User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Legiana/@comment-26421638-20180428133154

Now it's time for another Amatsu Wannabe... The overhyped/overrated Legiana! In A first instance this Monster looks good but then reveals its issues after one or two hunts. Legiana is still good even with its major flaws but definitely far away to be considered the best Monster of MHW.

Legiana is nothing more than a smaller Wyvern-version of Amatsu... Ahem... Sorry, my bad... Legiana appears as a unique Wyvern with a unusual body structure specifically made to fly and to perform unique aerial attacks. But I cannot deny that I really like its body structure and color scheme, Legiana also suits perfectly with Coral Highlands.

And here we come to Legiana's major flaw: Gameplay.

Legiana suffer the same major problem shared with Rathalos and Kushala Daora, in World every flying Monsters are freakin annoying, they fly too much, they rarely fall down and they move too much forcing you to use the Slinger in case if you're not a Gunner. Unlike Paolumu, Legiana defends itself better than Paolumu when is in Land, at least Legiana have a couple of unique attacks (for example the quick bite or the when it temporary flies for a sec to freeze the terrain with its tail) but Legiana usually won't stay on land after one or two attacks and then flies again. When it flies it shows what is really capable to do, but as I said before is annoying to fight. A real pity, because a lot of its attacks looks wonderful and is the only Ice Element monster in-game (as for now) but is just stressful to fight and we had other (better) sky dancers in the past.

In terms of equipment I can only say positive things on Legiana, Legiana Armor is good looking and probably the first Armor in game that can be considered interesting. Weapons are OK and have a good Sharpness, However in some cases we don't have other options available if we want Ice Weapons (Daora doesn't have all Weapons and Black Blos' Element is hidden).

Overall: Legiana is good but not as good as people believed in trailers/videos. MHW gave an additional 21st chromosome to Royal Ludroth and we got Great Jagras, they did the same thing with Glavenus/Deviljho and we got Anjanath and now to Amatsu and we got Legiana. If It was sightly less annoying in mid-air I would probably like a lot this Monster, but still remains shadowed by other Monsters... However, Legiana isn't the most annoying flying Monsters of World, There are other two creatures who are definitely worse than the Lord of Coral Highlands.