Ranking Every Single 5th Generation Monster Hunter Monster

[@Viper-Zealot]

Honestly every single ranking was fair and the fact that you spent 3 hours just taking about monsters is incredible.

[@cr-volcanic]

I can talk about this stuff for a looooiong time 😂

[@avocado1714]

I could probably spend 3 hours talking about monsters

[@JonathanFlexx]

Kula-ya-ku was pretty unfair. hbe's super easy. You can make him drop the rock by shooting any slinger ammo at him

[@b-17gflyingfortress6]

​@@avocado1714 I would spend 3 hours sleeping with the monsters

[@Flubbadon]

Velkhana’s grown on me after my second playthrough of Iceborne. Awesome detail about it’s theme, every encounter you have with Velkhana keeps building up the music more and more until your final encounter with it where it’s theme is finally complete, this made it one of my favourite themes in the whole series. Edit: YES, FELLOW NAMIELLE FAN!!!

[@afroling2096]

She really is slept on.

[@cr-volcanic]

They put a ton of work into Velkhana and I think it’s super sick that she got like, four themes and a ton of ramp up. I just find it so odd that she’s just riled up by Shara and that’s kiiiiiinda it as far as I remember

[@mcgruber]

Namielle is fucking awesome.

[@pyrrhos8175]

Love Velk & Namielle in Iceborne but personally didn't care for AT Nami or Sunbreak Velk (probably because I'm more used to AT's speed and difficulty). In terms of raw aesthetics, music, and presence in a hunt tho they are some of the best elders we ever got.

[@balancebreaker1561]

also Velkhana armor SUPERB!!!

[@Krasgov]

You know a video is damn good when you try to use it as Sleep Aid but you instead stay up eyes closed but intently listening. Thank you for the effort you put into this video.

[@pykamirulol]

Did the exact same thing last night, I was too interested and had to turn it off.

[@aznashwan]

I loved every second of this titanic vid, you ooze passion and insight into the series/monsters throughout and it’s all the right kinds of contagious. Please keep it up!

[@cr-volcanic]

Happy to hear you enjoyed. Even if the style of content is a tad more simple I still wanted to put some good effort in

[@thatsixeyedguyy5480]

You’re placement of and explanation of ancient Leshen is both accurate and hilarious

[@cr-volcanic]

Glad you agree

[@greenbubba97]

Imagine if Alatreon and Amatsu had variations like Fatalis. Velkhana needs a variation too. Kinda sad we didn’t get Risen Velkhana.

[@cr-volcanic]

Yeah I was hoping we were gonna get Risen Velkhana. I'm sure he'll get something eventually

[@wolfinpain673]

As long as they don't do the same thing they did to Barioth and Zamtrios. Sand Velkhana would be lame.

[@joshlewis8860]

@@wolfinpain673 Velkhana is so synonymous with ice that I can’t even imagine a variant that isn’t still ice themed. Like Frostfang barioth

[@aidengreen4663]

Unless it was a fire variant, that used molten glass for armor and attacks by heating up sand. Imagine a mosaic glass velkhana breathing fire and bleeding you with sharpened glass.

[@TheBlackShinigami]

@@aidengreen4663 I feel like that would fit a more “Desert” Feel so the variant could be like if Velkhana adapted to the desert and heat and produces a glaze like substance that is how it regulates body heat and it sticks the sand together to form stained glass like shard armor.

[@venepskeuten9206]

Titzi has a special place in my heart. 1. Together with the shamos goggles his gear produces some absolute DRIP. 2. He flashes other monsters during fights he sometimes enters. Very helpful as i know how to avoid them. 3. He a bro.

[@Glirion__]

I always slot Stun resistance so TziTzi is truly a friend 😂

[@afroling2096]

I actually quite like kulu he’s such a charming monster, and I don’t mind his fight too but I can see why people don’t think much of him.

[@cr-volcanic]

So I find that monsters who waste a lot of time wasting time are the fights that aggravate me the most, it’s why I’m don’t enjoy some of the older fights. Kulu I think brings back a lot of that time wasting aspect with having a small narrow hurtbox, a lot of leap and jump moves, and the ability to guard his break parts and block a ton of damage to about a third of his hurtbox.

[@xlarsburkartx]

Kulu, more specificly the one from the Behemoth add on was the most difficult fight in all of monster hunter for me that dmg was insane. And I have completed MHW, MHWI (I stopped before the alatreon DLC came but did everything till then), MH3, MH3U, 4, everything solo in MHFU until g rank where you gotta fight red Khezu.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

​@@xlarsburkartxIf Behemoth Kulu hits you with that jump attack, it takes your life all the way down and insta stuns you. Annoying.

