It can travel across all terrains, no matter how extreme they are. Wherever it goes it numbs the nerves of their victims, then silences them completely....-Sherin Blacksmith
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Cantios (Cahn-tee-ous) are Flying Wyverns able to hunt in all environments. It is the flagship of Monster Hunter Tri Frenzy.
Appearance[]
Cantios main shape is that of a Flying Wyvern's. Its wings are bladed, and on ground has clawed hands like a Tigrex's, which are not visible while flying. Its head is embodied with horns like a crown. Its talons resemble that of a Rath's. The tail is like a mace, two arcs from the top and bottom, and two thinner ones from the sides. Along its neck is what appears to be gills like of a fish. Several spines cover its feet, back and chest.
Its body is a light brown, with red zigzag patterns across its legs, tail and wing webbing. Its wings, hands, feet and tail blades are a deep green. Its chest is blue.
Behaviour[]
These wyverns don't see many as a threat as it knows how to fight on all terrains. However once such a foe arises, it shows that skill in combat attacking with claws on ground, breath and wings in air, and tail with body in water.
If it finds itself outclassed it has no hesitation to quickly flee the area to escape the stronger monster.
Like most of the flying wyvern class it is highly aggressive and will attack those who seem like a threat.
Intros (MHTF)[]
Encounter Intro[]
Sword Shatterer: Area 3: Fallen Woods (In the quest, seregios avoids area 3, the chest must be broken and no other parts can be broken.)
The hunter tracks down a seregios that has been wounded by his/her hand. It goes to sleep near the poison pond. Something is seen swimming in the river above the area, it looks like a wyvern only meant for flight. It erupts out of the river in a jump similar to tigrex, slicing off the seregios' tail in a single slice. This expectedly immediately awakes the seregios and enrages it. The hunter quickly dashes for safety as the two wyverns fight. Cantios flings fire from its claws which miss the seregios, only for it to receive a deadly kick to the face and breaking its horn. Seregios sends its shards towards Cantios but it takes off and flies like it was a rath. It gives chase in the sky to claw Cantios. It reacts by breathing out a silver mist at seregios. Seregios no longer appears to protect its damaged parts anymore. Cantios uses its wings to send out blue wind at the tail stump, freezing it in place. Cantios torpedoes into seregios, breaking its wings and back. Defeated seregios falls into the poison pool as Cantios flies away. The scene swifts back to the hunters view, next to the now dead Seregios.
(The quest then scriptedly abandons)
Hunt Intro[]
Sherin Peaks: Area 5: Master Of Environment's
The Cantios bursts from the seas, flies up into the sky and breathes a cloud of Undrea and lands on the ground. There it dashes towards a carcass of a kelbi to eat. The hunter is seen behind and Cantios takes notice, abandoning its previous meal. It swiftly breathes Undrea and roars, and the hunt is on.
Attacks[]
Cantios is unique in being able to fight in all environments. The fight will be a challenge for that reason, with strategies changing on the go.
Ground[]
(On the ground it can have a Pseudo Flying Wyvern stance or a True Flying Wyvern stance. The stances change which attacks it can do.)
(True Flying Wyvern Stance)
- Warning Roar: Does the Flying Wyvern style roar animation except it keeps its wing talons on the ground. Requires High Grade Earplugs to block.
- Tail Club: Turns around 180° and slams its tail. Always done twice. It is the tail spin attack of Cantios.
- True Flying Wyvern Charge Rushes forward with its mouth open and finishes it with a bite.
- Hip Check: Bends to its side and tackles with its wing. Done to hit opponents by its side.
- Undrea Ball: Raises itself up and breathes downward firing a ball of Undrea. There is a chance it will remain skyborne and go into air mode after this.
- Kick: Cantios pounces at a target and lashes out with both talons. When enraged this will do Fireblight.
- Tail Swing: Swings its tail in a fast arc that can be done to its left or right side that near reaches its face.
(Pseudo Flying Wyvern Stance)
- Threatening Roar: Cantios swings out both wing talons from its sides as it raises itself up and slams them back into position and swings its head back down and roars. The wing claw swing part of this roar can knock back and damage hunters and even cause Fireblight when enraged.
- Pseudo Flying Wyvern Charge: Cantios charges forward towards a target and skids to a halt.
- Tail Smash: Looks behind it as it raises its tail. Cantios makes a short but quick jump backwards towards a target and smashes it down at a quick speed enough to cause quake.
