User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Plesioth (4th Gen)/@comment-16331478-20161209100240

Terrible choice of monster to bring back. The only thing that ever made Plesioth bearable was the underwater combat, and now that it's gone, Plesioth's back to being the tumor it was in 1st and 2nd gen. I don't even find it a particularly hard fight, it's pretty easy to gunlance, and gunner weapons make it a joke, but the fact it has to go in the water every 5 minutes or so is such a bad design choice. The movepool being relatively small doesn't help, you'll se it spam the tail spin way more than any other monster because it's really the only move it's got a chance of hitting you with, due to the busted hitbox. The hipcheck retains its 3U hitboxes as far as I can tell, and it's not that big of a threat anymore. The charged variant just gives you more time to react, so I welcome that. Definitely still the worst piscine wyvern, which is saying something since piscine wyvern is an awful monster class to begin with :^)

Armor and weapons? Armor is lacking the hip piece, ironic for a monster known for its hipcheck, and the skills on it are surprisingly aerial related? I don't know why a water monster that never takes flight gets airborne and mounting master on its set, but I have to admit it's not the most terrible skill combo when taking into account this is MH Generations we're talking about. The weapons, however, are just a waste of time since they get crushed by Mizu's. Not worth going through a Plesioth farming session to get its gear, that's for sure.