User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Leshen and Ancient Leshen/@comment-25119729-20190825084103

Normal Leshen is a great monster. A nice change of pace from the normal gameplay while having a good time with the characters that are involved in it. It almost stings how much better the normal Leshen gameplay is compared to vanilla World, just because it reminds you of playing a game that is much better than it.

But then World rears its ugly head right back into your face and gives you Ancient Leshen. Ancient Leshen is the Behemoth fight on steriods, you have more phase manegment, more dependance on "roles" and the people in them actually knowing their shit and just to hammer the point of "Multiplayer only pls" home, it has a pin attack that you CANNOT escape by yourself. Unless you are lucky enough to have the rocksteady mantle equipped and be standing on a healthbooster at the time, you will not survive that pin without help. It has more HP than even Extremoth, it's damage is through the roof even though they try to hide it with the dot aspect it has, you can't damage it without having to take damage in return and the fucking Jagras swarm is a steaming pile of bullshit. And all of this just to get armor that makes you look like the Witcher chars.

Fuck Ancient Leshen.