User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Yian Garuga(4th Gen)/@comment-4702773-20150809141351

I really can't say a whole lot of bad stuff about Yian Garuga. The design is awesome. Take a Kut-ku, then turn him over to the dark side. You get a menacing, dark purple paint job. Add some larger, sharper looking ears. Make the beak large enough to look dangerous but not comically large. And finally, throw in a Rath-like tail. Oh, and he ranges from larger than a Kut-ku to larger than a Rathian. The fight is a mix of Rath and Kut-ku. He utilizes the comic pecking attacks of all flamboyant fliers (Here's looking at you, Peco), but manages to make them dangerous. The tailspin gets poison.. yaay... And especially in 4U, I've found that Yian seems to have the most intellect. He has a nasty habit of timing all of his attacks perfectly to maximize damage. And on top of that, he targets like a beast, relentlessly chasing after one hunter until he flinches or gets knocked down. I love Garuga fights because of this. Most monsters like to get one hit in, then for no reason at all decide that the hunter forty feet away requires its attention. Yian will soundly peck and stomp you to Oblivion if you give him the chance. The weapons tend to look cool, but there are a lot of better poison weapons out there. I use the G Rank armor a lot because of the earplugs and the gem slots. As a side note, Yian, to me, bears a striking resemblence to Foxy the Pirate from Fnaf. They both share that menacing look when compared to their counterparts (at least in fnaf 1 and 2) and Yians usually have an ear broken or a shattered beak. I dunno, maybe that's just me. Either way, Yian is, was, and always will be a quality monster in my book.