User blog comment:Dracosaurian/Monster Appreciation Week: Malfestio/@comment-26421638-20160903201904

Malfestio... "good" old Malfestio... He received a lot of hate a couple of months ago... But now we have a MAW completely dedicated to the Owl...

Without doubts the Most Original Bird Wyvern of MH... However if is the Most Original Bird Wyvern doesn't mean that is the best Bird Wyvern... In my opinion, this Monster is a Mixed bag...

I certainly like its design, A blue owl with a jester-like head, white face and some yellow feathers on the body. When enraged part of its face turn red and the talons on the wings are extended... I love when look enraged and I find the pattern on its wings really cool! And of course the unique owl-like movements deserves a little mention.

Now let's focus on the reason why a lot of people hate this owl... The fight. I'm kinda disappointed about the fighting style of this Monster... Sure it has a completely original moveset with wing slaps, aerial attacks, sleepy beam and confusing attacks... But unfortunately this Monster is quite repetitive and kinda annoying with all of this Debuffs that inflicts to you... The sleeping beam and most of its attacks aren't a real threat for me... Thw two things that bothers me are: However... Excluding this two negative traits, this Monster isn't that difficult, after a couple of hunts, this Monster will turn really predictable and is no longer a threat, unless if you hunt this blue owl along with another Monster (usually Mizutsune) or an Hyper Malfestio (a real nightmare, it literally drains your HP with simple attacks).
 * The glide attack, because is too fast and has a broken hitboxes, seriously it gets you even with tips of the wings!!
 * The confusion status, indirectly. I don't have real problems with the inverted left stick, but the reason why I hate is is when it ends reverting again the movements back to normal, confusing me once again lol. And of course when enraged, most of its attacks inflicts confusion, which isn't exactly fun...

The Equipment is meh... The Weapons are the much like every single Sleep Element weapons: bad in terms of stats, but the sleep status allows you to do Sleepbombing... The Armor offers nearly useless Skills, Except the Weakness Exploit Skill, the others are garbage... Not a great fan of the Design of the Weapons/Armor

Overall: While this Monster has an excellent design and is really, really original, this Monster isn't exactly really enjoyable to hunt for various reasons like the Debuff party that it causes or the limited movepool that makes it quite boring and irritating... However is not the most boring Monster and is not the most irritating Monster of history so I don't understand the excessive amount of hate that've received during the release of the MHGen demo... Not the Best Bird Wyvern, but not the Worst... I still prefer Malfestio over the Qurupeco, but Hypnocatrice still remains my Favorite sleepy bird even if is not as original as Malfestio.