User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Generations Discussion/@comment-8985329-20160615210005/@comment-4883149-20160615232835

I really don't like Dreadking Rathalos, it doesn't highlight the deviant's unique properties at all. And it's even worse to me since it's practically the same prefix as Dreadqueen Rathian.

The duality that these two monsters have is built into everything. Base Rathalos and Rathian are the king of the skies and queen of the earth. Then Pink Rathian and Azure Rathalos, sure Pink and Azure aren't opposites or share any connection I know of but it still shows that there's a divide and they're each their own side of one coin. Then look at Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian, two precious metals. The Sun and Moon incarnate. They've been the Yin/Yang of the series for forever.

Hell the deviants' designs themselves too, look at it! What two elements/statuses do both Raths use no matter what form they take? Fire and Poison, and how are the deviants set up? Deviant Rathalos is fire, fire and more fire. Sure he still has his poison claw attacks but they take a backseat to the stronger clusterbomb fireballs and the flaming bites in the air and on the ground, aaand of course his signature AoE meteor thing. Then look at Deviant Rathian, she uses fireballs here and there but what is she built around? Poison! She does more poison tailflips, she leaves poison spikes on the ground, her divebomb has a huge poison splash, it's poison everywhere!

This duality if anything is the most apparent it's ever been between these two in the whole series, and the japanese names for the deviants while not perfect in my opinion at the very least described the monster's personality and design. I don't get whythe localization team for Gen would give them essentially the same prefix. At least Dreadqueen kinda works for Rathian because it sounds like something corrupt and dangerous but why would you not hint at fire or burning for Rathalos in some way?

/endrant lol, feel free to disagree it's just that with all the thought put into how these two are represented it's a damn shame that these are the localized names they end up with