Favorite Monster Hunter Flagship?

[Tschaka]

One of the big things in Iceborne is adding Flagship Monsters of the older titles. So while we are waitin for Iceborne, i though of startin this ,,discussion" about what your favorite flagship monster of the main series is. Share some stories too ;)

Mine is Brachydios. Monster Hunter 3 ultimate was my first Monster Hunter game, and the Flagship of your first game most often stays with you. He was also the first monster i saw in Monster HUnter in General (Video) and because of that the reason of me buin the game. But i have a personal story too.
While i was playin trough the game (solo #nofriends ) almost everything was suprisingly easy for me. Not even Diabolos or other major walls in this game. At one point (i was a dialog skipper) i did not get any new missios in moga village, because i had no idea i had to get a mask out of the cave behind the farm. So i continued at the port, working myself there into highrank. And even tho it was more difficult, i still had no problems because i was always upgradin my gear as far as possible. But then i got his quest and BOY he dunked me HARD. After the 5th time i failed the quest i was really frustrated but i wasn`t goin to give up. So i tried again and again, each time getting closer and closer. I considerd switching the weapon but i was determined to kill him with hammer. In the final try i gave everything, i knew his mowes perfecty and how to dodge them, i brought every single item that could hep me and pulled of so much skill like never before. I still carted 2 but then HE LIMPED. The final minutes were soooooo intense but i killed him and it is to this day the most satisfin kill i had in moster hunter. Especially because i instantaniously got everything i needed to craft his hammer, to this day my favorite weapon in the series

I hope you enjoyed my little story time. I hope to read some fun things too

[Fat Pigeon]

Gore Magala from MH4 (and his molted form Shagaru Magala)

I love his themesong and his Frenzy mode as soon his wing membrane turns violett and the entire room/map gets dark

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Gore Magala from MH4 (and his molted form Shagaru Magala)

+1

Zinogre was my first favorite, but Gore just has so much more going for it. Unless the devs royally screw it up like MHGen did, if it's added to World at all, then it's presence could mean amped up gameplay for every other non-elder thanks to the Frenzy virus as well as altering how a hunt goes due to its effects on players.

[Flori281]

World isn't my first MH but it is the first I've played that wasn't emulated. I just love the whole concept of Nergigante as he turns the whole idea the kind of beasts elder dragons are onto its head. He has no elements, no special environment to take advantage of, and his fight doesn't even carry the character of a grand trial like the other elders do. Nergigante is a messy, chaotic DPS race. His singular, true ability as an elder dragon, down to the core, is the power of stamina. He fights with brute force and never relents, even breaking his own body to damage enemies. Yet with only his brute force, he is the fear of other elders. Granted, his stats in World made him a really easy fight, having the lowest HP of all elders, but for those who dissent his status as the terror of elders, remember his name is the Extinction Dragon. Who even knows how long Nergigante has been at this? Who even knows how many elders never made it to the New World, or even how many went extinct due to the actions of this dragon? Nerg is a certified BAMF, and everything about him is just amazing

[JPM岩]

Lagiacrus and underwater combat

[Murdo]

Favorite flagship and favorite monster in general - Tigrex.
He's probably started my love for the most savage and pimal beasts in Monster Hunter.

It's not really that great of a story but if someone feels like reading it, then more power to him.

My first game was Freedom Unite. Like many others I had to give the game a couple of tries before I could actually get into it. I found some guy on youtube doing a let's play of portable 3rd, finally understood what this game is.

I didn't have much problems at the start. I got through Congalala and Kut-Ku rather easily. Khezu stopped me for a bit but he wasn't that hard, I just had to learn my lesson of patiance. Hermitaur didn't prove problematic nor did low rank village plesioth (yes, his hitboxes are garbage but it doesn't make him hard). So yeah, I beat most monsters with realative ease ... and then comes Tigrex.

Attempt afrer attempt after attempt I kept failing. I couldn't beat him at all. I kept getting better at dodging but I just had not learned the most important lesson - I didn't try to predict, I was just reacting. I was too stressed during the fight to actually figure out when to attack and when not to do that. So after about 7 or 9 attempts I go on youtube to see someone else fight him because I was clearly missing something. Then I learned how simple and predictable this guy actually is. I was frustrated, somewhat mad at myself for looking it up because I didn't expect that straight forward of an answer. I give Tigrex another try ... and I succeed. So after some time, thinking that maybe I'd forgotten how to fight him at this point I tried again. I wanted to give him another shot because the win just didn't feel deserved. I ended up hunting him multiple times, enjoying the hunt more and more, making his full set and a GS and ... to be honest I didn't think of him as my favorite back then. He's grown on me. I liked him more and more with each hunt and after some time I got to a conclusion: "you know what? Tigrex is really freaking cool".

