Toxifier Pukei-Pukei

**Toxifier Pukei-Pukei** are Variants of Pukei-Pukei.

## Aesthetic Differences/Appearance

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei's colour scheme is more vibrant than the regular Pukei-Pukei, with streaks of violet and purple across its feathers and a brighter shade of green. As the levels of its toxicity rise, its colours will increase in their vibrancy, to where its whole body gains these tints. Their tongues are more purplish in tint, and are considerably longer, the extension can be noticed on a closer look. Heightened poisons mean the tail is slightly swollen at all times until it is fully filled.

## Useful Information

### Basic

**Watch that tongue!**

These Variants have much more dangerous poison within them and the tongue gets in on the action. Beware of getting touched by it, as it proves just as dangerous as its spit and gas. There is a basic way of stopping this however.

### Advanced

With their strengthened tongues they can gather up materials no common Pukei-Pukei would dare try to ingest. Wait until it leaves it stretched and exposed, then strike to sever the hardened tip to remove this ability.

## Behaviour

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei are alike their standard counterparts, pleased with bullying other monsters in their vicinity and running when it gets in danger. Its more lethal poison abilities however means that it is now willing to pick on apex predators and is less likely to back down when threatened.

## Mount/Clutch Claw Effects

### Mounting

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei have the same mounts as the standard Pukei, that being the head, back, and tail.

### Clutch Claw

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei's head, left/right wing, legs and tail can be softened by the Clutch Claw. It can use the Tongue Grab pin-attack if hunters remain on the head too long to get them off.

## Rage And Tired States

* **Enraged**: Face turns crimson, slight poison mist emits from body.
* **Tired**: Drools from mouth, colours dull.

## Attacks

* **The Noxious Poison**: Regardless of what objects it has gathered up in its mouth, its poison can also be Noxious Poison unless damaged enough to the head/tail to render it to normal Poison.
* **Always Filled**: The tail and throat of a Toxifier Pukei-Pukei always has poison inside them to use.
* **Toxicity**: Unlike the normal Pukei-Pukei, the Toxifier Variant has a mechanic behind its poison in that its poison levels can build up as long as it doesn't attack using it. At its lowest level the Variant has normal Poison and has only a few new attacks. This changes quickly as it upgrades to Noxious Poison and unlocks much of its moveset. The higher it rises the colours on its feathers and scales turn more vibrant and the range of its poison increases overall. When enraged this truly comes into effect as it can begin using new attacks, with its ultimate exclusive to when the level is left at maximum.
* **Tongue Twist**: Turns its head and quickly swings out its tongue around under a wing to quickly knock hunters away from that place.
* **Poisonous Lick**: When it gains a material for its throat, regardless of what it is the tongue will now inflict Noxious Poison with attacks involving it. Can only be nullified by severing the tongue tip.
* **Tongue Push**: Quickly extends back its tongue and then throws it forward in a whip-lash motion. It can turn slightly while preparing it.
* **Flying Tongue Lick**: When flying in the air and typically after its aerial kick attack, the Toxifier Pukei-Pukei will swerve around and do a tongue lick around in a tight curve.
* **Poison Flick**: Gathers up a glob of poison along its tongue and flicks two balls of it at a sharp angle towards hunters.
* **Gas-line**: Looks behind itself and quickly unleashes a wave of poisonous gas behind itself in a straight line. This poison will linger in place for a few seconds.
* **Stone-poison**: Goes and gathers up rocks in a pile with its tongue. Its throat will appear to have bulges in it while it has this.
	+ **Scattering Poison Spit**: With the rocks, whenever it spits poison, the projectiles it produces will spread with the rocks. Getting hit by one of these rocks doesn't do much damage, but they inflict Noxious Poison.
	+ **Poison-rock Grenade**: A rock bounces in the mouth of the Toxifier Pukei with it drawing its head upwards. A cluster of poisonous rocks is launched from its mouth in an arc motion, and once it hits anything, will break like an explosion, with rocks spreading in a large radius. When it is enraged, it will often fire two of these at once.
* **Cactus-poison**: With its hardened tongue-tip it gathers up cactuses in the sands. Its mouth and tongue will be spiny while this is active.
	+ **Spiny Tongue**: While this poison type is active its tongue attacks now have a chance to inflict Bleeding.
	+ **Spiky Poison**: The poison it spits with the cactus spines along it will cause all poison globs to fire out faster and create a short-lasting cluster where they land. Getting hit by them or running other the clusters can inflict Bleeding.
* **Puddle-poison**: It licks up a batch of Watermoss with a quick lick of its tongue, which crushes the moisture out of them. While active, its mouth bubbles with the gooey poison.
	+ **Sludge Poison**: Watermoss will cause the poison of the Toxifier to become sludgy in form, making it form puddles where it hits instead of becoming mist. If too much gathers in one spot, hunters will be inflicted with Sticky Poison.

