User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Diablos (5th Gen)/@comment-15446856-20180519161750

Back when I gave my unpopular opinion on Agnaktor back in Generations, I complained that it dug far too much and that was a bad theme for most monsters that had digging attacks in that game. I also mentioned I feared that Diablos in Double Cross would suffer this too and become hell. Well, then World came along and XX passed into GU, whose Diablos was almost exactly the same as 4U.

Sadly, World's Diablos is what I feared XX's Diablos would become. Although its the standard Diablos we all like or hate from the old times when it isn't enraged, once it becomes angry it falls apart. Like Diablos in 4U spammed the ever loving hell out of its charge attack, in World it spams the hell out of its revamped dig attack. The devs must have REALLY wanted us to see how Diablos now bursts its head first from the ground and crawls out rather than leaping straight up. It looks great the first time you see it, but then the problems surge in soon after. One thing, it can no longer be flinched out of its digging animation meaning theres nothing to do to cancel it. Tunnelling is the classic time-wasting, only now an enraged blos can be brought up by a screamer pod, but this won't help much due to the shear amount of times this happens. Worst of all, it can now chain a digging attack right into another digging attack, giving absolutely no chance to stop it. I've seriously had one time when Diablos did its digging attack five damn times in a row and I had no means of stopping it. This is the reason why I much prefer Black Diablos over standard, as it feels like a real complete fight.

When the times it isn't digging, Diablos is pretty much the same as before, except for the now stiffer horn sweeps. It has four (as of this blogs posting) Turf Wars against other monsters. Barroth just gets wrecked in a normal attack, Rathian does ineffective fireballs and gets almost impaled after being thrown up by the Bloses horns, a one of a kind (as of this blogs posting) unique Turf War where it fights the Black Diablos with a randomised winner. Since there isn't a two Diablos quest yet, we don't know if it can have one with another standard Diablos but it probably would. And the fourth one which was added in via update, is with Deviljho. Undoubtedly it is the most memorable one, as Diablos attempts to do the method it uses against Barroth, but is literally lifted up by its horns and fucking suplexed by Jho, destroying one of its horns in the impact. Future updates will likely expand on the confrontations it has in the Wildspire, and so far it looks to be great!

If it wasn't for the dig spam Diablos would be a far better monster, but it is once again outdone by its subspecies.

Also, may I point out how ridiculous it is that Diablos now suddenly has Ioprey yelps during several of its flinches and movements? It is really off-putting hearing this horned wyvern emit sounds used by a poisonous minion raptor.