User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Astalos/@comment-26034899-20161104200641

While I'm not too keen on the overabundance of Flying Wyverns (Give the other monster classes some love, please! For example, we need more original Fanged Wyverns than we do more Zinogre Variants, for the love of White Fatalis!), Astalos is a welcome addition to the class, featuring tricks that the class has never shown before, such as the piezoelectricity and the ability to send hunters flying with a single blow from its wings. The only real problem I have with the Bugzapper Wyvern is that despite being described as an unrelenting berserker in battle (it's even reflected in the armour, which boosts the affinity of chained attacks), his moves have a lot of windup and usually end with a taunt, making him fairly easy to take down ( it does reflect his status as the closest thing we have to a psychopath, however, so that's something). That said, things can easily go the other way around in G-Rank, considering some of the boosts other monsters get (the Dog Wyverns' speed boost, for example).