User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-6974847-20140716080519/@comment-4212769-20140717090013

If we're going after "symbolic or not" then Diablos should get a Rare Species for being the "unseen MH flagship monster" and not least for its title of the devil itself (I don't know if it was in the English version but in the German version the Moga chief used an idiom with normally "devil" in it and replaced the "devil" with "Diablos"). Diablos is in any MH game but one (I'm gonna ignore the spin-offs as I don't know enough about them). Diablos deserves a Rare Species IMO.

Seruregiosu Subspecies won't be in this game as the normal subspecies is introduced to the series in the game.

If I really expect a "subspecies" in the game that (almost) no one has in mind it is Ivory Lagiacrus and a new land-based Lagiacrus because why not. (Desert Lagiacrus in my head, and yeah, it's one of my creations; people will scream "Oh, no more Lagiacrus subspecies!" but there would be only two subspecies in the game and I don't care). This would be the first time a subspecies is in a game without the original one being present what subspecies is supposed to mean.

Little mind game about how Ivory may be present and normal Lagiacrus not: I could imagine a Lagiacrus would come to a coast in Siki or other relevant places around areas in MH4U with a lot of quartz it can take in. Because of the good location possibly without many competitors a population might settle there. The well accessable quartz leads to bigger numbers of Ivory Lagiacri that may overcome the normal Lagiacri and start to swim up a river (similar to the Flooded Forest situation) right into one of the areas (I'm guessing Sunken Hollow or/and Primeval Forest) while the remaining normal ones might stay at the coast which isn't a hunting place and so they won't be seen by many hunters. Reasons for this coast life may be the competition with Ivory Lagiacrus and other monsters but also the water volume of the river. While Ivory Lagiacrus hunts on land and won't mind rivers with small water capacities Lagiacrus would have problems. What do you think?

I'm against this "Rare Species only for flagships" thinking. I find many monsters have the potential for a Rare Species. For example Qurupeco with a tundric/icy subspecies as there is no monster that calls monsters there, or Gravios, I like Portdecks idea of a seaweed loaden Gravios that lives underwater (even if he didn't used it yet) while this isn't possible in MH4U, Barioth (yes, another creation of mine), Blangonga because I find not only Wyverns should have Rare Species, maybe even Shogun/Daimyo and of course Diablos as I said above.