I like how my personal favourite monster is underplayed and not even known by some lol. For anyone interested in some history, here’s the thread that was made when Stratustrike was first spotted: Disaster is waiting to happen. It was also renowned by some as the best legendary in the game for a few months after its release. Zeuswyrm was similarly hyped up at release and now is almost never played despite still being strong when built around effectively.
There are many people in the player base who are excellent with strategy but when it comes to popularity it’s things like Dusicyon which get chosen over more challenging build-around monsters because they’re easy to make strong (simply put strong monsters behind Dusicyon and you’re good to go). Monsters that have a lot of power and potential seem to get people excited on their release then slowly see less and less play except by a few experimental people. It definitely doesn’t mean they’re weak! I also don’t mean to say that the way people build teams is bad, just pointing out what overall we seem to do as a player base in terms of popularity of monsters.