When you first play ark these guys look so intimating and scary, you wanna tame one of them so so bad then as time goes on you understand how mid it is. It isnt rare,it doesnt have that high of hp or dmg,their eggs arent that great for taming dinos with eggs but alright kibble i guess. Now you might be wondering "well...thats not a lot and most dinos are the same". You wouldnt be wrong but the thing is there is actually not much to rank a midddle to large sized carnivore on,you wont use them for harvesting or day to day chores but only really for dmg output stuff like bosses

Tamed carnos are excellent almost all around: their health, attack speed, and base damage allow you to take on most of the creatures on the island, including Rexes and Alpha Raptors. Having a mated pair greatly strengthens this quality. They run fairly fast and can carry a lot, making great transport mounts. They are a fairly good harvester of meat and prime meat.

Their only real disadvantage is a slow stamina regen, even when stood completely still.

Underrated but incredible, specially when you are starting.

When taming one just use the Classic 2x2 trap, o recommend to use more door frames since a carno can get out of the trap.

You can also use them to fight all sorts of alpha dinos.

To destroy alpha carnos and raptors, stay still and just spam the bleeding headbutt attack, for alpha Rex just loop around him and hit, you might get damaged, but you can also distract him with another Dino and spam the bleeding attack.

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Be careful raptors can pounce you off of them

It is sad to see the Carno for not getting too much love these days. Whenever I try to find mutated Carno videos, it only shows a few of them before showing off Rex, Thyla, basically everything else except the Carno, and I'm disappointed. Carnos are basically a nerfed apex predator. They have the power and health you would expect while being speedy as well. They are not too difficult to tame, just a simple knock out tame. Even though a TLC could spice things up a bit, I love it for what it is.

It’s gonna get a TLC! It’s gonna be a little better and can break through armor a little easier. It’s gonna do a bleed attack, like the deinonychus and ravager.

The secondary bleed attack was a massive upgrade to this otherwise overlooked dinosaur. The bleed can deal up to 5% of a target's health over 10 seconds (regardless of your mount’s melee stat), applying to wild creatures and Alphas alike. On creatures with big health stats, no matter how big, you’re still guaranteed a kill in less than 200 seconds.

It has become my favorite Alpha and Giga killer (over the Thylacoleo and Deinonychus) due to its early game accessibility and criminal knockback. Of the three tames, the Carno has the best knockback while attacking, making a significant difference in the damage taken during battle between the three. I’ve eliminated Alpha Rexes by being slightly uphill and spamming the bleed attack without getting hit a single time.

Though perhaps not the most flashy tame, the Carnotaurus definitely a nostalgic weapon honed for a mighty purpose, the clawhammer in every toolbelt. I still scope out every pod of three that I find, hoping for 150s.

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DEFINITELY a creature you need for early to mid game. I have a level 173 female that was tamed at level 100, it gained 40 levels so the 33 levels were me leveling it. I put a decent amount of attack and got her to 4000 hp. She makes quick work of EVERYTHING, I've taken on 4 different alpha raptors (not at the same time), she makes quick work of rexes, brontos, and like I said, alpha raptors. There is an alpha rex kinda sorta near my base in the forgotten lakes, imma try and kill it tmm😜and also, be careful around the forgotten lakes, raptors, therizinosaurs, and alpha raptors will spawn near by. you all think the creator of this app should add a section for good base spots and stuff of that sort.

Rated number one for gathering prime on wiki

Doesn't get stuck as easily as the larger carnivores