Monster Hunter Wilds Lance Trailer Analysis

[@Luci-kun]

Great to hear from someone who actually knows Lance. Wonderful breakdown! Looking forward to more!

[@KengaruZ]

I can tell you right now the fourth attack at 3:45 is all Lance, no shield. Just from an animators standpoint you can see the main action is in the lance while the reactionary action is coming from the shield. The elemental effects have been disjointed this whole video you can see that as long as the first hit is on the face, the elemental effect will appear on the face, not at the tip of the weapon, or where it connects later. Besides, if it was really a shield bash we should see some stun damage while the head is being targeted and I can't see any of that. Just some added observation

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

My god, they actually ADDED TO THE LANCE MOVESET

[@noise.s]

I'm really into using the shield more in attacks other than the charge, looks promising. That strong mid-thrust seems great too. Any coverage you do I'll watch, hadn't even realized it had come out, looking forward to more news

[@2468h-s9e]

I can't stop marveling at the gorgeous weapon and armor models hahaha. As a newcomer lancer, I appreciate your in-depth analysis.

[@Yusio]

I'm new to Lance but I've been having so much fun with it in my rerun through world! I'm so excited for wilds >w< thank you for the breakdown!

[@lucaskobi7164]

This version of lance is going to make me happy. Looks like they have us the moves we want without being tied to an art or skill. I kind of hope they switch out the wide sweep for that counter guard.

[@EtienneLudor]

Finally, I’ve been hoping you’d make a video about this. Here’s to Wilds!

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

All three lance users have finally been given half a bowl of gruel. As one of them, I am happy.

[@wolfmanjim21]

Glad to see a video from you again! Can't wait to for wilds to become my main game next year!

[@nappa4317]

I think this is exactly what lance needs. It doenst need fancy swaxe moves. It needs some meaty hits to mix up the poke poke poke.

[@lokyanvanadis9951]

Thanks for the informative breakdown, good job on noticing the subtle changes too like the charging animation during the power guard ! Really hyped for this new iteration of Lance ^^

[@WeatherReport63]

Good to see you back

[@wdma87]

Was waiting for you input on the new Lance for Wilds, very informative as usual. As Lance main i looking forward to hear more analysis from you in the future and of course new builds.

[@SpacedogD]

I'm wondering if evade lancing would be a thing this time round with the dodges you can do while poking

[@healexhelixvideos4680]

Haven't finished the video yet, but subbed for lance content and the username. Both Lance and Gobul deserve more time in the limelight

[@ChEEsEmc]

i didnt see the small instances of the blue flash that might indicate insta block, or similar. i was actually really disappointed thinking the lance was going to go back to large counter windows, but watching this made me extremely excited seeing some form of a parry is back. that really made lance engaging for me, and now i'm excited to see all the new moves too :D

[@issamelarmi]

I was so worried while waiting for Capcom to show us the lance, now I am excited !

[@MMOToaster]

I'm so excited for Wilds! Haven't played monster hunter in almost half a year now, but am super excited to play lance and gunlance again!

[@Clever_Calcifer]

hey! one mayor thing here that you didn't mention is how did you notice that all throughout the video they weren't using the upwards poke? they mainly used the regular poke and used the new finisher poke combo to poke up. I always complained that the Lance didn't need 2 types of pokes, and it seems as of this showcase that the might have replaced upper poke with shield bashes. Also for the guarding on the beginning of the video, idk the stats and skills on the armor but it seemed to me like there was still to much recoil for guarding such a simple attack which makes me worry about the delay between actions after guarding an attack and also that the skills requirement for the lance has stayed the same like in World and Rise.

[@Alphahunter456]

I was hoping they would lean into the shield stuff more, and it seems like they did!

[@nuke2099]

They didn't focus on slapping with the lance which is good to me. Also btw I don't think that's a elemental effect. That's just what the hits look like because they got rid of blood. Monsters have dust and water out of them now similar to the rocks that came out of monsters in MHW. Because other weapons that clearly aren't water element have that effect.

