The Evolution of Alatreon in Monster Hunter (SERIES FINALE) - Heavy Wings 

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Gonna miss this series. It's been great.

One thing that I will definetly say Good looking armor.

Can't believe the series is coming to its end

I have several things I want to say. A) This series is one of the few that really scratched the itch I had for a greater understanding of how the monsters work, not just through ecology, but through gameplay. I appreciate that you made it because you felt similar. B) Getting this out of the way before the eventual Eschaton video, I think the main problem with it was that even if you met the threshold, it gave you a second check to know when to heal on time, something you wouldn't know how to do without trial and error. A deeply frustrating way to test something, specifically against boss fights that take the better part of an hour. So if you were new to the fight, you basically got fucked for being new, not for not paying attention. C) Alatreon in Iceborne specifically, as I'm sure we have all heard before, is a victim of that game's deemphasis on prep work. And while I might make something of my own on this one day, I want to put it out there for others now. I don't think the old games were particularly good at it either. You basically had to kill a monster before figuring out how to properly fight it, and the games weren't always the best at indicating what tools you needed, and if you did, how to get them. If they were even accessible at the time. If only there was a system introduced where you could track a monster to get more information on it, a way to plan ahead before you started a hunt. And if only there was a system introduced where you had tools that could be used multiple times throughout a hunt without having to run off somewhere to get materials to make more every time you ran out, cause you only could ever have a limited amount. Long winded mechanics discussion aside, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. I hope my ramblings are seen as a me wanting to engage with the work on the same level it engages with us. In the most non parasocial way possible.

This series has been one of my favorite pieces of monster hunter community videos ever, and the fact this format of study hasn't become a staple in the broader community is a shame. Thank you so much for taking up that mantle, it's the kind of work that makes a fandom strong!

Tackling Alatreon for the first time back in Tri, I was some scrub with Baggi armor and a Gobul LS. I did my best playing support by paralyzing and severing the tail while the pros broke the horns. Also, I appreciate you using the MH:Stories desert battle theme during the overview for the whole series. Absolute banger of a track.

Thanks for this series

Alatreon is a monster I’m absolutely looking forward to fighting. I haven’t played iceborne yet and I never got far enough in Gen to fight him, and my Gen ult playthrough isn’t that far either. But still I’m excited for when I do reach him

An epic ending for a series that has accompanied me for many months thank you for all these videos of great quality that made me fall in love with monsters that I didnt even fight⚔️❤

16:57 Thanos 🤝🏻 Heavy Wings Fine I will do it myself

All good things must come to an end. Thank you Heavy Wings for these videos.

Glad to be of help with this one! Would be nice if I could kill Tri Alatreon as fast as I can in Iceborne, lol.

Thank you for all the work you''ve done on this series, it's been an interesting ride !

Can't wait to see whats instore in the future!

Finally! The best black dragon!

Thanks for the fun series friend. Now all I have to do is actually fight this guy

I think he might just be the single best fight in mainline MH. He’s so dynamic and really feels like a final exam on the game’s mechanics, especially in Iceborne, where it feels like he tests your knowledge of the different elders. I used to think the nova was detrimental to the fight, but it’s super manageable. I just wish it buffed him rather than outright OHKOing you, that would definitely make it feel less cheap. But yeah, fantastic design, lovely equipment, and a killer theme to boot - an all around 10/10 guy, I think! This was a super fun series, it was great seeing your script-writing skills improve with every episode too! See you in 6th gen because Lagiacrus and underwater combat are totally definitely going to return! Source: yeah

Iceborne Alatreon is a perfect fight in my eyes. Embodies the tenants of MH while exacerbating it to its limits for a Black Dragon tier threat. I love how mechanically complex it is. It’s a real puzzle to beat. I love how the hit zones each have varied elemental weakness values. The forelimbs take the most, while the head takes the second most. If you want to deal as much elemental damage as possible, you can target the forelimbs, but that opens you up to extending the fight longer because you didn’t deal enough raw to kill him within a 3rd cycle. The fight itself requires you to master it. Be aggressive and adaptive. Simply dodging Alatreon is hard enough, but also attacking it effectively is a real challenge. Alatreon's attacks seem to cover for the homes in its defence from the prior attack, so the player is required to constantly be aware of openings.

