How a Valstrax's wings work...
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
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So the MH Twitter community was losing it's mind over Valstrax's wings, one of the images in relation with it happened to be a moment in one of my trivia videos, so I thought I'd make a showcase of the workings of a Valstrax wing...
Best monster hunter monster, honestly.
10/10 makes sense
10/10 anatomy
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Imagining Valstrax with fully unfolded wings flying like a regular dragon.
Let's hope he animates this
@@nickenchugger YES
Honestly it's super brilliant because of it, Monster hunter loves to try to make things make sense from a biological perspective such as through evolution and Subspecies. So it's so brilliant that a Valstraxes wings are physically no different then the wings of other wyverns and elder dragons, showing how its still biologically related to other flying monsters, but still so different because of the shape the wings always 'default' into
Literally me after seeing this comment: (Creepy Stranger Things Season 1 music starts)
*Nightmare fuel*
Valstrax's wings are probably the single most sophisticated biological element in all of Monster Hunter. It's really fitting that the Fighter Jet Dragon is so advanced. It's like it was designed by an aircraft engineer. And not just any aircraft engineer, a Belkan one, from Ace Combat.
Castle Schrade was actually a Belkan settlement that Fatalis obliterated cause he was tired of their shenanigans
Damn belkans
Belkans would create this insanity in dragon form
Valstrax is why I think some of these Elder dragons were created. Not a robot or anything but perhaps it was genetically modified.
@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon Some lore points to Fatalis fighting a biomechanical dragon, and then wiping out the super advanced civilization that created it, explaining where modern humans descend from. I think the gunlance is based on remaining relics from it.
@@angellara7040 Then I am wrong. Thank you for correction.
The fully unfolded look just looks so NORMAL it's so odd
Looks fairly like a normal flying wyvern's wing somehow
@@陳嘉宇-y4q right?
Like it didn't NEED to go all rocket man to work
@@evodolka It didn't need, but it WANTS
@@陳嘉宇-y4q yeah like ( Rathalos speaking ): why do you have rocket wings when you can just flap them.
Valstrax: Upgrades Rathaboy ,upgrades.
not really, It's wing fingers are LITERALLY DETACHED FROM THE HAND/WRIST WHAT IS THAT
Everyone talking about how Valstrax evolved these wings in the lore, but the really mind boggling thing for me is, that some designers actually came up with this uncommon way of designing a wing and still making it somewhat believable. Props to the madlads who designed this.
Honestly the MonHun teams go hard. I can believe nearly every (normal) monster can exist, if evolution let them. Even most Elder Dragons are believable to som extent.
Props? It's a fighter jet.
@@BarderBetterFasterStronger ... exactly, they managed to make the two completely different concepts of a flying dragon and a hunter jet mesh in a way that you *can* suspend disbelief and enjoy without feeling it's too ridiculous.
That's what they are getting props for, for having such a absolutely ridiculous idea and executing it in a manner that's not pure nonsense and can be accepted as making sense at a glance.
@@GustavoLeaoValente You realize that's most likely a propeller joke, right?
@@GustavoLeaoValenteProps=propellers.
Jets don't have props. It joke.
This thing just decided to evolve into the most aerodynamic and flexible thing to ever soar the skies
Because we know evolution is driven not by desire but in fact selection pressure, the crazier fact is “Something in valstrax’s environment made these overly complicated wings a necessity for valstrax.”
Ain't it was designed to be like that? It is basically synth, but live creature, I'm still unsure.
@@thelostician now I’m less scared of valstrax and no 1000% more terrified of what ever that thing is
@@thelosticiansimple, the species kept breeding via the fastest gets to mate so eventually one of them got the mutation to use its breath out its wings and the rest is history
@@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ you know, If we’re all rolling with valstrax wings and speed being because of peacock theory, I’m cool with that.
Edit: I should explain what I meant, in peacocks, the male with the largest and most colorful plumage, gets to mate.
