Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a deinonychus used for? deinonychus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Definitely a dino worth your time and effort, you can snatch the eggs super early game with a lymantria by luring and cropdusting the parents, and they can be bred for boss battles and PvP.
A few tips:
-No fall damage
-Pounce range and direction is determined by what you're aiming at with your mouse, imagine an invisible crosshair in the middle of your screen. -The pounce goes a lot further than you think, they can latch onto hovering Manticore, as their vertical wall leap (once latched) is 5-6 walls.
-They can still pounce/wall climb when overencumbered, with the same range/mobility, so you can just hop home with all that metal ore you're carrying.
-A fang symbol will appear on pouncable targets, you just have to press Jump once and watch your Deino turn into a raptor sized homing leech missile. For some reason argies are no problem, but YutyS are unpouncable.
-You will need to target Hp, StaM and dmg
my favourite tame in ark by FAR. a pack of these with level 200+ can destroy almost anything. the bleed damage they do is percent based meaning the more health something has, they higher the damage they will do with bleed. the mobility on these guys is crazy. they are very fast, and if you hold space bar (or whatever your jump button is) you can do a charged jump which will make you go higher and further. you can scale vertical or slanted surfaces with their climbing ability. they are also just adorable. fluffy raptors = the better raptor
So this thing is my favorite Dino no question. One there not that hard to tame all you need to do is find a nest and you now have an infinite supply of eggs (if you play on single player or even online but there will be some competition for them) it’s sad that there only on two maps but fjordur is at least a great map. So the one downside I found with these guys is that their climbing is kinda messed up or at least on controller so what I found is they jump wherever there head is facing so that’s what you want to look for when climbing as well there climbing is just generally messed up with the fact that they will sometimes just not jump onto wall you’ll jump but they just won’t grab the wall. Overall my favorite Dino
-REX
I killed a 145 alpha Rex with a single deinonychus. I took advantage of the fact it can’t harvest bodies so I wait till it kills something and then attack it. It doesn’t aggro to me, but it will occasionally go to get something else so wait till it kills that than attack it some more. Bleed effect really helps in this situation
For those looking for an interesting mount for boss fights, I suggest this dino for the manticor or any flying enemy.
Pump hits,and stamina, then wait till you see the red jaws on the enemy and grab on, the bleed effect can chew through high hit creatures.
Only downer is breeding and leveling to make them survive.
Best used with other players riding their own, so when one falls off the other can take their place and/or a few recession on ground for the worms, using the bleed effect you can tag the golems with hit and run moves.
Tested with one on God mode and had tons of fun grabbing the manticors haunches for a bite and a ride.
Did you know the Deino is the fastest dino by far? Should you mess up it's climbing jump hard enough (as I did climbing a mountain on fjordur) you can launch yourself across the map! I went from about 35 lat 95 long to about 65 lat 70 long in less than a second with this "method".