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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a dragon? dragon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
You can tame these guys in survival of the fittest events
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)
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.
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.
Used a rocket for final hit and I see a freaking rag doll off the map
18 Rex’s 1 yutyrannus with rider, 1 daedon with rider, rider on 1 Rex too command Rex’s attack and passive.👍🏻 That’s how I took out the dragon and manticore. Good luck😀
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
I recommend at least 5-10 lv 100+ dodos but if you want a challenge 15-20 high lv rexes work to
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
Do not use predators it does double damage to them.I Tips to use multiple therizinosaurus to kill it
Ur ded
GUYS THE DRAGON DOES LESS DAMAGE TO HERBIVORES! USE RHINO/THERIZ!
Deinoychus for bleed, and suprisingly ankys to tank. 21k hp on the ankys with veggie cakes, they sit so low to the ground you can park them where they won't get hit, with a high base damage.
Best way to kill it is to take out the healing orbs, place a bed and wait for it to fly close. When it does lay in the bed. The bed will then explode dealing massive damage to the dragon.
Encountering this beast can kill carnivores way faster; for instance if you take 3 lvl 150 Tyrannosaurus Rex into battle, they will die faster. Then if you take 3 lvl 150 Tickle chickens they will probably die, but way slower. What this means? The dragon does increased damage to carnivores then herbivores.
Yell “Fus Ro Dah” as loud as possible and punch your TV where the dragons head is. Should be insta kill. If that doesn’t work start singing the Skyrim theme
My best strat was pure health daedons (passive heal) mounting a yuti and using theri’s to negate the carnivore factors
Put a deinonycus only of stamina than grab the dragon and you kill him in 4 starts
alpha dragon is the hardest boss
honestly gave me more trouble than the king titan
if u r using therizinos(and if u r not the u r a noob) BRING VEGGIE CAKES
Hatch 20 deinonychus and put the best saddle you can on them. Use bleed attack