User blog comment:Aandrew07/Most OP weapons and monsters?/@comment-1758220-20110124034234/@comment-969093-20110125003525

Honestly... as a lancer myself... -_- a lancer who actually does it right in the sense of it not being a subjective opinion... I'd like to get this into both of your heads.

The only right way to lance is to make full use of all of its capabilities. That means that you will mix tanking with evading. It also means that you will use offense for defense and vice versa. Like the lance charge, I, for example, when fighting Lagiacrus, use it to get out of the way when he does his monster electric barrier (offense->defense) and to close distance when he's far away. I use this on multiple monsters. Then there's instant-curved backhopping which is usually done by better players for the sole purpose of getting into a convenient spot to continue attacking without having to block (defense->offense). Tanking is only useful if you want to play it safe but despite meeting the concept of lancing it doesn't mean you lance the right way. Counters are meant for attacks you can't evade (yet or at all but still want to deal damage).

For example, Deviljho can be lanced in different ways. I'll use his turn-bite for an example. You can counter the attack and hit his head or you can curve-hop towards his stomach and attack with high pokes. You can hop the stomp and attack but you can also counter it. The one isn't better than the other but to have the right to say you actually know how to lance you should at least use both in any situation. :/