Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a dimorphodon used for? dimorphodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
If you have these guys with you do not, I repeat, do NOT, attack a stego or anky! I was once roaming around with my mini army and attacked an anky thinking I would win (since my army has taking down a theri AND pack of raptors). Worst mistake ever. One swing from the anky’s tail and three of my Dimorphs flew across the map.
R.I.P. Debby, Sprinkles, and Jaws
I games my first one of these pretty early game, and she saved me so many times. I just made sure to up her movement speed, and she never had any problems with stegos or diplos or anything! It’s now nearly six months later, still have my original, and have literally about 27 of them. They constantly follow my tech quetzal, keeping her safe from any potential threats. They can take down and totally dismantle pretty much anything we come across instantly. One of my favorite tames for sure!
Pair a pack of these with a bunch of dilos and you got yourself both land and air superior. You can also bring these with you when you’re riding your Pteranodon on exploration, they will save you and your Pteranodon’s ass when you need to land to regain stamina. They basically dilo but on the sky.
So it turns out that if you set this thing to aggressive and have it perch on your shoulder, it can shout at you to warn of incoming danger, which the Mesopithecus(Monkey) is also capable of, but will instead go “TAH! OOH- OOH!”. This is pretty useful in case you are near an animal that you won’t be able to survive an encounter with and don’t realize it. Dimorphodon will also throw a rather hard bite at your enemy to give you a fair hand in escaping, and may kill other creatures looking to prevent you returning home, however Mesopithecus is a better guardian because your monkey will throw balls of poop that slow the predator down, giving you the upper hand should it be that you should stand no chance should you decide to kill the predator. Either way both are quite effective at vocally warning you of danger ahead of time so you have time to correct your position to a safer location.
Never accidentally hit these guys,
If you hit one of these, a bunch more will com to attack you, they're strong for their size,
What makes them more dangerous is when your on a mount they focus on the rider, so they will attack you and finish you off, without you knowing,
And when tamed they make great shoulder pets,
And if you have a dozen and target them on something, they will shred it
When tamed
1: can be used as a distraction of have enough hp
3: now they can deal with trikes with none dying
5: can protect you from raptors, troodons, and other small carnivores
10: now you can kill carnos with ease (with support from you with a gun or crossbow
15: I have this many and some have 1k hp, can kill rexes, spinos, and therizinosaur with little effort
My xp multiplier for my file was about 5 and it can get them to have at least 200 hp pretty quick. Thanks for reading this and up if this was useful!