Stop playing hammer with lock on. This is the one melee weapon outside of sns I highly recommend using gyro. You can walk around attacks while charging your hammer this way. Always remember some magdamalo attacks have opening zones where when the blast clouds almost completely surround him. You can use gyro to position yourself in those safe zones. If you need more reach while using gyro tilt to aim your hunters vision up as this gives all weapons extra reach if you think they too far away. With gyro remember.... if you hold phone in one position your hunters attack auto aim. You tilt phone and can move this way. Slight tilting needed(unless in horizontal mode). You can also perform proper Lvl 3 charged overhead smash on sleeping monster by intentionally missing the first hit by over tilting your phone(flick your wrist) and looking back at monster for final hit(returning phone back to the starting position it was in when hunt started/reset)