- Recoil: Occasionally if a head flinch is done to Cantios in this stance it will dash forwards in a short burst and do a ground level bite in an attempt to get revenge for that hit.
(Both Stances)
(The animation for these attacks is slightly different depending on what stance it is in)
- Side Bite: A slight bite to the left while swinging its tail up to the right, does minor damage.
- Double Side Bite: This time it will take a step forward once it does the first one, then take another in a follow up that is a bite to the right while swing its tail up to the left.
- Jaw Snap: Cantios raises its head and wings and lunges forward in a chomp. Enraged this is done twice.
- Claw Of Fire: Its claw is dragged into the ground and flung up, sending fire sparks out.
- Slashes: In an arc it swipes the ground in front of it with both claws one after the other.
- Backhand: Cantios takes one of its arms up off the ground and moves a small bit away from the direction it is going to aim. Once its arm is right under its head it sweeps the arm right across to the aimed side. The distance covered is wide and Cantios will turn the rest of its body to where the hand stopped at after it has completed the attack.
- Undrea Breath: Its chest will turn grey and it spreads its wings out and it breathes out a cloud of Undrea. This will cause the Undreablight status.
(Enraged Only)
- Side Bite Combo: Cantios will do its Double Side Bite attack faster than usual and then chain the second bite into a Jaw Snap.
- Fiery Slashes: As the attack is being prepared its claws flare orange. The two slashes reach further than the normal version and when the slashes are done fire is left on the ground where the claws hit.
- Fiery Undrea Breath: The attack will begin as before. Unlike before its wingclaws both slam down and cause a spark of fire. A bright orange glow will travel along its zigzag patterns on its body to its head and ignite the Undrea in its mouth. Cantios will then shoot the breath directly in front of it, unleashing a fire ball like breath. If the attack hits a obstacle it explodes.
(Ultimate Rank Only)
- Turning Charge: Upon doing its Rath styled charge, it has a chance of extending its claws, turning around, and does another in the style of Tigrex and being put into a Pseudo Flying Wyvern Stance.
- Slide: Leaps forward, morphs its wings into fin form and does a Plesioth like slide forward. It can only be done in its True Flying Wyvern Stance and if the attack connects to the border of an underwater area it will jump into the water and go into water mode.
Air[]
- Aerial Roar: Shakes its head and roars to the ground.
- Headbutt: Violently turns its head to the side while turning.
- Wing Slash: Extends its claw to swipe while spinning with the other wing to keep it airborne.
- Bite: Bites downwards causing minor damage.
- Airborne Undrea Breath: Inhales, then exhales Undrea fumes in a straight stream.
- Talon Smash: Cantios springs up with both of its talons and strikes down at the ground.
- Talon Pin: If low on stamina, it will aim at a hunter. Cantios glides back, readies its talons and slams into the ground. If successfully done it will proceed pin the hunter and then bite him/her repeatedly. If its not escaped from in time Cantios will do the Undrea Ball attack on the hunter pinned.
- Glide: Moves back and rushes forwards. Borrowed from Rathalos.
- Surprise Ruined: If any attack Cantios from behind it will upswing hunters in front of it using its tail.
- Tail Sweep: It will bring its tail by its side and swing it widely around it to its other side.
- Rock Throw: Slams both talons in the ground, pulling out a piece of earth. It swings back and then forth tossing the rock. Can Iceblight or Fireblight when in environmental areas.
- Air Freeze: Cantios curls its wings, using its heat veins to absorb the heat of the air around it and flaps forward a gust of cold air causing Iceblight.
- Earth Ripping Glide: Goes to the ground and extends its claws and talons, using them to tear the ground and unearth rocks that fly behind. When enraged this will do Fireblight.
(Enraged Only)
- Airborne Fiery Undrea Breath: Cantios raises its head and makes a bunch of Undrea in its mouth. As soon as it forms the heat veins across its neck emit a orange glow which travels to the breath and ignites it. Once on fire Cantios hovers up and fires the breath at a hunter. This can be shot right underneath it, at a distance, or at a hunter climbing/jumping above it.
- Talon Scrape: With its red hot talons it scrapes the ground with sparks of fire being left behind.
- Fiery Scrape: It begins its talon scrape attack but will move downwards a second and claw into the ground then spring up, kicking forward fiery shrapnel at hunters.
