Monster Hunter Rise | The BEST Hammer Combos | MHRise Weapon Guide Tutorial

[@PWARGaming]

Check out my NEWEST Video! [ kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZaveKGZidKcpJo ] Extra Facts: The blue-to-yellow change animation has a couple of s which can dodge small attacks or projectiles ---Pressing X after spinning bludgeon does the golf swing combo

[@LALEDLOL]

Switch Axe

[@alfote7859]

Really nice vid thanks for that ! I would like to see S&S

[@walinibb9372]

Im interested in gs or gl next

[@triyanto6633]

this is a big help!!! thanks!

[@AdetiyaRezkyPerdanaMaarif]

pls combo with mouse and keyboard sirrr

[@justsomejojo]

Hammer is in such a weird spot for me. I never mained the weapon, but whenever I pull it out, it works surprisingly well for me. I pretty much clicked on this video to get a bit more technical knowledge about the weapon, since it seems like a good fit for me.

[@KC-bg1th]

When the monster is stunned: You will have enough time to do your bread and butter golf combo, and then charge-stance change into a level 3 impact crater. This is your biggest damage combo by far.

[@eduardomorales2379]

The big bang gives you more damage, when you start charging and switch from strength to normal you get an automatic lvl 3 charge which you use for the impact crater

[@Teddyponsel2626]

isnt big bang the biggest damage combo?

[@whisperviz1346]

I've been a GS user for years since the PSP era Gonna start learning the way of the Bonk now

[@johnwilliams3415]

Just be ready for all the melee users with faster weapons disrupting your attacks at the head and causing your character to stop its attack briefly.

[@tendoofnin7073]

@@johnwilliams3415 Just get the Flinch-Free skill and you're golden.

[@ringoffire0282]

Hammer has been my main since World, thank you. I would also like to add that as a weapon that you can charge you can get an extra jump while airborne simply by just charging your hammer. This allows for some extra mobility that the other weapons do not have since after you charge midair you can move in any direction. It may take a bit to get a feel for positioning yourself well when pulling off yourself well but I think it is a very good way to not just add more mobility, but also conserve bugs. I use this technique when jumping over large monsters that are charging towards me and I also use it to close large gaps between monsters much quicker for various situations like taking advantage of a monster's long animation to get free bonks (i.e Rajang's Kamehameha beam attack). If using up all of your bugs to get closer to a monster turned out to ba a bad idea and it looks like all hope is lost for saving yourself from being launched directly into an attack this technique can also be used as an evasive maneuver to pull yourself to safety or better position yourself to counterattack. You can still do ledge hopping too but I don't know if it is as effective as it was in Monster Hunter World. You earned yourself another subscriber and like, great vid!

[@KingRoturix]

I see hammer, I see bonks, instant like.

[@beefsquatchable]

one very important thing I don't think a lot of people are aware of is when a monsters near a ledge, just roll off ledge and R2 back at the monster, rinse and repeat, you get ridiculous damage output this way when near a ledge and a lot of movement control still along with high KO damage from the jumping R2 attack.

[@FabianR87321]

I was so proud when I taught myself this move in World without any tutorials. In Iceborne this would secure you consecutive 400´s in a manner of seconds + an easy mount.

[@mariosonicboom123]

I agree. While it isn't as good as world where I would purposefully bait monsters to ledges, it's still a very useful move.

[@DanielisAwesome52]

Just some watching of other videos, I think you're really discounting that second hit the Courage Stance's Light Blue Charge gives. Also coming out of a stance give you a full charge, so you can essentially combo from the Courage's Additional Slam into a level three crater. I think the thing that throws off an analysis of the skill is that it works well in battle but not in a raw lab setting. Since the training dummy doesn't move for sure your longer and heavy moves in Strength Stance are gonna out DPS it, but when you're dodging and weaving holding a charge is much more difficult and you aren't gonna have every second of the fight to just do your drawn out DPS combo. Just some thought cause I came looking for why should I bother using Courage after unlocking it

[@akilouissifou9957]

Gg finally a hammer video

[@williamhenderson2661]

Earned yourself a BONK!

[@FullaEels]

I like using ZR+X - X to get some quick damage in. If you go to purple, let that hit and then press X right after you get a second purple swing, and then you can follow into a big bang if you have the time.

