Basarios

Basarios is a Flying Wyvern first introduced in Monster Hunter.



Physiology
Basarios is a small, rocky wyvern. It is the juvenile form of Gravios. Their hard, stone-like shells can be use for self-defense from other large wyverns or they can burrow to the ground to avoid any particular fights.

Abilities
It is able to release either sleeping or poisonous gas from its underside, and on extremely rare occasions a fire plume. It is also known to unleash a very powerful lava beam at times. It can also hurl balls of fire like a Yian Kut-Ku, although it prefers to charge towards adversaries.

When resting or changing areas, it burrows underground, exposing only its back, giving it the appearance of a large grey rock. Being very heavy, it is a slow mover, and although it has wings, it rarely uses them to fly. Even when they do, their weight allows them only to fly for a short time. In Monster Hunter, they can only stay in one area. In the sequels, however, they have gained the ability to move to other areas.

Despite Basarios' ability to hide, in most areas they are visible, since the rocks on its back are a slightly lighter color than other rocks.

Behavior
Basarios charges in a manner similar to Diablos or Monoblos, although it is slower and cannot turn as sharply, they are less aggressive than its adult counterpart form, Gravios.

Habitats
Basarios lives in Volcanoes and Swamps regions for its needs of ores to survive.

Hard Core (HC) Basarios
In Monster Hunter Frontier Online, Season 9.0, a 'Hard Core' Basarios is introduced. It has a branch in one of the rocks on its back, bright blue eyes and purple stains on and outside of its pores.

These unique Basarios can now fire 3 heat-beams in rapid succession, followed by a burst of poison gas; it can roll-over to try to crush the hunter, and emit poison at the same time; it can dig and partly re-emerge to spew a powerful ball of fire; it can also leap at the Hunter. Its normal fire-ball attacks are also now much improved. it has what seems to be a branch in one of the rocks on its back.