Zenith Athal-Ka

Originally posted at https://old.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/w5oa8r/when_the_monster_hunts_you/ih9n5k6/ ca. July 2022.

This is a Variant to Athal-Ka I designed for the purposes of a Reddit Thread, but it should be interesting to have in mainline.

Zenith Athal-Ka

This monster is a danger that only grows as it stays alive. Faster, stronger, smarter than the normal Athal-Ka. It can assemble a near-completed mech that equips its own Rampage cannons, dragonator and ballista binder.

However, the real danger is the queen herself. After defeating many a Hunter and keeping their high-end, charm-equipped weapons, Zenith Athal-Ka can grab any weapon of the 14 forms lying around, and use her wireseed skills to imitate the same OP techniques the Hunters use to combat lesser monsters. Harvest Moon, Wyvern Soaring Blade, Impact Crater. You name it, she's seen is, she's learned it. And when she defeats hunters in multiplayer, she keeps (copies of) some of the weapons the Hunters used as a small weapon buffer list to add to the arena, so you might face her while holding not just a generic IG but perhaps a Fire elemental IG with Evade Dist gemmed in.

From the original Reddit thread:

_{tobi-of-the-akatsuki:}

But I'd only fight it if her ultimate attack is just gluing all 14 weapons together and whipping the weapon ball around like a dumbass.

_{VeniaSilente:}

A weapon ball that she can yoyo around and that's made of all 14 weapon types so it unleashes explosions, provides guard/block, fires shrapnel or arrows, bonks hard and also gives her various Melody Effects as she swings it around? COUNT ME IN.