User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Pink Rathian(4th Gen)/@comment-4969421-20151220110748

Since everyone is commenting on here, guess I'll do the same.

I've always loved Rathian, she was the monster that got me in the series, and I think her subs are pretty good. Pink Rathian is probably the most femenine monster in the series, with her title, color scheme, dance-like moves and cherry blossom motif. Even if she's my "least" favorite out of the three Ian species, I still like her a lot.

Apparently lots of people have trouble with Pink Rathian, I've never found her extremely hard (she's not an easy monster though, and she's quite tanky in G Rank). Maybe it's because I main Lance and it's pretty easy to counter her attacks (Lance master race :P). Still, I used G Pink Ian in Everwood as my punching bag when learning the new weapons, CB and IG, although that was a while ago. She's a fun monster to fight, but if you make a mistake she knows how to punish and that can screw you over in two seconds. The charge into sideways backflip has got me a few times, but damn that attack looks awesome so I don't mind. The fire bite, too, I remember it had a weird hitbox in 3U, if you got hit by the mouth it would do the damage of a regular side bite, but now in 4U they changed that so you get hit with full force regardless. She's the perfect sparring monster, to me at least.

Her weapons look pretty cool, and they're decent for their rank. Haven't forged any of her weapons in 4U, but I remember making one in 3U... It was the Swagaxe I think, I really don't remember lol.

I think Pink Rathian is a pretty cool monster/subspecies.