world and looking to use it some in MHGU guess I gotta go Striker style since it seems like what I am used to. Lot of good info here, thanks for the reupload! Also, man this weapon needs more respect, it's the ultimate tool for learning new monsters IMO since you can kinda chill and see what they're doing with your insane shield along with gunlance to some extent but you're less mobile. Been playing World online a good deal and never seen anyone else even trying it. They rate it as one of the hardest weapons to use in the game at the beginning, but it makes no sense at all to me.

That square dance bit cracked me up :D :D :D

I was playing the game with this video in the background, and when he put on that abrupt music for the evade steps, I looked at it, thinking "Really? Another freaking ad?", only to find out he was making a funny. Good bait, gaijinhunter. Got me like a Deviljho and raw meat.

That dancing part was really funny, great video as always

Thank you to OP and EVERYBODY here in the comments for all the lance techniques and strategies!

Teach me daddy Gaijin

thanks for this vid, i am now convinced i have to try the Lance in Gen Ult! i usually like Gunlance, Switch Axe and Insect Glaive with a bit of Charge Blade on the side, and sometimes using Bowguns (both types)

I never was a fan of lance but thanks to this video I might try it now

Gunlance for those with PTSD

I’ve been waiting for this, thank you

With aerial lance, if you vault of a monster and it attacks, don’t attack because you will be guarding in the air if don’t do anything.

Will try this weap on the demo. Great vid!

Gonna give the lance a go later on the demo. See if I can graduate from Macao to Barioth level at least since Im super bad as a lancer. Gunlance next, please~ I really wanna see if Im missing any cool moves in Valor style

Always Thank You man 🖤🔥

I'm pretty much set on maiming Longsword in mhgu but these videos are so good they make me feel like cheating on longsword with another weapon!

OH Yeah My Main Weapon

I'm still only using striker i would use guild style but they ruined it with that slow 3rd poke.

The lance is solid like a wall with spikes.

@intro: this is incorrect. the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking about lance is *poke poke poke*

2:09 best part 👣

8:28 It looks like a move Minoto uses when you call her in a Rampage in Mh Rise, except it has a wind/gust-like effect when she uses it

The new hunter art makes me wonder if I’ll want to keep evasion lance. It would be a fun art for online play for sure

I'm still sad that Striker Style loses the charge jump thrust. Having ledge-less mounting options is a great point for the Lance. I still use Striker because I really like using all three arts, but there's that little jump-happy part missing haha. Oh well, still my favorite weapon in every MH game.

Thank you so much for the video it will def help me to become a pro.

For Arial style that forward hop does that have blocking capabilities or no? Cause the animation looks like it does but I wasn't sure. And as someone who's recently discovered my love for lance this would give me some intresting set ideas.

I keep screwing up the time on the R+A counter. Can you still be effective without using it?

With valor, it makes the dash more of an offensive move than a gap closer

Great video, thanks buddy.

Used glaive in gen and loved lance in world. I'm hyped to use lance in genu :D

ibtried using adept lance and its like ..awesome ...ill practice this technique

Nice god guide

Oh my gosh that mini dance montage 😂

That change to guild is so nice.

Hey there! I know it's kind of late already, but I hope I might still get a reply from somebody. I'm not really an expert in terms of lancing, so sorry if that question sounds a little bit pathetic, but is the Striker Style only meant for Evade Lancing? Can I use it for Guard Lancing as well or should I focus on Bushido Style then? I really like the one-two-three playstyle and I dislike the stronger third thrust. Any advice would be much appreciated!

that cat at 6:50 ish had me really confused love that backseat commentary though

I think one thing that isn't said about striker lance is that it (from what I've seen) it cannot counter upwards or is significantly lesser of a chance for it to happen while guild lance is even better for guard lance because its able to counter after the third poke and it can counter upwards edit:my lance just didn't want to counter upwards still hardly does it for me

Great video, as normal! :)

Simple yet effective

Time to Lance n' Prance!

Awesome guide dude

Unrelated but is there any news on upcoming dlc for MHGen Ultimate? Specifically, all the anime-related dlc packs such as the Hunter X Hunter one. I thought about changing my character's gender to female (just because :p) but if that dlc is coming to Ultimate soon, then I might not change gender assuming that the Gon armor is gender exclusive for males.

I hope you will be doing another prowler guide, this is the only reason I will be buying MHGU!

You're so awesome and you're my idol

I CANT MAIN ALL THESE WEAPONS! or can i? Thanks for the info as usual gaijin.(also why you abuse narga so much XD)

They basically made any style but Striker very sub-optimal. Most monsters, especially in the end game, arent going to give you enough time to pull off that strong thrust.

Gaijin, does the Guild Style fully charge counter on a strong attack give 3 hits of 50 MV?

