User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5043481-20121021210526/@comment-173.8.54.198-20121029190956

Um, I'm just going to throw in a little thought towards that arguement on whether gravios could or couldn't escape. The contributor says gravios could have chosen to fly away and made an easy escape, but chose wrong by staying and fighting. I'm not saying that gravios didn't have the fight or flight option, but I don't think flying would have made much of a difference. Gravios has the ability to fly, but only does so on very rare occasions where it has no other option but to flap its wings and fly very slowly and clumsily to a spot where it can land. Gravios isn't even made to fly very far. It has wings, but it's very large, heavily armored, and it's wings aren't well developed enough to handle sustained flight for very long. Having the ability to fly does not guarantee escape from something confined to the ground, especially if you can't fly fairly fast. I would assume that even flying for a very short amount of time would exhaust gravios fairly well. Plainly put, flying most likely wouldn't have saved gravios anyways. It's like saying having the ability to run fast will gaurantee that you will catch something that you're chasing, but when you look at a cheetah, they only have a 50% success rate of catching their prey.

I said earlier that fight or flight wasn't impossible for gravios. What I meant was that gravios could have had the ability to choose to turn tail and charge his way out of there, making the flight option possible. That doesn't mean that escape is likely though, because even though gravios can pick up a good amount of speed while running, he isn't quite maneuverable while doing so, which limits his ability to run far in a place usually surrounded by walls, arches, and rivers of lava. Plainly put, I don't think gravios had much of a chance to survive the encounter at all really.