User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Week: Zinogre/@comment-3247026-20130611010826

Zinogre has a pretty fun fight, but once you get really good gear, he sort of becomes a pushover due to the fact that dealing lots of damage prevents him from charging, making him rage less. With other monsters, dealing lots of damage usually puts them into rage mode sooner. Also, most of Zinogre's attacks are easily blockable/dodgable (is that a word?). I do think that his subspecies does significantly up the difficulty, with many features that counter the original's weaknesses, but those will be discussed at a later time.

When it comes to equipment, Zinogre has good thunder weapons, but they are usually outclassed by Abyssal Lagiacrus weapons (I think some of Zin's weps even upgrade into A. Lagi weps). I usually end up going down the Stygian path when upgrading Zin's weapons. As for the armor, it is pretty good, but at g-rank, there are so many amazing sets that not much sets it apart from the others.

Finally, everyone seems to really like Zinogre's music theme, and while I think it is ok, I think that there are a lot of better ones out there (especially in frontier).