User blog comment:Aandrew07/Monster Appreciation Week: Azure Rathalos and Pink Rathian/@comment-5043481-20130724092726

Origionaly, as 1st gen subs, thee two were rubbish. With no new moves and only a slight speed increase in rage, they were almost identicle. Thankfully, they got a revamp in MH3U!

Now these two are much harder than the ordinary species. The flaming bite that pink rathian does makes that attack very hard to avoid. The different backflips make the fight interesting. In my opinion Azure rathalos did not have as large a difficulty increase as Pink rathian. Some of his ariel attacks are good though. The flaming flying bite almost never hits me, but the low altitude claw swipe is very accuare.

Equpiment wise, there is not much difference between the 2nd gen and 3rd gen. The amazing dragon greatswords remain, as does the blue wing.