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0:00slow and sleepy but incredibly powerful
0:03when roused espinas is one of the most
0:06mysterious and yet revered beasts in the
0:08known world it's even temperament
0:11extends to most who don't threaten it
0:13but a few mad few still choose to hunt
0:16it but despite its power and wife and
0:19lineage it mainly eats small prey so
0:22let's see what we can do to unpack the
0:24Enigma that is espinas
0:26and one of espinas's signature behaviors
0:29is just how much of a sleepy boy he is
0:32they can typically be found resting for
0:34long periods of the day and are
0:36difficult and slow to wake in short if
0:39they can help it espinacious do what
0:41they can to not expend energy and with a
0:44sluggish nature and long rest periods
0:46they likely have a relatively low
0:48metabolic rate but this isn't always the
0:51case once properly woken up espinas is
0:54capable of incredible Feats of Strength
0:56and fights as fiercely as other wivens
0:59he's considered on a similar level to so
1:02it's likely espinas can alter its own
1:04metabolic rate for various reasons for
1:07most of the time espinas keeps things on
1:09the down low and even comparatively
1:12strenuous activities like hunting and
1:14movement it may still not really charge
1:16itself up for forcibly waking espinas
1:20does the trick of getting it fully
1:21active unlike anything else espinas is
1:24probably pretty willing to burn the
1:26calories to protect its own life but the
1:29more natural and seasonal cause for it
1:31still having the option to kick things
1:32up a notch is likely reproduction in
1:35tegus we see something similar whilst
1:38for most of the Year their metabolic
1:39rates are pretty similar to other
1:41lizards come the reproductive season
1:43their metabolism spikes considerably and
1:46they become much more active becoming
1:48somewhat endothermic and this is all to
1:51breed males have to produce sperm find
1:54females and repel rival males and
1:57females have to produce eggs build nests
1:59and then guard them and it isn't just
2:02tea Goose monotremes like echidnas and
2:05primitive mammals like tenrex also
2:07undergo enhanced endothermia when it
2:09comes to reproduction and for the same
2:11reasons so espanas may well be similar
2:14and they likely have a set season they
2:16breed in and become a lot more active at
2:18this period individuals will be burning
2:21a lot more energy with them moving and
2:23eating more and in the case of the males
2:25flattening sections of foreign rest in
2:27combat bull espinas fights likely
2:30comprise of opponents trying to angle
2:32the horn to gore each other's soft
2:34underparts and flip each other over with
2:37a successful flip likely showing a clear
2:39winner and the loser fleeing in a hurry
2:41some conflicts may be averted though
2:44espinas has a blue tongue a lot like the
2:47Blue-tongued skink and whilst this was
2:50initially thought to be a clear-cut
2:51predator repellent by a postmatism it
2:54may not be that simple some of the
2:56skink's Predators don't see that
2:58wavelength of light or aren't in a
3:01position to be exposed to it rather it's
3:03believed this is for other reptiles and
3:06chiefly are the skinks in particular
3:07being to reduce skin on skink violence
3:10among their own kind by having a clear
3:12warning to others Predator defense may
3:15just be a secondary feature so perhaps
3:18Espionage try to regulate their own
3:20conflict giving each other blue tongued
3:22warnings before to try and prevent a
3:24fight breaking out at least some of the
3:26time time female Aspen ass will be busy
3:29making nests and in the rich Leaf litter
3:31espinas nests likely compose of a mound
3:34of decomposing vegetation to keep the
3:37eggs warm camouflaged and sheltered
3:39whilst protected by the mother once
3:41hatched to espinas may live much of its
3:44life in the slow lane whilst it may have
3:47a speedier metabolism as a chick
3:49compared to other wyverns it may be
3:51comparatively slow growing and take a
3:53lot longer to reach sexual maturity but
3:56with the added bonus that relative to
3:58body mass espinas may be some of the
4:00longest lived wyverns the jungle
4:03environment may also be a key factor in
4:05why espinas went down this route in the
4:07first place too as said a few times
4:10before jungle's rally team with large
4:12amounts of herbivore biomass existing
4:15large herbivores are scattered at low
4:17densities and smaller ones are often at
4:20least partially arboreal making them
4:22hard to reach in short not huge amounts
