The Evolution of Yian Garuga in Monster Hunter - Heavy Wings
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In the eighth episode of this series, we explore how Yian Garuga's moveset as well as that of the Kut Ku have evolved throughout the years, since their first appearance in Monster Hunter (2004) and Monster Hunter Freedom (2006), all the way to Garuga's latest in Monster Hunter World Iceborne (2019)
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Contents
0:00 Introduction
0:12 Gen 1-2 Yian Kut Ku
1:12 Gen 1-2 Yian Garuga
2:29 Gen 4 Yian Family
3:59 Deadeye Yian Garuga
4:57 Gen 5 Garuga
5:43 Scarred Garuga History
7:00 Conclusion
Music Featured in Video
MHFU - Great Forest Theme
Yian Garuga Theme
Ancestral Steppe Theme
MHStories 2 Mysterious Rider Theme
Iceborne - Garuga Chase Theme
Iceborne - Garuga Theme
MHStories - Tresse Desert Battle Theme 1 
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Fun fact: I wasn't initially going to make Evolution of Rathian until making this video. I realised it would make more sense to talk about Rathian first and then reference her when discussing Garuga.
Yeah, the movesets are really similar...
Agreed
For some reason i love rathian but Garuga is a bitch! xD
Yes
I love Garuga's concept.
He falls into the same category a Rajang as the smaller stature monster that keeps up with the other beasts, by virtue of being twice as ferocious and relentless.
The only thing that can beat a Rajang in "I can do what I want and no ones gonna do anything about it" is Garuga
I love the concept to surprise the unsuspecting new hunter from fighting yian kutku that pretty easy
First encounter garuga be like "meh its just another yian kutku variant" but after the fight...
"HOLY MOTHERFUCKER WTF I WAS FIGHTING FOR, WHAT IS THAT SHIT MAN"
Iceborne Garuga is one of my favorite monsters ever. I think the fight is flawless. Scarred not so much as his aerial attacks were a little annoying. I really hope Garuga comes back in Sunbreak. I know we just got him but I can't help it, he's just too good.
Yeah thinking about it… yian garuga became one of my favorites in 4u and I was excited he was back and formidable even against deviljho in iceborne
I loved seeing HD Garuga in Iceborne, but I was disappointed about how easy he was compared to his gen 2 counterpart. If he comes back, i want him to be, like, Gold Rathian levels difficult tbh
I haven’t fought him, but ok!
@@yams7355 he needs to be faster, way more unpredictable, and his scream should have stun value you can't block with armor skills that he also should go back to comboing
GenU Deadeye Garuga is best.
The "Scarred" Yian Garuga is just a Yian Garuga that has been in fights since they are known to be aggressive and picks fights with about anything as shown in its Iceborne introduction video. In Freedom Unite you could tell which Yian Garuga you would fight by reading the quest descriptions. Usually one given by another hunter will be the scarred version and you could only get the Rejuvenated Beak material from the scarred version.
The scarred version in Freedom Unite also did a lot more screaming when compared to a healthy one in my opinion.
In FU it also hits significantly harder, has more hp and is similar to diablos in the way he enrages: it takes a while to make it rage the first time but it will start getting enraged with a single hit when it has lower hp
Iceborne Yian Garuga is one of my fave monsters ever. The fight is extremely fast paced and exciting with one of my fave themes. Scarred feels about identical to me to fight in MHW, and i love the concept of Yuan Garuga being an early game monster whos taken steroids and can fight with some of the biggest bad purely by being completely psychopathic and therefor not being worth the effort for most predators. absolutely amazing stuff. i played MHGU and Yian Garuga didnt feel nearly as unique as he does in iceborne, but its still a fun fight. im excited to fight him in 4U
Absolut, he had it allways in him, but some Bad Designchoices hold him back, now hes Chicken unleased!
I laughed so hard at this
Iceborne Garuga's redesign was incredible- the gangly look of his wings is amazing and they properly follow wing anatomy unlike the old designs. The fight went from annoying as hell in the old games to being super fun too, so that's a huge plus.
Kut Ku = baby's first Rathian
Blue Kut Ku = training wheels
Regular Rathian: first real bike
Yian Garuga = tricky ride
Deadeye Yian Garuga = *HELL*
But seriously though, awesome documentary! Looking forward to more!
One reason I like Garuga is that it's an actually strong bird wyvern aside from maybe Malfestio (I don't remember this one well) lorewise. It even holds its ground when facing a Deviljho.