[@xlarsburkartx]

@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon I didnt even know about the Stun it just 1 hit killed me xD

[@pedrocastro3037]

Banbaro is one of my favourite monsters of all time, the idea of a dinossaur-esque moose that uses the terrain as a weapon against the hunter is such an unique idea. I would like if they put him as some sort of protector of the territory he lives in and so goes on to beat monsters that can destroy it (like Deviljho)

[@ivybennett2274]

I love banbaro except for the fact that there was no fucking reason for him to be an invader, she should've been only in the hoarfrost reach

[@pedrocastro3037]

@@ivybennett2274 yup, that boy deserves only the snow

[@thetrashiestmann]

@@ivybennett2274 AGREED. He's a stellar monster... For the snow. Not anywhere else.

[@VashimuXIV]

I used to believe that Nergigante didn’t do much for me, I just didn’t get it or found him a tad bland. Now I think he’s an absolute master class of monster design and is well worth his praise. Still not my favorite fifth gen flagship, Malzeno is, but the passage of time really lets you understand that every monster has its fans for good reason. Cheers CR.

[@hopekeeperscott1399]

Seeing a tierlist like yours after so many shallow ones is so refreshing, it's actually hard to describe, i agree with nearly all your points and resonate a lot with your opinions, excellent list and video, thank you for the breath of fresh air!

[@cr-volcanic]

Well, I love doing this so I do try to put some genuine effort into everything I make. Glad you enjoyed

[@guardian_of_the_rune]

Odogaron is great in terms of his flashy fight, armor, and ecology. But the fight isn't dangerous because jumps around to much missing many of his own attacks and it's a crime he didn't get brought back into Rise.

[@IndominusRex-wc1ey]

Well, if he was brought back in Rise, his ecology would be BEYOND fucked

[@WaterNinjaFrog]

To this day I’ll never forgive rise for not having odgaron in it the gear is so rise coded it hurts

[@rainbr1nger115]

Okay, you gotta at least give this to Dodo, bro is one of the chillest motherfuckers in MH, like, if he were real, you could walk up to him and just sit there and pet him for like . . . three hours straight, and he'd tolerate you the entire time, but the moment something even remotely threatening pops up, bro goes sicko mode. He is one of the few monsters that will actively attack an Elder dragon, brother does not care who you are, you robbed the wrong house fool. Watching him waddle up to Kushala, absolutely blast him, and immediately fuck off is amazing. This point also applies to Odogaron, he's one of the only non-invader tier monsters that has a turf war with an Elder Dragon.

[@RatchildUK]

My top 10 fav gen 5 monsters: 10. Safi'jiiva 9. Banbaro 8. Tetranadon 7. Magma Almudron 6. Espinas (technically fifth gen) 5. Odogaron 4. Bishaten 3. Primordial Malzeno 2. Nergigante 1. Namielle Namielle is just something super special to me, everything about it fits my tastes to perfection. Absolute best monster in the franchise imo.

[@mudshrooze]

All your top 10s are cool. Except the fact you disrespect boy Almudron with its inferior "oh look I'm another fire monster varient" ;) But we all got ourtastes. And yes 5th gens elder dragon designs specifically were overall the best weve ever had.

[@patrickleblanc613]

To be far to jyura, hes only really hated because 1. He looks like a brown lavasioth, and 2. Rumor had it that he was our consolation prize because lagi was supposed to be in world but got pulled near the end because they couldnt fix his supposed neck issue

[@facelesspanda9907]

I've always seen Nergigante as like a dragon personification of Wolverine from X-Men so I kinda just saw Ruiner getting the metal spikes as his version of getting adamantium though in this case a bio metal

[@serbiancrusader7813]

Odogaron in the top tier and you referring to him as a weasel instead of the cringe "hEcKiN dOgGo" the community calls him is a massive W, thank you

[@grigori9061]

Those first 20 seconds a were a downright personal attack, Man

[@wichiewamirez5599]

I love this channel so much. Just found it two days ago and I’ve seen both frontier monster videos. Love listening to you speak about monsters and I know you share my love for the creatures in this series. Keep it up champ!

[@cerberyn]

i love kula, all time favorite monster for 1 reason. pity. i remember my buddy and i were doing a quest where we were foghting kula, tzi tzi, and great girros, and that fucking tzi tzi, every single opprotunity it had, flashed kula and blinded him over and over. we made it our mission to keep kula alive and end the bullying. we ended up carting twice because we kept laughing so hard that i fell out of my chair and he couldn't see properly because of the tears he cried from laughter. god i miss those days.

[@multibomble]

I do think a downside of Namille is that it just kinda shows up in the story for one fight, you kill it and that's it. It has some good lead up and introduction, but somehow the newly discovered elder dragon is just kinda brushed under the rug afterward

[@MorgothZEone]

Glad to see I’m not the only one who likes Safi’Jiiva and likes his design. Definitely in contention for my Second Favorite monster with Guanzorumu and Primordial Malzeno (can’t decide which one i like more between the three of them)

[@cr-volcanic]

Safi is one of the coolest things they ever made

[@cozelis6518]

This is the best MH tier list I’ve watched ever. Great job man, even if I didn’t agree with every pick you had (which weren’t a lot, you nailed most of these picks) you explained your reasoning so well I couldn’t help but think, “huh, that’s a pretty good point.” Really well done.

