User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-70.128.20.68-20121212225949/@comment-4563270-20121213025843

yup and well you were partially right and so were they. the axe mode has the ability to stun so it obviously has some amount of impact damage but overall being an axe it's definitely a cutting weapon but in all honesty i never lumped the switch axe amongst the true cutting group anyway. most of the switch axes i saw had poor sharpness in comparison to the swords in lances in monster hunter and while the axe doesn't make impact damage it's more about power than it is finese. to me the switch axe and charge axe go right into the axe category and sns,gs,ds,and ls are the sword category. i have other sub categories that are more about ability than what i listed above.