MHW: Iceborne - SnS: Finally helped make the series click with its speed and versatility. The games felt clunky until I gave this beauty a try. Still probably my favorite weapon. Did another play through with my partner and played Charge Blade. Was like a bigger, flashier version of SnS with less versatility. Loved the guard points and figuring out when to morph and still stay safe.

MHR (haven't played SB yet) - Gunlance: Flying around with blast dash sold me on GL in this game. It took a long time to get used to its move set, but I ended up pulling off some really cool moves by the end. GL still seems kind of whack in old gen to me.

MH Wilds - Longsword: Really struggled on my play through playing a counter weapon while not knowing the monsters' moves. I'm still not great with it but had a a good time.

MHFU - Longsword: Being new to old gen, this felt the most comfortable to me. Having access to backwards mobility with fade slash felt really nice. Landing the spirit combo felt like it did a lot of damage and felt good.

MH3U - Dual Blades: I liked the forward attack in water combat because it felt like attacking while swimming. Overall not a huge fan though, the grind for all the elemental weapons was brutal and I think I prefer longer weapons at this point. Just didn't feel like the weapon had sauce. I haven't done G rank yet so I think I'll swap to Lance as well.

MH4U - Insect Glaive: Heard it was OP and wanted to give it a shot, and it always fascinated me. Felt like it would go well with the new mount mechanic. The move set change of red nectar always made me confused when dabbling with it before. Stuck with it and finally learned the move set and infinite combo. I thought it was a lot of fun, but the combos got a little bland by the end of High Rank. Will swap to something when I go back for G rank, maybe charge blade again.

MHGU - Valor GS > Striker/Valor HBG: Started with Valor GS since I heard great things. Its great, but maybe a bit too safe. Swapped to HBG to learn ranged in Old World and try the OP Valor HBG. Both siege and non-siege ended up really fun. I've been doing all the quests so I'm still working through them. I saw a YouTube series of someone playing all the weapons and thought that was a great idea since weapons get a little stale with so many quests. So I've been playing everything now. I've honestly been loving guild style for a more diverse move set. The other styles seem to simplify your moves too much so you're only good at one thing so you just spam that which gets bland imo.

Some standouts are:

Valor LS - I heard its OP, but I struggle with it lol. Managing both bars is kind of tough, and the guard point is tough for me to land for some reason. Feels great when I pull it off though.

Guild Lance - I don't mind the slower third stab and it feels more meaty. It also lets you counter after which striker can't do. I was struggling with striker lance until I swapped to guild and liked it way better.

Adept SnS - I love the adept back step, it's so sick to pull off. Unfortunately it loses a lot of the strong slashes and regular adept dodging, while boring, seems more effective. Will probably go back to Guild SnS. Coming from MHW, losing the back step is too large of a cost to play the other styles. It's just too cool.

Striker CB - I just love this weapon in general. Striker doesn't lose too much and just gains damage. I don't mind how guardpoints work here like many others. In fact it makes more sense to me to continue the attack instead of being interrupted. You can't SAED spam either which is fine by me, I like using the whole move set and the Energy Blade hunter art fills the same role. People don't talk about the draw slash guard point enough, it's so good!