User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Azure Rathalos (5th Gen)/@comment-15446856-20180707230449

So, Azure Rathalos. He holds the middle ground for me as he always has. Instead of low-air homing talons, Capcom has given it the Stygian treatment and made it into a combo-king monster. This is both good and bad for it at the same time, it makes Azure more special and gives a greater test from its regular counterpart while bringing on the Poisonous Stun inflicting talons upon you in full force.

There really isn't much else to it, Azure is the Los of the Elder's Recess as the normal Los only appears there in Tempered Investigations, and in the Ancient Forest it has a different "nest", next to the area where the actual one is and a different behaviour to change things up.

What Azure Rathalos makes me interested in, is what Capcom would do should they add Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian to the game in an update. Seeing what they did with Lunastra, I worry that we could be in for serious hell if they go that route again.