Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
These apex predators are the most overpowered creature you can use on genesis part 2! They are tamed with fish baskets, the higher the size of the fish, the better the outcome of the tame! The shadowmanes have three attacks and two special abilities, that being the regular bite/clawing attack, the teleport attack, the ultimate, cloaking and pack roar. The shadowmanes are similarly to real lions, in the way that they are gestation breeders, and are found in packs. Best taming method is to use a gillie suit and sneak up on them, and REMEMBER! You need to crouch in-order to tame them! They are also the singular BEST creatures for fighting Rockwell prime, just bring a massive pack of females and males! The males can use a pack roar, as mentioned earlier, and the females can use a pack cloak. And now, survivors, we’ve reached the end of this log! Stay strong, and keep surviving! And for me to make even more of these logs, going through every part of the genesis creatures abilities and other aspects, get this to ten ups, and you’ll have a big amount to read in front of ya!
This is the only tip you need net it then trap it with Fence foundations and double doors then derender it so it loses Agro
Definitely one of the most stressful teams I’ve ever had ever but it was worth it these things are freaking amazing!
IMPORTANT: When you have fish baskets if you put them in your hot bar and go into deep enough water the health bar of the basket resets!!! That way you can spend longer finding big fish and just keep getting the baskets wet till you are readyto tame your Shadowmane!
When I first saw this thing I thought about the thing from avatar
If you're on Fjördur, Bring an andrewsarchus with its saddle so it doesnt knock you off
A trap that Alpha’s keep under wraps:
4 foundations
8 double door frame
4 hatch frame
16 stone walls
2x2stone foundation
Double door frames first level up
Then plate ceiling hatch frames above the foundations
Then stone wall box with no ceiling above that
Kite a shadowmane to attack you above the box and when it falls in get out of render distance as fast as possible so it stops attacking the trap. When it lays dow crouch beneath and feed it through the hatch frame.
Im having problems with the shadowmanes going to sleep i have been siting here for about an hour watching these guys walking around but not sleeping
You can tell the genders apart because the males have a larger mane then the females. This is if u can’t see their tag.
Watch nooblets new video tame them in safety can tame multiple if done right
How to tame:
They only spawn in the Rockwell biome on genesis part 2, usually near rivers
To tame a shadow mane you need to get fish in a basket, the higher multiplier the quicker the taming speed. I recommend coelencath
Put the fish in your last slot of your hotbar.
During the day the shadow mane will occasionally lie down and sleep, only during the day.
However they do travel in packs, so I recommend aggravating one and leading it away from the pack.
If they aggro they will do their stun dash up at you and if I’m a pack they will all do it, getting you stuck and easy to kill, I know as it happened to me about 10 times
You can also trap it as well.
When it falls asleep you have to approach it from behind otherwise it will anger and lose all taming percentage.
To lower the chance of being detected wear a ghillie suit, or you can use the federation tek suit to stay in the air until it sleeps and land far enough away that it doesn’t wake up and close enough that it doesn’t take too long to approach.
Utility:
The shadow manes don’t have saddles but do have armour ratings.
The ultimate bar fills up when you attack, but if you kill something with the ultimate it refills immediately, side note, the ultimate effect looks dope.
Hold the jump button to do a charge jump, the longer you hold it the further it goes
You can also do the charge jump from in the water
They are really good swimmers
They have the stun dash attack which can hit any number of targets that is in the range of the attack, tested it with a lot of charge bugs in one foundation.
The stun dash can be done upwards and they will do that in the wild
With mate boost, the males can roar and boost the others in the pack, while the females can turn all creatures in a certain area invisible, without affecting movement speed. But if you go too far away you lose the invisibility.
Extra:
They are very good boss fight creatures, just look at syntac’s video.
They are incredibly fun to play around with
They are breedable
Naming:
I like to call mine the names from the lion king or if I’ve got too many, from thunder cats.
Do me a favor and have a really good day today, you've earned it.
The trap nooblets made makes it so that you don't have to worry much at all about the shadowmane seeing you, however, still be careful because if you get too close they can aggro and it's annoying to make them undo it (this is the link to the video https://youtu.be/zog8of25aac) (up to let more people see)
It's a passive tame that requires you to have Gillie armor, you have to wait for it to sleep then feed it fish.
Don’t feed them trilobites it moles the taming go to 0% 😭😭😭
The males are bigger with manes but the females can turn invisible and the females can also make not just it’s own kind invisible but big groups of other species of dinos invisible COOL RIGHT ya it’s ight BUT it has a lighting dash attack which deals heavy damage to groups of dinos and players