I wonder why you didn't mention that Yian Garuga knows traps do, and knowingly avoid them while attacking you
Garuga is so cool. His unnatural scream lets you know something went really wrong in his creation
Kut-Ku’s been one of my favorites for a long time, and I’m really sad he never gets any love in the endgame.
Therefore, I hereby petition Capcom to make a Kut-Ku subspecies/variant/deviant on the level of near-endgame threats à la Lucent Nargacuga and Abyssal Lagiacrus.
Those of us that were essentially taught how to play Monster Hunter by Kut-Ku sensei will get another chance to feel like a complete wimp in the face of the almighty fire chicken!
The Yian Kut-Ku was my favorite monster from the first gens, good 'tutorial' monster and overall a rather fun fight, and I'll never forget how hard the high rank one-eared Yian Garuga from the village quests kicked my ass in MHFU.
Kinda sad they didn't add Kut-Ku in any 5th gen game, but I was also happy to see Yian Garuga in full HD in Iceborne.
Good video as always, my man 😎
Pretty sure Garuga can still chain the fly back roar with a tail flip in Iceborne.
He can it's just way less often
IB Yian Garuga and Scarred, are my favorite fights to date in the series. So much fun.
do qurupeco next, oh wait
Becoming an official variant is like when rusted kushala became a variant. it originally wasn't. Very interesting.
I personally find Pre-World Yian Garuga more annoying than fun, but the Iceborne version is one of my favorite monsters to hunt.
These are really cool monster hunter videos! Keep up the great work!
Yian garuga is one of my favorite monsters, he's not only cool looking but he's such a world apart compared to his clumsy cousin kut-ku. according to the Lore he is actually a different species and they lay eggs in a kut-ku nest kinda like a Cuckoo would in real life, making his kinder cousins raise the baby because it's aware it's too bat shit insane to be a proper parent itself. That also makes him interesting in the sense that physically he isn't actually that much different other than the poison tail. It's similar to humans, sure we're all similar but would you really want to fight the insane crack addict over mark from across the street ? hell no.
6:35 Khezu lorewise also is like this, with Red Khezu being the regular one and normal Khezu being an Albino of the species.
Really enjoyed this video. One of my favourite monsters ever
My two favorite monsters one after the other? I feel spoiled
Found this channel yesterday and subbed immediately, keep up the good work
Thank you very much! Good to have you here!
Love the video 💙😁.
In freedom I said screw it and used the mushroom glitch during the repel mission
When you said it was hard to have footage for yian kut ku in mh4u, there was actually a quest in the village for hunting a blue yian kut ku
The quest was high rank, and I wanted to show Blue Kut Ku's new G Rank attacks.
You are right i checked and it was in high rank. mh4u really did it dirty for yian kut ku, garuga and basarios, the only monsters that can be encountered in the everwood.
The rock throw Deadeye gets is also a bit of a feint - players who fight his G-Rank version will think it's an opportunity for some free damage when he seems to struggle to get his beak out. But it ultimately serves as a one-way ticket back to camp via cart when you realize that he's just getting better leverage to lob those huge rocks.
I'd like to think that non scarred Garuga is Garuga being new and all, while scarred Garuga survive couple of battles, and Deviant Garuga survived dozens of battles.
"But curiously some of rathian's" well yeah, it did come from a kut-ku and rathian
Garuga has always been my favorite monster for nostalgia purposes
Garuga was always my favorite fight as a Longsword/Hammer main, he is the monster that tests if you are sure in maining your weapon. His GU interpretation though gave me a reflex on my first time like Zinogre with every failure I started finding his fight as "fun".
Honestly I never really saw the hate for this monster
I hunted him for the armor in 4U and I was pleasantly surprised to see him in iceborne
one of my favorite monsters on mhfu along with kushala, Rathalos and Diablos
The order they're introduced doesn't determine which is the variant. A variant monster is one that was normal but got modified in some way over the course of its life. There's no way you could modify a scarred to get a base garuga, but you could scar a base garuga and get scarred, and that's why scarred is the variant, even if he was, in a weird way, introduced first.
Kinda weird how i liked Garuga from the first time i saw it (back in MHF2) but i started to really appreciate the monster when i played MHF1, in wich he was a big bad bird, he was clearly stronger than Raths for exemple wich was neat, seeing a lil bird being that strong was a nice addition, giving him the same lvl as Basarios was really bad in the 2nd gen low rank, at least the ones in HR and G rank did justice to the beast
Iceborne did this boi justice imo
I remember the first time I thought garuga (Freedom), it was a repel quest not slay. Which was a good challenge.
