User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Piscine Wyverns/@comment-5020152-20140513203135

1) My favorite Piscene Wyvern? Hmmm, who could it be? Here's a hint...

<--

Plesioth is undoubtedly one of the coolest, most unique, and wonderfully designed monsters in the entire series. It was this monster - an awesome combination of shark and dragon - that drove me to immerse myself in the lore of Monster Hunter. To be fair, it has been many years since that day when I met Plesioth, and I only picked up Monster Hunter Tri about a year or two ago, but the fact still stands. It isn't just Plesioth's design, fighting style, assorted noises, or battle music that makes him my favorite monster - it's my history with him, and how far he made me fall in love with the MH series, that makes him so awesome.

Plus I find him immensely fun to fight. Especially underwater, where he swims circles around you like a Lagiacrus on Red Bull.

Honorable mention goes to Anorupatisu, the Flying Wyvern that should have been classified as a Piscene. He's simply too fish-like to be considered an icy relative of the Raths, in my opinion anyway.

2) Aruganosu and Goruganosu. Found in a tower, far from any large body of liquid/grainy solid (ie. water, sand, lava)? Can swim through solid stone as if it were nothing? Flippin' ice/thunder tornadoes that can both paralyze you and lull you to sleep?

Come on. Even for Frontier that's ridiculous.

3) Yes please, Capcom! There is an astounding variety of underwater life to draw inspiration from. I mean, we already have a hammerhead, a generic shark, a coelacanth, and a marlin/crocodile combo.

I think a cichlid Piscene Wyvern would be interesting - it would be able to summon little minions out of its mouth! Or maybe something like a stargazer or a swordfish, or even a combination of those two.

Of course, the best inspiration can be drawn from simply looking into the twilight zone. Gobul has a frighteningly badarse design simply because he looks like an angler fish - so why not a gulper eel? Viperfish? Chimaera? Hatchetfish? I could go on.

4) Yes please. I never fought Lavasioth in MHFU (because High-Rank is so ridiculously hard for me, so I never got to G-Rank), so I'd like to see him make a reappearance. I mean, if Plesioth got a second chance, why not his lava-loving cousin?