Untrue, I am listening to this while I play Monster Hunter Rise.

Gaijin getting roasted by his daughter was the best thing I've heard all day.

Rurikan: Gathering palicos are selfish! Me: *eyes my gathering palicos with endemic barrage, power drum, shock purrison and healing bubbles*

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE FART SYMBOL

I approve of a spoiler podcast, with appropriate warnings of course.

Nothing like listening to a 2-hour podcast while grinding MH Rise. EDIT: Wow I just got called out lmaoooo

Yuna: "Don't touch the Bow, because you suck at it!" Gaijin: "Umm, yes ma'am" Top 10 Anime Betrayals!!

U guys need put the Khezu scream randomly in the next podcast

Thank you for the spoiler free on the show, I really enjoy watching/listening to the podcast! I'm loving taking my time on my first monster hunter game. Finishing my village quest 3* ahaha

I will never stop wanting an actual chainsaw as a weapon type to take that savage axe feeling and expand on it.

Every time someone captures Nargacuga, i am dieing inside

It's like me and my friend's say: "The fight don't start till ya double cart"

I've been a insect glaive main. I absolutely love the new aerial attacks with the new wire bugs. It feels like this is what it was meant to be for the movement.

Thank you guys so much for keeping the podcast spoiler free! Been playing it through slowly, gathering and doing the hub with my friend! So thanks for that, meaning I can still listen :)

I finally finished the final hub quest the other day so I'd love to see a spoiler podcast next week. I know you both enjoyed that final fight but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and how it measures up to other final fights from the other games. And I'd love to hear your thoughts on what the soon to be released ending will be!

So far my biggest gripe with Rise is using the Wishlist to track upgrading weapons that have the "Upgrade Material Types" section, and it gives that post hunt ping EVERY run for a weapon you can't upgrade. Hoping this will get patched out, and it only giving the post-hunt notification when you can actually make the upgrade. Anyone else getting annoyed by this as well? 91 hours in and still really need to start farming, but I'm still slowly working through quest completion, because must collect all the check marks. Ruri is going to hate this, but I've pretty much played only HBG in Rise so far (114 Hunts so far), I don't even have 2 hunts with any other weapons yet, and just to drive the stake in extra deep, I primarily used Gunlance and Sword and Shield in World/Iceborne with almost no Bowgun use at all. Counter Shot is soooo satisfying and bouncing between Mech and Healing Mech special ammos is interesting.

Hunting Edge has one big advantage which is you can immediately activate it after the third hit of a combo I.e instead of rolling out you hunting edge, can reposition with it and then choose another charge - sweep - lvl 3 or a drop charge if you like. It also has a 'fast' recharge time for wirebug compared to 'medium' for adamant. I prefer it, because I think the aerial positioning helps a lot in multiplayer where the monster moves around a lot more.

Ruri my man, you can impart brutal strike on some of your diablos weapons by ramping up something on the weapon tree and upgrading it into diablos. Ramp up skills can be passed down so you can give it to a weapon that normally doesn't have it.

A new fan to the series here. I tried one of the games on the psp as a kid but I was too stupid at the time to understand the game lol. Now as an adult I’ve fallen in love with Rise and you two gentlemen are by far the most enjoyable monster hunter content creators I have found. I love the relaxed energy and informed discussion, so thanks for making my journey through Rise so great!

Rurikhan: "I think I just killed that Palico" Gaijin Hunter: *has a Palico icon* "... I'll pretend I didn't hear that!"

Having such a good time listening to you while hunting. You are my 2 favorite MH content creators by far. I literally learned to play the game with Gaijin's tutos on MH4 (been playin Tri casually) and became a main gunlancer thx to Rurikhan, i just love this weapon so much in Rise ! Keep up the good work guys ! Cheers from France !

I hated the wide sweep at first, but after a while I’ve come to really like it. It’s nice to see some big numbers with Lance for a change!

"I prefer killing..." -Rurikhan 2021

SnS feels great in Rise, but for me personally, the weapon is even more fun in GenU. I really miss the oils.

In world ruri let his palico burn when fatalis unleashed his breath and now he’s letting the palamutes fall off cliffs for zenny

It took me well over 90 hours to reach the final fight and I still got sets to make and weapons to make and hunts to hunt hehehe I am having a lot of fun glad you guys are too^^

I adore the Insect Glaive in this game. The diving move is super satisfying. My favorite move on the whole thing is the silkbind aerial vault because it resets your aerial jump so you can just stay in the air forever, hovering around the monster and waiting for an opportunity to strike.

