I solely have faint reminiscences of preventing my first Gravios in Monster Hunter 4 Final on the 3DS someday in 2015, however I am positive it concerned a number of impotent flailing with weapons that could not penetrate its rocky conceal. Since then, my searching craft has improved sufficient that, in Wilds, I can crack open the wyvern’s stone-plated underbelly and have it hunted, carved, and became slacks in only a couple minutes.
To me, that is a proficiency I am content material with. To Monster Hunter speedrunners, that is toddler occasions. It is child numbers. I might need been searching monsters for the final 10 years, however I have been doing it in kindergarten. Want proof? This is YouTube hunter aco obliterating a Gravios in 37 seconds:
Watching the video, I’ve a pair ideas. The primary is an awesome, instinctive terror. The second is embarrassment. See, once I struggle a monster, I are inclined to do a number of superfluous stuff like “dodging” and “counterattacking” once I could possibly be casually obliterating it with a heavy bowgun whose numbers have been juiced with sufficient injury boosting expertise to kill God. My mistake.
It takes some doing to piece collectively every part that allows aco’s spectacular show of uncooked Monster Hunter lethality, as a result of we solely get a quick glimpse on the construct and expertise in query on the finish of the video. And it is in Japanese, which I can not learn.
However from what I am seeing, aco’s acquired a fully-reinforced Artian heavy bowgun with affinity infusions and water component, letting it pump out important hits utilizing ammo that Gravios is weakest to. That is paired with sufficient items of Gore Magala armor to get the complete Black Eclipse set bonus, which raises assault in opposition to giant monsters and inflicts you with Frenzy.
As a result of aco’s pumping out a lot injury, that Frenzy is sort of instantly cured, offering its ordinary bonus affinity upon restoration. Aco’s additionally tossed on the Corrupted Mantle, offers growing assault and affinity bonuses with repeated assaults. (It additionally decreases your well being, however that is not a difficulty when you may principally delete a monster by it intently.)
Filling out aco’s ornament slots are jewels offering the Water Assault ability to extend inflicted water elemental injury, the Essential Component ability to extend elemental injury inflicted with crits, the Essential Enhance ability to make crits deal but extra injury. Additionally maxed out is Agitator, which will increase each assault and affinity when preventing an enraged giant monster—like, for instance, a Gravios that is understandably indignant about being ambushed with numerically unprecedented violence.
Topped off with a pair attack-boosting consumables, the result’s a heavy bowgun firing water ammo in an more and more harmful hailstorm. aco begins the struggle—in the event you can name it that—by launching a flash pod to stun the Gravios, after which proceeds to hammer it with water bullets so laborious that it will probably’t do something however stagger till it is trapped and captured 37 seconds later.
There’s been a number of discourse following Monster Hunter Wilds’ launch about whether or not it is a better recreation than earlier entries, and I am unsure the place violently expunging a tempered Gravios in underneath a minute matches into that dialog. This type of buildcrafting is not precisely approachable for almost all of gamers. If this proves something, it is {that a} hunter’s most harmful weapon is utilized arithmetic.
