Okay, I swear, I just had the most amazing hunt ever. Not because it was a long, epic battle like the Rathalos hunt, though.
Me and three others versus Lagiacrus, 2* Urgent. The fight goes about par for the course for the first several minutes.
Then Lagi goes up on the shore.
One of the team eventually lays a pitfall trap, and Lagi gets caught in it. And of course we all start raging on him. However, all three of my teammates are using Paralyze element weapons. Somehow, the paralyze effect kicks in while Lagi is in the pitfall trap.
And he passes the fuck out.
In all my 300+ hours of playing MH, I have never seen a monster get so messed up that it just straight up passes the fuck out. So we wail on it mercilessly for what had to be at least a minute straight while it was passed out. Then as soon as he FINALLY breaks out of the trap, we stun him right away. Eventually he finally gets up and limps back into the water. We catch up with him in Area 11, lay the shock trap, and capture him.
I just...I've never seen a monster get owned as hard as we owned Lagiacrus. Salza, Itachi, PopFairy, if you read this, you guys are awesome. Thank you for helping me have the absolute best hunt ever.