[@kareema3832]

cant believe this was 3 hours, felt like it went by so fast and it showed how immersed i was in the discussion haha some of your points really made me reevaluate my viewpoints on certain monsters, and i have a greater appreciation for coral pukei after hearing your thoughts on him :))) but theres no justification that will make me like or appreciate nightshade lololo

[@cr-volcanic]

Lol, I can't convince everyone of everything lmao

[@ridleyroid9060]

@58:21 Who else went immediately to the NHC banbaro song as soon as they heard Banbaro mentioned? Man Worldborne was such an interesting period to be around for.

[@jayari7674]

I did not skip to the end thank you very much…….. I put this on to sleep too

[@Lordyankovich]

Your take on odogaron taking crack and ebony taking crack again to see if it stacks gave me life.

[@hyper_sword8835]

I originally bought monster hunter world when I saw anjnath on the box art because I was just off the heels of Horizon zero dawn and saw the chance to beat up giant enemies again little did I know how much it would change me and my gaming preferences forever.

[@TheGoldenJay637]

I fucking love Radobaan, i hope he gets placed high! Update: FUCK YEAH BABY WE SO BACK

[@cr-volcanic]

Radobaan deserves better

[@lilithofthevoid4922]

Now I kinda wanna see a tier list of all the remade Monsters in the 5th gen and the differences in your opinion of them from World/IB to Rise/SB (like Diablos and Rathalos would have an icon for each game) purely because this massive video was so enjoyable to listen to

[@DromeG60]

Woah, that really threw me off guard the way you were talking down about Velkhana before immediately slapping it into GOAT lmao

[@vixey6339]

Tobi is perhaps my favorite non-elder dragon monster. I LOVE fighting him in both World and Rise. Elder dragons i love are Velkhana and Vaal Hazak

[@imthe_catman]

CR-Volcanic be like "There are shorter videos in progress" * the shorter video in question *

[@cowboybarbaryn1302]

The thing about Banburo or however you spell it is it seems like the kinda monster that’s been here since Gen 2 or 3. Sometimes new monsters are very distinct and stand out a bit too much from the roster but Banburo blends so perfectly into it

[@mallow2902]

I'm watching this video again because I wanted something to listen to while I work, and I just gotta say this is one of my favorite Monster Hunter channels. It's generally devoid of the really irritating bias that other channels have, both old and new bias, as both are annoying to me as someone who ranks 4 Ultimate and Sunbreak (so one kinda old, one new) as my favorite MH games. Thanks for being a guy that just loves talking about Monster Hunter.

[@toiletseat777]

Seconding this. Theres no weird bias coming from him, just a guy who loves Monster Hunter. Sadly rare these days. Earned a sub from me.

[@funjukebox1324]

I agree with you on the Magnamalo and Scorned take!! Regular Magnamalo got every new move that scorned got with the exception of like 2 new moves....they should have given Scorned more of regular magnamalo's moves and made it so that Scorned goes into that new phase a lot sooner than when he's almost dying...sometimes you can completely bypass that whole phase and kill him off before he goes into it 😂😂😂

[@JuanGarcia-of3ug]

Fucking thank you Goss Harag for the win, baby

[@majorasmask5523]

One of my finest achievements as a Sword and Shield main was getting to the point with my gear skills that I could easily block Nergigante’s Ultimate Spike Assault.

[@majorasmask5523]

Kulve Taroth is my personal favorite. Her Master Rank armor is fantastic for Transmog. Her music is my favorite in the series, especially the Final Phase. Long Live the Queen!

[@CORRECT05]

I love Fulgur Anjanath and idk what the general consensus is on it but it was cool to see i'm not the only one who holds it highly!

[@cr-volcanic]

Oh for sure, I think he’s super sick.

[@shadowtheredwolf6216]

Fulgur is one of my favorite monsters. It just looks so cool.

[@victory8928]

I love him a lot honestly both him and anja are a fav of mine

[@CeruleanSquid]

I hate skipping to the end of videos so im gonna sit here and watch the whole thing 🔥🔥

[@ThomasPetermann.]

Very cool vid, good workmate, really enjoyed it.

[@austins3924]

Last tier list was superior in every way imo no bias

[@cr-volcanic]

Well, this one doesn't have any crabs in it

[@Cringe-Control]

Big agree on most everything here, with only a couple that I would move. I think the biggest position change for me would be Shrieking. Its an *easy* Excellent for me. I love fighting it so much

[@cr-volcanic]

I’m sure if I worked at it and learned it a little better I’d probably find a way to make Shrieking better, admittedly it’s been a little while since I fought one but from memory every single encounter I’ve had against it just left me annoyed and grouchy.

