imagine playing Monster Hunter without the fun | Zenith Akura Vashimu 

I love this guy. The design, the fact it's a crab, the weapons. However, it's a game where you hunt monsters, and when you have to hunt this monster, it really REALLY doesn't want you to. This is Zenith Akura Vashimu, what happens when the MH Devs decide they want you to sweat and suffer. God, it's brilliant. Enjoy the video! x

"A insectoid monster that looks powerful is very refreshing, compsred to the spiders we've recived in the mainline games." Seltas Queen: :(

If the main MH team makes another scorpion, they'll probably do something original. If they do bring back both Akuras, they'll make it more reasonable, i'm sure.

I’m loving the series! Getting so much fascinating info about this monsters every week feels like a blessing! The editing is great, the jokes are funny, and the intros are awesome. Getting to meet this monsters in English is already luxury enough, having them introduced with such love is, again, nothing short of a blessing!

Holy fuck, thats a tail cut if ive ever seen one. Ive always been dissapointed on some tail cuts just being a very small portion, and only a few being a fairly sized, so it was so satisfying to see a tail cut THAT big. Besides that, im so glad youre doing this series. Always been so interested in frontier, but never got the chance to actually experience it. Tysm for undertaking this project and satiating my curiosity

I am in fact enjoying this series. Also the jokes in this video made me laugh out loud. 10/10 video lots of suffering.

Enjoying every episode as I've been playing through frontier for the first time. Also, appreciate the djent/metalcore rifts in the beginning montage haha

I've been really enjoying these videos because they're effectively a glimpse into what awaits me 200 hours from now when I finally get to them in Frontier. Despite all the warnings signs, I'm even looking forward to trying out Zenith Akura here. Maybe I just don't have the full "appreciation" for its fight because I've never done it, but I like the idea that it has this overwhelming power to kick your ass, and you have to work extra hard to take away that power, but when you do you're rewarded for it with a monster that's had some of its most dangerous abilities nerfed or taken away. It feels like the concept of fighting monsters underwater except cranked up to 11 (as expected of Frontier.)

This series is awesome and I genuinely look forward to it every week

On the one hand, his tail is easier to cut than the base species. On the other hand, he's still not fun to actually fight.

huge fan of this series! I'm glad to be able to vicariously experience Frontier through this. Keep up the great work! :D

I'm loving this series a lot! Can't wait for the next video

I really love your videos, I only just realized after watching every one of your frontier videos i hadn't been subscribed. you've got a watcher as long as you keep putting out this content, its legit great as someone that always wanted to play frontier back in the second and third gen days to see what the game became

I've really liked the series so far. Hope you stick with it going foward👍

Waking up knowing i'll need 3 top tails from this guy for my support set

This is a really good series. I am starting to learn more and more about a game I have interest in but can't really interact with, which is great.

Zeniths were insane to get a single clear on... This brings back really warm memories but absolutely terrifying trauma.

I can see Vashimu inspiring many folks to employ cheese strategies

This series continues to slap, dude. Keep it up!

Great video as always! This is the single Zenith I've avoided fighting because it's terrifying LOL. Crystalblight normally sucks, but wow did they a number on it's Zenith version lmao. Thanks to your video, I feel a lot more informed and a bit more confident so I may attempt it in the future. Anyways, can't wait to see more of this series. I've been loving it so far!

This was the first zenith i ever beat solo and it almost drove me mad. my favourite challenge against this guy is the try not to smash your face into your desk when getting zenith paralysis and crystalblight challenge seriously, crystalblight combined with zenith paralysis has to be the most evil combo ever

I just found this channel in time for this

Yotube recommended me this out of the blue. Very nice format. Don't know much about Frontier monsters so this is great!

This monster always looked so cool to me, and you can do a lot with its design, i really want to see it back

One of the things that made the thing so annoying in the original iteration was another step for the tail cut, one that thankfully they got rid of in the Z version: Blood Color. After doing all breaks you had to ground the thing to a certain HP threshold and break the horn to flip it, you miss it or kill it accidentally? Start again.

The batshit crazy stuff in this game really makes me want Wilds to be an MMO

i love how in a couple of the clips you get tagged by the paralysis spray, and then he just decides to keep doing it over and over again, essentially locking you in place and then ends it with a pin after spraying you like 3 times in a row. actually disgusting

I am a hammer user in frontier, and zenith para fucks me over alot

In my server, the OQ to get those advanced hiden items for the Bow and Magnet Spike (my main weapon) unfortunately requires you to hunt a Z4 Vashimu under a very short time limit, and the required subquest is to cut his tail off.

I need that boi in monster hunter wilds or im gonna commit war crime

1: It's uncommon knowledge that lingering paralysis has some rather hilarious glitches that can (sometimes) potentially save you from entering the void. One of them which makes you cheat death altogether. No I am not kidding. 2: As a crystallization masochist, Z Akura is fucking awesome. That and it has KICK. ASS. GEAR.

