User blog comment:Dracosaurian/Discussion of The Week: Monster Rivalries/@comment-5043481-20141124081834

I like monster rivalries, it adds more ecology to the game making it more like real ecosystems.

My favorite rivalry is that of lagiacrus and rathalos. This seems so natural, two huge predators that both eat the same thing (at least on the coast) but are matched so that a fight would be catastophic for them both. Each is weak to the others element.

Least favorite has got to be Gurenzeburu vs the other highland monsters. This is because it makes NO SENSE at all. Seriosly, why would a herbivore protect other species of herbivore that compete for its food? Especially as they cannot offer protection in return. I know different species of herbivores do live together, like (for example) wildebeast and zebra, but these are not too different in size or speed. The relationship Gurenzeburu has is like a lone wildebeast living with a hoard of rats eating all the plants.

Diablos vs Cephadrome. This has got to be pretty one sided.