[@masterofbloopers]

World was my first MH game, and I fell in love with the Tobi-Kadachi the moment I saw it! I was really happy to see it get a variant in Iceborne, but then Capcom kinda forgot it. It wasn't in Rise/Sunbreak or Stories 2. Thankfully regular Tobi has been in every MH game since its inception, so that's a positive. Hopefully Wilds will bring back the Viper as well as a new variant!

[@mudshrooze]

Yeah tobi Kadachi ended up being a couple of my friends top 3 or even number one favorite monster. Not my cup of tea but the Viper Tobi absolutely my cup of tea. :) and stories 2...missed a lot of cool monsters in favor of 4 varients of rathalos and rathian which I find...stupid. still wings of ruin is hands down in my top 6 rpg like games of that style

[@yaqubebased1961]

It makes absolutely zero sense for the best hitzones of both slashing AND blunt damage to be its tail.

[@aiellamori]

Very surprised about the amount of hatred you have for kulu for a monster that gets bodied in seconds 😭

[@AwesomeDr111]

Ruiner nergi should've just been a one-off hard boss fight like raging bracky was, rather than a master rank replacement. It'd make it feel more special and rare

[@danieledwards4821]

Fulgur is my favorite subspecies of all time and frostfang is my favorite variant and namielle is my favorite monster in general

[@spilleraaron4748]

Part of me includes equipment in my rankings (look and versatility) world monsters mostly handicap themselves with their lackluster weapon designs, but their armor is very nice!

[@cr-volcanic]

I factor I gear a lil bit but yeah those world weapons were rough

[@thickums5344]

Rating Paolumu above Tzitzi is criminal

[@mudshrooze]

It's just his list. You and I and everyone else can have our own

[@larsschulze2799]

When i got a friend of mine to play MHW he didn't actually liked it that much, but one night after I got off he thought he's gonna do his last Elder which was Vaal Hazak. The next morning I played with a completely different person. He said that fight opened his eyes after he got clapped a bunch of times, had to figure out how to prevent effluvia, made himself his first item load out etc etc. So yea I think Vaal Hazak is an excellent fight

[@damianlakatos7874]

Its still funny to me, that many people dont know that pukey is (probably) an owl (didnt watch the list completely but its pretty good)

[@Jaxzee0122]

why is kulu ya ku so low 😥

[@Zhee_Greatest]

I love monster hunter and I can’t wait for monster hunter 6 to come out.

[@cr-volcanic]

Preaching to the choir

[@SingingInferno]

I honestly LOVE Namielle's sound design. The cute whines she let's out when you topple her, the almost dolphin like clicks and whirrs, the absolutely devastating sound of the lightning strikes (especially her ultimate) it's all just so cool and cute at the same time. Easily my fav monster.

[@ElOcty]

Oh man, trying to rank Monsters is tricky since you have to balance their looks with their fight. Like I want to love Aknosom so much more than the fight lets me. Thank you for the Great Girros defense! Edit: You put Izuchi over Girros you are no longer invited to the BBQ

[@firetools]

I can see what you're saying but on the other hand I appreciate Aknosom's fight mostly for the animations. But ultimately I think he really shines when afflicted, where his fast moves coupled with the increase in damage can actually give him some danger factor.

[@ElOcty]

@@firetools The animations are a treat for sure! I just wish he lived longer. Afflicted is better, I just wish he had more options or combos to catch us off guard. Like striking from its float or faking us out like the tricky umbrella he is.

[@cr-volcanic]

Lol Izuchi and Girros are fairly neck and neck for me, I like Izuchi’s mammalian design and I find that his move set is a bit more interesting

[@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028]

Namielle is peak. Peak monster, peak gimmick, peak weapons, peak armour. *PEAK.*

[@whiteninji352]

I’d say Safi is the real culmination of everything in World. It’s the adult form of the final boss in base game, it uses mechanics from both Behemoth and Kulve and the theme is the actual best. A lot of time went into him and it really shows. Fatalis is a very good way to close out World but when it comes to everything World has accomplished, Safi is the finale in my eyes. Truly just the goat

[@angelgonzalez4215]

Great video, now I need to do this

[@connorgroff9732]

Always loved the way Namielle’s wings look like the inside of an oyster, pearlescent and shiny ✨🔥

[@rikkiarni]

Ruiner is so awesome, I am appalled that you put him so low. RUINER IS SO GOATED

[@Hooy-Jaymay]

Jyuratodus very well is the gateway high rank monster, I'm glad Rise placed him where he is. Even if it's strange to bring new world monsters to the old world.

