User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Glavenus/@comment-26421638-20161125103320

And here we go, it's Glavenus time! (Aka the Leader of the Elite Four, Glavi, Dinovaldo etc). Barroth was for a long time my favorite Brute Wyvern, but not anymore with the addition of Glavenus in the series! (However, Barroth still have a special place in my heart, now is my 2nd Favorite Brute and I'm glad that returns in MHXX). After 2 or 3 Hunts, Glavenus already turned into my favorite Brute Wyvern, why? Because is well done in every aspect! In a first instance I was feared by this Monster, but now I'm not scared of this Monster anymore, honestly I find Mizu and every other Brute Wyvern in this Game more difficult.

I love its design a red and black spiked carnotaur-like monster with a huge blue tail that mainly uses as a sword. Probably its arms are too small and the blue Tail is quite outstanding, I've preferred to see it with a black or gray Tail, but this doesn't change that I really like Glavenus design-wise. The Theme is good, not really impressive but suits fine with Glavenus.

I like the fact that is aggressive as Astalos, Strong as Gammoth and agile as Mizutsune... Good job Capcom!

Is really great to fight this Monster, While uses its tail as a main weapon to do slashes and tail slams, is also capable to spit Fireballs that explodes afterwards, bite his opponents and heat-up its throat and/on tail boosting its moves with fire element. But one of the Most notable moves of Glavenus is the 360 Tail Spin, boys, seems that a lot of people have issues with this move! It almost turned into the new Teo Supernova! I really cannot understand, there are a Lot of ways to don't have issues with this move... You can easily block it, panic dive, Adept Evade, go behind Glavi or even with a simple roll (most risky option, takes some practice), but seems that people cannot understand it. I personally find the Noise that it makes before the attack is the easiest way to know what is exactly the best moment to evade it. My only two main complaints of this Monster are only two: 1) Breaking Tail isn't the easiest thing to do since can be severed only when heated. 2) The Bites are really fast and the hitboxes are partially broken, nothing of impossible to evade, but still bad. My favorite Attacks are the double Tail slam and when it runs sideways and spit a fireball on you.

I don't know if anyone agrees with me, but I'm the only one who finds Hyper Glavenus more difficult than Hellblade?

All weapons looks great, my favorite ones design-wise are GS, DB, SA, HBG and Bow. They are good Fire Element weapons, unfortunately turns obsolete in the end-game. The Armor offers two good Skills, Heavy Polish is interesting and Sharpness/Dead Eye are good... But the Armor itself doesn't offer anything else making them not good for the end game. Design wise, for some reason, I Prefer the Female Armor over the Male counterpart.

Overall: My New Favorite Brute Wyvern! Looks cool, original and great to hunt! Sure the Equipment may not be perfect and there are a few small things that aren't perfect, but this Monster truly deserves the title of Leader of the Elite Four! And then its Ecology video is also well done. Thumbs up for Glavenus! He is not only my Favorite Brute Wyvern, but also one of my favorite 4th Gen Monsters and also one of my favorite Fire-Element Monsters!

Random stuff
 * Next MAW Dedicated to Drilltusk Tetsu... Excellent.
 * Glavenus > Abio IMO, sure Abio isn't that bad, but it shares more than 70% of Moves from Jho or are really similar, on other hand HC Abio is way more interesting.
 * I want a Mini Glavenus toy to use it as a GS.