(Ultimate Rank Only)
- Undrea Glide: Breathes a cloud of Undrea that surrounds its wings. With a wide span it flies overhead, leaving the Undrea cloud behind.
- Dive Slam: Will suddenly extend its wing talons and slam directly down into the ground.
Water[]
- Underwater Roar: Does a leviathan styled roar.
- Bite: A simple bite forwards.
- Swinging Chomp: A bite that begins on one side and reaches around to its other side.
- Double Bite: Will bite forward twice.
- Double Swinging Chomp: Does the attack two times and both bites reach around to a 180 degree angle.
- Wing Flap: Takes its wings out of fin form and pushes forward a current of water. The wings causes modorate damage while the current inflicts Waterblight.
- Claw: Will extend one of its claws and slash. A very quick attack.
- Talon Kick Down: If hunters are underneath Cantios it will preform this attack. It moves up slightly while raising up its foot talons and then dives down and delivers a kick from both talons.
- Tail Flip: Raises its tail and back flips, if the tail isn't cut off it can inflict Waterblight.
- Spin: Dashes to its side and spins itself in a circular motion.
- Undrea Wave: Breathes out three balls of Undrea that move in a wave like pattern.
- Dash: Swims backwards and charges into a faraway opponent.
- Tail Swipe: Will swing itself around to hit hunters with its tail.
- Curling Tail Swipe: Cantios opens its jaws and does a bite that reaches directly to its tail, which it in the direction of its mouth making Cantios appeared curl up. Just before the fangs reach it, the tail is swung around to where its head was previously. After this attack it will be facing the opposite of the original direction it was at.
- Flinged Undrea Ball: If hunters attack from land from a considerable distance it will fire an Undrea Ball in an arc like way not unlike the Lagiacruses (3rd Gen) attack.
- Sweeping Undrea Breath: If hunters are on land and are close Cantios will arise out the waters surface and exhale out Undrea Breath that moves left to right/right to left very quickly two times and then submerge.
(Enraged Only)
- Quintuple Sweeping Undrea Breath: In its rage its raises up more faster than usual and looks sky high, gathering a large amount of Undrea and then it shall do its Sweeping Undrea Breath four times even faster than the original one.
- Fiery Flinged Undrea Ball: Its build up animation will have a seconds delay as it ignites the Undrea Ball. When this version hits it will explode upon impact, giving more range.
- Boiling Undrea Wave: The heat veins on Cantios glow bright orange and then the light then goes to its head. The heat causes a flash with Cantios rearing back with the bright flashing cloud of Undrea in its mouth. The Cantios then blasts forward the cloud in a wide arc shape that expands with distance. Even though it cannot cause Fireblight the cloud will still cause fire damage.
(Ultimate Rank Only)
- Freeze Flap: An unexpected attack as it uses its wings not as fins. It repeatedly flaps them and drains the heat from and exhales into the cloud formed. It bursts to hit anything in its range with Iceblight.
All[]
- Undrea Blast: Will breathe in a huge breath and fire a cluster bomb like Undrea ball. Its animation changes depending on its mode and when enraged there will be more projectiles.
(Enraged Only)
- Blazing Undrea Blast: An upgraded version of the Undrea Blast. All the heat veins on its body will glow at once and all head to the head region of Cantios as it prepares its Undrea Blast making its head rear slower. The heat ignites the entire blast and causes the main projectile to create a larger explosion than the normal version. The other projectiles also explode if they travel too long, and the way they do depends on the mode. If in air the explosion causes fire sparks to rain down directly below. If in water a shockwave effect happens and on ground several flaming pebbles are launched.
(Ultimate Rank Only)
- Taking Aim For The Big Attack: Cantios will snarl before beginning the Undrea Blast attack but a twist occurs. Cantios opens its mouth as it was about to shoot the blast but will do another snarl and then suddenly turn towards the nearest hunter and fire the blast much faster than the normal version. This attack can easily catch players off guard.