4:25for a big game hunter to indeed when the
4:28espinas ancestor arrived in Jungle areas
4:30it was likely a more typical wife and
4:32like wrathion a chiefly ground-based
4:35Predator but with some Volant capacity
4:37keeping your metabolism low for much of
4:40the year would definitely be a trade
4:42selected for among them to deal with the
4:44comparative food scarcity as well as the
4:47price switching over time to smaller low
4:49effort prey items that can be caught
4:51easily and regularly espinas may still
4:54have a lunge for a big game occasionally
4:56and will readily scavenge any carcass
4:59but for the most part it's a wyvern
5:01that's moved away from macro predation
5:03due to its environment and settled into
5:06life in the slow lane the hot jungle
5:09environment may also help it stay warm
5:11too allowing espinas to rest with
5:13minimal energy to keep homeostasis
5:15ticking over evolutionarily too espinas
5:19may not have fallen so far from the
5:21family tree in I am the Kaiju Kings
5:24family tree of wyverns Esperance was in
5:27the hard-shelled wyven family with basil
5:30juice the wraths and the Bloss wyverns
5:32among others and the ability to exhibit
5:34metabolic control may be a staple of
5:37this family basil juice is confirmed to
5:39be able to do so for the production of
5:41its bombs and presumably to lower its
5:44metabolic rate further for rest periods
5:46it doesn't seem overt in the wraths but
5:49it would be a very useful ability to
5:51have for single nesting rathians
5:53lowering metabolism while brooding would
5:55mean the mother can spend more time in
5:57the nest protecting the eggs and will
6:00overall need less food as well both
6:02crucial traits with the potential amount
6:04of Nest predators and low densities of
6:06prey in areas where Singletons often
6:09Nest the Bloss wyverns may be something
6:12of an anomaly and with low food density
6:14as herbivores they may be comparatively
6:17active animals over much of the 24-hour
6:19period moving between foraging patches
6:22and so this comparatively High activity
6:24rate means they have a higher average
6:26metabolism
6:27espinas's lethargic demeanor extends to
6:31many aspects of its day-to-day life and
6:33includes feeding too despite its power
6:36and being well armed espinas prefers
6:39small low effort prey that can be caught
6:41regularly and easily and so it's no
6:43surprise it helps itself to the banquet
6:45of invertebrates that the jungles of the
6:47known world have to offer espinas hunts
6:50almost like a giant Heron waiting in
6:53place potentially for very long periods
6:54of time for something to emerge from the
6:56leaf litter before it strikes espinastas
6:59have pronounced ears albeit not to the
7:02extent of sympatric bird wyverns like
7:05yandkurku and garuga but primarily it
7:08likely uses its great sense of smell
7:10when foraging espinas can be seen
7:12sniffing areas before waiting and so it
7:15does seem it uses primarily olfactory
7:17foraging versus the Yan's auditory it's
7:21worth noting too espinas has something
7:23of a gut much more so than other flying
7:25wyverns this is unlikely to be a fat
7:28store and is more likely to be an
7:30enlarged digestive system and may imply
7:33espinas could potentially even take some
7:35plant matter into its diet too even if
7:38just high energy foods like Fallen fruit
7:40or nuts it may also be that with his low
7:43metabolism espinas breaks food down over
7:45long periods of time too hornitors are
7:48one such common prey item and with a
7:51diet of a lot of bugs that's going to
7:53result in eating a lot of chitin some
7:56specialized insectivores have enzymes
7:58capable of partially breaking down
8:00chitin for some extra carbohydrate
8:02energy so espinos may use a very long
8:05gut retention time to suck all the
8:07possible nutrients out of its prey
8:09another item on the menu may be
8:11hermitors the giant rainforest Lake area
8:15is a breeding ground for the adult
8:16demios who as well as water seem to
8:19require chiefly Sandy soils for breeding
8:22and general habitat and it can't be
8:24understated how much a lot of the
8:26carnival or so generalist animals in
8:28such areas may depend on them demios are
8:31large and not hugely rare they're not
8:34exactly velocopy but they're also not as
8:36rare as Zora either they're about as
8:38common as other animals in their Quest
8:40bracket but they only form a fraction of
8:43the overall species population with
8:45their presumably explosive breeding
8:47Habits Like Other crabs they likely
8:50eject literal hundreds of Offspring out