[@Garfield91076]

Hoping they still keep choo-choo mode for lance! Some of my fav moments with friends are from goofing around charging at monsters with the lance. Pretty hyped all said though!

[@my_username_was_already_taken]

When you look at the reply of the first showing of the blue glow, where we think that its an instaguard moment, not only does the blue glow make me think that it is an insta guard, but if you look at the actual animation of him putting the shield up, it's not like previous standard block animations in where he simply holds the shield up. It has a very subtle hint of the slower "failed" instablock switch skill from Sunbreak, where he sorta circles/braces the shield in front of him if you just hold the shield up without perfect guarding an attack. Without a doubt they 100% are baking in the instablock mechanic but making it less punishing/slow to hold the shield up, and I am soooooo excited about it

[@chh4554n]

welcome back bro, long time.

[@zrevi5918]

One thing I noticed is that they didnt show guard dash. And I think they also made the moves more like a heavy weapon. From the having charged attack and the uppercut thrust from powerguard. I dont think I see any counter thrust and you can immediately go to powerguard. Just gonna pray that they dont nerf the mobility and aggresiveness.

[@phantomexe9640]

It looked super cool and imo sunbreak lance was my favorite version of lance. In fact I think rise/sunbreak is the better version and I love lance in world. Looked like it's taken a good bit from rise.

[@zrevi5918]

For me, world lance is better than rise and it comes down to insta block. Insta block is good but too good for the weapon that it destroys the balance of the weapon. For world lance, you need to use every move while on rise your pretty much just poking, guard dash or insta guard.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

FINALLY THE VIDEO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. Thank you Gobul, I'll be eating good all the way until Gamescom (which isn't too far away).

[@epicazeroth]

Lance players be like "Yooo we have higher than 3 MV and can move!" I'm Lance players

[@zaguldo]

I was hoping you'd cover this. I'm very happy with the trailer but I need to see if there's anything I missed. The animation with the insta-block looking thing looks a lot like the Adept Guard animation from Gen so I think you're right about that.

[@shootymcsnipe4947]

Lance Dance for life.

[@RustyhairedLamialp9575]

5:13 that's a different shield motion to the insta-block shield motion

[@neroi4855]

Hey Gobul. I miss the days in tri with Gobul. He was an awesome unique monster. Especially when he sucks ya in!

[@manuelschwarz9864]

Started 3 years ago with the 5th fleet and cant describe how hyped i am for Lance in wilds😍

[@Arluq-e6l]

the swipe is gone :crabrave:

[@tareyus2977]

LANCE MAINS RISE! WE ARE FEASTING GREAT TONIGHT!

[@arnlaugr]

*Plankton 'yes... Yes. YEEEESSS!!!' meme* I FUCKING LOVE PARRIES, COUNTERATTACKS AND SHIELD BASHES I NEED THE META/TOP-END COMBAT FLOW TO BE STYLISH AS HELL On the real, I hated how Rise's most efficient lance combo was just to spam retreating leaping thrust.

[@devistator5674]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the fact you can power guard from neutral it's a nice qol change also I'm pretty positive the strafing pokes are apart of focus mode since the camera angle gets all zoomed in. But overall lance looks great I don't think it'll attract more people to the wpn like the gunlance preview but that's fine kinda sad we don't have clutch claw counter or charged sweeps anymore but that's OK.

[@MyCoolHistory]

I’m assuming the movement will act similar to LS fade slash or other directional attacks. You input the direction with your next attack and that will make you step and attack in that direction next.

[@Flubbadon]

not even gonna lie, i initially clicked because i saw the Gobul icon and thought it was something Gobul related but yeah I love Lance definitely still gonna watch

[@DraytonManor99]

The one persons opinion I was really excited to see 🎉

[@ShadKats]

Looking forward to shield bashing!