(Enraged Only)
- Environmentalist Master Undrea Blast: Cantioses strongest attack. It will breath in and absorb the air around it with a colourful air effect. If in hot environments it will breathe in red/orange air, if it cold locations it will breathe in light blue/white air, and in water it will breathe in exactly that. Cantios will then do the Blazing Undrea Blast charge up to power the already enhanced Undrea cloud in its mouth. It then moves towards a player in a movement that knocks attackers away then stops and prepares itself as the cloud reaches its full power. Then Cantios fires the blast straight forward which knocks the wyvern back far, the very force of the firing causing a shockwave that causes a Blight that depends on the environment it is in to emit around the area where it was launched. The main projectile is two times larger than all the other blasts and it will glow brightly as it moves across the area and once it impacts an object/hunter or gets too bright it shall create an huge explosion. Along with that its more projectiles from it than any other. From every single one of them comes a shockwave that depends on the environment. Cantios will become vulnerable for a few seconds after doing this and five minutes must pass before it can be done again. This attack can well one hit cart a hunter who has a bad weakness to one of the elements of this attack.
- In non special environments the shockwave will be a pillar of Undrea on the ground and a cloud break up further cluster in the air.
- In hot environments the shockwave will be a health draining AOE for the main projectile, and embers will spray from the rest. All forms of the shockwaves cause Fireblight.
- In cold environments the shockwave will create a sphere of Snowman inflicting cloud for the main projectile, and ice spikes will fly out from the rest. All forms of the shockwaves cause Iceblight.
- In water the shockwave will be a large ringed wave from the main projectile and a sphere wave from the rest. All forms of the shockwaves cause Waterblight.
Undreablight[]
Undreablight is a ailment used by Cantios. It has the lethal effect of blurring the health and stamina bars, making it harder to tell how much damage you can take before fainting.
Plus Undrea attacks have a 3% chance (6% in Ultimate rank) of inflicting Severe Undrablight, an extremely dangerous version which completely blurs out the health and stamina bars for a mostly fatal outcome as theirs no way to know much health is left. With the Undrea cursed skill Undreablight is always severe, no matter what.
Cantios' armor grants the Undrea master skill that negates Undreablight and increases effectiveness of Undrea element weapons which are unique to Cantios.
There are two ways of curing it, the Spicy bottle introduced in the game or a nulberry.
Rage and tired states[]
- Enraged: Undrea fumes from mouth and eyes and red patterns glow.
- Tired: Drools from mouth, chest will shrink if not broken and Undrea attacks will fail.
Breaks[]
- Head (2x), horns then scar up the middle of head along with its fangs damaged
- Chest, spines broken and weak point revealed
- Tail broken, tips of blades broken
- Tail sever, tail must have been broken first
- Left wing
- Right wing
- Left wing claw
- Right wing claw
- Back spines
- Foot talons
Carves[]
G Rank[]
- Cantios Master scale: Grown to bare through all environmental threats this scale is the perfection of nature.
- Cantios Cortex: Light, strong, adaptatable, there is little this armor has wrong.
- Cantios Mace: Sneak attacks fail to a blow from this sleek tail.
- Cantios Hardhorn: A head brace from the head that offers protection.
- Cantios Peeler: Its masters hunts has made this claw red from heat and blood.
- Cantios Morphwing: A limb that will go from wing to fin instantly if needed.
- Cantios Tongue: A Undrea invested organ. Its believed this alone can cause The Undrea.
Ultimate Rank[]
- Cantios Supreme scale: There is literally no environment that can defey this shards strength.
- Cantios Axon: Shell that has lived through many hazards that many a shell would dissolve under.
- Cantios Bludgeon: A sturdy yet light tail that canon moves through water with ease. One strike leaves skulls cracked.
- Cantios Stronghorn: The creature's crown of steel hardness. No temperature affects its shape.
- Cantios Skinner: Razor claws that have become red hot from multiple hunts. Will never cool down.
- Cantios Transwing: A wing that works perfectly on land and water. Often used in exploration of the skies and ocean.
- Cantios Lung: The source of Cantios' Undrea. Dragon element and the remains of its food mixtures.
Mount[]
- Cantios is attacked on the back in the land and sea. The land shake off animation can be of that of a Nargacuga's, Tigrexes or the standard Flying Wyvern one. The sea mount involves it darting in circles.
- Cantios is attacked on its chest in the sky.
Death Animations[]
Land[]
Cantios has a shiver throughout its whole body and falls to the floor. With its wing claws extended now it makes a few movements to get itself back up but the fatal wounds take their toll once it gets up. Cantios raises up and makes its dying moan and collapses directly straight onto the ground and dies.
Air[]
Cantios will cry out and plummet to the ground. With the majority of its body so wounded they only twitch, Cantios can only make a pained yell to the sky before its head and tail flop down as it dies.
