A Monster Hunter: World speedrunner showcases an unbelievable build and technique to defeat a tempered Gravios in an astonishing 37 seconds.
My memories of facing my first Gravios in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on the 3DS back in 2015 are hazy, but I remember it involved a lot of ineffective swinging with weapons that couldn't pierce its rocky hide. Since then, my hunting skills have improved significantly. Now, in Monster Hunter : World , I can crack open the wyvern's stone-plated underbelly and have it hunted, carved, and turned into pants in just a couple of minutes. This level of proficiency makes me content.
But to Monster Hunter speedrunners, this is amateur hour. It's barely a warm-up. I might have been hunting monsters for the last decade, but I've been doing it at kindergarten level. Need proof? Watching YouTube hunter aco's video is all the evidence you need. \Watching the video, I experience two overwhelming emotions: intense fear and embarrassment. See, when I fight a monster, I tend to do a lot of unnecessary things like dodging and counterattacking, when I could be casually obliterating it with a heavy bowgun whose damage output has been boosted to ludicrous levels. My mistake. It takes some effort to decipher everything that enables aco's impressive display of raw Monster Hunter lethality because we only get a brief glimpse of the build and skills used at the end of the video, which is in Japanese, a language I can't read. But from what I can see, aco is using a fully reinforced Artian heavy bowgun with affinity infusions and water element, allowing it to unleash critical hits using ammo that Gravios is weak to. This is paired with enough Gore Magala armor to get the full Black Eclipse set bonus, which increases attack against large monsters and inflicts the Frenzy status. Since aco is dealing so much damage, that Frenzy is almost immediately cured, providing its usual affinity bonus upon recovery. Aco has also donned the Corrupted Mantle, which provides increasing attack and affinity bonuses with repeated attacks. (It also decreases your health, but that's not an issue when you can basically delete a monster by looking at it intently.) Filling out aco's decoration slots are jewels providing the Water Attack skill to increase inflicted water elemental damage, the Critical Element skill to increase elemental damage inflicted with crits, the Critical Boost skill to make crits deal even more damage. Agitator is also maxed out, which increases both attack and affinity when fighting an enraged large monster—like, for example, a Gravios that's understandably angry about being ambushed with numerically unprecedented violence.\Topped off with a couple of attack-boosting consumables, the result is a heavy bowgun firing water ammo in an increasingly destructive hailstorm. Aco starts the fight—if you can even call it that—by launching a flash pod to stun the Gravios, and then proceeds to hammer it with water bullets so hard that it can't do anything but stagger until it's trapped and captured 37 seconds later. This is a level of speed and efficiency that previous entries in the series have never reached, and I'm not sure where violently expunging a tempered Gravios in under a minute fits into that conversation. This kind of buildcrafting isn't exactly approachable for the majority of players. If this proves anything, it's that a hunter's most dangerous weapon is applied mathematics
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