This is an Ajarakan Appreciation post.    

At first I thought Ajarakan was super lame when it was shown off. It felt pretty boring and uninteresting especially when we Saw Rompopolo and Nu Udra but oh my. 

I’m currently doing an armour set collection run where I’m collecting every monsters armour set for the hunter and the cat as well as 2 weapons. And I started the Ajarakan grind and holy lord I underestimated how amazing he is. 

For having an uninteresting design he makes up for in fight. Fighting a 4 star strength Ajarakan that can 3 shot you is ridiculously fun, his aggressive movements and insane attacks are extremely fun to play against along with his use of the pipes across the oilwell. 

But his ecology is also so good too, I love his intimidation display of clacking his tail across his copper carapace causing green sparks to fly off. And his turf wars are just so damn good. I love that against Rompopolo he understands that Rompopolo’s tail and sacks are its main for of defense and he decides to lift him off the ground so Rompopolo can’t defend its self and pops the sacks to release the poison. It’s such a creative way of letting Ajarakan show off its intelligence. 

I also love with the Nu Udra turf war Ajarakan uses his speed to get atop Nu Udra thinking it’s safe to attack without the tentacles in the way and even though it’s proven wrong I love that Ajarakan has an idea and tries to apply it. 

This weird fire metal monkey is honest to god an amazing monster and is easily in my top five for best monsters introduced in Gen 6. 

Never been more happy to be wrong about a monster