What's up guys I'm Shermsy and I thought
it'd be helpful to the community and
create a beginner's guide to
speedrunning and how you could improve
your gameplay dramatically by learning
how to speedrun. I'll share what I've
personally learned having only recently
started speedrunning and already
received a world record within a certain
update version of the game. Maybe you
just got good with a certain weapon or
two and want to take your gameplay to the
next level, well you've come to the right
place.
The main reason I started speedrunning
is because I achieved everything I
wanted to do in the game, except grinding
for those damn jewels, and I wanted to
spice up my experience without even
realizing, without even realizing, how
much it would improve my gameplay yet
alone get to a point where I'll post a
World Record. Let me confirm from
personal experience YOU WILL 100%
improve your overall gameplay as soon as
you start and complete your first
speedrun and achieve a result or time
you're happy with. When I started I
thought I was good having had over 1,000
hours at the time but as soon as I
finished my first run I already learnt
new skills and valued the importance of
certain mechanics of the game which
we'll get into a bit. I already
considered myself a fairly advanced
player before speedrunning but honestly
speedrunning took my gameplay to the
next level and to me Monster Hunter was
like a new game. Yeah so, first of all
what does speedrunning mean in Monster
Hunter World or within the community?
99% of runs are done by selecting any
specific quests be it story or optional
quests and choosing a certain weapon,
then the objective is to load up the quest
and finish the quest as soon as possible
with your personal fastest time possible.
Simple as that!
Until RNG kicks in, but we'll get
back into that. The remaining 1% of
speedruns are through the story like a
lot of games which is NOT what we will
be talking about and it's not typically
what the community
means when they refer to speed running,
so speed runs they're achieved per quest,
per weapon type, per speed run category.
If someone says they got a world record
for example it doesn't mean they got the
fastest ever time in the world for that
quest. It means they got the fastest time
for that specific quest, with a specific
weapon, on a specific speed run category.
So essentially there's a possibility of
28 world record holders just for one
quest, since there's 14 weapon
types in the game between 2 speedrun
categories moving on there are 2 types
of speedrun categories you can choose
from. One is Freestyle, which means
everything goes, you can ledge hop, wall
slam, boulder drop, spam Traps, use Mantles,
etc. Literally get the fastest time
possible with everything that the game
offers you, just as you normally play
casually. It's probably the easiest place
to start, but it's personal
preference
I only say it's the easiest because
that's what you're used to right? The
other speed run category, arguably the
competitive version of speed runs or
the more competitive is called TA or
TA wiki rules, which stands for Time
Attack but more importantly it means the
only way you're allowed to do damage is
by your weapon alone. Just your weapon so
there's no Mantle's, no wall slams, no
traps, no ledge hopping, no mounting, you
have to spawn at camp and many, many more
rules. What I'll do I'll leave a link in
the description if you want to check out
the latest ta rules these may get
updated from time to time it should
be the same link but just bear that in
mind.
Both speedrun categories are competitive
and it's all about personal choice some
people dedicate their runs to one
category others like to do both. Me
personally,
I love ta runs since I like the
challenge of the monster being able to
hit me back at all times and it's
different to how I would play casually.
Everyone has their own reasons it's
personal choice. Now we have gone through
what does speedrunning mean and the
different categories, it's only logical
to consider how does one prepare for a
speedrun?
Since now I've decided on a quest or
monster, weapon and speedrun category, I'm
going to share how I prepared and give
some advice to help you. If any
speedrunners out there have any personal
advice please share your thoughts in the
comments below. Before speedrunning I
would search for the best speedrunners
on youtube for my weapon choice and
follow and subscribe to them. Typically I
would watch the top 3 fastest times
for that specific quest and study them
since one Runner may be better than the
other at certain mechanics of the fight
plus different Runners will experience
different RNG and learning how each
Runner deal with certain scenarios will
help you greatly as you evolve your own
playstyle. The easiest and fastest way
to find the best speedrunners is
checking out the leaderboards and
thankfully there is a single site that
the speedrunning community uses and I'll
post a link to the website below. This
website is not only for speedrunners,
well I recommend it to anybody honestly
just share it with your friends
if they're interested to see how to
optimally kill a monster with a specific
weapons you know or obviously their
favourite weapon or
weapons. Also I would recommend joining
the Discords of speedrunners and good
start are the Discords listed in the website I've mentioned, somewhere
in the about me or community section and
of course your favorite speedrunner
discourse if they have one. Some
discourse has some useful resources like
hit zone values and mathematical stats
for each monster or weapon, which can be
very helpful plus you can connect with a
large community of speedrunners of
every level and keep posted of all the
latest runs from all over the world.
Yes, you get resources
I think that's been really helpful and
something I didn't really expect when I
first joined the Discords. You don't have
to, if you're not a chatty person, you
don't have to chat, there's
enough information there to help you out
too. Now that we have studied from
watching other speedruns, what do we have
to do or consider within the speedrun,
other than beat the monster up? The
priority is read the rules of the speed
run category and understand them all
before starting. Ask in the comments
below if you don't understand anything.
Myself or I'm sure other people within the
community can help out in the comments.
