Just a Rant... bout that jerk rajang

[Varagonax]

FIRST: MHW is my only monster hunting experience, ever. I killed him my first try, took two carts but I captured the pos. This isn't necessarily me asking for help, although maybe some tips would be nice. Beware of hyperbole.

Rant in 3...2...1...



What in the ever living hell where they thinking with this monster!??! This unholy fu** mothering cu** can eat a d1ck. Preferably savage deviljho's.

Why the heck did they think a speedy monkey with s-cells should have the stamina of every monster combined? Stupid prick danced around me at mach 2 slapping my a$$ with his dump truck hands to the tune of 100 beats a minute, for 15 minutes. 15 minutes! Then he got tired and I was like, oh now's my chance. Except it wasn't. APPARENTLY, he got his second wind! IN 4 SECONDS! But now hes all glowing and explodey, so there's that.

"IF YOU SPANK HIS BOOTY HE DYES HIS HAIR BROWN AGAIN" Ah yes, thank you, Handler, truly. I should try and do that. I should... maybe now... er just a bit... how the heck... COULD YOU PLEASE STOP MOVING!

Let us not forget that apparently he can just YEET his entire existence in any direction, whenever he f ing wants. I go to give him his disciplinary swatting as instructed except I find out he can donkey kick you so hard he defies logic and gravity and yeets himself along with you.

And god help you if you try to grapple claw him. CUZ APPARENTLY THE ONE THING YOUR SUPPOSED TO DO EVERY MONSTER IN ICEBORNE IS NOT ALLOWED WITH HIM! Hes got a bad case of the no no zones. My first grapple attempt had him grab me in his hand, sprint towards a wall and get me intimately acquainted with it. My reward for really feeling a connection with that wall was him slamming his fist into my lifeless meat sack. I lost conciousness.

Back at camp, I can do this! Eat a new meal, take some performance enhancers, hydrate, and back into battle. My bootyhole hurts but I ignore it, I have a score to settle and no prolapse is going to hinder my vengeance. Except the next few seconds against this unholy hellspawn, while a blur, went like this: BAM BAM RAAAAWWWRRRR YEEEEEETTTTTTTT BOOM. I wake up in camp.

This guy has to be close, I'm thinking. He is missing a horn, I'm missing my colon, some memories of home, and most of my blood. I find him, try to put down a trap, and its gone. I have no idea what happened to it. I try again, but I fumble my tranq bombs, lose maybe 1 second which is apparently enough. He baps me around a bit, than he leaves. He's limping now.

Dude sleeps on his back like hes been drinking for 9 hours straight. I seize this moment and put him in a pit with enough drugs to put out Teostra for a week. I am victorious.

If a sore sphincter, 4 litres of missing blood, missing colon, and 35 minutes of conniptions counts as a victory.




God I hate this monkey.

[Shift]

I still think lunastra is the most bs of them all. At least king kong here don't zone the entire arena and create several seconds long shields that negate every damage, except on spots she can most easily beat your sore behind.

[Varagonax]

Originally posted by ZH Yōkai:

Originally posted by Gen:

Tempered Rajang says hi.

By destroying you.


It's literally built into the weapon, genius.

The weapon is intended to fly around.

Whether that is the most optimal action for whatever monster though, that's a different subject.

Considering how weak aerial glaive is, one could wonder whether the weapon was really intended to be played like that.

Aerial glaive isn't weak. Its paper damage isnt very good, sure, but its literally one of the safest ways to do damage, and it does mount damage making it a huge utility. It also attacks very quickly in short bursts, loads of potential in there.
Aerial is not how you do optimal damage, that much is clear. But Insect glaive is THE mounting weapon, and no other weapon can reposition as freely, nor get as much free damage in as a glaive can. If your ignoring its mounting capability, or you run around and do nothing but smash the tails and knees of monsters, your better off with dual blades since your very clearly not interested in using a glaive to its maximum potential.

[Muted Kobold]

Rajangs fight is pretty similar to how he behaved in previous generations. So older hunters kinda know what to expect (despite him being sped up).

