dude im just starting what my mind is being overflown with knowledge i cant comprehend

Also another advanced tip that can make the UED spam playstyle much easier on smaller or faster monsters: You can use advanced morph, not only as a gap closer, but as a reposition tool to put yourself out of danger after a Counter Peak performance that might get punished if you were to UED or AED. Even more so.. if you use Advancing morph and position yourself to the side or the back of the monster.. immediately after it you can tilt your left stick to any desired direction, even backwards, and press the combo buttons for a fast turn UED/AED punish

- The conversion rate of phials into Shield Boost duration is I believe 30 seconds per, to a maximum of 2 minutes 30 seconds? So it's not quite as easy as 'just make sure you put one phial into the shield occasionally', because you'd be doing that a lot, compared to once in a while stocking a red charge and boosting with all 5. - Artillery affects specifically Impact phials and not Elemental phials and should be utilized appropriately and not generically. - Load Shells doesn't boost your phial count at all and hasn't since 4U; in this game it instead makes it so using a yellow charge to stock phials will charge all 5 instead of just 3. Still exceptionally powerful and absolutely a must-have if you're playing in basically any way but Condensed Spinning Slash, but doesn't actually give you a 6th phial or anything. Important to clarify since what it does isn't necessarily obvious at first. - Critical Element is okay, but only really for specifically elemental builds using axe mode; phials cannot crit, therefore if you're using, say, a lot of Ultras, it gets a lot worse very quickly because it cannot affect your highest damaging moves. - Critical Boost and Weakness Exploit are still as brokenly powerful as always but can maybe be bumped down one or two slots more than average on the priority list of you're using phials for the above reasons. Phial focused playstyles will still perform melee attacks and thus get value out of crit, of course, but if you're genuinely just hitting the Ultra button over and over, don't bust your own ass if you can't fit 3/3 of both of these on your build. - Attack Boost always matters, but it matters significantly more for Impact phial playstyles, because Impact bursts actually scale to your raw attack value, which means all forms of attack scaling become much more valuable. Elemental phials obviously run off your element and all of that applies for elemental scaling for them instead. Also... I assume this guide is meant for Base Rise players starting because the game's out on new consoles, and that's why Air Dash, Ready Stance and Firing Pin don't appear at all? For completion's sake (and my own powerful OCD) I'm just gonna jot some stuff down in case anyone is here while playing the expansion already though: - Phial Follow-up: Firing Pin replaces the normal small phial bursts that appear when attacking using a shield-charged Thrust or a sword attack while your sword is charged. Instead of an instant, small burst, the electrical effect will instead linger and stick on the monster; this can be attacked with similar moves repeatedly to 'stack' the effect, causing the electricity particles to grow in size, to a maximum around I believe 7 hits. Left on its own, this will ultimately fizzle and do nothing; however, touching the electricity with your Axe mode during any attack animation will cause it to burst, dealing significantly more damage than the regular Phial Follow-up bursts do. This ends up dealing significantly more damage than the regular version of the switch skill you start out with and is highly recommended if you utilize a playstyle that consistently switches between sword and axe attacks. - Ready Stance replaces Counter Peak Performance or Axe Hopper as your Silkbind plus Right Button attack. You very quickly cancel whatever animation you are doing to enter a guarding state in whatever direction you input. This guard is slightly weaker than normal, and far from the Absolutely Perfect Block that Peak Performance grants; however, what's important to note is that unlike Peak Performance, this does not technically put you in sword mode, as long as you do not suffer a sufficiently large guard reaction from blocking an attack big enough to knock you backwards. This is a lot of jargon to say, this move allows you to block with the shield without sacrificing a Condensed Spinning Slash charge if you have one, allowing you to maintain a charge with your axe even after defending yourself. This move can also combo directly into the second attack of the Elemental Burst combo if you remain stationary on the left stick and press the Right Button, and its wirebug cost is not only 1, but has an exceptionally fast cooldown, meaning with smart play, you can utilize it to both defend yourself and loop your strongest attacks if you are using a charged axe playstyle. - Air Dash replaces Advancing Morph as your Silkbind plus Top Button option. Instead of advancing purely forward, you do a very swift step forward followed by a leap straight up. Unlike Axe Hopper, this cannot combo into an Ultra Elemental Discharge; your only options are to do a basic chop, a unique Phial Discharge which causes you to ride the recoil and dash opposite the direction you attack, or to land normally. What's special about this attack is the combination of having super armor during the ascent, and the surprisingly powerful two-hit swing with the axe that you do during it, which can be utilized with Condensed Spinning Slash to deal competitive damage while powering through monster attacks. It isn't invincibility, you will still take damage, and can easily be killed during this move, but it makes for an incredibly reliable and safe option for dealing consistent damage through difficult-to-manage attacks, and is absolutely incredible in certain circumstances in the expansion postgame, wherein maybe getting hit isn't all that bad if it gives you a status ailment that benefits you in the long run. Air Dash Spinning Axe is a drug I highly recommend to anyone who doesn't find it too repetitive.

A crystal clear, streamlined and well-paced CB guide for beginners in Rise/Sunbreak was much needed in youtube, and I think this is it. Congrats Night, very good video!

Of all the mhr weapon showcases and tutorials Ive been watching now, this one is the best. It has the perfect pace, is informative and doesnt waste time with unneccessary things and repetitions, shows actual gameplay snipplets instead of hanging out in the training area 24/7 and utilized good camera placements like comparrison shots and birdseyeviews. All the other tutorials should take notes from this video here.

