User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Jyuratodus/@comment-3298463-20180304162657

So this monster has two big flaws imo. The first and most obvious one is that he looks exactly like Lavasioth, even down to the color (alright, Lavasioth looks a bit different in World with all the lava, but the body itself is pretty much identical). The design on its own is fine, in fact I really like it, it's just the same as Lavasioth. I guess this is one of the downsides of having to basically rebuild the game from the ground up in new hardware and with much higher visual quality than before: you can't rely on old assets as heavily, so you end up having to cut corners somewhere, and modeling new monsters is a ton of work. Bit of a shame, really.

The second one is that this is basically the only Water monster in the entire game. Barroth uses Waterblight as well, but its weapons are all raw. So if you want a good water weapon you end up having to farm Jyuratodus repeatedly even at the end of the game, far beyond the point where it can pose any kind of threat (and it's not like it's a particularly difficult monster to begin with).

Otherwise, though, it's a fairly decent monster. Not a particular standout, but I generally have fun fighting it. It's basically a much less aggravating Cephadrome. I think it's well served by having it fight in a swamp that hinders your movements, which kind of makes up for its relative lack of mobility.