Basarios

Basarios is a small, rocky wyvern that lives in the Volcanic and Swamp regions. It is the juvenile form of Gravios. It is able to release either sleeping or poisonous gas from its underside, and on extremely rare occasions a fire plume. It has also been known to unleash a very powerful lava beam at times, but this is very rare. It can also hurl balls of fire like a Yian Kut-Ku (although much stronger and larger), but it prefers to charge towards predators.



When resting or changing areas, it burrows underground, exposing only its back to give the appearance of a large grey rock. Being very heavy makes it a slow mover, and although it has wings, it very rarely uses them to fly. Even when they do, their weight allows them only to fly for a very short time. In Monster Hunter, they can only stay in one area. However, in the sequels, they have gained the ability to move to different locations.

The Basarios resembles a Monoblos or a Diablos when charging, yet it is much slower and can not turn as fast.

Despite the Basarios's ability to hide, in most areas they are visible, since the rocks on his back are a slightly lighter colour than other rocks.

In Monster Hunter Frontier Online, Season 9.0, Basarios is considerably improved. It can now fire 3 heat-beams in quick succession, followed by a burst of poison gas; it can roll-over to try to crush the hunter, and emit poison at the same time; it can dig and partly re-emerge to spew a powerful ball of fire; it can leap at the hunter. Its normal fire-ball attacks are also much improved, and it has what seems to be a branch in one of the rocks on its back.

In-Game Description
=Notes=
 * In Monster Hunter the Basarios stayed in only one area, Area 2 of the Old Volcano and Area 7 of the Old Swamp
 * Basarios takes 1.1x as much damage when underground.
 * Basarios, along with Gravios and Bulldrome, are the only monsters able to be flipped over on their backs when enough damage is done to either of their legs or by knocking them out with an impact weapon.
 * Basarios' tail is the smallest in the Monster Hunter world when cut.
 * Basarios' chest can be broken once, dealing considerably more damage to its stomach.
 * Unlike the Gravios, Basarios has two horns.
 * The High rank Basarios uses a high caliber poison compared to the regular Basarios, should hunters break its stomach. This poison drains health twice as quickly as normal poison. It can be told when it's using a higher power poison when the cloud is a darker purple and has poison bubbles in it.