I not only listen to the podcast while playing but I even go back through both of your back catalogs of old videos after I finish the podcast. I always listen to KZfaq or podcasts while playing games

I listen to the podcast at work, since I can’t play. Thanks for keeping it spoiler free.

Credit to you and Gaijin, I've watched most of both of your videos and had no idea what was waiting for me at the end of the game. You did well.

Lance has been my main since Tri and I absolutely love the sweep. I love seeing lance do over 100 damage on hits

I laughed when you said people listen to this podcast while playing because that’s what I was doing. You two hav3 something special here. I hop3 you keep this going

I am very glad that you mentioned the fact that everyone Capture’s whatever’s infront of them, thinking they’re doing the team a favor, while they’re actually making it more difficult, and ruining the fun for those that actually just want to slay the monster.

PSA: Be very careful of spoilers! Dataminers are datamining and lots of future stuff is coming out

When ruri was saying most people listen while playing rise I was turning on my switch lol to play rise

I am trying to complete all guild card awards the moment. Even after over a 100 hours I am having a lot of fun. At this point i spent more time in rise than base world

00:01 I've put 140h in the game in the span of 14 days I think I can take a break to properly enjoy my favourite podcast haha

This podcast has become what I listen to every time I play Mh especially when I’m grinding to take some of the edge off it

Little note on the hellfire skill from Magna-kitty: 1. The Hellfire-Mines work like any other status (Stuns, para etc.) they cause a knockdown after a threshold wich increases every time. I got multiple knockdowns with it within a quest by spamming it 2. You get the hellfire debuff back on your hunter as soon as the mine exploded or runs out. So yo can spam it often when your Weapon has a skill to quickly drop it.

You’re right, this is perfect to listen to while I play, and it makes for a great time!

never found such a wholesome youtuber, so dope that you guys are so chill to listen to.

I have 190 hours. My friends laugh at me , say I'm a crackhead Haha. Listening to y'all during release week was awesome. Thanks for all the content!

What I've noticed so far during my playthrough and I don't think people talk about it because it's not too big of a deal are : 1. Gourmet Fish has been changed so now it acts like a Health Booster Gadget from World but also still heals the red portion of your health 2. Throwing Kunai can one shot small Zamite that sticks in your body 3. Normal Smoke bomb is removed from the game

My favourite dynamic dual! Love you guys! Yes I either play and listen to you at the same time or when a stop to take a break to eat I listen. 143 hours into the game now 😁

Well I got something to listen to for my road trip now thats rurikhan.

Yep, this is definitely something I listen to while hunting. I can check out Gaijin’s tips as he points them out like that charm search! Super handy! I know it’s hard on Ruri, but the longer the podcast the better 😜😜. Also, I would be in favour of a spoiler episode with warnings. 6 months is a long time to wait to hear how you feel about endgame aspects!

Hey guys! Love the podcast! Quick story... I was conducting an experiment on world with a low sharpness weapon, bludgeoning, minds eye, high attack/affinity build. Then came Fatalis.. lol I finished this test out here. I was able to put out more damage with the bone LS than Nargacuga LS with wex 3, +10, narga +40=100% affinity, and crit boost 3. I'll leave the rest of the info for your fans and you to figure the build out. 😉

Grinding in monster Hunter is the perfect time to listen to stuff like this podcast and other media. I love to listen to this podcast while grinding, you guys also make me laugh to when I’m playing pffff

I love this podcast it helps me not get bored from farming talismans lol from doing the same quest over and over

That wire bug guard on the Charge Blade is the foundation of my entire set.

The Ramp-up system really popped off for me with the hidden tech that the augment passes over during upgrades, like you guys said. Gaijin mentioned the Diablos Switch Axe and I just checked to see if it had brutal strike but I was let down... to see that the previous weapon in the tree is a Tigrex Switch Axe and it DOES have Brutal Strike. So now I have that brutal diablos SA. So friggin cool

I neeeeeeeed the spoliercast lol I'm so curious about thoughts on the spoilers lol

Hi I'm here the only Greatsword main that loves hunting edge :) it's awesome. Not only it has style AF. You can charge it in the air and the damage is like a level 2 charge. And after you land do a widesweep with A which does also charged damage and from then you can do a true charge !!!!!!! Super awesome. And by the time you finished your combo. Your 2 wirebugs are recharged so you can loop indefinitely. I LOVE IT

1:39:10 Captures do give you more rewards and the same rewards in World. Capturing gives you 1 more reward than the monster normally has carves. So if you can carve the monster 3 times, you'll get 4 capture rewards. If you can carve the monster 4 times, you'll get 5 capture rewards. In Rise and fourth-generation games, captures have a different drop table and give either the same number of rewards or 1 fewer reward than the monster normally has carves.

