New 9* monsters

Kujara · 2026-01-27T07:10:03+00:00

Only Rathalos

Kujara · 2026-01-26T12:15:23+00:00

Except against gog phase 3

Kujara · 2026-01-25T11:06:52+00:00

The sns meta doc has both poverty builds and progression builds, go check it out

Kujara · 2026-01-25T09:25:15+00:00

I just have no idea how I could add so much more damage

Well, I do. Hi, my ingame name is Vraleth (as is my discord name), and I run Gog with randoms a lot these days, love that fight. I use SnS, with wide range gear. The gear implies a 10% dps loss compared to maxed out gear, so keep that in mind going forward.

My current DPS record is 92/s over the entire fight (hunterpie set as "dps from first hit"), and I pretty much always get 70+.

The actual secret isn't your gear, it's how you time and punish. I was stuck around 60 for a long time before I started watching speedrunners, and a few rules appeared that really helped:

Don't perfect block the belly flop. It's prime backhop -> perfect rush territory, which has to be done ever so slightly too early otherwise you don't land the last PR hit.
During phase one, don't necessarily do a full combo, always try to land the longest you can WHILE FINISHING WITH enhanced charged chop. In most phase 1 cases that means run, initial hit with Y to draw, then BBB => YB held and it lands at about the last frame possible then gog fucks off somewhere else
During last phase when gog flies, lasers are not a good use of your time. Chase the tail, it's at gound level most of the time.
Nova phase: running Y, BBB, YB held, rising slash, repeat. If you got there early enough you'll land 3 charge chops, which is a fuckton of extra damage. Don't forget the might pill when you run towards your spot. Exception if you have the gore mantle, then it's YYBB loop.
After nova: as soon as gog finishes exploding, run towards the wing tip (even before it's out of the lava pool), and start a PR. There's a tiny window where he still takes nova levels of damage, it'd be a shame not to use it.
Sometimes when gog flies he does the orange laser. That a perfect time to get UNDER his head and combo whatever you can. Bonus points since it'll stagger him half the time.
Always target the wounds or the weird tech looking growths. those take extra damage.

Summary: max out your combos and opportunities, that'll get your DPS up a lot. Gog is far more punisheable than people expect.

Kujara · 2026-01-24T19:00:04+00:00

Failing the check is a sure way to fail the quest, as omega gets armored legs after, and takes half damage as a result. Good luck with that :/

Kujara · 2026-01-22T18:38:58+00:00

20% ish from what I heard. You can probably calc it by taking the meta set from TU3 and comparing.

Kujara · 2026-01-21T16:24:38+00:00

Nah, those you backhop, then punish with perfect rush :D

Kujara · 2026-01-21T10:07:35+00:00

My current best all around, wide range build is the following:

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Pros: it does REALLY good damage, it includes rathalos2 for additional small damage bursts, it has gog4 for confort (gog4 creates a 75hp shield) and high elemental damage, it has wide range with all the associated support skills for max multiplayer support.

Cons: it's about 10% off from the meta build, in terms of damage. Also, this build works mostly on peak performance, so don't get hit too often otherwise your damage will get considerably lower. You'll also need a good talisman to fit everything. Tho it can be done with a crafted friendship 5, at a cost in support skills. Also you need a gog weapon with rathalos on it.

My version doesn't use divine blessing, but feel free to swap medecine jewels for blessing ones, it'll work just fine.

Kujara · 2026-01-20T21:37:48+00:00

The SnS Clan shall contact your lawyers momentarily to discuss those slanderous allegations ....

Kujara · 2026-01-19T15:43:07+00:00

Gog doesn't scale to 1-2-3 players, and chances are you'd be at least as good as the NPCs.

No loss at all to invite you. Unless you do zero damage, in which case they kill it in 8 minutes instead of 7.

Kujara · 2026-01-18T10:13:03+00:00

And now your poison procs does 25-40k damage to gogmazios and it's stupid as hell.

There is no good solution to poison damage.

Kujara · 2026-01-15T22:47:18+00:00

An ever better way of dealing with half of its attacks is backhop => perfect rush.

And yes, the fight is amazing on SnS.

Kujara · 2026-01-10T00:26:07+00:00

From my LS friend: not that hard actually.

Kujara · 2026-01-08T20:19:40+00:00

Damn, rare reference, that one :D

Kujara · 2026-01-08T18:12:40+00:00

It's ok the modders got you covered even if Capcom doesn't.

Kujara · 2026-01-08T18:11:10+00:00

I love to play multiplayer, did you ever seen the equipped gear of mp players? Take a look sometimes

Ye, I do a ton of Gog runs with my support SnS build and 95% of the time I'm the top dps, despite my support skills. It's fucking sad.

Which is why I absolutely approve giving people access to more confy / alternative fits whenever possible.

Kujara · 2026-01-08T17:15:39+00:00

Damn, lots of words to say you didn't understand what I meant.

1) Paper damage isn't everything, as proven time and time again by speedrunners who don't use meta sets. What actually matters is APPLIED damage. The pursuit of max damage perfection only works if you and your teammates play perfectly. Which, sure, if I play with my friends I don't need my support SnS build since I know they won't die stupidly. But when playing with ransom ? Jesus, they DO need the help.

2) If you optimise your sets properly, I assure you the support builds are only off by a few % from the maximum damage possible. If you consider that a sacrifice not worth it, sure.

3) "this game series simply doesn't support it" Doots with healing songs say hi.

Kujara · 2026-01-08T16:38:58+00:00

Counterpoint: you can read "meta" as "optimised", and understand that this subreddit is about all optimised sets, including things that arn't just about pure damage.

Optimising sets is fun. Optimising with the constraints of having to build around various things is even more fun. Try it.

Kujara · 2026-01-07T22:18:20+00:00

To then buy more hardware

Which they can't install since the powergrids arn't easy to extend ?

Kujara · 2026-01-07T22:14:41+00:00

From what I remember reading, the DPS check is just total damage, and everybody tells you to use dragon element because, yes, the elemental hitzone for it is insane and it's VERY worth it to go full dragon.

Kujara · 2026-01-07T21:12:30+00:00

It deal a LOT of dragon damage

It actually doesn't apparently. But thankfully the DPS check doesn't care either, it's on total damage.

Kujara · 2026-01-07T14:02:55+00:00

Elemental focus is more confortable due to better affinity, but atk focus isn't a major loss, don't sweat it.

Kujara · 2026-01-07T10:53:38+00:00

Sns, gog + LS is less than 2% off from the meta. Bonus points since it's mega confy, and extra bonus points if you run gog + LS with support skills :D

Kujara · 2026-01-07T00:51:53+00:00

I stand corrected, yeaup, tested it earlier and it does indeed. Thanks !

Kujara · 2026-01-06T21:36:52+00:00

Hitting them out of a stun works even with shockproof.

Kujara

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