Heavy Bowgun Guide - Plesioth

~The Plesioth Heavy Bowgun guide~

One rule of thumb I've found as a gunner is that if a monster is frustrating to melee, it's great to range attack. Plesioth is no exception - gunning this creature is truly simple.

Firstly, either sonic bombs or Crag/Clust S shots will force it out of the water. This will also force it into rage mode - and Green Plessy in 2G can be quite fast when it's raged. The only time you'll really need to watch out is when you're between it and where it left the water. You'll notice it almost alwats runs back to enter the water at the spot it left, and its running attack can actually do huge damage if it runs over you.

Plesioth is very weak to both fire and thunder S, so the armour skills here are used to maximise damage (Elemental Attack Up and Speed Fire) and to avoid the one attack that can hit you (the land swim - so we're using Evade Inc).

The strategy is simple: roll away from the water beam and fire until it's about to attack. Then roll again :) It will either water cannon (Shoot down the head with your Thunder S which is a pierce shot or hit the back/fin with your Fire S, a normal shot) or hip smash thin air.

G rank Plesioth has two attacks to watch out for, both of which can be simply avoided if you're careful. A new attack is when Plessy rears up and does a semi-circle water blast around it. You can either roll in towards it or back away from it. A good rule is to be just outside where the line of the attack is, which is optimum distance for shot range. The other attack is the land-swim, similar to the one Volganos uses. That's where Evade Inc comes in handy - roll immediately left or right out of the way. If you're standing at the right distance, it should be easily avoided. Try not to stand up against a wall since it'll both affect your camera angle and mean that it's a bit harder to avoid the land swim.

Plesioth leaves huge openings for reloading, so while you don't need Speed Fire, spamming recoil-less elemental shots with Elemental Attack Up is devastating. If you're out of element shots, Pierce 3/2/1 down the body, or Normal 2/3 the back/fin or head. It should be well and truly dead before you run out of ammo :)

When Plesioth is low on health, its fin will droop down. Don't shoot it in the water if it's this wak, since it's easy to kill it and not get any carves. You'll break the fin with your Thunder/Fire S so it can be tough to tell when it's down, but you'll get used to spotting it.

Don't forget to visit Skies of Croda for a full HBG guide :)

(c) 2008. Analysis by mazereon, video and skills from Legend3594.

Weapon: Tzar Lao Shan long Canon
Head: Blango Z
Body: Gravios Z
Hand: Kirin X
Waist: Kirin X
Leg: Dragon X

Armor skill: elemental att up, speedfire and evade inc.

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[guesswhoisthis101]

whats the name of the song?

[legend3594]

Yesterday & Today by Do As Infinity

[Epikilla]

are you retarded, speedfire skill.

[macmair]

i used heavy bowgun to kill plesoith with cluster bullets lvl2 but sadly he died in water so i cant carve him up

[PhenomenalHeadShot]

What kind of shit guide is this? You just made it so u dont have to reload and could roll continuously using skills. Plus your in the easiest place to fight a Plessy. Its pathetic you got hit at all.

[Takaiboshi]

2:41 I wonder if she actually got the bug. O :

[AlbusLumen]

@koron44 I think a bow with pierce is good against anything. :-)

[Sigma5656]

I kill the green plesioth whit the felyne gun XD !

[rockwellumrocks2]

@iWriteOink Haha couldn't have said it any better.

[The1Awesome1]

What is the name of your gun?????????/

[koron44]

@RickinHK i´m playing 2nd G because more content and more player in xlink kai

[RickinHK]

@koron44 Depends, MHF2: bows > bowguns yet in MHFU: bows < bowguns