User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Ruby Basarios/@comment-26421638-20160429195359

Ruby Basarios... As "Known" As Who? is an Unknown Subspecies who some people claims that can be encountered in the Everwood in MH4/MH4U... Nah... I'm just Kidding...

If Blue Kut-Ku is the Worst Subpecies IMO, and Desert Seltas is the Most Useless Subspecies, to Ruby Basarios Goes the Award of "Most Forgettable Subspecies"...

The Design is Poor, yes it's a Basarios with some Red Crystal on the Back... Sure, the Red Crystal looks beautiful... But that's all...Design Wise, this Basarios looks more a Variant than a Subspecies since doesn't properly change the color scheme for itself...

The Fight is... Meh... It's just a Basarios who drops some Crystal with a couple of attacks like the Hip-check, the Tail spin, With the Rolls, with the fire gas Etc etc... Yeah, sometimes you can mine those Crystals... But nobody cares...

At Least the Equipment have a great design, especially the Armor... Yeah, Negate Poison could be an Interesting Skill and Guard +2 Is Useful with Certain Weapons... Otherwise the Armor is pretty much forgettable...

Overall: A Really Bad Subspecies who looks like a bad Variant rather than a Subspecies... While the Crystal looks beautiful, the Design is Poor, the Battle is Cheap and barely more difficult than Standard Basarios... At Least the Equipment looks cool but nothing else... The only positive thing that I can say about this Monster, is that is heavily inspired by G-rank Basarios Armor from MHFU... But this doesn't change my opinion and still remains one of the Worst Subspecies and the Most Forgettable Subspecies until today...

Additional Note: The Italian Name is bad too... Something like "Vermilion Basarios"... Eww... At least "Ruby" Basarios is better IMO...