8:52at a time all probably around the size
8:54of a real hermit crab themselves whilst
8:57only a few of these make it to damio
8:59size plenty more survive to the size of
9:02a man at least with the frequency of
9:03hermitors in such areas so the
9:06population of damios likely expels tens
9:09of thousands on a yearly basis and
9:12everything can eat them as the young
9:14grow they gradually get more and more
9:16immune to predation but then they're
9:18still replenished on a yearly basis so
9:21with a rich and constant supply of food
9:23the lake forests May support a huge
9:25amount of semi or or fully specialist
9:27wyverns like the Yan's astelos and
9:30espinas with the constant flow of
9:32hermitors pouring in as mentioned in
9:35desert ecosystems hermitors are likely
9:37important in supporting other animals
9:39too like cephalos schools and espinos
9:43may be poised to take maximum Advantage
9:45here with its large size and robust Jaws
9:48it can likely eat any hermit or and
9:51potentially even the damios themselves
9:53if sufficiently hungry its large gut and
9:56long retention times mean it's able to
9:58digest all of them too espanas's armor
10:01May well have a high mineral cost that
10:03hermitor shells can contribute to
10:05espinas's Jaws may also be especially
10:08handy here after the first damio hunt in
10:10sunbreak it seems even Fierce Predators
10:13like Luna Garen May struggle to pierce a
10:15damio or shogun's shell whilst they may
10:18be slow and unresponsive monsters much
10:20of the time with relatively poor sight
10:22they're still pretty heavily armored and
10:25many wivens May still struggle to get at
10:28their succulent crab meat espinas's deep
10:30mandible and large teeth can likely
10:32handle stress as well and perform a
10:35successful job as crab crackers its
10:38hunting Behavior can be applied well to
10:40the giant crabs and there's no shortage
10:42of them so indeed they make for an ideal
10:45food and damio's spawning efforts may be
10:47partially responsible for converting the
10:49espinos ancestor to this lifestyle too
10:52such events are likely attended by many
10:55animals of all sizes and in our own
10:58world termite emergencies are
10:59capitalized on even by large Predators
11:02like lions and hyenas who lap up the fat
11:05Rich bugs in Monster Hunter even large
11:08Predator wyverns probably aren't above
11:10hoovering up the baby hermitors at
11:12spawning events and espinas ancestors
11:15may have adapted over time to stick to
11:17this resource and were able to expand it
11:19to other prey like hornitors as well
11:21when needs must and possibly enjoyments
11:25espinas May occasion only dabble in
11:27larger meals with little variation in
11:29hunting strategy lying camouflaged on
11:32the forest floor with very little
11:34movement espinos may still be able to
11:36hunt much like a snake or a crocodile
11:38might on land lying beside Forest Trails
11:41waiting for potential targets to stray
11:43too close before making a lunge for them
11:46espinas hunts likely don't have much of
11:48a Chase outside the initial lunge
11:50regardless of a strike or not and
11:53unsuccessful hits prayer likely killed
11:55outright by the force of the bite any
11:58rare escapees from a bite likely leave a
12:00sufficient blood trail for espinos to
12:03follow at its typically leisurely pace
12:06espinas may also be picky about where it
12:08hunts when going for bigger prey too
12:10puff adders often thought to be the
12:13kings of sitting around and doing
12:14nothing all day will go on considerable
12:17travels to find appropriate Ambush spots
12:19when fuj deprived to try and increase
12:21their odds of a meal so espanas may be
12:24similar carefully picking Ambush spots
12:26for maximum success at any point in its
12:29territory its Keen nose also allows her
12:31to sniff out carrion an espinozzle
12:34readily scavenge at any opportunity not
12:36being the type to pass up a free meal
12:39rainforests aren't ideal areas to be
12:41scavengers the humid environment speeds
12:44decomposition and hosts huge
12:46invertebrate and microorganism
12:48communities much more likely to pick
12:50bodies clean before you do so carrion
12:53may be a rare Retreat for espinas this
12:56can vary from rainforest to Rainforest
12:59depending on the Guild of invertebrates
13:00and microorganisms but for the most part
13:03warm and wet means fast decomposition
13:05position so speed is of the essence for
13:08espinas to find carrion and it may often
13:11be in the form of stolen kills from
13:13nagakuga when it dares to order off menu
