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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
If you’re a beginner, Like me. Tame four Raptors and you can kill almost…

If you’re a beginner,
Like me.
Tame four Raptors and you can kill almost anything,
So you could go on long voyages without worrying too much.
No Rex’s or Alpha anything, and you should be fine.
just be careful, and make sure to check their health after a possible close call,
I made that mistake once,
Regretted it.
Also I recommend tranq arrows instead of bola, but I might be using the bola wrong,
So don’t take my word for it.
Though I will mention, Raptors cannot hold that much weight.
unless you tame something that can keep up with the rappers and hold a bit of weight,
(Maybe a Parasaur,
but I haven’t tamed one yet.)
Pack light, and don’t intend on taking too much home.
More Raptor Utility Tips
This is possibly the only dino that's still will be effective from the beginning to the end stage, these things have a pack buff that really isn't gonna do anything to bosses,, but historical we always learn outnumbering an enemy is a guaranteed win, get two raptors and breed them together till you have a gang of them, put points mostly in health stamina and melee damage and with the pack buff these freaking machines will start attacking nonstop even if one deals 40 damage their fast strikes kill even brontosauruses
Do not use this for caves, you will die. I tried to run lower south today and I died and so did my raptor. I have done lower souths billions of times, never had I actually remotely struggled, I would even do it on foot. The new araneo tlc makes it impossible to use a raptor in caves do to the damage it will take. Everything was high level or max level and the raptor which did 600 damage with 6k health couldn’t survive. Just take a barry or a thyla but not a raptor.
Raptors are essentially better Dilos. Whe lacking the poisonous blinding spit of a Dilo, they have a much better DPS due to their speed. In groups of three or more they benefit from a pack boost, and in groups of at least four I notice they tend to take on bigger threats on the Ark (notably Sarcos and Kapros). Plus their pounce ability is not to be overlooked.
In short, tame Dilos for the early game, but Raptors as you move into mid game.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. Up so newbies can see :)