User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-6050823-20200120202226/@comment-5158920-20200121032827

I thought only story/cutscene related stuff counted as canon? The rest is just for gameplay reasons. Like in the canon (old games anyway). The majority of all Elder fights are repels never kills (except when it is) and we only kill one of each species going through the story.