User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Gold Rathian (4th Gen)/@comment-4702773-20160130154851

The one monster that'll manage to poison me no matter what. I could be HR >9000 and she'll still find a way to poison me, unless I'm using a Negate poison/wellness. The fight itself is pretty fun most of the time. With a good group you can have her mounted, KO'd, and everything broken and severed within the first three minutes. After that it's really just a Pink with a nice paint job. The armor is really nice. I use it all the time. I'm a big fan of the CA just because it looks really nice and goes well with the armor, but I usually prefer the Silver/Gold hybrid CA for actual fighting. I can't remember the names and the CA is almost never listed above. Either way, I really like her as a rare subspecies. The Rath family has only gotten better and better with each game. They've come a long way from the derpy, tiny-winged wyverns we hunted back in the original and Freedom.