User blog comment:Nin10DillN64/1800 Pages Element/Status Ailment Contest/@comment-36958636-20180920073504



Leaden / Metalblight

This ailment consists of chunks of magnetically-charged metal floating around the hunter before suddenly attaching to the hunter, severly slowing movement speed and prohibiting weapon use much like Muddy or Snowman status. Leaden works like a combination of blast and muddy, snowman, etc. in that it takes time to come into effect, about 8 seconds, and then slowing the victim. Once the 8-second timer is up, the metal chunks fly in and attach themselves to the hunter.

Since Leaden is used by controlling metal, this ailment is primarily utilized by monsters with some control over magnetism, with Rukodiora as an example beneficiary. Monsters that utilize some sort of internal or external electromagnetism could benefit from using this as well.

Cures: (while floating) roll 3 times; (while attached) rotate the analog stick, use Cleanser, or get hit by a monster or hunter

The idea for this comes from ideas i had for monsters that use metal in a different way than seen thus far, as well as wanting to see magnetism outside of MHFrontier.

The name Leaden means to weigh down as if covered in lead (except it's not metaphorical with this), and the alternate name metalblight is a pretty obvious portmanteau of metal and blight, the name used for effects like fireblight, blastblight.

I have at least 2 pages planned using this, maybe more in the future.

Thank you guys for reading all of that, best of luck to everyone in the contest!