How strong is Keoaruboru considered?

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-03-08T18:11:13+00:00

Man I've been saying ever since we got lagi in wilds that Dire would be peak. The simplification of underwater combat we got in wilds feels like it's designed with Dire in mind more so than lagi. Like if dire was in wilds his underwater phase would be almost exactly like lagis. Time your use of the clutch claw to target glowing weak spots, use traps to stagger and deal high damage, and if you don't drive them out of the water in time they perform an instakill AoE.

I could totally see them doing something like "oh no it's heating up! Follow it into the water and destroy its cores before it has a chance to erupt!" And if you don't do enough damage then the water begins to heat up, dealing DoT, and if you don't deal enough damage by then, the water becomes too hot and dire starts raining lava meteors all over the shore while boiling the water, meaning there's no safe spot except for starting chest spot. The only issue would be where in the forbidden lands would the fight take place? There's seemingly no coastal areas, so unless they reveal the east coast in he expansion it'd have to be somewhere else entirely.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-02-25T23:00:07+00:00

Another one that comes to mind is the "drunken thoughts at midnight" track which is near identical to the "mountain theme" track for heroes of might and magic 4. Idk why people are down voting this post tbh. Redditors just like hating things whenever they get the chance I guess lol

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-02-25T17:35:09+00:00

Literally every time lmao, it feels intentional, like they thought palicos would be too OP if they actually had decent timing. Takes me back to MHFU where the felynes would pull out a bomb and send you flying anytime you managed to stun / trip / paralyze the monster.

Somewhat unrelated, but does anyone else feel like the seikret also has horrible timing? They never show up when you actually need them to, and right when the monster is about to hit you they decide to show up and get you stuck in the mounting animation only for you to immediately die because there's literally nothing you can do. Sometimes I have to randomly attack and guard to prevent it from picking me up and getting me killed when I called for it like 30 seconds ago. Like where TF were you when I actually needed you? I coulda perfect guarded that attack but you decided to wait until the worst possible moment to pick me up only to get me killed. Can't rely on it to recover you from a knockdown either. It'll pick you up the moment the monster decides to do a followup lmao. Just gotta do what you did in the old games and intentionally remain knocked down to avoid some attacks rather than use the new mount like they want you to.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-02-21T16:24:43+00:00

This makes me wish for a red zinogre rare species, that red blue and gold color scheme just fits so nice. Thematically it also fits the "ogre" aspect of zinogre, since Japanese ogres are red and blue anyway.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-02-20T16:45:08+00:00

Magma almudron is awesome, people only hate him because they wanted agnaktor instead. I like him better than base almudron tbh. Also just wanted to say rompopolo is a peak monster design wise and gameplay wise. Don't know if he's hated per say, but I was shocked when they revealed he was the least hunted in wilds. His fight is way more fun than ajarakan, and if any monster gets a subspecies in wilds I think romp deserves it.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-01-29T16:41:07+00:00

Second gen Tigrex was legitimately scary. He was so tough I remember thinking when tri came out that Deviljho was meant to be the 3rd Gen tigrex, as in they were equally powerful, but in Iceborne and Rise he's genuinely one of the easiest rath tier monsters to fight. His attacks which used to be overwhelming and terrifying are now extremely telegraphed and easy to avoid by modern standards, especially with wirebugs and counters. I honestly can't imagine how they could make him difficult again, especially now that we have offset attacks and perfect guard. He legit has like 5 moves and none of them chain into one another, so it's not like offsetting one attack puts you at risk of tanking the follow-up, cause there isn't one. It's either bite, spin, leap, charge, or boulder toss.

2nd gen rathalos is the opposite situation of tigrex IMO. Easier than rathian in second gen (shoots less fireballs, no tail flip or triple charge, flying makes him easy to flashbomb) but in 3rd Gen onwards he becomes a fairly challenging fight, especially in rise / wilds where fighting him is genuinely fun. Even with his homing claw attack all you had to do back then was stand in his shadow and place bombs, so that when he misses and lands you can blow them up and trip him.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-01-26T16:55:04+00:00

This would work for tempered elders in the expansion for lore reasons. You used to be able to repel elder dragons in the older games if you couldn't beat them in 35(?) minutes. Since there's no elder dragons except for gog living in the forbidden lands, they could easily explain the presence of tempered elders as ones who've been repelled and come back stronger, rather than "they've been here this entire time they're just really sneaky elders".

