Guard Up for charge blade - Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Charge blade is versatile weapon which not only allows for dealing large amounts of damage with its Axe mode but also you can block attacks with you sword and shield. Important thing to now with charge blade is that its shield is somewhere in the middle of all weapons which can have shields (this includes, lance, gunlance, etc.). However, as you can block many attacks and by some of them you can get huge staggers, there are special attacks which are non-defendable.
But there is a skill for those attacks and it is called Guard Up. It allows to block some of the unblock-able attacks. I am saying some as Savage Devilhjo pin still hits through even with this skill.
List of monsters which have those unblock-able attacks mitigated by Guard Up:
Monster | Attack |
Anjanath | Pin Attack |
Rathian | Pin Attack |
Rathalos | Pin Attack |
Radobaan | Sleep Blast |
Kirin | Horizontal Lightning Blast |
Devilhjo | Pin Attack, Devour Attack |
Uragaan | Fire Blast, Sleep Blast |
Teostra | Super Nova |
Kushala Daora | Charge Wind Blast |
MR Black Diablos | Charge when hands are placed on ground |
Vaal Hazak | Effluvia Clouds , Beam attack |
Kulve Taroth | Lava Pool, Large Body Slam |
Velkhana | Ice Breath |
Rajang | Lightning Beam |
Shara Ishvalda Unarmored | Wind/Beam attacks |
Behemoth | Thunderbolt, Pin Attack, Ground Explosions, Belly attacks |
Xenojiva | Energy beams, some ground explosions |
However, as I have played with charge blade for 400 hours, I haven't personally used this skill too much. The only times I used was in normal Monster Hunter World, when spamming SAED, so that I would not miss a chance to use it against Teostra Super Nova.
Hope this information will help you to decide whether this skill should be used.
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