Any way to prevent staggering from monsters?

[Xenos]

I'm familiar with Flinch Free, but every source says it only works against teammate stagger. My current annoyance is stuff like Rathalos take offs or Paolumu constantly sucking air right in front of me. It consistently leaves me wide open for a follow up, and can happen in an instant. I'm really just curious if there's a way to stop it.

I tried looking it up on Google but ALL the results are "prevent teammate stagger" even though I specified monsters.

[Popcorn]

That ones wind resistance
You know, cuz of the wind pressure from sucking and flapping of wings?

[Greb]

Wind Resistance is the skill you need to prevent being buffeted around by wind and air and stuff. Don't confuse it with the Wind Guard skill from Kushala Daora's armour bonus, as that's a different thing.

[Xenos]

Thanks for the answer
I'm still newer so I don't even know all the possible skills.
I wasn't aware a dedicated anti-wind pressure skill existed.

[Greb]

To be fair, most people don't. I don't think I've ever seen it used, or used it myself, outside of Hunting Horn buffs anyway.

But, go you! Don't fall into the "only damage matters" meta, design your builds around maximum comfort there's POWER to be had from being immune to everything.

[Xenos]

My goal is to be immune to literally everything with the lance shield and poke enemies to death like a steel mosquito

But its mostly just because Paolumu wind is incredibly annoying so I want it specifically for that

[torqueblue]

Flinch Free works against Small chip damage attacks. Like when Deviljho Does a 360 tail whip or a small bite.

[Smaugi]

Rocksteady mantle gives you hyperarmor and only a few attacks and grab attacks can knock you down.
But it's for a duration and has a long cooldown.

[Mhblis]

Others have given you the answer so Ill give you a better but less useful answer.

Dont be where the attack is.
If you are off to the side of fluff ball that sucking in and blast attack just flat out misses while you Punish the.


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As for your goal theres a few people who Posted Immortal builds on youtube. Many of them can steer you in the right direction.

[Definively Not Alchman]

since you are a lance user, i think some of those wind pushes can be blocked with guard up

but to be honest, i only know of one of the latter palomu variations that has a wind attack that can be blocked with guard up for sure because it has never been a problem to me. and i say that from lance user to lance user, sometimes it happens, but is very rare that being staggered by things like that results in a hit

i think you need 3 windproof for 100% immunity for palomu and wing beats, and only Daora stuff needs lvl 5

[AfLIcTeD]

Paloumu is just annoying when sucks air in. It does it so fast that you don't get chance to react. You don't really need windproof with lance as you can block it, same with roars.

[JanWar]

Originally posted by Definively Not Alchman:

since you are a lance user, i think some of those wind pushes can be blocked with guard up

but to be honest, i only know of one of the latter palomu variations that has a wind attack that can be blocked with guard up for sure because it has never been a problem to me. and i say that from lance user to lance user, sometimes it happens, but is very rare that being staggered by things like that results in a hit

i think you need 3 windproof for 100% immunity for palomu and wing beats, and only Daora stuff needs lvl 5

No, wind protection 5 won't help you against kushala wind aura. You need 3 piece kushala armor or all wind resistance song to negate that.

[Definively Not Alchman]

Originally posted by JanWar:

No, wind protection 5 won't help you against kushala wind aura. You need 3 piece kushala armor or all wind resistance song to negate that.

oh i don't mean the tornados themselves, i mean the aura daora has and the knockback around the tornados. but i might be wrong there

[Xenos]

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

Paloumu is just annoying when sucks air in. It does it so fast that you don't get chance to react. You don't really need windproof with lance as you can block it, same with roars.

I can try to block but I need to attack eventually, and once it starts sucking in air it always does it so fast I can't possibly reaction block it like roars. So unless I turtle nonstop until it goes airborne I can't block them all.

[Tetsu]

Originally posted by Xenos:

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

Paloumu is just annoying when sucks air in. It does it so fast that you don't get chance to react. You don't really need windproof with lance as you can block it, same with roars.

I can try to block but I need to attack eventually, and once it starts sucking in air it always does it so fast I can't possibly reaction block it like roars. So unless I turtle nonstop until it goes airborne I can't block them all.

If Paolumu isn't already in his inflating state, he'll always repeat the pattern of "Attack -> Suck Air -> Attack -> Suck Air" until his 3rd/4th air suck which will inflate him. Just be aware of the end recovery of his latest attack, and use your quick counter if you're sitting close to the head. You can also start your lance charge since it's your highest MV attack and comes with hyper armor to deal with the wind pressure.

[ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣]

Originally posted by torqueblue:

Flinch Free works against Small chip damage attacks. Like when Deviljho Does a 360 tail whip or a small bite.

yeah flinch free does work on monster attacks too. it does exactly as the description of it says