[@borzoilover4156]

I always imagine (idk if its lore accurate) is they are escapees that got out from being captured and brung to the oldworld for research

[@1stDragonlord]

I honestly love that Fulgur Anjanath is also on thr Coral Highlands. He looks amazing on that map an makes him the only electric non elder dragon

[@cr-volcanic]

Aight I can admit to that, he does look in good in the highlands. He looks fuckin weird in the Ancient Forest tho 😂

[@1stDragonlord]

@@cr-volcanic Also the reason for Banbaro being on efvery map has one very simple explanation: His gimmick with the elemental rocks he rolls around. And to make him be able to be on every Guiding Lands level he also shows up on every regular map.

[@pelusa720]

Seeing Coral Pukei alongside monsters like Nergigante, Malzeno, Gaisma and Safi is so fucking funny. Not sure if i fully agree but i respect the fuck out of that choice lmao.

[@spilleraaron4748]

I start the tier list watching from start to finish!

[@avocado1714]

This video is officially a pukei W moment And I like that

[@strikerali2160]

Great tier list and content Volcanic! So I wrote a lot of notes as this video went on. I don’t expect anyone to read it and understand cus it’s a lot. Here are my thoughts on your world portion of the video! I’m at work so I gotta watch the rest later! Great Girros - Yeah paralysis is oppressive but I think it deserves more credit for actually manipulating the smaller monsters effectively making them a threat if they become too numerous and it was prominent against other monsters too! Legiana - I am bias. So I’m gonna try not to write too much… but Legiana was amazing to me and reminded me of my childhood watching Avatar for the first time. Sound design too is on 20. Very cool weapons and armor. Ecology wise I think he does exactly what he needs to do, nothing more or less. We also have SO many flying wyverns and we don’t have too many that are super unique in their dichotomy. Love Legiana even the fight too. GOAT Flying Wyvern to me. Excellent addition at worst for me. Odogaron - Great monster. Clifford is amazing in every way. Not much else to say…subspecies is disappointing to me though. Also him venturing into the highlands is a great touch that brings it into contact with Legiana. Dodogama - Poo Poo to me. I think it’s overloved 😂 and I never capture them. Zorah - Sadly….yeah I agree. Vaal Hazak - Kinda feel like he didn’t get enough credit I think he deserves top of the line. Yeah the effluvium is annoying but I think it’s justified and it’s not impossible to deal with. Fight wise I don’t think he’s too bad, he’s sluggish but fun imo and I think he could use a buff or a different mode when the effluvium is gone. But I get why his damage is a tad lower for balance purposes and I don’t think you should deduct points from him for that especially with counter builds since that’s the purpose of MH too. He’s a really unique and standout elder dragon! His music too….his music is in my opinion one of the best tracks to come out of mh. Nergigante - Amazing monster imo. Overhated but it works even better for Nerg because he’s brute strength and a balance check for the ecosystem. Bazelgeuese - Used to have the guy but I eventually loved him. I used to kill him on quests where he wasn’t a target because he made me rage but he’s just too good to hate. Surprise monster, one of the best themes ever and everything is great! Seething is great too. Xeno’jiiva - Great monster wise only cus of what happens later. But I love that it’s a baby and I can see that in its fight. Excellent tier for me. The music grew on me too! Armor and weapons are GREAT though. Kulve Taroth - Fight could be tedious but Master Rank and AT made it much much better! I rememeber when a friend of mine was fighting it for the first time and he was actually falling asleep! But when we entered the last state he FULLY WOKE UP and was loving it and ever since my friend and I love the monster. I love the music too! If they made it quicker to get to the final prt and altered the pace it would be a GOAT tier monster imo. Excellent addition for me. Beotodus - Good monster and good piscine wyvern imo. Love its design but could use more work and it has great potential! Solid tier. Banbaro - Aight tier for me. I love the design but he’s really annoying after a while and I cannot justify him being that degree if a roamer. He’s also an elk like you said and I think he should’ve stayed in the Hoarfrost. I do however think him not being a quadruped hurts his design a lot. May be a hot take but I was disappointed when he was in the trailer then BAM biped theropod. We don’t have enough strictly mammalian herbivorous monsters and that’s something I want more of. Coral Pukei - Probably one of the best subspecies ever made. It just suits it’s environment perfectly and its coloration is beautiful. Excellent monster. Nightshade - Underrated. Excellent addition. Its manipulation of sleep is so good!!!! More monsters should manipulate statuses like this and its coloration is great!!! The eyes definitely help it survive because it probably deters predators similarly to how tiger and deer have spots on the back of their ears. Acidic Glavenus - Hot take but I like Acidic more than regular Glavenus. Even GU Glavenus. Sue me 😂 but the pacing and mechanic just did it for me. It is Glavenus but better for me. I don’t think subspecies have to keep up, I think they should be able to branch off and be their own and I think Acidic does that perfectly. Shrieking - Not sure why… but it’s a GOAT tier monster for me 😂 Fulgur - GOAT/Excellent tier. Should’ve only been in Hoarfrost and Elders Recess at most, that’s it. Visually stunning and I love it for him!!! I understand why him being everywhere hurts him though. Ebony - Excellent and solid at worst, but aside from armor and visuals he’s just okay. He doesn’t feel different enough imo. Velkhana - I think is one of the best basic tier Elder Dragons. I love everything about it. Not sure what to say other than that. I love the new elder dragons more than I do the older OGs tbh. They feel like they do elements better to me not to discredit new Kushala, Chamy and Teo! I don’t think it can run through the ice walls though, I remember Velkhana running around in arcs a lot but I could be very wrong. Namielle - What a damn good monster. Keeping the electric element a surprise was a great decision!!! James Bond type music but a little repetitive, but still great! Visually great, animations are on point it’s the Splatoon dragon! The water manipulation is great and you can eliminate the water it creates on the ground too! Shara - What a great monster! GOAT tier to me. Music is amazing. My same friend that fell asleep was disappointed in the first phase “I DIDNT PAY $60 FOR DWAYNE!?” But as soon as the last phase happened it was a complete shift in atmosphere. And the eyes….creepy. Love the armor and weapon design too!!! It’s abilities are freaking awesome as well. Scarred Garuga - Excellent tier for me. Yian Garuga is my favorite bird wyvern so fighting Scarred was great except it also wasn’t lol. He was my kryptonite and I’m the person in my friend group that is into speedrunning and killing things with ease as quickly as possible. But Scarred Yian Garuga was the monster I could get down like that. It was my rival. Ruiner - same tier as regular Nergigante. He’s just better imo if not the same. The fight itself is better to me though and I would enjoy slugging it out with him. Safi’jiiva- I love Safi’jiiva. I could talk all day about it but the music, design and lore is awesome to me. I love how it attacks multiple people in a way that uses the least amount of energy but decides when it’s necessary to use its energy based powers. Then its coloration and the glowing parts as it heals is always super super cool.

