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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a karkinos? karkinos battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
You will encounter this in the floating Islands on the north eastern corner be careful they will tear you off your mounts
Karkinos grab their prey if it is small enough and bash it prey up and down. Best way to get away from one is by running. Karkinos are slow and won't catch up in time you don't spot running!
Beware, usually found near spinosaurus and they don't attack each other.
These guys are weaker than they look. I had a few low levels near my base and they died to my level 5 sarco. They’re biggest attack is when they grab you but if you just use a Dino like a sarco then they stand no chance
Tip: Remember when fighting these things, they can pick you off a rockdrake :(
Tranq your mate and run for your life
Even though it's mainly a water dino, it can still pose a threat to you on land, so be careful!
Even if you have a swarm of Carnos don't mess with karkinos chances are it will pull you off and turn you into powder before your dinos kill it.
This game…. My brother joined on split screen with me far away from my base tho and there was two Karkinos in a river HE RAN DOWN THERE.He got grabbed I took his controller and I the attacked it and then the first one died the second be like MY FOOD MY PREY.And got him while a spino was killing it luckily
It can grab a Carno. :( Also, Stegos.
Can’t pickup anything bigger than a stego
Can be fought by 3 main options:
Having at least 3 decently strong creatures so while it picks up 2 the third one will fight.
Have a mount that it can't pick up fight against it.
Shoot at it metal arrows to counter it's damage resistance from most projectiles.
If you see these guys in the wild the aren’t as difficult to kill with a ledge and few arrows to the legs you’ll be set.
Wild Karks - Do not dismount within their aggro range, they can usually then target you and pull you off. Rock Drakes protect you from this, but dismounting and remounting nearby the Kark will allow it to target you. Basilos, usually immune to everything, you can be pulled off of as well.
If he grabs u, throw a z semen blend grenade and it will let u fall, only chance to survive, if the crab grabs u. *no pun inteded*
Very slow, but can see you from far away and grab u he's hella spoopy
on crystal i found this really good trap that uses three dino gates and some fence and it cant move the krab then i lured it in and had a catapult right in front of it easy rame
To escape there claw press and hold A ir simply press A it worked for me ps4 players use the green button idk what else I'm on xbox one try it it works bote its important
DODODEX it drops organic polymer too
If ur early game these guys are sooooo easy to outrun if u have decent speed bet if u don’t just run into a lot of trees and it will slow it down (or just kill it u donut)