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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.
U need to kill one in order to TAME one?????
highly recommend going as far away until you can't hear any sound effects coming from them cuz the range where you can't hear their flying or attacking sounds is a good estimate if not exact to their aggro range
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idk if this is with all flyers but they really hate it when you fly cuz theres a high chance they will stop attacking the creature theyre attacking and focus on you when you come near them and only focus on you (i tried this with another rhynio) so try to land next to another paracer nd hope they target the paracer instead
and lastly if youre being shot at try slightly running in circles cuz you will get hit last
If they arnt spawning, go on a killing spree in the swamps, I recommend a spino due to them swimming, walking and having a big bite radius (while bipedal), as wiping the swamp should allow spawning space to open (there's a max alive wild creatures in one place before spawning stops), allowing a rhynio to spawn.
I just got ambushed by one and I got out of the game so fast, I don't know if it's is even safe to get back in the game. Send help, this creature is scary to encounter on a pt
Major revelation: If you're flying in the swamp, wear a ghillie suit to not get you and your flier immediately get spotted and targeted. (only works when the wild rhynio is currently attacking something, don't randomly go up to a stationary rhynio and not expect to get chased)
This is similar to bug repellant but it also benefits your flier too.
The ghillie suit makes you not have to worry about 2 major dangers of the rhynio:
Its massive aggro range
&
Prioritization of you over other creatures (similar to a Rex but way worse)
Obviously, if you and another creature are in its aggro range and you are closer to it, there's a chance it might attack you first, but overall if you're wearing a ghillie suit, you don't have to worry about flying high above the swamps anymore to evade the rhynios.
I mainly use mine to pick up and carry Creatures like rexes and also for the fact how it has all of the fliers abilities,such as speed near that of Pteranodon,the greatest lifting strength of all on the island eclipsing even Argentavis and Quetzalcoatlus by quite a margin.can surface swim and even dive better than Pelganoris.
You can't outrun it unless you have your own rhynio so if you don't have it yet it's either kill it or distract it and if you're on a land Dino you're screwed these and their ranged sap attacks are deadly
This is too op it can fly and swim
The spawn command is cheat summon rhynio_character_BP_C on console idk if it is the same on PC tho
Was having a hell of a time judging how low of health one was when impregnating and also accidently killing it. What I found worked was to ride a direwolf and while it's attacking my host to be, shoot with whatever until the direwolf's cross turns orange. From there, I just chuckled spears at it until it turned red and then popped the pheromone. Worked 3/3 times in a row and solved my problem.
Is it out on console? 🦟
I was riding on my pt around the swamp looking for smh to tame and then one them freaking spawned right below me and i lost my lvl 230 pt :((( BE PREPARED FOR ONE TO SPAWN NEAR U OR IF U SEE ONE
I literally just lost pteranodon 5 minutes ago and went here just to complain how annoying these f-ers are cus:
- Annoyingly fast
- Surprisingly deal a lotta damage
- Oddly huge aggro radius (I wasn't even that close, jeez)
- Ugly ahh looking
It all happened really fast, I wasn't even prepared. I WASN'T EVEN AWARE THAT THESE THINGS EXIST IN ARK MOBILE. I DESPISE THEM ALREADY.
These things need a nerf. They killed my spino and me. It was only level 3 too. So dumb
I found a swamp that was a ryagnatha hot spot in astraeos
Usefull to tame rex without a single trap, just pick them and tranq them while flying backward (they can't hit you if you do it right). This work with dino that are big enough maybe medium to big (I tried it with paracer it's perfect I could go on a run killing male rhynio and tame new paracer on the way so my bug army will conquer the ARK), very usefull.
-K9