Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Question

What is a mantis used for? mantis battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.

score 681 · Answer 1 · 2020-11-08T23:11:20+00:00

Mantis baby eats SPOILED MEAT. Happy breeding :).

score 784 · Answer 2 · 2019-11-25T21:04:40+00:00

Theziosaur: I'm the ultimate harvester!!!

Mantis: Hold my beer bruh.

score 604 · Answer 3 · 2016-10-07T13:09:38+00:00

The mantis can be used to tame other creatures by equipping clubs. The higher the melee of the mantis and the club, the faster you can knock things out

score 576 · Answer 4 · 2016-10-06T17:42:09+00:00

The most versatile of Scorched Earths creatures. A Mantis can hold the roles of multiple different creatures depending on the tools or weapons it has equipped. Picks and Hatchets make them ultimate harvesters, Pikes and Swords can turn them into deadly combat mounts and Clubs can allow them to quickly down creatures for taming, they have no need for Sickles since they can harvest fiber by default. However you'll need to level it's stats depending on the role you plan to assign it to. For example, if you want too make a Mantis a harvester weight and Melee are what you'll want to go for, if you want it to be a expert at combat health and Melee with some stamina in case things go wrong and you have to flee are the way to go since there pounce attack is enough to quickly cover ground and escape a aggressor, and KO'ers really need nothing more then health in case the target is something strong that fights back and some Melee to increase the amount of torpor inflicted by the clubs

score 470 · Answer 5 · 2017-06-14T18:37:21+00:00

Advice:

-Aquire mantis

-Level melee as much as possible

-Equip with ascendant wooden clubs

-Ultimate wyvern knockout machine

score 424 · Answer 6 · 2017-01-11T11:08:34+00:00

Best tame on the game! Had so much fun with mine, knocking out of dino's with club, mining, killing.... Can so so much! Even knocked out my 150 shark with it.

Just don't leave it on passive RIP 260 mantis :(

score 2 · Answer 7 · 2023-08-24T22:20:38+00:00

They don't need sickles to gather fiber, they gather fiber like a pro!

score 98 · Answer 8 · 2021-05-06T12:28:09+00:00

Why is there not an option to add a mantis with a club in the weapons option for Dododex??

score 8 · Answer 9 · 2023-06-05T02:43:39+00:00

I would not suggest giving these things primitive items. Give them better stuff instead because they blow through durability when mining rocks. And also, if they break their tool, don’t share your own. They’ll break that too. 😂

score 87 · Answer 10 · 2020-12-23T13:30:23+00:00

Up for breeding tips section pls

score 2 · Answer 11 · 2023-08-05T23:06:25+00:00

These guys are very good at harvesting metal if you have one with decent weight as you can hold the mining drill while riding one (somehow) but yoy can mine metal with their pickaxes and transfer the metal onto your character

score 3 · Answer 12 · 2023-06-20T06:11:21+00:00

On gen 2 if you put swords in its hands it Collect sap. From the yellow trees.

score 42 · Answer 13 · 2020-11-16T21:22:36+00:00

If you equip an ascendant club (or any club really) you can use the mantis as an effective taming mount I knock out rexes and carnos with it

score 42 · Answer 14 · 2020-09-03T23:28:37+00:00

Don't listen to the guy that said unarmed attacks from the mantis is better. A sword can easily increase it's attack to the 3-4 digits

score 31 · Answer 15 · 2021-03-14T02:14:57+00:00

Babies now eat raw meat. Enjoy

score 26 · Answer 16 · 2020-10-16T14:05:04+00:00

Use a mantis with a wooden club and you can knock out things or scissors they somehow work I knocked out a level 56 pacer with a mantis with a club

score 24 · Answer 17 · 2020-12-27T20:49:16+00:00

The alternate attack does harvest way more than the regular attack. Doing it on element veins you will gather much more element and shards than dust. Vice versa with regular attack.

score 2 · Answer 18 · 2023-05-07T15:44:14+00:00

It’s a good harvester for wood thatch and other materials

score 26 · Answer 19 · 2020-08-18T12:18:30+00:00

(To person below me) The reason it doesn't harvest anything is because you need to give it the correlating tool for the job, for example, to harvest minerals, give it a pickaxe, for wood an axe, you can give it a sword too but it's unarmed attack is better.

score 32 · Answer 20 · 2019-11-19T04:22:22+00:00

1 mantis, 1 Asc hatchet or pick, 1 swamp, endless mushrooms