User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Lavasioth (5th Gen)/@comment-15446856-20180630123756

Remember back in the Mudsioth blog when I mentioned that it was completely boring and unoriginal? Well...

I hadn't fought Lavasioth yet, mainly because the game gives you ZERO reason to do so. When I did get time to face the Lavasioth, my expectations from what I saw in Generations was submerged in magma.

Generations Lavasioth was a great monster. The only good Piscine Wyvern. It had a variety of attacks, an actually good digging mechanic, and a great theme of a volcanic fish.

Here, the theme has been upgraded to maximum. It is about as good as it gets. The appearance and the HD graphics really shows off that fiery look. But, alias, that is really the only good thing I have to say about World Lavasioth.

Lets start with the main issue. It now has Agnaktor's armor mechanic. What? Are you serious? Since when did Lavasioth NEED an armor mode of any kind? Not just that, a mechanic from a monster I don't like? Yes, I know the armor doesn't reflect weapons of all sharpnesses, but the damage is still piss-poor. And not just that, the armor idea seems to have been added because Mudsioth has one too in the form of mud. Another con added to Mudsioth! Since Lavasioth doesn't soften its armor that often due to it rarely going near lava, you'll either have to make do with doing little damage or fire multiple Torch Pods at the armor to heat it up, which is tedious.

I'll cut to the chase and give you the main reason why World Lavasioth is worse than Generations Lavasioth. It's pure boringness. Lavasioth doesn't do anything beyond a little bit interesting in this game. All it does is generic attacks, a old fashioned cheap hipcheck, jumping around in lava in its area that shouldn't even be called an attack as so easy to avoid, and shooting its charged up fireball. This is probably the first time where they made a charged attack look so bland and unnecessary, it just rears its head backwards and shoots a slightly bigger fireball with a wonky hitbox. The worst part of Lavasioth is not only is it boring, but it also has a lot more health now. This means you'll be spending quite a bit of time getting that research level up. And should the armor get in your way, even longer.

And the absolute worst part about Lavasioth in World is that it is given next to no highlight at all. The only time the game brings it up is when you have to see the monsters in the Elder's Recess, and that's it! And maybe that dual quest with Uragaan, but that's really it! No arena quests, no mentions in talking with the characters, no other quests other than its one and the one with Uragaan and one event quest, no kind of interesting ecological interactions (all it does is very rarely leave lava tracks), and no Turf Wars despite it being FLAT OUT STATED IN URAGAAN'S INFO THAT IT GETS INTO TERRITORY DISPUTES WITH IT!

Lavasioth was not only ruined like Uragaan (IMO, but I don't understand how people like its new, crappy, cheap changes), it was given no reason to even be here. Why bring a monster back if you're not going to do anything with it to make an impact in the story, or actually have an environmental role like the monsters in all the other areas do?! I haven't even seen one eat a small monster before, something that all other meat eating monsters do.

Well, I have nothing else to say about it. Next up is the two other subspecies, the two invaders, and then the story endgame Elder Dragon's; Three are good, one is ok, two are really bad, and one is the most mediocre possible.