User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Astalos/@comment-26421638-20161104140424

Already time to cover one of the Fated Four? That's great! And we start with the Rebellious Knight. What I can say? First time that I've seen this Monster I already felt that this could be one of my favorite Monsters, and I wasn't wrong! So far is my third favorite Monster and my favorite Flying Wyvern!

Sure, some people may complain a bit since is the Fourty-Something Flying Wyvern in the History of MH... Well all I can say is for a long time that we didn't see a New "Bipedal" Flying Wyvern in the Main series if we exclude Subspecies/Rare Species/Deviants or Seregios (since is something Between Bipedal and Quadrupedal F. Wyvern).

Much like all of the Fated Four, it has an excellent design, an unusual dark-green wyvern with tons of traits shared from various insect like wings or legs. I also like the unusual crest, the Webbing on the wings and the tail. Of course what makes it more unique are the green lighting effects and the neon-green glowing body parts when are in charged state. I really like its BGM... Could be better but suits perfectly!

One of the Most notable features of the Fated Four are their "personality", Astalos seems always in some kind of berserk state or "irritable" at the 99% of the time (like me XD). That's suits perfect for a Thunder Element Monsters that keeps the title "Rebellious Knight"!

Is without any doubts on of my favorite Monsters to hunt, not only for the huge variety of moves (Horn trusts, Tail Swings, Attacks with the swings and Dozen of electrical Attacks), but I like it due to body part charging mechanic. making it more original. When Charged a specific body part, it gains new moves, boosed damage with Thunder Element, and a cool Glowing effect! My favorite Attack is the "aerial punch combo", this attack is one of the Most Badass moves that I've seen in a MH Game and I bet that Brachydios could envy Astalos for that!. My Least favorite Attack is one that slam the tail on ground and fires a Thunder beam, the tail slam seems that have a broken hitbox IMO.

Unfortunately, I find it too much easy, it has a lot of openings and isn't very resilient either... I wish that could be more bulky or more aggressive someday...

I love it's Weapons, all of them are good Thunder Element weapons and have a great design more or less, but the best ones are the Axe-Like Hammer and the SA... Come on! Those weapons are... More than Awesome! The Armor sure have an Excellent design, but unfortunately besides one Skill (Repeat Offender, that's a great skill) isn't really that useful.

Overall: My Third favorite Monster so far... While could be more difficult and the Armor could have better Skills, is good or perfect on everything else! I would like that there was a quest where you can hunt an Astalos along with Rathalos, sure, you may encounter the other Wyvern with Unstable Environment... But I've preferred to see a proper quest with them.