Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a dragon? dragon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Use 20 decent Rex’s, a pig or two, and rocket launchers.
Watch some youtube videos before going in. Got one shotted by the dragon's fireball. Ironically, my xbox glitched about 10 minutes after returing to grab my argy at red ob, completely reset to right before I entered 😂🙌🏻 Got my second chance at redemption and beat it. Just make sure you understand the mechanics of the fight and don't get stuck in all of your dinos. I used 19 theris and 1 yuty.
Basic Stats
Attribute Amount at Level 1 Increase per point
Wild
Health 432000 +86400
Stamina 10000 +1000
Oxygen N/A5 N/A
Food 2600 +260
Weight 4000 +80
Melee Damage 02 +0
Movement Speed 100% N/A3
Torpidity 350 +25
Just take your coordinates so you can get your stuff back after you INEVITABLY die. :)
Alright, I’ve seen far too much poor information in these tips so I’m here to clarify.
1: Herbivores DO NOT take reduced fire damage. They only take reduced damage from the initial impact of the fireball. They will still take the full % damage from the dragon’s breath. However, veggie cakes are very useful and can help keep the heat off of your tames.
2: Tame ordering is almost mandatory for any team that isn’t comprised of player-ridden rhinos. Separate your dinos into 3 teams and don’t let more than 1 team take the same fire breath.
3: Utilize your yuty and other player-ridden mounts! Attack the side of the dragon that isn’t getting hit by the majority of your army. He should spew flames on your mount instead of hitting the main fighting force. This can allow you to tank a few more fire breaths than your army otherwise would.
Recommended tames:
*Yuty (obvious)
*Rex (always a solid option, just remember they can’t heal with cakes)
*Wooly rhino (Ridden only, do not ever ever ever bring these unridden)
*Therizino (basically a rex that can use cakes)
*Deinonychus (Only bring 2 of these, pump their melee to 600% and not further since their bleed damage is capped beyond this. Also expect them to die)
*Magmasaur (These are expensive, are a pain to breed and have a rather poor attack speed. However, they are immune to the fire breath)
*A good shotgun and 300ish shotgun shells (This will help if the dragon decides to cosplay the manticore and not land for awhile, or if your fighting force dies)
BEWARE! This boss does a lot of DPS, And Damage over time. I did him on Alpha with my 40k health, 1k melee, Therizinos. I brought 17 of them with a Yuty and a Pig I thought I was prepared but we barely won, only the Yuty survived and 8 of the Therizinos lived and they barely had 2k health. If you think you are prepared, prepare more. It’s a miracle I won.
There is a simple way to defeat the dragon , simply tame megalosaurs and breed them till u have good attack and stamina , wait until the day is near ending then attempt the raid with 1 yutyrannus and 19 megalosaurs , while fighting it must be night , due to an special effect of megalosaur they cant be noticed during night , so the dragon will only aggro at the yuty youre riding , the only tricky thing is after the dragon lands and want to come after you , you should let megalosaurs come between you and the dragon , dragon will get stuck on megalosaurs while the aggro is towards you so it wont attack megalosaurs and only trys to get to you , although you should deal with the minions yourself and be wary of the lava flowing under your feet ( megalosaurs might go in the lava and kill themselves )
Good luck with your dragon slaying 🐉
Megatheriums are good because they are tanky, but therizinosaurs are better because they heal far better with veggie cakes. Therizinosaurs also get less damage for fire breath and have good dps or attack speed. Herbivore are better for this fight, and megatheroum are know as carnivores. It is okay if you bring them in, i Just recomend you bring a good pump other gun like an ar. I recomend journeyman and up, if you have breed therizinosaurs take them. If you only have megatheriums but they are really strong take them. If you take megathrium I recomend you actually bring two daeodons for healing. Keep surviving survivor.- Boss slayer
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
Take a deinonychus with 10k+ health, 600+ Melee, 80+ saddle and good stamina for a easy win
16 Rex 2 pigs and yuty hard boss fight on rag is so easy when u get the 10 riders 1 guy on a pig with other following make sure it's full food and has food in inventory... Rex's must be 30k health and 600+ attack JM saddles or better is advised 1 yuty rider high standards to keep all boosted .. everyone else on Rex . Yeah b make sure pigs DO NOT Let anyone else whistle them pigs for healing not attacking
Try using 18 therizino's, 1 yutyrannus and 1 deaodon, the tickle chickens because the dragon does extra damage too carnivores and they are good anyway, and the yutyrannus because its roar boosts the strength of your other tames and the deaodon because it heals your other tames passively, which means your yutyrannus would be boosting the strength of your theri's and your deadon constantly healing them 24/7, making this fight decently easy depending on the difficulty.
Apparently, there’s some glitch that makes the boss aggro on you instead of your tames, so if your battle creatures block the dragon so it can’t get to you, they could attack it without getting too hurt!
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If yoi want the easy way bring a 298 DMG shotgun a megloceros and some meglasars sleeping Dino's they can tank the damage while you sit under the dragon shooting it you take no DMG and should lose 3 sleepy Dino's we did it alpha super easy
REMEMBER, It deals extra damage to carnivores so unless you’re using deinoychus and only like 10-20, it is not a good idea to use carnivores! A good idea is to use theris instead, they’re pretty good for other bossfights too
! ! DO NOT FIGHT THE DRAGON WITH CARNIVORES ! ! The dragon does extra damage to carnivore dinosaurs, it's best to take a bunch of Therizinosaurs
I just used all megatheriums on all the bosses and it went smooth
My tribe and I used nothing but our Deinonychus'. Each 5 of us were riding one and we took Alpha Dragon down in less than 5 minutes.
Run run as fast as you can stay as far away from this jerk as possible when it uses the fire