[@TheDefiledShell]

The actual combo is ZR-X than quickly press ZR again than keep pressing A for the Big Bang Finisher :)

[@valentinoa8334]

After attempting to play for the first time today and feeling like a noob after yrs of perfecting hammer in MHW this will help massively 👍

[@FIFAFootballer14]

Courage was like the valor stance in MGHU, so sad to see it so weak. It was so awesome in MGHU, it let you stay close to the monster and dodge close attacks without worry about heavy animation skills.

[@Smeik2901]

Valor Style was really fun with the Hammer... i hope they buff the courage charge attacks

[@theDIVISON]

Courage is a hit n run tactic. It good for monster that move their head to quick. You lose a bit of damage, but you can reposition faster, and keep dps.

[@gigidyify]

The swing of dashbreaker does actually have a good amount of super armour

[@civilbeard]

Just picked up the B O N K this week. It's fantastic! Thanks for the combos.

[@kfire68]

I unexpectedly ended up using hammer quite a bit in rise.

[@babayaga4320]

For the big bang combo on a downed monster you showed as R2+ X+ A five times. What is the purpose of the X input? Why not just go straight to spamming A to get to the combo finisher sooner so you're more likely to fit that in along with the Impact crater finisher?

[@Shikafau]

Courage is for movement options + double hits on the blue 2 charge hits, which maybe used for status procs if you want that playstyle...

[@tphan715]

I think it's also good for a bit of mobility, since the first two atks in the chain move you forward a bit. It's a much more mobile and aggressive playstyle where you're chasing them down on each attack I think. Definitely going to keep try testing it out since I think transition from hit to hit just looks badass

[@Smeik2901]

@@tphan715 It was more mobile in GU. Now they gave the Strength Charge the high swinging uppercut, which covers more distance and hits higher. That honestly ruins Courage for me.

[@Aaptronym]

You can do a much faster and slightly less damage (but slightly more KO damage) golf combo by pressing Y, B, Y (X, A, X on Switch). This gets the golf swing out faster and side smash has more KO than overhead smash II.

[@MrManslayerX]

I believe you're wrong about a hammer having higher raw means more stuns- Each attack has an assigned Stun and Exhaust value, regardless of the raw on the weapon. Doing more damage overall would cause more partbreaks, and thus more staggers, though.

[@sp00kyd4ddy6]

If you don't know what weapon to make always make the nargacuga weapons. They have a little bit lower attack but a nice bit of white and blue sharpness and they all have 40%+ affinity to start at which will give you space to fit in agitator or attack boost in your hammer builds or even more affinity in your other weapon builds

[@FrostThorn]

Tigrex is better

[@nhall129]

I assume courage is good for those inbetween times when you’re playing safer and just going for level 1 charges Id assume you get more damage more consistently through the hunt especially against monsters that move around a ton I use it a fair bit but mainly cuz it just feels cool comboing your charges

[@tainticklr3488]

I’m a courage hammer main. AMA

[@faytstrife13]

Ayy got any speedrun vids or know of any?

[@braveheart1320]

Have you always played hammer?

[@tainticklr3488]

@@braveheart1320 since before ice borne

[@tainticklr3488]

@@faytstrife13 not meta, but better for arial

[@braveheart1320]

@@tainticklr3488 Cool! So did you always feel like the mhw/rise strength style was missing what you like to use in courage?

[@javier2384]

Me doing ZL + X all the time

[@AlexanderHaskins]

I think the thing everyone is missing about Courage mode is the flinch free during those combos, which admittedly is a really mild benefit for meta hunters. But, if you're playing with your kid, a greenhorn, fighting a trippy boi like Tobi, or have any LS hunters on your team, it should definitely be considered. I'd also add that water strike + courage's flinch free allow hammer a lot more tank-ability to just eat shit that would have bothered/hurt/slowed us prior. It's not a Lance's guard by any stretch, but if you use them together consistently, (likely with diversion in the set somewhere), you have as close as hammer can be to a 'proper' tank. Really lightens the pressure on greenhorns you might be playing with.

[@exilez9984]

Nice guide and great info. Hammer main since gen 2 and I just recently discovered the optimum DPS combo naturally. I'll try out water strike though since I haven't tested that.