I recently got iceborne on the PC (previously only played world on PS4) and can't wait to meet it again.
My first game is Freedom, remember how terrified I am to Garuga back then 🤣
We are in the same boat this repel quest will allways have a special Place in my heart
Ahh yes the mhf yian garuga Quest will always has a special Place in my heart
I really do like yian garuga and I really love him in ice borne his new design is a mix of a bat and a bird
I love this monster sm. I know most people hate him, but he was a wall for me and he made me so much better at the game.
the goose of monster hunter
I love Yian Garuga. Especially in Iceborne.
5:20
That is not true
I’ve experienced it
Additional note:
Scarred yian garuga can also chain ground attacks from the air
Are you certain? I've fought Iceborne Garuga a few times, and was uncertain if this was the case as I have never seen him do it the way he did in 4 Ultimate. The wiki also says he doesn't do it - monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Yian_Garuga#MHW_
@@HeavyWings
After the backwards roar garuga will either instantly go for the soaring backflip or fly towards you with a claw tackle then follow up with the soaring backflip
@@HeavyWings he does do it, heavy. It's rather uncommon, but it's not that rare. I wanna say he does it 30% of the time
Best Monster.
I know poeople find it annoying but I absolutely love Yang Garuga and the variants the armor is one of my favourite and I always layer the chest piece on my hunter if I can.
It's a monster thay could perhaps be a real world thing its just cool.
Deadeye weapons are sooo good man
Favourite monster hope it make a return on Sunbreak
So scarred was confirmed as a variant, cool
I hate how they changed Garuga's roar in world. That cool, synthesizer-like sound it made is what made me want to hunt it and use its weapons in the old games (even though fighting it was annoying as hell).
My second favorite Monster!
I just wanted to add that in Stories and it’s successor, the model for Garuga is the scarred variant. I like to think they used it to show that it’s more fierce and powerful than the Kut Ku right out of the egg
Always loved yian garuga's longsword since it was a guan do-esc blade instead fo a katana.😁👍
Garuga is a personal favorite of mine since I first got to hunt it in 4U. I especially like its g-rank armor design, not the one in world though.
Freedom Unite Yian Garuga has one of the best ai in the game. Has one of the fastest adapting ai where it can go from a fireball to an instant reckless charge(a charge but falls down) even in lowrank it's nearly unavoidable especially as a hammer main.
My head cannon is Yian kutku are like Cuckoo birds who lay their eggs in other nests, Yian Garuga is one that was laid in a Rathian nest and a rathian will always raise the eggs it thinks are it's. So it raises the Yian kutku and during adolescence it changes into a Yian Garuga due to the diet, scars from fights with other brood of the rathin, and consumption of Rathian poison left in the dead monster hunted by rathians during its early years
One year later, but Yian Garuga is indeed a nest parasite, they lay eggs in Yian kut ku nests to be raised by them.
Not fond of Kut-Ku, but I'm really happy with Garuga's evolution and also really happy that Kut-Ku is missing in World making Garuga stand out even more
Also monster hunter world is my first actual monster hunter game but monster hunter stories two wings ruin was my actual first monster hunter game
I remember that one eared garuga in mhfu is really pain in the ass.
The problem with charge attacks, which yian loves... is that they have insta hitboxes that cant be reacted to.
ITS BEST BOY
This is one of my favorite monsters! (Edit) yian garuga that is.
When will you be looking at barioth?
I think Scarred from Freedom went on to become Deadeye, since canonically we only repel it. And back in Freedom Garuga's were smaller than gen 2 and onward, which would explain why Deadeye is small.
BIRD UP
WRONG BIRD!
When coaches show you why they coach.
What, no mention of the mushroom glitch?
Frenzied Yian Garuga from MH4U was an absolute nightmare, especially at 120+. Incredibly aggressive, and would seemingly single out a player to hunt down-
Not to forget, that motherfucking beakslam.
Yian Garuga to me is like what if the Rath species evolve into a crackhead chicken instead of take form an actual flying dragon.
fun fact garuga was classified as elder dragon in MH freedom 1
Scarred garuga is like ridley lol.
