Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a baryonyx used for? baryonyx battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Super easy to tame, but better than a Spino or Rex. Literally faster than a raptor, and swims pretty fast. Unlimited oxygen, super good stamina, stun attack (10 seconds), high damage, great jump, good weight. This thing is INSANE. I’d definitely recommend you keep it in your arsenal. Water base defense especially. Great creature to have on your water platform saddles, as it can stun lock creatures and knock players off their mounts.
I tamed this thing very recently and it was absolutely worth it. Just make sure to use a sickle to get prime meat from the sabertooth salmons so you can tame it faster. Nothing should bother you while your taming except for maybe a Carno/sabertooth or two (if you have an above level 100 tank dino you should be fine). Once it’s tamed it will be a fast, tanky beast that can breath underwater and on land!
Almost every caves, strong creatures can't follow with you. Even some caves need to go underwater to get useful resorces or trophy and dossier and again, most creatures that you are familiar usually are not good at diving and swiming. If they are good at diving and swiming, they are too weak to travel caves and underwater's creatures.
But after baryonyx released, no worries. It will keep your safe and help combat from almost every normal cave's creatures(high lvl megalosaurus will tough at night times, but it is weak at day times and still your bary can tanking few sec if you spend points on health for most.), even it can dive into the water endlessly if you have preparation about oxygen, coldness or scuba and still it will help help your combat from underwater's creatures.
So this is basically a cheap spino.
I once had a female which I named Lola (im on mobile) she is awesome I killed Rexes and sarcos and brontos but A RAPTOR level 1 caught me and for a strange reason the neutral whistle didn’t work so yea I saw:
You got killed by raptor lv 1
After that incident I bred Lola with another Barry to get a super baby. Then I encountered a raptor again and I just ran/bite through it without it even pouncing ???? My Barry is way too fast
So I went on rampage
These things are op, easily one of my favorite dinos. They are faster than a raptor, have a lot of stamina and decent weight, and their secondary attack stuns almost anything underwater making an easy alpha meg or leed kills and free xp. Just make a 2x2 foundation with stone door frames to trap it. Simple. I tamed a lvl 60 at level 30 with a wooden bow it’s easy