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I actually believe the story/polt would have suffered if Monty were still around.

Yes, the fight scenes would have been cooler. They would have also been cooler at the cost of the plot and reasonable progression of character abilities, because Monty used to do things without caring if the character was actually that strong yet. He loved Rule of Cool, and while Rule of Cool makes for good action scenes he actively made it harder for Miles and Kerry - the people he left the actual plot writing to because he admitted he was terrible at it - to write the story.

The biggest indicator of this is Coco and her team. When we first saw Coco at the end of V2, she disintegrated a Deathstalker with a single wave of her gun. She was a second year student, and that was the power level Monty set for her.

Then in V3, Miles and Kerry copped shit because they had to nerf her gun in order to make the plot and story actually make sense. Suddenly her bullets couldn't disintegrate a Deathstalker, they couldn't even shred a couple of trees. And Monty was the cause of that.

So yeah. Monty was an amazing animator, a great guy, and really good at what he did, but he also made the writing worse because the people he entrusted the minute details - including characterisation of people in the show - had to change things to fit what he animated. And sometimes he ignored story and reason for a cool shot.