Acidic Glavenus's Defense Down

[Why Watt]

Ok, now I'm well aware not every monster is amazing, and plenty have their drawbacks and weaknesses for you, the hunter, to exploit.

But why does Acidic Glavenus' Defense Down have basically no impact, whereas, when a Jho inflicts Defense Down, it's a huge difference?

Unlike Jho and Behemoth, who halve your armor, Glavenus' variant only drops it a mere ten percent. Now, this would be fine if it, idk, actually did damage, but acidic Glavenus doesn't really do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ compared to regular Glavenus. Regular Glavenus forces you to react to it by setting your ass on fire and being overall more mobile, while also having actual projectile attacks.

Acidic Glavenus' entire 'shtick' is the accumulation of acid making it go from somewhat mobile to more sluggish but dangerous. However, Acidic Glavenus just doesn't feel threatening because for whatever reason it's inflicting a weaker variant of Defense Down despite having its entire combat toolkit centred around it.

IK it's a weird thing to see people ask to buff a monster, most people want buffs to weapons or nerfs to monsters, but uh, yeah. No monster should feel underwhelming when you go up against it, especially as a 'gate keeper' of sorts. This would be a simple change that would massively improve the fight against Acidic Glavenus, making it feel threatening without requiring much change. If it's weapons are so good, it should feel like you earned them.

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Acidic Glavenus' Defense Down is weaker because it inflicts it very easily. Jho only inflicts def down with its saliva, so it's rare, whereas Acidic Glavenus creates gigantic acid pools that inflict it.

I think Acidic Glavenus is mostly fine in the fight. -10% doesn't sound bad but it's reasonably significant for a debuff he inflicts so often. If you want to make Acidic Glavenus harder I would say allowing him to do his super-sword-spin whenever it wants, instead of solely to sharpen its tail, would be the most important change.

Acidic Glavenus mostly does its job when it does get the chance to sharpen, though, as many of its sword attacks are way deadlier and less predictable than Glavenus'.