User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-6974847-20140813225441/@comment-11537809-20140814132908

An ailment like that would be the last thing I want to deal with when fighting Seru (assuming he's as agressive as it seems). For the weapon,I think it would work as a damage over time (caused by spikes attaching on the monster and hurting it) that gets stronger the more it is applied (it activates on the first application but is very weak) which will also reset once a certain amount of time has passed since the last application