High Raw vs High Sharpness in Monster Hunter

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[@MonMoon2]

Raw with red sharpness is best, we all know that.

[@jhiatt1516]

Monster Huntress as long as you’ve got minds eye you’re Gucci!

[@ToasTFresh]

*Bludgeoner insensifies*

[@Dave_Chrome]

@@jhiatt1516 *cough cough apex monsters*

[@XenojinHayabusa615]

Hey Monster Huntress!

[@darthplagueis13]

Unless you are playing dual blades or Gunlance...

[@rebelredshirt_2188]

"I bet you started with world" 🤣🤣🤣🤣made my day

[@NeocrimsonX]

Lmao

[@apihmohd]

The one with in game hours really hit me hard 😂

[@LoskiBroski9352]

Worldsperms obliterated once again

[@caboose9843]

@@LoskiBroski9352 just be glad we got into the series. before world, i had never even heard of monster hunter, and thus wouldn't be playing it, even if i would have loved the series. but thanks to world, i have 1300 hours on it, and am planning on getting a switch just for mhgu

[@ding_dong9639]

Me irl

[@exitioregem8466]

So thats how hunters know the stats of the weapons, they have a label on the back, it all makes sense now :)

[@Shaymin0]

It's like the tag to a T-shirt. My charge blade is dry clean only? Who knew!

[@ArekkzGaming]

Really awesome video man!

[@oopsiexistnow]

Arekkz Gaming fancy seeing you around here

[@opsedopsers9874]

@@oopsiexistnow ikr

[@taleteller4266]

What's your opinion?

[@wolfnews1788]

I can tell you are a true intellectual, not from the math or anything, just that you used a bass as the higher raw HH

[@Datenshee]

First scene summs up basically all of the reason why i dont share my builds Edit: great vid, skit was hilarious and spot on

[@jintaker113]

What's lock picking lawyer doing here

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

It's why I do not tell people in the Discords or Sub-Reddits I play Prowler. Been playing this game series for over a decade and there has always been some fuckass with 3000 hours in every game there to tell me that I don't have good TA numbers. It hasn't changed since MHFU and it won't change in the future.

[@nyalan8385]

Ikr, I shared a bow build I made in world that didn't have true crit element but instead had Cons 4, stam surge 3, health 3 and divine bless 3 along with crit element and element acceleration, and everyone insisted it was the worst thing ever because it had 11% less damage than a meta build with true crit element.

[@ascended8174]

Raw vs Sharpness Me using the coolest looking weapon: Uhh...

[@bau9894]

me with my dango dual blades hiding in the corner..

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

God bless Layered Weapons.

[@evanfehring7488]

"You typo your own name?" That made me really laugh

[@witchBoi_Connor]

*opens with sharpening a guitar* HECK YES, HORN BOIS RISE UP

[@lilwyvern4]

Real horny bois only ever play _sharp_ notes.

[@Dave_Chrome]

We all know that element trumps raw Sharq Lance op

[@Hernyy]

Dave Chrome that lance is one of my favorite lances since Tri. I was sad that it wasn’t in World lol

[@Dave_Chrome]

@@Hernyy Even though my post was a joke, doesn't Gravios have some of the highest defense (lowest multipliers) against raw, and insane weakness to water? I think I've actually gotten good runs (I'm actually trash at runs outside of World and Ivory Lagiacrus) using high element weapons against it.

[@darthplagueis13]

It very much just depends on the weapon class. Since elemental damage isn't based on motion values but simply a constant that is added on top of the rest it is much better on faster weapons with low motion values like Dual Blades or Sword and Shield than it is on slow weapons with very high mv's like Hammer or Great Sword.

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

The worst monster in the entire series is black gravios. Pure water element is objectively better against black gravios than any combination of raw and high sharpness. The better your weapon is against black gravios, the less time you have to spend fighting black gravios. It all checks out. Also yeah, in almost all cases water is better than raw on gravios (black and regular). In GU, against regular Gravios, a water GS does more damage than a raw GS before its chest breaks (eg Crit Draw, Crit Boost, Water Atk+2, crit element plesioth watercutter vs crit draw, crit boost, crit eye+3, attack up medium massacre blade, powercharm and talon on both, no other attack buffs (other attack buffs would be flat and drive both ends up equally so they don't matter, only included charms because everyone has them), the plesioth GS will outperform it at breaking the chest, at like 260 damage per draw level 3 for the plesioth blade vs 245 for the xXx_massacre_666_demon_xXx blade), though over the course of an entire hunt, despite the high break point and two-part break of the chest, a player who consistently hits the chest will probably do more damage per hit on average with the raw option thanks to the enormous raw weakspot it gains after its chest is fully broken- Albeit by much less than you might expect. Same goes for hammer. But for EVERY other BM weapon, and maybe every gunner weapon (not sure about HBG), water is better than raw for gravios.

