What is your favorite monster group in the franchise? Personally, mine is the Fated Four. I just love these four monsters and how unique they each feel.
We need a quest where you fight a giant vesion of one of them and just before you kill him he pukes a regular version of other of them and when you defeat that one he spits a mino version of the last one xd
The GOATed comp. Them and the other lower-tier monsters are the best. Not big, not fast, not strong, and have a silly gimmick or two, but you best believe they are ready to throw hands/claws with anything that moves at a moments notice.
I like to call it the Elder Level Monster Group that consists of non-Elder monsters that can contend on their power level.
So this group would include Rajang, Deviljho, Bazelgeuse, and Magnamalo, plus any others that can also content with actual Elders like the Metal Raths and Espinas. All of the ones I've mentioned either have turf wars against Elders (like Rajang, Deviljho, Espinas, and Magna), or have cutscenes of them fighting on equal footing against Elders (like Gold Rathian's Sunbreak intro of it bullying a Kushala, or a Bazel in Iceborne fighting against Ruiner Nergigante).
I wouldn't count Zinogre as part of that group for two reasons:
It was being ridden by Master Utsushi iirc, so one could argue it wouldn't fight Amatsu naturally
It was an Apex Zinogre, not a regular one. The Apex versions in Rise are significantly different and more powerful
Regular Zinogre itself we've seen fight other high ranking predatory monsters, but never an Elder and the one time (iirc) we see a Zinogre fight an Elder Level - which was against Scorned Magna in its Sunbreak intro - it loses.
Ah, must have forgotten. But even with that fact, it's still an Apex Zinogre, the original reply said "Zinogre". We have no shown feats that a regular Zinogre could take on Elders. Again, we see one losing to a Scorned Magna who has been showing fighting Elders, so that suggests a normal Zinogre would be placed under the Elder Level monsters and would just be a high ranking predator, like Rathalos, Astalos, and Tigrex.
Zinogre also entered his charged mode, and it was still struck down after one exchange. The one time Zinogre fights an Elder Level monster, it folds like cheap laundry after one attack. Unless we see a Zinogre straight up wrestling with an Elder Dragon or Elder Level monster without immediately dying, then it's staying a notch underneath monsters like (Scorned) Magnamalo.
This is coming from someone who hates Magnamalo, by the way. As much as I despise Magna, it's simply shown to be more powerful than Zinogre. And since the other Elder Levels have fought Elder Dragons or one another, that means they scale with each other, which means they are all also above Zinogre.
his colors and goes kiiind of hinted (also hinted in their armpit sets) but yeah I agree not as strong as magnamalo.
the trio was introduced way before rise/sunbreak so I didn’t count magna. the jp old hunters were so disappointed that they didn’t get to complete the trio back in world/icrborne because capcom had hard time with monsters like mizutsune.
was super happy that they’re united again in rise.
it is an actual trio in Japanese community. they were once the top three voted cover/flagship monsters in one of the popularity contest and then ppl realized they all having strong Japanese feel and kinda matches with some Japanese traditional job/class (geisha, ninja and samurai) then the title of ‘three stars of Japanese monsters’ were given to them. even yasunori acknowledged this title in an interview.
Yes, they are the Elder Dragon Trio from Dos. The Risens are more of a category of monsters than a group but, if you put Risen CG Valstrax and Risen Shagaru on the side, the Risen versions of the Elder Dragon Trio can be considered an alternative to the base one as well.
As groups, both this one and the Three Lords are absolutely fantastic. Probably would pick the Fated Four as they just represent their villages abd generations wonderfully.
They count as they are the Rare Species of the Raths Duo and I also like them (especially their Ecology cutscenes from Sunbreak where they respectively bully Bazelgeuse and Kushala Daora).
Honestly, the only monster group I actually enjoy fighting is the fated four, especially in MHGU. The fact that they match the village that their first quest is given in so well is just amazing.
Outside of the Fated Four, the Elder Trio, and couples, what groups are there?