Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a sarco used for? sarco utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
One of the most OP dinos in the game their speed and ability to game stamina so quickly in the water is unbelievable have taken them into all of the underwater caves. Also the turning circle is easy to get around as you can attack in the direction you want to go and they spin around. Unbelievable dinosaur 10/10!!!
Great early game tame, extremely fast in the water. Their food bar drops like a rock so make sure he has some in his inventory while he's away from the trough. Found them awkward to manuever in battle while mounted so I wouldn't recommend that, although they can easily hold their own if needed. I'd pump food, health and melee.
These Corps can knock players off their mounts by the death roll attack and are pretty strong I highly recommend one if ure a low lvl, the best way to tame it is by sticking to its lower end and punching the snot outta it and then use fish meat and narcs. They're rly naice cuz ma lvl 13 Marco saved me frm 2 allo pack attacks... And of u decide to use them as mounts keep an eye for the stamina cuz their torpor is rly crappy I lost a croc dis way RIP bombozie, #f to pay respect
Must have hunter. It's great speed in water and great power on land makes it all-around great, if you look at your pray and spam right stick(console) or c (pc), then you can do what I call a lunge rush, but consecutively doing a lunge so many times in a row, faster than normal bite. Despite it's great power, it wastes tons of Stam. Saddle is learned at level 35. Hope this inspired you to get a sarcosuchus.
These things are definitely beginner dinos. Don't be fooled by sentimental players. I have a level 253 and honestly its kinda useless. There are better dinos for everything the sarco can do on land and on water.
Firstly, its attack animation is simply one of the worst. Its aoe is very small like 30 degree in front. Ok top of that its attack speed is also very bad. Maybe 1 attack per 1.5 seconds or something. Even a raptor with 200% dmg will out damage my croc and its like 500% dmg.
Secondly, how is the kapro able to hold on to prey while a sarco isn't? The sarco has a lunge attack which basically does nothing than 1 dmg proc. And there is a barrel roll attack which can only grip tiny dinos like lystro or penguins again for 1 dmg proc.
Thirdly, its oxygen is shamefully low for an semi-aquatic tame. Enough said.
Some consolation points would be its attack in the water seems to double proc, like a dire bears attack. And its really fast in the water like real fast, fully submerged or other wise.
My conclusions,
They need to rework the sarco. Its a really weak mount. Improve its dmg aoe and oxygen stat. The roll attack should dmg proc for multiple times. The lunge should at least slow if not catch victims or stun, since there is the kapro and the baryonyx already. And it should be able to kill land dinos by drowning them with a buffed oxygen stat. This is the largest, prehistoric crocodilian and wildcard just missed the opportunity to have a fun and dangerous swamp dino for their game. Its so large and cool looking but from a gameplay perspective, its really not good. Get a baryonyx or even a beelzebuffo than this.