The Glorious Monsters of Monster Hunter Frontier

"It doesn't make sense to model your super enigmatic monster after the mascots" Insert Goku Black joke here

All of these monsters look grand, but of this lot, I want Akura Vashimu (minus the hoops you gotta jump through to cut off its tail), Gogomoa (minus the baby, but because moar monkeys = better), Taikun Zamuza (because moar crabs = better) and Odibatoras (alongside Akantor and Ukanlos) the most.

Laviente would also be an amazing siege fight if done right, but it would need attacks from its Violent and Berserk variants to feel more dangerous, as well as making you fight the terrain as you suggested. The Safi'jiva siege in Iceborne has shown that these multi-team hunts can work, and they should do more like them.

Speaking of that localized serpentine apocalypse, I personally prefer pronouncing its name as "Raviente" over "Laviente", even if the latter is how Capcom chose to officially pronounce it (because Japanese doesn't truly distinguish between the "L" and "R" sounds). With R, it has a bit of "ravenous" in it - and what is Laviente famous for? Eating entire ecosystems by itself!

I love the choppy footage lol it gives me nostalgia for when I would watch old world of Warcraft videos 🤣❤️

Personally I don't find Espinas impressive in any way an I DON'T want most Frontier monsters to be in the main series as some of them are goofy or overly edgy skins for already existing monster like shitty ice Teostra and terrible ice Rath
But scorpion is definitely something we should see in Wilds imo, but the one from Frontier sounds like trash to me

Fishrex got potential with some fixing. Although I actually think it's based more on axolotl than fish

Yeah it seems like what you want and what I want are entirely different things. Luckily for me it's already confirmed that they'll go with World's more "realistic" monsters instead of cheap "put spikes on it , change color and element and give a couple of over the top attacks" things. FFS that "unknown" Rath is 100% born from a lazy designer asking their edgy 12yo son to design a cool monster with all those red glowy spikes, black body, super power and DBZ-like power level ups
For me ecology side of MH is as important as gameplay and if I want cool but plain monsters to kick around I can always play God Eater

Taikun Zamuza! More crabs! ...... and fish wyverns, can't forget about them ethier.

so my online nickname in spaces is Akura
safe to say, finding out years later that there are MONSTERS CALLED AKURA [Blank] was one of the highlights. Con is whenever now someone talks about these scorpions I keep thinking they're calling me, lol

Now that I played MHwilds beta, I would LOVE a Laviente (and that Tortellini-forgot-its-name giant turtle monster) fight in MHWI. The movement felt great in the beta, and it could be a giant 16 people raid where some people are on seikrets tasked with subduing Laviente/Turtlemonster, and the second group boards the monster with their clutch claws and weakens the monster's hide/breaks parts for reward

Who knows, we're still months away from release, and I imagine if there was some big raid like that they might have at least teased it. Your videos are giving me way too many ideas and TOO MUCH HOPE, I wish I got into monster hunter sooner :D

cough cough Morudomunto cough cough

I can confirm that Espinas was indeed planned for MHTri, because of a now defunct latinoamerican videogame magazine called Club Nintendo. For their april 2010 issue, they did an extensive coverage of the soon to be released MHTri, and in the artwork shown in one page, Espinas shows up. Before finding out about MHFrontier, I was always so confused as to who that monster was.

If there was a monster that Wilds should bring back, Taiken Zamuza might be the first choice. It’s factually the most popular monster Frontier has.
And personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing it, even putting aside the arena it has, it would still be able to work really well in regular maps.

Other then him, I want to see Akura Vashimu, and Barlagual. Those are some really cool monsters

SHANTIEN and DISUFIROA are the most beautiful and sensational thing that Monster Hunter has given us.
I hope to see them again soon, maybe in MH Wilds. I WOULD CRY

Now that frontier is over I want them all in the main line

They should make a new global release frontier and put it out on the switch 2 and PC. It would sell better than any other MMO out there. If they added the open world of Wilds with the combat of Rise you would make millions.

Lavasioth was a hard fight in World?
... are you on some hard medication?

Fight this shit in freedom unite
There it was a hard fight

I really hope we get Unknown in a future game as a hidden monster, with more proper lore.
I mean, a monster that looks almost exactly like one of the most common species in the world but fundamentally is different is a cool idea, I'd imagine that the guild would've sent hunters on a hunt for a regular Rathian, only for them to be all taken out, with the only known information being retrieved being "That's not a Rathian", wih that being the ONLY info on the monster known by the guild.

I actually had went against unknown all I could think was rip 🪦 bro 💀💀😭😭😭😭😭🙏

How do you feel about Doragyurosu and the other one after seeing Arkveld? The wing chains make me think Arkveld was inspired by these guys

the Akura Vashimu sounds like it would be a urgent quest TO high-rank like saying "this isnt hard to kill but hard to farm and nearly if not impossible to farm alone and you'll have to expect this type of crazy going forward, GOOD LUCK!" xD

I had only known Taikun Zamuza from the one image of it on the wiki because I'd never cared enough about it to find a video of its fight as I'm not super fond of carapaceons and just wrote it off as 'rock crab'.
But seeing it in action, and it's 'shara ishvalda' (or I guess it'd be the other way around chronologically) armour shedding to reveal the true monster below is such a sick mechanic and I will take any monster that uses it.

