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* SNKBoss: Behemoth functions less like a creature and more like a raid boss, and not approaching it like one is almost guaranteed to end in failure. Its damage is through the roof compared to any other monster, its attack range is utterly massive, it will actively begin healing if at least one player isn\\\'t fighting it, and it possesses the only guaranteed OneHitKO move in the franchise. and that\\\'s just \\\'\\\'Normal\\\'\\\' Behemoth. Extreme Behemoth takes the already ludicrous difficulty level and ratchets it up even higher. Faster casting times, Defense Down on its Meteors, Arch-Tempered Flash Pod immunity, multiple Ecliptic Meteor castings (the final phase alone has \\\'\\\'\\\'three\\\'\\\'\\\' to deal with) that only give a single Comet for cover, and the second-largest health pool in the base game, all wrapped up in an insanely tight 25 minute fight. Oh, and did we mention that its third phase is a \\\'\\\'\\\'DPS check?\\\'\\\'\\\' Fail to do enough damage in five minutes, and Behemoth will cast Ecliptic Meteor without any Comets. And if your team somehow manages to survive being carted? It\\\'ll keep doing this until its health for the phase has been depleted. Many solo players and Time Attack groups wrote Extreme Behemoth off as impossible, and even those who succeeded often did so with only seconds to spare.
I once deleted it because SNKBoss is for fights that break the CompetitiveBalance, and there\\\'s no such thing as CompetitiveBalance in a [=PvE=] game like \\\'\\\'Monster Hunter\\\'\\\'. [=Vsquared_42=] has vehemently readded it, and now is doing the same with [=dragonfire5000=].
[=Vsquared_42=] seems to have forgotten the last paragraph:
\\\'\\\'While this trope primarily applies to fighting games, it can also apply to non-fighting games, provided they are similarly competitive and have similar ways of ensuring Competitive Balance. A Racing game, for example, may have a champion with an absurdly tricked out car and a knowledge of the track that combine to give it an advantage no mater which vehicle/racer you choose. If a game is non-competitive, such as platformers, RPG\\\'s, etc., bosses are not considered SNK bosses no matter how unfair they are. [[ThatOneBoss There are other tropes for that]].\\\'\\\'
As it stands, Extreme Behemoth is not an example because it\\\'s still a monster and is in no way comparable to the PlayerCharacter.
* SNKBoss: Behemoth functions less like a creature and more like a raid boss, and not approaching it like one is almost guaranteed to end in failure. Its damage is through the roof compared to any other monster, its attack range is utterly massive, it will actively begin healing if at least one player isn\\\'t fighting it, and it possesses the only guaranteed OneHitKO move in the franchise. and that\\\'s just \\\'\\\'Normal\\\'\\\' Behemoth. Extreme Behemoth takes the already ludicrous difficulty level and ratchets it up even higher. Faster casting times, Defense Down on its Meteors, Arch-Tempered Flash Pod immunity, multiple Ecliptic Meteor castings (the final phase alone has \\\'\\\'\\\'three\\\'\\\'\\\' to deal with) that only give a single Comet for cover, and the second-largest health pool in the base game, all wrapped up in an insanely tight 25 minute fight. Oh, and did we mention that its third phase is a \\\'\\\'\\\'DPS check?\\\'\\\'\\\' Fail to do enough damage in five minutes, and Behemoth will cast Ecliptic Meteor without any Comets. And if your team somehow manages to survive being carted? It\\\'ll keep doing this until its health for the phase has been depleted. Many solo players and Time Attack groups wrote Extreme Behemoth off as impossible, and even those who succeeded often did so with only seconds to spare.
I once deleted it because SNKBoss is for fights that break the CompetitiveBalance, and there\\\'s no such thing as CompetitiveBalance in a [=PvE=] game like \\\'\\\'Monster Hunter\\\'\\\'. [=Vsquared_42=] has vehemently readded it, and now is doing the same with [=dragonfire5000=].
[=Vsquared_42=] seems to have forgotten the last paragraph:
\\\'\\\'While this trope primarily applies to fighting games, it can also apply to non-fighting games, provided they are similarly competitive and have similar ways of ensuring Competitive Balance. A Racing game, for example, may have a champion with an absurdly tricked out car and a knowledge of the track that combine to give it an advantage no mater which vehicle/racer you choose. If a game is non-competitive, such as platformers, RPG\\\'s, etc., bosses are not considered SNK bosses no matter how unfair they are. [[ThatOneBoss There are other tropes for that]].\\\'\\\'
As it stands, Extreme Behemoth is not an example because it\\\'s still a monster and is in no way comparable to the PlayerCharacter.
