User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Hammers/@comment-76.94.40.49-20120729183339

I only use hammers whenever I play any Monster Hunter game. Sometimes I have trouble against faster monsters or monsters with weak points higher on their bodies, but I'm still able to manage. Hammers I feel work very well against the Rathian/Rathalos and other mosnters that take lots of pauses as to hit their weak point. However, monsters like Tigrex and Plesioth are horrible. Another disadvantage I want to not about the hammer is the lack of blocking. This can be really bad, and you gotta keep a lot of distance between you and the monster a lot of the time. But when you get upclose and land that perfect blow, it's oh so satisfying. So that's why I love the hammer! Because it's like the tortise, strong but slow!