User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-24734669-20191124082725/@comment-4969421-20191126135129

>Just because two things share an element doesn't mean that they are copies of each other, you know. Yeah that's true. Never did I imply that in my post, however. Nice strawman.

Let's look at the situation. Before World, the sole existing member of the Fanged Wyvern class was Zinogre plus its subspecies. Now World introduced two new fanged wyverns that are not just reclassified dromes, Tobi-Kadachi and Odogaron. Tobi uses Thunder, an element that's already used by Zinogre. In classes with tens of monsters, element usage is something that's bound to be repeated at some point, it's basically inevitable. However, in a class as small as Fanged Wyverns, it's something that is easily avoidable. Now for this, I will coin a new term, called concept overlap. Yes, Zinogre and Tobi might both be electricity wielding Fanged Wyverns, but the similarities stop there. They both charge, sure, but they do so so differently and the charging gimmick is present in most other Thunder element monsters. It's fine. Both monsters using the same element was a bad thing, but at the time I brushed it off as just an unfortunate coincidence. Nothing is wrong with Odogaron either. Now enter Ebony Odogaron. Ebony Odogaron is a Dragon-Element Subspecies of a Fanged Wyvern. see where I'm getting at? Stygian Zinogre is a Dragon-Element Subspecies of a Fanged Wyvern. If I want to push my point even further I can even say they're both hellhounds. You can claim they look different and fight different but the thing is the concept overlap is enourmous. We're talking about a game that has 5 different elements and 7 different status effects felt the need to reuse the two that were already covered by the only other Fanged Wyvern in the series. Just like I was willing to ignore Tobi, now I'm not willing to do it again, specially when this time is even worse. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Iceborne doesn't have a large enough monster roster to get away with recycling concepts so blatantly. Either Ebony or Stygy, one of them is pointless. Your pick.