User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Dalamadur/@comment-4969421-20160228120444

So right, Dalamadur! AKA Dalalaladingdong, Dalamurder, Snek Urgent and many other nicknames I cannot be bothered to include.

I for one enjoy the Dalamadur fight, I've never had to farm him so he's never been boring or anything to me, since I just hunt him every once in awhile. The battle is heavily scripted, cut tail, break back, break claws, head, chest, and so on. But he's not like Jhen Mohran who does the exact same thing everytime you fight it. It also has some cool looking attacks, such as the claw rake or the bite, and of course the massive flamethrower that sweeps the area any n00b who doesn't know how to Panic Dive. If you have a group of competent partners, he's actually kinda fun, with each hunter going for an specific body part.

Now I absolutely love his design, and for the same reasons everyone else here: He's a titanic snake covered in blades. Now tell me how badass is that. I like how he actually LOOKS like a snake, unlike Najarala, or Raviente. I felt like Capcom had needed a colossal boss like Dala for a very long time. He has a bit of an odd color scheme, I can't quite tell the color of his scales. He's a bluish silver with bits of green? But it works, I mean I absolutely love it for some reason. The black spikes and claws and red markings around the face when enraged go along quite nicely as well. And as I said he's a giant snake. That automatically makes him a KILLER design.

Now first think I said is that Dalamadur was a fun fight to me because I've never had to farm him. Because, honestly, what's the point? I've seen people using the Dalamadur SnS with Awaken, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Mountstick borderline OP back in MH4? But other than that, armor and weapons are pretty much useless. They look cool however.

And I can overlook those flaws because Dalamadur is A GIANT SNAKE  AND HE LOOKS AWESOME  AND I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A MONSTER LIKE HIM FOR LIKE ONE MILLION YEARS AND YADDA YADDA

SNEKBOYZ

PD: He's cute.