In valstrax terms, fastest and most complicated wing structure gets to mate.
So, canonically, Valstrax can play Paper and Scissors, but not Rock. This is pertinent information for the Guild to know.
New scissors weapon confirmed
Technically Valstrax can still play
It would just be rock, paper, scissors
G u n
@mock-tan981 wake up babe, new rock paper scissors dlc just dropped. They added gun!
"Hunters get out there and find me some scissors!...and bring a rock too just in case."
It can play rock when it starts dive bombing you
I've spent a lot of time studying its wings as well. It's pretty much entirely reliant on using its webbing to move them around.
Is it webbing though? Most wings have webbing to catch wind in order to fly but Valstrax is a rocket dragon, it doesn't actually use that webbing in the traditional sense. So I'm more inclined to believe that they're incredibly dense and flexible muscles with some form of flexible cartillage to give it a basic structure.
@@thomasallen3167 webbing as a shorthand term i guess. Yeah it's more like muscle
@@thomasallen3167 Actually, this might be true, although having such flexible structures during flight might cause problems. Then again, maybe there's some sort of a lock/stay-in-place mechanism.
After studying its wings for like, 20 seconds, I've came up with an interpretation that may have some pertinence: the whole folding part is actually just one very elongated wing finger that evolved to fold this way and has those giant rocket-like structures growing on it, maybe a modification of the bones just before the articulations or something, or maybe mineralised soft tissue. Said rockets are held in place by the patagium (constitued of muscles and stuff) between them. The other fingers, that are fused together to make that strange growth before the rocket wing part help in holding the wing in place when it's folded...
@@Alex-cq1zr yeah it has to lock somehow as it basically just curls around the nub at the end of the wing arm. The flexing strength of that webbing is all that holds it in place
I finally got to see Valstrax's wings in their entirety, but I'm still confused on how the leather holds together in that stabbing animation.
add the weirdness on how it can turn around
@@FausFaustiusValstrax is double jointed.
@@gajspalt makes sense for it to be double jointed, especially wing flexibility
i would say its pure muscle
@@FausFaustius shoulder joint & valtrax main body moved when its fully retracted
When it jab/claw, the shoulder only need to swing left to right
or right to left
What's interesting to note is that apparently evolutionarily speaking valstrax at some point evolved for its wings to be upside down. That's the only way for the anatomy to work. And as crazy as that sounds its happened in real life. Echidna are famous for having backwards feet as it helps them climb in and out of their tunnels easier.
To help anyone visualize it. When a bird flaps its wings it's the same as us flapping our arms. The palms are facing the ground. But with valstrax when outstretched his palms are facing the sky.
Thought that was not the case at first, but after self-checking for a while... If you take the exhaust side - and not the "claws" - as the tip of the "fingers", and look at this again, it might actually make sense... Or so I thought, because if that was really so then it can't really explain the laser/gun mode and perhaps also the hover mode, since the movement would then actually match the non-upside-down palm more than the upside-down one.
I mean, just try to visualize with your own hand (left hand, in this case, for better comparison), fold your arm the same way a bird or maybe a wyvern would, and you'll find that the way valstrax move its exhaust side from fold to hover or laser/gun is pretty much the same way we move our hand from "chicken wing fold" to a normal forward hand position. If the palm is upside-down, I feel like the movement would be a little bit more awkward.
That said, I don't actually know how the upside-down palm would actually feel like. But I guess there is one unrelated thing I can conclude: either way, the "thumb" would've been evolved in a way that would not follow nor hinder the "hand twisting" movement.
And also taking the exhaust side as fingertip would make more sense, otherwise the laser/gun position would feel really awkward, unless these wings have evolved in a way that removed such awkwardness.
There’s also the “hand mode” where it’s like an unfolded laser mode where valstrax either slaps you with it’s wing or just swats it’s hand wing down on you.
