Good comparison. I just wanted to note that the new spinning horn grind is actual frame-by-frame from Bloodbath Diablos' moveset in MHGU. It even has the same startup stance, but without the steam that bloodbath did.

I really like the Espinas' they've very quickly jumped to some of my fav monsters and I hope we can get other Frontier monsters in the mainline games.

What scares me the most is that hammers water strike can block the nuke intirely. No chip damage or anything.

Once again, thank you for this. Do hope we can get White Espinas for a comparison.

If I remember correctly, Blinking has a poison rain attack that was given to Lucent as part of its moveset (albeit heavily nerfed from its Frontier version)

He used to cause an meteor shower? What a shame that that didn’t get in. Still, he’s one of my favorites in Sunbreak.

Flaming has became one of my Favorite Monsters to Fight kinda Wish his Rare Species was added to have the Special Team Attack in the Arena Quests!

Flaming espinas is the best monster currently in sunbreak

I’m honestly scared of how white espinas might be like if brought back lmao

The meteor shower charge being absent makes the SB version noticeablely worse and less unique imo. Where Frontier's orange espinas with charge up more frequently and have more variety of charge moves he could pull, SB's is a nuke charge with an occasional follow up.

Me and my friends had some code words for what Espinas was gonna do back in Frontier. We used to call the walk into nuke the "Drunken Dad" in Frontier, but in Sunbreak we call it the "Poop Walk"

I like it over all and its a shame they didn't put the super charge nuke in but at the same time it was probably an executive desision to not put in.

6:07 More likely Bloodbath Diablos spinning attack

I like the subtle nods to other frontier moves How do you like flaming compared to the original orange Or in general

I sure am skilled aren't I!

Is likely they add moves from other monsters to make it stand out more since those aren´t planned to be introduce to the main series. Or if they do they might get new movesets. I like how Espinas stomps twice like an angry todler.

Flaming definitely has the move where he flies back after the three fireballs. I've seen it a couple of times.

It’s weird he didn’t get Buddy armor and never goes to the Sand Plains.

Too late now to call it the "Horn Spin"

You think A7 star afflicted mons get an afflicted Garangolm style super nova? Maybe Flaming will get his Hyper Ultra Greatsword lvl 3 Charge burst back, missed that thing tbh.

It’s so sad orange espinas got mega nerfed when he was made into flaming Espinas, it no longer scares me to even be tapped by him anymore. I can take hits fine, with orange Espinas I have to be very careful cause even in ZP gear he one shots to near one shots. And his attacks deal so much damage if standard guard without any specific guard skills it takes chunks off your health anyway

Iirc the pulsing green is unique to the Hard Core variant of Flaming Espinas in Frontier. Regular Flaming has more yellowy highlights, but they’re overall more orange in SB

8:24 LMAO????

waiting for the meteor adaptation in rise but sadly didn't get it, that move scared me when i hunting this monster even if i'm using halk pot for 70% dmg cut anyway is it just me or rise espi is slower compared to frontier espi?

personally I feel his circling horn grind attack is way closer to bloodbath's than anorupatisu's

I like sunbreak better, orange espinas have a lot of opening in frontier but he also loves to spam one shot shit. Yes its very easy to block and evade them, but youre bound to make mistakes sometimes, that's why true guts+status immunity is basically mandatory for comfy run. I also like flaming more because he simply taunts a lot more.

Could you do comparison videos of afflicted vs non-afflicted monsters. Like there speed differences or if they have different moves cause some like the garangolm have like 1 or 2 new moves.

I had this theory regarding Frontier and the mainline series that may or may not have been re-kindled by the appearance of Espinas in Sunbreak. The theory is that the world of Monster Hunter is far larger than even the Guild fully realizes, which could explain how it could support a large number of predators with the median size being that of a Rathalos or Rathian. The Great Dragon War and/or Ecological Calamity did such a huge number on the ancient civilization(s) that they were forced to retreat to the continent that the mainline games take place on. Meanwhile, the rest of the planet was reclaimed by nature over thousands of years, and the lands men, Wyverians and Troverians once walked were claimed by monsters. These monsters would then begin competing with one another, evolving and growing more powerful over the generations. Inevitably, however, some weaklings might escape being killed by their stronger brethren, and would retreat to the lands of civilization as a safe haven of sorts. However, the fear never goes away, and is ingrained in their animal brains. This instinctive paranoia over being attacked might explain why Sunbreak's Espinas and Flaming Espinas are so much quicker to completely wake up - they fear that if they don't counterattack quickly, they'll be killed. tl;dr - The monsters of the mainline games are the weakest monsters, and the Frontier ones represent the majority.

Okay why didn't they bring the frontier moves over to Sunbreak?! That launcher in to the fireball nuke is perfect for wirefall dodging! The bite tail slam is really lame compared to the frontier exclusive moves! Sigh.

Yea, they could've done him better

They did a good job of bringing over espinas and his orange cousin. Stayed true to the monsters power in frontier without going overboard. I really like that they added some moves similar to other frontier monsters too.