User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Lances/@comment-4818141-20120611191310

I use lances exclusively, 100% of the time. While I chafed at some of their limitations at first, I found that my play-style works best with them. I like to gem in Guard Up and use my shield to "block the world" (as my friends say).

Re: the questions:

Believe it or not, I do great against Nargacuga with a lance. It took me a couple tries to solo him at first, but the thing about Narga is that he telegraphs all of his moves to an extreme degree. When I'm not sure of the timing, I use the guard thrust; with a powerful fire or lighning lance, Narga is, if not *easy*, not too great of a challenge. Tigrex is a far greater challenge than Narga with a lance, for the reason you said. Also, Kirin is a HUGE pain in the ass with a lance (half the attacks come from above, and you can't use your shield to block them if they're coming from above; also, he's far jumpier than any other monster in the game.)

My favorite lance to use is probably the Naar Thunderlance. It's my most powerful elemental lance, and it was a royal pain to get (lances are terrible vs. Kirin, as I said above). The coolest-looking lance is, I'd say, either Daora's Regulus (for the shield) or the Sanctioned Gunlance.