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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a shadowmane used for? shadowmane battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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.
While tamed you must have a male and female present sharing the mate boost to allow the female to share the invisibility! I tried when I only had the female and it didn’t work!! Didn’t want anyone wondering why they only have a female and it won’t share the invis!! Hope this helps!
These fish kitties are the most op thing I’ve ever used. They are fast, semi-aquatic, have natural armor, don’t need a saddle, can teleport behind creatures and stun them, they can turn invisible, females can turn any friendly creature near them invisible when mate boosted, males can do a roar buff when mate boosted, they get a crazy pack buff, can do a super jump and they can charge themselves to do a super attack by hitting creatures. Also they don’t lose taming process for several days. A pack of strong, imprinted shadowmanes with skilled riders is basically unkillable.
probably THE best ARK creature so far, it can be used as a good travel mount due to the high jump ability, it can swim underwater really fast too, doesn’t have an oxygen stat so it can stay underwater forever, receives the spino’s hydrated buff, also a pack buff, the roar buff, deals an unholy amount of damage, also i almost forgot to mention the lightning stun ability, the invisibility, in my opinion it’s also a better ocean exploring mount than a basilo or even a tuso, they do get stunned by eels and jellyfish but a pack of 3+ will easily deal with that.
- #1 Shadowmane Glazer