Current Events > how,do you properly guard point in MH4U with charge blade

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Shit's hard
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It's a lot easier mid-combo because you can't guard. If you press R even the slightest fraction of a second (whatever rate the game takes inputs, which seems to be faster than the framerate) before X to do the morph-to-axe GP, you'll be considering to have morphed out of guard, which has no GP whatsoever. The animation for this is noticeably different (your shield jumps to being attached to the upper portion of the axe immediately and is never in front of you).

If you want to do a GP raw, without doing a quick slash first, you can always use the touch screen button for kicks, which is "special attack" (in this case, morph) while your weapon is drawn. You can swap this with the start button, too, to use start to GP, but I found this really awkward (and it forces you to open the menu with the touch screen or select, which takes getting used to). The other option is to get really practiced at hitting X the slightest fraction of a second before R.
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What monster is best to practise?
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Any slow monster with a predictable attack pattern really. Rathian is actually a pretty good one. You can GP like all her moves, and well... ok I made Rathian sets before, so I've beaten her specifically a billion times. That might be why I'd think she's a good target, but other than that

Tigrex. He's pretty much like the ultimate guy for asking to be GP'd. Lots of wind up attacks, his long ass rampage towards you is a good time to GP, and you can also GP his roar thing that does damage to you.

Btw, the Blade to SNS shift also has a GP at the end of the animation lul. It can come clutch if you have a sense for it, but it's pretty unreliable.
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Also, if you want GP to actually have effect, you have to charge up your shield. I forget the button combination by now but if you have the red shield symbol next to the charges, that should be enough

GPing while the shield is charged will do damage and get you charges for reload I think. You should see the sparking effect on the spot that you GP'd with
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legendarylemur posted...

Also, if you want GP to actually have effect, you have to charge up your shield. I forget the button combination by now but if you have the red shield symbol next to the charges, that should be enough

GPing while the shield is charged will do damage and get you charges for reload I think. You should see the sparking effect on the spot that you GP'd with

You can always GP. It only does a phial blast while the shield is charged, but you don't GP for the phial blasts, you do it because it reduces knockback and can be done mid-combo. Sharpness loss is based on the amount of knockback taken (1, 2, or 10 points based on the animation you get), as is stamina loss and the window before you can act again (and the maximal knockback prevents you from doing counter actions).

Charging the shield increases your knockback resistance from "literally identical to a greatsword" to "identical to a lance or gunlance for the maximal knockback threshold, with a very slightly lower threshold for medium knockback". Combine with a GP and you have the most knockback resistance for all types in the game.

In MHGen they made GPs give no advantage over regular guarding (no additional knockback resistance and phial bursts happen on regular guards too), but red shield eliminates all sharpness loss from guarding.
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