User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Akantor(4th Gen)/@comment-25119729-20150929163723

Akantor is pretty cool, it has a really cool design (needs more spikes), has a cool roar and the breath laser is something new compared to other monsters.

Fighting Akantor is a true test of skill, because it is so easy to cart to it. Its attacks are mostly slow but hard hitting, it has a double defense down debuff which is pretty nasty because it makes you a oneshot, and its attacks also usually cover a huge area. Which brings me to a point I don't like about Akantor. It is fat to easy for it to pull off combos. Its most standard attack when fighting with other people is the sweeping bite, which hits twice, once the bite and then the tail it drags across the ground. If you get hit by bite without having full health or the guts skill, you will get killed because of the damage. Evading the tail is also difficult unless it is already off.

Akantor armor is not only extremly cool looking (with a feather on the helmet that defies the laws of physics) and has good skills as well, even though you need a talisman to make the best out of it. Akantor weapons are good raw damage weapons I suppose, even though I don't see any reason to pick them up myself because of the low sharpness and negative affinity.

What I noticed while hunting Akantor is that randoms and just other players in general have a pretty high likelyhood to cart to this monster. They don't cure the debuff, don't heal for some reason and just keep attack it even when it is clear to tell that it is gonna attack. I also have never witnessed such a high amount of fail dives when it shoots its breath across the area.