[@DavidP-DigitalArt]

you HAVE to make another one of these tier list videos with your noobie friend. the one covering the monsters from the first generation was peak entertainment. I want a reaction to the wack shit like Nibelsnarf

[@cr-volcanic]

He’s a busy dude but we both wholly intend to get to it as soon as we can

[@austins3924]

My my do I have news for you friend

[@TheAdarkerglow]

Jyuratodus is probably so hated because he's the only water monster in base game, so if you needed anything water based, you had to go fight Jyura, and like you said, it's a mainly boring fight. Mainly you're fighting to not get stuck in his mud or to get through the deep water as he flails, but he has some satisfying breaks. If he appeared in more than one area, he could be interesting. Not as annoying as Laviosoth.

[@siegwardinspirit]

​@GOOBER42018 they mean in base World. If you wanted water element, you only had the fish.

[@foulXD]

actual amazing ranking, I 100% agree. :)

[@Animortar]

As a fight, I think Magnamalo is a great Monster. He's the only Monster besides Primordial Malzeno that kept me constantly on my toes. But as a design I have alot of gripes with him. He feels like he belongs in frontier with how many spikes and explosions he has. I wish they would have made him a bull or something cause at least it would have made sense why he has horns but overall he has way too many things going on with him.

[@victory8928]

Even then he doesn’t fit early frontier at all and is a bit of an outliner with the later mons as well. I saw a redesign with made him more slim and it really helped him a lot especially with the whole consume everything it can get angle that magna was pushing

[@kyogrecrown5869]

Also I have gripes with every single turf war magna has except velkhana, and if it takes until title update 4 of the expansion to have a no major flaws good turf way, that's bad.

[@k.guzhvin4952]

55:37 i didn't need any words to understand how you feel at this moment while rating him.

[@TMatti]

I agree on almost everything. The only issue for me are the Base World’s mid/low tier monsters (the ones that should create a sense of variety). For me the fact is that 80% of them seems like they copy-pasted the same skeleton in different locales. So, except for some differences in mechanics, seem subspecies of each other like: Uragaan-Radobaan, Kulu-TziTzi, G-Jagras-Dodogama, Juratodus-Lavasioth; and this creates a great lack of variety in the base game. It also bothers me that these mediocre monsters are put in every game released next: Kulu-Ya-Ku in Stories 2, Now, and Rise (and I think:what’s so interesting in a chiken that digs up rocks???) (there are also other beasts like Anjanath, pukei and others; but at least those are good and CREATIVE monsters). Oh, sorry for the outburst, great video man❤⚔️❤ ps: sorry for the grammatical errors, I’m not so good in English 😅

[@cr-volcanic]

I certainly see your point and can’t say that I fully disagree. There is a lot of asset repurposing in base World and though I do think they did the best job they could in trying to diversify the assets that they had to recycle, it does add some sameness to World’s roster. There’s also the fact that World definitely wanted to be a more grounded game in terms of tone, and likely had a lot of resources dedicated to the overhaul of a lot of MH’s core structure. And the result is a lot of fairly simple and somewhat repetitive monsters. On one hand it’s kinda cool to see how these different Wyvern types differentiate between different environments but on the other this aspect wasn’t balanced out as well as it could be with a large amount of animal diversity.

