As a newbie to hydatos, I consider it on par with pagos for one reason, player count

anemos and pagos are usually always full of people, pyros has good hours, but once you get to hydatos and see the exp needed, the terrible crystal droprates it just punches you in the gut. there's a reason you see so many players with elemental stage weapons, they lost the will to finish when hydatos curbstomped them.