#### Enraged Only

* **Tongue Slam**: The Toxifier Pukei extends its tongue and flies up for a second before quickly coming down and slamming its tongue down onto hunters.
* **Wiggly Tongue**: Toxifier Pukei takes a step back to face a hunter and then quickly extends its tongue out at full length, rapidly shaking it side-to-side. With any poison enhancements it will also fling poison of that type from the tongue tip.
* **Gassy Tail Spin**: The generic tail spin attack will now release a burst of poison where it moves when enraged.
* **Scatternut Fire**: Toxifier Pukei will draw its head back and shoot a large ball of scatternut-poison at hunters in a wyvern-fire manner. This creates a big AOE that Stuns anyone hit by it and inflicts Noxious Poison to those directly in the line of fire.
* **Poison Rock Bullets**: When on a high toxicity level hunters may hear a quick grinding sound while it has stones in its mouth. Should this be heard, this is the next attack it will use. Without warning the Toxifier Pukei-Pukei unleashes a barrage of shards of poisonous rocks at a near machine-gun rate, with its aim changing from an arc to ground level as it turns its head. This is a dangerous attack, as the shards aren't enough to cause a heavy flinch and can hit multiple times, leading to health being lost very fast.
* **Cactus-spike Field**: In high toxicity the Toxifier spreads its tongue around in a circle, creating a wall of poisonous cactus spikes on the floor and then spits out more in random places. Bleeding and Noxious Poison to be expected.
* **Sludge River**: On a high toxicity level its able to spew out multiple watery poison balls at a rapid pace, creating a small flowing river of it that spreads outwards and grows if more poison balls are added. If hunters are not careful they can lose ground fast.
* **Airborne Triple Poison Spit**: With a high toxicity level, it will change its backwards poison spit into a triple done attack that fires one further than the last.
* **Toxicity Release**: Toxifier Pukei-Pukei's strongest attack, done only when it is at the maximum level of toxicity. The camera pans out as it produces a high pitched hissing croak sound. Right after it starts spewing poison all around in a circle from both the mouth and tail, both in their gas form. It then takes aloft, where the tail continues to release gas, but the mouth now shifts to what materials are in its mouth, shot at a rapid pace. At the peak of its height it lets rip a huge burst of poison gas from the tail aimed at hunters, followed up by a large cluster of poison from the mouth that bursts mid-air, leaving many particles to fall down onto hunters. It will then land, with its toxicity level dropped back to low. The attack does Noxious Poison, the final tail burst inflicting a pinned-knockdown should it hit, and any ailments arising from a material in its mouth.

## Breaks

* Head Wounded
* Tongue Tip Severed (Can only be done if attacked while it is fully extended out)
* Left Wing Wounded
* Right Wing Wounded
* Back Wounded
* Tail Wounded
	+ Tail Severed

## Damage Effectiveness

### Damage Chart Information

* **Bold** parts are weak points.
* Woundable parts can be made more vulnerable by Clutch Claw attacks.
* Breakable parts are body parts that can be broken.
* Severable parts can be partially or completely severed from the monster's body.
* Stars with (Brackets) indicate that a part's vunerablity changes due to a break or a condition.

* ✖ = Zero effect or damage
* ★ = 1-30% effective damage
* ★★ = 30%-70% effective damage
* ★★★ = 70%-100% effective damage

### Shiny Item Drops

#### Material Items

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei drops these as shinies. Achieved by knocking a part out of a swollen state or by severing the tongue tip.

* Master Rank: Toxified Feather
* Account Items: Large Wyvern Tear

#### Slinger Ammo

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei drops Piercing Pods for the Slinger.

## Ecological Information

### Placement In Food Chain

The Toxifier Pukei-Pukei, thanks to their greater utility of poison, is a tier above their standard species to be on equal match to the Anjanath. Although capable of taking down monsters as big as a Great Jagras they remain completely herbivorous and stick to eating nuts and fruits.

### Behaviour Towards Other Monsters

They are still held in regard as a "bullying" monster, annoying other monsters to get them out of their living spaces or to get simple foods that they could get themselves just as easily. Due to their higher levels of poison that can prove crippling, they easily get their way to things, and not even normal Pukei's are safe from this menacing behaviour. Should this tactic backfire, and one finds itself threatened a Toxifier increases the taunts to full on threating expressions. As confirmed with the Anjanath species, if they find themselves under attack they are ready to briefly fight back against their rivals with full extent of their poisonous abilities. If outmatched or a clearly stronger monster appears, their cowardly trait kicks back in and they flee to a safer location.

