User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-20010297-20150909201359/@comment-5167887-20150910115927

I vote for not seeing Lao ever again. That thing at G-rank was impossible to solo kill even with Adrenaline +2, not to say how dumb a fight it was practically just spamming your attacks, so i could give up on getting a Lao Heavenly Shell.

No matter how revamped it would be, i find some quite lazy monsters such as Dahren and Dala much more intimidating than just this walking bag of HPs. Gogma, who took the place of Lao in the battlequarters, fits more the role of a city attacker than it. It's quite reactive, it poses a severe threat with some attacks, and he also takes forever to kill, but at least he has HP low enough to be killed solo. And it fucking flies.