User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Switch Axes/@comment-1712810-20120902091719

My ultimate weapon! When I have this badass weapon of goery destruction the monster's can pretty much kiss their sorry asses goodbye. There's no simply no better choice of weapon for me, the switch axe has been the one that got me through my toughest hunts in Tri and P3rd HD.

Personal favorite is the Great Inceadues, both for its very cool design (of course all the Ceadeus equipment tends to look pretty cool to me) and the lovely raw power it boasts, especially with the added on power phail in sword mode. It's easily the weapon I've used most out of them all.

MH4 will really suck for me if the switch axe is thrown out... if MH4 ever arrives over here... I'd still get it though.

I use both modes pretty consistently during hunts. When facing Deviljho I normally change to sword mode when attacking his weak under belly, and switch back to axe mode when attacking his face or tail. Power phials sometimes sway me to stick with sword mode more often, but I don't believe in spamming the hell out of it. That just gets boring...

For me, there's no monster that the SA sucks against. I've killed almost every single 3rd Gen monster with it (still need to unlock Amatsu, and I don't own 3G, but you get the idea). The axe just rips them all apart like there's no freakin tomorrow.

Without a doubt the switch axe is pretty epic at slicing tails - I've sliced more than I can freakin count. SnS users tend to praise me a lot when I hack the tails off for em.