Question regarding Fenrir fight in Snowcloak (could use community team answer)

I already posted this over on Reddit, but I'd like to know what you guys think about this too. So, I paid a visit to Snowcloak earlier today for my Zodiac drop and noticed something about Fenrir this time. When you're fighting him, he keeps his right forepaw lifted throughout the whole fight and only places it onto the ground when executing skills, and when he's about to leap.

There's no real advantage to him fighting this way, so it made me wonder... Is Fenrir injured during this fight? I seem to recall Yoshi-P saying something about having plans for Fenrir in the future (which could possibly be a hint of seeing him return much stronger in Snowcloak HM, which I'm hoping). Still, I am left curious though... What exactly happened here?

Surely it's not just some quirk he has. Fenrir plays a big role in mythology, so whatever hurt him enough to make him not want to put pressure on his right forepaw, unless absolutely necessary, must have been quite the adversary. I'm betting Odin paid him a visit, heh.

It would be great if we could get someone from the community team to answer this if none of the players have a solid explanation as to why he does this. I'd be really interested to know why he was designed this way for this fight. If anything, I'm just glad my mount doesn't have a limp and/or growls whenever his right forepaw hits the ground, lol.

That's an interesting theory, but it is so sly that I never paid attention to it myself. It could be that with "future plans" they were regarding to the Fenrir mount sold on the Gold Saucer. You never know though, maybe we'll get a Snowcloak HM with a revamped Fenrir?

Yeah, it was before the mount was introduced, so he could have just been talking about that. I hope we either get an improved HM version of Fenrir though or they include him as a primal. Sticking him as a boss in a random dungeon really doesn't do Fenrir justice, especially with all of the history he has behind him.

Hell, I'd even settle for a team trial like Gilgamesh and Enkidu. I doubt they'd do it, but they could put Fenrir with Loki. I won't hold my breath, but it would be better than nothing.

I think his paw is just raised up in preparation for his attack (part of animation), not really due being limp or anything. After all, after he does the aoe freezing he jumps at the player and attacks with both paws and mouth, if he was injured slamming his paw against the floor would hurt like hell.

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Originally Posted by mp-please

I think his paw is just raised up in preparation for his attack (part of animation), not really due being limp or anything. After all, after he does the aoe freezing he jumps at the player and attacks with both paws and mouth, if he was injured slamming his paw against the floor would hurt like hell.

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Yes, it would, but when someone is injured like that in a fight, they only put pressure on the injured bone when absolutely necessary. There have been plenty of sports athletes throughout history that continued to use their injured bone, but only put pressure on it when they absolutely had to since it hurt like hell to use it even normally. Imagine a boxer with a fractured right hand. You know he's going to just keep throwing lefts until he absolutely has to throw that right to try and do some damage, even if it may hurt like hell in the process.

Fenrir isn't exactly the type to retreat from a battle just because he's hurt. He'll fight through the pain. Hell, anyone that was in the battle of Ragnarok would probably behave this way, lol.

Snowcloak HM please :D
I think Yoshi mentioned to plans currently to add more HM dungeons and such for the time being :(