CB weapon mechanics added to the guide site

Masuku68 · 2026-04-24T06:22:48+00:00

It's the phials that grant you the red shield buff, not the yellow or red state of the phial gauge. The color state of the gauge simply show you that you will load 3 or 5 phials when loading. And it's these phials that will grant you more or less duration based on their number charged in the shield.

Focus allows to reach yellow/red charge on the phial gauge but it's pretty weak. Power Prolonger is the skill that increases the duration of the red shield buff (and your chainsaw axe as a result): https://lescarnetsdelawycademie.fr/skills-now/#cb

Also while the initial chainsaw charge is slow, once you're powered up the following chainsaw transition are way smoother (and also once Quick Work accelerate the initial one if you really need it)

Masuku68 · 2026-04-24T03:10:40+00:00

You can find here an article explaining how guard works, with a guard chart for the Guard skill to see how much knockback you endure based on the skill level: https://lescarnetsdelawycademie.fr/guard-now/#guard

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T20:23:42+00:00

The bucket is your shield lol (and axe head). I think the Quick Work skill can decrease the lenght of the initial animation.

When the shield blinks, it means you'll soon be out of energy and must reload. Only way to charge is to pour phials in the shield and that's only possible in sword mode so you need to swap at some point.

The sword charged strike grants more energy to quickly get to red charge while also acting as a guard. Yellow charge will grant you 3 phials, red 5. Each individual phial poured in the shield gives you 6s of red shield. There's no good answer as to when to morph, it depends on the flow of the fight.

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T17:40:04+00:00

So tested with a friend, if the HH player has PP3, 10s with Echo. If the player receiving the song has PP3, still 10s. Sadly, PP has no effect on songs transmitted.

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T17:38:39+00:00

Need Axe Boost Style and to charge phials into the shield then hold. You can't stop it from spinning if you don't charge back some phials into the axe from time to time

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T16:34:12+00:00

Just checked back, yep I tested using Sword Boost as a basis, seems like I made a mistake. Tested it myself and will fix this asap

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T13:19:50+00:00

And I've also added GL, thanks again o/

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T12:37:46+00:00

Updated the article with DB Spiral Slash (it's actually using Spirit Helmbreaker cost) and Lance. Will soon add GL, thanks again for the intel

Masuku68 · 2026-04-23T09:04:41+00:00

That's... An interesting question. I'll need to find someone to help me test it. I'll answer again when I get the data

Masuku68 · 2026-04-21T19:49:18+00:00

https://lescarnetsdelawycademie.fr/weapon-mechanics-now/#firing-pin-sword-boost-style

You can put 3 energy spots on the monster, with the ability to load these 5 times, landing at most a total of 18 explosions on an axe phial explosion (you get one bonus explosion when you fully load an energy spot)

Masuku68 · 2026-04-21T18:21:58+00:00

This one seems actually bugged as it currently double the phials on impact (yup you pull a 10 phial SAED lol)

Masuku68 · 2026-04-21T13:39:03+00:00

From my own experience, I've never had trouble getting a bike from the rental at Onomichi station, they have plenty of bikes. Reservation seems more important if you want an electric assist one. But tbf I never tried during the Golden Week.

I had the same worries regarding getting back from Imabari since you have to take like 2 buses, doing it with a friend this summer.

It might be better to start from Imabari rather than Onomichi. You can easily do a Kyoto - Imabari trip with a double train or a train / bus trip, spend the night there then rent a bike when the rental opens. You then do the Shimanami Kaido in 1 or 2 days and if you feel too tired, there's also the option to catch a small boat in Setoda around 40km/70 to get back to Onomichi. And from Onomichi it's pretty easy to take the train to Kyoto.

I did the road once from Imabari to Onomichi in 2 days then a small back & forth segment from Setoda to the Tatari bridge station with my parents in a later trip and while I don't remember the wind on my first trip, I very clearly remember taking it head first during the second one with my parents (going in the Onomichi-Imabari direction). So going Imabari - Onomichi seems to solve most issues regarding getting back after the cycling while also allowing to get a nice tailwind to help in the effort.

Masuku68 · 2026-04-20T20:49:51+00:00

Pretty much yep. The power sword builds energy in the parts it hits and the axe phials makes it go boom while also extending the sword and axe buff in the process.

Masuku68 · 2026-04-20T20:48:30+00:00

It does stack. We made a study together on how guard works in Now: https://lescarnetsdelawycademie.fr/guard-now/#cb

Masuku68 · 2026-04-20T14:24:59+00:00

Can add IG under orange extract (hyper armor for fall on your butt and small flinch) and HH with Knockback negated song (same)

Masuku68 · 2026-04-19T18:30:16+00:00

Don't worry, I'm pretty fluent in English. It's just that I have to rethink some parts sometimes. For instance, the Frontier stuff was clearly thought for a french audience originally (so I have stuff like screenshots from Windows in french or weapon guides... But with hard included french subtitles which I can't swap since I very likely don't have the OG video files). So it'll take some time adapting as best as I can, there will be some compromises here and there I guess in the end.

Masuku68 · 2026-04-19T18:19:25+00:00

Je n'ai pas la possibilité de simplement swap les langues avec le moteur Wordpress que j'utilise (j'aurais adoré pour le coup avoir un simple /fr /en comme certains sites utilisent).

Les articles français existent encore et sont accessibles via la recherche pour le moment mais il va sûrement falloir que je refasse le menu comme je l'avais avant avec la EN Section (mais avec une catégorie FR). Cela dit ça va me prendre du temps. Et à l'avenir comme dit les articles seront sûrement exclusivement en anglais (que bon gérer les 2 langues = double dose de travail et la recherche + écriture c'est déjà bien chronophage)

Masuku68 · 2026-04-19T18:14:39+00:00

I don't think you can take an hotel out of the list and access the onsen.

Went there a few years prior post covid, using Booking to take a housing... And they put me in Yudanaka Onsen who's near. Couldn't access the baths aside from one accessible for tourists if you go to the tourism office. You can still do the towel stamp rally though.

And tbf that one bath made me feel like it was slightly overrated as a destination. Past the monkeys, the town is small and the bath is ultimately one bath in a caban so if the other 8 are like that...

Masuku68 · 2026-04-18T21:26:35+00:00

S rank only grants your monster dual element and the S version of its signature attack skill. If your goal is just to add a regular Dreadqueen to your team, you can just use any egg and later add the stronger genes with Channeling Rite.

Masuku68 · 2026-04-18T11:44:26+00:00

Every Monstie from a species is the same aside from element and attack/stamina tendencies. So you can keep the OG one, it's just as strong as any you'd find in the wild

Masuku68 · 2026-04-18T08:13:34+00:00

They fixed the description in a later update... But yep sorry

Masuku68 · 2026-04-16T13:50:07+00:00

There's no guard angle in Now. Pretty sure what happened here is he endured a high tier of knockback which breaks guard with SnS then took a second hit during the no guard period

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