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Monster Hunter XX (Double Cross) 6 styles 6 flagships 6 fuck

Brave Style:
-hold Y to get into Brave Stance
-hitting monsters and evading using Brave Stance fills the blue Brave gauge (take note you still take damage in the form of red health if you evade the monster using the Stance)
-using attacks during the Stance fills up your bar faster
-filling up the bar turns it red and you can do some cool shit I guess

Alchemy:
-hitting monsters fills the Barrel gauge (in item list) and form 5 red pips above your name
-gauge also fills up automatically but extremely slowly
-use X pips to shake the barrel X times, producing different items

~Shaking the barrel~
1 time:
Alchemy ration - recovers your stamina
Alchemy whetstone - sharpens your weapon along with Hunter's Drink effect
(Gunners) Alchemy ammo/coating - loads the thing with Hunter's Drink effect

2 times:
Alchemy immunizer - gives you regenerating health for a short period of time
Alchemy sonic bomb - the barrel shoots out a sonic bomb after a period of time

3 times:
Alchemy earplugs - disposable earplugs (auto applied upon forming)
Alchemy weed - speeds up your pip charging and barrel animations
4 times:
Alchemy crystal - combine this item with other items to give it additional effects
Alchemy Bazooka - the barrel fires a cannonball in an arc

5 times:
Alchemy portable smoke bomb - immediately fills up a large portion of your HA gauge or prowler support gauge, works in a small AoE
Healing barrel - walk around with a barrel that gives regenerative HP to you and your fellow hunters, ending with a big poof that heals everyone by a big amount and remove any statuses (also can be done with button press)


******************* Moveset changes ********************************
<<Greatsword>> ~GS

Brave:
-cannot draw into charged slash
	-Press Y > X to do a Focus charged slash
-no super swing after a jumping attack (it becomes a slap)
-you cannot combo into the X slash from any attack except neutral and from Brave stance
	-cannot combo any attack from the X slash either
-side roll now combos into slap instead of horizontal swing
Y > A to do horizontal swing

Red Brave bar:
-draw into Focused strong charge
-neutral X is now a strong charge
	-tapping A while charging will make you hop forward and cover some distance before landing the hit
-can combo slash > slap > back to slash again

Alchemy:
-cannot combo into strong charge from slap
-you can't combo strong charge from horizontal swing
	-you combo into the super swing ender instead
-can combo into X+A, but you cannot start with X+A
-no super swing after a jumping attack (it becomes a slap), pressing A does nothing

<<Longsword>> ~LS

Brave:
-can only do sideways fadeslash from Stance (Y > X+A)
-spirit combo gets no ender, therefore no 3 levels of gauge
-fadeslash cannot combo into spirit slash
-Y > X can start a combo
-Y > R for spirit slash

Red Brave bar:
-can fade slash normally now
-pressing R will do a parry move before starting the actual spirit combo on the next press
-gauge color is now blue when bar is full
-push a direction during the second attack of the spirit combo to run forward a little before attacking (not pushing keeps you there)
-Y > R skips the parry move and moves it to the first spirit slash

Alchemy:
-XXAAA combo is now XXXXX infinite combo
-A does side fadeslash now
-cannot combo spirit slash from fadeslash
-cannot use X attacks in between each spirit slash

<<Sword & Shield>> ~SnS

Brave:
-cannot roll into up-slash
-can only use roundslash from Stance  (Y > A)
-stance into a jumping strong slash (Y > X)
-no backhop

Red Brave bar:
-combo into X+A to do a backslide + lunge forward (you can't start with this)
	-you can backslide towards ANY direction, and lunge into ANY direction you push
		-press X after backslide to start the stationary combo
			-you can also press X after lunge to start the stationary combo
		-press A after lunge to do a double spin slash,
		-press X+A again after lunge to do a forward jumping slash combo


Alchemy:
-no ender for X combo
-no rising slash in A combo
-no second shield bash in shield combo
-no backhop

<<Dual Blades>> ~DB

Brave:
-no demon mode
-Y > X for forward slash
-Y > X+A for archdemon devilish dance
-press and hold R to do a run (consumes stamina at a rapid rate), limited distance run even with infinite stamina