[@saerudayo]

3:01 You can also roll out if you delay it, it still consumes a wirebug but it’s better than jumping into a monster’s attack

[@feircy]

Sweet. Can't wait for the swag axe vid

[@MsDestroyer900]

Valor hammer combos are great because they are fast and are not risky to throw out. The monster isnt always going to be downed where you can golf swing the shit out of it, so gaining similar damage just by holding r2 is great.

[@babayaga4320]

Rise has been a weird MH iteration for me. I've always used fast weapons like the insect glaive, duel blades and SnS, but I don't even know what my ''main'' will end up being when all is said and done. I started out using gun lance, a weapon that I had never used before, and I love it, now the hammer and switch axe are becoming really fun for me, two more never used weapons for me. I think the increased mobility you have in Rise, because of the switch skills/silkbind moves, has made traditionally slow weapons much more fast-paced and appealing to me. And even the weapons I have used extensively in past games feel better than ever.

[@burrhe]

Been maining hammer, this is exactly what I've been doing, glad I've been DPSing correctly ^u^ now back to slamming on monsters

[@TheOpenmindStudio]

Sooo... never go into Yellow xD? (Unless it's the end of that KO combo)

[@Trolzzor]

Another tip: Evade extender also increases the dash distance when going from blue hammer to yellow hammer. This makes repositioning to punish a monsters openings with a fully charged impact crater extremely easy, fast and effective!

[@servantofthemosthigh9250]

Nice info, thanks

[@gabrielcosta6784]

I'm having trouble seeing how charging affects the Impact Crater. Does it really? Is there something that I'm maybe not doing right? Because the numbers on training mode don't change for me. Both on yellow or blue, and uncharged, the damage is always the same. I've tried holding the button, releasing the button, mashing it... Well, any help would be apreciated. Nice guide, thanks for the vid and nice BONKing.

[@tutle2781]

I never knew that if you fully charge before using the impact crater, it actually hits twice at the end Thanks fellow hammer bro!

[@RockEsper]

It should be noted that charge level only affects the final slam of Spinning Bludgeon, so prioritize landing that over the spins. Also, third level charge for Impact Crater makes a DRASTIC difference. It's pretty much not even using if not fully charged.

[@DonBlueberry]

Ive been a hammer main since I started monster hunter. Glad to see I was already doing most of this. But I didn't really understand the usefulness of switching. Or that impact crater does like 300 more damage with the dash swap to yellow. Dang. Good video.

[@EpicKing7375]

I'm trying to do the "Monster Stunning Combo" in the practice area but it doesn't seem to work. Am i missing something?

[@Senketsujin]

I'm convinced that courage is really for elemental/status hammers since it does multi hits.

[@SenseiTumbleweed]

I played some world when it was popular 3-5 years ago. I was so about dual blades then. But when i started and tried dial blades they felt like paper toys and so i started experimenting with new weapons. A did gunlance for a few battles and i did like it. But something qas missing. I then tries the hammer and was sponning to victory. I accidently switched to cottage one battle and didn't know how the next few but i had great success with it. I found a really nice rhythm with courage where i could just charge up to 3 and a lot of times could let it fly. After each attack usually i will run away while charging to avoid the monsters attack and right when it gets to 3 in usually getting in pretty close and bonking head. I dont know if it's the fastest but i just hit high rank. No big achievement, but i barely took any damage and didn't ever fail any missions. I clicked on this video because i literally only do the one attack but it works well for me. I do want to try some of these other combos and abilities. I never use my flies so doing the impact crater seems pretty awesome. One thing i like about courage, is the animation is an overhead swing that is brought down. So with good positioning i can about 50/50 line it up to hit 2 weak points. It's slower but more methodical and with good positioning i think it's quite strong. I'm not or have i ever been a MH pro. So these are my novice 2 cents. It's slower but i think that helps me also a bit because i can focus on positioning rather than combos. I didn't even know you could dodge while charging. I can usually get 2 full charge hits one the monster when i stun it. The only down side to this style of play, i play on steam deck and after several hours my hand behind to cramp from doing the same move and holding it at times over and over. Thanks for the video in going to try to expand my arsenal. I've been knowing there are obviously more moves, but as the old saying goes...if it ain't broke, why fix it.

