User blog comment:Dracosaurian/Monster Appreciation Week: Lagiacrus (4th Gen)/@comment-26421638-20161029165552

Lagiacrus... This guy in 3rd Gen was one of my Most-hated Monsters due to one simple reason... Underwater... This Monster, along with Ceadeus, were the Main Reasons why I hated one of the Most notable features of MH3/MH3U. However, since the first time that I've faced the Lord of Seas I taught: "A Monster with a Huge potential wasted due to a Poorly done Mechanics, I wish that someday I can finally hunt a Revamped version of this Monster without Underwater hunts"... For once seems that one of my wishes became True, that day have arrived with the Release of MHGen! What I have to say? I like 4th Gen Lagiacrus and received a good revamp IMO (not perfect, but still good), this Monster turned from one of my Most-hated Monsters into one of my favorite Thunder Element Monsters!

Without any doubts the Design is excellent, a Marine Dragon that looks something Between a cobra, a crocodile and a traditional oriental Dragon, and also uses Thunder in various different ways.

4th Gen Lagiacrus, unlike 3rd Gen IMO, is quite enjoyable to hunt. It has a good amount of new attacks, some of them gained from Ivory Lagiacrus (those Attack were nerfed a lot) and others completely new like the triple spinning thunderballs or the Spheres thats fires a small electric beam on the ground. I've to say that most of the new attacks are good-look, so... What is the small problem of this Lagiacrus? The excessive amount of AoE attacks, with Adept or with weapons that can block is not a real issue, but if you use something of different, you can realize that is not very easy to evade its attacks, unlike some Monsters, takes quite some time to learn timing to successfully Evade its AoE moves. (my least favorite move is one that fires a bigger thunderball that causes An AoE of electric explosions).

However even if AoE attacks are a small issue for some kind of players, this doesn't mean that that I find it boring, annoying or broken, I like 4th Gen Lagiacrus!

Thunder Element weapons are always appreciated and good in terms of stats, but not very effective in the end-game. GS, SA and SnS are my favorite in terms of Design. The Armor has a good design, but is quite mediocre in terms of skills, there are a Lot of better Armors than this. (I really miss the Design of Lagiacrus X Armor for Blademasters BTW).

Overall: My former Nightmare that represents all the troubles I had in the past when I've miserably tried to hunt on his environment returns in this game. No Longer Water = No Longer a Nightmare for me! I'm fine with its revamp, Is good and I can easily accept this Lagiacrus, I wish that could have less AoE attacks and more physical moves, but is still fine.

(I may add something later)