[@brightsuperstition]

I hope the "Insta Block" (assuming that blue flash at the start of the trailer is an Insta Block) isn't the same as it was for Adept Lance in Generations and Lance in Rise. It should just be a perfect block that perhaps reduces block pushback. It shouldn't put the weapon's strongest attack behind the Insta Block as it did in those two games. I really hope it's more of a freeform move that you can incorporate into your moveset as you mention at 08:39. I hope the new three-hit attack isn't so strong that you want to be able to fit that move in as often as possible (the way Striker Lance in Generations forced players to spam that dash finisher as often as possible to optimize damage). The standard three poke combo should be the bread and butter. I do not want the cross slash back. If players want slashing moves, go play Insect Glaive or any other weapon. Lance is for surgical, precise pokes, not horizontal swings. For this same reason, I also do not want Charge Wide Sweep back.

[@QTpitarianne]

I was hoping we'd be the last trailer because it would have been funnier, can't say I mind this outcome however! We are now actually SnS, Stick and Sheild. Maybe I should finish my no shapness run on Risebreak lance so I can give it a go when wilds releases.

[@sleepymilk4599]

My biggest hope is for them to keep the 180° guard dash turn after a moment of no input

[@forlornvalley]

The biggest thing for me is the hopping stab. What irks me the most about current lance is that you have to stop attacking in order to move or dodge. Well i mean, that's the same for almost all the weapons, but for lance where the main theme is constantly attacking the monster without stopping no matter what, the new addition is so good imo. Now no matter what you do, you'll always be putting in numbers to the monster. Im going to miss guard dash from Rise, but this trailer makes me positive lance will still be my most favourite weapon.

[@czairkolmoslink5952]

We did see shiekd dash it was after the shield guard

[@neubtuber]

More smaller hits? more element lance viability compared to world? :O Also i'm betting focus mode is like a meter.

[@baconx6476]

Lance can go into power guard without having to first go into counter-thrust, unless this was already in the game and I'm derping lol

[@jamberrycloud]

I mourn as the only tether lance player in the entire world 🤣

[@wan7180]

see.. i am correct.. 2 quick shield attack.

[@Jon_East]

As someone who was a big fan of the hyper aggressive and mobile lance style in Rise, I'm on the fence about this. Not because of the lack of slap, I don't care about the slap, but cross slash, guard dash jump thrust, and that wirebug skill that's an instant jump backwards would all be severely missed. Please don't make me go back to triple poke and turtle.

[@brightsuperstition]

You have no real understanding of how World's lance was played at its highest possible skill level if you think that it's not a weapon that facilitates hyper aggressive play and can be boiled down to merely "triple poke and turtle". Go watch the AT Velkhana speedruns of a KZbin user by the name of "Yanxi 妍希" and tell me that her lance play isn't hyper aggressive.

[@Jon_East]

@@brightsuperstition I'm not interested in World, but thanks for the recommendation I guess.

[@brightsuperstition]

​@@Jon_East Then on what basis do you make your claims that Lance pre-Sunbreak was somehow just this feeble and passive "triple poke and turtle" playstyle? Which Monster Hunter games have lances like this? Because that wasn't the case in World, nor was it the case of most pre-World Lances, at least not in the highest levels of play. Evade Lancing in pre-World games as early as Freedom Unite was just as hyper aggressive as Sunbreak lancing. Players danced and hopped circles around monsters and their attacks to fit in as many pokes as possible. The monster tries to reposition? The player rushes it down with dash attacks.

[@Jon_East]

@@brightsuperstition Buddy, I think you're reading a little too much into my comment. Don't get your panties in a twist. You also seem to have missed that I specifically named three moves I loved in Rise, which afaik were either new additions to the moveset there or maybe were overhauled for the game. Lastly, and I don't even know why I'm giving this comment more attention than it deserves, but do you really think that it is in any way relevant to my preferences and playstyles what some high level lance player on the other side of the world is doing? That I'm somehow just an uninformed sheep who needs to be educated? It is this patronizing behavior of MH oldheads towards Rise fans that's been grinding my gears ever since the game released.