Yian garuga was one of the most terrifying monsters in World. Worse than rajang. It was so small, covered in armor, fast, firey, and venomous. It very quickly humbled me several times before I could slay it. Coming from seemingly nowhere, and dumpstering me. A really cool monster to boot!
Yeah, Mega Ultra Chicken was basicly the first Redhelm Arzuros.
Pretty Badass Monster and cool Theme, while Kut Kus Hunt is lovely.
Interesting is, in FU itmseems like the Baseversion can not Poison you, at least not whit a Tailswipe, only the Scared one can.
My Favorite is Deadeye, I wanted to say, but World realy slamdunked Garuga. Not only did it fix a lot of his Problems, like Zero Frame Attacks, and massive Chip, it even improved upon it, by giving it a cool new Reimmagination of its Moveset. But despite all the Changes, it still feels very Chicken.
In MHFU he can only poison with the back flip, at least the regular one in low rank
@@jokig Yeah thats what I mean. The Scared Version can do more, but the base Version has to Backflip.
Yian Garuga was one of the few monsters who weren't made worse for Iceborne, so I really hope it returns in Sunbreak.
Interesting take, could you elaborate? Who do you feel was ruined?
@@HeavyWings Most returning monsters in Iceborne aside from Garuga, Alatreon, and Fatalis felt like worse fights to me. Most of them have specific problems that make each monster worse, such as giving Glavenus a neck hitzone. It will take way too long to mention my issues with each and every monster so i'll generalize: Monsters have been made similtanously faster and less aggressive, which means that they they spend less time threatening the player, meaning that fights are interrupted with several seconds of boredom multiple times throughout the fight since the monster isn't attacking me (Nargacuga is the most aggregious example of this, While Rajang is the biggest counterpoint, although not in a good way like old Rajang would have been). Additionally, a combination of hitzone and hotbox changes means that positioning for several monsters has been changed (Zinogre was originally designed so that hits needed to be precise. It's head is soft but its hard arms and chest are in the way while being in the most dangerous location. It's hindlegs are a bit easier to hit and safer while also being good hitzones but are inbetween its significantly harder front arms and its tail. Iceborne completely messed up this balance).
I think that many of the monsters in the old games were very meticulously thought out, and Iceborne completely forgot what made those monsters good when it tried to adapt them. Interestingly, the returning monsters who were changed the most imo, namely Garuga, and the black dragons, feel like good fights since they don't fall into these problems anywhere near to the extent returning monsters did. TBH i don't mind monsters like stygian, raging brachy , and furious since they feel more well thought out in comparison while also being more differentiated from their base forms.
To be clear, I think that Iceborne's returning monsters are overall worse even without including things like clutchclaw, which only makes my issues even worse.
@@HareHeadGFX ...well then.
I don't really understand how Glavenus having a neck hitzone is a problem. Is being precise with Glavenus a problem when it was something you praised about Zinogre? You do slightly less damage on the head than the neck, it really isn't that big a deal.
What are your thoughts on Zinogre in Rise?
@@HeavyWings TL;DR all of them except like 3.
@@handtomouth4690 The issue with glavenus's neck is that its completely unneccesary, and requires more precision than weapons realistically have. The distinction between the head and throat was sufficient before, so its not like it changes how the fight plays out by forcing more interesting positioning changes. It's only exists to be inconvenient while the player can't do anything about it, unlike Zinogre's head or hindlegs, which allow for significantly more dynamic fight since 1) The precision needed is realistically doable 2)The player has more control through taking advantage of trips, ko etc which encourages the player to create their own oppertunities.
I massively prefer Rise Zinogre to world zinogre, although I can't compare him to his high rank version in older games as i'm too used to g rank. I do hope some of iceborne zinogre's moves come to rise Zinogre in master rank since his new moves were actually quite good
Kut ku is a joke but hc blue kut ku from froniter is an actual menace
Yan Garuva? What a weird pick, can't wait for the next video!
Poor Hypnocatrice
Garuga is fun to fight until you reach the Deadeye deviant. That only gives me Vietnam flashbacks...
I really like these 2 and I hope we awalys get konchu, kut kut and garuga in the games together rather then being separated, it's a nice little collection of beasts, on that note while I love iceborne garuga I personally wish we got a new monster instead just because for me it feels off to have him but not kut ku,
Also small side not i think garuga got screwed with turf wars as he only got ones with Zinogre and Rajang, they could have easily copied rathalos turf wars over to him as well as mabye make his cutscene the turf war against brute wyverns, but that's just me
Here's a piece of triva regarding Yian Garuga: Yian Garuga is one of the only monsters in the series to have two variants.