It's essentially just the Long Range mode but spread out, hence looking like the unfolded wing.
As far as my observation goes, it's the same posture as gun mode
Elder Dragon Bitch Slap
0:42 younger siblings when they did something wrong but blame the older brother.
That finger goes across the room 😂
Ive been laughing at this comment for the past hour man
Underrated asf😂
🤣😭🤣😭
Fun fact: the reason he can swivel his wings around is because he needs to be as flexible and elastic in order to not break all of his bones when crashing onto the ground, if his scales where hard and tough then he’d just break his body when landing so his body needs to be able to contort
That probably explains why Val pretty much doesn't leave a much of a crater. His mass doesn't contribute much to the impact of his crash but rather the concentrated dragon energy bursting out.
Yeah, slamming near Mach 8 with assisted gravity towards the ground at that size and mass, should have leave a visual crater and dust animation even if temporary.
"You know what would be cool? Wings, that are jet thrusters! With sharp ends to stab like a spear! Or a missile launcher if reversed! Oh boy, time to get started on some evolutions, you hawk-like dragon! What is your name? Valstrax? Congratulations, you are hereby volunteered for a very special evolution program!" - Mother Nature in Monster Hunter world
Valstrax originates from Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
oohh wait you meant the world not the game: monster hunter world
Ok this makes a little more sense to me having it shown like this
Valstrax is one of if not the weirdest yet coolest monster in monster hunter franchise,like it's a biological jet fighter like that sounds really cool and yet it's joint is so godamn weird
I can't even imagine how much of an absolute nightmare Valstrax's skeleton must be
His wings always fascinated me. The way they changed shape felt some what surreal I wasn’t even aware they were forded in like that. Very interesting.
Finally twitter can stop getting mad at Valstrax's wing anatomy
Wow great job! I always wondered how it could seemingly transform its wings just like that. Makes a lot more sense. That's some elasticc wings tho!
Wow never thought they could unfold and resemble normal wings
I know it's so fucking weird when you first See it do that
Huh, seems like the "webbing" of the wings might be more like the muscles on a snake's belly, and probably might be why some sections are so armored if that's the case.
What are the muscles on a snake’s belly like?
@@johncronk8867 basically snake skeletons are mostly spine and rib, with each rib also functioning as a joint, and snakes move by contracting and expanding the muscles around each rib. This makes for some really powerful and dense musculature under there, to the point that, if i recall correctly, some species of cobra can strike with enough speed and force to break the sound barrier the same way a whip crack does. The scales of a snake's belly can also shift around a bit to control the friction of the body so that's how they can also climb walls without throwing themselves over them for the most part while also protecting those vital muscles that keep it moving. It's exactly why the scales on the webbing caught my eye
@@finalburn007 do you have a source for the “cobras breaking the sound barrier” thing? I wasn’t able to find anything stating that
@@korokseed1619 full disclosure i actually misremembered what snakes were reportedly so fast they reach mach one during a strike. however there's ongoing studies about snake strike speeds with really impressive numbers, with the black mamba at least reaching about 600mph, which is around the ballpark for starting to break the sound barrier at the very least. Here's an actually interesting video about snake strikes that's more focused on north american snake species if you're interested! ruclips.net/video/7VZ_1tROrCI/видео.html
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Thank you.. I've been dying to draw accurate valstrax wings 😭💀
I love how the monster hunter community speculates about the biology of these fantastical creatures and the video itself was really cool Valstrx’s wings have always been something I wanted to learn more about with how complex they are
Evolution: "you will adapt to your environment to survive"
Valstrax: "i want to be a fighter jet"
This is great. I can carefully examine Valstrax and appreciate the mechanics of its wings without getting stabbed, lasered or Orbitally bombarded.
Thank you!
Thanks. Videos like this one are still very entertaining and I bet they would help someone *cough* UHC *cough* explain the biology of the creatures shown in there. Good work Tea Common! Keep it up!
