MH4U: Insect Glaive (IG) Overview!

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The Insect Glaive or IG, is one of two new weapons introduced in MH4U. This weapon is complex in a lot of ways that not only do you upgrade the Glaive, you also have to feed your Kinsect food that raises their stats and characteristic. This means that you are in charge of how your bug grows and what kind of ability, movement speed and damage it does.

The most important thing to master first is your Kinsect/bug. You have to practice getting the extract from monsters to get buffs that are key to the IG's performance. There are four (4) types of extracts you can get from large monsters and only one (1) from small monsters.

The four (4) extracts you can get are:

• White - Increases movement speed and jump height
• Orange - Gains the super armor ability
• Red - Increases number of attack hits
• Green - Restores a bit of health

The white extract can be combined with red or orange to get a compound buff which is called a Double Up. Here are the effects:

• White + red = Increases movement speed and jump height, adds 20% more attack and adds more hits to attacks.
• White + orange = Increases movement speed and jump height, adds 6% more def with super armor and you gain the Rock Steady ability.

Double Up sounds nice right? But wait till you know what Triple Up or Golden Man does! It's the combination of all three (3) extracts and the buffs are:

• 25% more damage
• 8% more defense
• Rock Steady
• Increased movement speed
• Increased jump height
• Lasts up to 60 seconds!!

When you use the IG, always fight with at least the red extract. This makes your damage output higher, it's like the DB's Archdemon mode (Check out my DB overview by the way if you're interested ^o^) which grants you several buffs! That red extract is a must for doing high damage with a lot of combo strings. The most commonly used combo is the X, X, A because you can easily chain pretty much anything and does a lot of damage!

The special abilities of the Kinsect can even extend your Triple/Double Up time or may even give you more damage and other good stuff! So always check the ability of the bug before evolving it. Practice getting those extracts and love your Kinsect! Grab your IG and let's jump off to a good hunt shall we? Happy hunting!!

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