The most prevalent monsters in the open canyon areas were a bird-like monster with the head and torso of humans. Pretty blatantly harpies.
They would dive down and try to scratch me with their talons or grab me to throw me around. But at the same time, since I also relied on melee strikes, countering those dives were the main, or rather, sole method I had to take them down.
I'd either grab their leg and swing them into the ground before giving them a finishing blow, or simply jump up and rake my claws wherever I could, preferably their neck or wings.
Despite being completely disadvantaged on an entire dimension, the harpies were stupid and continued using the same strategy even when they saw another of their kind fail their attempt and get killed.
There were other birds that resembled
