Does attacking a monster while a friend is mounted risk knocking them off in Wilds?

[Keansor]

I know in some (or all?) of the games damaging a monster in a way that'd knock it down would kick off someone who has it mounted before they can do their big hit, but I also know there was the Behemoth strat in Worlds where someone stays mounted the whole time just clinging on while the others go to town so it doesn't do its special attacks or switch phases. Was that unique to the Behemoth fight, or can we use someone mounting it as a time to go ham?

[zero]

koing, para or sleeping the monster will knock your friend off, pretty sure that was just unique to beo

[Bob Meister]

From what i've seen you can't para, sleep or even flash monsters anymore while someone mounted them.

[zero]

Originally posted by Bob Meister:

From what i've seen you can't para, sleep or even flash monsters anymore while someone mounted them.

you can def para, i know that first hand cause i constantly keep knocking people off with my para CB

[Bob Meister]

Are you sure? I play para as well and if someone finishes the mount i need exactly 1 hit from my hammer to para and KO, so it seems it caps the build up.

[DragynDance]

Most flinches and staggers against a monster will knock the mounted player off. Wound focus strikes, KO's, Flashing sometimes, tripping, paralyze, some breaks, etc. MH4U, where mounting was originally implemented was where if other people hit the monster while it was mounted, it would throw the rider off, and then world's removed that.