Water[]
Cantios extends its wings and its claws to try and make it to air, but it fails and with a few flaps, turns on its side and dies.
Music Theme[]
It has its own unique music battle theme, but Chaoarren the creator didn't want to use one from another game, nor could he even upload a music file. So, feel free to imagine your own.
Interactions with The Frenzy/Apex[]
Cantios can become infected by The Frenzy as Undrea cannot block it out. Its red zig zag markings become purple and its roar becomes a much lower pitch.
Cantios can overcome The Frenzy and become Apex Cantios. The brown hide it has turns very dark, almost to jet black. Its roar becomes completely unreconisable from its normal one. When on ground its claws spread off fire sparks when it does any attack involving them. Its undrea blast increases in wideness. It becomes truly deadly, gaining another set of attacks to go with the original.
Apex Cutscenes[]
Transformation To Apex[]
Tundra: Area 2: Corruption Of The Cantios
The sun shines over the Tundra as a familiar shadow dashes past. The camera shows that its a cantios fleeing from what looks like another one, only frenzied. The frenzied one let's out a distorted screech striking out and hitting the cantios back. Despite this it continues to flee, with frenzied one in persuit. After a while the frenzied one hits the tail of the normal making it lose balance, followed with a divebomb that sends it directly into the area with cracked ice surrounding its seemingly dead body. Right next to it is a popo which the frenzied lands directly on, killing it instantly. The frenzied wyvern eats from the meat, then proceeds to sleep on the areas right edge.
As night comes, The Frenzy starts to taint the cantios, unexpectedly causing clouds to form as it fails to fully infect the Cantios. A blast of purple lights the area as the clouds now begin coming from the Cantios' body. This awakes the frenzied, who fails to see the danger and rushes right at it lashing with its wing talons. The talons completely break from the hardness of the shell causing it to emit a pained yet distorted scream. The new apex replies with a roar of its own, a horrifing scream distorted beyond recognizion. The frenzied one dashes and takes flight from fear from the apex, only for apex to leap at it in tigrex fashion biting off its tail and seemingly burning its wings from its claws.
As the frenzied struggles to get up, a wing arm broken the apex predator lands directly in front, biting its servered tail into shards. Its wing talons glow orange, melting the snow on which it stands. The frenzied is pushed down as the apex brings its right claw to its throat. The screen turns black just as the apex slashes...
The Aftermath[]
Tundra (Night): Area 2: Brutal Aftermath
A camera pans across the area, turning towards the right. The sight seen is grim. The skeleton of a cantios is seen, with several parts of its flesh remaining however burnt. Ice around is stained red with several holes in the floor. In the centre is a crater like impact zone, with a popo skeleton next to that. The dead cantios is seen to have died brutally, with its wing talons missing along with its tail, a broken wing and many fractures. It appears to have had its troat cut, mauled then eaten. A yelp from a barioth interrupts the scene, seen flying overhead from area 4 as a dark figures knocks it straight into the area...
Apex Intro[]
Tundra: Area 4: Cruel Master
The hunter appears and with no waiting there is already action! A heavily wounded barioth charges at the apex cantios, affected by Undrea. Cantios swiftly dodges a bite and with a reflex it pounces and slashes its wing claw at barioths chest wound, killing it as the flames burns through and smashes against a wall. The Cantios' gaze turns to the hunter, slowly turning towards him/her. It gives out its distorted roar, causing him/her to leap out of the way as ice spikes fall from the ceiling. Before he/she can react Cantios' picks him/her up in its talons! And proceeds to even leave the area!
Above area 3 the hunter manages to use a wystone to make it drop him/her. The apex theme begins to play as apex cantios hovers over and roars in annoyance, then the hunt begins from there!
Apex Exclusive Attacks[]
Ground[]
- Leap: In ground mode it pounces and slashes in a tigrex fashion causing fireblight.
- 360° tail strike: Spins its tail in a over quick style like nargacuga.
- Single slash: Leaping at a target it delivers a powerful slash from one of its wing talons causing hunters to get knocked back far.
- Maul: Will strike both wing talons together in an attempt to trap a hunter. If it succeeds it will repeatedly slash at him/her with its right wing talon. If not broken out of in time it picks him/her up with its left wing talon, drops him/her only to violently slash him/her away with its right. The hunter can actually hit another one, causing damage to him/her as well. The worst part is that this pin is very hard to mash out of.
