User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Black Gravios (4th Gen)/@comment-7584137-20160109101058

Well, incoming rant, y´all. Back in MHFU, I hated this guy with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. In fact, I´m almost sure that my hatred for it was even hotter than the lava on which it burned itself as a Basarios.

Why? Because this thing was impossible for me in HR6 (and yet, oddly enough, I never had much trouble with the normal Gravios in G-Rank). A literal wall, if you will. Being a true Blademaster who never really cared much for Gunner weapons and never bothered to really try them out, the first times I tried to face it directly with my best (at the time) Blademaster weapons. That failed, because the fight that this thing had was simply spamming two attacks, one of which made it impossible to attack it on the belly (you all know which one I´m talking about). I know, I know, back in FU, both Plesioth and Gravios were easier battles for Gunners, but goddamn, Plessy´s infamous hipcheck was nothing next to this fire-spamming monstrosity.

Well, to make a long story short, I was forced to become a Gunner just for this one battle, and only then could I finally defeat it with Rapid Fire water shots. And even THEN I was forced to capture it or face running out of time. This sour hunt made me feel... angry towards the Black Gravios.

But then came 4U, and while this thing still is a fire-spamming Nibelsnarf, I like it more now. It has actually become a more interesting fight. That being said, I still have those bad memories of the HR6 one, and for all the improvements, in the end it still is little more than a big rock that spams it´s most unique attacks way, way too much. Don´t they ever run out of lasers?