Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a baryonyx used for? baryonyx battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
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I’ve always viewed the baryonyx as a far more agile and flexible alternative to the carnotaurus. The prime use that I have the baryonyx for disposal is cave spelunking (specifically at the lava cave). Their ability to jump, instantly harvest corpses after kills, and semi-decent health make for a quick take-artifact-and-leave mission. Unfortunately, I have lost many lives within that cave for my experiments and chitin trips. There are some stories that will be posted soon in the story section.
Baryonyx are very useful in many ways!
U can stun anything in water and kill dangerous Dino’s
when u stun them!
They are also the best cave mount in the game!
They have long range and knock back!
They do extra damage to fish and when killing fish it heals them! Be careful in the lava cave because bats can push u into the lava instantly killing the bary!
Totally worth taming and don’t only spawn in swamps! They spawn along rivers too!
These guys are probably the best caving mount, they’re decently strong, have fast health regen, are small but still pretty tall to avoid arthros, are great swimmers and have no oxygen and can jump. They have an easy time hitting bats just be careful with your jumps in the lava cave especially.
This was the first creature I ever then a dodo, and I have to say, once he reached max level I killed alpha rexs, a few mosasaurs and even used it as my main damage dealer for megapithecus, brought a yuty a bunch of deadons and one allosaurus and destroyed gamma and beta, easily my favorite creature in the game.
The Baryonyx is perfect for the Upper South Cave. Because of it's height, it can easily gnaw on every bat / critter that comes your way. You can use it to go all the way to the ruin room, and then either use the Baryonyx to swim through the water passages, or just grapple through the gap in the wall (Check wiki for the gap location). Hope this helps!