Basarios
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| Names | |
| English Name: | Basarios |
| Nicknames: | Basa |
| Titles: | Unseen Peril |
| Japanese Name: | バサルモス |
| Romaji: | Basarumosu |
| Japanese Title: | Rock Monster |
| Description | |
| Type of Monster: | Wyvern |
| Size: |  1193.8 ~  1531.2
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| Body Colors: | Volcanic Rock Grey |
| Signature Moves: | Fireball Spew/Fire Beam |
| Monster Icon: | 
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| Description: | A large wyvern found in volcanic zones. They are the juvenile form of the Gravios. They have a steel-like carapace that requires powerful items to crack. Emits poison gas. |
| Other information | |
| Element: | Fire |
| Secondary Status' Inflicted: | Poison and Sleep |
| Weakest to: | Dragon on belly and Water |
| Weakness sign: | Will limp |
| Habitats: | Volcanoes, Swamps |
| Other monster in relation: | Gravios |
| First U.S. Appearance: | Monster Hunter |
| First Japanese Appearance: | Monster Hunter |
| Generation: | 1 |
Basarios is a small rocky wyvern that lives exclusively in the volcanic regions. It is the juvenile form of Gravios. It is able to release either sleeping/poisonous gas from its underside, and on extremely rare ocassions a fire plume. It has also been known to unleash a very powerful lava beam at times, but this occurs very rarely. It can also hurl balls of fire like a Yian Kut-Ku (although much stronger), but it prefers to charge towards predators. Basarios also attempts the 'Beam' attack shown by Gravios; however, it almost always fails.
When resting or changing areas, it burrows underground, exposing only its back to give the appearance of a large grey rock. Being very heavy makes it a slow mover, and although it has wings, it very rarely uses them to fly. Even when they do, their weight allows them only to fly for a very short time. In Monster Hunter, they can only stay in one area. However, in the sequels, they have gained the ability to move to different locations by burrowing, similar to the Carapaceons.
Their exterior shell is hardened to the point where weapons with green sharpness have the tendency to bounce in many places (without the ESP skill). Only by exposing the chest plate area does this tendency drop significantly.
The tail can also be sliced off by blade weapons. The difficulty of this is rather high as Basarios charges quite frequently and at other times expel gases which inflict sleep or poison. This is in addition with the bouncing of weapons due to the hard exterior shell. Finally, even if you manage to, then the cut tail will be rather small and hard to find.
In Some Monster Hunter games, Basarios stays in area 2 of the volcano. Basarios hide themselves and ambushes unalert hunters by hiding their body underground. They only expose their Top rocky spikes that looks like any other pile of boulders. They only jump up the ground when they are hit by something or when hunters go very near them. A good way to get their attention without getting hurt is using Psychoserum or throwing rocks and paintballs at it. Or if you're a gunner, you can shoot at it. Another effective method is to lay Large Barrel Bombs, or Barrel Bomb+'s , by the rock pile and then through a stone or light a Small Barrel Bomb next to other bombs then run, this will give a lot of damage to wyvern and make him drop a shiny( Wyvern tears or sobs depending on the level of the quest) . Just make sure not to get to close or he will just jump up and the bombs will explode with you still planting them.
[edit] Trivia
- In Monster Hunter Freedom and Monster Hunter, the Basarios stayed in only two areas, Area 2 and 3 of the Volcano.
- Basarios, along with Gravios and Bulldrome, are the only monsters able to be flipped over on their backs when you hit them hard.
- Basarios's tail is the smallest in the Monster Hunter world when cut; it's about one foot long.
- The Basarios shell is actually harder to break than its older counterpart Gravios.
- In the old swamp he is only found in one of the cave areas.
- The Basarios's Chest can be broken twice.
- Even Purple Sharpness will bounce off the G-Rank Basarios so ESP is a must.
