User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Plesioth (4th Gen)/@comment-26421638-20161209083549

And the Sh*tstorm Begins!

Plesioth... Plesioth... A small piece of History of MH that never had a good reputation... Sure there are some people who like it but... Most of them don't for various reasons... It appared in every single MH Game until Freedom Unite, and then it returned in MH3U and MHGen...

1st/2nd Gen Plesioth was probably one of the Most Boring Monsters to fight... Swims for minuets, jumps on the land, Tail whip, Tail Whip, Hip Check, Tail Whip, Tail Whip, Water Beam etc etc... And then after 5 Minutes jump again in water wasting your precious time. 3rd Gen Plesioth, honestly, wasn't completely bad. With the introduction of UW, Plesioth Gained a wider movepool and I have to say that was the only Monster who I liked to face it UW because it wasn't broken. But now... Now...

While is quite simple, I always liked its design: simply a water Wyvern with fins and a shark-like Head with a nice Blue, Yellow and White Coloration.

4th Gen Plesioth is clearly one of the Most Annoying Monsters to fight in MHGen! Instead of Upgrading this Monster has been downgraded Into a 2nd Gen Plesioth with a couple of new, terrible Attacks. The thing that makes it more annoying than before is how much it spams Tail Whips, this big bas**rd spams more tail swing than Gravios and of course they are even faster, with a weird hitbox and I have no idea how, but seems that he knows exactly when or where to do it! At least the infamous hipcheck has a partially fixed hitbox, but Capcom had a great idea to add a new charged hipcheck to this Monster, why Capcom, whyyy? How about the sleeping bite? A few steps backwards and it bites you giving sleep status... just to make this Monster more annoying. Sweeping water beams are almost fine, it makes more difficult to hit its head (it wasn't that easier earlier) but they aren't as annoying as the Attacks previously mentioned.

Useless and weird looking equipment... Sure the GS and a couple of other weapons have a good design, but they aren't certainly great water element weapons. Equipment works only for Aerial Users, useless in any other cases.

Overall: In the past there were a couple of Monster that I really hated like Tigrex, Gravios and Diablos, but then this Monsters has been Revamped really well and now are good Monsters to fight, more or less. And then there is Plesioth, who generation after generation, it had some changes but my opinion didn't changed at all! (An example? I Didn't liked Kirin and I don't like it still Today, but at least is way better than before, Plesioth? Is exactly as annoying as it was in the past!). Seems that Capcom is not capable to make Plesioth a good Monster to hunt! Ok, 3rd Gen Underwater Plesioth was Better, but hey, I don't like Underwater and UW Plesioth was OK but nothing of special! This Monster was is and will be one of the Most hated Monsters of all time, and is probably not going to be better in MHXX! Thumbs down for Plesioth? Naaah! Middle Finger in the face of Plesioth!