KCGemini | MHW: Iceborne - AT Velkhana (TA) / Lance - 7'53"93 @KCGemini | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
MR6: The Place Where Winter Sleeps
Sub 8 achieved!
Although I got gipped by two aerial staggers near the end of the run, for which I'm sure gave her enough time to zone out.
Guess preventing that for the sweet time save will be my next goal if I come back to this.
Music is Potsu x Lando - Breakfast
PS4 Version 15.11
MR6: The Place Where Winter Sleeps
Sub 8 achieved!
Although I got gipped by two aerial staggers near the end of the run, for which I'm sure gave her enough time to zone out.
Guess preventing that for the sweet time save will be my next goal if I come back to this.
Music is Potsu x Lando - Breakfast
PS4 Version 15.11
![Grounded: Infused Mant solo [NG+4 Whoa! difficulty - No damage]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T_VQH1c3geQ/hqdefault.jpg "Grounded: Infused Mant solo [NG+4 Whoa! difficulty - No damage]
Official Release v1.4.0.4495
This video exists to show why I never put up a non-infused Mant video (or Assistant Manager, for that matter). If anything, consider it a showcase of the Fresh Coldtana/Breathslayer.
His Infusions:
Increased Movement Speed
Increased Attack
Increased Max Health
Explosive Attack
Spicy Magic Attack
Shockwave
Venom Coating
As for strategies, other than using Mants legs to kite any summoned ants to prevent them from biting you, you want to watch out for his gurgle-roar, as being right beside him during that moment will trigger his infusions and likely cause a one-shot.
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Items and Equipment:
Fresh Coldtana Lv. 15 - With Samurai and a good Science Cone/Glowbasa Necklace, he gets out-DPSd before he can do much of anything. The Science Cone here has Samurai, which is used to build up 5 stacks of +10% attack speed.
Science Cone - Friendly Fire Defense Up / Samurai / Finale Goo
*Friendly Fire Defense Up - Not needed in this fight, but it reduces damage from other players and yourself by 75%.
*Samurai - For every hit inflicted by a katana-type weapon, +10% attack speed is added, up to a cap of 5 hits (50% attack speed). Samurais effect still works even if you switch trinkets mid-fight.
*Finale Goo - Applies the same effect as Giddy Goop, giving the enemy a -20% movement and attack speed debuff for 10 seconds.
Glowbasa Necklace - Fresh Damage Up Best / +Critical Hit Chance / Implant Weakness: Fresh
*Fresh Damage Up Best - Increases fresh damage by 50%
*+Critial Hit Chance - Raises crit chance by 5%
*Implant Weakness: Fresh - Adds a debuff that gives an enemy 50% increased damage to fresh. (On another note, this trinket effect can be mislabeled and shares itself with Implant Weakness: Sour and Implant Weakness: Salt. To test if its actually the element in question, hit an enemy once to trigger the debuff and then hit them again to see what type of damage increased. This one is actually fresh, thankfully.)
Eyepatch Lv. 0 - Adds 10% more to ones attack but at the cost of taking 25% extra damage.
Fire Ant Arm Guards Lv. 9 (Sleek) - This armor piece has a 10% chance to inflict corrosion upon striking the enemy, which reduces defense by 15% for 10 seconds.
Greaves of the Mother Demon Lv. 9 (Sleek): Each hit inflicted has a 25% chance to apply poison or venom to the target. The poison does 16 damage every 5 seconds, while venom does 18 damage every 5 seconds.
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Food and Drinks: (due to the cooldown for using buffs, I skipped recording those actions)
Perfect Toast - +5% crit chance and +40% to critical hit damage
Boss Sauce - +5% crit chance
Liquid Rage - +10% attack
Green Machine - 20% faster stamina recovery
Boost Juice - +20 stamina
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Mutations:
Blademaster Lv. 3 - Although this will lower Mants attack damage by 30%, its primary use is reducing the exhaustion timer by 90%, which is more than necessary since Samurai drills through stamina like nothing.
Ant-nihilator Lv. 3 - Increases damage to all ant types by 25% and defense by 10%. This *does* include Mant.
Cardio Fan Lv. 3 - Decreases the exhaustion timer by 30% and grants 30% faster stamina recovery.
Coup De Grass Lv. 2 - 5% crit chance, stack all the crit.
Trapper Peep.R Lv. 3 - 60% more damage from critical hits, pairing nicely with the other buffs.
Lastly, the Fire Ant Queen mount was used to deal an extra 20% damage to fire worker and fire warrior ants. Im not sure if this mount works on Mant.")
![Grounded 1.4 - All Bosses [Whoa! difficulty - No damage] (War of the Lil Fist - NG+5)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uy0QELrvGGk/hqdefault.jpg "Grounded 1.4 - All Bosses [Whoa! difficulty - No damage] (War of the Lil Fist - NG+5)
Official Release v1.4.4.4634
One Thousand Fists
0:00 - Infused Infected Ladybug
1:28 - Infused Assistant Manager
3:00 - Infused Hedge Broodmother
4:11 - Infused Mantis
5:09 - Infused Mant
6:31 - Infused Director Schmector
7:46 - Infused Wasp Queen
10:43 - Infused Infected Broodmother
As it would take far too long to describe setups in my usual manner, I show what equips/mutations are used after the boss fights. Two specific trinkets are needed to make Lil Fist work in this manner:
*Trinket #1* - Fury / Samurai (Turbo fists)
Trinket #2 - Fury / Mad Scientist (This is to go even further beyond)
*Trinket #3* - +Unarmed Damage / +Boss Damage (Used last, as this trinket allows the boosted stats to do good damage even in later NG+s)
Trinket #2 is used when trinket #1 would be slower overall or not enough for the situation, as Mad Scientists additional buffs can allow one to DPS down the boss quickly. With trinkets #1 and #3, Lil Fist becomes a viable choice, as Samurais attack speed increase allows one to build 100 Lil Fist stacks with little effort. For the damage trinket, one should look for +Unarmed Damage, but pairing it with +Boss Damage is an additional 30% increase to the 100% that +Unarmed Damage gives. Fury is *not* optional, as it allows punches to pair with skills and mutations that are otherwise incompatible, such as Samurai or Smasher.
One thing to note is that outside the first boss fight, every other one was done with its default arena. For some reason, the Infused Infected Ladybug and the Infected Mites in the room count as separate spawns. Due to NG+, additional mites are generated outside the room with BURG.Ls chip, and the ones in the room can slide underneath the door, leading to the boss and 9 mites fighting the player simultaneously. Worse, the ladybug spawns 3 Infected Larva and 5 more mites as its HP lowers. To add the cherry on top, the mites attack is also unblockable. Imagine having 14 of those shooting at you all at once.
Fortunately, you can clear out the 9 mites beforehand; otherwise, I unsuccessfully spent several hours trying to clear that mess. Ironically, setting up the fight in this manner mirrors normal Whoa mode.
I had a good time with Grounded, and with this video, I have done all I wanted. It was nice seeing you all!")
