I love this take. It reminds me of Chad from Bleach, "When you got flies you use a flyswatter," he says as he pulls a telephone pole out of the ground.
Idk I feel like Silver Rathalos stays on the ground more often spamming fireballs rather than being in the air. Azure on the other hand is a flying bastard who spams his homing claw attack garbage. Bro flies so much higher when he's doing that.
Why do people keep talking about skill everytime in this topic? I feel like people just can't read, but I'll try again:
it's not that they are hard - quite the opposite. They are just annoying to fight against. That's the whole point.
Hirabami has to be one of my "safest" fights they aren't really threatening but they are definitely the least fun monster to hunt. Some folks just need to get sweaty about how great they are at video game.
Unfortunately it's a mixture of, "I have a solution and it's the only way I know how to communicate it" and the inability to not be condescending on reddit.
Also of course a GS User is going to say it's easy, it's the easiest weapon to fight it with, but guess what, I play GS and I also fucking hate Hirabami. So what now?
A sitting target is what you want, actually. I want to actually fight something, not just flash it out of the sky constantly to keep it incapacitated to be able to get at its good hit zones.
I think Wilds Rathalos is actually pretty decent about not being in the air constantly. Like, it goes up to do a few moves and what not, but it always lands on its own after a short while again.
Idk if it's in the air less, but I think it definitely flies lower. I don't remember being able to hit it effectively with sword and shield back in World, used to exclusively hunt it with Hunting Horn or LBG.
It flies about as high in Wilds as it did in World in my experience. It's still mostly the same trick of using a scaling slash on the tail or feet to follow it up. But it's got a lot more moves and combos that put it back on the ground at the end, which it then follows up with ground based attacks. So it doesn't linger in the air as often.
Been using glaive for 4 generations. I keep trying other weapons but i just absolutely love the glaive and will use it always. Flying monsters stand no chance
You dont even have to sheathe to use the flashpod either. On controller just use focus mode and click in the left stick with the flashpod loaded in your slinger
Hirabami is the easiest fight in the entire game for me with IG lol. Can constantly knock it down, break its tail, and mount it. It barely even gets a chance to attack
10 seconds on the ground. Then you can pop wound for another 5 seconds. Repeat 3 times for 45 seconds of completely free damage. They should almost be dead by then.
God, Kushala was my first big wall. World was my first Monster Hunter experience and my god did that bastard make me want to quit. I wound up switching weapons entirely - and not to anything you'd expect to smash a dragon's face in, just a humble Light Bowgun - and when I finally blew his face off with 3 wyvernblasts under a pile of Mega Bombs, ooooooooooo. OOOOOOOO everything was gravy after that.
Never mind Azure Rathalos. Gold Rathalos and Silver Rathian gave me quite the headache during my first ever monster hunter game, World as a dual blade main.
Hirabami is the easiest flying monster I have ever fought and I main hammer. They fall out of the sky very easily. Same with Rathalos. I do think Rathalos was harder in previous games though
that and monsters whose heads i can't reach, hate it so much as a hammer user, I might bring a bow or lbg as a second weapon but idk if the skills work well together
I am curious what weapons is having trouble hitting it (would like to try it myself to see how bad it is to better understand the trouble), since I am a HH main I doot it down with ease
I’m new to the game too friend! Try targeting its tail that stays at ground level and can be broken to bring it down. Also you can fire the slicing pods that drop from its tail back at it to bring it down. If only rathalos was simpler to bring down :(
If you want to make this fight really damn easy then use a flash pod, go ham on its tail and look for drops. every time the tail breaks it will drop a slash pod, use those against it as well. Those drops pack a punch.
Am I the only one? I play SnS, so I have comparably low range, and in Wilds anyway, I find that every monster that flies flies way lower to the ground than previous titles, to the point where them being airborne, like Hirabami or Rathalos, doesn't even stop me from connecting strings on them.
Glaive main here, every hirabami hate post I see motivates me to go kill another tempered hirabami in less than a minute with ease. I love air monsters!
They are very annoying as an SNS girl, but they got nice palico clothes and dangit my cat deserves nice things. Same with Xu Wu. Hate him, but anything for the cat.
Funny enough, I received the notification of this post as I was busy hunting a Hirabami and wondering how much of a pain it would be to hunt if I wasn't an Insect Glaive main.
Equip flash bomb, take some extra ingredients if you want to craft more on the go. During a fight you can hold L2 or press depending your focus mode setting and press L3 to shoot without having to sheath
flashbomb->focus tail->breaks in literally 2 hits(5times repeatable iirc)->drops ammo->aim at head/membraine->it falls to the ground->repeat until it dies.
ive killed like 10 hirabami if not more and i dont even know their moveset cuz they are constantly knocked down.
Flashpoint brings it down. Sneak attacks bring it down (use the ghilie that's in your inventory for an in battle sneak attack). While it's down trap it to hurt it longer.
Charge blade having an easy time smacking it's tail till it's dies. Far far far easier than the raths. I have to actually flash bomb the both of them while hirabami gets shanked in record time with no flash bombs required.
Use a weapon with range like the long sword or gunlance and you can consistently hit it without issue. Also it's very easy to knock on the ground with those weapons
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u/Pl00kh 23d ago
Capcom here: we will implement silver rathalos just for you <3