Great Monster to end the series on! My personal favourite. For a lot of these monsters i felt just like you've described in the end. I gained a deeper appreciation and just in general found it very interesting to see how these Monsters have changed over the years. When you just follow the games regularly, you tend not to notice the little changes, or just forget. Thank you for this amazing series. Now i can look forward to the "Benefits of Loading Screens" Video 👀 Lastly, you didnt seem to mention your favourite Alatreon iteration, so i'll just take this Chance to Inform everyone that the 3rd gen Versions were the unrivaled peak of our Blazing Black Fiend. But that's ofc just my humble, right opinion. Have a good start into into the week, Hunters

Alatreon is my favorite fight in iceborne. Not even because of his mechanics, but because it's satisfying either dodging or being right outside of his attacks, more so than the other monsters in the game.

Good to end on a high note with this series, can’t wait to see what else you got up your sleeve!

Very nice, I'm excited to see where the channel will go in the future

Thank you for all the hard work on this series. It was always a really nice watch :)! Hopefully MH wilds give us enough evolution of the classic monsters to guarantee an update on them!

I’ve really enjoyed this series, thanks for making it! I’ll be hanging around to see whatever comes next

Thank you so much man, I loved your series, I hope you will come back with something extremely interesting like this series

15:20 man . i thought i was going insane after fighting him so much , glad i wasn't the only one that noticed

One thing you got to give to him is the personality. I am sad to see this series go though.

Great video! Great series! Great content creator! Amazing work bro

Thank you for this, Heavy Wings

Alatreon was in almost every Portable game since he first appeared in Gen 3, both Portable 3rd and Generations Ultimate (Portable 4th) feature Alatreon, Rise (Portable 5th) is the first Portable game that skiped him. His "Counterpart" Amatsu on the other hand was in every Portable game since his first apperance in Portable 3rd and wasn't featured in any nummbered title.

Thanks for making this video! I’m still fairly new to this series ( only started 5 years ago with Rise, how time flies!). I also wanted to know what made each installment of a Monster so unique in each generation especially after playing Rise, World, and GU! And thanks to you I have a bigger appreciation for the MH community and those in it! ❤ Until the Wild hunt begins, happy hunting!

Alatreon is glorious, at first i hated the DPS check but that was just a skill issue on my side, I persevered and now it's become one of my favorite fights! It's like a dance and incredibly exiting! Thank you fir this series, I'll miss it!

This series has been a blast to watch. Thank you for all the time and effort you put in to these videos. Can’t wait to see what you do next. Until next time, fellow scrublord!

I just found out your channel and I'm sad to see this was a series finale lmao Still amazing work! I'll be sure to check your other content whenever I have time too

Oh boy, great video as always

About Alatreon's new roars, when it uses flame-based attacks, you can hear, before the attacks go off, the same sound that a female hunter makes (with the voice selection Cantaperme uses for his hunter Anna) when knocked away. When it does water-based attacks, there is a noise like bird singing just before it splits water. All of that, in the middle of the synthetic/robotic sounds, was probably intentional to make Alatreon's new roars as much unsetting and unnatural as possible. An indication that Alatreon is more than just another Elder Dragon. In dragon active, Alatreon deliberately uses more the opposite elements to its previous active to catch the hunters who use fire resistant armors against fire active, which are likely weak to ice and water (same for ice resistant armors against ice active, which are weak against fire): If Alatreon was in fire active, it will perform more ice-based attacks after it goes in dragon active and it will only do ice, water and dragon-based attacks while flying in dragon active. The opposite if Alatreon was in ice active: it will prefer fire-based attacks once in dragon active and it will do only fire, water (because he can ignite the puddles he leaves with fire attacks) and dragon-based attacks while flying in dragon active. Alatreon can swap from ice active to fire active without going to dragon active (in the cutscene), so dragon active is likely a required preliminary step for Escaton Judgment (dragon active is basically Alatreon building up power for Escaton Judgment). And given how all of Alatreon's elemental attacks are varied, precise and deliberate (like the fire ball splitting into three columns to catch would-be-dodgers or all of Alatreon's physical attacks having dragon element to shut down the hunter's element so they can't shut down Escaton Judgment), Iceborne Alatreon is basically one who is fully in control of its elemental powers, contrary to the elementally unstable Alatreon of previous games. Sad that this is the last of the Evolution series. Hopefully, it will come back in full force once MHWilds hits (Akantor and Ukanlos are long due for a big comeback). An evolution series about the weapons would be a challenging, but interesting idea.