13:16and go for something closer to its own
13:18body mass despite the noise and Chaos of
13:20a kill smell is likely espinas's key
13:23method of finding carrion and it may be
13:26possible others are prepared to freeload
13:28off this as well hypnocatrice is a bird
13:31wyvern sympatrick with espinas and
13:33nagakuga in the great forest in the
13:36original art book it's described as a
13:38condor wyvern and its hooked Bill does
13:41seem well suited to picket carrion
13:43hypnocoties can fly but finding carrion
13:46by sight in a dense rainforest is hard
13:49after Condors King vultures are the
13:52largest neo-tropical vultures and
13:54foraged mainly by sight while soaring at
13:57high altitudes as most do but they're
13:59not looking for carrion they look for
14:01smaller cathartis genus vultures like
14:04yellow-headed or turkey vultures who use
14:07smell to find carrion and once they
14:09found something the king descends to
14:11claim his share if hypnocatures is
14:14similar it could well use espinas to
14:16find kills following it from above to
14:18find carrion King vultures will also do
14:21this with Jaguars themselves following
14:24the cats to see if they make a kill or
14:26waiting in the vicinity near large
14:28potential prey items hypnocatris is then
14:31uniquely equipped to deal with espinas
14:33before he Hoovers up all the food for
14:36all his fire and resistance to toxins
14:38he's still vulnerable to sedatives and
14:41hypnocoties may well drug it unconscious
14:43so it can feed in the great forest
14:45hypnocotry snugakuga and espinas may
14:48have something of a rock paper scissors
14:50relationship over kills with espinas
14:53robbing Naga cougar and then getting
14:55robbed in turn by hypnocatris who runs
14:58the risk of nagakuga coming back once
15:00espinas is asleep an important part of
15:03espinas died too is the assorted toads
15:05that live in in the leaf litter whilst
15:08these can be caught in similar fashion
15:09to hornetools and may only provide a
15:12small portion of s Manassas energetic
15:14requirements they do provide it with key
15:17toxins and this is known as sequesterine
15:20the act of eating someone or something
15:22toxic and then being able to utilize
15:25said toxins for yourself it's hard to
15:28say if this is innate or learned in
15:29espinas whether they became immune from
15:32Millennia of feeding by shoveling
15:34through Leaf litter and just let it
15:36happen or if they preferentially select
15:38for poisonous food to make themselves a
15:40less appetizing Target mammals that
15:43select for venomous or poisonous spray
15:45in their diets can often develop
15:47immunities to the toxins with mongooses
15:50honey badgers and hedgehogs being
15:52examples but surprisingly pigs too pigs
15:56will eat anything but with their rooting
15:58lifestyle it could also be that they're
16:00going to come into contact with snakes
16:02anyway regardless of attempted predation
16:04espinas's leaflet a foraging May mean he
16:08didn't have much choice but to evolve
16:10his own resistance or ways of dealing
16:11with it but on the other hand in some
16:14cases toxin sequestration is a
16:16deliberate evolutionary goal for
16:18protection independent of just becoming
16:20resistant to the toxic foods you eat and
16:23some animals will preferentially search
16:25for toxic foods for protection some
16:28garter snakes will do so especially when
16:30the females are gravid to pass the
16:32protection onto their eggs and young so
16:34perhaps gravid female espinas also use
16:37the breeding season peak of energy to
16:39strenuously search for as many toads as
16:41possible to get the eggs and young the
16:43largest toxin boost and it's not just
16:46the spines that are poisonous espinas
16:49can spit poison with its fireballs and
16:51even its blood is toxic too so clearly
16:55this goes beyond just armoring itself an
16:58espinas out and out makes itself
16:59poisonous to eat even if its opponent
17:01does manage to win denying its opponent
17:04any calorific reward after what is
17:06likely to be a strenuous kill at best
17:09maybe just another factor in espanas's
17:12defenses to make it even less palatable
17:14and one of the most well-armored wyverns
17:17outside of toxins espinas is still very
17:20heavily armored while it's not
17:22completely flightless Espana still
17:24rarely flies presumably due to added
17:27weight of its thick plate-like armor
17:29even if this wasn't very tough and
17:31venomous the added Thorns mean near any
17:34predator getting to grips with espinas
17:36runs the risk of getting itself severely