I had not finished Freedom Unite for a long time. I dropped it to play 4 Ultimate where I played through low rank and high rank. Came back to Freedom Unite, played through high rank and by the time I got to fight Nargacuga I was so much more experienced that the fight didn't do much of an impression. The wow factor of Narga has worn off by that point and Tigrex left too good of an impression.

[Greb]

Nergigante I guess. He's the only one I've fought..

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Gore Magala from MH4 (and his molted form Shagaru Magala)

I love his themesong and his Frenzy mode as soon his wing membrane turns violett and the entire room/map gets dark

easily. great story and threat concept.

if i had to pick another one, Valstraax. i mean a elder dragon jet fighter. if you dont love it see a doctor.

[lexilogo]

I don't think there's a single bad flagship but I think I'd go with Lagiacrus.

He's just a solid-as-hell monster in every aspect.

Though, Gore is also a solid contender with the main reason I didn't pick him being that I think it's cheating. Gore isn't just a flagship monster, he is THE antagonist of MH4 and by virtue of that is on a whole different level.

[Greb]

Sometimes I think Vaal would have been a better flagship than Nergigante, even though I like Nergigante more. It always felt like Vaal was under utilised, he's just your generic "zombie" Elder Dragon with a bit of a "life-force vampire rotten corpse undead" thing going for him.

It would have been cool if he hounded you throughout the story and was rotting the New World from within, corrupting the bioenergy or something I dunno, and you traced it to the core where he was, sucking up the whatever to regenerate each time.

Say you "kill" him a bunch of times during the story, but he just keeps reviving. I dunno. Only way to ensure the New World wasn't going to turn into a sucked dry deadlands would be to rip out the cancer at the core, I guess. I dunno.

I still wish he had like a 10% chance to revive himself after you killed him, he's dead, you're carving him up, suddenly the timer goes away, MUCH more scarier music begins, Vaal gets up and "stretches" out with a roar, his rotten corpse is flayed off, revealing his true form and beginning the battle anew, or something.

Probably wouldn't have worked, but it woulda been cool.

Like I always assumed those effuvium infected Raphinos and Girros were under his control, like some kind of parasite effect, if you know what I mean? He was spreading his tendrils across the New World and enslaving everything in some half-existence where he'd eventually drain / consume them of life, which made him so high threat. That could have also been a neat mechanic - not necromancy of sorts where he'd bring a corpse back to life, but rather, he could raise a random monster he'd enslaved to fight alongside him during his fight, a bit like a Qurupeco only not as cute, I guess.

But he's just another elder dragon to kill for, almost no real reason actually.

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by lexilogo:

I don't think there's a single bad flagship but I think I'd go with Lagiacrus.

He's just a solid-as-hell monster in every aspect.

Though, Gore is also a solid contender with the main reason I didn't pick him being that I think it's cheating. Gore isn't just a flagship monster, he is THE antagonist of MH4 and by virtue of that is on a whole different level.

Of all the elders the only other shown to think beyond animal instinct is Rusted Kushala from MH4 who seems to hold a grudge. As you play throughout MH4 you face Gore several times and by the time you reach Shagaru it remembers you and shows this same level of human-like thinking.

The Elder Dragons are intended to be intelligent, but MHW has proven them to just be different breeds of animals. Would like to see Gore return not as an animal, but as an antagonist again. The only proper "villain" we've ever seen in a MH game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHqbZAQ8fs

An animal doesn't show off to intimidate unless it's trying to avoid a fight nor would it use this ploy as a means of hunting. It's not doing this to "scare off" the hunter because it knows the hunter isn't gonna run. So, what do you think it's doing here? I like to think it knew the hunter would come for it and is using this moment to show them what they are up against. I've got a lot of respect for this critter and if it wasn't for the fact its mere presence means everything for miles will die I'd rather not have to kill it.

[primobrainlet]

Valstrax.

Rocket powered dragon. Need I say more?

Fine, I will

Rocket powered dragon with a blowtorch spear

[Artoras]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Lagiacrus and underwater combat

yup jpm i started with world then played 3u and fell in love with Lagiacrus wish he would have made it in to wrold

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Artoras:

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Lagiacrus and underwater combat

yup jpm i started with world then played 3u and fell in love with Lagiacrus wish he would have made it in to wrold

He really would need underwater combat though. He just looks too badass in that swimming animation.

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

Originally posted by Artoras:

yup jpm i started with world then played 3u and fell in love with Lagiacrus wish he would have made it in to wrold

He really would need underwater combat though. He just looks too badass in that swimming animation.

Im hoping clutch claw leads to the return of underwater

[primobrainlet]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

He really would need underwater combat though. He just looks too badass in that swimming animation.

Im hoping clutch claw leads to the return of underwater

Especially with namiella , imagine a cinematic with THAT coming from the deep