The trick for him is to sieze your windows of opportunities after his attacks. Most of his attacks he has such a fast recovery that you need to hit him once and back off. Fortunately, his health pool isn't massive.

As a HH I hate fighting him because it's hard as ♥♥♥♥ to hit his head. He's all ARMs.

Originally posted by Gen:

Originally posted by Remi:

You don't seem to understand at all, that's fine.

What I do understand, is that the weapon is designed that way by the developers.

If you don't provide some form of argument then you might as well wear this dunce hat.

The IG was not designed to fly around origionally. It was origionally designed as a very mobile ground weapon. That was able to vault and mount freely compared to other weapons. It's similar to the duel blades in that it hits very fast while on the ground, and benefits heavily from elemental or status. But unlike the duel blades it has range, and the user needs to know the combos well to be able to weasel out of an oncoming attack.

The problem was IG was kind of a ♥♥♥♥ weapon because the animations planted you in place. Till generations where you could get more aggressive with aerial or valor styles.

It was given the ability to fly in World, and people treat that as the defining trait. Which it isn't. And finally you have the kinsect and dust which is more potent on the ground (the intended use).

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by Varagonax:

Originally posted by ZH Yōkai:

Considering how weak aerial glaive is, one could wonder whether the weapon was really intended to be played like that.

Aerial glaive isn't weak. Its paper damage isnt very good, sure, but its literally one of the safest ways to do damage, and it does mount damage making it a huge utility. It also attacks very quickly in short bursts, loads of potential in there.
Aerial is not how you do optimal damage, that much is clear. But Insect glaive is THE mounting weapon, and no other weapon can reposition as freely, nor get as much free damage in as a glaive can. If your ignoring its mounting capability, or you run around and do nothing but smash the tails and knees of monsters, your better off with dual blades since your very clearly not interested in using a glaive to its maximum potential.

Honestly, I'd sort of argue SnS is a better mounting weapon. Unless you're just spamming aerial moves, actually vaulting and then doing the mounting attack is slow relative to SnS just doing a charged leap into a down slash.

[Hare+Guu!]

Originally posted by Leo The Schrodinger's Cat:

It was given the ability to fly in World, and people treat that as the defining trait. Which it isn't.

Might as well say don't use clutch claw because it didn't exist in older games.

[Juno Brier]

Don't see why they had to make his hyper beam come out way faster than before.
Oh wait, it's obvious, the mentality of the devs is "make it harder".

[helvetica_standard]

Hahaha, sounds about right.
Good old Rajang unwanted penetration

[Jimmy James]

I give this rant two dump truck sized thumbs up.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Not gonna lie: Rajang is a fantastic addition to the game. Everything about him is simply awesome: from his super saiyan transformation to his animations (especially when he puts his hand on a wall after being knocked back and then launches at you). Not to mention that his gear is completely unique looking. This is the kind of effort you expect from the MH team.

9/10 for me.

[Dephase]

For me it's like taking an injection. I don't like it but I do that if necessary. Is he annoying? Yes. Is he doable? Yes. You just need to make him suffer more than you and hbgs are really good at that.

[Xedhadeaus]

You just have to make an anti bs set.
no quakes, no yelling, and some evade distance for spirit bombs and screw attacks.

Everything else about him is just like his armor set. I'm angry and I want to Hurt you.
He's easier to deal with than Savage, savage just wants you to take a hit of his blunt... I'm like nah fam, and then he blows it in my face until I'm out of stamina, then he Rolls on top of me like a dog playing in snow... At least deviljho's armor set has skills that are relevant outside of poison bleed volcano runs. Too bad you can't poison yourself.

[Narokz]

Rajang destroys pitfalls if brown, you can use any kinda trap on him if he is SSJ.

[rdowg]

Ahhhhhh, watching the kids grow up is just precious!

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Bruce Wayne:

Look i predicted the future.

Look, you predicted something anyone with two functioning brain cells could have guessed based on literally every content difficulty spike since the game launched.

SO IMPRESSIVE!

[Sir Teddy The Brave]

God i wish all rants were like this, 5/7 great laugh.