(Ultimate rank only)
- Double slash: When enraged it will repeat the attack immediately on a different target.
- Slash maul combo: If it misses its slash attack twice in a row it'll do its maul grab as it lands.
Air[]
- Dive slam: Will suddenly extend its wing talons ands slam directly below it.
- Airal glide down: Climbs to a high altitude and glides to the ground with foot talons out. When enraged it fires down a single ball of Undrea.
(Ultimate rank only)
- Glide Undrea breath It always fires a ball of Undrea even when not enraged. When it is, the ball turns into a full continous stream of it.
Water[]
- Turning tail whip: Does a plesioth style tail strike, inflicting waterblight.
- Advancing 360° spin: Dashes forward a bit bringing up its tail before dashing more as it spins that tail around.
(Ultimate rank only)
- Spin Undrea add on: As it does its spin it breathes out Undrea during it.
All[]
- Undrea mist: Now whenever it does an Undrea attack it will remain on the ground as a mist for a few seconds to infect any who are unaware.
Trivia (MHTF)[]
- Apex Cantios' pin comes from the original idea of Seregios pin, in which the "damage other hunters" didn't happen in the final game.
- Cantios is not the only user of Undrea, it is also comes from Dasamios. Its ash clouds contain elements that cause Undrea from its back vent and mouth.
- They seem to have a hatred for Seregios, possibly from the natural viewing of them as weak.
- Plus, seregios shards don't seem to harm them much, sometimes having no effect.
Reappearance in Calamitous[]
- It is revealed the Sherin region is their birthplace, and their migration was caused by Tri Frenzy's events.
- It appears in all main areas as well like the previous game.
- One event in the village story has one attack Sherin village as its introduction.
- It can now be hunted in High Rank.
Intros (MHC)[]
Introduction[]
- Cantios' Raid!, Sherin Village (Battle), Area 1
Rocks lie underneath spires of rubble which continue to block the safest path to the Sherin Peaks. Villagers try to redirect a Pikfrin which has moved into the area to their displeasure. Down behind the blockade in the river a wyvern swimming down it eats fish one by one in a single bite. A lancer arrives at the scene to forcefully move out the stubborn Pikfrin. Just before it receives a stab to the neck the blockade is completely destroyed as the piscine wyvern bursts through! Or what was a piscine wyvern as it takes a Tigrex stance and pounces onto the Pikfrin and does the job the lance couldn't, only that the result is death.
The villagers scramble to the main living section, as the gates close behind them. It is yelled that the monster is Cantios, a dangerous wyvern around the region. Standing ground the lancer tries to fight it, but is one shotted by its mace tail.
The villages hunter arrives to see the lancer being dragged unconsciously away. He/she looks just in time to dodge a glide swoop from the wyvern, which now looks to have the ability of flight. The scene zooms out with the Cantios snarling at The hunter which transitions to battle.
Hunt intro[]
- Undrean hunter: Sherin Peaks (MHC): Area 13
The hunter arrives in the area only to be immediately ambushed by Scofisl. Although he/she manages to fend off the raptors, it ends as the hunter falls over paralyzed. It is revealed to be a Prime Scofisl who orders one to finish off the hunter. As the Scofisl jumps a Cantios springs out of the jungle and slashes through, cutting the Scofisl in half and sending its pieces into the trees. The wyvern then proceeds to chomp and swallow the second, cut through the third with its talons and smash the final into dust with its tail.
The sight of seeing its group slain sends Prime Scofisl into a rage. The hunter leaps down to avoid Prime Scofisl's leap towards Cantios' face latching onto it and stabbing its head with its tail. It takes airborne, with it still attached. Patterns on its wings glow red as it is angered by the bird wyvern. Roaring causes prime to flinch, giving Cantios the opportunity to bite into its body and chuck it off.
Pain causes Prime to become evasive, which Cantios hates. A silver stream of mist is emitted from its mouth which envelops Prime, which suddenly makes it aggressive again. Cantios leads it to the waters side where it suddenly sits as the angry raptor races towards it. It leaps for Cantios' face again. But just before it hits, Cantios sours up high, cuts off the raptors tail and results in causing prime to plummet into the waters! Fall alone critically injures it, breaking its legs. But it still tries to fight as if it was unaware of its wounds, its in vain as it sinks into the deeper water and drowns.
The hunter has not gone unnoticed as Cantios drops from the sky right in front of him/her! Looking right in the eye it roars as the hunt begins!
