Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-765166-20131015174759/@comment-8874090-20131016140610

Mckrongs wrote:

HellWolf wrote: I would also like to add that in MH4, rare tigrex species does NOT use slime. It is a completely new ailment that works the same way as slime, but is NOT the same thing. That should also be fixed on the status effects page. It is actually the same thing. We checked the japanese characters and found that it is the same Ailment, only different in Icon and slightly different perhaps on mechanics.

It may have been mistakenly named as Slimeblight by the official translators in MH3U without the thought of its future changes in MH4. If ever MH4 hits western shores (which is 0% confirmed) I would expect a name change on the ailment.

Here's proof:


 * MH3G Online Manual
 * MH4 Online Manual

If you can see the Icons ( and ), it has the same Japanese name, which is 爆破やられ. Hmmm. After watching a few videos, I can see that you are right and brachydios and rare tigrex do use the same ailment. However, they have much changed the animation from 3U. And it doesn't fit brachy too well. Also, like you said, the name "slime" is now very inappropriate, since slime is usually related to some kind of goo or something and this is definitely not the case now. I'm a bit angry they made it the same thing though.