User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Gold Rathian (4th Gen)/@comment-25119729-20160203141714

Gold Rathian is one of those monsters that make you want to rip your hair out just so you can feel something else than frustration. She has super armor which also blocks purple sharpness, she has lots of health, is incredibly agile for something her size and deals tons of damage. The poison backflip is already annyoing but they had to give her a homing backflip. A backflip that happens so fast and so accurate, that by this point I'm fairly sure the only way to avoid is to either have a weapon that can block, evasion+ skills or the fast sheat skill. If you have your weapon drawn and don't have on of these things, congrats, you're utterly buttf*cked.

Armor is kind of ok, but having -55 thunder res if you don't negate that skill isn't fun. Only purpose it has is for farming cause of Great Luck. Silver Rathalos has some more useful skills atleast.

Overall, not really a fun fight. The 3U version was better.