User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Elder Dragons/@comment-4502434-20140624033914

I too have a strange interest in Yama. It is probably because of the unique concept (A sky octopus that grows a forest on it's back and raises thunder powered insects in it's belly? How is that not awesome?) I would like to see him back with a more interesting moveset though.

While I am in awe of Fatalis, it's mostly because of it's status within the world, as opposed to any of it's combat. I still find her pretty easy, as long as you don't make too many silly mistakes. Frontiers advanced Fatalis is cooler, espescially because her attacks are much more fire and dragon based. I actually wish they hadn't nerfed her as much as they did in MH4, simply because I enjoy long drawn out battles. I would have given her abilities more like the one in Frontier though. My favorite Fatalis is the Crimson one, as I prefer his design to those of the others. He is more challenging than the original, but not as ridiculous as the White Fatalis.

Kushala Daora is just awesome. His fight is fun, and he is one of the most unique of the early  elder dragons, not in design, but in abilities. A dragon of wind and ice enshrouded by it's elements, with an aura that protects it from attacks? Cool. Very pleased to see his return in 4th gen.

I also really like Teostra and Lunastra. They are my favorite of the normal elder dragons physically looking, and are very unique. The fire breath ability is a nice change compared to the fireballs of most enemies. Still, I wish they had more difference in abilities besides some small moves and damage levels.

Kirin I like, but hate to fight. I kind of feel bad, because you have all these scary intimidating monsters, and then a unicorn. She is also as annoying as heck, and those thunder abilities screw me over. And you only get two carves from her, the least of any elder dragon, and less than most large monsters.

I enjoy the design of Chameleos, but find his battle very repetitive. I also would have preferred a more varied moveset for the implication of his then unique fatigued statistic. I would like to see Chameleos in the future, albeit greatly improved.

Like Fatalis I like Lao's lore, but hate his fight. It's even more boring than the Fatalis one, but giant lizards monsters that are running from scary legendary dragons is kind of cool. I also like that he is implied to be young. However, this is another fight I feel bad about. He's just running from Fatalis so you straight up murder him. He doesn't even try to fight you directly most of the time.

I really like the character of all of the elder dragons, just would like them to have better implementation.