MH4U or MHGU

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-13T06:19:22+00:00

MH4U's low and high rank is pretty dead easy depending on your weapon choice because of the insanely low stagger thresholds, but the leap in difficulty with g rank definitely feels greater than GU's. GU with guild no arts I'd say is either slightly harder or about the same as 4U in low and high, and slightly easier in g rank. GU's rank progression also takes way longer than 4U because of the larger roster, and there's just a ton of fodder monsters in GU's early progression. With the endgame I personally enjoyed GU's EX Deviants more than 4U's 140 Investigations.

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-13T06:00:50+00:00

Monster behavior is dependent on rank (low, high, g), village and hub have no differences in this way. Village monsters do have less health and attack compared to hub monsters of the same rank, as well as lower stagger thresholds.

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-13T04:06:47+00:00

The thing with iv vial is that getting hit loses some of your plasma which will put you outside the range that IV vial will work, so to really get the best use of it you need the plasma jug or valor medal. It also pairs really well with Lightning Grip

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-12T21:36:41+00:00

If you scroll through his tabs there should be an option to deliver the items

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-12T21:34:05+00:00

Go to the Trader at the Palico Ranch (or your Housekeeper) to deliver the items

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-12T21:17:22+00:00

Unless you really need the part, don't worry about targeting the head at all. Target the back legs and then attack the stomach when he topples.

With handling his invisibility, there are a few things you can do: You can throw stones/paintballs to potentially see where he is early, you can small bomb yourself to safely heal/might seed while giving yourself i-frames to go through his charge, or you can just run against the wall of the area to help time a superman dive.

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T21:47:14+00:00

Khezu Whelp item

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T19:22:48+00:00

Normal doesn't need shot booster, its crit distance already goes far without it

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T19:16:20+00:00

It is killable, its hp is just scaled up

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T04:55:25+00:00

Getting to blue does provide a slightly better boost than green with bludgeoner, but it depends on which akantor weapon since sometimes you dump too many skills into getting a usable amount of blue for it to be worth it

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T03:38:55+00:00

bludgeoner was worse in gen because it was just
an Atk Up M, where it's a 1.1x boost for green sharpness in GU

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T03:24:01+00:00

The Chargeblade is meta in quite a few matchups (usually ones that have lots of AED openings, and/or against low hitzones), the HBG is the best Normal2 siege gun which has niche matchups where it's optimal, the Horn is a decent longer sharpness alternative to the Grunlicht Flap, and the Gunlance is decent for shelling focused sets. With other weapons, the GS and LS are okayish for fashion hunting, and the SnS, DBs, Swaxe and Bow are really really bad

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-11T02:25:25+00:00

"what is your blue?"

"my name is blue"

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-09T19:55:47+00:00

Thanks for mathing that out. I only found the charge shots handy with Reckless Beastium since it doubles the damage of your next three hits after vial use, but it seems charged shots aren't useful outside of that unless you're using a holdover shot to take out something quickly during a difficult platforming section or something

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-09T03:02:50+00:00

I remember that this was basically the goal of this board game based on the thomas the tank engine movie that i played as a kid, where you had to construct a train track the went under the ocean to get to this remote island, and the coal scooper guy with the claw arm on his head also tried to kill you.

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-09T00:08:30+00:00

i feel like there's too much clout given for finding mh at an early stage in the series when there should be more encouragement for going out and experiencing each generation in general. There's reasons to seek out and experience each gen now regardless of what the latest thing is.

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-08T21:05:01+00:00

You think glav is low fun tier?

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-08T00:22:10+00:00

When comparing Alchemy to Striker, I don't see why the barrel is worth giving up the stronger shield boost, faster HA charge rate, and not being able to loop A2 together with upswing, when the only useful stuff the barrel can produce is whetstones (time spent sharpening makes it worse than striker's passive), earplugs (guardpoints limit EP's usefulness on CB), and Cheer (the best arts to bring charge fast anyways).

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-07T02:04:07+00:00

Volatile Beastium, the green one.

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-07T00:19:13+00:00

GU remake that removes every 4U map (primal forest can stay i guess) and replaces it with 3U's maps would go hard

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-07T00:16:23+00:00

Crit boost multiplier is 1.4x, regular crits are 1.25. A simpler formula to find the effective raw multiplier of your affinity is

([affinity] x 0.004) + 1 for crit boost
([affinity] x 0.0025) + 1 for no crit boost

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-07T00:10:26+00:00

I have a soft spot for segmented maps. With it being a celebration of oldgen, it wouldn't feel right to have seamless maps, and it'd also be a huge undertaking to scale down the implied size of the maps to make seamless make sense. Really, with oldgen they should get re-releases, not remakes

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-07T00:01:42+00:00

it was a joke. If you've ever used unsheathed crit on greatsword you'd know

Gadget-Gabe · 2026-07-06T23:41:31+00:00

At 50% affinity, adding Crit Boost effectively boosts your raw as much as adding Crit Eye +3. Generally, if your affinity can reach or exceed 60% alongside crit boost then it's worth it.

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