Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak | Scorned Magnamalo 5'16"42 Insect Glaive solo

Half of the run Magnamalo isn't even in the resin swamp for the extended topple duration, so that's some seconds of free damage lost to RNG.
I've had runs that had the potential to get sub 5 for sure, but either I messed up and carted or the monster/environment messed up my damage uptime.
The RNG and my insecurity with running Adrenaline really complicate matters, so I'm satisfied with this time. To beat this time I'd have to solely run swamp Magnamalo spawns, which are super rare and I'm done with resets for now anyway.
Don't even know whether the Mizu Glaive was the best choice here, it has some base affinity so it is easier to build than other water Glaives, and mostly just looks better so I chose it.
Maybe a thunder Glaive could be better, I remember regular Magnamalo's hellfire parts being weaker to thunder than without the hellfire on them.
Still, the monster is a great fight when I'm not at 1 HP trying to get maximum damage uptime, a huge improvement on regular Magnamalo. The extremely high hitzones on the armblades give the fight a very nice risk to reward ratio.
Some attacks are clunky and difficult to avoid at close range without a counter or block, but those attacks don't cart me from full HP so it's just a speedrun issue.

[@boogieofbnt3192]

Nice vid! It encouraged me to continue getting better with insect glaive

[@szemyah]

Nice, a speed run with a legit talisman. Chapeau!

[@transcendentalmetaphysics666]

Yeah, still waiting for a decent Master Rank charm to roll, but nothing so far.

[@kaz7886]

some players still think god charms can't be legit? huh....

[@szemyah]

@@kaz7886 some, sure, but every pc player on KZbin? No way.

[@kaz7886]

@@szemyah Yeah, of course. But if someone has 1000+ hours i'd be surprised if they don't have a god charm.

[@ShadKats]

Wow, that was amazing!

[@harlemshakee8296]

still not done with mhrise but why does magnamalo does jump that much in sunbreak hahaha

[@drowsydrew3038]

The other IG Speedrun I saw of this monster was focusing more on Raw damage utilizing the Furious Rajang Glaive. Don't know if that would help any. Either way, wonderful run, I learned a lot about what I can do when it's time to face this monster.

[@transcendentalmetaphysics666]

Thanks, Furious Glaive does have better raw and purple and another level 2 slot, but it loses element and affinity compared to the Mizu Glaive. Might be better for Adrenaline runs with the higher raw. Especially with a talisman better than mine to make up for the lower affinity. But it loses the species exploit due to only having a level 1 Rampage slot, that's 5% less damage already. I saw the other run with Furious IG, stacking Kinsect dashes with Adrenaline into Dives or finishers does seem like a good strategy, and they used traps during armblade phases for more openings. While I like using Kinsect Dash and Diving Wyvern here and there I definitely won't exclusively spam it even for speedruns, same with traps. That sub 5 run looked clean though, in the resin swamp it could get even better.

[@Jaekization]

Wait how do you counter the roar? I haven’t seen anything on that

[@daibaru9229]

Of cours you can. It more or less registers as a hit.

[@vanibath8814]

having white and orange gives roar immunity

[@midnitegoose2731]

What’s your layered armor?

[@--GOAT]

Full Malzeno with Mizutsune head

[@ljay2255]

Hey, could you tell me what combos are you using on the ground ? It seems to dish a great amount of damage (I started this weapon yesterday)

[@harlemshakee8296]

its just the slash switchskill i think. You spam X first then spam A after to make it continuous. needs red kinsect to active ofcourse

[@Tapion013]

How come your buffs never ran out

[@transcendentalmetaphysics666]

Assist Kinsect spawns clouds that refresh triple up up to two times by touching the clouds. With Tetraseal you can easily produce enough clouds to never run out of extracts.

[@Hamtarto]

how do you kinsect slash downwards? :0

[@transcendentalmetaphysics666]

Probably with the reticle aiming, but I don't think it goes down all the way like Diving Wyvern would.

[@Shmoobiess]

Honestly I only realised you could do this the other day aswell it's changed the game for me 😂😂😂

[@15beastmode]

I have noticed this in yours and a few other speed run videos but are you dodge roaring mid combo or are you using a certain skill like 1:20-1:.22

[@thatguyTheatre]

While using insect glaive, having the white and orange buffs at the same time makes you immune to roars, so you don't get roar flinched out of the air or out of combos.

[@15beastmode]

Always thought white and orange were just for flinch free glad to know its for more. Thank you

[@vanibath8814]

@@15beastmode having white reduces stamina use, standard unsheathed walking speed (i think) and increases vaulting height. orange increases defense. these buffs are small but def more than just flinch free

[@FrostyTheCookie]

@@vanibath8814 Specifically having the white and orange together is what they were talking about. In rise, having both white and orange nectar gives you the effects of both as well as Earplugs. They thought that instead of Earplugs it was Flinch Free.