History YMMV / MonsterHunter

** Same can be said about Fatalis, Akantor and Ukanlos. Once you learn their patterns, they become almost trivially easy

** Also in Unite, the Nargacuga. A souped-up Tigrex ''who can shoot tail spikes''.

*** If you're playing MHF then god bless you won't meet [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN24STb8hEw a Rajang with red aura.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwb279vbQc Suddenly the normal Rajang (or any other monsters) looks pale in comparison.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible INSANE speed, hitbox and attack power]] that simply murders the whole party in no time.

** Tri Portable gives us a new monster: Jinouga, which looks easy in its normal state, until it starts to charge up 3 times... And it goes into Hyper Electrified mode. Basically speaking, it IS its rage mode which will not stop until you make it fall down, which means it can stay in this form much longer than others' rage mode. In this state its speed and power rockets to crazy levels, has attacks to make you more vulnerable to thunder-element attacks and fainting, and has a ridiculous hitbox for its attacks. Oh and the paralyzing trap you're using all along? It's IMMUNE to that in that state, and in other times the trap MAY help it to charge up.\\
Also, it can go into rage mode... while already in this mode. Which makes it a [[BeyondTheImpossible Double Rage Mode]], something unique to this series.

* BetterThanItSounds: A lot of people were skeptical about trying the first game thinking it would just be Cabela's Big Game Hunter, but with dinosaurs. Of course, people who actually do like the Cabela games were equally disappointed when it was nothing like that.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Taking down Lao Shan Lung for the first time. You take down a building-sized dragon with what is essentially a toothpick to it.
** One for one of the monsters: in the Akantor ecology, the eponymous Akantor duels a Gravios. The Akantor not only resists a full blast of the Gravios' Heat Beam, it ''[[CurbStompBattle takes out the Gravios in one blow]]'' and then tosses the corpse like a rag doll. Then it roars triumphantly over the Gravios as the volcanoes in the background erupt. Seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuKVmZHSKc here]].
** In ''Tri'', driving off [[spoiler:The Ceadeus]]. Even if you had help in the form of ancient weaponry, you still took down a sea-dragon larger than your ''base camp''. You broke the mighty horns that [[spoiler:caused earthquakes]] every time he rammed the ocean. You dodged torrents of water that would have ''ended your life'' not too long ago, and you made a dragon, who is ''deserving'' of the name "sea god", one that the Guild would need to send an ''army'' after, ''run away''. And in doing so, you save [[spoiler:Moga Village]]. In-story, the final cutscene marks this as your crowning achievement. A masterwork of bravery and skill that will be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQpL4W5NcM Spoken Of Forever]].
** Killing Raviente. You and your party slay a dragon so large it could encircle the '''ENTIRE ISLAND''' it lives on- ''and still be large enough to hold its head up 100 feet in the air as well.'' [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100126063530/monsterhunter/images/e/e9/Raviente01.png Here's a picture comparing you to Raviente.]] Just look at him- [[BeyondTheImpossible He makes Lao-Shan-Lung look absolutely tiny!]]
** Hunters can get mini-size Awesome moments whenever they can kill off the monsters either really quickly OR with a weapon that most people would advise you NOT to use.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [=MHF2=] and Unite has skills, which one of them involves adding the power of thrown things like paintballs and stones, but the name of the skill? "Throwing Up"
** [[http://www.gamespot.com/psp/rpg/monsterhunterportable2nd/view_image.html?id=atBd7x4g7h2a5hnn This]] picture taken from the ''Freedom 2'' note page in the manual. OhCrap doesn't even ''begin'' to describe it.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVOBNl_28PU A player manages to take down a Gold Rathian in one hit]].
** Tri gives us the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5PmjQgBVvA Qurupeco's ecology]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPzlZwV5aT4&feature=related The Phantom Uragaan.]] It is even funnier with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgb1ZgJoydA the music]]

*** And then it comes back for more. And you get to finish the job.

** And because everyone loves the MH main theme, it starts playing and replaces the regular battle music during the Jhen Mohran quest once you have done enough damage to repel him, which usually happens by using the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast dragonator]], a massive [[ThisIsADrill spear-drill]] mounted to the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome sandship]] you are fighting on.
*** It only happens when the dragonator hits Jhen during the final showdown. It won't replace the normal music otherwise.