[@KitchouaTembo]

I'm still not sure what the blue and yellow stances are about. I've read (haven't played hammer in world) that world hammer had some buffs attached to blue, but what about now? Is it strickly two different movesets?

[@Smeik2901]

It's two different movesets. The blue charge is generally stronger, than the yellow charge, so no real reason to use it other than to prepare for an impact crater.

[@Morphsterxx]

Two questions: 1. Have you tried to roll after big bang combo before switching to yellow? I think it shaves a few frames off for certain monsters. I did not actually calculate the time, but it feels faster when i was using it on some monsters 2. I want to make courage work and i was thinking to just whiff attack 1 and charge a full 2 and a full 3. The other thing i was thinking was focus build. Not sure if you have any testing or thoughts on that one.

[@Smeik2901]

That's how i played courage too. Whiff the first charge and go straight to level 2 and 3. There is no reason to hold onto the first charge.

[@Arkhemiel]

what's the music in the background?

[@voidnihl]

I main all the weapons so I'm looking forward to all that follow!

[@lnfanity]

Question, why do you need to switch back to yellow for the end of the down combo 2? Couldn’t you just use impact crater in blue mode?

[@Imm0rtal49]

Because when you switch from blue to yellow, you automatically get a level 3 charge. It does not happen vice versa. It’s quicker to switch back to yellow then to charge to level 3 in blue mode.

[@lnfanity]

@@Imm0rtal49 that makes sense, I thought it was the opposite, that when you switched to blue you got the charge. That’s makes a lot more sense now. Thanks man.

[@terkoizeonline2717]

Starts out a Hammer guide with switch axe gameplay, IQ level: infinity

[@kamiraanddie12394]

I'm really liking the hammer, because I was maining a Chage Blade. But I suck at guard pointing.

[@Bismuth00]

What song do you have playing in the background it sounds so familiar and it's bugging me.

[@Sofuretu]

I find myself experiencing the inverse of what I did in World. I started World maining hammer and later leaning into greatsword. In rise I started with sword and now leaning into hammer.

[@WilliamHoskins08]

How do I change my moves on my hammer? I am going crazy on how to figure this out.

[@captawezomn8687]

They are really trying hard to put something new on the hammer but most things either end up obsolete, doesnt provide much utility, and dependent only when the monster is down or stuck on a long windup animation which is kinda boring for the hammer, example being all its silkbind attack and bigbang combo. What hammer really needs is its neutral gameplay cause it can already make its opening via KOs, i am really hyped when valor hammer make a return via switch skill but after learning how horrible it was and have nothing new to provide on the hammer, i became really disappointed. They have wasted its potential in improving hammer's neutral play. Also about the counter, its cool and all and i really like it as an addition, but it being inaccesible during charging state is kinda clunky against certain situation where you need to counter really fast. Just my unpopular opinion for being a hammer main for too long.

[@PWARGaming]

can't say i disagree. to me, impact crater is hammers main saving grace and just barely. meanwhile most weapons got much more op skills or better utility skills. the counter, while good, is hard to use and mix in for sure, altho its nice to block roars. spinning bludgeon on demand is cool, but without the normal ride mechanic its use is limited and most of the time you'd be saving for impact instead. courage being totally wasted and dash breaker being kinda meh hurts hammer overall. i think a buff would be nice to those abilities. hindsight i think dash breaker is mostly ass when you could just hold charge and run around an attack instead, so another wasted slot so to speak. most speedruns don't use anything hammer got aside impact or the occasional counter for roars

[@toukyang4457]

How do you land that final blow on impact crater(hammer)

[@PWARGaming]

have to charge to full before using it, hence i mention you should go blue > yellow form switch, and maxes your charge. ofc you gotta hit the move right against the monster too. its aoe is pretty generous but occasionally you'll miss

[@FabianR87321]

Can´t touch this! DUM DA DA DUM - DA DUM DA DUM

[@leonardnazareno208]

Planning to main thisweapon because my brother who has switch already mained the long sword and great sword. Me on the other hand am going to main the hammer and switch axe on PC this january

[@carljonsson2647]

I dont really get when to use the yellow mode? the little dash u get from pressing A when charging during blue-mode is cool but idk if it has invincibility frames/super armor or something to warrant using it to flip to yellow mode? Played with hammer a bit yesterday and stayed in blue throughout lol

[@PWARGaming]

yah the small dash does have some s but haven't fully tested if reliable for most attacks. going blue to yellow fast for a full charge bonk is nice sometimes if you don't have time to charge and near the monster tho. most of the time its just a means to get full charge impact crater without charging blue prior.

