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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Desmodus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

Absolute must take in my opinion. Can drain blood to heal, has a echo location move that tells you where nearby creatures, can glide like a griffin and go invisible at night making wyvern eggs 10x easier to grab as they only go after you the second you grab the egg or hop off…

The Sanguine Elixir can’t be used while swimming, so using it to tame under water dinos is pretty limited. But for imprinting on a baby, you can lead the baby up the the surface and than lower foundations into the water to get a platform to stand on.

Desmodus, along with any fjordur and lost isles exclusives are not on the switch edition despite their saddle being unlockable, spawn commands don’t seem to work to spawn them either.

-Mana

As no one mentioned this at all the effectiveness goes up depending on the HP of the tame you are "feeding" it I find daedons are the best way as they have a high health stat

List of desmosdus abilities

Invisibility at night and when latching or hanging

Able to latch onto to walls and the bottom of rocks

Night vision (has to be toggled)

Screech/echolocation to find creatures

Blood harvesting

You can craft sanguine elixir in saddle using 200…

To tame it I would recommend a moschops so when the bat picks it up taming effectiveness is boosted when you have 100% effectiveness let it grab you and I recommend have ATLEAST 100 blood packs, more would be recommended for higher levels. Once all that is done you should have…

They seem to gather a lot of spoiled meat when killing Dino’s (it might just be the server I’m on but still)

I went to the wyrven trench and stole a lvl 170 egg, almost got taken out, but the desmodus ate 40 blood packs from its inventory and saved itself from death, I didn't feed it myself. I haven't seen this anywhere before.

Fair word of warning, if you get knocked out of your grapple (my experience was a ceiling grapple) before the animation fully completes, then the mounted camera will get stuck in the position that the desmodus should be in. A simple re-log will fix it

If you let it feed on a smaller creature multiple times, IE a maschops with good health, it raises the taming effectiveness before taming it. Bring a snow owl to keep the maschops healed. Takes patience but gets you higher levels

i love this thing. it's basically a small griffin and it's very good for pvp because not only can you grab people off tames, it also damages them. you need to tame one!