** Tri gives us the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5PmjQgBVvA Qurupeco's ecology]]. I laughed out loud on seeing it for the first time.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPzlZwV5aT4&feature=related The Phantom Uragaan.]]
*** It is even funnier with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgb1ZgJoydA the music]]

** For those who have [[strike: decided to import it]] bought it for the Wii, Tri adds Goddamned Rhinopros/Rhenoplos to the mix. Basically, souped-up Bullfangos - they share the love for charging, but they have about three times the health and knock you even further. Add in armored shells that can deflect your attacks and you've got one annoying enemy.

** Why would the 360 fans care? Anyway, it was a PS3 exclusive until it was randomly shown at a nintendo conference out of nowhere. Can you blame them?

** Uragaan and its very... prominent jaw. Common nicknames include Jay Lenosaurus Rex and the [[TheFairlyOddParents Crimson Chin]].
** [[JurassicPark Jhoassic Park]], [[GIJoe G.I.]] [[http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1057722 Jhooooooooooooooooooooooooo]], and [[BreathWeapon Halijhosis]]. Named for Deviljho, who will fuck your shit up.
*** You can now add Assjhole to the repertoire of names

* ThatOneBoss: Varies, but Tigrex for most. Very fast, massive range, massive damage. These all increase in Rage mode. Compared to other boss's leading up to it, Tigrex represents a massive spike in the difficulty. Tri Portable gives us a Black Tigrex which is basically an even faster and stronger version of the original. Other frequent candidates include Rathalos and Kut-Ku - yes, that Kut-Ku. It's a giant pink turkey that will kick your ass around the area unless you know what to do.
** The Yian Kut-ku is mostly a ThatOneBoss for first timers as it's the first ''real'' taste of combat of the game.
** Also in Unite, the Nargacuga. A souped-up Tigrex who can shoot tail spikes. Yes, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome tail spikes.]]

** [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Plesioth]]...How exactly can smashing me with your RIGHT hip hit me when I'm on your left? Or how can you hit me with your tail when it's ten feet high? Plesioth has managed to do both of these things and more.

** No hunter will ever forget their first attempt at beating a [[WakeUpCallBoss Blangonga]]. Its speed and unpredictable dodging makes trying to fight it with a greatsword, hammer, lance or gunlance an exercise in futility, it roars to stun you and summon Blangos, and it turns nightmarishly fast when it's angry. Like Khezu, you fight it in the Mountains which provide you with almost no room to maneuver.
*** Seriously, the Blangonga is so good at dodging it almost seems accidental. [[CharacterSelectForcing Do not use a slow weapon against this thing.]]
*** Its cousin, Rajang, is even worse. Has all elements of speed and unpredictability as Blangonga, the roar knocks you away, and it fires LIGHTNING BEAMS and THUNDER BALLS (both are actually non-elemental) from the mouth. Once it's enraged and becomes [[FanNickname Super-Saiyan]]... Well good luck not to be hit by its attacks or risk One-hit KO. Unite gives us a type of Rajang that is ALWAYS IN RAGE MODE, and another rage mode upon that (though actually slower). Worse, the best Thunder-element weapons (to deal with Tigrex, for example) can only be made with some Rajang materials...

** The lesser mentioned [[TheDevTeamAreSadists One-Horned Diablos]]. It looks like any other Diablos, just slightly bigger and with a broken horn but it's actually a rank above what you're capable of fighting which means it hits ''a lot'' harder and has ''[[WhyWontYouDie a lot]]'' more hp and, of course, the game doesn't give you any kind of warning as to what you're in for. You also get the usual items and only a slightly higher reward for defeating it.
** Tri gives us [[DeathFromAbove Rathalos]] (which has been turned from a nonissue in Unite into a genuine ThatOneBoss thanks to a combination of newfound speed and maneuverability and harder access to weapons fit for fighting him) and [[LightningBruiser Barioth]], who is basically Nargacuga OnlyMoreSo, and who exchanges the ability to shoot tail spikes for being able to ''[[BlowYouAway spit twisters at you]]''.
*** Twisters that ''[[KillItWithIce freeze you solid]]''.

