Thunderous Cephadrome

Romaji: Dosugareosu 

Japanese: ドスガレオス亜種

English: Thunderous Cephadrome

Size: Medium

The Thunderous Cephadrome, is a thunder element subspecies of the Cephadrome. First introduced in Monster Hunter Z, as the urgent quest monster from HR 40 to HR 41 in High Rank.



Physiology
Thunderous Cephadrome are the same size as their distant relatives. The only notable differences in appearance is that Thunderous Cephadrome possesses a crest on its head, similar to the hardcore Cephadrome found in Monster Hunter Frontier. It has bright purple scales and, when entering rage mode, blue markings on the ends of its wings, fin, and tail. It also gets surrounded by sparks of electricity.

Behaviour
Thunderous Cephadrome are lonesome creatures. They do not lesser versions of themselves, unlike the Cephadrome, which has the Cephalos as its juvenile form. Thunderous Cephadrome are also, unusually, distantly related to Delex and Great Delex. Thunderous Cephadrome have been known to attack hunters on sight, and, when not disturbed, they have been seen swimming in deep sand using their dorsal fin and tail for steering. Thunderous Cephadrome (and Cephadrome) can only swim in sand that is at least 20 feet deep, like the sand in the Great Desert (a different version of the Great Desert, where there are 7 areas). It cannot swim in the sand in area area 8 of the Sandy Plains for example.

Abilities
As said, Thunderous Cephadrome are capable of delivering thunder element attacks when enraged, where it also surrounds itself with a field of lightning rays. Any hunter that comes into contact with these rays will be paralyzed, so a weapon with long reach is recommended for Blademasters. It possesses a neurotoxin in its fangs that also paralyzes anything they penetrate. These fangs are its primary hunting weapon, for paralyzing prey and eating them alive.

Attacks
Thunderous Cephadrome borrows some attacks from the Cephadrome (Note that I made the Cephadrome's moveset COMPLETELY different from what it was in Freedom Unite as well, apart from the True Wyvern Hipcheck move), but also gains some new attacks of its own, including a thunder element enhanced hipcheck and a turning bite.