Never spawn in west zone1 because sometimes it spawns there too

Killed alpha broodmother with 18 of these, 1 yuty and a daeodon. Haven't tried any other bosses yet, but I absolutely shredded alpha broodmother.

How Spinos compare to rexes (IMO):

Spinos are better mounts than rexes, considering they are a great deal faster, more agile, and versatile on land and in water. However, due to their lower health, alpha boss fights will be considerably harder when you use Spinos instead of rexes, although Spinos have a higher DPS than rexes, with levels, rexes have significantly higher hp than Spinos, making them difficult to utilize against alpha bosses, however, from experience, the Spinos tend to do very well against gamma and beta bosses. They both have their pros and cons, but for me: Spinos for traveling and for meat runs, and rexes for boss fights.

Can easily kill Alpha Rexes when they are near the shore line (like lava on the Centre). Approach the shore at a right angle and aggro the rex, then walk backwards into the water. The alpha won't attack you but will turn back to land. Nom it a few times then rinse and repeat. Killed 3 alphas in one visit to lava with 11k health and basic saddle.

Before you get to the point where you have wyverns, depending on your location spinos can be the best meat gathering tame. For my tribe, our Gigas are the best because we live near the swamp, but if you live somewhere with lower spawns, the spino can get you to the meat easily.

Great for collecting oil go into the swamp and kill leeches also chitin

Please, PLEASE keep babies near warmpth at ALL TIMES. I had triplets that died cuz they weren't warm enough

Always get a abberant spino. Its a key in abberation playthroughs. Strong, durable, rad-immune, get a good one and it will get you some rock drakes

In ASA, these things get a hydration buff in The Center arena, so consider that while planning out your boss army.

The most op dino of ark biside the giga

I almost lost my best spino to an alpha carno just now… it was terrifying. My spino(its name is Reaper) ran out of stamina in the middle of the fight. I usually use spinos for killing alphas, but this was a total accident. I ran up to the carno and attacked it before Reaper had regained her stamina, and couldn’t run away. Reaper dealt about 4000 damage and then I slowly got her over to a few stegos which the carno then attacked instead. I ran to the nearest water source and forcefed my spino(she was at 200 hp😣) and went back at the carno and killed it. Super close one. Upgrade that stamina, guys. It’s a lifesaver for you and your precious tame.

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Ark: asc

Currently much to dismay you cannot "farm" spinos for sails like many other throphy ress dinos. Only way to get sails currently is to hunt wild ones. If you are on offcial than hoard these as they become invaluable trade items after a month or so of a new server.

I have a lvl 150 spino that fighted a lvl 150 alpha rex he was close to die once cause that alpha rex has 94500hp and 200dammage but i killed it with a primitive pump action and 250 shells

The dorsal fin is for some reason uncollisioned making it so the spino can fit in smaller spaces. I use it for some caves where it looks like he won't fit he does.

They swim like lighting in water in the wild and swim really slow when tamed. I love this game

Spinos, similar to Tropical Crystal Wyverns, get a buff when in water. Also, by clicking the L stick for consoles (unsure for keyboard) darn thing stands up and does more damage but is slightly slower.

Also also, better attack speed then Rexes.

Also also also, these things are good. Get one.

Typical Spino fans, just like in inaccurate jurrasic world, saying Spinos are better without any valid reason lol. Rex would ez clap Spino irl, just like in ark. And no, Spino only hunted fish sorry Spino fans.

If this had a platform saddle then it would have devolved.

Spinos beat rexes in PvP 100% of the time. Go into 2 legged mode, and all in one motion run past the rex, turn around, shove the snout of your spino into the rear of the rex and profit. Because spinos are faster and have a much smaller turning radius, the opposing rex is completely unable to get you out from behind them. I've done this before, they literally cannot shake you no matter how hard they try. Just pump melee and stam and you'll be dropping 20th generation bred rexes effortlessly.

For people who want to tame spinos, do not make the same mistake I made. I decided, "Oh, its gonna be a great idea to tame that male spino and breed, after all its gonna have decent damage". Well I just messed up. I tamed a lvl 3... It was.. WEAK. The damage was 142.1%.

I had learned it after I bred the spinos. I was lucky to even get a baby lvl 20 with good melee. Yet, the moral is to not tame a low lvl spino, the melee results will be terrible. (I killed the Spino after I learned it was weak).

Yet, if you are looking for a good melee damage spino, low lvls arent for you. Please do not make the same mistake I did...