17:38lacerated on its armor and like many
17:41aspects of its life this likely stems
17:43from its slow sleepy lifestyle espinos
17:46sleeps deeply taking considerable
17:49physical effort to forcibly wake and can
17:52be sluggish even when fully roused if
17:55ESPN s wasn't as heavily armored this
17:57would put it in some deep trouble who
17:59large to fit into any real shelter
18:01espinas sleeps out in the open and would
18:04be a considerable risk if not so
18:06powerful strong as it may be espinas
18:09isn't indestructible and roaming elder
18:12dragons or nomadic brute wyverns like
18:14Devil Joe or glavinous bulls that have
18:16been seen in the same areas could well
18:18pose a threat and without sufficient
18:20protection a soundly sleeping wyvern
18:23would be an easy target thick plate and
18:26venomous spines do nicely to dissuade
18:28sheepish threads and to keep a
18:30determined attacker at Bay until
18:31Espionage can Rouse itself to fight
18:34whilst many other animals probably
18:36prefer to let sleeping espinas lie we do
18:39see a few exceptions espinas runs off a
18:42nagakuga that rudely wakes it by
18:44flinging velociraptid but the most
18:47notable conflict is with kushala de Ora
18:50and it's hard to tell where exactly The
18:52Strife here comes from kushala generally
18:55isn't regarded as an exceptionally
18:57belligerent species and espinas isn't
19:00really awake enough of the time to get a
19:01reputation for violence without prompt
19:04kushala at least partially supplements
19:06its diet with all and espinos eats
19:09mainly small animals and carrion so
19:11there's not much resource overlap to
19:13trigger competition too one explanation
19:16could be it's from kushala's impact on
19:19the environment even without his
19:21ambiguous weather Powers kushala is
19:24still a wind cannon on wings he can fire
19:27powerful gusts and creates vortices
19:29around him and whilst this may not
19:32destroy the ecosystem despite the
19:34hand-wringing of the guild it may cause
19:36localized disturbances to some of the
19:38wildlife and especially to the small
19:40animals espinos likes to prey on
19:43cheetahs and lions are now known to have
19:45much more dietary overlap than first
19:48thought due to male coalitions taking
19:50large prey but before this knowledge one
19:53suggestion for seemingly uncalled for
19:55hostility from behavioral modeling was
19:58that more predators of any kind in an
20:00ecosystem increases prey vigilance and
20:03that killing other Predators reduced
20:05prey vigilant of any type this
20:07benefiting the top predators with a
20:09sufficient means to kill smaller
20:11competitors so in a similar vein this
20:14may be why espinas takes exception to
20:16kushella his wind blasting could
20:19increase vigilance or cause espinas's
20:21preybase to move off or become harder to
20:24catch in other ways causing them to be
20:26so comparatively aggressive to kushala
20:28and this may well be unique to kuchella
20:31De Aura as most other elder dragons
20:33don't enter forested environments that
20:35often only really camellios who has a
20:38much lesser impact on prey Behavior even
20:41if he directly competes with espionass
20:43himself this habit may make espinas
20:46pretty popular with the locals espinas
20:48May well eat smaller animals but it also
20:51spends a lot of time resting and
20:53probably doesn't expend effort trying to
20:55catch things too quick for it for a lot
20:58of the smaller residents of rainforest
21:00areas this likely means that espinas may
21:02provide some blanket of cover from
21:04potential predators this isn't unheard
21:07of and birds especially May nest in the
21:10proximity of a potential Predator that
21:12may even cost them a few young to keep a
21:14much worse Predator at Bay geese herons
21:17and wood pigeons are just a few examples
21:19of this so-called Predator protection
21:21and the unique Guild of rainforest
21:24Predators May well facilitate this Yan
21:27garuga and astelos probably have a
21:29pretty high dietary overlap of
21:31invertebrates partially supplemented
21:33with smaller animals up to the size of a
21:36dominant male raptorial bird wyvern
21:38whereas other similar flying wyverns
21:40like wraths Canon would likely eat
21:42philosopher prey and other smaller-sized
21:44ground animals if they came too close
21:46they show no fear of espinas so whilst
21:50it is a risk as espinastos share a prey
21:52base with garuga and estilos II it's
21:55better to go with a sleepy low energy
21:57Devil with a lower calorific demands you
