User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Great Jagras/@comment-26421638-20180203144756

Great Jagras is the new Great Jaggi, even if they are completely different monster, but their role is the same: introductive monsters. Unfortunately it makes a terrible job in his role.

Design-wise is just a big, haired iguana. Kinda lazy huh? Need to say anything else?

I'm aware that is supposed to be an "introductive" monster, but they could do something of better than this. Is probaly the easiest "large" monster that ever existed, is so slow and predictable that you can charge your attacks or perform your best combos (depending by your weapon) completely mindlessly. Other introductive monsters like Velocidrome/Giadrome, Great Jaggi/Maccao or even Seltas did a better work that this for different reasons. Raptors were fast and they could teach you the concept of timing in your attacks, Seltas gives to you a little taste of how to deal with any flying monster. Pretty much at the same level of Arzuros, but Arzuros is a bit faster.

The good thing is that he has a wide movepool unlike most of the other introductive monsters, and he even got an alternative fatty form, but in terms of gameplay is just a terribly nerfed Royal Ludroth with the "strength" of an Arzuros.

I do like its chest armor (i really like that cape), but its equipment is forgettable even for that standards.

Overral: kinda lame, even for introductive monster's standards. He is so weak, brittle and, most importantly, slow that cannot be defined as threat and i think that he is not capable to introduce newcomers of what truly is a MH game. Great Jaggi did this work way better that this dude, or alternatively Giadrome or Seltas too IMHO. Also, its existence it's a pity for the Fanged Wyvern class (poor Zinogre) and even their classification is questionable: Leviathan or Amphibian would be better TBH.