Red Brave bar:
-X+A from neutral to do spinning forward slash
	-can do the same with Y > X
-X+A during a combo to do a devilish dance (consumes stamina)
-the start of your run (or tap R) has a "guard point" where you do a spin2win if properly countered
-running into a ledge or scooting into it does the helicopter spin2win

Alchemy:
-(while in Demon mode) cannot combo into forward slash after first spin attack
-you don't get spin2win even after getting archdemon mode

<<Hammer>> ~HA

Brave:
-no golfswing in triple poud combo
-Y > A for side pound (also available on its own by pressing A)
-Y > X for a strong hook (it's not a golf swing)
-charge only goes to Level 2  (uppercut)
-cannot combo into TP from Level 1 swing
-slow charging

Red Brave bar:
-charge attacks are key
-Focused charging
-you can evade while charging, but only once and only at the startup of the charging animation
-can combo into TP from Level 1 now
	-a consecutive charge (charge again after the attack is done) changes the attack
		-(2nd charge) Lv1 is uppercut, Lv2 is strong uppercut
		-(3rd charge) Lv1 is fast superpound, Lv2 is mini Spinning Meteor

Alchemy:
-cannot combo into charge from golfswing
-You can do the X-X-X combo with A-A-X as well
-Lv3 charge is always superpound, spinning has been removed

<<Hunting Horn>> ~HH

Brave:
-special attack alternates between Notes 2 (poke) and 1 (forward slam)
-you can do the Stance from Recital mode
	-Encore can only be done from Stance-Recital mode
-cannot combo two Note 2s from mashing A [you need to press A (swing) then press Special (poke), the other way doesn't work]
-X button will always do left swing first (Y > X for forward slam)
-X+A will always do superpound first (Y > X+A for backswing)
-A will always do right swing first (Y > A for double swing)

Red Brave Bar:
-A button now has double swing on neutral, sugoi
-Stance-Recital (Y > R) has a new animation which plays the song instantly
	-you can Encore from this as well
-you can evade into a Recital

Alchemy:
-no double swing
-Special attack alternates between Notes 2 and 1
-X+A always starts with superpound

<<Lance>> ~LA

Brave:
-Y > X for double swipe
-multi-hit last poke as usual
-can only charge from Stance (Y > X+A)
	-can do a jumping attack from charge
	-can do the back swipe at the end of the charge, but you can't combo into poke from any ender
-no counter

Red Brave bar:
-X+A now does a shield bash GP which you can combo into your pokes
	-pressing X+A after that turns it into a charge
-you can even do the shield bash GP after your three-poke combo, creating an infinite combo
-you can now combo pokes after the ender for the charges
-still no counter but who needs them you're invincible now

Alchemy:
-no X+A swipe
-no backswing at the end of charge
-can combo into triple thrust after the charge
-no counter

<<Gunlance>> ~GL

Brave:
-no backhop reload
-no neutral reload
-no advancing shell attack
-R+A for GP one-shell reload (you can only combo A from this)
-no charged shells
-Stance-R+A for neutral reload
-Stance-X for one-shell reload and slam
-Stance-A for Brave shelling
-Wyvern's Fire is shot much faster

Red Brave bar:
-R+A is now a GP four-shell reload (you can combo into pokes now)
-Stance-X is now a four-shell reload and slam
-You can rapid-fire shells by Stance-A●●●●, or after a poke/swing
	-Note: you cannot rapid-fire shells from neutral
-you can continue thrusting from a slam, essentially creating an infinite combo

Alchemy:
-no charged shells
-cannot combo into upswing
	-you can only start with the upswing
-Wyvern's Fire is shot much faster

<<Switch Axe>> ~SA

Brave:
-Axe Mode has no 1080° spin slash from infinite swing, Y > X to do so
	-you also cannot change into Sword mode after the spin
-cannot change into Sword Mode mid-combo, Y > R to do so
-Sword Mode has infinite vertical slash with X combo, a la Striker
-Sword mode has no double slash, Y > A in Sword to do so
-Y > X in Sword to do an up-slash
-Y > R in Sword to do Axe side-chop