22:00know than the crazy one you don't
22:03so for my thoughts on espanas I quite
22:06like him frontier's reputation is now
22:08pretty mixed but when it first came
22:10about many myself included really wanted
22:13it for the West espinas looked really
22:16cool and it seems so wonderfully well
22:18suited for the great Forest as this
22:20great rosebush wyven the leech in the
22:23Wolves also seemed pretty cool and then
22:26as time went by and things progressed
22:28Frontier fell off the deep end and began
22:30making garbage and suddenly espinas
22:32never coming to the West seemed like a
22:34small price to pay to avoid them
22:37but now he is here it is nice to have
22:40him his design and ecology fit well with
22:43him needing so much armor for such a
22:45sluggish sleepy wyvern whilst I haven't
22:47fought him in front here his fight is
22:49all right in sunbreak I'm hesitant to
22:52call it amazing there's espinas Feels
22:55Like A Greatest Hits rendition of other
22:57flying woven moves he's got the general
22:59moves like tail sweeps and hip checks
23:02wrath fireballs and Stomps and Bloss
23:05charges and Horn swings but not much
23:07unique to him there are unique spins on
23:10set moves like the multi-element
23:12fireballs and the fact he can
23:14multi-charge even more than tiger X but
23:16I'd have really liked him to get more
23:18unique moves of his own he's not a bad
23:20fight by any stretch but I wouldn't call
23:22it exceptional either I can also see why
23:25they removed his passive phase 2.
23:27sunbreak isn't Frontier 14 years ago the
23:31monsters even in master rank go down
23:33fairly easily and the passive phase
23:35would make espinas a five-minute fight
23:37even if you one speed running hit I do
23:39like his Lauren Behavior too it's really
23:42nice to have a roughly Elder strength
23:43monster who isn't a raging death mad
23:46ecosystem blower Opera and instead just
23:49wants to chill and if anything is the
23:51guardian to the areas it inhabits I also
23:54liked his rivalry with kushala it's a
23:56nice thought that the base Elders can
23:58get a non-elder monster that serves as
24:00their foil and slash or rival and then
24:02Brown espinas sort of ruins that with
24:04its god-awful intro cutscene
24:06incinerating the king of fire I don't
24:09think there's anything to stop him
24:10coming back in an A-Team game too so I'm
24:13Keen to see what they do with him
24:14environmentally there overall espinas
24:17still comes in as a pretty solid entry
24:19to the series I am a little concerned he
24:21could be a final male in the coffin of
24:23monobloss's chance to come back so we'll
24:25have to see how 6 and 6 you go I think
24:28for anyone not back in those games their
24:31time in the franchise is up speaking of
24:33time being up let's talk about Frontier
24:36and for anyone expecting a tirade of
24:39negativity you're only half right
24:40Frontier did run for 12 years so it
24:44shouldn't be too big a surprise it
24:45managed to get at least a few things
24:47right in that time and I definitely
24:49don't hate all the monsters in it the
24:51leech Leviathan is okay the hummingbird
24:53was all right I thought the Wolves were
24:55okay but apparently they're a terrible
24:56fight so whatever but there should of
24:59course be limits in place when espanas
25:01was announced one thing you saw being
25:03said a lot was the floodgates are open
25:06and I don't know if you've ever seen a
25:08flood but there's a reason the water is
25:09often Brown and it's not just mud
25:12floodgates exist for a reason and it's
25:14to keep the feces in bilharzia out
25:16plenty of Frontiers monsters are just
25:19terrible Concepts full stop but also in
25:22the context of the mainline series too
25:24whilst the series was never quite as
25:26good at Mainline at creating quality
25:28Monsters the earlier ones at least had
25:31some ecology in mind but as things
25:33progressed it became more and more about
25:35excessive Arena fights and particle
25:37effects with no restraints and as such
25:39most of the later editions belong in
25:41Digimon or Final Fantasy luckily it does
25:45seem fujioka and tsujimoto are going to
25:47have quality control in future on who
25:49gets in and if I also find it quite
25:51amusing how the people who say world had
25:54too many flying wyverns are the exact
25:56same people demanding bogladon his edgy
25:58subspecies and his mid as Hell 2010
26:01moveset come to Mainline there was
26:03Frontier now ported this seems all but a
26:06non-issue as said the worst Frontier
26:08monsters don't really have much going
