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Alright, let me sell you on why you should be nominating Rathalos from Monster Hunter.

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Rathalos is essentially the Pikachu of the Monster Hunter franchise - while it may not be everyone's favourite monster, it's pretty much the face of the series. When you see Rathalos, you think Monster Hunter. Generally showing up in the latter half of a rank, it's a fairly strong monster that tends to provide good equipment, especially when you start talking about its Azure and Silver subspecies, the latter of whom is one of the toughest fights in the series.

The King of the Skies would make a good entrant into the character battle for a couple of reasons. First of all, Monster Hunter has never been represented in a GameFAQs character battle. Second, it has the potential to be...maybe not strong, but at least not fodder. With Monster Hunter World releasing this year and being a big seller that remains one of the more popular games on this site, and Generations Ultimate coming out for Switch just two weeks ago, the series is the most popular (outside Japan) as its ever been, and Rathalos in particular is getting some good press - the MHW/FFXIV crossover event saw it appearing in FFXIV, and its been confirmed to appear as a boss/assist trophy in Smash Ultimate. So Rathalos is on people's minds these days as a cool dude. He's unlikely to get in without a nomination rally of sorts since MH isn't a series you think of when you think character battle, but he can probably put on a better showing than most characters that need rallies to get in.

So that's why Rathalos is the kind of guy you should be trading one of those nominations for
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