I'm still playing through the game, finally hr6 and still committed myself too completing every quest before I take on the urgent quest to hr up and omg it is so worth it ☺️

CB main here. At first it was incredibly clunky, but once you get used to it feels as smooth as World's CB. It just takes a while.

Couple things I gotta say. First is on capture/kill, I definitley agree, defer to host. Had multiple people just default to capture in my hunts just while listening to this podcast *groan*. Then needed so flame sacs for a weapon, hunted Aknosom it solo, 2 on the carves!!! Killing is also more satisfying due to never knowing when you're gonna get that final hit in. Second thing, @Rurikhan, don't worry about lance vid, I'll watch XD. I still thank you for getting me to try Lance with your Pillar of Gluttony build. It is now in my top 3 weapons...don't know how I didn't realize I'd be a lance guy, I like playing tanks XD.

i am playing World wit my buddies on pc and watching your podcast on 2nd screen and when i am at work I am playing Rise on Switch,i think i am addicted to monster hunter

1:10:30 I am actually doing this. crafting every armor piece even the ones I doubt I will ever use. I'm about 3/4ths done Then I will craft all the decorations to their individual amounts needed for the max level

Love the shield charge especially with diablos and barroth. Now going to see if slugger would work on the Lance or stamina thief

"They listen to the podcast WHILE playing monster hunter".....He caght me 😱!

About Hunting Edge. First a disclaimer: I was a Greatsword main in previous games but for Rise I just started using it again and I don't have all the switch skills yet, so my opinion might still change. I actually do use Hunting Edge a LOT. I remember in the demo I agreed with you, I just couldn't see any use for it, but now I would say that was because I was using it wrong at that point. I was using it only over long distances, while now I am mainly using it in closer range and imo that makes all the difference. If your window for attacking is too small for the usual charging or if the monster is just slightly out of range, Hunting Edge enables me to close the gap, deal very good damage and even dodge some attacks while attacking, since I am in the air and that potentially all at the same time. Honestly, after getting kind of tired of Greatsword during World, after maining it for a long time, Hunting Edge is the move that got me hooked again. To me it is like that one move that I never knew I needed but I am not sure I would want to play without it again. So there you have it, there is at least one person who uses Hunting Edge :P

On the topic of palamutes waking up monsters... in high rank, I was fighting a basarios, and He walked over close to that sleeping rajang area. It left a few seconds later and I try to summon my dog. I turn the camera and watch my dog running away from a now pissed off woken up rajang.

My favourite parts about Rise is how flattened down the stats ad mechanics are. Armorvalues are very close to each other in those subtiers (early/mid/late LR/HR) so using lower tiers doesn't feel like wearing paper, sharpness doesn't go ham until high rank and even then sharpening doesn't fall to the wayside, gathering is important at all stages, especially for status gunning in the early stages, no slots or decos in LR armor and weapons means no feeling of having to min-max early, etc. ...

As someone who is new to lance but decided to main it I gotta say I love the charged sweep attack. It gives me more options depending on how long the monster will stay still AND it solves the problem gaijin mentioned of lance always havibg the same damage numbers. Also both I wish you could have both the spiral thrust and the silkbind counter at the same time, twin vine is a bit underwhelming. Lovely podcast!

I’d say wait to do the spoiler podcast until the update with the new ending. That way, you have to do only one, and not two spoiler podcasts imo.

In world and iceborne you did get more rewards from capture, you got 4 instead of your 3 carves. Don't get me wrong I like that they went back to the old tables for carves/captures. Also in rise you tend to only get 2 sometimes 3 rewards for a cap where as killing guarantees you 3 carves.

Thanks for that Guide for Zenny Gaijin. It really comes in handy.

