User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Lavasioth (5th Gen)/@comment-31029678-20180630111347

Ah Lavasioth, there's much I have to say about this one.

First of all let's talk about its new stuff:

-Lava ball that cause a big explosion.... nice thing, nothing else to say.

-"Lava-rain"... nice touch.

-Lava-armor... honestly I expected this since so long, I thought they would add this ability to some kind of Rare Species or Deviant of Lavasioth, but devs suprised me by giving it to the regular version. Anyway it make sense, the Lavasioth in the New World lives in the same area of many Elder Dragons... I guess it had to learn new tricks to survive.

About the lava-armor however there are some problems, it has too high defense and the melted armor last for short time; Agnaktor used to go underground more often so this problems were never really spotted on.

Another problem is that this guy spawns in that area with 3 holes... the absence of lava where Lavasioth can easily go make everything tedious... if only Lavasioth could spawn in the other 2 nearer area and go there just to sleep.

Last but not least it has no turf wars, a shared negative trait of most of the monsters in Elder's Recess.

Anyway somehow they managed to make the battle feel different from Jyuratodus, mostly because Jyura stays 90% of the time in "swim mode", while Lavasioth stands up for most of the time.

The armor is ok I guess.

However I personally considered this one of the best Piscine Wyvern fight so far, it has problems but somehow I find it fun.