User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Elder Dragon-Level Monsters/@comment-6050823-20160330031522

1) I think I got to go with classic Espinas. True, Espinas is pretty lazy, most of the time, but once it awakens it turns into a killing machine! Espinas has a kind of silent but deadly personality about it that most just wouldn't expect. My only question about Espinas is what Elder Dragon did it fight? The Elder Dragons known to live in the Great Forest is Yama Tsukami, Kushala Daora, Shantien, and Rebidiora.

2) Shen Gaoren. I feel I don't have to explain why either.

3) Yes, I like the idea of the Elder Dragon-Level Monsters! Why? Because I feel power like this shouldn't be limited to just the Elder Dragons. We know that the Elder Dragons are a lot more than they seem, especially three I won't name since they're on whole another level, so why not do the same for some other monster classes? It is like putting top predators against powerful herbivores or top predator vs. top predator. All creatures in this world have some type of equal, whether they know it or not.

4) Raging Brachydios. I agree, Raging Brachydios could easily be an Elder Dragon-Level Monster. However, without any threat level being shown for Raging Brachydios, we can't say if it really is an Elder Dragon-Level Monster.

5) Honestly, I say all of them fit into this group pretty well, except Gore Magala (It is a Nibelsnarfing juvenile Elder Dragon!), and I give a few reasons for some of them that make a bit less sense.
 * Treasure Clad Uragaan: Steel Uragaan herds are known to rumble across the volcano, occasionally causing crustal deformation. So seeing that Treasure Clad Uragaan have much stronger chin slams, I could picture them being able to cause crustal deformation themselves quite easily.
 * Hypnocatrice Rare Species: Its rarity and combat skills, to me, fit with it being an Elder Dragon-Level Monster.
 * Unknown (Black Flying Wyvern): From the start, that thing was basically an Elder Dragon trapped in a Rathian's body! That's all...

6) Hands down, Rajang! I don't want to be beaten into a bloody pulp by a monster that beats down Kirin for a living before eating them!

7) Oh yes! Most of them are pretty much mysteries to us, outside some of the ecology info about them.

8) I see a lot of interesting similarities between the Elder Dragon-Level Monsters and Elder Dragons. Here is a few I noticed:
 * Apex Monsters = Shagaru Magala: Both spread a virus.
 * Deviljho = Osutogaroa: Both are well-known for being gluttonous nomadic.
 * Dreadqueen Rathian = Chameleos: Both are known to be able to make an area hazardous.
 * Lucent Nargacuga = Chameleos: Both can go invisible.
 * Molten Tigrex = Teostra: Both have explosive scales.
 * Odibatorasu = Kushala Daora: Both can cause sandstorms.
 * Shen Gaoren = Lao-Shan Lung: Both cause earthquakes by just walking.

9) Here is a few EDLM vs. ED battles I want to see:
 * Shen Gaoren vs. Osutogaroa
 * Black Flame King Rathalos vs. Teostra
 * White Gale Nargacuga vs. Kushala Daora
 * Espinas vs. Yama Tsukami
 * Laviente vs Dalamadur
 * Rajang vs. Inagami
 * Dreadqueen Rathian vs. Chameleos