I know UHC had a rant about how Valstrax is just an anime hype monster and how it does not make sense. But man, you gotta admit that the creativity here is off the charts.
Y'knwo, for all the (valid) criticisms about the absurdity of Valstrax's design ecologically speaking, this really makes me appreciate that the animators who rigged this up really put a lot of work into it. Like to make it so all these configurations "work" and fold into one another is really impressive.
Imagine how strong the connective muscle tissue and joints must be between the wings to allow it to hover while only being connected to the main body by that thin flap.
Nevermind hovering. What about the insane acceleration whenever it takes off? That thing can cross the entire map in seconds, and all that speed would be moving its wings first before the body comes along. Probably be like grabbing onto a speeding car while standing still. The g-forces would be immense.
@@dethkruzer Oh, its shown in its ecology episode, where he tucks in his wings and body and made his width as small and aerodynamic as possible. Basically, he turns himself into a missile where his head is the tip.
I think it’s pretty safe to assume that there’s no bones holding it’s “jets” to it’s body, just EXTREMELY strong and stretchy muscles in it’s wing membranes.
Hence, the wings being able to stretch into spears. It simples loosens the muscles and slings the arm the wing is on forward. Then, it tightens the muscles again, snapping it back into place.
it likely has some form of cartilage for additional structural support, though
@@SylvisNuvara Can cartilage stretch and contract?
Honestly asking, I don’t have a document about it open rn. I was under the impression that it was just flexible, not rubbery.
@@sacredterrador5611 it's possible, and even more possible with elder dragon biology.
it definitely feels like there's not enough muscle to support the outer two wing fingers. They just are sorta attached via membrane which I guess can have some bones or cartilage in there somewhere probably. But I have no idea how it has the muscle strength to support it through those membranes.
Seeing the wing completely unfold was such a crazy revelation. Wonderful work!
Thank you for clearing up this old question of mine. Always wondered how tf Valstrax wings could stretch into the bladed form.
I do love how when it unfolds it looks like plausible adaptation from the other elders' wing design
If you wonder where all the elder dragon corpse went to...
...They went to Tea Common Shark, for research purposes.
one of the coolest original dragon designs.
You are so talented and I love your work. I hope Capcom realize your potential :)
Fun fact,the crimson glow variant has different wings design,also,has a much darker coloration in the dragon element parts.
Valstrax looked at evolution and said ""watch me break the code" and the madman did it and is now soaring the skies faster than sound and whooping hunters asses
As much as I love valstrax, I still always hated how the hell the wing blade maneuvers work biologically speaking.
The thing literally just has wing membrane stretching out to let this crap actually happen, which is INSANE because I'm sure we all know wing webbing ain't exactly tough enough to do that.
Also, it DIVES AND SLAMS THINGS WITH THESE WINGS AT SUPERSONIC SPEED.
How the hell does this thing even HAVE wing membrane?! They'd have to have More Shara-style rigid wing appendages that at most can stretch to reach really far, but for the wing appendages to just straight up basically slide along wing membrane to extend one after another, it just seems like the developers didn't even think that one through.
Like, this is beyond frontier monsters in terms of confusion, because frontier mons at most just have some odd shapes here and there, though they still serve a purpose more often than not. Valstrax's wings have WAY too much going on with them. They can rotate 360 degrees like an Owl's head, and sometimes even a bit more if they angle them upwards for certain dragon barrage attacks.
And then there's the fookin blade attack, I see that thing and it just destroys my last brain cell, what in the f*ck is this thing's flexible wing membrane made of?! That sh*t's just compounded muscle right there.
His wings are a marvel of bioengineering
I love when one of the modes is just
*Gun*
I love this wacky jetpack dragon.
After all of the discussion on Twitter i finally get how it works
I don't have a Twitter; were people talking about this?