As someone who's practically played only the 5th gen games this series has been a cool way to learn about the rest of the series. While it's a shame it's over, I'm interested to see what other, more specific, videos you'll make. I loved the siege monster, under water combat, and primordial malzeno vids. A vid about escaton judgement sounds interesting, perhaps it could be about other one hit kill moves in the series or controversial monster attacks? Even if it's just about escaton I'm fine, good to be focused on a particular point instead of spreading yourself thin. The mention of a rampage vid could be neat too, tho I'd imagine the need to do rampage quests would suck. Excited to see what comes next!

Iceborne alatreon is one of the absolute best fights in the series for me and I will always stand by the opinion that there is nothing wrong with escaton judgment and the people who where crying about it where just baby's with skill issues that needed to man up and adapt or just accept there are things in the game too hard for them, cuz I love challenges like alatreon, I will however say that his MR entry requirements where way too low and was setting people up to fail, he's absolutely something you should be fighting at MR 100 not MR 24

bro this was the coolest elder dragon video you made! great ending for the series! but what sword was he using in iceborne?

Who would win: A calamitus elemental nuke or a single piece of jerky?

Thank you so much for the series! I was waiting for it every week even for monsters I fought countless times before. I'm glad it's ending on a high note with Alatreon (a monster I am actually trying to beat rn). I am wondering how things will change when wilds releases how our view of certain monsters will change just like how people changed their opinion about Kushala when rise came out.

Alatreon had arguably the best remake in the entirety of the series, the mechanics, the theme, the balanced difficulty, and the attack patterns/hit boxes are all perfected with his fifth gen remake. Imo: alatreon's fight, mechanics, hit boxes and everything else is monster hunters monster recipe perfected and mastered in every single way.

ICEBORNE Alatreon is probably my favorite Alatreon, he's challenging and fun, the elemental mechanic is unique and it forces players to truly prepare and optimized accordingly, which is ironic because alot of soo called wannabe veterans always lecture new players that they want to bring back preparations again before hunting. It's truly a shame that those soo called wannabe Veterans hate Iceborne Alatreon to the point of review bombing the game on steam.

Pro Tip for Iceborne: Grind him until you can build his LBG, make a set with both fire and ice damage, load up your pouch with fire and ice ammo, never worry about horn breaks or switching elements ever again 😅

Way to end the series with a giant bang....Escaton Judgement is practically the biggest bang there is (Though Safi'jiva's Sapphire Star may already have that title)

Fire series

Im gonna miss this series !!!

Woah a finale?! This will be a good one. Gonna miss it

Hey nice videos, I'm only discovered your chanel like a week ago so haven't watched many. I have an idea for a video, I know evolution is over, but a video about the evolution of Mounting monsters would be cool, cheers.

Forgot to mention the ice statues can prematurely explode if hit with its electric attacks, great video though!

Evolution of gypceros would be hype though. But sad to see the series go, hopefully it will let you focus on making more larger videos though!

Oh boy here he is. The elemental desaster, alatreon. Iceborn really get him a good uppgrade. However the escaton judgement i a gimick is something i don't want in wilds. Very curious if we will ever see another black dragon in wilds...

Astera Jerky is great for iceborne alatreon. I only got into the series in the 5th gen, but ive been playing 3U on the 3ds and i hope he and i can clash once again. This time with none of that elemental nuke nonsense.

I'm surprised you didn't mention this at all, part of the reason why Alatreon's Icon in the old game are a question mark was because of it's unstable element and seclusive behavior when it was spotted they thought it was another Elder Dragon like Kushala and Teostra, you could also say this was the reason Alatreon borrow a lot of their moveset. Disregarding the official trailer, this mistaken for another Elder Dragon thing you can also see in its first introduction Iceborne, where it will come shoot ice beam and freeze the arena making you think this is a Velkhana it even shows up briefly as silhouette and they do look kinda similar. But of course it is not a Velkhana, it immediately switch to Fire Element and burns down the whole arena, revealing itself for the very first time in Monster Hunter not just in-game universe but also the franchise history as Alatreon, The Blazing Black Dragon. This is also mean canonically this the first time the world see Alatreon and able to document it hence why the icon was no longer a question mark. Honestly build up always stood out to me and always make me thing that was the original intention before they decide to make a whole trailer for it

Damn I'm going to miss this series. At least it ends with my favorite Monster.

Dragon is not the worst element against him. His elemental hitzones for dragon while he's in fire/ice active are just restricted to his front legs, same with every other element except fire/ice but they still get a huge dropoff anywhere but his legs. Dragon is, if anything, the most consistent element to use for Alatreon solo are dragon since the best dragon weapons are Alatreon's, with massive element.

So I ain't the only one to hear the "hey"?

