Espinas Subspecies

The Espinas Subspecies is a sub-species of Espinas. It is thus far exclusive to Monster Hunter Frontier. It has an orange-brown carapace with red claws, horns, brown wings and it is well known for its Rage Mode, when yellowish colours spread across its body. It has unique weapons and armor variants of the original. It appears to be more aggressive than its green counterpart, as it has the ability to charge its attacks for serious damage.

Its most dangerous attack is charging a fireball then releasing it in a huge purple blast. This is almost always instantly fatal. Certain individuals can make the fireball split into 4 smaller exploding balls on impact.



Giant Fireball Splitting Espinas Subspecies
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Hard Core (HC) Espinas Subspecies


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Members of the Espinas Subspecies with more developed longer spikes down the middle of its back and more spikes on its wing all with a white tip including the horn. They are more aggressive and more vibrant when enraged as their veins glow a unusual green when enraged and have learned quite a unusual trick for spreading fireballs into the air.

Like HC common green Espinas they have the ability to charge at incredible speeds scratching the ground as the only warning. A new attack they gain is ducking down looking into the sky while charging up a giant fireball like the ones they make huge explosions with, only this time it spits it into the sky and it bursts into multiple balls that rain on its enemies with incredible(Homing) precision aimed at up to 4 targets at once. Though you can hide under the HC Espinas Subspecies to avoid the raining fireballs as it has no wish to hit its self with them but to stay under when it spits them into the air will require Dragon Wind Resistance skill or else you will simply be pushed from under it by the shock-wave from it spitting the fireball into the air.