The flexibility of this anatomy is insane. Just dislocated joints all over the place
I was really curious about it for a while now especially the stab move. The fact that all 3 vents aren't connected to the base like fingers on a human hand is so extremely cursed
That’s so interesting. I always wondered how the wings worked when it did that stabbing attack. Always had me mind-boggled
everybody gangsta till you see:
*Crimson glow valstrax*
*Ambush*
Imagine Vals flapping its wings. That'd be terrifyingly weird to look at when fighting
for his neutral b valstrax wields his wings as a gun
Best monster in the franchise
0:30 ok thats actually really cool you can totally see how they derived from a more normal soaring type wing like bezelguese has
The high stress of a muscle twisting and rotate, not to mention to withstand the power of discharged energy. That wing insanely tough yet flexible.
If I could get any wings, these are probably the ones I would choose
I can't even imagine what kind of joints this thing has. Dragon wings are structured like a bats, meaning its just elongated fingers, but this.. I can't even wrap my head around this. The bones, joints, ligaments, this thing is impossibly flexible.
WOAH WOAH WOAH THIS WHOLE TIME THOSE ARE WINGS! 🤯
I never knew his wings could configured so wide like that, huh.
Well now I’m just left with a fallow up question of his the heck his skeletal structure works!?
I know he’s like an elder dragon so prob don’t need to listen to mortal laws but dang! Lol
Given Yama Tsukami is also an Elder Dragon, I'm assuming their isn't any aside from the thrusters themselves after the first thruster.
I looks like an upside down wrist + fused/heavily modified wing fingers? The thrusters are connected by _something_ and the thrusters themselves could be modified wingtalons (like what many wyverns like the raths have)
Man has fucking tactical wings
Valstrax brings a gun to a monster fight
Basically valstrax has his arms constantly bent backwards.
The first video where you showed how Valstrax’s wings unfurled still left me confused, but when you completely opened its wing and it resembled a regular bat’s wing, it made much more sense. Now I’m just left to wonder what makes those sing membranes to not only let them shift around like that and extend, but still pump dragon infused air and allow its fingers to bend since risen strax shows they indeed can bend.
Always thought it just breaks its wing bones to stab.
I simply cannot fathom how these blasted wings seem so flexible, yet it can hold them in place while its boosters are running. The sheer force created should rip these things right off its torso.
The Legendary Dragon of Belka...
I thought it was a myth...
I always imagine that valtrax wing like a half shield that have a jet machanism,never though it just like a normal wing when it fully unfolded
THIS!!! This is the video ive been searching for on how the valstrax stab works in an anatomical standpoint n i thank u. Everything is so clear
now I know how he stab with wings
Monster Hunter is like organic version of Metal Gear
that stabbing animation slowed looks like he is handing his 'hand' to you for help
soooooo it's basically a living pocketknife
Valstrax be like "Rattle em boys!"
This thing is majestic. The absolute master of the skies.
Ever since first seeing the big long stab in Generations, I've been baffled by how Valstrax wing anatomy works, and, the more I learn about them, the less sensible they become. After learning that the three branches of the wing end aren't connected to the arm, I had thought that that explains how the stab gets so long and only uses one branch mostly, but after thinking about it for an additional three seconds or so, that just brought up more issues.
If only one is connected to the arm, how do the others stabilize in regards to the anchored one when flying with actual jet propulsion coming out of the back of each? They're only connected by loose floppy bits of webbing in order to allow that flexibility to be able to spread while hovering and slapping, but also narrow in order to jet and spike the tips into the ground, but also... Slide? Shift? Whatever they do to allow for the long poke. But, also, since the one segment of the three that is connected to the base is the BOTTOM one instead of the top one, all the top ones should be drooping down at all times. Even if it is muscle that can relax and flex to change positions and rigidity, that means that Valstrax has to constantly be flexing at all times and wasting energy and risking muscle damage - potentially even tears, to a highly important part of stabilizing its wings and thus its flight - at literally all times while just walking around idly, not to mention how much energy waste and risking muscles has to happen during jet flying to hold them up against the drag of the air resistance and also brace against the force of its own jet propulsion.
