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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Utility Tips

What is a basilisk used for? basilisk battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Honestly don't use the bury feature while you are riding it. To use it press the jump button while riding it. The ability is cool and it makes you untargetable but if you are anywhere near water it will likely glitch and send you and your basilisk through the map and kill you both. I lost a level 100 in the upper mushroom One because of this. The Basilisk is fast enough and tabky enough to run away from anything without using the bury ability anyway.
The Basilisk can deal torpor damage. It deals 3x your Basilisk's melee damage over 10 seconds. A 500% melee Basilisk will deal 1500 torpor damage over 10 seconds. Bite once every 10 seconds to make full use of this. Take into consideration a wild dino's natural torpor depletion rate.
If you’re ever sick of the grind for tranq ammo, get one of these mad lads. My girl Chimichanga downs a rex faster than my Ascendant longneck rifle with shocking darts. Bite, tank for 10 seconds as torpor goes up, repeat. Works best on tanky dinos and carnivores, if you get the carnivore to heal up with kills between your bites.
WARNING!:Do NOT, i repeat, DO NOT, bury underground and go underwater. Even if it is the smallest little stream or pond that might not even register as water, as it will glitch your basilisk and you will lose it. It will be burried underground and will not respond to whistles.