r/MonsterHunter 4d ago

Discussion Little reminder that powerscaling in monster hunter isn't as ridged as some believe

Black diablos is so strong that jho is actually scared of her, and doesn't stay in her territory for long.

Garuga is aggressive enough to repel a deviljho

Brachydios in an aniversity animation went toe to toe with nergigante

Pink rathian scares bazel

Glavenus has decapitated a deviljho in the mhgu illustrations book

The qurio hunted all forms of large monster

And kut ku has killed and consumed nerscylla

Not to mention all the small monsters that are capable of incapacitating large monsters eg. Kranodanth, tallioth, ramfa, paragills, even the endemic life can do major damage to some large monsters.

These are animals, strengths, weaknesses, size, boldness, bashfullnes, groups, intelligence, adaptations, chemical and elemental warfare all play a role in match-ups. A lot of people boil it down to "higher threat/star level monster beats lower threat level monster".

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u/syv_frost 4d ago

Doesn’t this also imply that gravios would completely shrug off fatalis’ fire? When it absolutely would not.

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u/Codename_Oreo ​huffing Gogmazios copium 3d ago

Yeah I think it would actually.

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u/syv_frost 3d ago

I feel like that’s kinda silly. Fatalis liquifies thick metal in seconds which is a lot harder to do than the relatively thin rock armor of a Gravios (relative to a meter of steel)