Only one being connected also presents another problem. Valstrax intakes air through a chest vent to pump through its wings along with Dragon energy as its form of propulsion. So... How does the air intake reach the second and third wing branches if there is no structure with which to pump the pressurized air to there from? The only connecting part is the webbing, very small webbing at that, with not enough mass to really fit enough biological machinery to pump large amounts of air to there at high quantity or pressure. Especially when you consider the movement of the webbing during different attacks while flying or hovering, any tubing or whatever would either get compressed closed or kinked closed.
Being able to flip the wings isn't that strange, you could easily have a jointing that would allow for such a thing, especially since the musculature of these wings can be wildly different since they don't have to flap at all, given, well, you know, Valstrax. But the fact that only one is connected to the wing-arm just brings up loads of issues. And basically only for one attack, the long poke. And, the long poke could still be done even with all three branches connected to the base, so long as they remain individually flexible from where they each attach to the base, since Valstrax could flip the wings into the forward position and have one "finger" forward all the way out, and the other two folded back against the base, much like how human fingers work in a point. Or even just have all three of the branches flexed in such a way as to come to a singular point at the end. It's not like this would kill a lot of the attack's range or anything, since I don't think the poke has any more notable range than the big horizontal scoop or the slap down. And the real main threat of the poke isn't the poke itself, but the spin follow-up, which could be retained in either alternative poke method I mentioned earlier.
I really do like Valstrax being a jet dragon, I just wish his anatomy reflected it better. His tail is awful for being a jet. It's going to introduce drag without adding much for stability with its current shape. It should either be severely reduced like Shara's, or have the ridges on it capable of changing position to account for travel speed better, like how Legiana has a bunch of individual folds and flaps that can move independently to mimic air-plane flight control mechanisms. There's a reason basically every flying animal lost, reduced, or heavily modified their tails, and most modern air-craft also don't have any "tails" to speak of. If you have enough time to evolve jets, you have enough time to evolve better tail - that one would take way less time and way fewer specific adaptations. Also, Valstrax's limbs do NOT look like they'd be good enough at absorbing shocks from the insane forces that Valstrax would have to put up with. Not a chance. They're small, which could be fine if they even remotely had some design suggestion of a unique musculature or flex points or anything, but they don't, they're just generic legs.
Also. Just a personal point of contention of mine. I absolutely hate the attack in Rise where Valstrax is hovering and then just... Holds its wings out in front of itself while they crackle with Dragon energy and it just... Drops down and sets them on the ground. It doesn't slam them down, or clap them together, or swipe them into position. It just kind of... Sets 'em there. It looks so bad from a life-like animation perspective. There's no over-shoot or follow-through or even much in the return to idle, its so stiff and illogical. It would not make sense for something to exert force this way since it's so inefficient at transferring that force into the target. Even if you wanna' say all the force is from the Dragon energy exploding and not the wings coming down, one, why would it not bother to also slam the wings down as another vector for damaging whatever it is trying to kill, and two, why does it set its wings in a position they never are for anything else? They're both completely cupping together under-handed. That position showing up nowhere else makes it look off from what the creature seems to know its own optimal use of its anatomy is - much like the issue with the far poke. It could easily do this exact thing with this exact hit-box with the laser cannon wing position, or the missile launch one but with the wings closer and in front of itself, or the over-hand it uses for the somersault scoop, or the wing slap down, or some new wing clap animation. The one they chose just looks like a kid articulating an action figure one bit at a time, not a living - albeit fictional and ludicrous - animal.
I'm just sitting here imagining just how strong those small wing fibers are to hold that much mass up like that.
This is definitely accurate, 100%!!
Buscaba esto hace ya tanto tiempo. Gracias tiburón.
