Agnaktor's low ranking is largely due to the fact that he fails long range more than the 8 above him (except maybe Uragaan, but Uragaan's spin dash attack exclusively put him over the top). Agnaktor's laser is powerful and long range, but has an easy tell and is limited in scope, and his moves are easy to track when he's underground (unlike Diablos where you better Sonic Bomb him or run like hell), and the other 8 above him all have attacks that let them cover the distance of an entire region in an instant, except possibly Gobul (Gobul's higher because he's more dangerous to play with in short-range fighting, imo), and Gigginox (who is extremely dangerous and moreover very deceptive in close combat)

I still think maybe 6 or 7 at the lowest- his HP, high damage and varying zones are nough to put him up there...

True, but I feel as though Jho was the biggest threat of all. His red mode is mental...

Just remeber that I'm still only HR36. I havn't even MET Altearon yet, so I can't be the judge of that...

Same about everything. I thought that the Great Jaggi was tough at the start...

Guh. Agnaktor is just like Pecco anything, the game will not give me the freakin' beak.

I hate Diablos with 94% of the hate i have for Rathalos, but i finally beat him offline. It took Ingot Plus and a Spiral Splash B, but i did it (mostly because network play was being difficult again)

Got screwed over with a quest failure when we had chased Agnaktor back to his den, which enraged me enough to pull the plug on the Wii (but the game did count it as an abandon, so :P on it), so the gods of internet karma determined that i would hunt Agnaktor no more tonight.

I also played offline mode. Because no one here could give me advice for the barroth, barioth & rathalos offline arena, I decided to try something different. I tried the rathian & rathalos arena quest. This one gave me at least a hammer to fight. It's not my favourite weapon, but I can use it a little bit. Of course I lost at the first try, but I was able to take down rathian. I ran out of potions, so I thought I should use a little trick. I started a two player match and used the players alternatively. So I had the double amount of items. And I really managed to take both down and finally got my first rathalos coin. I did it three more times and now I have an outfit with the skill Carving Master.

Using the hammer was also a nice experience. It's fun to hit a wyvern with a hammer on the head. Maybe someday I will be skilled enough to kill rathian & rathalos with just one player.

I still hope someone can give me hints for the barroth, barioth & rathalos offline arena. The offered weapons are not really my prefered weapons. I have not enough skill with the GS. And I have no experience with the SA, Lance or bowgun. And barioth is one of the monsters, which gives me a few problems. His high initial speed and crazy attack pattern are reasons, why he would be much higher on my list than on Mr Khans.

That's a neat trick there, might try that to farm some coins. I hardly ever play arena so I really can't offer any advice on the bari, barr and thalos arena. Its sounds to me the main problem you have is the weapon choices? Based on your post, I can only conclude that you are most familiar with SnS, LS and a bit of the Hammer. If these are not the choices, then my best advice is to get familiarized with the other weapons :) I would say Lance is pretty easy, as the shield is better than that of the SnS and the attack rate is still pretty decent.

I...have never played the arena. Lie, actually, I did once, but it was lame...