User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-26119361-20150617215152/@comment-5043481-20150618115038

Soloing most stuff won't take more than 20 minutes even at G rank, though there are exceptions. The urgents in paticular, especially the ones to get to G rank, are quite horrific trying to solo with equipment you could have unlocked at that rank. With these it'd be worth going online at home for a bit and getting some people to help you out.

As for the people online, it's the luck of the draw. You find a lot of people who are just terrible, but you could get in a group that can destroy any monster very fast.