14:00 ayyy lance Lance tip: the Spiral Thrust silkbind attack CAN boost damage like anchor rage, you just have to time it like insta block (it glows blue and is +10% wpn damage) (Your guard does have to strong enough tho) Also follow that up with X to do a strong poke or press back+X for a backswipe. I rarely use the charge swipe anymore because I replaced it with the power guard thrust, you can aim that attack anywhere and has good damage plus a 360 block. I also follow up with guard advance and leaping thrust a lot. As a lance main with 115hrs and 89 lance hunts, Switch skills I use are -Spiral Thrust (insta block booster, A+ damage, evade/movement) -Dash attack (I really like the running jump thrust) -Guard (I use power guard thrust in my combos)

Also regarding world/IB, you have investigations with gold tier boxes that have a higher chance of rare reward parts. Hence the faster you clear an investigation the more items you get.

Thank you Rurikhan and Gaijin, someone understands my annoyance with people who only ever capture (or at least a 90% chance it will happen). Sometimes even after the blue icon appears everyone will continue to beat on the monster and then one guy will then capture. That one guy could have captured it 2 minutes earlier but no, they just had to attack it as well, then capture it out of nowhere. Even while watching this podcast I was doing a hunt and the host was spamming a message in Japanese AND English to KILL the monster, and what happens? some guy captures it.

I heard the part where they were saying they've spent over a hundred hours with the game so far. I was like, "Ha ha! They've spent over 100 hours with the game. At least I didn't spend that much time with it." Then I looked my own time played: 120 hours. Now I'm like, "Crap. Where did that time go?! How did that happen?!" My own experiences with people capturing all the time have been frustrating. Infinitely so since most of the time, I'm given eastern players when I start a quest via Join Request (and I don't know Japanese, Korean, or Simplified/Traditional Chinese). I second Gaijin's request for a "let's kill this thing" shout.

Yeah I spent quite a bit of time crafting HR sets for LS, DB, CB and Bow and just now finished the game at 105 hours clocked in lol, It was a really fun experience for my first ever Monster Hunter game.

My assumption/ theory is that chameleos is adding 8Star. It does say unlocks 8 star, chameleos, apex rathalos, and several others. The several others could be all the other monsters that add up to a whole rank.

I'm really glad they talk so much about lance in this one- no one ever talks about lance. I'm not really feeling the charge sweep though, honestly. Yeah, it hits really hard but it throws off my timing often. But the biggest issue Is that as a sweep, say I'm stabbing zinogre in the face- I can't avoid hitting his beefy paws with the sweep, and losing lots of damage compared to triple poke. It worked okay on his back, but it's such a pain to try and hit weak spots with it.

About the lance charged sweep, it can be also used anytime after any shieldbash, so in my opinion it gives a lot of utility to the weapon because after dealing a considerable amout of KO damage to the head, you can chain it into charged sweep, poke, and charge sweep for juicy dps, and rince an repeat. But i avoid using it outside of a shieldbash combo because it leaves me quite vulnerable.

Loved the podcast guys. Bring on the Lance Video. The Lance is amazing once you understand it and needs more love.

This coming out later than usual actually made it a great saturday morning podcast for me. Love that. I'm really glad you guys are so adamant on keeping this spoiler free because I've been doing the game in coop with a friend who doesn't have NSO and our country just went into hard lockdown again, so we've been jumping through hoop after hoop since release. We only just entered High Rank because of it. Somehow, my coop experiences keep getting hampered since Generations. It's starting to get really annoying lol Generations/GU I kept getting kicked for just playing prowler (and I micro manage them, so my build was never the issue) which prevented any enjoyable online time, World, my buddy found it funny to spam Cluster and then ditched me for PC and now a lockdown and an online fee are getting in the way. I'd laugh, because it sounds absurd.

This thing about slaying!!!! I was one of them to capture them - Maybe its the pokemon in me :). But after Gaijin video I realized what i was doing and now I am seeing it clearer - I can see the light!!! lol Thank you for that video Gaijin. It was something that changed my perspective totally. But in all honesty, I want to add this - the game series always seemed to hint to me that capturing is the best option. I was so not aware. (Now I never capture -unless requested to do so and I leave the decision to hosts).

When you got to Charge Blade, I knew what was coming. But once you get the attack pattern down, it is incredible. And yes, doing the Sawblade thing is so satisfying. Gotta charge that shield and then go for the full charged spinning axe combo. The one-liner from Buzzsaw in Running Man always comes to mind. “I love this saw! it’s a part of me, and I’m gonna make it a part of You!” And sleep is absolutely awesome on weapons like Switch Axe and Charge Blade. Because proccing the sleep gives you a guaranteed SAED or whatever is your devastating move that has a long stationary windup to land.

