Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

For Gen2 boss fight, tame 10-15 of these majestic creatures and a yuty. Get them some decent health and attack. Hop on your yuty with the Shadowmane’s on follow. Keep them on “attack your target” through the insane cave battle. Once in boss arena, proceed all the way to the main door. Turn off follow once they are all passed the back door. Once the back door closes, sealing you in, that’s when you want to whistle aggressive! Roar buff them as they charge through and start attacking everything. Then sit back and watch them destroy the tentacles while reactivating the roar buff when needed.
You will occasionally need to hop off the yuty during different phases of the boss fight so turn on the yuty’s auto roar for those parts but for the most part just stay on the yuty and keep the Shadowmane’s buffed.
More Shadowmane Utility Tips
Since Shadowmanes have eight attacks/abilities, let me walk you through how to use them on a Playstation!
Primary attack: this one’s easy, press the right trigger.
Teleport/lightning attack: double click the left trigger near a creature.
Teleport attack (with radar ability): hold the left trigger down until a target is found, then press it again.
High jump: hold down X until crosshairs appear. The longer you hold the higher and further the jump.
Camouflage: click the right joystick.
Charged attack: hold down the right trigger. (You can only use this attack when the bar at the bottom of the screen is full and the shadowmane’s eyes are glowing. If you deal the final blow with the attack, it will automatically recharge.)
Roar pack bonus (male): double click the right joystick.
All tame cloak (female): double click the right joystick.
This creature is the crown jewel of ark creatures, as it is fast, strong, has good weight, can take a hit, and cloaks and swims incredibly fast. As well as everything listed above, they have a dash attack that hits multiple targets, and gets a crazy mate boost. There more, but I’m tired of typing how good shadowmanes are🙂
Both male and female can cloak themselves, but female can also cloak all dinos in an area around it, while the males cannot. The males can instead give a courage effect I imagine is similar to Yutys, but I don’t know for sure. Both male and female also have a powerful charged jump, and a dash attack where they teleport between a group of creatures and damage them, and also stun them for a couple seconds
So if you want the multitool of a pve, pvp monster dino here you go. Need to kill an alpha, Shadowmane, need a fast meat run use a shadowmane, need to kill a fast player shadowmane, kick a player off tame shadowmane, get drake eggs shadowmanes can jump, need to bait a creature with a fast tame shadowmane. Need a yuty for a boss, nah shadowmane, need a easy getaway dino shadowmane, need a boss army breed shadowmanes.