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These takes make an excellent starting mount, while being weaker than a trike it can pacify most animals smaller than a Rex, giving you a good escape from and hungry pack of raptors and can Agro animals using its other scent thing, which comes in handy in leading creatures into a trap. It is also a two seater and is faster than the trike.
The DPS of these guys is actually insane for a small-medium herbivore. They have 28 base damage, which is not the best, but they hit like 5 times per second. I tamed a lvl 130 (in the wild, lvl 194 tamed) with ~500% melee damage and that thing can shred through all of the health of a mid level Trike (about 750-1250 health) before it even reacts. I then went to more dangerous areas to see how good it was. It destroyed a lvl 140 Chalicotherium (~3000 health) in the matter of seconds. Then I took on a lvl 60 Bronto (~7000 health); the Bronto didn’t stand a chance, as the knock back of this thing makes it very difficult for enemy creatures to hit it, even including giants like the Bronto. From my testing it seems like the DPS of my Pachyrhino (now lvl 200) is similar to that of my lvl 210 Carno and only slightly lower than that of my lvl 200 Rex. This has to be one of the most underrated creatures in the game.
(Note: this is one mobile, not sure if it’s as good on other versions)
#1 best dino to raid deinonychus nests. It cannot be latched onto, it has decent health and the deinonychus are addicted to purple gas, just remember that the deinonychus will attack you as soon as you dismount a pachyrhino even if you use the gas and also they are slow as all hell.