I also love the bright orange, almost horseshoe crab inspired design of its second form, one reason I don't find carapaceons all that interesting is that they all look the same, but Taikun is very cool.
For that same reason I'd also love to see Baelidae from Online, and the scorpion Carapaceons from Frontier. I'd just love to see a lot more variation in some of the less used monster categories.

So many of them just look.. the same lol.

Frontier did have some cool ones tho

wilds a elder

i hope it the expansion i wood like to see the Guild knights in pkay npc so there be a vslsnce. between monsters and man like human bad guys like kill a bunch of vultures in the game on quest missions

Great armor set nice never played this game

Great armor set nice i never played this game only world

i'm looking towards expansion for wilds coming out frontier expansion to wild be nice so I can see a different monster variety to slay from old games so never played original monster games and I don't like base that much so I'm not going back to turn base ganes

It bugs me how many monsters are stuck in the mmos. With Espinas getting a release in Rise there is hope for more in future. I really want that darned Scorpion fight.

FOROKUROKURO NEOW!!!

Rukadeora is way better than ibushi and narwa he does fire the cannons at you or the gunners just suck lmao

NGL, we need more frontier, online and explore monsties in wilds. With rise having espinas (SHOWING US WE CAN HAVE THEM AFTER ALL!!!) my hopes are a lil higher than they used to, tho not high at all...i also want to see the magnet spike and tonfa return or at least the tonfas! IDK maybe just give us blunt or cut type DS? Easy solution imo. EDIT, i also think as someone who got to play a tiny bit of frontier and its dlcs i need to say, capcoms missing out with some of its content, from whole server raids for a giant snake, similar to dalamadur, to team hunts for festivals, etc. etc. i think one day it be cool getting a generation like frontier just in wilds worlds style, keep it up for years capcom, at this point U GOT a good game, keep adding on top!!! Dreams...xd EDIT EDIT!!!! Akura Vashimu was one of my most hated or loved Zenity 3 to 4 mosnter to hunt next to the magnet dragon and espinas. THIS SCORPION CAN ONE SHOT U NO MATTER WHAT, like tf. xd i remember beeing grabbed once under ground on Z3 to learn it kills. Without a doubt, i can say, FZ updwards with its dlcs had the most challenging fights in any MH game so far. Wish we get more like them back.

The metal fish hate eachother so much that they feel only they get to take the other out "If anyone's gonna kill you its me!" Type beat. Love it

You really are in love with the leviathan skeleton monsters aren't you

Kuarusepusu can't happen, it looks too close to a Lagiacrus

I'd really like Espinas to return again in Wilds, or Taikun. I'd just like to see more monster make use of the armor break mechanic that only Uth Duna seems to be using.

Idk if its the canon but I heard the expalnation that Hunters from the Old World see the Fonron Hunters as weird and don't really beliebe the stories of Monsters that they fight over there

Capcom should bring Frontier Monsters and the difficulties to Wilds..
Wilds hunters currently become too OP and need Frontier Monster's Menace Power

now that there are pack monsters in wilds, abiorugu could appear exclusively as a pack Hunt

Gogamoa would have been so cool in rise. imagine if this thing was fighting us with our own techniques

Doragyurosu seems like the inspiration for Arkveld

Their themes tho Kuarosepsu theme is just...omg amazing

I remember when Espinas came out, no weapon in the game had the sharpness to not bounce when it wasn't in its rage state. Such a long annoying hunt until the next tier of weapons came out.

you mention odibatorasu being very much like a pokemon, but i don’t think it would actually be too out of place in MH these days. between fan favorites like glavenus, valstrax, and bazelgeuse, there’s a clear love for monsters that imitate human weaponry. i really like the wyvern gods personally and would love another member of their group in the main series. great video, by the way! i’ve started with your MH online video and i’m loving this in depth coverage of monsters i can’t experience myself

edit: can’t believe i forgot rey dau!! a fucking railgun!! and everyone (myself included) loves it

I feel like some monsters could work well in place of others as a way to diversify the world. Chances are monsters like Deviljho, Diablos, and Tigrex aren't present in EVERY region. Monsters that fill similar niches, like Abiorugu, Monoblos, and Pariapuria respectively, could make for a great alternative that helps in world-building. As such, I personally hope those three make an appearance in a title update for Wilds.
There's a few other Frontier monsters I think would work well in Wilds, but those are in the next vid.

using lagiacrus was a forashadowing lmao

As someone who actually played the game in Japan, UNKNOWN cannot be 9/10...it is 10/10!　It appeared in the game with no warning at all and it interrupted the quest at a very low rate. I remember well how it tore apart the monster that was the original target. It was exciting to see the players exchanging information and verifying each other in the game, and UNKNOWN won the first place in the ranking voted by the players many times. It is the monster that represents the frontier!

I like to think Unknown is just the last remaining true Rath ancestor or up the flying wyvern evolution chart

When i first fought silver hypnoc i was lowk scared cus the thing was js jumping around and dancing with lao’s first theme in the background.