Scarred Yian Garuga, (officially) introduced in Iceborne. And One-Eared Yian Garuga, introduced in Monster Hunter Online.
Edit: forgot about Fatalis and its variants (Crimson, and White Fatalis.)
Second actually! Fatalis has Crimson and White, and both are in the main series
Ah. I forgot about the Fatalises. Thanks for the reminder!
Also, great vid! And I've been wondering if you'll be including things like Zeniths or Lone species in these vids? Or simply more things from Frontier and Online in general?
@@KlariskraysEli unfortunately no. I haven't played Frontier and if I tried talking about them I'd probably get things wrong.
In addition to this, I feel as if I talk about one spin-off, I have to talk about them all. Frontier, Stories, Online, Xplore, Riders
More simple to keep it limited to the main series.
Both Raths having a nice life as a family until one of the eggs hatch as a Garuga
T A I L S
Do royal ludroth and barroth OwO
the only time garuga is less dangerous with pre battle injury is 1st gen, for some reason they are all scarred but later on they were given uninjured base form with injured variants. the most iconic moves are either the double head slam and the fireball into charge combo for me. i hope he keeps his beak dive from IB in the future, the tail forward flip is also nice but i won't care as much if he lost it for a game. i dislike the idea of having base monsters missing but variations or later similar monsters appearing, like how master rank in IB had veriatnts for jho an bazel but not the base monster for 2 fights each and, more importantly, seperate weapons/armor sets. it was just weird without those. IB not having the original silly garuga LBG was a crime lol
Where is the Yian Garuga Comment 😂
Wasent Yian Garuga in Monster Hunter 1 aswell?
No, introduced in the portable game Monster Hunter Freedom. Which is basically Monster Hunter G but on the PSP.
I honestly thought he was hard to fight when I start to fight him the first time in ice born but realize it wasn’t bad i just Trouble fighting elder dragons Beside one elder dragon 😂
Keeping the video PG by not talking about how garuga came to be eh?
Shhhhh
:v los novatos creen que el Yian Garuga es fácil por su parecido al Yian Kut-Ku pero cuando llega la hora recibirán la paliza de su vida XD jajajaja ,me pasó cuando jugué mi primer Monster Hunter :v y aunque sea veterano sigue siendo un monstruo complicado :v
1:47 you say "Curiously some of Rathians moves" the monster is the offspring of a Rathian and a Kut-Ku mating, so it makes sense.
Ah Yian-Garuga. The monster I found annoying ever since I joined the MH community back in MH4U. I found it annoying in every single game... Until MHIB. I don't know how to pinpoint it exactly, but man they made the fight much more fun and way, WAY less cheap.
Garuga was so overlooked in Iceborne. Genuinely one of the better designed monsters that retained a sense of old world technicality in its moveset. I dunno why they decided to remain faithful with monsters like this, while completely butchering the transition of some (Nargacuga).
Being slapped in at the endgame with little reason to hunt it, and giving it a godawful variant really killed its reception.
I really liked Iceborne Yian Garuga until I fought her normally. My first fight with it was a miniature crown iirc, so I thought that was the whole shtick and enjoyed the fight a lot. Then I fought it at its normal size and disliked the fight a lot more
That's interesting. What about the size changed the fight for you?
Iceborne is the best monster hunter in all gen of MH
The design is perfectly looks like real monster
Unlike others like cartoon
And the playstyle in iceborne is good too, real time clutch claw unlike MH Rise u can hang on air lol
I’m surprised by all the long term fans of Garuga. In the old games I HATED him. He was by far one of my least favorite monsters, but I think the revamp in world turned him into a pretty enjoyable fight in the same way that rise fixed Kushala.
I'm going to say it, anyone who says any version older than iceborne of yian garuga is their favorite has stockhold syndrome. That thing was straight up never fun to fight with the constant 0-framing and attacking directly out of recovery. One-Eyed deviant was at least better and actually enjoyable. But iceborne yian garuga is the only one that made me truly love fighting the damn thing. The new moves they gave it were absolutely radical!
Freedom and FU Garuga was alright but Gen 4 Garuga sans Deadeye was pure cancer to fight tho
Meeting this dude on FU be like :
Me : Nah just another Yian kut ku 😒
Yian Garuga : 😏😏😏
Get carted.. 💀