User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Generations Discussion/@comment-5172919-20160412011501/@comment-4969421-20160412163814

Oh boi, I see there's someone who wants to embrace the painful and rage-inducing experience that is being a Lance main in Generations.

First of all, Aerial is indeed a wonderful option for status lancing, and (if you can even use the words viable + Generations Lance in the same sentence) is in fact it's the only viable option for it. Outside of status lancing, I wouldn't recomend using Aerial Lance at all. Then again it's probably because all Lance styles are fucking garbage and 99% of the time you're best going with Guild. There's no style that makes lance "better" than regular, unlike basically any other weapon.

Now, for the armor set you have in mind, yep, you can get that easily with a mixed set. But that's gonna be as good as it gets without a decent Guard talisman, because -guess what- just like Lance is TRASH! :D in Generations,  (literally the worst weapon, I will elaborate on this if asked to)  Lance armor sets are also TRASH! :D

At the very least though, there's decent status Lances in Gens. For Paralysis, you have the Darkness lance, which when maxed gets natural white (reminder that there's no Purple in this game), acceptable raw (which can be fixed by getting a x1.3 buff with Guard Rage HA anyways) and very good attribute. For Poison, you can either use Dreadqueen Rathian Lance for INSANE ammounts of attribute or the One-Eyed Garuga Lance for more balanced stats. For Sleep, you have Malfestio, and IBaldo for Blast.