26:10for them ecologically and Mainline
26:12series isn't in a struggle to create its
26:14own end game Boss monsters who
26:16themselves only often exist in particle
26:18effect filled arena battles anyway so
26:21the niche they would fill is never
26:23really going to be open for them to slot
26:25in and with Frontier now available to
26:27play for all there doesn't seem to be
26:29much to be gained from them coming to
26:30Mainline this is not to say that
26:32everything was terrible and even if many
26:35monsters were crap there was still
26:36admirable ideas or mechanics embedded
26:39within them espinas's cousin can absorb
26:41ailments used against it to then use
26:43against the hunter which is pretty
26:45creative that monkey that carries its
26:48baby on its back is a pretty good use of
26:49bringing baby monsters into the game and
26:52a completely new spin on a minion
26:54mechanic similarly a few hardcore
26:56monsters had moves that could be used to
26:58spice up some of the worst old gen
27:00fights if you took away all the
27:02disgusting and idiotic particle effects
27:04indeed as with Mainline I believe
27:07probably any monster can have at least
27:09one thing it can offer even if I may
27:11hate it as a complete package what are
27:13bullfango if not useful sources of raw
27:16materials at the games start even if I'm
27:18not a fan of his design zunoga is still
27:21a pretty good fight with a great theme
27:23Magnum Arlo
27:26so it's wrong to say Frontier has
27:28nothing to offer this series as a whole
27:30and some of it is good without
27:31modification the notion of implementing
27:34meaningful and unpredictable weather in
27:36maps is a great touch especially when
27:39it's not just cheeseable for the hunter
27:40let the hunters have their traps they
27:43can use like the boulders and such and
27:45have freak weather occurrences affect
27:47both parties but be biased in favor of
27:50the monsters that evolved for that
27:52environment if a thunderstorm Rolls by
27:55in the swamp things like kezu gyps Ross
27:57and nercilla if she's wearing gyps
27:59Ross's hide would be relatively immune
28:01to the lightning strikes a sandstorm
28:03would blind and graze the hunter but
28:05mean nothing to Diablos or sephardrome
28:07detecting them via vibrations and so on
28:10and so forth with other environments if
28:12the hunter fails to prepare they'd pay
28:14for it daily and in some cases there's
28:17nothing you can do but just take your
28:18lumps it'd be nice to be reminded that
28:20Hunters aren't walking death Gods under
28:23the monsters that came to be in such
28:25ecosystems should have to leg up in
28:27their home rather than be bumbling
28:29idiots struggling to keep up with the
28:31levitating deity who can reach areas
28:33they can only dream of so whilst
28:35Frontier definitely fell off the wagon
28:37towards the end there's plenty to allow
28:39its Legacy to live on and I have said
28:41before that a solution could be for B
28:43Team games to be Frontier Cannon for the
28:46fast anime experience and have A-Team
28:49games to be Mainline Canon for the
28:51slower more original and restrained
28:53experience I think a good deal of the
28:55disquiet between fans of the respective
28:57teams come from the fact that it's never
28:59certain what the next game is going to
29:00resemble as one franchise is now more
29:03than ever trying to juggle two different
29:05styles having Frontier and Mainline
29:08would make things much more cut and dry
29:09at least as far as I can see
29:12thanks for watching and thanks to AI
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29:26for their continuing and appreciated
29:28support to go through a few things from
29:30last week here in a mention of glue cut
29:32coup as to be honest I think it's about
29:34as simple as a different color morph and
29:36that's about it and garuga being a
29:38wrathian kutku hybrid was never a true
29:40theory but a community joke which I
29:43hoped I wouldn't have to stress some
29:45were also correct to point out that
29:47Nightshade palumu is a new world
29:48insectivore although like baroff it's a
29:51myomecophage and is so presumably
29:53dependent on Anson termites so it still
29:56fits with the point I was making
29:57although I do admit I just completely
29:59forgot about him the flying wife and
30:02family tree and espinas skull were
30:04created by creature design artist I am
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30:33speaking of here's the teaser for the
30:35next one
30:38[Music]

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