Red Brave bar:
-infinite dashes in axe mode
-normal transforms mid-combo can now be done
-1080° spin slash ender for Axe Mode is back
-All Axe Mode attacks transform into Sword double slash, with the exception of the upswing
-All Sword Mode attacks transform into Axe infinite swing
-you now Phial Burst twice at one go
	-you can either attack-cancel or dash-cancel the recovery of the double Phial Burst
		-Note: you can only do either if you have meter left on the gauge (shown as an orange color)
-letting off an early Phial Burst (pulling back the analog) does not give you a second one
	-you also cannot dash-cancel out of an early phial burst


Alchemy:
-Axe can transform to Sword from forward lunge and overhead chop attacks
	-pressing A after overhead chop turns it into Sword as well
-X-X-X on Sword transforms it back to Axe automatically
-A-A combo on Sword is sideslash-doubleslash combo
	-pressing X after any move here transforms it back to Axe
-reloading in an axe combo does the Energy Charge animation, allowing you to immediately continue attacking with Sword
	-unsheathe reload (RXA) does the same thing
	-Note: reloading while neutral does the normal animation


<<Charge Blade>> ~CB

Brave:
-No charged slash for sword mode
	-Y > A to do charged slash
-Y > R to change into Axe mode
-GPs have been removed from CB's usual GPs

Red Brave bar:
-shield buff is blue
-evades in Sword mode have GP
-you can transform normally now
-you can use charged slash, but only after shield thrust
-phial load into axe is Burst2 now
-Burst3 is now a 3-hit attack, you can keep chaining B2 and B3 together via [A•••] combo
	-you can still use AED/SAED at any point in this combo
-Using SAED will not lose the shield buff

Alchemy:
-no shield thrust
	-X+A just loads and charges shield (yellow) a la Guild Style
	-to get red shield, charge from Axe mode
-cannot delay/overcharge the sword charged slash
-no SAED
-X+A during phial load to immediately charge up the shield

<<Insect Glaive>> ~IG

Brave:
-can only vault from Stance (Y > R+X)
-no X ender (Y > X to do it)
-Y > A for backflip (also available to do from normal combo)

Red Brave bar:
-you can now do X ender
-you can now do vault normally
-pressing R (shooting the pheromone), pressing A or doing any aerial attack makes the kinsect attack at the same time

Alchemy:
-can't charge your kinsect
-no backflip
-cannot fire the marker in mid-air
-stationary combo is XX(ender) instead of XXX

<<Light Bowgun>> ~LBG

Brave:
-no backhops or sidesteps
-Y > X to do a strong reload for bullets that help fill your bar faster

Red Brave Bar:
-backhop and sidesteps are back
-every backhop/sidestep also fires internal bullets
	-you can do this up to 3 times, the 3rd times it fires multiple bullets

Alchemy:
-no major change as far as I can tell, just shoot fucking bullets

<<Heavy Bowgun>> ~HBG

Brave:
-no siege mode
-Y > X to do a strong reload for bullets that help fill your bar faster
-immediately press X after evading an attack with the Stance to keep your weapon unsheathed through a roll
	-never worry about the long animation again!

Red Brave bar:
-siege mode now possible
-seige mode will increase in firing speed the longer you hold A
-you can now run a limited distance by holding B (does not consume stamina)
	-tap B during the run to do a slide (pulling away and tapping B makes you roll)
		-you can go into siege mode from the slide
		-you can hold B doing the slide to continue running (once again, does not consume stamina)

Alchemy:
-no siege mode(!)

<<Bow>>

Brave:
-backhop from neutral
-no power shot nor arc shot
-Y > R for a stronger shot (with the arc shot arrow?)
-press A while charging to do a backhop

Red Brave bar:
-now you can do power shot twice
-You can do one more strong shot after a Stance-Shot
-backhop twice into a Lv1 charge (?!)

Alchemy:
-no strong shot
-backhop twice into a Lv1 charge (why)