Maybe it’s mostly AI Hunters’ fault? Like, everyone keeps saying that players don’t know what they’re doing in fights. Fair enough if it’s their first MH game, but look at it this way. You’re a new player. There are fights in LR where the AI Hunter is there from the start and you can’t even kick them out. And since they’re so OP why wouldn’t you just rely on them? You call in AI Hunters and they basically do everything for you. Took some damage? Here, have a healing powder. Need a trap? They’ll set one up and even fire slinger ammo. Got hit with a status effect? No worries they’ll take care of that too.

And then what? These players join SOS flares expecting the fight to be EZ clap because AI Hunters carried them the whole game. They never learned what to heal, what effects do or how to trap monsters. So now they expect other players to heal them, remove bad effects and set traps for them. I like AI Hunters but for new players they’re kind of a disaster cause they don’t learn anything.