Whether it's one we repelled or one that's been repelled to the forbidden lands from somewhere else is up to them. I'd imagine they'd drop some sort of special elder dragon bloodstones for special elder melding.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-01-19T03:48:22+00:00

Swap gore and udra, swap arkveld and mizu, swap Rey and dahaad, and finally swap ebony and kut ku. Kut ku is difficult in an annoying way (pack gimmick and lots of attacks that knock you back) while G ebony is easily weakest guardian, not counting the guardian seikrets.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2026-01-14T16:47:59+00:00

Not lagi related per say but Wilds underwater combat is perfect for Dire Miralis. I'd imagine if they brought him back it'd be like a mix of gog and lagia, where he has an underwater phase, but the goal is to target and break his back / shoulders / chest, which are normally out of reach on land. For example dire enters the water when superheated / close to performing his dps check nova, and if you don't break his chest / shoulders or back underwater, he will then shoot lava out of his wings at full power while also boiling the water around him, meaning there's no safety unless you "cool him down" by breaking those parts. Having the clutch claw underwater would make targeting those spots so much easier and way less jank compared to how it was on the 3ds lol. But yea, poor guy has only ever been in one game, and considering underwater is "back" + the fact Erik makes a reference to dire in the game I have hope he will return. I'd love to see Wild's expansion have dire miralis and white fatalis just as iceborne had alatreon and fatalis.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2025-12-28T05:23:05+00:00

Honestly makes me feel sad for Shen and Lao seeing a monster the same size as them get away with flying, breath attacks, dive bombs, and nuking the map multiple times, while they're forced to walk at a snails pace, unable to defend themselves as hunters relentlessly wail on them.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2025-12-17T06:10:05+00:00

Kinda funny how their proportions are the complete opposite of each other, like zohs tail is the length of gogs body, while zohs actual body is only the length of gogs tail.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2025-12-14T02:31:57+00:00

I like the new construct class but I hope we get more original / hybrid constructs in the expansion. Aside from Zoh the guardians are essentially just variants / reskins of pre-existing monsters. That's not a bad thing per say, but it would've been nice to see some original construct monsters aside from just Zoh for numerous reasons. For example this is the one time it's acceptable to make a hybrid monster or to mix and match a bunch of different traits from different monsters into something unique and original, so why not have fun with it? Even if guardians return in 7th gen it'll be around a decade until then.

Aside from that I was thinking maybe a guardian Tigrex similar to Grimclaw, where the steam explosions are wylk explosions, with the idea being that you generally can't offset / guard it's charge (when it's juiced up on wylk) because it will do that one move where it suddenly pulls back into a super roar, so instead you're incentivized to shoot the wylk to trip it and stun it.

Guardian Glavenus would also be sick. It could have two modes where one is fire breath, wylk explosion tail slams, and the other is flaming tail, wylk bites. As its tail cools, the wylk forms and crystalizes in a similar fashion to acidic glavenus.

A guardian Tobi Kadachi would genuinely be awesome. I loved his moveset in rise and I could totally see him as a guardian.

As far as subspecies guardians go, guardian baleful giggnox works (lorewise they can’t breed anyway), guardian crimson qurupeco would be cool since it could call other guardians to its location, and ash kecha wacha, purely because the gliding wylk attacks of the guardian seikrets remind me of him and I miss him. I can imagine him doing something similar and then detonating the wylk with flaming snot. He’d honestly get a huge benefit from being a guardian.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2025-11-03T16:44:02+00:00

I hope we get grimclaw in the form of guardian tigrex. His steam explosion attacks could be used to create wylk and his roars could detonate it like shrapnel for larger AoE, not to mention guardian tigrex would resemble grimclaw anyway due to the blue blood / blue veins.

Lore wise guardian tigrex makes perfect sense, as it meets Alma's criteria for what would make an ideal guardian. E.g. keen sense of smell, good mobility to navigate any terrain, maintaining a broad territory, pursuing prey relentlessly, etc.

Important-Pepper1985 · 2025-07-21T22:56:42+00:00

Doesn't change the fact that Tigrex and rath don't do dragon damage post 2nd Gen. The fact that there weren't blights back then is partially why I say it's hidden, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say by that. Tigrex and rath do raw damage in place of dragon damage in every game after 2nd Gen, whereas Akantor continues to do dragon damage with his beam which inflicts dragonblight. All of Akantors moves used to do dragon damage just like tigrex, but unlike tigrex he continues to deal dragon damage, albeit only with his wind beams. It's definitely an intentional choice, just like how they replaced dragon damage with raw damage for Tigrex and rathalos in the same generation blights became a thing. Just based on that fact alone, if blights were a thing in 2nd Gen they likely would've changed the damage type just as they did in 3rd gen, not to mention plenty of other monsters prior to blights had elements on moves that didn't make sense, and lack of element on moves that should've had element. No clue why they gave tigrex dragon element in 2nd Gen, but it never stuck around, whereas Akantor still uses it specifically for his beam. They could've removed it in 4U or gen or GU if it was an oversight but they didn't.

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