[@Dave_Chrome]

@@vitriolicAmaranth Interesting calculations. The thing is... _I actually like Black Gravios._

[@Yistern]

Truthfully, this debate gets even more complex with the inclusion of affinity, where it's a triangle gauge between all three qualities.

[@Sunaki1000]

Not realy, your just calculating the Enddamage. As long as you not including possible Builds, Sharpness+1 and co., its pretty easy to find the best weapon. More worrysome is then the Sharpness you got is very short. Niblesnarf DBs zB. Good Raw, massive Element and white Sharpness for highrank, but it goes to green superfast.

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@@Sunaki1000 this is something I see from a lot of new players who chase damage numbers. Your DPS is gonna lower if you gotta sharpen all the time. You won't see this mistake from elitists tho. They make the mistake of relying purely on TA numbers assuming that every hunt is gonna be populated with optimal builds who have mastered a monster's patterns. Bud, I hunt with randos online. If the damage is competitive with white sharpness and it looks good, it's good enough.

[@Sunaki1000]

@@JimJamTheAdmin sure you dont have to use the best one. In Generations, Astalos and Kirin are the best DBs depending on the Monster, but Lagi, Zinogre and his deviant have good Stats as well. Also Attackpower is usefull but there is no shame in using QoL Skills like light eater, ore Evasion.

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@@Sunaki1000 something I had to learn was that depending on the hunter and their playstyle, skills like Evasion and Sheathing can actually be DPS increases that are unquantifiable by regular damage calculations. I always slot quick sheathing on Lance if I can just because I finding myself sheathing a lot and that's comfortable for me.

[@Biggest.H]

1:48 "I bet you started with world"

[@Deaga]

I literally only now noticed it's Herny rather than Henry omg my life is a lie

[@henriquemarques4903]

1:17 I haven't heard that song in so many years, that's an instant like. THANK YOU!

[@johntaxpayer2523]

whats the song name?

[@henriquemarques4903]

@@johntaxpayer2523 it's actually Thank you. Look up "bleach ending 1" and you'll find it.

[@DarkHeroCC]

*Long Live MHFU's Purple Sharpness!* We were so happy back then, and yet, most of us never realized it... Alexa, play despacito

[@nileydam2253]

DarkHero Gaming Channel I know I see you in most monster hunter videos, but i wasn't expecting you here

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

"plays Despacito off his comically oversized bagpipes"

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Yeah, purple in MHFU was exciting! Now... Kinda meh...

[@GoatFelon]

Immediate +1 for the Val Habar music

[@Ravemaster620]

For some reason, I love crunching numbers in this game. Thanks for the video Herny

[@Dw7freak]

Another thing you have to keep an eye on is the length of the sharpness. Having a sliver of purple sharpness with a weapon that blows through sharpness, like Dual Blades, isn't going to sustain the damage like if it had long white sharpness. An example of this from 4U was the difference between the Insect Glaives the Hellruin Glaive "Omen" and the Bounding Dalamadur. While the Hellruin Glaive was the most used Insect Glaive because it had 270 raw, high blast, 2 slots, some affinity, and purple sharpness with Sharpness+1, the amount of purple and white sharpness on the weapon was miniscule and it didn't even have any white sharpness without Sharpness+1, either. The Bounding Dalamadur had 300 raw, good blast, 1 slot, and enough white sharpness without Sharpness+1 where you don't need to sharpen most fights. Yes, the Bounding Dalamadur may've had less raw after the sharpness modifier, but because it didn't need to sharpen as often if at all, it was easier to stay in the fight.

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

Actually hellruin was only preferred early-in-life because bounding dalamadur only became available through legitimate means in the last or second to last month of free dlc. Bounding was always preferred in both TA and random lobbies, both in Japan and internationally, as soon as it became available. But yeah, the reason was that you lost more time sharpening the hellruin than you gained from having a little more raw and some purple, and you even lost the raw advantage on bounding being able to build something other than handicraft.

[@Sunaki1000]

Sure, I myselfe play DBs what burn throught Sharpness like nothing, and there are multible Situations like this. Niblesnarf vs Mizutsune? (Vanilla Gen) Rajang vs Ivory Lagi? (4U) The Quality of the Sharpness wasnt so important after all. Still prefere Crimson Ig whit Razor Sharp and Handicraft.