[@TMatti]

@@cr-volcanic Yes, in fact you are right in saying that they spent most of the resources on other things like creating the intricate maps and renewing the mechanics, and it can be interesting to see similar creatures adapt differently to environments (as if it were a kind of evolutionary convergence). It just stranges me that 1. You end up meeting really easy monsters at the end or in the middle of the game of the game (resulting that you will hunt them out very little and forget them easily, which is a shame)=Tzitzi/G. Girros and Dodogama 2. I would have expected a slightly greater variety, as the roster is already made up of not so many monsters (36 I think)+ they took the worst subspecies to try creating variety. But I say this because world managed at the same time to bring out memorable monsters = Nergigante,Bazel, Odogaron, PukeiPukei. Anyway, I understand that the resources are not endless and I accept the direction they have taken.

[@cr-volcanic]

@@TMatti i definitely expect that the next game will be better. I for one am very much in favor of the lowest monster tiers being fairly densely populated with a variety of monsters

[@TMatti]

@@cr-volcanic Absolutely, even rise didn't start with so many monsters but they handled them far better (apart from the apex🫠). And now that with MH6 they don't have to recreate everything from the basics, they can focus more on this aspect, so max hype for me.

[@htfs493]

God you must be happy now with the diversity of monsters shown for Wilds so far.

[@stevenhopson4027]

26:03 legiana design reminds me of the heisei era gyaos from gamera

[@nelsonparsifalcantebury5083]

You have excellent taste in monsters. This is an awesome ranking. Especially ranking the excellent Fulgar Anjanath so high. ❤

[@Monoshot1989]

Damn. I disagree with just a few of these, but you were so fair and polite in your rankings. Great video and an even greater creator

[@alyria9430]

Psyched to see my boy coral pukei and goss harag at the top but I think the placement of the apexes is a little strange, they're unoriginal since they're just the deviants from generations but because they're just the deviants they're still very good fights, even with a few things taken out at times. The biggest thing that sticks out for me though is apex rathalos, dreadking looked cool but was notoriously one of the most hated fights in gen because he just flew in the air all day while moving around frequently basically making it so either you had to use a ranged weapon to fight him or just flashbomb/stun him to death so you just dont have to fight him. Apex rathalos takes the improvements from world's silver rath and rises new rath and adds the crazy fireballs from dreadking but focuses specially on those fireballs while keeping him on the ground most of the time, making what was once an extremely irritating fight into an amazing one, feels a little bad to ignore the massive glow up and rank him so low because he's missing one attack from dreadking yknow :/

[@smitty7326]

i love the love prime maly gets. Such an epic experience

[@KingGhidorah7776]

I love how Ancient Leshen is so bad that he isn't even good enough for his own tier.

[@cubialpha]

55:36 what happened to earn ancient leshen an immediate "doo doo" spot with zero explanation 🤣

[@henchman808]

lmao imagine having trouble with Kulu.

[@NibbleSnarph]

I think my only disagreement is Scarred Yian Garuga, that fight is my favorite fight in World. He was so fast and unpredictable and hit like a truck. I think exactly what YG was supposed to be

[@NibbleSnarph]

I realize now you were differentiating Scarred and non scarred and when compared to it’s equivalent tier if the metal raths I see why he is only solid. Base YG I think would rank where I expected in excellent listening through again

[@ashra2191]

We need high tier fish on gen6 monhun or bring back plesioth for redemption of the fish in mainline monster hunter.

[@cr-volcanic]

I’m very down for the Piscines getting re-examined and improved

[@Officewaffle]

Neopterons now have one of the best monsters in the franchise among them along with some other pretty good ones just from gen 4 alone. They can definitely do it.

[@thebarbiter4644]

1:05 *seeing the Wilds logo* You're not gonna believe this, but

[@blastshooter8791]

Your tier list is surprisingly similar to mine like Primordial is my favorite as well But I would have Nergigante a little closer to the top for and so on.

[@dralakba-dusk31]

High expectations for Namiele 0_0

[@SirNarax]

Bazel is my favorite monster and I was excited to see him in Rise and then heartbroken to see what they did/how they ruined him.

[@williamdeweese6134]

I don't think I would call tzitzi ya ku a boss, there isn't a quest where he's the main objective, IDK I just like it when he shows up in a fight to give you a free stun and the fact that he isn't instantly aggressive, It's fun to have monster that you can just chill with.

