User blog comment:WolfQueen/Monster Appreciation Week: Stygian Zinogre/@comment-26421638-20151225155211

And We Celebrate Christmas with the MAW Dedicated to the Hell Wolf Wyvern... Mr. Stygian Zinogre! I Admit... I Hate 95% Of the MH Subspecies... But this Stygian Zino... Is Part of the 5% of Subs that I Like... And boy, how much I like Zinogre's Subspecie! Zinogre Is My Second Favorite Monster... And I like Dark Themed Monsters... If We Combine this two things we get this Badass Subspecies that I Really like! I Can Easily say that if we Exclude Variants and Rare Species, this is Probably my Favorite Subspecies!

Since I Like Regular Zinogre's Design, I also Like Stygian Zinogre's Design... A Red and Black Zinogre I'm somewhat forced to love it! Excluding Frontier Monsters this is one of The Few Monsters that Use Pure Dragon Element, and Dragon Element is an Excellent choice for this Monster!

Much Like Regular Zinogre, the Fight with the Stygian Wolf is amazing! However is way more difficult to the Electric Counterpart... Stygian Zino is able to chain its attacks way better than Zinogre making it A Monster to Don't Underestimate at all... An then The G Rank one is Able To Release Dracophage Bugs with almost all physical attacks making more difficult to find a chance to perform an aerial attack to it... Soloing G Rank Stygian Zinogre Isn't that difficult... You need to pay a Lot of Attention, and the Battle goes fine... But never take too much confidence with this Monster!

Unfortunately I haven't Faced Yet Stygian Zinogre in MH3U, so I cannot compare MH3U Stygian Zino with MH4U Stygian Zinogre...

The Equipment is Good in General... The Weapons are Aesthetically Amazing, Especially the GS, but also the LS, the SA, the Hammer, the Lance and the GL looks Great too! Of Course have also interesting stats and are in general very qualified as Dragon Element Weapons... The Armor have some Interesting Skills, but unfortunately there are a Lot of Better Armors... And, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know any interesting mixed set with Stygian Zinogre Parts... I Must to Say that HR Stygian Zinogre Armor looks aesthetically way better than the G Rank Counterpart... The HR one looks more "Zinogre Like" than the G Rank One... If the G Rank Male Armor is still OK, the G Rank Female Armor looks extremely weird... I Can Easily say that The HR Stygian Zinogre Armor (Both for Males and Females) are Aesthetically one of the Best Armors...

It's a Shame to Know that this Awesome Beast Doesn't Return in MHX... If will be localized, I'm pretty sure that I'll miss it...

Overall: If Zinogre Is My 2nd Favorite Monster, its Subspecies is forced to by my Favorite Subspecies! A Red and Black Zinogre that Controls Dragon Element was exactly what I've wanted to see a Zinogre Subspecies! The Design, the Battle and the Weapons are well done! I Also like the Idea that it can be Encountered in Frosted Ares much like in Volcanic Areas... This Monster have only two minor downsides... 1) It's Absence in MHX 2) The G Rank Armor could be way better.