User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Kirin(4th Gen)/@comment-6050823-20150829212210/@comment-24965733-20150829213643

No one really does. While I don't think I'm qualified to write a full analysis on why the magic horses are so obnoxious, the combination of small size, high speed, short to no telegraphs, lack of points where it sits still, wide-ranging and damaging moves, and that fatalis-forsaken armor mode make kirin an absolute pain to deal with.

To add onto this, the weapons are hilariously bad, having no raw and not even enough element to make up for that. The armor is situational, usable in some awaken sets or whatnot, but is overall not that good. It's only really notable in how revealing the female version is.

Oh, and then it's a guild-quest exclusive monster. Which means both an additional, obnoxious step of grinding for its gq if you happen to need its parts, and that it has a 140 incarnation.

And it doesn't even have a unique theme like every other elder dragon.

Why hasn't this thing been reclassified to fanged beast/wyvern yet?