User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Rare Species/@comment-5043481-20131130181214

Silver and gold raths: These are ok, but only in 3U do they become worthwhile. In earlier games they were just reskins. Silver rathalos in 3U seems to only have 1 new move though, and the rest have been borrowed from pink rathian. Gold rathian seems new and fresh though. Sticking these two in the tower is OK as they were the first, and they appear in the old swap in unite as well.

Lucent Narga is one of my favorites. He looks quite nice, although I don't like his golden chest. His moveset is much less forgiving than the other nargas and the tail spikes are... An imaginitive way to annoy everybody. Thankfully, they are quite easy to get out of the way of, and rolling through them isn't too bad either. Tower though? How about some kind of dark forest?

Abbysal Lagiacrus is my other favorite, simply because he is one of the hardest monsters in 3U and the only one I havn't unlocked the main quest for. I did the download one, it was hard. I can see they REALLY wanted to put him in the tower, but he had to be underwater. They gave him the tower theme. Why? I'm tired of hearing that now.

I don't care about the frontier ones. Never fought them, never will.

Tigrex rare species makes me vomit. His colour scheme is awful and the bomb status he inflicts (not slime, but a variation with exactly the same effects) is lazy and makes no sense on tigrex. Black Tigrex was not needed I think, and a rare species is a waste of memory that could me used to make a better rare species. Or new monster.

I think we will get a zzzinogre rare (that typo gave me an idea - how about one with sleep status!) even though it isn't neccecery. Maybe a more harcore variant of stygian?

What i think would be good is a Duramboros Rare Species. It would live in the battleground (or similar area) and would be covered in lava and rock, maybe with some volcano plants living on it. It would be carnivoros, with sharper teeth. It would use its hammer blows to crack the earth so lava can spurt out of the holes, and it would look like some kind of hellish bull, with the attitude to match.