Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

So a few days ago I did some testing to see what the base damage of the pteranodon barrel roll is on mobile. Dododex says 36 but I found out that it is actually 50. Here’s the base damage of some other creatures for comparison btw: Rex (62), Bronto (60), Spino slap (60), therizino (50), dire bear (50), sarco death roll (45), and spino bite (40). So yeah the pteranodon’s barrel roll has comparable damage to some of the bigger creatures on the island in mobile. So I bred my pteranodons to get a perfect imprinted one. After a lot of tries I finally got one and I just killed a wild giga with it by repeatedly barrel rolling into the giga’s tail and flying upwards before it can bite.
More Pteranodon Utility Tips
How to do barrel roll on mobile: Go to settings and then go to controls then either go to left multi tap or right multi tap. Then select Reload/Alt attack2. When you are done, go and press on your screen twice on either left or ritght side. And you pteranodon can now do a barrel roll! Disclaimer:wastes stamina alot so be careful. Like so newbies see this!
If you play on mobile and want to do the roll then go to settings left or right multi tap and chose alt attack 2 !!!
NOW FOR THE MAIN PART--- THESE THINGS CAN KILL GIGAS the normal roll does decent damage but if you roll and attack a dino while watching the dino through spyglass you can deal tons of damage (this works in mobile idk about other platforms) i killed tons of rexes,brontos,allos..etc. using this trick
Δ IF THIS HELPS~~
My Pteranodon, Shan. Absolute legend. True trooper. Top dog. Killed level 139 Spino on his own. Only level 92. Killed 20 Therizinos. 5 Carnos, 19 Direbears. 31 Raptors, 2 griffins and one Argentavis including a Megalodon that poked its tail up. Can fly from East to west without landing for stamina once. Wiped out a whole crew of boas with 5 barrel rolls. Rescued my Dilophosaurs more than twice. Very useful Pteranodon.