CORRECTION: Using the Iai Spirit Slash in Iceborne to counter an attack doesn’t actually give you any spirit gauge levels. That was another thing Rise changed.
Intro: 0:00
Weapon History: 1:11
How Rise Overpowered the Longsword: 5:35
Armour Skills and Percieved Popularity: 10:52
Counter Comparison: 12:49
Solutions & Conclusion 14:57
Check out some of my other videos!
How Monster Hunter Rise Improved Jyuratodus
https://youtu.be/HWlbwLy0XDk
How Monster Hunter Rise Improved Kushala Daora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vDmDmn7Wvj78
How Monster Hunter Rise Improved Rathalos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vZYikyf4b7qM
All the sources I cited in this video, as well as ones I didn’t use but are still a good source of information.
Rise Demo V1 Chart
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KwvlgujvFoTRoG8ONzDdhZbjslZml1x5DZFZ9CXb1jo/edit#gid0
Iceborne Weapon Speedrun Charts
https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunterMeta/comments/f06jfs/average_record_clear_times_on_iceborne_monsters/
MH4U GQ140 Speedruns
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/762804-monster-hunter-4-ultimate/72936200
Another Iceborne Weapon chart
https://iceborne.seiken.io/weapon-tier-list/
MHR World records on a quest by quest basis
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KwvlgujvFoTRoG8ONzDdhZbjslZml1x5DZFZ9CXb1jo/edit#gid1315270068
TCS’s MHW Weapon speedrun analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vGptqQedGTY4&t46s
Rise speedruns per monster
https://www.mhrspeedrun.com/en/cms/summary/1/all/switch/
Why is Valour Longsword so Strong by Herny. Was initially going to cite the video but I decided I’d just briefly summarise how it worked instead. I recommend you watch it because it really does tell you why the Weapon/Style is so busted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vruZVWSmPd6I
More Iceborne leaderboards
http://mhwleaderboards.com/tierlist
MHWiki Longsword
https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Long_Sword
More Rise leaderboards
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KwvlgujvFoTRoG8ONzDdhZbjslZml1x5DZFZ9CXb1jo/edit#gid570182550
Summary of First Wyverian stats from World. In areas of Worlds locales you could find an NPC that gave weapon statistics. This doesn’t give any speedrun insights, but does tell us how used certain weapons were before Iceborne came out
https://steamcommunity.com/app/582010/discussions/0/2521353993645845830/
This person here scoured 1000 different hubs during the peak of MH4U to find out the most used weapons. Not entirely accurate but a good source of information regardless, since I don’t know whether Capcom published or was even tracking weapon usage
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/762804-monster-hunter-4-ultimate/71456019
SuperRads history of the longsword for a more in-depth longsword history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vWiUqjO_FZR0
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