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What is a deinonychus used for? deinonychus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Deinonychus are very underrated for boss fights especially on low rate servers. If you use a yuty with them the bosses will target the yuty and not the deinos. This means they will not get hit much so don’t need crazy mutated health. Deinos can also form a wall and stop the boss getting to you. Since deinos also bleed bosses and do percentage damage to them you do not have to spend time mutating their damage very high to kill alpha bosses. I have beat the 3 alpha island bosses with an army of slightly mutated deinos before. You would struggle doing the same with slightly mutated rexs.
To the person asking how to use its climb on console, ah, great question, i am very edumacated in this topic. So, if it hasnt changed, if you jump towards a surface, the deino will latch on. From there, look up and jump again, and it will go up, aslong as your deino actually works, mine has been a bit bugged lately.
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If you have a deinonychus, it can make taming awkward flyers like argies and quetzals much easier. If you don’t want to make a trap You can latch onto the flyer from quite a distance and then pull out your tranq gun/bow. The creature will try and get away (in the case of a quetz) or attack you (in the case of and Argie, idk if they can latch onto griffins or snow owls, but both of those would attack too) but if you’re latched on, there will be no escape. Once your deinonychus runs out of stam or your targeted flyer drops, the deinonychus won’t take any fall damage. I also think it may work on a mana, but don’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t. I knocked out a 150 Argie with my deinonychus and no trap, but then again, I have a 281% dmg longneck.
These guys are strong and really good for bosses. I personally am currently breeding mine to mutate a really powerful army of them. Highly recommend them for bosses.
Also say my wild Dino max lol is 150. If I find a wild deinonychus that's lvl 150 then I kill all the other deinos, steal all the eggs and run OUT OF RENDER DISTANCE. By doing this the 150 is the inly one that can fill the nests and you will get deinos lvl 150 with the same stats for breeding and mutating.
Hope this helps!
They are like a raptor but 100000 times better.
Stealing its egg is not that hard, and hatching it is also easy. It is VERY fast, and it has also decent stats. When it hits other animals or people it applies a bleeding effect to them. They also can stick to walls and big dinos. I highly recommend you to get some of these