i cant decide on a weapon

[Crow]

all 80 hours i have flip flopped through weapons what made you main one?

[Faust Wither]

i know this is not helping with your problem but my mod to play usually decide what weapon i should use tho.

[The High Seraph]

Depends purely on you . As for me my main is bow because back in my early days , I thought bow is long ranged weapon and I actually wanted to give range support in multiplayer . And spamming dragon piercers . But later found that this weapon is pseudo melee weapon with a lot of shotgunning . Now I am ok with that . Using bow since the game was released on pc and now near 7k usage in 3.2k hrs . Damn this nostalgia hits hard whatever I am thinking about my main .

Another Side weapon is Long Sword . I started learning this weapon since I can’t solo Ancient Leshen with bow in base world days .

Learned LBG thanks to sieges

Learned HBG because at first Glutton was broken and want to bully low tier monsters without effort. But after speedrunning AT Nergigante with shieldless Glutton . I started actually learn HBG and all types of ammos

Learned CB because I think I need to understand at least 1 morph weapon in game . That’s all .

[RedViper]

When I first played this franchise for the first time I did on the demo of MH3U where you select your weapon and you go hunt a monster, after trying them all at least twice I was able to only successfully hunt the monster with a few of them, then I just decided which one I liked the most because of how it felt and stuck with it. And ended up with at least 3 that I enjoy.

It also depends on your personal preference of gameplay from other games, you like to deal a lot of damage with a single hit? Do you enjoy playing as the tank? What about support? Maybe you enjoy fast weapons with a lot of evasion?

[mewlynx]

IG because it really doesn't have that many bad matchups and you can be very aggressive with it. Blunt kinsects also add up to a stun or two for solo play, which is always great.

[Molic One P.GR]

Give hammer a go. I found it beginner friendly. Just got to learn the different stages of charge

[(ノ°□°)ノ]

1.2k hours in and im still flip flopping through weapons

[Bolognaise]

lance represent

[FuyuNoSora]

Good question, when I started MH3U the only weapon that fit me was the Long Sword, I liked the feeling of wielding it and I could successfully defeat a Monster with it, whereas most other weapons felt a little too slow, unhandy or too weak at first. A little further in the game I noticed that I liked the hammer too, so it got my second main weapon, afterwards I noticed that I like bowguns, it's vastly different from Swords and Hammers, so I got into that and that got my third main. When I started world I chose Insect Glaive, because it was a new weapon to me and it looked really fun, I liked the feeling of fighting with it am now sticking to it as my main weapon in MHW, occasionally I play with the Hammer, Heavy Bowgun or Long Sword, but not much with the LS, because I already played so much with it in MH3 and I want some new experiences, yet I may switch to that when I will feel bored of the Insect Glaive.

I feel like the Insect Glaive is the weapon that is the most mobile, a Monster can't get away from you, and your bug is always hitting it, it's a super versatille weapon and it's fascinating to me to see that most people play nowadays with the Long Sword, it wasn't that way in MH3U, and I felt very powerful with that weapon, because in my opinion it dashed out a lot of attack and gave you good mobility.

[Luna]

well i can't stick with one either.

while i have my favorite's. i still use almost all the weapon types. (exept the lances they left a poor taste in my mouth)

there is no shame in that. just use them all. you will be a better hunter in the long run
i know i got better thanks to switching weapons

i used duel blades in world
then sword and shield post game world and insect glaive too.
picked up charge blade for iceborne.
then switched to switch-axe in iceborne's post game
then picked up hammer on a second playtrough.

and in genult i play great sword. and prowler.

thats almost half the weapon roster.

there is no need to main a weapon. flip flopping is a bit more expensive as you need more weapons than if you just main one. but i found it worth it to swap between them

tldr: just use all of the weapons mate

[Zhou Yu]

I started out with MH3U as well. My first choices were between greatsword, longsword, and switch axe. After a bit I felt like I needed more mobility but wanted to retain the ability for heavy hits. I naturally gravitated to the hammer which happened to have everything I was looking for. The bonus that made me truly stick to the weapon was the KO's and simply watching monster's recoil occasionally from my heavy hits. I little bit before Iceborne came out I was shopping around for other weapons that I'd like to try out. Turns out the heavy counter style and surprisingly mobile lance was what I was looking for to contrast my hammer. Since then I've fallen in love with the lance and am constantly looking for excuses to use it over my hammer.

Don't be ashamed that you haven't found a specific weapon to main. It might help you to narrow down what weapon you want by looking at the properties that define your playstyle. Do you like to shoot at monsters from a distance? Do you want to be the guy first into a fight? What kind of archetypes do you gravitate towards in other games and media? Hell it might just be that you're going to be stuck maining all weapons, which certainly has the benefit of being able to choose any weapon to counter any monster at any time.

[Good Night Owl]

I mean it's a personal preference type of thing. I tried all the weapons, knew right away which ones I DEFINITELY do not like. By the end, I narrowed it down to the top 3 that I do like, and picked the one that I felt made every monster encounter diverse. For me, that was was the insect Glaive. But I could have easily gone with the charge weapons as well.

[Dusklite]

You do not actually have to main a weapon.
If you can avoid narrowing your playstyle to a single or even just a couple of weapons and still progress/have fun, you'll probably turn out to be a decent hunter at the very least.

As for the question what made me more or less main a weapon: It just happened. If one starts to fall back to a few weapons for more difficult hunts, chances are one will sooner or later fall back to a single one that has proven to work very well time and again.

[Kawalorn]

I chose Charge Blade purely on the fact that it looked cool as ♥♥♥♥ when it fluidly transformed between modes while I was trying it out. :P

[Emerald Lance]

Early on I fired a clip full of slicing ammo from my Kadachi Lion III HBG, and I never looked back. Wyvernsnipe is also sick as ♥♥♥♥.

[Artorias]

Flip a coin two face