User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Day: Yama Tsukami/@comment-88.0.121.236-20120324115543/@comment-969093-20120324142432

If it were 5 months ago, I would've agreed with you on Evade +2. However, over these aforementioned past 5 months I developed the skill to pull off the same without evade+ at all as what I could do when using it. I'm talking about 1st-2nd gen MH here, not 3rd. Already reached that point back in tri.

Evade +1 is pretty much all you need anyway to roll through most roars. Just the timing must be perfect without even the slightest deviation. It's quite a pain to gem on too. You need to waste 10 slots (assuming +2 here) at the least to add a skill which basically makes the already possible considerably easier to pull off.

It's a common incorrect assumption, I discovered, that attacks are harder to roll through in the older generations than they are in the current one. It's really just as easy. Thing is just that positioning is a little more important, that's all.

I also would never say Guardian Shin is a "really good" armor. The skills ESP and Quick Eating are pretty nice though. In fact, I made a semi-mixed set with just the Torso piece. Full Ukanlos with the mail switched out for Guardian Shin. It gives me Sharpness +1, ESP, Quick Eating and Quake Resistance with (iirc) a 1 slot weapon. Very solid set, I say.