Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

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So easy to tame. I keep at least ten of these when I explore and don’t usually need to get involved when anything shows up. No good for hauling or harvesting but great for hunting. Killed a Therizin and a Rex with a mob of these and a Raptor. Plus they make adorable sounds😄
If you tame like 20 Dilophosaurus then you can kill 3 trikes so fast you barely get to see them. These are not at all worthless and are great hunters (when tamed). They also give you great protection. My dilos, which are under lvl 50 killed a low level Spino! I would recommend lots of these early to middle game.
Training them alone won’t make them nearly strong enough to take on bigger threats, due to level restrictions (health only goes up by 7 maybe 14 per level, so on so fourth) So your best bet is to train two of these guys of opposite gender to equal capacity in the stats of your personal interest, breed until you have hatched two Dilophosaurs of opposite gender, and then repeat with the new ones. Rinse and repeat until you have one (or two if you want male and female) of the stats you desire. Use Lystrosauruses to speed up the training progress, so that way you don’t find yourself waiting an entire month before your Dilophosaurs are ready for breeding.