*** A free tip to newer players on the above point: Switch Axes allow you to gain access to elemental attacks early. Invest in the Rough Edge axe. It unleashes a dragon element when in Sword Mode, allowing you to tear the Rathalos apart. You can create the Plume Flint (and it's upgraded version, the Plume Flint) from easily acquired Qurupeco drops, and tear into Barioth with a fire element hammer that even has decent raw damage to boot.
*** Switch Axes, however, can be difficult for a new player to get used to. Easiest way to deal is to farm Barioth with whatever (non-slow) weapon you like - once you learn a couple of its tricks and weaknesses, it's not half as dangerous as it first seems.

** About midway through Tri, you have a quest to capture a Qurupeco. Fifty percent of the time it will summon a Great Jaggi - A monster you've long since learned to defeat and have probably farmed repeatedly by that point. The other times? Rathian. Something you've never faced before, hits freakin' ''hard'' and has a breath attack that is still pretty much capable of bringing you to your knees or outright [[NonLethalKO knocking you out]] in one hit, even with the best fire resistance available to you at that stage. And you still have to capture that friggin' jerkass 'peco.
*** You think Rathian is bad? Go online and try to engage a high-rank Qurupeco. It can summon the Great Jaggi, or the Rathian. It can also summon ''Deviljho'', [[OhCrap who is just as bad as he sounds]]. Many a Qurupeco quest has ended because it summoned G.I. Jho.
*** But then again, many a low-rank capture Qurupeco quest has ended because it called in Rathian... and Rathian killed the Qurupeco.
** Tri Portable gives us a new monster: Jinouga, which looks easy in its normal state, until it starts to charge up 3 times... And it goes into Hyper Electrified mode. Basically speaking, it IS its rage mode which will not stop until you make it fall down, which means it can stay in this form much longer than others' rage mode. In this state its speed and power rockets to crazy levels, has attacks to make you more vulnerable to thunder-element attacks and fainting, and has a ridiculous hitbox for its attacks. Oh and the paralyzing trap you're using all along? It's IMMUNE to that in that state, and in other times the trap MAY help it to charge up. Seriously.
*** Also, it can go into rage mode... while already in this mode. Which makes it a [[BeyondTheImpossible Double Rage Mode]], something unique to this series.

*** It's possible to survive the tackle if you've got a full boosted health bar, but yeah, a point-blank range thunder ball will ruin your day very quick.
*** The thunder ball alone could count, as if it doesn't kill you outright it will paralyze you, making your hunter a sitting duck for its surely lethal next attack. The fact that you can't [[MercyInvincibility Superman Dive]] doesn't help either. G-Rank Khezu has a multiple thunder shot which is even harder to avoid.

** Plesioth: Hip-check. HUGE range, fast and with an absurd hit-box (as in, no part of the Plesioth will touch you and you will ''still'' get hit).

*** Hot tip: Almost all Rathalos aerial attacks can be avoided by standing in the middle of his shadow, including the claw dive. It's his very own version of AwesomeButImpractical.
*** When the Rathalos roars, he immediately follows it up by spitting a fireball directly in front of him while taking to the air in the same motion. If you get caught [[strike: in front of it]] when it roars and have no Earplugs; prepare for a face full of fire.
**** Any especially strong attack that comes immediately after a roar, for that matter. For example, the Uragaan will follow his roars with three heavy chin-pounds that wrecks pretty much anyone who isn't behind him at the time.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many aspects of Tri, according to several self-proclaimed pro hunters.

* InternetBackdraft When news that MonsterHunterTri was going to be a Wii-exclusive, the 360 and PS3 fans did not take it well.

* InternetBackdraft When news that MonsterHunterTri was going to be a Wii-exclusive, the 360 and PS3 fans [[UnderStatement did not take it well.]]

** Not necessarily. You can also fail to route it into the arena if you don't do enough damage to him during the first part, which fails the quest. For most, this is indeed easy, but bowgunners have a very tough time outputting enough damage, unless they've got advanced materials from online.

