Monster Hunter World Beta Player Crushes Hardest Hunt In Minutes
By Alex McCumbers ·
The Monster Hunter World became an instant favorite for those that played the beta. People were already striving to be the best, even before Day 1. Mai LBG crushed the run on Nergigante with ease and timeliness.
Monster Hunter has always had a wide range of players with various levels of skill. Some hunters may never get past a particular monster, while others may find themselves breezing through the game. Speedrunners in Monster Hunter though, take it a bit further.
The last beta test for Monster Hunter World just wrapped up, leaving players to patiently wait for a monumental, and to be honest fairly risk-heavy release from Capcom. This puts the speedruns of the beta in a rather interesting situation. Whoever can verify the top run, will theoretically never be beaten, solidifying their spot as long as that leaderboard is kept. Not only that, but this beta had way fewer options for a hunter to use, unlike the full game. Add in a shorter than usual timeframe for any given hunt, and it creates a whirlwind of creativity.
Most Monster Hunter runs are based off a particular quest, usually one that has the hunter tackling a particular monster. For the last beta, runners from all over took to Speedrun.com to submit their times. Rising almost to the top in the solo category was MaiLbg, a runner that utilized a particular exploit to get the maximum results, as well as tons of practice.
“It took me about 2 hours to practice that strategy in particular. The strategy is basically setting up wyvern flares bombs and torch pods and then luring him until the tail touches the torch pods. Then just shoot the flares during a paralyze and finish up remaining HP with slice.”
Mai also mentioned finishing Nergigante even faster than that, but never uploaded the run, only keeping a screenshot. There will also be more runs to come from this player! “Yes I'll be doing lots of light bowgun runs in the full game, most likely during streams.”
Even with this mastery of the fight that many failed to even complete with full time and other hunters helping, there were still times that were faster.
It looks like hunter Phemeto will stay at the top of the leaderboard in the solo category, at least on the Speedrun.com boards. His time was a 2 minutes: 07 seconds: 433 milliseconds. Of course, had Mai submitted the video of that other run, it would’ve beat out Phemeto.
Even more impressive, four German players got the fight down to almost under a minute.
Altogether though, there may be hunts even faster, but either just weren’t submitted or have yet to be verified. Either way, all of these players showed impressive skill that’s worth highlighting.
Once Monster Hunter World launches, there will surely be tons of hunters showing off their skills on the leaderboards. Good luck hunters! Send us your best. In the mean time, we watch for extraordinary people doing extraordinary things every day, like that time a guy went 1 v 4 on Rainbow Six: Seige or when another guy dropped ten people in a matter of seconds in PUBG.