Ammo Matchupes
I've been using the opportunity of PC Rise to try out heavy bowgun and while I'm really enjoying it and understand the general principles around the meta sets and what not I'm a bit more mystified on what ammo to run when.
For example: Pierce. I generally leveled using normals since it was easier to gear up for but activating WEX with pierce seems difficult since I get a lot of grey numbers as well as the orange and often the only spot to hit is the head which isn't particularly weak most of the time.
Posted Feb 5, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC
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Pierce is good on long (and/or wide) monsters and monsters with long shot weakspots. WEX doesn't work well with it, but it goes really well with the Kushala Ramp Up skill. Alternatively the Narga HBG comes with a ton of affinity, so slap some good ol' Crit Eye and Agitator to accompany your Crit Boost instead of WEX (I could go on a rant about why Crit Boost is bad for the game, but instead I'll just mention that despite recommending to run CB for damage, I do not approve of it being in the series)
Spread is good on pretty much anything, but requires you to be close to the monster so it's not as good on monsters that like to keep their distance/fly a lot (e.g. Rathalos and the rampage couple)
Normal is generally speaking a weak shot type, but it is dirt cheap to run and if you bring combines you'll never run out of blammo due to how efficient crafting them is. It also has a longer reach than Spread and it is very easy to hit even small weakspots with it, so it's not completely useless. It did kinda become less useful thanks to World allowing us to restock infinitely mid-hunt, since it can no longer shine with its ability to practically never run out, even if it falls behind in the DPS department.
Interesting on the Wex & pierce, thank you for letting me know. I saw it on the meta sets and wondered if it just kind of averaged out on damage if you managed to hit weak spots but glad to hear I wasn't completely crazy, haha.
And good to know on spread as well. Thanks!