[@codster76]

1:20 I was half expecting you to say "I'm a gunner".

[@justthere845]

Dude you play guitar. Me too Love the mh4u music in the background, brings back some nostalgia

[@alainr.29]

I know this isn't really about the topic of the video itself, but I love that Pkm Gen 4 jazz in the background.

[@WisdomAkpan211]

Yea, noticed that too. Gotta love the jazzy Pastoria City theme

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

I lean more towards Sharpness than Raw, though only because I hate having my attacks bounce off at the worst times. Besides, almost every weapon I use is Seregios, so what do I know.

[@Dave_Chrome]

Hey, Seregios GS will always be godlike. Sure, it's not exactly the best speedrun weapon but the ability to easily sustain purple without needing sharpen is incredible. Think of all the arena quests...

[@an_ordinary_goose]

Same, higher sharpness for me just means less sharpening every time - since I've been using gunlance and getting used to charge blades, they eat through sharpness frightfully quickly

[@tylermacgregor1320]

I’ll always prefer a high damage weapon because I can still stack some handicraft and a purple sharpness boost in on top of it and it’ll ultimately end up doing more damage than a weapon with a native purple sharpness. Only time I ever find myself using a native max sharpness weapon is if it either already has fairly high damage, like the Tigrex weapons or the Wyvern Ignition, or if I just like the way it looks, like the Odogaron insect glaive in World.

[@camil3545]

*Doot Doots in Hunting Horn* Bounce? is that even a thing outside of 4U's Apex monsters?

[@Sunaki1000]

@@camil3545 Garugas Tail, some Parts of Basarios, ect.

[@MaestroNox]

Damn, my boy pulling out that Poncho Anubis cosplay from back in 3u

[@MrNamenamenamename]

WHERE ARE YOU I MISSSS YOUUUUU MAESTROOOO I need more sns love

[@Hernyy]

you know I had to bust out BOTH of my panchos for this

[@xxandnoww]

Funny and educational, just how it's supposed to be. 👌🏽 Dope vid as always bro~🔥

[@JAPANESEno]

Absolutely beautiful. Useful information and fun (dat intro). Love u!

[@nicholaslewis6182]

Good vid Herny. People huh end game meta for speed runners as the end all be all to play. There a lot more to effective building than sharpness or raw imo

[@BANDEV89]

Exactly some times you need to sacrifice a lot of power to stun lock the monster or to make the run more efficient etc but at the end you will destroy the shit out of the monster and you will make far better times than the original sets

[@MagusDouken]

I always feel like the AMOUNT of sharpness gets neglected because, yes, you got Purple, but if it only lasts for 5 hits, then where does its benefit actually comes from if you are not devouring through your whetstones and time sharpening...

[@monsterhunter3ultimateplay527]

Absolute readiness

[@_narrows]

1:28 what is this song and why is it giving me mad nostalgia?? Edit: It's Bleach ed2. got dayum

[@helloguy58]

High Raw, Bludgeoner, and Mind's Eye DEseRvEs A meNTioN

[@timtimber5271]

I know this comment old af, but sadly bludgeoner didn’t scale well in G rank

[@ErickGTRZ]

i appreciate the choice of music in your videos. The Pokemon music throughout the video and the 4u caravan music in the beginning really set the mood

[@yamatorisan]

1:50 “Bet you started with world.” 😂😂😂💀 love you dude ❤️

[@alep8765]

Incredible intro. Congrats on the whole vid. This is high quality content, keep it up!

[@JeffGranja27]

1:31 Herny turned LongBeachGriffy for a moment 🤣

[@Doos]

Nice one Herny ! While this is true for GU, world is quite the different beast thanks to master's touch. You don't have to choose between both if you don't lose sharpness. You can then just go for raw. If they don't change how this skill works or introduce better skills, i don't see how iceborne will change what we are currently seeing for raw weapons

[@brightsuperstition]

To add to your hunch about MHWI keeping the nerfed purple sharpness modifier, the guy directing MHWI is also the guy who directed MHXX. I'm sure he has a lot of the experience he learned making MHXX that he will carry over to MHWI. Excellent video, by the way. Straight and to the point. Also, I usually don't enjoy attempts at humorous skits, but I liked yours because of how accurate it is to real world community arguments in Monster Hunter, especially that bit about how you're automatically discredited in an argument unless you have four-digit-number hours in a given Monster Hunter title.

