User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Great Jagras/@comment-7584137-20180205132415

My opinion on these beasties is neither overly negative nor overly positive. Because I don´t find them neither great nor terrible. They´re just average.

On one hand, I love their concept. I may love all the previous "Greats" and "Dromes", but it would get extremely tiring if the early bosses were always a big pseudo-dinosaur that leads a pack of smaller pseudo-dinosaurs. These guys are the same concept, but at the same time, they are a brand new, fresh design. And the Jagras themselves look lovely! I especially like the way they move around and circle you. That´s exactly how I expect pack-hunters to act around potential prey. These are the things I love about them.

On the other hand, I´m not crazy for the Great Jagras´s design. I never thought I´d say this, but I actually like the smaller monsters better than their alpha! And the fight with it is as easy as it can be. Even if you´ve never played MH, I just can´t see this guy giving you much trouble. It´s just a slow punching bag, and it actually seems more at a disadvantage in a fight than it´s lackeys.

I mean, Jagras are fast and quite nimble, things that their alpha isn´t. They can even climb trees. What can Great Jagras do? Swallow things whole? That doesn´t mean a thing when half of the competition in it´s habitat is either too big, too fast or too agressive to swallow. It actually seems that growing up into their alpha stage is actually a disadvantage for a Jagras. Instead of frail but swift predators, they become frail AND slow predators. Growing up certainly isn´t awesome for these guys. Am I the only one who sees it that way?

These are the things I don´t like about them. I just expected that a slick-looking small carnivore like this would get a different, better alpha. I certainly don´t hate Great Jagras, but I don´t love it either. It´s good for practice and to grind for your first true set of armor, but other than that, it´s just an average monster.