User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Rathian(4th Gen)/@comment-4969421-20150613145656

Rathian will always have a place in my heart for being the monster that introduced me to the Monster Hunter series. A green female dragon with a venomous tail like a scorpion and ocellated wings like an argus, a mix of both real life and fantasy peeked my interests on the series almost instantly.

Overall she's still a pretty fun monster to fight, even if she's kind of an introduction to stronger Flying Wyverns in the game. She has the typical wyvern moveset, but she also has some cool moves of her own, such as the Wyvernfire or the backflip. In G-Rank she can connect her charge to a backflip, and do a bite + turnaround tail slam like in her intro. However, for some reason and unlike in the intro video, she will never finish her attack with a fireball. Wonder why they decided to leave that out.

And speaking of the intro, these new cutscenes are pretty cool, and I find Rathian's to be my favorite one.