Rathalos EX

[kikix12]

gear doesn't help some savages and extremes unsync

Um...You do know that the ones you mentioned have instant-kill mechanics, right?! And those clearly do not care about gear. Some of these mechanics also require more manpower, like Sable when fighting Nidhogg in the dungeon which is an unavoidable instant-kill on a single player making it a super-tight fit where he needs to be killed before he uses that a single time.

Ifrit in particular often wipes unsynced parties because they try to brute-force through him instead of destroying nails. That's an instant-kill and it have nothing to do with gear. If he's down to X% and the nails exist, you lose. Simple as that.

Rathalos does not have any such mechanics (other than the big buffalo whatever). It is pure damage output to input. It is exactly the kind of fight that with good enough stat can be facerolled. Now, I'm not saying that it'll be like that at lvl80, but I am saying that it will be easy enough to defeat at that point that even unskilled/lagging players will be able to beat it.

The defense buff doesn't matter either. It still is downed and loses it. It's not like it'll lose the downing mechanic when you unsync it...