Faster than a Rex, semi-aquatic, and they still do decent damage along with having the hydration buff. Great PvE travel mount (I've only ever played singleplayer). Basic square stone gateway trap, you might wanna bring 100-200 tranq arrows to be safe. Recommend to try at least once.

-A.D.B

Honestly my favorite dino. As many people have already said, it's a great swimmer, higher dps than a rex when on 2 legs, supersonic on 4 legs especially with hydration buff. One thing I don't see mentioned is that they climb uphill very well on 4 legs. Overall way better than a rex yet still so overshadowed by it. Probably due to bias from JP... Show the Spino more love please

One thing about Spinos is that they really really REALLY love to make babies, I had two Spinos Finn and Spinnerella, TWO! And when I came back from a hunt to make a saddle I had 3. Let me tell you they almost always come out female I swear to god, so later I had 5, then 9 then 13 because some were boys and now I have 26 in 10 hours and a lot of fertilized eggs. (Also I play on a solo unmodified server on island with the smallest little hut with a moschops, a big eagle thing, a Rex, a turtle, 2 pteranodons, a Tapejara, 2 parasaurs, a trike, a monkey, a beaver, a small raptor, an anky, a small handful of lysta- things that you pet, 12 raptors, an otter, and exactly 48 dodos that are about 500 hp and damage for each one. And after Finn and Spinnerella getting in bed constantly and a lot of incest I have a growing army.) so with all that said get a male and a female Spino, and don’t be stupid like me and getting close to one with a sarco to see its gender. Just get a spyglass.

They'd say a rex is better until getting bitten on the back of it's leg and it takes an hour to turn and fight back, a spino stands up, turns on the spot, slaps the unlucky thing into the next life, they're also extremely fast and agile, I prefer them over the rex any day of the week

After taming one all I can say is that it's basically a rex but more agile.

Spinos are the kings of versatility their decently fast and extremely strong and they also excel in gathering meat and hide

Probably one of the BEST mounts in the game. Can kill land animals and water animals with ease. Are fast as sonic. And is overpowered in the water. (Great for harvesting beaver dams).

A level thirty five spino can run from, and kill a pack of six allos with ease…

Bro if you say spinos suck go watch syntac on YouTube man makes spinos twice as straong as you can make a Rex and they come in even better colors

Rexes are good for killing land creatures. Spinos are good for killing Alpha Mosas and Tusos. Rexes are good for killing Dilos. Spinos are good for killing Mean Fish Things.

When you take a high level one of these and need to level it, just put it in aggresive behavior and leave it in the water, it will gain tons of levels from all the fish. This works especially on aberration with karkinos

Nothing is better than destroying the dead island with this thing while barely taking any damage.

Tame 2 high lvl ones and breed them to create a monster with mutations,my spino is lvl 215 and it kills alpha raptors and carnos in secs and alpha rex in mins and i filled it some points in oxygen if killed 2 alpha megs and a alpha Mosa without taking DMG (don't try tuso u will be traumatized for life time)

DO NOT ENTER UNDERWATER CAVES ON YOUR BELOVED SPINO, YOU WILL GET FLUNG INTO THE ABYSS. Also, make sure that if you’re doing underwater exploration on one to always have them on follow, if you don’t, they’ll fly up to the surface of the water and you’ll drown deep in the depths of god knows where, also probably keep them on passive for this reason so they don’t start attacking something while you drown like “GET BACK HERE!!!”

[I’m on mobile, so this may not apply to other versions of ark]

They can outrun gigas pretty easily on both land and water.

Bring this to swamps, not only they have high torpidity incase of titanoboa but they get waterbuff so u can cross safely and if you don’t have a mount you can hide underneath it’s belly whenever it says you have entered a danger zone and not feeling like getting bitten by a krapro, press up if this was helpful :)

These guys are one of the best Offense tames. They can also be used for water combat. Their speed is also very good for a carnivore. Its attack speed is also super good. They can destroy beach noobs easily in a PvP server. They also have some knockback.

Isn’t really consistent) and they lack knock back.

5. Looks. Ok. Listen. I know this sounds biased, but, come on, look at the spino. It sail gives it its distinct look and makes it stand out. Meanwhile with rexes “WAIT OMG IS THAT A GI- nope. Never mind, it’s a rex”

So, that’s my argument on why spinos are better than rexes. Don’t get the idea I’m calling rexes useless I just think spinos are a bit better.

Tysm for reading (*^u^*)

A decent level Spino (27-100) can easily take down any Dino even Rexs and broncos

Although seen in water almost all the time, it has an oxygen bar and drowns underwater. (Not for deep sea adventures)