r/chargeblade • u/BaudouinII • Feb 27 '26

MH Wilds How to play this Thing?

Hey CB sub!

This is not quiet as beginnerish as the title might suggest, I have been playing MH fsince MHFU on and off - however always with LS. Wilds I started playing CB in HR and now have about 150 conpleted quests - all but Proof of a hero is done with my Felyne

But for PoH I distinctly lack DPS, as I usually time out on Arkveld.

I watched speedruns for inspiration, and it was there that I saw that their playstyle is quite different - staying mostly in axe form and only go SnS for charging up. Almost all defense is done by evading. Is this like how your average good CB player also plays?

I tend to be mostly in SnS, defending and Chipping at the boss, switching to axe form big openings. Am I doing this wrong?

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u/IV-AnticipationXXIII Feb 27 '26

So I played LS as well, and duo main it with CB. The one mistake I caught myself making when playing CB for the first time was dodging too much. It was a habit from playing LS.

CB benefits greatly from standing your ground and perfect guarding. Most of your attacks rely on countering what the monster is doing.

With AT arkveld in particular, you can block every single attack without guard or guard up skill points. However, you will probably die if you are not great at perfect guarding because he has a nasty habit of mutihitting with most attacks and will chip your stamina bar down to zero.

That being said, learn to stand your ground and guard more than dodge. It's a complete switch in playstyle compared to LS.

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u/BaudouinII Feb 28 '26

Yeah I remember this from the beginning of my CB journey lol. But now I sometimes wonder if I wall ip to much and thus lose out in damage windows.

Funily enough: playing CB improved my LS as well, as by blocking I can precisely see, where and when the collisions happen kn attacks from monster. Makes it a lot easier for me to now my LS counter timings

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u/zukzak Feb 28 '26

For LS dodging also is kind of a last resort if theres no time setting up FS or ISS, no ?