Is the 3rd poke thing at least better than than the regular striker for elemental and status lance ? Or is the lance too slow anyway to consider this option

So I played generations as a longsword, switchaxe, and insect glaive guy awhile back. I wanted to try something new so I picked up the lance. I wanted something I could guard with because the monsters in gen aggroed me to no end with my friends. No joke I'm known in other game groups that also have them in it for the unending aggro. Should I be using the lance or should I drop it and what style should I use as essentially I'm real rusty newbie. I was hunter rank 7 and got a few sets of weapons to max rank if that helps. Also looking for some new friends to play with.

Great video. Will you be doing a tutorial on how to transfer save data from gen to GenU?

Tried Valor Lance on the demo today, I honestly didn't like it at all. I don't really get it. Why would I lose so much for this little shield bash when other styles pack the same or at least similar functionality in generally much easier ways? Lance also isn't really that great at entering Valor Mode to begin with, it's a little slow and clunky in attempting that. It makes the Lance feel a lot more unwieldy than normal. Granted, I'm not much of a Lancer to begin with (I'm a Gunlancer, fittingly enough), so perhaps this combination simply isn't for me. Still, when I do play lance, I'll probably use a different style. And speaking of Gunlance, since that'll come tomorrow, I'm curious to hear what you think of it, especially since you're not really known to be much of a Gunlancer yourself. I've tried Valor Gunlance in the demo and it's just incredible. I know Gunlance has had a bit of a performance issue in 4U and Generations (though the added arts and styles in Generations did help a bunch already), and the heat gauge continues to be divisive, but man. I have played a bunch of Valor Gunlance in the demo, and it is absolutely incredible. I'll save the in-depth gushing for that video, but this style is giving me the confidence to truly call Gunlance my main weapon again. I feel like there's no monster that's out of reach for this weapon anymore, especially after getting a sub-15 mins on the demo Valstrax with it, which I felt was pretty good, especially considering I still made some blunders and carted twice. And playing that with all the added options of the full game is gonna be so very nice as well.

This is for mhgu on switch?

Simply *Delicious*

In case you don't know, the Adept/Bushido counter guard is also (and officially) known as the Insta-block. This applies to the Adept-exclusive guard for Gunlance and Charge Blade as well.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssss. Gaijuns back

Phone audio went to shit. So now i really on captions. And boy it's fun listi.... Reading the captions say "Agent Hunter" instead of gaijin hunter.

Can teammates, such as a party GS-user, still trigger the bonus damage from Guard Rage?

lance gameplay: poke,poke,poke,...

Thrusting is so satisfying and not the dirty kind. :) I just started using the lance in world and now I'm using it as well in 4U and I will use it in GenU. #thrustmastersunite

I really want to start using the lance, but there's a couple of issues that I have with it that I can't figure out. I'm having a hard time deciding when to block. I don't often use weapons with blocking options, but with the lance having the strongest shield I think it's something I should incorporate, but when I want to put the shield down it takes a long time before I can do anything else. Also I'm not sure how I should be moving around with it. Like when the monster moves should I put the lance away, or should I do the charge to close the distance? Can any lance experts help?

Finallyyyy!!!

Could somebody explain me, why I can't Counter? I'm pressing R, A and then I hold R, but nothing happens...

Was the final thrust of the charge attack nerfed in mhgu?

When a new video comes out 5 minutes ago and you watch it and realize that you're the 100th viewer and there's 99 more dedicated people than you :c

Don't all shield attacks have mind's eye?

Gaijin hunter you forgot to mention that Striker Lances Finishing poke after charging got nerfed only doing 67 instead of 70

What armor set is that at 5:37 it looks really nice

To this day, I'm not sure when the Adept Guard actually is supposed to trigger, and I have down Adept evades and beaten the Fry Pan in Generations. It's just such a weird motion...

So is Adept Style not viable for Lances?

Anyone know how farm gore magala nyctgem? I need it to make the shaguru magala greatsword.

Is the striker lance motion value still 70 for the charge attack or has it been nerfed

Man. I hate u (kidding). U show me a Video on SnS, I wana start playing SnS. U show me another one on bow, I get hyped and wana start with bow. Now the lance :-( . How am I supposed to know which one to start the game with???? Every weapon case u show us seems to me that this is it. Btw, the only two monster hunter games I ever played was monster hunter freedom unit and portable 3rd on PSP. Am really soo hyped and confused at the same time.

So is striker or Bushido better?

I do gunlance, but am curious about other weapons.

Is the third strong thrust useless?

Any tips for guard lancing?

oooh so i had wrong guild style on lance while playing demo was wondering why does it leav so big window after combo :> tough has world made me this soft

I don’t know if this is true but in the demo I felt like lance had the quickest valor sheath after an attack

0 dislikes? I came early today. Edit: TO WATCH THE VIDEO