User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Lavasioth (4th Gen)/@comment-26034899-20161216032534

Lavasioth is a good example of how to revamp an old monster; it has a pretty fun, hectic battle that can be challenging at times, and is probably the only Piscine Wyvern (main-series wise; I never fought Aruganosu or Goruganosu) that's actually a blast to fight; Plesioth is tedious at best and a nightmare at worst due to it's broken hitboxes and annoying habit of swimming around with no way to reach it (Amatsu help you if a certain bug pops up and makes it stop moving when it's in the Deserted island's water and stays that way; I had that happen to me once, and had to forfeit the quest because of it), and Cephadrome is a bore due to it swimming in sand a lot and utilizing its movement-restricting attacks for all they're worth. Neat design, decent equipment, and fun battle all around, Lavasioth is definitely one of the better returning monsters.