W vid again cer

We need this in MH Wilds (maby not that extreme tho😅)

Hey uhm just some tips. You can just use 2 slots on your armor to just add Crystal Negate skill to your set from a deco available early game at HR4-5. Almost all armor at zenith GR200+ already has 15 slots easily. Another thing is you can just use SNS or Lance for both impact and cutting with decent damage for example. There is also Adaptation skills. There is actually a lot of easy counters to his crystal even just wearing a single part of Shagaru Magala gear instantly makes you crystal immune. Hope this helps people

Did it's weapons and armor even justify all this torture? Also great job on the series, I'll be watching the rest of the future ones.

I started Frontier a month ago and hunted the regular version 3 times. Out of the 3 hunts, I got hit by crystalization once which was an instant cart since I was ill prepared. I haven't hunted another afterwards.

What do you think of making the same but with Deviant monsters

I will be honest - I do not agree with it's visual design being amazing. (and it's gonna be a long one so sorry, if you don't like reading or you don't care to read it that's fine) In terms of visual design, Akuras have a treatment quite similar to some other Frontier designs that I do not enjoy. In terms of base body, it's very close to regular scropion, IRL scorpions are generally quite buff for something related to spiders, so his black coloring and intimidating look do not really stay away far from real animal and I do enjoy that. However it seems it didn't stay far away enough from it. On one hand, yes I see the changes in leg structure, claws and face but the black color could do a little bit of work OR at least have some good match with the crystals. It either the issue of not changing enough OR... ... the main issue of this design - there is a very acceptable monster under that crystal thrash disposal. Crystals generaly in games are quite uninteresting way of making something fantasy like - they very often are not connected to actual attacks and powers of the monster in game and monster himself does not use qualities of crystals in their fight beside the visuals (some explosions with some Crystal effect on top). Kuarusepusu if I remember correctly, that is also in Frontier, uses crystals to deflect light - an example how to use properties of material you use on your monster design in it's fight design and it also looks much better designed visually. In terms of Akura, they not only do not match the base monster, they are also easly replacable. What I mean is, a lot of her attacks could be made by an actual body part and not magical crystal mumbo jumbo. An exploding crystal on a tail could be a sack of some sort, a giant venom gland she leaves like Bee leaves her stinger and same goes for attacks I saw from her so far. I absolutely hate that they made a scorpion only to base it's entire attack pattern on very unrelated item attached to that scorpion. You can tell me i'm wrong, because hell, I didn't play Frontier, I am most likely not allowed to have an opinion here, but just remember, I don't judge the fight, I judge the visual design I see on my screen... and I think they could do better for a scorpion of this power for Frontier and Monster Hunter in general. Edit: So in this video you can actually see the Akura without most of her crystals and she looks much better and more well desinged just from these few shots. You can also see much better her body structure Without them and that it she is actually much more original than she seems in terms of design, triple claws and such.

My brothers favorite monsters are chameleos and kezu mine is gypceros and I love the Akuras also we play blue and black in magic maybe we like not having fun xD

mh wilds best give us a damn scorpion

Zenith Akura ain’t even that bad of a fight, you also forgot that the tail cut can only be done at the third topple. Not that it can be done by then, the third flip is the only time the tail can be cur

Trepang2 ost in the intro Good stuff I feel like theres always a dev or two that "has a few bad days" in each game. But damn, this thing is the worst I've seen.

I dont see the problem with this monster being a carapaceon. Some people are like "scorpions are arachnids, not crustaceans". Yeah, but this is not the real world, it's MH, and they decided this guy was a crustacean that evolved to look like what we know as a scorpion, and that's fine. Also, this guy is Skarner

Seltas Queen is proof a scorpion tail monster could work. just no crystals please Capcom

Do you have a song list for your videos?

I wonder why they decided to make it a carapaceon instead of a wholly distinct monster type. Scorpions are arachnids, not crustaceans after all.. Great series btw, I always look forward to watching it.

I’d like the Akura family if their status effect wasn’t the most groan-inducing, unfun mechanic in the series. And Garuba Daora, too.

Song name? (Darude Sandstorm?)

I love the look of this Zenith, but I have no desire to fight it at all at this rate. It genuinely looks completely unfun to fight if you don't have the gear to just deal with its status nonsense, and I hate monsters that require you to deal with their nonsense through armor skills alone. Crystalblight is enough of a pain point for me to begin with, throwing Paralysis But Worse on top of that is a complete pass for me. Feels like they put everything that sucks about status in one monster and sent it out the door. Super long range and fast attacks that inflict two statuses on you, a one hit KO, a pin, all stuff that's a recipe of Fuck You For Thinking About Trying To Kill This Thing. Is the gear you can make from it even worth it???

So scary