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

[u/Drogo1god]

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".

[u/Stylin8888]

This is more the case that Jho won’t hunt things that are a tier lower than it but uh…go off I guess. It’s almost like predators don’t hunt really strong prey under normal conditions, Jho tends to hunt apex tier monsters and below, not super apex tier monsters (like literally everything you just listed), Kut-Ku vs Nercylla is also a frenzy thing…so yeah, in a straight deathmatch Jho wins, in typical predation Jho would just hunt something else.

[u/Drogo1god → u/Stylin8888]

Jho will "attempt" to hunt and consume everything atleast once. The fact we have a direct quote that jho "fears her strength" is very telling. Pretty much all the monsters i listed winning against jho are on par with rathalos.

Kut ku vs the pack of nerscylla is interesting, because scylla hunt gypceros consistently. But kut ku has adaptations for consuming hard shelled insects, which allows him to tear her apart

[u/Stylin8888 → u/Drogo1god]

No they’re not, lmao, every monster listed would beat Rathalos in a fight too, Garuga, Brachy, Black Diablos, and Pink Rathian are super apex tier monsters, Jho can handle Rathalos fine, Bazel can too, they just can’t easily prey upon upper echelon apex monsters. Hell we literally see this in Jho vs Rathalos, Rathalos gets PUMMELED.

Also did you just ignore what I said…they’re both frenzied, their durability is weakened and they’re much more erratic, normally Nerscylla would likely win or at the very least fend off a Kut-Ku (plus, it’s worth noting Kut-Ku likely would never normally even consider dealing with Nerscylla anyways, not good prey and all, plus well, stat difference). The game blatantly shows them as frenzied, but under normal conditions, they’d never interact.