User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Anjanath/@comment-26421638-20180317124022

Ladies and Gentlemen, the (not so) awaited Drake's award for the worst 5th Gen Monster goes to... Anjanath! Crowd boos. This Monster didn't impressed me in a first sight (trailer), I didn't liked during the beta and my opinion didn't changed in the full game... Anjanath, in my opinion, is just a 5th Gen Plesioth! I remember when this Monster have been mistaken for World's Flagship in the first trailer by a lot of fans, also I do remember comments like "This Monster is the new Deviljho" (Mostly from Retarddit or GameFgt) when since the beginning has been proved that Rathalos bullies this chicken that pretends to be a dinosaur. Thanks to Father Fatalis that this Monster is not the Flagship Monster of this game!

Design-wise is extremely uninspired, is just a pink, firebreathing, t-rex with black fur on its back and additional fangs on its jaw. Its most unique traits are its nose that turnes into Triple H for different purposes and the vestigial "wings" that extend when enraged. While I do appreciate the "wings" I cannot stand that weird looking nose, would be better if had a horn instead or alternatively some kind of crest. The fur idea could work, but what if the theory of "dinosaur with fur" is actually true?

Concept-wise is obsolete since the beginning, Monsters Like Deviljho, Abiorugu or Glavenus overshadow Anjanath, Deviljho because is bigger and badder and uses Dragon Element instead, Glavenus because is agile and has the whole gimmick of the blade tail, Abiorugu... Well, just take a mix between the two Brutes mentioned before and the result is still better than Anjanath.

I really hate fighting this monster even more than Tobi-Kadachi, why? Hitboxes! Beside some tail whips I don't remember any attack with reasonable hitboxes, forward bites have a shotgun-like hitbox, hipcheck learned a lot from Prof. Plesioth, "chicken kick" are ok but only in flat areas (their vertical hitbox is completely screwed), its flame breath is undoubtedly wider (probably twice as big) and let's not forget the "charging nose-thust" where the whole body turns into a hitbox! The flame sac gimmick could work, if wasn't a déjà-vu. However, not everything of this Monster is bad, I have to admit that it has a huge movepool for "4-Star Monster" making it a not completely s*itty Monster.

Equipment-wise this is the first monster of World that offers something of interesting, Weapons could have some potential with specific set, the Armor is good looking (Especially the Female one) but I don't get it why (skill-wise) in beta was better.

Overall: I don't get it why Capcom literally spam this Monster in a lot of MHW-releated media, almost at the same level of Rathalos or Nergigante, Los and Nergi have a reason for that but Anjanath in just a plain Monster that pretends to be interesting, especially when in the previous MH Game there was a better dinosaur as Flagship. "B-But Generation is a shitty spin-off, is doesn't count and is not Canon!" I DON'T CARE! Spin-off or not Glavenus is better than Anjanath! This Monster during the beta showed the worst side of MHW casting doubts on me if I should buy/play World. At the end I've decided to bought this game and I'm still playing it, but Monsters Like Tobi-Kadachi or Anjanath and a lot of others are the reason why I cannot properly enjoy this game. Anyway, the moral is: Anjanath is a bi*ch. (Hidden semi-quote here)