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Gunlance
Monster Hunter Generations

Gunlance

Learn to wield the explosive Gunlance in Monster Hunter Generations! Master its Guild, Striker, Aerial, and Adept styles, combos, and essential skills like Artillery Expert.

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Learn to wield the explosive Gunlance in Monster Hunter Generations! Master its Guild, Striker, Aerial, and Adept styles, combos, and essential skills like Artillery Expert.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Understand the Heat Gauge: It ranges from red to yellow, indicating weapon heat. Hitting the red zone before overheating grants boosted damage. Shelling increases heat.
  2. 2
    Wyvern Fire: This special attack has a long cooldown and animation but locks the Heat Gauge for 2 minutes. Overheating locks damage to minimal for 2 minutes and disables Wyvern Fire.
  3. 3
    Shell Types: Each Gunlance has a fixed shell type: Normal (balanced), Spread (chance to hit allies), and Long (longer range, powerful Wyvern Fire). Shell damage is fixed and good for breaking parts other than tails.
  4. 4
    Guild Style: Combines stabbing and shooting. Can equip two Hunting Arts.
  5. 5
    Striker Style: Loses full burst ability. Focuses on building heat for Wyvern Fire, then melee combos followed by shelling. Can equip three Hunting Arts.
  6. 6
    Aerial Style: Loses backhop for a somersault. Cannot slam to full burst on the ground. Vaulting allows aerial overhead slam into full burst upon landing, or mid-air shelling followed by ground slam. Normal Shot Gunlances excel here. Can equip one Hunting Art.
  7. 7
    Adept Style: Cannot reload quickly after shelling. A perfect guard allows an immediate upward poke attack that instantly reloads all shells. Follow with another X attack for a slam and then a full burst. Requires knowledge of monster attack timings. Can equip one Hunting Art.
Tips
  • Maximize combo flexibility and the fixed damage advantage of shells.
  • Shelling consumes sharpness; manage it carefully.
  • When using Guild Style, X attacks can combo into various permutations, ending in a powerful overhead smash.
  • A-A can loop indefinitely or follow an X attack. After an overhead smash, A becomes a full burst.
  • R+A is a charged shot; hold to charge.
  • R allows guarding; R+X is a poke while shielding, with a special combo if R is held and X is pressed repeatedly.
  • X+A is an upward vertical slash, which can be followed by X-X or a shell.
  • B performs a sidehop or backhop.
  • For Striker Style, if using a Normal Shot Gunlance, consider a different style due to the loss of full burst.
  • In Aerial Style, focus on high-damage full burst attacks when leaping about.
  • Adept Style requires precise timing for perfect guards to utilize the instant reload and subsequent full burst.
  • Equip Artillery Expert: Boosts shell power and aids Heat Gauge management by reducing heat increase per shell.
  • Consider Quick Sheathe for faster weapon sheathing.
  • Razor Sharp is highly recommended to slow sharpness decrease, as shells already consume sharpness.
  • Sharpness +1/+2 and Mind’s Eye are also useful skills.

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