Lance

Weapon Traits
Lances are really strong Weapons due to their traits more than the status shown on them, Lances can be found in 2 main trees (as usual with almost all weapons).


 * Lances have an overall high Sharpness bar compared to other weapons (even though almost no natural white bar of sharpness is available in MHF2)
 * Lances come with a shield.
 * It's not rare for Lances to come with a defense bonus, making them ideal for tanking
 * Lances have a wide variety of elements within, making them suitable for the every situation.
 * Lances have a really long range of attack due to their length.
 * Lances have a middle to high overall damage (compared to their cousins, the gunlances, they have higher damage)
 * Hunters can land 2 kinds of stabs, frontal and upward, both of them able to chain up to 3 times.
 * Lance wielder hunters can perform small back jumps and sideways slides (after each one of them you can again chain 3 stabs.) After a back jump, if you hold the analog stick right or left and press X, you can do a slide dodge in that direction (useful if you are unfamiliar with the dodging style and back jump towards a monster).
 * Lance hunters can perform a charging attack, which depletes stamina, but is stronger than most attacks and can be followed by a frontal stab.
 * Lances have the Fast draw and defensive stance trait.

Movements on Detail
Now we will see more details on the movements and even some combos.

Weapon Sheathed
= Draw weapon = Roll R + = Quick Draw &amp; Defensive stance + Direction = Quick Draw + Frontal Stab

Weapon Drawn
R(HOLD) = Defense R(HOLD) + = Defensive + Frontal Stab = Small jump back (Can be used as long as theres stamina)

= Frontal Stab (Can be chained up to 3 times) = Diagonal Stab (Can be chained up to 3 times) After any Stab + Left/Right + = Sideway small jump (Can be used up to 3 times)

+ = Charging attack (The hunter will run until stamina is depleted) During Charging attack + = Frontal Stab &amp; End of charging attack During Charging attack + = End of charging attack