User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Rathalos(4th Gen)/@comment-5020152-20150718223410

One of the main reasons I love Rathalos is because of his equipment. Weapons such as the Blazing Falchion and Huracan Hammer have gotten me through many successful hunts. And fighting Rathalos is pretty fun, so I never really mind farming him for Plates, Rubies, and Mantles.

I also think it's annoying how both of Rathalos' subspecies are just genetic variants, like half the other monster "subspecies" on record. Why bother calling them a subspecies when they're the same species as the original? I've always found that incredibly irksome.