User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-28303251-20150810070231/@comment-4969421-20150812071442

Thing is there's already a water-based Zinogre and it's called Lagiacrus. Him being a flagship doesn't mean he HAS to get a Rare Species. Brachydios, another flagship, didn't even get a subspecies after all. Instead it got a Variant (with a nice concept behind it as well). Same case with Kushala Daora. Stygy is almost an end-game monster using an end-game element, so a Rare that tops that is hard to imagine. It would have kinda OTT, and we hate overpowered monsters don't weee?