Couple of things probably worth mentioning Elements Phials aren't affected by Artillery and don't contribute to knockout making slugger useless on them. Unless something has changed Critical Element is almost useless in Rise and should never be prioritized over the normal Attack/Affinity/Defense skills, and of course the Elemental Attack boost skills are obviously super important for elemental CB Focus and Load Shells are a massive over investment, it's usually best to pick one or the other. Load Shells only takes two levels, so it's kind of nice vs Focus which needs three, but Focus helps a little with the charge slash.

As a new CB player, thank you for this video

Oh my God finally a tutorial that isn't a year old and on switch! I'm tired of transcribing controls lmao

Thnx! Great comprehensive all around guide for new players coming with the PS/Xbox releases

I just picked up the game a few days ago. Thanks, I will use this video. I'm a Charge Blade main.

Nice video! Time to go eff up some monsters with the axe slap.

If I missed anything or if you have any extra tips, lay it down in the comments! Description is updated with the proper Time Stamps for anyone that wants easy referencing! Music tracks also updated as well :) == CORRECTION == Load shells - does not increase phial count but makes it so you can gain 5 phials from yellow gauge. Crit Boost/Crit Element/Crit Eye - Phials do not benefit from crits so AED/UED spamming will not really benefit Focus vs Load Shells - It's overkill to have both. Load shells should be priority over focus. Shield Boost Refreshing - I say you need at least one phial to refresh (which is true), but obviously the more phials you have, the longer the shield will stay up Attack Boost vs Element - Distinction for element decos should be made. Attack boost will benefit both but more so for impact. Build elemental up decos into your set if you're running elemental phials Artillery - only buffs impact phials, NOT elemental phials Sorry guys! My mistakes are usually from going off of old knowledge but I should be more careful about testing meticulously before making putting it into the guide. I'll try to be extra careful but thank you for understanding and for helping me correct the misinformation!

There’s actually a 4th guard-point, it happens when you’re switching from axe to sword mode manually, it’s a very small window where when you draw the axe inwards and the sheild separates from the sword, when you do this guard-point, you won’t go into sword mode, but instead you stay in axe mode, I learned this from world

Fantastic format.

Quality guide. Appreciate it 👍

I started using CB about a week ago in Rise (PS4) after spending hundreds of hours each with the HH and HB in World. Out of the four CB guides I’ve watched, this one has the most information for the time investment lol. Two of them are 37+ minutes long. Though they’re both awesome, they don’t pack quite the concise punch this one does. Thank you so much for this video! Big Ups! Question: Is there a way to go from axe mode to sword mode without using an UED/AED or sheathing your weapon? God I hope it’s not in the video lol. Edit: It is in the video lol. Press R2. Thank you!

Bro that was an amazing guide.

I want an all Savage Axe guide because I love the pizza cutter! Switch Axe and Savage Axe are twins separated at birth!

oh my god no wonder it felt so off, shield thrust into SAED wasn't a thing in GU, it just put you into yellow shield, which stank. I never used it, nobody used it in GU.

3:06 lol you'll do AED if you press back in the stick and if you dont have your shield charged. if not you'll do SAED, i know you're trying to tell it last since it's a powerful move but saying it properly is still the better way to go here since this is a guide

yo buddy! Good video not gonna lie, but ist important to say that the Explosions CAN'T Crit. So Crit Boost Crit Eye etc is only a must have when playing mostly with Sword Mode or Chainsaw mode. But overall a very good Video. Tip: Bloodrite is broken and Burst as well

It would help a lot more to say either top left or right button rather than special and normal attacks. With everything else going on, it makes it super confusing. But nice vid. Still makes no sense to me

Im tryin my best learn this and even with a video i cant get it down 🤦🏽‍♂️ lol

I cant seem to get the axe spinning slash and I'm doing what you are showing. It keeps going into return sword stroke. What am I doing wrong?

What? I remember reading years ago that artillery doesn't increase charge blade damage. Was that wrong or what?

Hey fam, what High rank gear do you recommend for the SAED playstyle?

I have an issue and i don't know if it's a bug but i know "magazine skill" is supposed to give you an extra phial "6" and for some reason i am running around with only 5. I've tried changing things around but nothing and i don't know how to fix that. Does the skill work only for certain weapons? Though it lets me have full charge at yellow instead of red.

Man I cannot figure out how to store the phials in my shield. I’m trying to do the combo but it just does a regular guard

For some reason round slash is not working for me how do I fix that

Do you see CB as a pure solo player weapon? In the group I mostly played in was one guy who loved to play CB but rage quitted many many times because he was hit by attacks from other people in the group which triggered his guard points and so disturbed his combos. Later on he meant that he'll only play CB in the future when he plays alone. I myself can't really work with guard points as I'm not skilled enough to reliable trigger these, same like the small I-frames while rolling to roll through a roar. I mostly played CB with the "Pizza cutter"-Build when someone showed it first at the start of Sunbreak. Now my wife and I play MH together and I just build a set after game8 with the Chaos magala CB, she plays LS so she'll have a pretty long reach and will probably hit me many times XD

Some advice for newbies. This weapon are like the easiest to master while it may be intimidating to learn so don't worry about the combos, just learn the basic moves and you should be good to go!

I can't seem to shield boost even though I'm using the same attacks

I can’t do this I don’t even have a sword Icon I only have ahold and ace all the time what am I doing wrong

you should talk abbout the pizza cutter

You lost me at sword mode 😭

Load Shells does NOT increase phial count.

I thought you were talking about Monster Hunter Rise Cock Block 101 ngl

CB feels so unrewarding in rise compared to world. In world all the extra upkeep and perfect timing CB requires was rewarded with massive damage output and incredible defense to the point people would say a skilled player was OP. In Rise of feels like you are just working harder for no real benefit. I just started using hunting horn instead and it's like quality of life went up.