User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-4563270-20150224205413

Mini rant. By the next game for charge blade they should remove impact phials all together and give any phial.. Specifically landing on the head the ability to ko a monster. Reasons why. Just about every cb I've seen with an impact phial is bs in stats. Dear lutemis has 468 attk 220 fire and an elemental bottle.. Axellion blade has 504 attk 100 fire and an impact phial.. Do the math and you see clearly the axellion is out matched "but wait it does impact damage!" Except impact damage doesn't ACTUALLY do damage.. It merely builds up to ko a monster.

After this is the fact that cb is too precise with bottle hits. I've found with an impact phial that could knock out a monster with one full release has about as much ability to ACTUALLY ko a monster as a great sword does because you'll constantly be just shy of the head or connect with something like a wing.. A chest.. An arm and waste all your hard earned bottles on 0% extra damage to nothing =D. Its a lot of wasted potential if you ask me.. Remove impact phial.. Give any phial impact damage naturally and instead make other phials like ailment and power phials.