#diablos also gets a shout out cause her biology and worldbuilding/ecology is very cool to me!!! I like how diablos are set up as-

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what's your favorite monster hunter monster?

honestly sort of a difficult question cause it's difficult to choose just one; but here's a list of some of my faves!!

Tobi Kadachi; his armour in World is one of my first favourites (I especially love the palico armor)

Zinogre is also an obvious favourite, mainly because I'm a BIG fan of it's design and colors (I am not immune to blue-green-teal and yellow/gold-highlighted palettes). It's introduction sequence in Iceborne is also REALLY cool and chilling. Stygian Zinogre is also chilling and terrifying, and it's color palette is (chef kiss)

Namielle is also an easy favorite in terms of elder dragons; again, for it's really, really cool and in-depth design. The way it moves and its colors and tendrils make me think they took inspiration from jellyfish and nudibranches/sea slugs for it's design, and I think they utilized the inspiration really well.

Paolumu and Banbaro are also ones I really like, mainly because a lot of the monsters in the games I've played skew very reptilian in nature so having some that are closer to mammals breaks up the patterns a bit and adds some nice variety!!

And even though I said it'd be hard to choose one monster in particular as my favorite, I won't lie that I have a big soft spot for Odogaron. It encompasses a lot of monster design traits I really like (big and obvious fangs, extendable claws and bone features, fast and lethal moves while still being very strong physically, cool twisty scales). It also influenced the design of my fursona quite a bit. Ebony odogaron is also very neat and has an awesome color palette.

And to finish off the list with an endemic monster: the Wulg. He's just an angry little ouppy who jumps around