Good discussion. Would be very excited to see the hammer video Gaijin said he was considering.

The Monsterhunter Guardians of Secrets. Who in the world who listens to this potcast isn't already in the endgame?

7.5/10 is my rating. Had alot of fun but I am quite mixed, as a veteran with hundreds of hours in each installment ever since the first. I would not put this as the best or even top 3. For me the top 3 is still - Mhgu -World -Mh4u -tri ultimate -rise (maybe here..) -freedom unite -mh1

So glad you got this up even though Rise is way more important to all of us as you know.

As a long time lance user, use spiral thrust, insta-block and shield charge. It's a totally different playstyle to traditional lance but I feel like this is the best iteration of lance yet. We finally have some flashy moves and higher damage options to mix up the playstyle. Plus guard or guard up aren't really needed because of insta-block and the insane mobility we have. You can still get some pokes in here and there but now we have KO, extra mobility, adept blocking and just a way higher skill cap. The only bad thing about lance so far is the need to spam spiral thrust to speedrun (even though its insanely fun to use and pretty difficult to pull off effectively), and the fact that twin vine is a terrible wirebug move and we can't swap it out. There's some pretty insane speedruns from lancers out there that really show off the potential of the weapon and I highly recommend checking them out.

I figured it out. The huge axe hopper hit is because you donked the very top of the tetra head. I hit the big target on the head and it did over 700 damage withthe first half of my impact crater, and the other half did a bit over 300 damage. That disparity makes me think the target on its head takes a lot of damage

This is the first game that I've used gunlance. I usually didn't like it, but... I absolutely love it now.

51:10 Now that's a lot of damage !

1:29:21 THANK YOU!!! hopefully the dev team knows about this and implements it where we really need it. I was building a set last night and thought I was done until I looked thru my charms again and found one better. This is gonna help so much.

Thanks for kind of explaining counterstrike!!! It was one skill I was interested in but didn't quite get it so haven't tried it out yet! I read the description " Temporary increases power after being thrown off" And I'm like thrown off, thrown off of what lol? But now that I know it basically means when you get hit and sent flying, I am definitely going to have to try it out because that happens to me a lot. I like to play aggressively! I just wish that it was a level one gym in not a level 2!

Man i want this pod daily. Good stuff guys. Loving it

I’ve finished the story, took 100 hours on the dot! I would love to hear you guys talk about EVERYTHING. Especially before the new content update

I'm not gonna lie, I'm not an advocate for Long Sword, but I think that Long Sword is really fun in Rise. I like this more focused on counter approach they are going with. Those Iai counters are really fun and rewarding, I prefer that playstyle over the spirit helmbreaker spam.

I agree i want to hunt Apex monsters outside of rampage. It's been what ive been wanting the most besides more elders

50:54 With CB condensed spinning slash just let go of X as soon as it starts spinning and it cancels the startup animation

18:42 i enjoy hunting edge. For the sole fact that im a glaive main. So.. Aerial combat is 2nd nature to me. Being able to take this very very slow weapon and turn it into "WEEE LOOK AT ME FLY" is amazing in my eyes. And i can combo it perfectly into rage slash.

You can also capture before the blue icon, just listen for the hunter to yell it.

I grinded for every single obtainable Insect Glaive in World and Iceborne because it was the only weapon I played in those games. I take pride in my collection and actually enjoyed using a lot of the lesser-appreciated ones, but I don’t know if I have the heart to do it again. EDIT: That being said, Insect Glaive is the best it’s ever been in Rise; it’s *so* good. I agree with Yuna that the vault does feel a little different though. EDIT 2: Disagree a bit with Gaijin on the Kinsects. I think the Kinsects are way better in this game since they have more distinct advantages. Some are fast and extend your Triple Up, some gather 2 extracts and attack with your glaive, and some auto-attack and produce dust. There’s a lot of variety and flavor, and they allow you to focus on different parts the weapon.

People talk about Zenny shortage, meanwhile I'm spending all my Kamura points on Rhondine's rare supply of 10 Dash Juice - costing 600 Kamura points each

I like charged sweep for waking monsters and when they are staggered or exhausted, it’s just risky to fit in during early fight.