User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Jyuratodus/@comment-5020152-20180303172610

Overall, Mudsioth is just kinda 'meh' to me.

On the plus side, I like how it's meant to be Barroth's rival, and it's cool that it produces muddy islands wherever it swims so you don't have to slowly wade through the water after it. It also looks beautiful in-game, like everything else.

On the negative side, it's just a Lavasioth covered in mud and not hardened lava, and the gameplay looks pretty lackluster. Would've been more interesting if it looked more catfish- or lungfish-like (Gajaudrome?) and borrowed more moves from other piscines (how can it be called a piscine wyvern if it has no Hip Check? Blasphemy).

I will admit, though, that being so similar to Lavasioth and being called by a unique name is pretty cool. They went ahead and gave it its own moniker instead of officially labeling it as "Brown Lavasioth". It's like Frontier calling Doragyurosu by its own name and not "Berukyurosu Subspecies". They're both closely-related, but they're still their own monsters at the end of the day.

On a totally unrelated note, can we get the Sharqs back please? 11/10 most original monster would harpoon again