I feel your plesioth haaaaate. He is, and will always be, my wall. And this is monster hunter freedom unite, where you can't get in the water to get him. I forget how many times I just kept waiting for him to surface because I ran out of sonic bombs and frogs. I eventually loaded up on lightning rods and shock traps and just blasted him over and over.
Indeed. Just finished the rest of the weapons yesterday (did GS and SNS on Friday, still had lance, bow, and hammer to go). Funnily enough, I was able to get better times on bows and hammers, the two weapons I have basically no experience with. And I didn't faint using a hammer!
(ignore the fact that the bow loadout also gives you bombs of all kinds for underwater fun)
Best of luck with Kushala, by the way. I hear it's supposed to be easy, but that's probably from the same kind of people who say things like Lucent Nargacuga are easy (it's not). Unfortunately, I haven't played any other MHs besides 3U so I don't have experience against the more classic monsters like Akantor, Tigrex, and Kut-ku.
Back to topic, today I moved onto the Rathalos arena battle. Scraped by with GS (Punish Draw and Stamina Thief? Really?) and GL (actually good skills, Guard +1 and Artillery King helped) with 2 carts each, then went on to hammers.
I still suck with hammers, despite my show of "mad" skills yesterday. It was all bad, and I ended up triple-carting thanks to lack of aiming skills with the level 1 and 2 charges. Man, the day I get those earrings is the first day I'll never touch the arena clerk ever again.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate