User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Dreadking Rathalos/@comment-26963229-20170127230749

Dreadking Rathalos is the True King of the Skies !

I simply love his Design. It is a bigger Rathalos with darker scales, a spikier back and much more developped wings with a Golden pattern. This Rathalos truly looks like a King !

His equipment is incredible ! His armor has great skills and really looks good. While the weapons aren't the best, they're pretty useful and nice-looking.

I actually find that the Darkness Lord is the least annoying Rathalos to hunt, still a bit annoying though. His fire-breathing abilities have improved dramatically and he is now capable of shooting much bigger fireballs and is able to breath an AoE fireball that will slowly change color before causing an explosion that covers a lot of ground. He can also perform a Double/Triple fiery bites on the ground, which is cool since it makes him less annoying as he doesn't spam his insta-rush as much. Due to his better flying skills, Dreadking Rathalos flies a lot longer than any other Rathalos with greater mobility, making him near unstoppable in the air. Furthermore, his more developped wings protect him from being flashbombed, meaning that you need to break these first. Breaking his part will also make him lose his high resistance to elemental and status damage. His incredible aerial mobility truly shows that Dreadking does not play around ! But this can be pretty annoying if you want to capture him because he rarely stays on the ground, especially when enraged (his Level 7 quest is a nightmare due to this). Like his more poisonous wife, the King of Kings possess a deadlier Poison, which means that his annoying poisonous talon is even more powerful !

Dreadking Rathalos is the only Rathalos (without counting Zenith Rathalos) that deserves the title "King of the Skies" imo, thanks to his more imposing design, and his newfound fire-breathing and flying skills. While he isn't one of my favourite Deviants, it's still an honor to fight such a Wyvern !