#molten tigrex

[wide-margins]

MOLTEN TIGREX FOR MH WILDS OR I WILL EXPLODE ON THE SPOT!!

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[sentientballofpeas]

Hey everyone! I drew a molten tigrex poorly.

Will post more soon.

[rubrofuscus]

finally beat this asshole

fucking took me forever

doesn't help that soulseer is much much harder than this prick who is up next on the chopping block

[istormortis]

Starting off my deviant/Rare/extreme monstie set while I wait for set 3 to come in!

Some of the designs are done other’s are in a WIP stage but I’ll be posting them along when I get them done :D

[compassion-of-a-lightner]

Started this doodle a little over a month back when I was trying to get things "out", left it nearly finished (for what that's worth at my skill level) and decided to just finish the lovely guy today.

I sketched out a couple poses before settling as I found it incredibly difficult to present what I had envisioned. By the end I settled on this snoozin' on his side approach.

Molten Tigrex is undeniably one of my favorite monsters in all of monhun.

So it turned out when I was feeling at my worst and wanted to get thoughts- any thoughts at all- out, after a few pieces I decided to just put out something I enjoy. Something positive, to me.

Considering how simple he can appear on paper, when you were "there" progressing through a new monhun and tackling him he felt like an incredible achievement of what monhun's systems could do to make a fun fight.

Namely, I think of Molten Tigrex whenever I think of how much older monhuns created "organic phases" to each fight.

For a lot of players who primarily experienced Monhun through Iceborne the idea of "phases" in monhun has a very different connotation.

Now-a-days it's natural to think of phases in monhun the same way you'd think of them in an RPG encounter or an MMO fight, namely, because that's what they often are now.

In older monhun phases weren't so often pre-defined, and instead phases were born from the integrated energy and aggression mechanics that each monster was made to follow.

These are mechanics that have not died off, and the terms within will sound extremely familiar because of that. Enrage. Exhaustion. Un-enraged.

Very simple ideas, so simple that in (as of typing) modern monhuns (Ice/Sun) it's easy to ignore these states almost entirely, only ever paying attention if a specific monster has a specific gimmick in a state (like Rajang's differing immunities to traps depending on state).

This is in part because modern monhun is undeniably faster, so why slow down to appreciate these details when all it means is "dodge faster sometimes"? With the added mobility of our hunters, and not just with our legs but our newfound ability to easily use items or sharpen without 30 miles of safe space around you, you don't NEED to focus on such things as much.

But it's also because modern monhuns have incorporated a few mechanics that have nearly deleted these states from the game, primarily Iceborne's clutch claw introducing a means to perma-enrage monsters, thus deleting 2 out of the 3 states you'd ever see that monster in.

In the older games these things were slightly more important- though I won't go lying saying they were something you were 100% dialed into 24/7, just that it wasn't uncommon for you to take a mental note if they were enraged, standard, or exhausted before you used an item- for your own safety.

This created a natural phasing to fights where you could "generally feel" if the monster was enraged or exhausted even if you weren't dialed in, unlike later titles where you just know they are enraged and you're swinging constantly anyway so who cares lol

Molten REALLY took advantage of this by making you really feel his different states.

When the fight begins he is cumbersome, slow, borderline asleep and just nipping at whatever is irritating him.

And when he's enraged he's a full power steam engine firing on all cylinders as he explodes into your personal space the second you lower your guard.

I always really liked how he took a built in "vibe" that monster hunter had developed over many years and cranked it to 11. Instead of having a gut notion of what state the monster was in just due to what actions you were naturally taking- you were FULLY AWARE of what state this mad fucker was in and I loved that.

Great monster.

Good to ramble about that for a bit.

[damnwyverngems]

Official render of Molten Tigrex from Monster Hunter Stories 2 

Kinship Skill：Rock Smash

[katyvern]

Hybrid of Molten Tigrex and Quetzalcoatl making Molten Quetzarex!

[pooka-dragon]

Got not one

Not two

BUT THREE MOLTEN TIGREXS IN ONE RUN!!