Gold Rathian

The Gold Rathian are the strongest subspecies of the Rathian species and female counterpart of the Silver Rathalos. Golden Rathian has one of the most sought out parts of all monsters. Its body is covered in a hard golden shell, making it hard to attack without the weapon bouncing off it.

Gold Rathian are physically different from the other Rathian in that they have a shiny gold color to their scales and shells. They also take damage differently than the others. Instead of their weak spot being their head, their weak spot are their wings. The only exception to this is when using a Hammer or Hunting Horn, the impact damage is still more effective on the head. The Gold Rathian are weakest to thunder elemental weapons. Like the other Rathian, the Gold Rathian can poison you and damage you with fire. Another thing to be aware of is when you cut its tail off and it does the backflip, it can still poison you, however this attack also becomes easier to avoid as you can simply roll towards the Gold Rathian and it will most likely miss you.

Unlocking it

 * A unique trait of this monster is that its head is extremely weak to impact (hammer, hunting horn), while its wings are very weak to slash (sword weapons). It is weakest to thunder.
 * In MHF2 and MHP2ndG she along with Silver Rathalos can only be unlocked by killing 10 Rathalos and 10 Rathian and killing 100 Wyverns, including Remobras and excluding Kut-Kus

Changes in MHFU

 * Regular earplugs do not work anymore, in MHFU you need High Grade Earplug to block her scream, although you're left open for only a short period if you don't have High Grade Earplug unlike the roar of a Gravios or Diablos which leaves you open for a considerably longer amount of time.

=See Also= It is also apart of the hunter rank 9 and hunter rank 6 download quest "Anger of Heaven and Earth" along with the silver rathalos
 * Rathian
 * Pink Rathian
 * Silver Rathalos