User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nakarkos/@comment-26034899-20170311003252

This bonehead's pretty unique as far as MH final bosses. It has a neat concept and design, being a massive cuttlefish that uses bony finger puppets in battle and serves as a monstrous counterpart to the hunters (it's an intelligent creature that wears the remains of its kills and makes weapons out of them, just like them).

It's somewhat easy in Low-Rank since it doesn't move around that much and has a fairly exploitable weakness (breaking both tentacles before the other can recover will topple it over, allowing you to attack the rainbow patch on its back for massive damage), but it can get annoying in High-Rank if you're a solo player like me due to its high health and the lack of support making it harder to keep its more powerful, versatile, and surprisingly agile second phase in check.

As for the armour, it has two different sets, both of them being nifty in design but sub-par in terms of stats. Decayed Armour makes hunters stronger when their health low and when they faint, but has only one slot per piece, poor elemental resistance all-around, and no points towards othe skills. Astral Armour, on the other hand, offers slightly better elemental resistance and the ability to strengthen and charge up your Hunter Arts faster, but has little use for hunters who don't use Striker Style due to its lack of other skills. The weapons aren't too practical, either; the bony weapons are strong but have poor Sharpness and Affinity that exceeds that of Ukanlos's weapons, and the blue weapons are mediocre all-around.

To make a long story short, Nakarkos has a great design and lore, but its fight and spoils are pretty lacking in enjoyability and practicality, respectively.