I always found it odd that they decided to introduce this whole horn breaking gimmick for World's Alatreon. Having started with 3U, I knew the horns were valuable and everything (to the players at least), but I figured it wasn't any sort of reference to that. Rather, it just seemed like a rather arbitrary choice. I had no idea it was calling back to his initial appearance in Tri. I guess this is a good showcase of why it's good to experience monsters across different games, even within the same generation. Fighting him in 3U and Gen/GU, I also found him to be pretty boring, because as a SnS user I'm essentially screwed out of a lot of damage when he decides to go into flight mode. But I have a feeling if I fought him in Tri, it would've clicked a lot more for me. Being able to delay flight mode is already cool, but disabling it entirely? That sounds awesome.

I'll miss this series.❤

15:25 So I weren't mental after all

worth noting that alatreon receives alot more elemental damage through his forearms and and head especially the head

The name Escaton Judgement goes extremely hard

Getting Skypiercers also sucks in GU because its a coin flip if you manage to break the horns where you are rewarded with the items or not

Iceborne Alatreon is the only one I fought and I love this fight!

I will always remember people's reaction to the april fools day video

17:35 how many are even willing to be reminded about this thing's existence? 😅

not me tearing up towards the end

Ah yes, my unreacheable goal. This guy made me quit IB because I couldn't beat him solo (and Safi), so I was looking forward to face him in 3U but I seem unable to solo the Mark of a Hero village quest, which is the last one needed to beat him. Sad but proud moment for the series finale, tho I do wonder if this is the end of just monster focused videos or "History of MH" videos as a whole? IIRC you mentioned a history of invader monsters once, maybe there's other topics too?

i absolutely despised alatreon in P3rd because of how huge he was and how much he moved, I could only ever beat him in a group. I had no idea you could suppress flight mode though, I should give him another try and learn which attacks lower his head to my level. I’ve seen speedruns of this guy and they are awesome, especially when you see the player head snipes every one of their attacks.

a cool video idea would be a complitaion of all the unlockable monsters in all the games. secrets and such.

Are you ready to do the whole series again when wilds come out?

I hope we someday in the future we get a history of final bosses.

I had to do a double take to make sure this wasn't a late April Fool's prank

I want All monster evolution video. GIVE US MORE 😖

Gypceros evolution video for April Fools Day!

thank God for iceborne alatreon I was never a fan of the monster before then, even if EJ is a bit stupid with the healing check the other additions make up for it

8:20 slight correction on the ice chunks : they turn red if they got hit by one of Alatreon's thunder attacks Also, up to 4 times can escaton judgement be suppress? does someone has confirmation on that info? I've managed to suppress it 3 times when I was at my peak, you can tell me that I lack skill but in my many times I've never manage it to reach the fourth time

Sad that the series is ending. Its been good tho.

Once Wilds releases next year, lets what changes the monsters appearing will recieve

Hopefully will see an evolution of Tobi kadachi in the future if you ever choose to revive the series

You technically can stop Escaton by outright killing him before he does it. It's definitely not easy, though. Also that "hey" in the roar wasn't there in the trailer for him, or even in the cutscene introducing him. Did they just... make a mistake with his roars in actual gameplay, and not bother fixing that?

So you will not make a Nibelsnarf video after he gets the Amatsu treatment in Wilds?

Fuck that. Still trying to hunt that shit.

My man gypceros catching a stray lmao

No evolution of Dodogama? Dislike, unsub, report (? Jokes aside, that was a fun ride, good content all the time.

What is the next video gonna be?

Heavy I wanna make a request.....could you play through MH 1?

I'm going to miss this series to and i'm sad that espinas never got a evolution video but it is okay pres b in the coments for the series ❤🎉😢🙂

The only problem with its dps check is with other monsters you fail and they get stronger or do ultimate attack. with alatreon you fail you die Is he hard for me? No I beat him solo in fire and ice with it dying with switch axe. Also why was people so mad about alatron dps check and not kulve taroth or safi if you fail those the quest just ends Every monster is a dps check anyways you have a time limit to kill them and I see nobody talking about that. Also can you talk about weapons evolution or something?

fought him in Worls and in generation and man, the old one sucks

Do updates as each new game is released

In world I think the ice pillars turn red and explode if they're hit with any lightning attack

Justice for Gypceros!

nonoNONONONO I CAN'T UNHEAR THE HEY

GYPCEROS EVOLUTION OR WE RIOT

watched a heavy wings video just watch him roast me how sad

Finale?..... I don't believe it

Don’t end it please

I do not accept this there are still more monsters