Can we talk about the Helicoprion?

[Kahnom]

Everytime i heard about "heatwave" weather it always remind me when i camped out for ol-goi...and screw all those caravan eels ...

[Espritduo]

Helicoprion is not just overcast/fog to heatwave, which would be bad enough. It's overcast/fog to heatwave, but only between 8am and 8pm, which is so rare of a confluence of events that you're lucky to see the window happen once only every other day or so. I caught mine a long time ago, but it was puny and I've been trying to catch a 200-ilm+ one ever since. In the two months since I caught my first one I have only ever been able to snag one other...which was also puny. :/

[Fynlar]

Shonisaurus is way more forgiving in terms of available times to even attempt going for it, because it has no time window, only 2x weather combo requirement.

Helicoprion is imo a lot worse even considering the fact it's only a single mooch, because when the weather combo occurs determines how much time you actually get to try for it. Heat wave from 4pm-midnight? You only get a half window. Heat wave from midnight-8am? Too bad, come back another day!

For me, the weather combo for Shoni was also a lot more common than Heli, although I'm willing to believe that their likelihood is probably similar.

[Yukariko]

Can we talk about the Helicoprion?

I read the subject line as "can we talk about the helicopter" and was like wait what?

moving on...

[Koroem]

11 days later and still no luck on this fish. I'm not even going to be happy when i catch it. Just less annoyed. Fishing doesn't feel rewarding at all and I really feel like this fish is broken. Others are rare, and have rare conditions, but this one has way too much stacked against the player. How many stars in different galaxies need to align for me to finish this damn quest?

[Garlyle]

Helicoprion is imo a lot worse even considering the fact it's only a single mooch

Heliocoprion might have rare windows, but actually catching the sucker doesn't require you to successfully mooch a big fish with a low appearance rate, have that be HQ, and then mooch that successfully to get Heliocoprion. I still haven't even seen a Mahar after about six windows, nevermind caught an HQ one.

All of the Legendary Fish have their own unique challenges to being caught though.