Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a raptor used for? raptor battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
When I was lever 16 I tamed 2 Raptors named Barry and Angel. When I was in a swampy area I set them on passive so I could tame a new creature but some titanotobas ganged up on me but right before I got knocked out I set them to aggressive and killed all of them when I was knocked out but they died 3 days later to a Therizinosaur
Very fast and pretty strong starter dino. If you have 3 or more raptors tamed you get a pack bonus wich boosts all nearby tamed raptors stats. If you get like 6 raptors you have a pretty strong group of dinos and you can start grinding for example keratin. In pvp it also has this attack that picks players of their mount so you can kill them for loot.
Get a Pair of high level ones and breed them.
You will end up with an army in no time and these little suckers will shred anything, even alpha karkinos or basilisks on aberration are hillariously easy to kill. And you can farm trilobites just pouncing up and down the rivers with a pack in tow. Just hit one and your pack will finish the job and remember to use the packs hunting call
If you have 10 of these things tamed, they can easily overwhelm creatures larger than themselves such as Brontos or Paraceratherium. Just don’t expect them to be able to handle a Titanosaur without some extensive breeding for strength and resilience, cuz leveling them alone will otherwise take nearly forever, and even if you level them high, breed and then kill the old ones after hatching a male and a female to leave room for more, you’ll still have to put in a lot of dedication to nearly go that far. Your better off doing the same thing with Brontos if you wanna get even if only nearly that far, but it doesn’t change the fact that tamed Raptors can take out creatures larger themselves in groups, possibly even a Rex if your tamed Raptor group is large enough. Gigantosaurus however? You probably wouldn’t be able to have them survive even if you used all 40 of your tame slots for Raptors and leveled each one to be as resilient as possible. Although, that would most certainly be a perfect storm for plenty of other things...