That's almost my longest video ever 😅
Which monster gave you the most trouble?

Rathalos & Rathian, and every single one of their subspecies can suck one. Half the hunt is just chasing them around.

You can tell someone who had an experienced group of friends to play with by how they place behemoth below extreme difficulty.

"From easiest to hardest" -  proceeds to rank them randomly.

World has a lot of quests that you win and think "what on gods green earth did i just fight"

Kulu-Ya-Ku isn't easy! I lost my breakfast because he stole my eggs and I can't hunt on an empty stomach!

I have 700 hours and I didn't know that torch pods get rid of the effluvium poisoning

This list is bogus. Dodogama in tutorial diff? It belongs in extreme; you look at that face and tell me you're capable of killing it.

I have to say Extreme Behemoth with vanilla gear is harder than any other monster in the game. The  difficulty this thing was for the state of the game at the time of release dwarfs Alatreon, Fatalis and Ancient Leshen.
Soloing Fatalis with Non-Fatalis gear was easier than a team of 4 with Drachen Armor  attempting Extreme Behenoth.

Extreme Behemoth is BY FAR the hardest monster in the series, especially before the Iceborne update. Not even Fatalis was that hard, and it was meant to be killed only once to get all the rewards.

The only quest in all the games with an actual red warning that says "this quest will really kick your ass"...that thing casts THREE ecliptic meteors on the last zone (five in total), and only spawns one little meteor to hide behind, and he can easily destroy it or cover it with a tornado. That thing was a true nightmare.

Lunastra, Deviljho, and Bazelgeuse are my weaknesses. I always end up furious whenever I have to fight them for a mission.

Fatalis = 10 days of few attempts in day

Alatreon = rage quited a game for half year and then few attempts every day for next fifty days

Alatreon for new players like me and in fact that you can fight him instantly after ending Iceborne Campaign makes him absolutely nightmare and best gigantic wall which I ever beat after hundreds attempts

My favourite monster of all time

So many people putting out that Alatreon is the hardest and 100% are saying so because of the extra requirement of dealing enough elemental damage. The thing is, he has massive openings from the slow lightning, fire and ice attacks (rearing up to rain down bolts, ice breath in straight line where he stands still, rings on the floor that explode out that you dodge into the middle after the first ring triggers etc) that making that requirement is really simple after taking the time for just observation.

I honestly think the main issue people face, (aside from playing with the guardian set and being way too OP to learn anything throughout the base game) is playing with other people all the time. Not because playing multiplayer is bad, but because not only can you easily pair up with people much better than yourself and get carried ahead without learning actually what works and doesn't, you don't get to see how all the attacks work because the monsters attention is split between the group, leaving it so that when you do decide to play solo, you're in hunts you just aren't capable of because you haven't learned or experienced how the game actually works. So many randoms i've played with in 2 man hunts that just completely rush in and get slapped because they are used to the groups of 4 mobbing a monster into KO/stagger endlessly. It's gotten better as time as gone on, but early on it was so common to find people wearing "meta" gear and getting wiped because they failed to understand that the gear didn't fill the gaps that actual experience was needed for.

Behemoth not getting to extreme is insane to me. I played with a 4 people team all in a call and it still took us just as long as Alatreon if not longer to beat with HR gear and thats talking about regular behemoth

Odogaron isn't super tough to beat but definitely has one of my favorite armor sets in the game.

My personal strat for shutting down FF Barioth is

1. Rocksteady
2. Weaken both arms (also head if i feel like it)
3. wallbang once
4. wait to not early enrage him
5. wallbang secondtime
6. break both arms while he is one the ground
7. glider mantle
8. mount
9. knockdown into head break

After all that he is insanly crippled and probably also out of his enrage which opens him for another double wallbang. Makes the entire fight extremly controlable

Really solid list! Genuinely think the only change I'd make would be to swap Rathian and Legiana - Rathian is so predictable she'd sit at the top of easy for me, while Legiana has a couple of quick attacks that can catch you off-guard, especially with slower weapons. Think she deserves bottom end of medium

In my heart anjanath always will be the *** I hate most

Tobi Kadachi and Anjanath were both difficult in the sense that the hunter would not have access to much gear and both were early roadblocks for new players who are unfamiliar with the series.

Alatreon and Fatalis were both amazing end-game fights though I am personally opposed to any sort of "one-shot" mechanic and don't like fights that force a specific play style (in this case all out aggression)   Extreme Behemoth falls into this category as well.

There are some monsters in each MH game that I personally believe were designed around being less challenge and more a fun/relaxing hunt.  A good way to increase the player base as not everyone wants to be sweating IRL when they play a video game.

On an side the flash pod nerf made Rathalos and Kushala a giant PITA.

"Leshen goes in easy" My guy I didn't kill this thing until I killed after I killed Alatreon like 10 times