[@ENTITLEDGOOSE]

you forget to mention that courage/ valor hammer gets additional hit on the fully charged attacks.

[@PWARGaming]

i did shortly mention you can charge to full when i compared the dmg/ko to golf swing combo. likewise with the dash breaker combo at the end talk. the additional hit wasn't very crucial to anything, and the 1 second more charge time is just not worth using over golf swing combo.

[@dingshuoyang2421]

Besides to the good tutorials, I really want to know how do you get such high quality graphics and frame rates?

[@PWARGaming]

obs i have some filters on that make it look better (to me). "action" filter. i dont record from the switch capture. fps, idk, i just have elgato hd 60 s and just have match output. don't think i do anything special, some sped up clips look smoother i suppose. 60 fps from the video output is not real 60fps, just my default output for my vids.

[@dingshuoyang2421]

@@PWARGaming thanks for the reply!

[@SaionjiWorld]

Was the courage comparison with fast charge? If we’re talking meta

[@PWARGaming]

no skills for any testing. with focus...idk, maybe good, focus tends to screw up strength, so perhaps the opposite could happen to courage. still, i've yet to see any speedrunners run this skill at all. talking 2-4 min kill times, all with strength. i'm sure they've thought of focus already. so yah, suboptimal, but use what you want. perhaps it'll get buffed in the future :)

[@jaisookram2255]

Hammer main here itz PERFECT!!

[@benjisawada5322]

Flinch free 2 for people not knocking you away when focusing on the head

[@tronrutherford2700]

I mained the hammer in world, thats not about to change in rise.

[@BullyMaguir3]

So which is better? Spinning bludgeon or dash breaker? Also, water strike is too hard to time and master in my opinion.

[@wodensthrone5215]

Its worth practicing, survive a furious rajang mouth beam because of it and it lead to a KO.

[@PWARGaming]

as said, both will have their uses. spinning "can" dodge on attack, but monster height hit range is odd and can easily get you hit if you spam it during an attack. an yah water strike ends up being hard to weave in. mostly just counter roars with it myself

[@LeRob.1]

Liked for the bonks

[@jc-cl5ff]

So I after the big bang combo I chain the switch skill Impact crater but it doesnt hit twice with the finisher, just once! Is it cause i need to recharge before?

[@PWARGaming]

you have to go blue > yellow. if you go yellow > blue you only get 1 charge. so big bang in blue, R2+ A first to switch, then use impact crater, and IF both hits land, you do dmg twice

[@MoMoFoSh0]

I'm confused on the different charge states. Is there a point to being in blue, ever then?

[@MrMisterMisterMr]

If you're talking about the hammer icon next to your sharpness being blue, then you typically want to stay in blue charge (assuming you're using the default Charge Switch: Strength switch skill). This has all of your quickest and highest damaging moves. However, by switching from blue to yellow, you instantly get a full charge, which allows you to quickly set up a full-power Impact Crater. However, I recommend going back into blue charge right afterwards.

[@PWARGaming]

blue is the best option, like i said when discussing yellow "basically no point in ever using yellow mode". blue mode>switch to yellow mode gimmick is only good for impact crater combo, mostly, otherwise you wanna charge in blue to do uppercuts or lv3 forward slams against the monster. you CAN charge to lv3 and still do impact crater in blue, but again the blue>yellow gimmick is faster FOR, specifically, impact crater. hopefully that clears up confusion. if you got confused by "courage" that just changes your default blue set. but you wouldn't use courage, you would use strength, which has the superior BLUE moveset imo. both are blue moveset skills, but stength is the moveset you want.

[@lfy87]

I changed my switch skill to dash breaker but somewhat somehow accidentally pulled off spinning bludgeon and I’m not sure how. Does anyone knows what the input?

