Any tips on beating Nergigante?

[Acrdrifter]

Seriously, i need tips on how to git gud and beat his spikey ass.
Im new to the monster hunter franchise so i don't have much experience.
I can evade his moves pretty easily but what makes him hard for me are his spikes.
Im having a hard time dealing with his spikes cuz i suck ass at positioning.
And guidance on what armor i should use is good too.
Im using a full alpha legiana set combined with the blade it comes with (stealer long sword)
But i can use pretty much any weapon (except the light bowgun and heavy bowgun cuz im not used to shooting)

[Green1]

Have good armor and use Mega Armorskin.

[McFuzz]

When he stands on his hind legs and roars, he's about to use his One Hit KO dive attack. You need to do the superman dive during this phase (By sprinting away from him with your weapon away then dodging) otherwise this WILL hit you, and very likely kill you!

I would recommand small, light weapons such as the sword and shield. He's low enough to the ground to hit constantly, you can get a lot of mount damage off, and most importantly, can put it away quick enough to dodge him.

When he completes this dive move, he will no longer have any spikes. It can be a good trick to goad him into it by running around with your weapon away, just to dodge him so that he no longer has spikes.

[Singrave]

Evade Window 2+ and Evade Extender 2 can save you of his dive bomb attacks

[Waffles]

Watch his quills. When they turn completely back, he is ready for the execution. Play defensively.

[scram]

Try to concentrate on breaking one spiked part at a time. Breaking one is a guaranteed knockdown. As for armor, 300+ defense should be enough to keep it from oneshotting you in most scenarios, granted you have boosted your health sufficiently.

Also, you actually want Nerg to divebomb when it has black spikes, as it removes all spikes from its body and those hardened black spikes boost its damage of its regular attacks severely.

[明星ヒマリ]

When you're fighting monsters that you're not used to fighting you generally want to avoid doing any risky attack/move and play more on defensive sides, take time to learn its pattern and attack, you have the whole 50 minutes to fight him so take your time and learn.
Whenever all his spike goes black and hard he will do his big dive that can either ohko you or deal a massive amount of damage if your defense is high.
Just make sure to fully upgrade your armor.

[Baka]

Hit 1-2 hits and then run

[DarkFenix]

Make sure your armour is fully upgraded for starters.

After that there are skills you can grab to make life easier while you learn. Vitality boost is the obvious one, it gives up to 50 extra health and stacks with your food/potion buff to give you as much as 200hp.

Then if you're not using a shield you can take evade extender, with all three ranks your dodges will go significantly further, makes avoiding attacks a lot easier.

Aside from skills, there are a couple of things you can do with your own gameplay to help. The first is getting used to the superman dive. That's the special dodge animation you get when your weapon is sheathed, you're sprinting away from the enemy, and you hit dodge. It's a long animation, and you're invincible for pretty much the whole thing, a nuke could go off and you'd i-frame through it.

The second thing is to learn a weapon with a shield, my first time through Nergi was with a gunlance, meaning any time I saw him start any animation when looking in my direction I could just hunker down and wait for him to finish.

[Fry]

Vitality Mantle helps too

[OniRazu]

Get better armor (such as odogaron a/b or anything that has higher defense), hit him a couple of times then re-position. Don't get too greedy, you have 50mins to take him down so use that time to figure out your next move. Any weapon will do as long as you are comfortable using it. Bring lots of flashbugs, mega pots, demondrugs, armorskins, mega barrel bombs, etc. Nergy's not that hard compared to the other elders (such as kushala, teostra) since he has a lot of tells. Also don't be afraid to use the SOS since a lot of high-rank players usually farm him, so you would have a lot of help fighting against nergy.

[Voodoo]

craft kadachi longsword or any other thunder weapon
get rarity 6 armor and fully upgrade it
buff up for defense as survival is more important

now for the fight
hit whatever got white spikes on it, these are the only weakspots and if you manage to break them more likely than not nergigante will trip.

[cendolijo]

You should be fine with you current armor, AFAIK that armor have evade window + right?
Just use any weapon you mastered that have thunder elements to make fights easier, aim the white spikes in his forelegs and back, by destroying it you will trip him over and you know what to do next

[Merik Lobo]

A few easy pointers: Have a bear minumum of 300 defense without food buffs or potions and then eat for Defense L.
Be aware of when all his spikes turn black and take that moment to make some space between you and him BEFORE he roars. This is when he uses his dive bomb attack. If you are right next to him when he starts the animation you will likely take extra damage.
When he uses the attack be ready to dive (run AWAY from him with your weapon sheathed and dodge) or block if you have a shield. Having skills that increase the effectiveness of guarding are a boon here. Sheathing in advance when his spikes turn black should help you prepare to dive for weapons like heavy bow gun which have a long sheath time.
Following these guidlines you shouldn't have an issue with getting one-shot by him.

[Nick]

ONLY ONE ANSWER : SUPERMAN DIVE. learn this technique and youll be solid on any hunt.

[kampfer91]

Uragaan armor and lance .