So when you land into the quest you need
to get to that monster ASAP and at the
same time buff your character up. How do
you buff your character on the way to
the monster, could effect seconds of your
time so consider this carefully. How you
need to initially start the fight with
the initial hit or getting attention of
the monster is the next step to consider.
Do you want to get the monster agitated
so you start the fight with the
Agitator skill kicking in or do you
avoid early agitation and just weaken it
which in most cases avoid certain moves
that's triggered from an agitated state?
It could be various reasons, they're
two big examples but every monster is
different so bear this in mind but
starting off, probably imitate the best
runners you have been studying and
following, that's probably the best place
to start and then you'll slowly evolve
from there. The best runner has
already tested most scenarios and if you
strive in being a world record holder
or top tier speed runner, you will
need to do the same by scripting your
own fight but this is very advanced
since it involves positioning yourself
to position the monster and perhaps lure
certain attacks with a given RNG in lots
more. Each weapon has unique points to
consider but we're keeping it simple and
generic in this video.
As you may have gathered the aim is to
get off as much damage as possible in
the fastest time possible so focus on
weak spots anticipate the monsters move
sets. After any given move of any
monster, they have a set number of moves
they can follow up with. Bear this in
mind when you're learning how to truly
anticipate the monsters next move. You
may notice some top 3 speedruns are
within seconds of each other but all
have slightly different builds or
completely different builds for example
elemental versus raw builds. But I
would recommend choosing a build you're
most comfortable with and build your
strategy of your run around your build.
Into the next discussion,
"R" "N" god damn "G," RNG is a huge factor
and unfortunately the worst part of
speedrunning in monster hunter world. That's why you
see most speedruns are done within the
Arena because for example within TA
rules, you have to spawn at the start
at Camp and that's within the
rules, where possible for any quests. So
if you have a Wingdrake spawn you into
the map or by the monster and you got to
reset and you got to keep resetting
until you get the camp spawn. It's just,
it's just, honestly just a lot of waste
of time there. So that's why I'd love to, me
personally I would love to do
speedruns you know in the map but
honestly because of the amount of times
I have to reset, like my preference
is Arena. There's so much
RNG involved already you know so that's,
that's what I do.
Other RNG factors are the meals you eat
before you start because most runners
are looking for the daily skill Felyne
Weakener for example, which means the
monster will start with a HP value equal
to their minimum HP and no more than
their average HP. Just to explain a little
more without this skill,
you know normally, most or every quest I
know the spawned monster has a
random HP value which can randomly
be set typically, plus or minus 5% so
there's always you know a possibility
for plus or minus 5% before you go to quest.
So what you want ideally is 
obviously the lowest value which is minus 5%
HP and this could be the difference
between setting up a whole SAED for a
Charge Blade as an example, which takes a
lot of time. And the size of the monster
is also RNG where in my experience
the smaller the size of the monster
the better the run. So I would also reset
if I noticed a ridiculously large
version at the start of the fight. So
other than dealing with meal, spawn, HP
and size of monster, you got to consider
the RNG of the monster move set. My
advice is don't just fight the monster
and focus on critical hits, study what
moves do the monster follow up with
each move set they got so you can
position and anticipate the monster
better. The key word here is ANTICIPATE.
PC players has the greatest advantage
with the ability in removing all these
RNG issues through the use of mods, so
those considering speed running on PC
just make sure you look up the available
mods and potential rules relating to pc
speedruns which should be on the website
links below. Because you guys have a much
more stress-free experience, trust me...
Thankfully regarding leaderboards
I heard there's a separate leaderboard
for pc so console players, we still got
this baby, at the end of the day console
runs has no mods, so no one can
question you, which is the only
disadvantage versus PC, if that is even
one. Okay so before I get to the
conclusion, I need to say, if you guys
enjoyed or found this video useful,
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in advance. Okay continuing in terms of
the basics I think we've covered
everything or a lot of it. Just make sure
at the end of the fight you show all
your builds, time etc. Which is listed in
the rules of the speedrunning website or
watch any speedrun posted on the website
to see how people display their
builds and etc. at the end.
I do wish in so many ways I had a video
like this or got shown something like
this because I would have speedrun a lot
earlier I mean like maybe even like five hundred
hours into the game. I would have, you
know, I would have easily surpassed where
I am right now, but yes since my
initial perception of speedrunning was
people completing story base games as
fast as possible and those content don't
normally interest me, thus it was never
really on my radar but speedrunning in
Monster Hunter is unique. I like to think
it is, where it's quest specific and
it only takes minutes.
The biggest advantage in attempting to
speedrun is that it's probably the
fastest way for anyone that's intermediate level and
above to improve their gameplay, like
real fast. Plus the buzz you get after
achieving your personal goal is
really something else it's easily the
the biggest buzz I've had from playing
this game. Even more than then that Jewel
you've been grinding days for... I still
don't have a single, top-tier jewel, you
know the double Handicraft, double Agi,
double Attack, that extra double Expert. I got
nothing but why aren't you, anyway well
thanks for tuning in and a BIG thank you
for all those who have "Liked" the video
and especially HUGE thanks to those who
have "Subscribed" to the channel. Take it
easy and Happy Hunting!
