Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

This dino is fast, like very fast, and deals a decent amount of damage for how easily it is to get. They do have a poor weight stat, so make sure to store heavier minerals in another tame or storage. Saddle at engram level 18 means its one of the earliest tamed you can really get, cannot go wrong with the raptor.
More Raptor Utility Tips
A really funny thing you can do with alpha raptors is to get a rhynio, lure an alpha raptor to the beach, and get it to swim after you in the ocean. If it loses interest and becomes passive, then get close to it and dismount on your rhynio and it should start swimming after you again. Then when it gets too close you can fly some distance away, dismount, and it will start chasing you again. Do this a few dozen times and you can trick the alpha raptor into swimming to herbivore island or any other crazy location since alphas can't drown.
You can also leave the alpha raptor at sea then fly away from it until it disappears in your render distance and forget about it since it will never despawn, drown, or even move so you can go to it later to kill it.
Bonus tip: if you dismount on your rhynio, your rhynio will automatically start regenerating stamina in the air after 5 seconds.
A really funny thing you can do with alpha raptors is to lure one to a bronto using an argy or other strong flyer, make it deal like a few hundred damage to it, then fly away and get some popcorn as you watch the bronto try to attack the alpha raptor while the alpha raptor is minding its own business wandering or killing another dino. The more damage the bronto takes the longer it will attempt to attack the alpha raptor.
This happens because raptors don't attack brontos, and wild brontos can't damage alpha raptors.
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I tamed about 20 of them and killed a bronto in like two seconds.
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When tamed, a raptor is a very fast and strong mount but they don't have very much carry weight. Level up weight, speed, and damage.
If you are taming raptors I would recommend taming around 3-5 raptors if you can. Raptors are a great way of quick transportation because if you are traveling with your group of raptors it can easily kill any decent threat if you use them right. I would recommend choosing the best raptor and making the other raptors follow it.
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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.
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Just for people to know this is a Utahraptor not a velociraptor. A velociraptor is about the size of a turkey.