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz__]

For sure the best combination of entertainment and information in all of MH youtube

[@Zadamanim]

love that outro song, in case anyone is wondering its thank you by home made kazoku

[@fredrickwheeler6852]

Great video! Intro was hilarious and info was all good. The conversation gets even more complicated though when you consider the potential for purple to cut through some things white don't. Some enemies white is even potentially dangerous against and purple can save your life (yeah yeah, get good argument is applicable, but the statement remains true). Same thing with quantity of sharpness. I'm more pro-purple than pro-white, but if I'm only going to get a couple hits out of purple then I'm better off with a white weapon that has higher stats than having to sharpen every 10 seconds lol. Especially since I'm a huge fan of dual blades and they just straight hemorrhage sharpness.

[@baloonman5]

Loving the skits man, keep up the great work

[@SantMuz]

Nice to see your back man!

[@robthoelz]

This video might be over two years old but it still has the best intro by far

[@bailleewilson6910]

literally subbed for the intro made me laugh so hard

[@SwordsmanOrion]

All the MHW only players confused at what purple sharpness is.

[@-mazio-9440]

Haha, relatable

[@celeste5932]

IICcceeeboornnnneee willl reveaaalll the keeeyyyyyyy

[@pickletrickle4230]

@Tyler Coona form beyond super saiyan god blue, super saiyan god parple :V

[@AntiTako]

Only played mhw, got 600h already...

[@KrazyKanzo]

Do t got to gatekeep man. Even if someone started with world, in sure it doesnt take Sherlock holmes to figure out what purple sharpness might be...

[@MykeBatez]

Dude, really killing it with the videos recently. Love what you’re putting out there :)

[@SaltySteve2]

"I'll bop you with this" same

[@patheticminister6398]

Playing mhgu again after 2 years and rewatching these videos is just so goddamn amazing

[@tristan3387]

I wasn't expecting someone doing the same thing as me lmao

[@Jotaaaa_]

LMFAOOOO "what you got a hernia?"

[@tgfnc]

This man's editing and music choice are top notch

[@RandomQuestNPC]

If I can't see damage numbers, every wahpon is good! World is pretty much the first MH where I don't bounce back and forth between multiple weapons of the same category depending on monster. (Non Elem boost being one of the major reasons aside from damage numbers, since I always tended to switch between elements depending on the monsters in previous entries. Yes, even with hamma.)

[@xer0o0HASSAN_CHOP]

I love purple sharpness specifically more than any dps with my felyne melynx DBs since it helps with the status multiplier more than any raw source. It still feels good helping my team get 3-4 procts per monster

[@3rdPablo]

"Herny... what, you got a Herny-a" Broo 💀

[@vicconstantinesilvestre9939]

Whenever i see Herny posting something new, I always go back and watch this video.

[@JoCoHo]

"I bet you started with world" hit pretty close to home

[@merrickdougherty9082]

I literally would have continued to search “mhgu Henry” if it weren’t for this video

[@jimmyting1103]

You know your editing is simple...but good...i love it

[@jovemjack4697]

Little did we know, that Gold Rathian would have; high raw, affinity, deco slots, poison and good sharpness...

[@kreeetures4854]

Bro this was hilarious and informative!!! Great job

[@アキノサイ]

Your videos are always so entertaining, thank you.

[@caseyking8394]

I like how Hunting horn players are arguing about sharpness when the real sell is the songs

[@CloudWind0643]

Facts I can’t use a horn with a bad song list

[@1034486]

Bro that skit was too good nice vid

[@mthwr]

This channel ia gold ! You earned a sub Herny !

[@bensterWasHere]

Dammit I need to stop stumbling across such quality channels. My subscription list is getting too huge. Subscribed to u btw

[@AndrewLee-hp6zz]

Hey man it’s Andrew from JHU CTY days. I was just scrolling my KZbin feed, and was like “wait, I know this guy..” congrats on getting so many views on this vid. Awesome!! Love all the music and memes in the vid

[@jorgeramirez2930]

Love your videos bro. Keep up the great work

[@Nazhull]

sometimes I come back to this video even if I watched it many times, its just this good

[@MaadLuck]

Still feel like this is wayyyy funnier with old world. I realllllly hope they keep the forced loading screens, monster variety, good designs. And lmaoooooooooo i love this vid intro

[@BeefLorde]

Bro, THE SECOND I heard THANK YOU!! by Home Made Kazoku, I smashed that subscribe button, excellent taste my guy

[@harrymcnally4290]

That opening argument was literally you and James on SHU team, the “nonononono” gave me flashbacks @herny

[@BlinJe]

Two minutes in, huge grin on my face. subbed.

