User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Alatreon (4th Gen)/@comment-26421638-20170304131811

Alatreon... Undoubtedly one of the best Online Final Bosses that MH had in the past, it returned in MHGen... But not at the best of its shape...

I love its design, A dark purple Dragon with a pair of spiked horns, massive wings, and also spikes on most of its body parts, but what I like most of its design are the veins that covers the whole body, red or blue depending of the elements that uses and they are released with the main feature of this "Black Dragon": the elemental unstable nature.

I want to be honest, I'm extremely bad fighting this Monster and seems that I cannot learn of how I can easily beat it, but for some reason I like this Monster a lot and was one of my favorite Monsters to hunt in MHP3rd.

Beyond good or evil this Monster is capable to do a lot of moves making the fight at least interesting, I borrows a couple of moves from Daora, Teostra and Lunastra (and... Kirin? Since is capable to summon Lightnings in a similar pattern) but is also capable to do a bunch of unique moves. It has two modes: when its veins are red it stays on the ground and uses Fire and Dragon Elements, and also a bunch of physical attacks, when its veins are blue it usually flies and uses Ice and Thunder Elements, even if sometimes can be on the ground in "blue" mode. This dragon is big, fast, aggressive, capable to summon hailstorms, thunderstorms, burst of lava from the ground, fire twisters from its fireball and don't forget Dragon Element Attacks.

In older games sure was difficult, but was still enjoyable to hunt and there were a couple of exploits to beat down the Blazing Black Dragon. But there's something wrong with Alatreon in MHGen. Honestly, I don't have real issues with the Ingle Isle itself, but the lack of Balistae and no walls where Ala can struck its horns is a terrible cheap decision to make the fight more difficult. But the thing that piss me of is how much time it spends in the air, for the 80% of the time it doesn't want to put its fakkin elementally unstable feet to the ground, another cheap way to make the fight more difficult and also a terrible waste of time. Oh yeah... I don't use weapons capable to Stun or weapons with Paralysis/Sleep so I don't know how exactly they works, but seems that doesn't work as well as they did in the past, a third cheap decision to make this Monster worse. Also is one of the Most difficult Monsters to mount, sometimes is nearly impossible to throw down the dragon.

The Weapons are amazing, if you like Dragon Element weapons with a good White Sharpness, then those tools may be your best friend if you want to smash the bones of an Elder Dragon, also all of them have an Excellent design, I love the GS, LS, SnS, Lance and IG. The Armor keeps a good design, but it lost part of its potential if compared with Older Games.

Overall: Undoubtedly one of the Most Badass Monsters of MH and an excellent idea for a former Online Final Boss, excellent design, excellent concept, when you hunt this Monster you can clearly see why is ome of the Most Feared Monsters of the series. Was one of my favorite Monsters in MHP3rd, but they did a terrible rework with MHGen with a cheaper way to make it more difficult. At least the Weapons are good stuff, the Armor a bit less but still valuable. I still like it, but not as much as I did in the past. And I have absolutely no idea what kind of nemesis will be Alatreon in MHXX.

Oh yeah, Disufiroa seems one of the best Frontier Monsters IMO.