Notes on Calamitous return[]
- The high rank version can only use Undrea attacks when enraged.
- Despite not being the flagship Cantios still holds a noticeable spot in the game.
- The Apex Cantios' hide is noticeably less black than in Tri Frenzy and is now dark red mixed with purple tinted instead. Reason being is because of the Shadow Cantioses appearance. Also due to this Apex Cantios is only limited to day time appearances in all the locations in the Sherin Region and can only appear at night in the other region locations.
Shadow Cantios[]
In Calamitous a subspecies known as Shadow Cantios is introduced. This species only attacks in the open at night and wields poisonous claws, blinding black wind from its wings and the Cursed Undrea.
New Attacks/Abilities[]
Its AI is overall smarter, and increases as ranks go higher with new abilities.
- Water Baiting: Cantios will stand still next to water. If a hunter tries to make a heavy attack on it Cantios will very quickly dash behind the hunter and backflip him/her into the water.
(G Rank Added)
- Fake Out Bite: It will look to prepare its bite but looked at closely a small mist of Undrea emits from its mouth and a slight delay happens. The jaws prepare to snap when at the last moment it opens it wide open again and blasts forward a stream of Undrea.
(Ultimate Rank Only)
- Undrea Fang Coating: Now when it goes into rage mode its fangs will be tainted by the huffs of the Undrea meaning all bites will now also cause Undreablight. Can be stopped by breaking the head twice as this chips off the tips of the fangs.
High Rank carves[]
- Cantios Scale: Thin in air, thick on land, and solid in water, it is a environmental scale.
- Cantios Carapace: Recognized from its brown and red zig zagged colour, it is the wyverns armor.
- Cantios Tail: Developed to act like a hammer on land and fin in sea.
- Cantios Horn: One of the three horns located open the wyverns head, its dagger shape shows danger.
- Cantios Claw: These only extend out on land, anywhere else its hidden spines.
- Cantios Wing: A wing and a fin in one form. How its able to be like this is unknown.
- Cantios Tonsal: Located in the back of Cantios' mouth, it is very hard to carve out in usable form.
General Trivia[]
- Cantios' creation came from a simple idea: What if there was a creature able to hunt everywhere without being unsuited?
- It was featured in a blog post by the creator from being the most spoken about monster of the week
- Also, it was featured in a highlight by Gojira57.
- Its wing claws where originally always extended regardless of mode, but due to the render made, Chaoarren decided to make them only appear in ground mode.
- Like most fanon flagships it is the users favourite creation.
Appearances, subspecies and variants in other fan games[]
- Original Monster Hunter EX Series:
- Cantios (MHEX)(Page No Longer Exists):
It shares more with Seregios in its EX1 cutscenes, uses more flashy and special attacks and is as deadly as before! - Veteranized Cantios: A variant of Cantios introduced in MHEX2. Battle hardened and uses new abilities unique to it.
- Cantios (MHEX)(Page No Longer Exists):
- New Monster Hunter EX series:
- Cantios (MHEX Remake): Unlike in the previous series it cannot be fought underwater making it more akin to the MHOG version.
- Assassin Cantios (Never Created): A subspecies of Cantios which appears to be the EX version of the Shadow Cantios.
- Volatile Cantios (Never Created): The first rare species of Cantios with a lot of resemblance to Molten Tigrex in both colour and abilities.
- Cantios (MHEX Remake):
- Monster Hunter Online G:
- Cantios (MHOG): It is heavily redesigned because of lack of water combat being present in this game, getting new attacks in the process.
- Shredder Cantios: A variant of Cantios in MHOG that has lost its colour and has far more larger claws and fights mainly in land mode.
- Cantios (MHOG):
- Monster Hunter Alpha Dos:
- Hukk: A unique mutant of Cantios, Shadow Cantios, Veteranized Cantios and Shredder Cantios. No joke. And to make it completely insane it can control the apex status and decide to enter and escape it at will !
- Hukk:
Species not in a fan game[]
- Bloodshed Shredder Cantios: A Deviant of the Shredder Cantios with a taste for blood. It is no longer the environmental master it once was, and is almost entirely exclusive to land combat.
User credits[]
- Rathosaurus: For the main render and using Cantios in his fan game.
- Ailuromancy: For the icon.
- Gojira57: For using this monster in his EX series.
- Tigrexhunter: For creating the mutant Cantios known as Hukk.