Monster Hunter's Lagiacrus Looks To Be Making a Long-Awaited Return For Wilds — Here's Why Fans Are Excited

The Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase for March 2025 aired earlier this morning, detailing quality astir the upcoming Title Update 1 and teasing a spot of what's successful store for Title Update 2. In that tiny sliver of footage, fans saw signs that the much-sought-after instrumentality of Lagiacrus could beryllium happening.

Right astatine the extremity of the Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase, implicit the Title Update 2 text, we perceive immoderate aquatic sounds, followed by a telltale clawed ft and scales. The signs consciousness reasonably evident that this is going to beryllium Lagiacrus, a monster that hunters person been anxious to combat again for rather immoderate time.

Introduced successful Monster Hunter 3, a.k.a. Monster Hunter Tri, Lagi was the "flagship monster" for the game, which meant it appeared connected the container art. Alongside being the posterboy for Tri, the monster was reasonably unsocial for 1 cardinal reason: it incorporated underwater fighting. Submerged bouts were a large happening for Monster Hunter Tri, and Lagi was the premier illustration of that. Later versions successful Monster Hunter Generations moved the combat backmost onto land, and the monster has been mostly unseen since.

At 1 point, Capcom confirmed it had prototyped a caller Lagiacrus combat for Monster Hunter: World, adjacent showing immoderate ocular confirmation of it during a GDC 2018 panel. It was yet pulled, though immoderate of its tech was incorporated successful different monster, Jyuratodus.

Still, the clip spent isolated has not dulled players' emotion for Lagiacrus. For some, Monster Hunter Tri was a large entranceway into the series. And this fight, with its reasonably unsocial look and mechanics, the possibilities for a Lagiacrus combat are simply exciting. As 1 idiosyncratic pointed retired respective years agone successful a thread asking wherefore radical are truthful excited for Lagi, "People who privation for Lagiacrus to instrumentality mostly mean for underwater combat to instrumentality also, it's benignant of a bundle deal."

Unique mechanics aside, Lagiacrus has remained fashionable successful its ain right. The leviathan came successful 3rd successful a popularity canvass for Monster Hunter's 20th anniversary, beaten retired lone by No. 2 Nergigante and No. 1 Zinogre. One of its variants, Abyssal Lagiacrus, besides came successful 12th, beating retired Monter Hunter Wilds' Title Update 1 summation Mizutsune astatine 14th.

Lagiacrus looks similar it's connected the mode to Monster Hunter Wilds.

In 2022, speaking to IGN, Monster Hunter shaper explained wherefore Lagiacrus wouldn't spot a instrumentality successful the existent crippled astatine the time, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Though the shaper acknowledged the "desire is decidedly there," the method implementation is difficult.

“Unfortunately Lagiacrus is conscionable a precise technological…difficult monster to implement. It's precise snake-like, its parts are each benignant of touching the crushed astatine antithetic moments,” Tsujimoto explained astatine the time. “So it's precise similar a writhing benignant of ground-based monster.”

Yet now, Capcom has elected to bring the writhing monster back. Whether this is simply a solely onshore affair, a caller variant, oregon we spot immoderate benignant of implementation of h2o mechanics each remains to beryllium seen. Fans, however, are surely enthused. Refrains of Lagiacrus being "peak" and diligent fans celebrating their seemingly palmy manifestations litter the comments sections.

We'll get much details arsenic we determination past Title Update 1 and connected towards the summertime model for Title Update 2. But yes, it looks similar Lagiacrus is going to pb the summertime festivities successful Monster Hunter Wilds, and that's immoderate precise breathtaking quality for hunters caller and old.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.