Monster Hunter: Bulked Up, no Kappa

[Sigilavox]

Hi all. I'll be brief.

According to this lovely calculation courtesy of @DMUA, Monster Hunter Rise's Tetranodon, which is a low-ranked monster apparently considered to be less threatening than Royal Ludroth and Pukei-Pukei, can hoist and throw boulders from the ground in the ranks of Class K.

Furthermore, a turf war between it and Goss Harag, a Rathalos-tier monster, shows the two going head-to-head on rough parity in terms of raw physical bulk, with the latter easily outclassing it due to advantages in speed and aggression.

There is the potential caveat that Tetranodon is kind of the sumo wrestler/raw lifting monster, and it also seems to waddle around clumsily whilst carrying the boulder. That aside, I propose we uplift all large monsters equal to or stronger than Tetranodon (i.e. anything aside from the bears or raptor wyverns) to Class K.

 

[Sigilavox]

@Mr._Bambu

 

[DMUA]

Honestly this thread could just be a general revision based off of the stuff I calculated there (along with other things I might add like the Rise boulder smashing and such)

Still, does need an actual calc group approval

 

[XSOULOFCINDERX]

I agree with the OP.

 

[Kisaragi_Megumi]

Agree as well

 

[Sigilavox]

@Mr._Bambu Your thoughts on this monster lifting strength calculation would be appreciated!

 

[Sigilavox]

With recent revelations, Tetranodon's lifting strength is viable to scale Apex-tier monsters and up, while Tetsucabra's old calc is good for sub-Apex monsters.

 

[XSOULOFCINDERX]

Bump.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Needs a calc group member approval, someone other than DMUA since one cannot evaluate their own calc.

 

[Kisaragi_Megumi]

Can you ping them?

 

[XSOULOFCINDERX]

Bump.

 

[The_Axiom_of_Virgo]

Speaking of lifting I do remember Rajang specialising in lifting and throwing boulders (sometimes large fossils iirc) plus it's explicitly an ED tier monster so I guess the gold monke can be seen as the next significant step up from the conventional monsters that scale to the Kappa LS.

 

[Sigilavox]

Speaking of lifting I do remember Rajang specialising in lifting and throwing boulders (sometimes large fossils iirc) plus it's explicitly an ED tier monster so I guess the gold monke can be seen as the next significant step up from the conventional monsters that scale to the Kappa LS.

Only 4U Apex Rajang gets the huge boulders, since Tetranodon's boulders outsize Rise Rajang's, so that wouldn't really scale to average elder-tier monsters. Iceborne Rajang doesn't get the rock toss attacks, but its cutscene thrown boulder is approximately the same size as Tetranodon's rock. Unless there's some Frontier stuff I'm missing.

 

[Sigilavox]

Just realized Garangolm has this attack where it rips a wide disk of earth out of the ground. This is almost certainly larger than Tetranodon's and it's entirely stone.