User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Pukei-Pukei/@comment-4899131-20180217151712

From the moment I 1st saw Pukei, it was love at 1st sight. The design is fantastic, managing to be both butt-ugly & adorably cute at the same time, just like our old friend Chameleos. While there are some very familiar bird wyvern attacks (especially the tail whip) the innovation in the poison attacks makes this fight very different from other bird wyverns, and while it's fairly easy, the range on that tounge can still catch me out sometimes. Overall I find it a very enjoyable hunt & still something I'll do again for a bit of fun.

The Pukei hammer, while lacking blue sharpness at HR 14, is still one of my main weapons & very useful (Great Girros & poison pate anyone?), and I did use the alpha waist piece in my high rank mix set for a while, until it was recently superceded by Odogaron coil beta with a partbreaker jewel.

This monster really showed me just what incredible game World would be and was what got me utterly hooked on it, so big hugs to you Pukei, hope you get a subspecies someday.