User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-184612-20150819140016

Some other things we've seen but hasn't been mentioned; It's now encouraged to attack the monster when it's being mounted. This speeds up the process instead of knocking off the hunter, making mounting even easier than before.

Some people have mentioned getting the mount is harder to do now, but honestly from what I've seen, we just have only seen bad players play the game and whiff most of their mount attempts anyways. When they do hit aerial attacks correctly, it happens just as often as in 4U.