User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Lavasioth (5th Gen)/@comment-26421638-20180630114757

"MHGen Lagiacrus sux because a Lagiacrus without underwater is not a Lagiacrus" Well, MHGen Lagiacrus wasn't anymore the Lord of Sea, but at least had kept some of its attacks, others attacks borrowed from Ivory Lagia and other completely new. Some people liked it, others hated it but at least MHGen Lagiacrus had Something in common with 3rd Gen Lagiacrus. Well, that's not the case with MHW Lavasioth, where doesn't have Anything in common with MHFU/MHGen Lavasioth and possibly even with Frontier/MHO Lavasioth. In this game Lavasioth is completely twisted and in a bad way, the only thing that keeps from previous games are its name and its design. +20 Wtf Points.

Well, Lavasioth has always been far away to be labelled as "handsome/beautiful" but I do like how its lava now looks and somehow I like Tempered Lavasioth color scheme...

... But Tempered Lavasioth is nearly useless. +5 Useless Points

So what's the problem with MHW Lavasioth? The answer is gameplay. First of all he gained for no reason an Agnaktor-like Armor mechanic were the lava on its body solidify and become tougher, but lava melts if Lavasioth dives in lava or if exposed with fire Element attacks etc, this stolen feature simply makes Lavasioth pointlessly more tankier and nothing else, +10 Boring Points! And then what happened to its attacks? It doesn't have one attack in common except for traditional Flying Wyvern's bite, and tail whip. Its lava spit doesn't spread molten chunks anymore and turned into a more common "fireball" with nothing of special, it lost Mono/Diablos tail whips (In MHGen hurled lava chunks at the same time), its hipcheck is a joke (if a hipcheck doesn't destroy you and doesn't have a broken hitbox is not a Hipcheck, MHW Lavasioth is even capable to fail on this) and at last, but not least, what happened to one of Lavasioth signature moves? Where's the jumping slam? Huh? They could fix it because I could understand that some people didn't liked it but removing a signature move is not fair. +20 Boring Points!! This Lavasioth gained an AoE Lavaball were explodes with delay, sometimes is annoying, a Jyuratodus-like swimming style and of course completely twisted attacks abd behaviour when swims on lava. Ok, when it jumps from lava and dops moltеn chunks left and right is spectacular but is the only good thing that it does. +30 Boring Points!!!

On a side note, I cannot understand why Lavasioth can give Inferno Sac as reward when you clear its quest, it never gave you Inferno Sac since it spits lava and not fire, and that's a mistake. Is just like if Lagombi could give Freezer Sac or Lagiacrus/Zinogre could give Thunder sac, there's an explanation if these monsters doesn't give the previously mentioned sacs and Capcom shouldn't change this little but important detail. +25 Wtf Points!

Equipment? Ok, i love how Lava Beta Armor looks but everything else is more than Forgettable. +20 Useless Points.

Overall: Lavasioth has always been my favorite Piscine Wyvern and MHGen Lavasioth is still on its throne but thats no longer the case with MHW Lavasioth, completely twisted and only worse than its MHGen Lavasioth, even Jyuratodus is better. Between MHFU, MHGen, MHW and possibly including Frontier and Online Lavasioth I don't really understand what exactly is Lavasioth, this legged coelacanth is living the same Identity crisis that Resident Evil is living in the latest years, and since I've mentioned another popular Capcom Series, MHW Lavasioth stand for Lavasioth just like RE6 stands for RE series.

Man, I'm almost tired to s**tpost on nearly everything everything on MHW, hopefully next week will be bet... Oh wait, no... I'm not done yet :(