Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
BEHOLD THE ALMIGHTY CAR-CAR
(Apparently this tip is helpful now that I added more words)
If you know what you're doing this tame is super easy.
First off, no matter the level all creatures bodies you drag to it will always fill the same amount of trust based off their drag weight(Lvl 100 Carchar will get the same trust as a Lvl 300 when fed the same dino). As many people have said a baby Spino, Rex, or Yuty will instantly fill this trust gauge.
Now the riding part is the trickier one. Many sources will say that you get thrown off at 20% tame but this is not true!!! You get thrown off when the rage meter in the bottom left gets to 100. Taming is based off of the killed creatures HP which makes this surprisingly easy as if you tame a really pumped up Bronto, Diplo, or Rex with only levels in health you can near insta tame, but be careful. A Rex at 111k HP only did 92.7% tame on a 3x Taming server so you need either a really buffed creature or a sacrifices. The Rex only gave 42 Rage as well so go wild and enjoy your new Carchar!!!!
-Dude0fPlague
Not sure if it was just me, but I think there’s a minimum size of creatures that you can feed to the Carcha. I found that out when I tried feeding it a Doedicurus. Hope this helps!
Just saying if you trap the Carchar it can sometimes bug out and not eat the corpses you give it then you have to go out of render of it and back in to make the glitch stop. I tame a Carchar by getting a really tanky tame then whistle passive then let the Carchar attack it while you get the corpses if you didn’t cryo one of your tamed creatures and threw them out already then you just feed the Carchar withought it lagging. This is how I tamed my first Carchar so I hope this helps and I know it’s rather late to type this but I just thought why not.
Wanders around aimlessly or just stays idle when you trap it :/
In order to tame it, you need to kill and bring Dino corpses to it(it will do a sniffing animation). It will then feast on the corpse and you will see a friendship meter, bring dead dinosaurs to it in order to fill up that meter. Once full, you will have a max of 10 minutes to ride the Carcharadontasaurus and kill all dinosaurs in site in order to raise it's taming bar, just know it loses slight taming effectiveness when taking damage from dinosaurs, it loses a great amount of effectiveness when you get thrown off, if this happens, simply just do back the first step until the meter is full again. It has a bite which induces a thrash effect which slows down healing, it's second ability is a tail swipe or spin. Good luck.
First step: Trap in large bear trap to make this easier, drag over and offer it dead dinos.
Second step: Jump on and make it eat all the things.
These things are VERY fast, faster = more lethal. Don't mess around with land Dinos nearby this creature
If i am right it means that it has the power of a yuty, the power of a megatherium but with everything and over time and is the size of a giga (more or less) this could easily replace some certain tames in boss fights or PvP raids,
but the power could easily be nerfed or they could easily make it very hard to tame as a balance.
This will probably be a new go to creature
This is actually deceptively easy to tame if you do a little setup. You will need of creatures with super high health you don't mind losing (cryopodded), a baby yutyrannus(cryopodded), a large bear trap or two, and 4 metal dinosaur gateways. Once you find your carch, place down 3 of the gates in a \_| shape, with the opening facing your carch. Place your bear trap(s) inside. After that lead the carch into your trap, preferably with something that's fast and can take hits. Once it's in the bear traps, place a final dino gate completing the square. Once that's done, put all your carnivorous creatures on passive, and slaughter the baby yutyrannus. Drag it's corpse over to the carch wich should sniff the air and then eat it. Beware of argentavis, as they will steal the corpse. Once it has eaten the corpse, the carch will temporarily become ridable. Dismantle one side of the trap and walk it out. Next, you'll want to uncryo your high health tame and make sure it is cryo-sleeping. Once it is, unclaim it and then mount the carch and eat it. Repeat the past two steps until your carch is tamed.
Just as a tip for the second stage I would recommend unclaimed diplos since they don’t do damage you won’t be at risk of losing that precious taming effectiveness as well as that they give a lot in that second stage!
Feed it gallys that’s all I can say
THEY ARE VERY POWERFULL
Cage them and then ride them after you kill stuff and have it eat that
If you trap one feed it 1 baby yuty because they give full friendship then ride it and things that attack back will ruin taming effectiveness and baby wyverns are best for taming it up. I hope you enjoy your new friend
Catch are not good without rage buff, full rage buff and easily 1v3+ a giga BUT ONLY WITH FULL BUFF
Can take it in boss fights ?
With high level army
From experience: If you don't fill the trust bar in one feed the Carchar WILL aggro on you. Have a flier ready! These don't do well trapped. Once it sniffs the body/notices your offer, drop the body and book it back to your flier.