User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Rustrazor Ceanataur/@comment-5020152-20181013185303

Regular Shogun walks a delicate line between fun and irritating. He's a cool monster and can be fun on a good day, but on a bad day his constant claw swipes with their disgusting range and wonky hitboxes can really get under your skin. I haven't fought Rustrazor yet, but I'm not looking forward to it in the least.

The way he switches between close-range and long-range modes is a really interesting way of changing up the gameplay. Shogun's only Water-element attack is extremely underused, but Rustrazor always has a Gravios skull on hand and uses a number of different variations on his water beam - which are thankfully executed on the ground, so he doesn't have to rely on cave ceilings anymore.

The idea of Shogun taking a different monster's skull - in this case, a Glavenus - and then learning how to use it to change its fighting style is absolutely incredible. It gives Shogun an intelligence that I never thought was possible for a crab. Plus, the fact that he inflicts Defense Down with his "Spin 2 Win" attack is actually kind of scary. Not just because Defense Down automatically makes him more dangerous, but it implies that he's literally shredding through the player's armor. I do wish he did more with the Glavenus skull, though.

So again, conceptually a great Deviant, but the gameplay looks questionable.