[@cr-volcanic]

Yeah I think he’s fine but he’s almost a glorified endemic life.

[@dumithegreat3892]

hard cap. Tzitzi is literally the main objective of the Coral Horn cat tool. you talk to the Coral Highland felynes, and they give you a double Tzitzi quest.

[@williamdeweese6134]

@@dumithegreat3892 Really? I thought they just introduced him in the paolumu mission and then never brought him up again

[@dumithegreat3892]

@@williamdeweese6134 yeah, go back to LR quests, and if you’ve already spoken to the chief of the Coral Highlands cats, you’ll have the quest. granted, this is a completely optional quest, but Tzitzi is the main target. if anything, do it because the Coral Horn is a really strong palico gadget lmao. sorry for the rude intro tho, i just have wayyy too many hours in World, across 2 consoles hahaha

[@toiletseat777]

Tzitzi is absolutely a boss. All large monsters are bosses, and he is considered one.

[@sinkpissersupreme]

Pretty solid tier list, nothing really out of place. Although I would put crimson glow val in GOAT tier, but Im bias, hes really cool.

[@bongwaterbojack]

Funny enough, I have about 400hrs in my current World/IB playthrough. I've seen the armor skill that reduces time for Defense Down, but I never knew what could actually inflict the status until now.

[@davidperdue7541]

Did I miss something? Since when was Rise not considered 5th Gen? It's our Monster Hunter Portable 5th. Generations/GU is Portable 4th and then there's the game actually titled Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.

[@cr-volcanic]

It’s been a subject of debate in a few places. We’re preeeeeeetty sure that Rise is supposed to be effectively 5 portable. But they’re doing away with the numbers in the titles and the generational thing seems to be a tad more arbitrary than it used to be. So some people think that Rise is supposed to be 6 and some don’t.

[@davidperdue7541]

I can't fathom what their reasons could be. Rise is definitely not Monster Hunter 6.@@cr-volcanic

[@mcgruber]

Cmon, Rise is 5th gen. Everyone worth a dam knows this. Whoever thinks otherwise is no longer invited to the boys club and their personal locker is revoked. TF outta ere.@@cr-volcanic

[@cr-volcanic]

@@mcgruber I agree with you but the lack of a definitive answer, at least as far as I’m aware, has led to some people saying that Rise is supposed to be 6. Not a statement I agree with but again I’m pretty sure we don’t positively 100% have an answer to that. So yeah I’m fairly certain Rise is supposed to be Portable 5

[@jeburk27]

Did I miss raging Brachi? AT Nergi has to be top tier. He was such a great skill check with clean mechanics. Goes from being a killer to being a speed run skillcheck endgame activity. Loved the video. Changed my opinion on namielle. I was literally trying to decode if I loved it or thought it sucked lol

[@cr-volcanic]

Raging Brachy was introduced in 4th gen

[@spilleraaron4748]

I’ll admit that most of the rankings are very fair! One of my disagreements would have to fall on risen shaggy. There’s difficult and then there’s BS, his fight is definitely the latter. Extremely fast recovery even when knocked down, aoes after most of not all attacks, an attack that outright condemns you fir not having a skill, and combos that are a bit too fast. Like it feels more like a bullet hell than an actual fight somewhat like primalzeno. This is an issue many late game monsters suffer from in sunbreak; what I refer to as bullet hell syndrome, where instead of a complex move set , every move HAS to have some form of aoe or after shock to it .

[@baileejohnson9968]

When i helped my cousin and our friend through their first time doing iceborn. He saw the namielle armor and he we farmed it so many times cause he liked the armor

[@legendredux1291]

goss harag is an oni not a yeti

[@synchrosaint4830]

The thing about Kulu-Yaku though, he is a more accurate representation of real life dinosaurs than the "raptors" you have in mind like the once shown in Jurassic park. Dinosaurs are feathery creatures

[@Flubbadon]

Great Maccao does feathery raptor while being far more fun and cool in my opinion.

[@ScentSense]

I guess these are only monsters introduced in 5th Gen? I was really curious to hear where monsters like Lavasioth, Barroth, the Diabloses(?), Teostra + Lunastra + Kushala, the Rath twin variants etc would have fit in since I'm still finishing World and haven't made it to Rise at all yet lol.

[@pepper-0ni-t1m]

Will admit, seeing the variety and uniqueness of each monster in the 5th generation has made Monster Hunter as a whole really pop in ways it simply couldn't before. While some monsters are better than others, with a few sore thumbs here and there, I can't help but feel that all of them work towards bettering the future of the franchise overall.

[@cr-volcanic]

It’s legitimately tough for me to pick which generation had the best monsters between 3rd 4th and 5th. And the first two gens are amazing too

[@wysockifamily1747]

Idk why but the way he said “no” was really funny to me