User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-25385495-20141003143842/@comment-4009941-20141003173912

To clear things up for people following this convo.

Frontier had jumping attacks first in their DS and Hammer way before MH4 even got announced. These jump attacks could even be used for evasion and reaching high monster parts.

Frontier had the monster mechanics like 4th gens Drome behavior, Kirin behavior, Basa behavior and more. Basa been doing rolling attacks for years. Even plesioth had a HC revamp on frontier and people didn't even notice and called 3rd gens plesioth the first revamp. 4th gens monster behavior changes are based on HC monsters from frontier for the most part. Only they are minorly edited. This goes for this so called "Supernova" attack people are so scared of from Teostra(I been avoiding that move before MH4 even came out).

Frontier had Blights first for example "Ice Blight/Frostbite" from the Ice Fox Wyvern. And something close to fire blight where you burn for like 5 full seconds rapidly losing health even after being away from the attack that hit you. So forntier had blights before MH3 even came out.

Frontier had the first explosive status attack not MH3U. Because the Akura's not only could make you explode but when you get the status attack it is much stronger than slime was making you unable to do evasion and you walk like your out of stamina making you not only a walking bomb that can kill other players but a open to hit one.

Frontier had the first Wolf Monster before 3rd gen even started Zinogre.