What confuses me is that people choose this for a power mount, specifically for the purpose of having a power mount. Guys, these are WAY faster than carnos or allos, and they regain their stamina faster, AND the water buff makes them utilize their stamina more. So you also have a speed/scout! Put that together with lightning fast dps, large size, sort of good hp(it’s a lot of hit points, but compared to other creatures the same size, it’s pretty fragile) you have the IDEAL tame.

Oh, did I mention that they swim?

AND they regain stam almost instantly when swimming?

Boom.

We can’t forget the rex vs spino part of the tip:

You’re looking at an even match here, I’d say. One on one, your level one spino will beat your level one Rex, but you’re not necessarily getting one of them specifically for beating the other one, if that makes sense.

Spinos are MUCH quicker, and have a considerable edge on the damage output, but they’re not made for the beating that a Rex can take. If you’re looking at going to battle, it makes sense to choose a rex… much more health, and has a poop roar, which can be useful against smaller creatures.

Spinos are good for travel, and guerrilla tactics.

The only things that can easily catch up with one are pteros and gallies(to be honest, who is going to chase a spino with a gally…).

Quick, good swimmers, great damage, but low compared to Rex.

I have both, and I’m just being honest when I say I prefer the spino, mainly because it’s way more fun to ride, and because it’s faster and more powerful damage-wise. I still love my Rex though.

Note: tamed rexes are actually quite fast.

Another note: spinos are disliked for their turning radius, but in bipedal mode, they have virtually no turning radius, instead turning with the screen like a human or gigantopithecus.

Thanks for reading! I hope this helped

People think “stats this stats that Rex better than spino”

No get it together idiots

Spinos are way better than rexes cause… well people have already said why and I don’t feel like ripping off of them so I’m just gonna add to them

1: spinos are better for the overseer boss fight cause they are faster

2: spinos are smarter than Rex cause Rex has attention span of a nat

3: spinos are faster than Rex and can easily breeze through animals unlike rexs who would get wrecked

4: spinos can collect raw prime fish meat better

5: spinos are better imprinted than rexes (I 100% imprinted a Rex and a spino) both level one I made rex fight spino and spino won

6: spinos have knockback, rexes don’t

7: spinos don’t waste time roaring before every fight they do

There

-lava

Is it just me or does someone else thinks that some ark creatures are like pokemons. Like for example the dimetrodon evolves to spino, the dodo evolves to terror bird, the kaprosuchus evolves to sarco evolves to deinosuchus, microraptor evolves to raptor, carno evolves to rex evolves to giga, fjordhawk evolves to argie, diplo evolves to bronto evolves to titanosaur, Titanoboa evolves to basilisk, patchyrhino evolves to trike and so on

For my personal opinion the spino is the BEST starter tame I found a lv 54 spino near my base and easily trapped it using a large bear trap and 4 dino gate ways it has absolutely carried me through out my play through until I got a lv 112 one I was able to kill EVERY THING I mean high level rexes spinos or alphas in a matter of seconds and I was able to traverse the whole island extremely rapidly so please TRY to tame one it is REALLY useful in travel fighting and mostly anything .thanks .

Starthesuper.

Spino VS Rex! Who will win?!?! Amount of attacks: Spino- 2 attacks. Rex- 1 attack. Plus---- The Spino has a buff when they touch water that lasts for 30 seconds. One thing that the Spino can do is either run on 4 legs or on 2 legs, the Spino has 1 attack but that attack changes depending on if the Spino is walking/Running. So Spino wins!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

at 40 damage a hit every 0.46 seconds, even they're lowest is 11 more DPS than the rex's 74.5 dps, and the highest at 108 dps, dps demons, approximately 38 mph in quadrupedal mode and faster than a megalodon in the water, forget tankiness, they blitz the dragon before they have to deal with it's 20% total-health fire breath with casualties (with enough melee damage and the courage buff), they get the hydration buff from the smallest puddles of the broodmother cave or the river in the megapithecus fight, even if they're in quadrupedal mode they deal more damage than the rex, 396,000 health vs a collective army of 25,000+ dps (if you spread them out before the swarm), 648,000 health vs 25,000+ dps, 864,000 vs 25,000+ dps. maybe I'm living under a rock because I see way higher damage in videos and way higher potential than just 500% melee damage.

With a higher damage output and more stamina than a rex, the spino is an excellent alternative. The turning radius and hit box of spino makes it easier to hit targets as well, much easier than a rex. Not to forget the spino also shines in water, moving faster than it does on land and consuming no stamina while swimming, it makes for great escape route.

Overall the only negative thing I can say about it is that it's speed on land is slightly slower than a rex. If youre keeping it inland, consider putting a few points in speed.