[@collyqually6486]

Watch as Herny teaches Herny and Herny about sharpness

[@umbertozucchino8640]

The intro is just perfect

[@NextDevin]

How come I didn´t found your channel earlier. That vid is hilarious nice work

[@1Strawbs]

The intro is gold

[@bryanvang9862]

I see you are a man of culture, playing Home Made Kazoku

[@BionicLightandShadow]

I actually made a spreadsheet to compare sharpness modified damages. By the time you reach the 300s a white weapon with 20 more raw does just a little over the purple, with 30 more vastly exceeding. Now this doesn't take affinity into account but I just wanted to know how hard a regular hit strikes. So in the opening scene argument, 360 White guy is right, assuming they can each maintain their respective sharpness and have similar affinity values with their weapon+armor skills

[@devin5201]

It all comes down to the final number after the multipliers.

[@LuisRodz87]

Good job man very funny, what was that tune at 1:18? Was that Bleach I cant remember but it brought back some memories.

[@AndreasWilfer]

You got me at "Typo your name *I really did though*"

[@princessjello]

Loving everything in this video.

[@kuroshidusk4432]

affinity gang

[@lauregami]

i love how the two Herny's are rambling over each other trashing the third Herny but they say "this man's probably not even a veteran" at the exact same time

[@themystikone]

Thank you for playing Thank you by Home made Kazoku

[@Warm_Ice0]

My man didn't have to roast himself that hard

[@Dave_Chrome]

Let's go Akantor weapons Let's go Oversized Bone

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

Speaking of hunting horns, afaik they're the only weapon where the best raw option (deviant uragaan) is actually best used with bludgeoner. The best raw CB is akantor iirc, but you just build that for phial damage, not bludgeoner. Also on the offchance anyone wants to point out that the most popular raw horn in TA is deviant arzuros, I actually ran ASS for the best possible set for each horn using any legal charm, and not only does uragaan's horn come out like 2% stronger after buffing, it has AUL vs AUS on the arzuros horn, making it that much better for multiplayer as well. The XX TA scene was DOA because the japanese community rejected this game based on the quality of the previous one, and HH is the least popular weapon on top of that, so the cream never had a chance to rise to the top.

[@Dave_Chrome]

@@vitriolicAmaranth How do you find/download Athena's ASS? Last time I searched, it's been gone since the Minegarde forums (or something) were last up. And how the hell do I check my charm table in MH3U now? I play 3U on 3DS by the way.

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

There's a facebook page for it, and I believe the wiki (the old wiki) also keeps up-to-date links to it though I'm not positive. Any MH community can probably provide you links too tbh. "Athena's Armour Set Search for [game]" in google turns up results. facebook.com/AthenasArmorSetSearch/

[@VirtualMission]

I never knew you had two identical twin brothers. Good thing they are both veteran hunters.

[@sarico7827]

Oh lord 😂 that there where 3 hh in a chat let's get this group quest. This was very informative nice vids.

[@athanasios3019]

OMFG I just noticed your name isn't Henry. Wow you know you can change it right. Over all great and funny video man.

[@grimroyal3673]

1:35 the entire hunting community whenever i say anything

[@DanielHernandez-wn4ol]

I lost it at the hernia bit. I even asked the same question when I saw your yt name. 😂😂

[@robot15551]

Still good stuff, a year later and counting. Thanks for the video!

[@tealpixel8872]

love the pokemon theme for the background music

[@kevinsalinas9104]

Great video haha ive had this debate in my mind for years. Thankfully i tend to endgame hbg sets in the titles. So i just worry about affinity and rate of fire

[@Jbrowni3]

So I'm not the only one here who knows NOBODY else who's into or even heard of Monster Hunter? I argue with myself like this guy xP

[@RealAiji]

stampede & tusk: we have some of the highest raw, good sharpness and consistency. goldspear: haha slots go brrr

[@xandroid001]

That pokemon music is nice touch at the end.

[@Kamau_gaming]

That intro to roast session though😂

[@xaldynnemo47]

[laughs in Astera Training Area]

[@ninjaneil902]

In the ranting, I would've added: Who you think you are? Canta Per Me!?

[@Triggymash]

why hasn't this had over a million views yet, purely for the opening skit hah

[@adarshkamoda9183]

The Bleach ending at the end hit the spot! 👍