User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Viper Tobi-Kadachi/@comment-25083735-20200126005605

When it comes to iceborne, the monsters are extremely out of place. Why does viper only appear in the hoarfrost reach, despite him being very weak to ice and only living in the caves, and strictly relying on geothermal vents? He would have been an extremely perfect fit for the wildspire waste considering his weaknesses, abilities, etc. The fact that it can glide without climbing fits the waste way better too. Why would it be able to glide without climbing when it lives in narrow caves with walls which it can easily "odogaron style" cling to and leap off of?

They could've easily added khezu or gigginox, the latter being another poisinous cave monster, which would have made fans happy and would've filled the same low-mid tier niche perfectly, and could have also utilized the new engine and have plenty of new wall moves like barioth. (sidenote: mh world is the first mh game ever not to feature either gigginox or khezu.)

I just feel like out of all monsters to put in a ice map cave, why in God's name would you put a monster weak to ice in one? And why in God's name would you put a brown subspecies weak to ice in an ice map rather than a desert map? (99% of all brown monsters weak to ice appear in the desert maps)