User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Brachydios(4th Gen)/@comment-16331478-20150905113024

Brachydios is one of my all-time favorite monsters. Its got a great, well-executed concept, nice design, nice equipment, probably my favorite theme in the series and he's a blast to fight (hehe). Although I will say this is probably a direct consequence of MH3U being my first MH game and building anticipation for this guy all the way in low rank. When I fist saw the "Slay a Brachydios" quest appear in high rank I remeber being pretty excited. And it did not disappoint. In MH4 they made some changes but it still feels very similar to the 3U version. There are also rumors of it being in Frontier, in which case I'm pretty curious to see what kind of beast it will become.

Raging Brachydios is also a great variant. While its damage output is far greater than a normal Brachy's, I find him paradoxally easier. Might be because he's twice as slow. But its fight is still pretty good, there is a certain satisfaction to being a gunner and blowing up the red spots on his body to help you blademaster teammates.