*** Akantor is OK. Fatalis and Ukanlos... Not so much since they have much more hitpoint than others and tremendous attack power. Even one small mistake may lead to instant NonLethalKO.
*** Akantor and Ukanlos are kind of YMMV. Fatalis is [[BoringButPractical very dangerous but dull to fight]]. The two kings of this trope are probably Lao Shan Lung and Yamatsukami, both of whom are even more predictable than the above. Lao doesn't even have a move that targets players on the ground, whilst virtually every one of Yama's attacks is clearly telegraphed and easily avoidable even if you have the reaction time of a dead cow.

*** And to add insult to injury, the armor their components make is unquestionably ugly.
*** [[YourMileageMayVary Whoa, hey now...]]
**** Their waist armor makes the hunter look like someone shoved him in a pot-bellied stove and called it good. The arm and leg armors make the hunter look fat, and the helm is a ''diving helmet''. At least the female variant has a pink bear motif to make it look cuter.
*** Ugly, indeed. [[BoringButPractical Also very cheap to make, from easily-obtained materials, with the useful skill of WindPress, and with high defenses]].

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: In the western version of MonsterHunterTri, we were supposed to win a [[{{Inuyasha}} Tessaiga]] as a reward for an online quest, but instead we got [[ReplacementScrappy Tenebra]] instead. The stats are the same, but aesthetically the Tenebra just don't compare.
** YourMileageMayVary about the design.

* UnfortunateImplications: Please tell me that this troper is not the only one who noticed that the black furred felynes are the only ones who are outright hostile and attempt to steal your stuff all the time, while the white furred felynes are pretty nice until someone smacks one.
** Well there's also friendly "black furred Felyne"/Melynx in villages/cities if that makes you feel any better.

* ChaoticGood: Your Hunter character, at least in Tri's offline mode. In the story, he's willing to defy Guild regulations, ignore direct orders, and risk his career as a Hunter in order to [[spoiler:save Moga Village from the Ceadeus, despite the Ceadeus being an Elder Dragon usually fought with armies, and in spite of the recent Guild order condemning Moga Village and ordering its evacuation]].

** Hunters can get mini-size Awesome moments whenever they can kill off the monsters either really quickly OR with a weapon that most people would advise you NOT to use - [[TehDashing1 This Troper]] knocked off High Rank Tigrex back in Freedom 2 with Kirin DS, which were horribly underpowered and had their upgrade path broken then.

*** If you're playing MHF then god bless you won't meet [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN24STb8hEw a Rajang with red aura.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwb279vbQc Suddenly the normal Rajang (or any other monsters) looks pale in comparison.]] [[Understatement INSANE]] speed, hitbox and attack power that simply murders the whole party in no time.

* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Hate Monster Hunter]]: It sells wildly in Japan, but is niche in America.

* WorldOfBadass: Well...this game essentially has two parties. The giant, ancient, powerful [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] and [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragons]] that walk the land and destroy whatever comes in their way and their hunters, who actually manage to beat these monstrous creatures with wit, skill and sheer determination. It's further emphasized with the use of RedBaron for the wyverns and DescriptionPorn for the items, to make sure you have an idea just what kind of beasts you are dealing with.

* {{Waggle}}: One of the more heavily criticized changes in ''Tri'', despite the inclusion of a more conventional control scheme.

** [[JurassicPark Jhoassic Park]], [[GIJoe G.I. Jhooooooooooooooooooooooooo]], and [[BreathWeapon Halijhosis]]. Named for Deviljho, who will fuck your shit up.

* FetishFuel (Lots of the female armors, but the Kirin set takes the cake.)
** FetishFuelStationAttendant: More precise definition of the Kirin set: Medium-high ZettaiRyouiki, BareYourMidriff, WhiteHairedPrettyGirl or [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Boy]] with a small horn on top, DetachedSleeves and comes with a small tail accessory. Oh and the only thing covering the torso is a tiny jacket with a sash-like cloth around the chest and a ''loincloth''. It's no wonder that this set shows up in {{Doujinshi}} material more than any other.

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Ever wondered who'd win in a fight between Tigrex and Nargacuga? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWhpST_WBGY Now you know.]]