User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Gold Rathian (4th Gen)/@comment-5569775-20160130065255

Those Backflips and her homing in on your most vulnerable point is annoying(though I guess Auto Guard could be used to stop that, but it feels like too much of a noob tactic). Other than that, she's pretty easy.

The armor looks tacky with all that gold and is a bit of an eyesore to look at, but it does have nice skills, albeit mainly for farming parts. I've only made the IG and CB and haven't seen anyone using the others. As far as the IG goes, it looks nice, at least with the bug I wound up getting and it's a really good fire Glaive over all. The CB however, being an Elemental CB with 42 base element makes it great for dealing with monsters weak to fire, even more so if you can use Fire Atk Up or Elemental Atk Up with it(personally using both), the design isn't bad(not gold enough to be an eyesore) and the sharpness is pretty good. One of the best CB's IMO.