User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Brachydios(4th Gen)/@comment-4702773-20150907000655/@comment-4702773-20150907190748

It seems so, but only sometimes, if that makes sense? Back in 3U, people would respond extremely negatively toward you if you had a slime weapon. I've seen a few cases of this in 4U, but not nearly as many. A lot of people thought it broke the game, since the monsters would flinch twice as much and the damage from the explosions. But it's just like an element, in the sense that the element/blast adds extra damage when used against the right monster.