Lavasioth

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Lavasioth is a Piscine Wyvern with rock hard scales. The body structure resembles a lung fish, and the head is more fish-like than the shark-like Plesioth's. Its basic body shape and fins resemble that of a coelacanth. Glowing magma aurates from veins in its body. It lives in volcano zones where it can freely swim in the lava. Its attacks and movements are vaguely similar to those of a Plesioth and Blos-type wyverns. Unlike Plesioth, however, its Hipcheck attack has a tiny Hit-box. It can fire huge balls of magma at you when these hit the ground, they scatter into smaller molten rocks which can still do considerable damage if they hit you. Lavasioth can also jump up and slam itself down on the ground this attack is very powerful. Another attack is the Sliding U turn. It will slide bodily across the floor towards you, but after missing can turn around and slide at you again, with pin-point accuracy. The best defense against this is to sheath your weapon and Panic Dive. If you have the ability to block, you can also block this attack. Its head and back fins are breakable. It maybe possible that the weak point of the Lavasioth maybe the tail or body, based on the observation of this video of a great player completing the dual Lavasioth quest, The River Of Fire, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ6oipmjhlo. All credit is given to mazereon. Following up on recent hunt's, the weak spot is it's under belly, which onliy makes sense since the upper part of it body is covered with hardened magma which repels most weapon attacks.

Lavasioths are featured in Monster Hunter Frontier. It was first released in the game to be hunted on August 8, 2007. They also make an appearance in Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.

In Monster Hunter Frontier 8.0, it gains a new attack in which it stands up tall and spits several fireballs into the air, which fall down onto hunters.