What's the deal with Ebony Odo and his meat?

[mewlynx]

Hunter notebook says the key to success is to prevent him from eating, but I don't really see how you're supposed to do that? He just carries it from area to area, and I don't even know if he's even eating it. If he is, it's happening off screen.

[JPM岩]

You want to interupt his eating, it's to stop him from eating his Furious state

[Greb]

It's probably just fluff. Like how it mentions Savage Deviljho will just eat anything nearby completely ignoring you, which he also doesn't do.

If Ebony Odogaron is anything like the basic Odogaron, it means he'll run off to eat his little meat parcel randomly mid-combat and gain a powered up phase, probably similar to how Master Rank Odogaron pretty much seems to always begin like that, etc.

I haven't really fought Ebony Odogaron enough to know his mechanics inside and out yet, unfortunately. I'm just going to call out the Hunters Log for being kinda an exaggeration on monster abilities and things, though.

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

You want to interupt his eating, it's to stop him from eating his Furious state

Maybe he just hasn't done that animation for me yet. I've seen regular odo get all steamy and stuff from meat, I assume his furious state looks similar?

[lexilogo]

Ebony Odo starts with a hunk of meat, there's a unique eating animation that it can try to do mid-combat and if you aren't keeping the pressure up it'll power up.

Standard Odogaron could do the exact same thing, but the meat-carrying was a specific behaviour it did during its regular behaviour so actually seeing it get powered up was fairly rare.

As for how to do it, use a clutch claw wallbang, mount, use slinger ammo to flinch, use a trap, all the standard methods apply.

Originally posted by maelynx:

Maybe he just hasn't done that animation for me yet. I've seen regular odo get all steamy and stuff from meat, I assume his furious state looks similar?

Yeah, the steamy effect is what it is.

[Greb]

Does bait still work on Ebony Odogaron like it worked on the original Odogaron?

Are they still the only monsters it's worth (barely) bringing bait meat for?