User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Astalos/@comment-3298463-20161104135201/@comment-26261665-20161104140142

^ I agree. While Astalos is a great monster, it's also extremely disaapointed in that aspect. He's supposed to be super fast and aggresive, yet he does very little damage and is way slower than Seregios. I only hunted it a couple of times since I don't own a MHGen copy myself, but it was by far the easier of the E4.The charged parts idea is great but not very well executed since it's really easy to «discharge» it. Quite dissapointing and having the Ratahlos skeleton and some of its attacks doesn't help. Still a great design and theme. I haven't faced Hyper Astalos so I don't know if it's bettern