User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Kushala Daora(4th Gen)/@comment-5569775-20151005143635

I really don't like fighting it, that said, the design is alright and some of his attacks, while annoying are cool.

The Blademaster armor is nice, I like the knight design; however, I don't care for the look of the Gunner set. The skills for the whole set are kind of meh, though I guess it could be nice for anything that relies on evading. As parts of mixed sets though, it tends to be really good, both it and Rusted(which looks better than normal IMO).

The normal weapons are alright, I like the animal design of some of them(mainly the turtle CB, Horse Bow and Bat SA). The IG being a Squid is just odd. As for the Rusted weapons the color scheme of them is better and the Blue sharpness is impressive; however, the higher attack and better(longer blue sharpness) doesn't make up for the high negative affinity(they'd need 350+ base true attack to make up for the negative affinity). With the gunner weapons: The Bow is worse due to the weaker Lv.1 through Lv.3 charges; lack of a Power coating and low element damage makes it even worse. The LBG and HBG actually hit harder(though only slightly for the LBG) than the normal ones.

Would have been interesting if they gave the Rusted version a special ability to make up for their lack luster use.