User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Zinogre Species/@comment-26421638-20171121152636

Finally the return of the DotW, And couldn't be better than this! We are talking about of my second favorite Monster but, most importantly, one of the best/most popular monsters of all time!

1) Old School and Classic Style: I pick regular Zinogre. Why? Because there's nothing wrong with normal Zinogre, While Stygian/Thunderlord are great too, they can be quite annoying sometimes. Sure, Stygian is my favorite Subspecies (and one of the few Subs that I like) and Thunderlord suddenly became one of my favorite Deviants, but I could survive without them, unlike regular Zinogre which is a must-have for every MH Game.

2) I Would say FFBE Zinogre but since its a collab, everything is allowed. However I cannot like Howling Zinogre, I've nothing against Frontier Monsters (I like most of them), but Howling Zinogre incarcerates the stereotype of Frontier: spam of AoE and Flashy moves. Just look at Frontier Stygian Zinogre and you could se that is technically better.

3) A long time ago we would never taught that Tigrex, Narga or Lagiacrus could get Rare Species, so why not Zinogre too? They made Rares for Hypnocatrice, Espinas and Estrellian and would be strange if they don't make a Rare Species for one of the most popular monsters, but I don't think that we'll see it in MHW. I would like to see a Rare Zinogre that controls both Thunder and Dragon (maybe even something like White Fatty's Red Thunder), bigger and should have a dark blue and dark red skin. Would be cool if it has a name that involves both light and darkness.

4) I Don't really like them, but Stygian is a bit better (and I've heard that is easier), they have "Frontierized" too much regular Zinogre making it extremely outstanding compared with other Exotic Species.

5) Is Acceptable, but there are other Monsters who deserves more Variants etc. than Zinogre (Like Narga, Lagia, Regios or Fated Four).

6) I'm partially disappointed, I was expecting that other Fanged Wyverns would be as good/strong as Zinogre, but that's not the case. Great Jagras are just a bad version of Royal Ludroth, Tobi-Kadachi isn't at the same level of Zino. Odogaron (if he is a Fanged Wyvern) could be interesting but we haven't seen enough.

7) Eruzerion was a huge candidate to be Fanged Wyvern, however, I don't really mind.

8) Yes! But I don't ask too much, just smoother animations, and better interactions with terrain/other monsters and would be enough.

9) Overall I like... Ehm... I LOVE them! Because they are intense to fight and they have an awesome design, I like agile Monsters and... wolves are wolves! Overrated? Maybe yes, but if they are overrated there must to be a reason ;)

P.S.: Both Zinogre and Stygian are one of my favorite Monsies to use in MHST.