I consider Valstrax and Shara Ishvalda to be relatives because of their wings prehensile flexibility.
THANK YOU! I've always wondered how it works, especially the stab!
"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a Valstrax should be able to fly. It's arms are too small to carry the engineering nightmares it calls wings, and the G forces involved in it's flight would tear them apart. There is no food in this or any universe with the energy density required to keep it airborne for more than 2 minutes without eating, and the energy released when it does its signature divebomb would be enough to vaporize it's entire body, along with everything else in the area.
The Valstrax dive bombs hunters at supersonic speeds anyway, cause it doesn't give a flying fuck what humans think is impossible."
Dragon energy can be used for making body parts really hard like rajang arms when he is enraged so maybe it's the same for valstrax arms
I was a biiiig fan of Valstrax. I'm even a bigger fan now, I didn't know it was possible 😳
I was always so confused at how Valstrax's long distance stab or roundhouse slash worked. The fact that he uses webbing/connections between jets to fold and unfold his wings is a big revelation
I mean, it's fitting. One of my absolute favourite animations is actually not when Valstrax dives from the skies (it's one of the coolest moves in MonHun history, don't get me wrong), but rather when he simply hovers in place with his wings pointed down. He just points and rotates his six jet boosters so precisely to stay perfectly stationary, it's mind-blowing
The "drama" this discussion on Valstrax's wings on MH twitter was especially stupid, but having this insightful vid pop out from it was nice
The wing point with "Gun" is so funny to me idk why
Evolution: "I'm tired, I'm gonna contact OKB Sukhoi and get a contract to design an aerial apex predator or smth".
_Two months later, countless hours of bioengineering and 2 stripped to the bones Su-57's later_
Sukhoi Engineer: Here you go. Enjoy your supermaneuverable fighter dragon.
Evolution: What... *What the fuck?*
Now everything makes sense and I might keep this as a reference for future animations with Valstrax.
I like how a lot of the monster can be vaguely “realistic” and then we just have laser fingers
For his Neutral Special, Valstrax wields a Gun.
I'm amazed how Valstrax's wings can turn 180 degrees, LIKE A HUMAN WRIST!
I cannot even BEGIN to understand the biomechanics of those wings. I did not think that's how they worked... I need to go look this up now
I'd be curious to see a similar video but for Prim.Malzeno's wings. I've died so many times to him because I was trying to get a good look at how its wings move when he uses them as swords
now imagine that same wing movements as a human arm that has evolved to be like that
Is this in response to all the conversations on Twitter regarding his wings?
Still can't help but wonder why Twitter has only just now, after all these years that Valphalk had been around... why just NOW has everyone decided to start arguing about how Val's wings should work?! Between this and Deviljho's tail fiasco... I just can't take anymore D: WHY CAN'T WE JUST HAVE NICE THINGS AND ENJOY THEM FOR ONCE AHHHHH
It feels like due to World, more fans are starting to become curious about the biological and ecology side of Monster Hunter. I've been playing since Tri and I don't recall the community being this curious before. What also contributes to said curiosity is the rise in content creators like Unnatural History Channel, who does indepth biological analysis on MH monsters.
Well, monster hunter does pride itself on trying to make all of its outlandish designs seem biologically feasible, going into great detail on how monsters can breathe fire, ice, and electricity, create trails of sticky bombs, or reanimate the dead. It's only fair that people would look deep into the things that don't make immediate sense to verify them.
At this point Valstrax should've been a mech any day...
Valstrax has the best wing design imo
Something about the last label just being "gun" got a good laugh out of me
I hope in his next appearance he uses his wings spread out for at least one attack, like giant claws (and giving him an attack where he uses his wings to combo into a non wing attack would be sick)
Damn, the way its wings look unfolded is actually weirder than I thought it would, I mean, how many articulations does it needs to fold like that?
I’ve never known it’s had wing membranes till today and I feel betrayed
For his neutral special, he wields a gun