User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter XX Discussion/@comment-26034899-20161027225642/@comment-27125903-20161029163223

@Ompahkan

Khezu, Basarios and Gigginox actually used to be the most popular flying wyverns (BannedLagiacrus now states on Rathalos/Astalos).

Seregios should have been a bird wyvern, it's got many bird-like features such as the stance and foot design.

If they don't want Zinogre to be less special, why does it have so many variants? That Najarala statement does make sense and I do hope they revisit it in the future. Carapaceon skeleton outdated? So are flying wyverns, bird wyverns and piscine wyverns, and the first former are still getting many monsters to this day.

Favouritism does matter when it comes to video games, I remember a statement saying that one of the developers favourite monsters is Yian Garuga, yet I don't see Yian Garuga with 10-11 variants (just one eyed and deadeye alongside HC).

That would make sense I suppose (though I hope that's not the case as the abundance of variants for popular monsters like Zinogre and Rathalos is really started to crowd the monster list, and I personally do not think that is a good thing).

@BannedLagiacrus

That definitely seems to make more sense than Basarios, Khezu and Gigginox (though is it from just Japan? data of both the West and Japan or just the West?).