### Tracks

* Common: Toxifier Pukei-Pukei Footprints
* Unique: Poison Glob

Footprints are left where it walks and it spits Globs onto walls the same way as a normal Pukei-Pukei does.

### Specific Locale Interactions

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei, when in its nesting area of the Ancient Forest and Wildspire Waste can deliberately spill the several poison-cups in the place to drain their poison, increasing its toxicity level greatly. This will always happen when it is close to death.

### Special Behaviours

Like the normal Pukei-Pukei, the Toxifier will ingest materials in the range of nuts to stones to gain special properties to its poison.

When its tongue tip is severed, it will no longer be able to ingest cactus and stones.

## Interactions With Other Monsters

### With Anjanath/Fulgur Anjanath

#### Turf War

Unlike the normal Pukei-Pukei, a Toxifier can have a Turf War with Anjanath.

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei takes to the air and hits the Anjanath up the side of its head, missing a bite. The Anjanath doesn't miss the next one, biting onto the Variant and shaking it in its jaws and causes high damage with a burst of Fire/Thunder. Before the battle ends the same way as most of Anjanath's rivals, the Toxifier Pukei-Pukei unleashes a torrent of poison from its tail and mouth right down into the maw of the Anjanath. This causes high damage to the Anjanath, forcing it to let go of the Toxifier Pukei in disgust, ending the Turf War. The Anjanath is always poisoned after this Turf War.

### With Barroth

#### Turf War

The Toxifier Pukei will jump onto the Barroth's head and spit poison at the crown. This proves ineffective from the sturdiness of the scalp, and the Brute Wyvern does a short charge that knocks the Variant down for moderate damage. The Barroth then walks up to the Toxifier, raises its head, and gets a mouthful of poison from it. The Barroth receives high damage from this and falls over for a second gurgling from toxins, ending the Turf War. The Barroth is always poisoned after this Turf War.

### With Rajang/Furious Rajang

#### Turf War

*Identical to the Turf War between normal Pukei-Pukei and Rajang, with Rajang winning the battle easily.*

## Interactions With The Frenzy/Hyper State/Apex/Tempered

Frenzied Toxifier Pukei-Pukei have not yet been seen, due to the Frenzy Virus not being present in the New World, along with the Hyper State.

Tempered Toxifier Pukei-Pukei are Lvl2 Threat Monsters and have the regular boosts as any Tempered monster. They begin in a high toxicity level from the start.

## Quests

 **Time Limit:** | 50mins
 **Sub Quest:** | None
 **Other Monsters:**
 **Client:** Humiliated Fiver
 **Notes:**
*None*

## Ecology

### Taxonomy

* Order: Saurischia
* Suborder: Bird Feet
* Infraorder: Bird Wyvern
* Family: Pukei-Pukei
* Species: Pukei-Pukei
* Subspecies: Coral Pukei-Pukei

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei is a reptilian Bird Wyvern Variant that is native to the New World.

### Habitat Range

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei reside in the same locales as the standard Pukei-Pukei. That being the Ancient Forest, Wildspire Waste, and the Guiding Lands.

### Ecological Niche

Toxifier Pukei-Pukei, being Variants of the common Pukei-Pukei share much of their niche with their standard individuals. What sets them apart are their willingness to ingest more hazardous materials like cactus thorns and whole stones and hold them in its mouth to use as poison.

### Biological Adaptations

The Toxifier Pukei-Pukei are Variants that have become this way from successfully learning to harness harmful materials as young. This has led to the effect of its tongue developing more greatly, with the tip of it hardening and the overall length increasing by up to a metre.

Thanks to this change, the Toxifier Pukei-Pukei are able to develop stronger poison than any standard Pukei-Pukei, holding traces of it around the tongue along with their throat sac. One spit is enough to send any lower tier monster running sick and kill small monsters outright. Its body has adapted to this dangerous poison, being able to control the level of how much it contains at once. Should its poisons rise, some of it flushes into their feathers and scales, turning them into vibrant colours that appear almost like a mix of a normal and Coral Pukei's shades. If the poison exceeds the levels for one to contain, the Toxifier can release it all at once to devastating effect if used as an attack.

### Ecological Behaviour

The Variants are more daring than their standard counterparts when it comes to their signature method of bullying other monsters for food, attacking even monsters that could potentially cause great harm to them. Due to their heightened poison, they are more confident in their ways, as little would dare risk coming into contact with it. They appear to be less cowardly, and have been witnessed fighting the Anjanath and Barroth in their respective locales if cornered by them. With Apex-tier monsters, they will only attempt to fight them if they have no other choice, then flee while they can.

## Trivia

* Toxifier Pukei-Pukei appear alongside their normal counterparts, meaning they don't replace them like other New World Variants.