[@PWARGaming]

for dash breaker? it's ZL+x. maybe you equipped a previous loadout, those save your skills too which would replace dash breaker if you change the loadout to an old one. down slopes you can still do spinning bludgeon attack without the wirebug move tho

[@lfy87]

@@PWARGaming ah.. so I charged with ZR going downslope and released will still trigger spinning bludgeon? Even if I don’t have it equipped?

[@RevengA4]

When fighting difficult monsters that could get me in trouble when doing the X or A Combos i mainly use spinning bludgeon as it is spammable and deals lots of damage :) And if the monster is In a predictable move I use Impact crater

[@inkslingerdrew]

fight neer ledges/sliding terain with charge attacks for free leaps

[@ThatGuy-ek8ff]

Even though i beat the game I dont know how to do water strike, all I have is side smash. How do I do what strike or unlock it?

[@LoncusZhao]

If you watch the video, you'll find that when introducing it, he specifically states that it's a 5-star HUB quest, not the village.

[@ThatGuy-ek8ff]

OH THANM YOU SO MUCH

[@TheJorge10466]

Casual Courage Hammer enjoyer immediately saddened by how bad my preferred stance is v.v

[@PCP-ov7nj]

Jesus christ thats a lot of combination lol. All I did is spin and bonk bonk X or A only

[@cerberusnovaempire9483]

.......

[@leecharles8483]

Rise is my first monster hunter I played lol but I’ve put in 80 hrs so far

[@therealbalto24]

Welcome fellow hunter! And they will just keep on adding content so get excited. Mh is the gift that keeps on giving.

[@xIsaacCantu]

It's my wifes main. She used to use the kinsect.

[@goldentyrant4822]

This was a great guide plus I thought courage was meant for ko damage but I guess not

[@JNCABLE91]

Strem wen? Weebstick wen? Otherwise good video ;)

[@PWARGaming]

strem today later on, dunno when specifically. LS might be next, or charge blade, one of those. both have lots quirks to cover so it'll be a while before i can get one done

[@kriscrossx122]

Courage seems like its used to chase monster down since all of the "down" time chasing a mobile monster turns into charge windows.. Still not a big fan of it

[@lizardking6501]

gonna be fun when we get the pc version. its bonk or nothing

[@Swaggmire215]

Bonk bois

[@_.-_.-_.-_.-_.-_.-_.-]

bro why did you left out aerial attacks? hammer's greatest strength is the aerial infinite I still don't know if Rise has the aerial hammer like it's predecessors because nobody talks about it in these videos

[@cerberusnovaempire9483]

You can still do aerial moves dont worry. You can also add wirebug moves to combos for more damage output

[@VenomSmoke57]

Charge Blade there is a big big lack of a good guide for chrage blades

[@kevinschm9798]

R2 lol as a playstation player i knew you meant zr

[@lowkeyobsessedngl]

god this sounds so much mroe complicated from MHW's hammer.

[@gitavianvs]

Hammer bro

[@eh6194]

So u basically always wanna be in blue mode

[@PWARGaming]

basically

[@AronFigaro]

BONK

[@Purexfallenxangel90]

I'm an IG main myself but my husband and I have made a story around our four characters. My main character and his main are married. My main is still ig but my second character is their child who mains hammer and my husband's second is a friend of my secondary character and she mains longsword. 😁

[@dang476]

Lol, I watched the hammer video first because people said it was the easiest weapon for new players, and it still has like 20 fucking mechanics. What a garbage franchise.

[@zandypak1652]

Felt like this was all confusing and the video did not help lol

[@popcanman2]

I think it's the pacing, it all goes by really fast, even some of the words on the screen disappear too quickly before I could finish reading it without pausing

[@Marcheloul]

Mate, take some more time to explain concepts, you're going too fast...

[@joelrobinson5457]

Dude you are talking way too fast

[@FrostThorn]

Hammer is Meh

[@richardhall3896]

1 minute before he even starts talking about the hammer!!!!

[@kptsjn]

I have tried hammer and I feel like the monster go one way and my hits go the other. 🥲 next thing the monsters send me straight back to camp.

[@hisholiness4537]

Takes a while to get used to it, but once you learn how to position yourself and manage to land your shots by predicting where the head will be, you'll fall in love.