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Encountering Tips

How do I kill a dragon? dragon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
When fighting this beast, I would recommend to bring herbivores( i recommend the tickle chickens) as the boss does extra damage to carnivores.
Deinonychus are the best Dinos to kill the Dragon Gamma thru Alpha as he will never even touch them. Bring a Yuty and Med Brews and it should be over quick
Ok, Havent seen any comments helping us SP players, so here goes. Get 19 theris, for gamma and beta no cakes are needed. Watch out for the meteors tho!!!!! First one that hit beside me, riot armor half gone, the second one took all my armor, and left me with a sliver of health. Bring Health potions!!! Stats were 25k health and around 12-1400 Dam. Gamma melted away first landing in literally 20 seconds, beta in about a minute.
Alpha, bring 5-10 cakes, and should be fine, takes around 5min if it lands alot like mine did. Hope this helps!!
The worst tips are "FeEd iT fORcETaMe" .... We get it, you're bad at the game. Downvote since I upset the whiners. Anyways, Therizinos works best if boosted properly and some decent saddles. Have Veggie cakes in their inventories and the more friends the merrier. If you have the ability, Magmasaurs are great as well!
This is probably the final boss you're fighting before battling the Overseer, prepare for a tough battle survivor... you're almost there, everything has led up to this! You can do it!
10 people 10 rexes maybe a yuty but look up and suround it will trap it.
Use Dragonrend to make it land, then punch and Fus Ro Dah it until it dies
You will see people here recommend a total of 20 dinos which is max, I don't, we all know ark's ark, and the boss glitches that comes with it.
I usually take 9-14 therizinosauruses or rexes (depending on how good saddles I've got, and riding on 1 yuty, making it a total of 10-15 dinos, it takes stress off the game, making it less likely that a glitch will occur, when starting don't mount til you're inside the battlefield, and stand still on the ground when timer hits 0.
All dinos should at minimum be lvl 150 wild perfect tamed dinos, if they got mutations, good, but not necessary, saddles are the most important thing.
Stats, I would say, 50-80k health, rest of points into melee, yuty should have 4k stam, 20k health, some weight sence you'll be riding it, rest into melee.
Enjoy the tek engrams.
Use as many therizinos as you want since it does extra damage to carnivores technically since the therizino is an omnivore which means carnivore and herbivore put together so since the other half is herbivore it should block out that affect I would also recommend pumping damage and health. Thanks for using your time on my tip I hope it helps you beat the boss.
I had a nice little high level army of dinos but as i dodge one of his good ol, fire balls it killed every single dino in one hit. So there I am unleashing hell on it for killing my lvl 207 carno along with the others that wouldnt stand a chance. So yea I tried to avenge my army but died a gruesome death.
This is the easiest way to beat any of the 3 island bosses not only the dragon. First you need Deinonychus as many as you can bring next you need to have a rex to ride. So if you doing solo bring 1 rex and 19 deinonychus (20 tame limit)
Then once in the boss fight run around on your rex. Have the deinonychus follow you as soon as the dragon lands get some distance and whistle your deinonychus to attack the dragon. When the deinonychus run into the dragon they will block it and the dragon will not attack them. The dragon will continually walk trying to get to the rex as long as you keep your distance with the rex and have the deinonychus attacking you will take no damage and the dragon will be stuck and won’t attack. Essentially the bosses all have the same mechanics they will always attack the biggest Dino in the arena (biggest by size not level) so this essentially can be done with a rex and any Dino smaller I just use deinonychus and recommend them because of their bleed effect. And they are easy to raise
Bring Therizinos instead of Rex’s, since herbivores take reduced damage from the fire, and can eat sweet vegetable cakes to regen health quickly. Take about 17-18 theriz, 2 hell pigs, and 1 yuty as well as an OP rocket launcher or shotgun, or substitute 4 theriz for allo’s to get the bleed attack.
Just think: “furnace, with wings.” 👍
Use 20 decent Rex’s, a pig or two, and rocket launchers.
Magmasaurs are the best creature by far they are immune to the fire attack and lava. You can also breed them and make them op. 20 magmasaurs will kill the dragon on any difficulty without trouble
Everyone here talking about Rex’s this and Rex’s that is foolish. Maybe 4 Rex’s to tank a little and the rest Mut Theriz packed full of Veggie Cakes. The fire melts the Rex’s even with ascended saddles. And all our Rex’s were 35k hp+.
To whoever said this is only hard to kill on alpha difficulty and wyverns are more powerful than this: a level 1 gamma dragon has 432,000 health and deals 500 damage with its melee attack. A level 1 wyvern has 1,725 health and deals 80 damage with its melee attack.
BRING TICKLE-CHICKENS THEY EAT VEGGI CAKE+REDUCED DAMAGE
Run run as fast as you can stay as far away from this jerk as possible when it uses the fire
Take a deinonychus with 10k+ health, 600+ Melee, 80+ saddle and good stamina for a easy win