First of all, no one likes a team mate that doesn’t know what he’s doing. Since this seems to be a reoccurring problem for the people I play with, I figured I would make a small guide to teach you what and what not to do.

• If you’re new to Monster Hunter, PLEASE play through the tutorial part of singleplayer. If you go into an online lobby with no knowledge of the game at all, you’re going to be screwed and no one is going to want to take the time to teach you the basics.
• Know your limits. You may be a high level with good equipment, but if you don’t know a strategy to defeating that specific monster you should either stand back and observe for a little bit or don’t go until you can learn their patterns quickly. If you start dying a lot and doing stupid moves, you’re most likely going to be on your own after that quest.
• Eat before each quest. Eating before a quest can help raise your stats and especially your health. During battles with large monsters you may see your health going down too fast if you don’t have good enough armor or the health boost. Just be sure to eat the correct foods or else you may loose health instead. I recommend always eating the first two options you are given. That has always given me a health boost.
• Don’t expect to jump into the game and it be easy. You may think that playing online with others will be easy, but in actuality the quests in multiplayer or much more difficult than those in singleplayer. You need to take your time, gather money and supplies, get better armor and weapons, and then you should be ready to do the harder quests. As I said earlier, know your limits.
• Share the items in the supply box. Those items are there to help your team out, not for you to take for yourself only. This game is about teamwork. Only take your share of equipment and leave the rest for the others to take.
• Let the skilled players take the special items. If you have never captured a monster before or do not know how to, do not take the traps, tranqulizers, sonic bombs, etc. Let the players that know what they’re doing take the items. Most of the time experienced players will already have their own, but sometimes we screw up and may need an extra trap or tranq.
• Don’t type mid-battle unless necessary. We don’t need you saying witty remarks. You will most likely get yourself killed that way. Just fight the monster and if you have anything battle related to say then run to safety first or learn to type fast with one hand.
• Be respectful and listen to your team mates. About 80% of the time at least one of your partners will know what they’re doing. If you are in a group of people that don’t know what to do, make sure you know or go find another group. I’ve run in to multiple players that seem to back talk me because they don’t want to cooperate with me.
• If you take the paintballs, THROW ONE AT THE MONSTER. A lot of the time I don’t bring paintballs with me because the supply box usually has some for us. Some players decide that they need to take them and never use them even when I tell them to. Paintballs are very helpful and almost essential. If you lose the monster it has a chance to regain health if it’s out of battle for so long.
• Restock your inventory before every quest. Sometimes I find myself going out on a quest and I forgot to refill my potions. Sometimes this isn’t too big of an issue but when I know it’s going to be a long battle, I get worried. Just remember to make sure you have everything you need before you venture out.
• If a team mate is stunned, covered in mud, or falling asleep then please kick them! If you’re able to, go over and kick them to get rid of the status effect. This helps them out greatly and if you get the chance to, please do it.
• If stunned, spin the movement stick around really fast. Doing this gets rid of the stun effect faster and you may be shocked to find out that most players don’t realize that this option exists.

I’ll try to update this list if I think of other things to add. If you have noticed anything that grinds your gears about new players, please feel free to post a comment below and I’ll see if I can add it to the list. Thanks for reading and I hope this helps all you new players to the amazing game that is Monster Hunter 3.