Favourite Monster in general: Goss Harag, Bazel and Chameleos
Favourite New Monster: Goss Harag, easily and Mizutzune as second place. I guess Magna would be 3rd.
Best returning monster: Zinogre, Chameleos and Bazel. Its hard to pick, they're all amongst my favorite.
Most improved: Kushala. Its usually a drag of a fight, but this game changed its mechanics and moveset and its very enjoyable now.
Worst Monster: Jyura. Its just a dull design and an overall boring fight.
Ugly Ugly: Khezu, I guess? Like, whats the point of Khezu.
Most Difficult: Teostra. But I do feel its still somewhat easier than usual tbh. In general I dont feel there are legit hard monsters in this game.
Unexpectedly challenging: Tobi-Kadachi, it being the only returning monster that I feel actually got more difficult.
Unexpectedly easy: Narga, since it no longer causes the bleeing status, it feels easier than before. But its overall the same fight from World as far as moveset goes.
Scariest: None... Angry Teostra maybe?
Coolest armor set: Magnomalo and Goss Harag. Both awesome.
First to kill me: Magnomalo in HR
Coolest musical theme: Magnomalo
Hope they add in future updates: Variant monsters aside (which I hope theres a lot) - I really wanna get Namielle. That fight was so very enjoyable.