User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Crystalbeard Uragaan/@comment-15446856-20161223000901

Crystalbeard Uragaan has got to be my most hated of the Deviants, and that's saying much as others come close to taking that place. Why is it so bad to me? Well, hunting it is horrible! They took 3U's G Rank Uragaan's moveset, turned the multi chin slam attack into something that puts you in the rolling knock down, made its super chin slams cause Stunned in a single hit and can upswing, and gave it rocks that can cause Sleep.

But no, it just couldn't be the moveset. The Crystalbeard's design is uninteresting compared to the rest of the Deviants, just a red tinted Uragaan with crystals on its chin and tail.

Also for the other details of hunting it. Its tail is now a sever only, removing much satisfaction from first wounding the tail and then severing it, the back break remains the same, but the chin decided to take a page out of Barroth's book and became only breakable from Impact damage. And that chin has to be broken to weaken its power and create an actual weakpoint and because of this you're forced to just slash away at the legs of it until it dies unless you have a good hammer. The biggest problem with this monster is its gigantic health pool, and since it doesn't have one its going to take approximately 20+ minutes to defeat solo, making it a borefest to fight.

And the Equipment? Unless you REALLY want to create it just to change the colour pigmints to cosplay Optimus Prime in this game then forgot it. It has no useful skills for combat whatsoever and could only find use if you are that desperate for mining rare stuff and getting that money.

Once this thing levels up to high tier then it gets VERY bad. At higher tiers it now flings rocks during its damn rolling. To make it even worse these rocks can take 60% off your max health if they hit! There's literally no reason to complete the questline unless you're a completionist and want to clear all the Deviant quests. If you do, then PLEASE don't do them solo, bring a full team of hunters to get it over with quickly, unless their randoms in which case you're in a world of agony either way.

It's a shame that a monster I like got such a bad Deviant.