
Shield Assault is good at closing distance.Total motion value is 189 so it's worth using. Corkscrew Jab is the high damage hunter art.The stronger the attack you block, the stronger the boost is. You have to block an attack with it to get the raw damage boost. Enraged Guard is a good buff hunter art.Absolute Readiness if you're going evade lancing minimum.Evasion skills aren't used due to absolute evade/readiness running around.Guard + skills are redundant if you're using adept style.Guard Up if you want to block attacks normally unblockable.Challenger +2 compliments affinity skills.Affinity raising skills and Crit Boost for damage.Vice versa if the spot is weaker to blunt than cutting. What happens is that when you hit a monster, if the spot is weaker to cutting than blunt, then the lance will do cutting. Weakness Exploit especially since lance can do both cutting and blunt damage.Sharpness +1/2 and/or Razor Sharp depending on the weapon.

Shredclaw is used at times for more armor skill and hunter art freedom. Frostpeak and Hellblade are popular deviant weapon choices but Frostpeak needs sharpness +2 and razor sharp.

Hellblade Glavenus (GU Link) and Shredclaw (GU Link) tied for 3rdįinal Boss Lance is used the most due to natural purple, high raw, 3 slots, and extra defense.Neither brave or alchemy lance are used due to little gain after losing important stuff and triple poke is not popular.Ĭhecked 6/13/19 - Here's a list of popular lances (Criteria: 5+ usage on TA wiki): Adept is really good for guard lancing with adept guards. A good amount of people don't like the gen/xx triple poke either which is another reason to use striker over the other styles. Striker is the only style that has that high damage dash poke. Dash poke does 67 motion value in xx (70 in gen) and is spammable as long as you have the stamina for it. Striker is the most popular for time attacks due to its dash poke being really strong even though it was slightly nerfed from gen. Alchemy is like guild except no counters.Brave has guard point rushes (edit: counters are locked behind the guard point though).

Adept is really good for guard lancing thanks to adept guard.Aerial is when you really want to spam triple poke (unfortunately the dash jump was nerfed from gen to xx).Striker is old school lance with a high damage dash poke.Guild has the gen/xx triple poke with usual lance stuff.Guard lancing utilizes its big shield to block and counter attacks while Evade lancing as of gen/xx uses the absolute evades and readiness to be mobile with the lance. Generally you'll see two ways to play lance: guard lancing or evade lancing. It's used more solo because of that susceptibility and its amazing Time Attack times. Lance is a strong weapon that's uncommon online due to its susceptibility to tripping.
