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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

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What is a dreadnoughtus used for? dreadnoughtus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
The Dreadnoughtus lives up to its name,
Built like a ship that crashes with full force and tears apart enemy Titans(the Dreadnought)
The Dreadnoughtus gains a dmg increase and resistance buff when fighting big creature, capping at 50% against Titans.
It's neck and tail swing, while really slow, can out dmg a giga's bite. It can also eat cannon balls to throw it up and cause an AOE explosion that can be used to tame the Forest (3 or 4 shots per node) and Ice Titan (1 shot on normal nodes, about 5 on the Chin node) as well as Rock Elementals (if hit on the head), or eat element to release an Atomic Breath that deals more dmg the more hits it takes.
Its platform saddle has 5 levels (well, 3 levels-the lower 2 are divided by 2) and can be loaded by turrets. Be careful though, any damage done to structures on plat-saddles are also done to the creature carrying it (on ASA). So either fire from a distance, or square up with no structures.
And the 3 seemingly normal, but in the Dread's case craziest things about it:
-it can breed. You can make an army of mutated and imprinted Titan killers(and corrupted heart farmer)
-it can have a mate buff, so even more dmg and resistance
-and it can be buffed by an allied Yuty's power roar. So EVEN MORE DAMAGE AND RESISTANCE
Oh, yeah, it can also 360 on the spot like a Spino
~The Plump Mauritian Rain Froog