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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for rhyniognatha? Tips and strategies for rhyniognatha in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I hereby acknowledge that these are worse than a gigantic in my own opinion. I lost 3 pts, a spino, a argy, and a anky.... all at once.... to a single one..... 0/10 would randomly encounter again.
You can always find at least a couple of these F*****s in lots of swamps. Once it agros on your flyer, you’re dead. Just to know, stay very far away from them.
They destroyed this tame, speed compatible to a tally (once was faster than a wyvern) stats are very dull and prone to dying with health averaging 3k-5k, and a 50% decrease in speed when carrying things (again its allready around a tappys base speed)......the sky giga should actually be a sky giga considering how tricky and confusing it is to tame these things compared to an actual giga
From experience, in case of a Rhynio getting agroed into you, don't panic and try to fly low to the ground (not inside the swamp) and try to fly close by the maximum amount of creatures so it agroes into them. Rhynios easily lose interest in you especially if they can't hit you.
It will take traits from the host creature this includes stats, and colors. I'd advise using a high stat giga, or carch, with insane mutations, even a rex will do
They spawn in the swamp -Tested
The rhniognatha was first thought to be thylacoleo sized judging from the dossier however a recent picture of it being as large or larger then a Rex and carrying the Rex, it is speculated that depending on what creature you attach it’s enzyme to it will inherit the size of the creature.
The last sentence is speculation proposed by Syntac and has not been confirmed
TURNS OUT IT SPAWNS ON THE ISLAND I shat bricks when I saw that thing and tried so hard to avoid it, rip Miguel 😔 anyways if you are a bit new and don't plan to tame it uuuuh just hope you don't see it, I don't even know how to get away from these things, they're insanely fast.
4 of this insects chase me on my argy with 40pts to movement speed somehow they can still hit me with meele attacks lucky it argro to a racer... Rip racer tnx
Here's just some things I've learned while taming these huge bugs.
•If you don't have something like a giga/carcha to impregnate, the 3rd best option would be a Brontosaurus for best stat quality for your baby bug. Though actually getting one to the Rhyniognatha will be quite difficult as you can't simply cryopod it and throw it once you found your Rhyniognatha (as of the Cryofridge and cryopod change in ASA). So you may need to walk it through the entire swamp...
• Keep your shoulder pets passive! This won't affect you if your using a large dino such as those listed above, though if using something smaller (though this is not recommended, most smaller dinos can't even consume the pheromone), you need to have your shoulder pets on passive so they don't attack the Rhyniognatha. I once did this mistake, and as I was going to feed my dino a pheromone, my otter on my shoulder killed the Rhyniognatha as it was on Attack Target.
•Final one, be fully prepared! Bring your pheromone and your creature your willing to impregnate before searching for a Rhyniognatha. This is because these guys love to aggro absolutely everything and get themselves killed, so if you went back to stock up on everything you need once you found one, chances are it is already dead.
Wish you luck!
Just came here to know about this fker after getting me and my Pterror (Ptero) killed. Run, the moment you see this devil, don't think twice, just RUN, I learned it the hard way
When tamed, one of these freaks can rule the water, land and sky. These things breeze through hordes of rexes and (when leveled up) have enough stamina to travel across the map in 1-2 stops. Their sheer strength allows them to carry an absurd about of materials that is great for resource farming at far away places! It can also pick up most of the creatures allowing for crazy combos like holding a diplo with an army of passengers seated on its saddle or even carrying ankys to and from the volcano. Amazing tame!
If u are just a noob run that's all I can say
Option A is to kill them in ark ultimate survivor edition you need a ascendent long neck, ascendent crossbow, ascendent metal bow and some metal arrows then tame a bunch of pts and make them aggro on the rhyno then use your ranged weapon or option 2 sacrifice one of your flying tames then run far ASF from the attack or 3 just make them attack something large like a paraceratherium or a dilopocus or anything bigger than these 2 and then fly, swim or run far away as possible while riding your tame