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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a deinosuchus used for? deinosuchus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Absolut unit of a creature, great bite force and its mega bite is super powerful, it can easly chew through bosses even alpha when properly leveled, i dare say even Dragon as it can go under its belly and can't be hit by the fire breath, though i'd suggest using Tickle Chickens still.
As for utility ? Its not that slow on land (around Rex speed) can turn on itself, and bite behind it, take this into account plus its sheer power and you got one of the strongest tame. Underwater ? Really fast and still within the strongest, can easly kill the strongest creatures and farm underwater caves. Finally you can shoot from its back, making taming easier.
This is a super strong dino, Much like a Rex in terms of stats and stat increase per level. Giga bite on official with 660melee does over 1800 damage. I have used one of these to kill mosa, plesi swarms, tuso and alpha tuso.
It has excellent utility as you can use weapons when riding this dino, Both on land and underwater, it is much slower on land but about on par with the Rex walk speed when sprinting, perhaps a little faster.
They also have pretty good weight too making it ideal companion game when farming with an angler ect.
This beast can also turn on a dime with a speed that puts most reining horses to shame, The tail gives a decent amount of knock back too.
Using a breeding pair of these (mutton tamed) with 70 arm saddles levelled to almost 700md with 15.3k hp to get to wave 5 on an alpha element node on extinction, if you bring a daedon you’ll be laughing 🫡 Fox
Use superior kibble and ghillie. When you find one you want to tame, make sure everything around it is dead (other deinosuchus can be left, but it’s more dangerous if they are left). Put on ghillie and watch until it lays down, body straight, and opens its mouth. Sprint to its mouth (directly to its mouth) and feed it, then sprint away. In full ghillie it won’t notice you for a few seconds as you sprint toward it or away before and after feeding. Once away, crouch and watch it, it’ll move a few meters and walk a little bit before laying down and basking. Rinse and repeat until tamed. If something it can kill is nearby it will aggro and attack it. Do not be afraid of it closing its mouth after you feed it, it’s can’t deal damage. It’s a really easy tame. It’s stronger than a Rex and has no oxygen.
An excellent mount for the hard underwater cave. It can stealth through most of the cave by staying close to the ceiling, and go on land without aggroing anything there.
When fighting, make sure you turn the croc's head towards the enemies to halve the damage your tame receives.
So I’ve come to learn that these guys are insanely OP, and wanted to include a few in my boss army. So I started breeding them.
Word to the wise though: they eat an insane amount of food when they’re being raised. I think I had 2 carnos and 5 deino’s with 6 full troughs of cooked meat.
They didn’t even last 12 hours. 2 of the crocs and 0 of the carno’s managed to survive. So just keep in mind when breeding: for whatever reason they need a ton of food. More than a Rex seems like.
LISTEN!!! These are better than Rexes and spinos combined, hear me out.
Number 1: They don’t have an oxygen stat which means they will get extra lvls into other stats like melee and health.
Number 2: They have the giga bite which does something similar to the bleed from giga and thylas.
Number 3: They are easy to find and tame because they spawn near rivers and the swamp plus they are passive tamed with superior kibble which can be made with moschops eggs/large eggs.