These are just my favorite ever. The creature design is awesome, and the super powerful bipedal mode is amazing. They dish out powerhouse levels of damage, and are very fast. As an old time player, I’ve just always loved these. I need a couple of these around my base even if I’m not using them. They’re my babies.

spinosaurus is alarmingly fast on land and, in water. they are deadly but, easily avoidable. they only reside in rivers and lakes, they can sacrifice speed for strength as they can stand up to deal much more damage, allowing them to plow through weaker dinos such as trikes or allo's, and can easily tear through a rex with minimal effort. 8.7 for its great speed and need to bish slap just about anything with a pulse, while being a good way to body an enemy rex just by slapping it.

these dudes, in my opinion and many others, are better than rexes. sure, rexes are super cool-looking and popular and powerful as well, but the spino is so much less resource consuming. it takes less than half the amount of tranq arrows/darts to knock out a max level spino than you need to knock out a max level rex. also, if you are in battle and you happen to be using a spino, make sure to touch water while on the spino. the water buff increases your chances of winning by a lot. the only downside about spinos, in my opinion, is the saddle. compared to the rexes saddle, the spino saddle is a tad more expensive than a rexes saddle. up this if you found this useful! -J

Hello there player...

I am here to unite the two factions on war since time immemorial: The Rex faction and The Spino faction...

First of all, yes everyone has their on opinion but this is MY opinion so without further ado...

I dont believe in "Rex are better than Spinos" thing

Because in certain scenarios the Spino is IN FACT better than The Rex for example: When Fighting in an area with water a spino can excel in combat with higher attack speed and damage when it has the wet buff and when brutally injured can run fast and swim fast.

But the rex on the other hand has higher health and stamina which means it can tank most damage than the spino can and endure longer runs than the spino but lacking the speed.

In conclusion...

They are both GREAT. Get both of them..

I have a Spino (Riptide) and a Rex (Megabyte) both of them are equally leveled and powerful

I will be pasting this on the Rex side aswell..

But do remember even if i love spinos and rexes

I still believe Gigantosaurus supremacy

Fast movement speed, fast stamina regeneration, gets a buff when you enter water that increases speed. Great for meat running. In my experience the ability to “quickly” get a lot of kills outweighs the extra meat gathering a Rex or giga can give you. The ability to swim fast and gather a lot of fish meat also gives you more meat options. Stand on two legs to gather more meat, as it is a spino’s stronger attack. I would like to get more people on board for tek spino awareness! This is the Best PVE utility carnivore that’s underrated, they also changed the eggs, so they are only good for superior kibble now; but they require exceptional kibble to tame so you need a Rex or giga for eggs I guess... -Bestek

Your Ark Guide; Noobs and Pros: Spinosaurus.

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Encountering: Spinosaurus aquarliga is a dangerous creature, almost more dangerous than a rex. If you encounter one on the wild and you are unarmed, or you have just started the game, I suggest you run. If you just started and are planning on making your base near a spino, find a new area to build your base. If you are unarmed, avoid the the spino and run away. Spinos also have an ability to change from four legs to two legs. On two legs, they're taller and have stronger attacks, but slower. On four legs, They're faster and smaller, but have weaker attacks. They're also territorial, not aggresive.

Killing: To kill a spino, get a longneck rifle or long range weapon, (reccomending assault rifle or longneck rifle) and stand on a tall, steep cliff. Hit the spino and it will run up the cliff, but eventully get stuck. Keep hitting it until it's dead. If you want more meat, harvest with a metal pick. If you want more hide, harvest with a metal hatchet.

Taming: I reccomend looking for a leed with an icthy, but if none are availible, use 100 narcotic and 21 bio toxin for a lvl 9. Bring around 40 fish meat, too. If you can, use a longneck rifle with tranq darts, but if that's not avalible, use a bow with tranq arrows. Get up on a high cliff and hit it once. Once it notices you, it should run up and get stuck. It may bite, or slash, but it doesn't matter. It can't hit you. Once it's high on torpor, if you are in focus, go out of focus, so you can run after it. Keep hitting it, when it starts to run away it's high on torpor, so it'll be down in around 3 hits, for a lvl 9. Note: Don't knock it out in water, they DO have an oxygen stat. Once it's unconsious, if you're taming it with prime fish meat, it'll tame quickly. If you're taming it with bio toxin and narcotic and reg fish, it's longer. Give it the fish meat, and once it goes an 8th of the way down, feed it 6 narcotic and one bio toxin. Repeat until it's tamed.

Uses: Spino's are great battle creatures, and in my opinion, are better than rexes. Their quadruped and biped stances are great for battle. Owning two is great for bringing down creatures, and can demolish alpha raptors. Also, when bringing out spino's for battle, you may notice trike's will glow red. They do this whenever there is a spino or rex in the area, even if the spino or rex is tamed. I'm not sure if tamed trikes do this with tamed spinos and wild spinos. Spino's are great for bringing down brontos, too. Spino's do get an underwater buff when their in water up to mid body and higher. It lasts 30 seconds out of water.

That concludes this Ark guide for noobs and pros, Spinosaurus. Please ^ if this helped you!

I bred and fully imprinted a lv120 called River King (son of spino richie😂) and he has 200% movement speed. Couple this with the boost from running through water and he is the perfect tame for patrolling beaches and rivers, imagine a land tame that can keep up with a ptreadon he's stupidly fast and can dominate both on land and sea

These guys (in my opinion) are better than Rex’s in every way because they can run faster on four legs, attack faster on two legs, they have a buff while standing in water BUT they’re not perfect for example they lay superior eggs and if you’re using them for bosses they prefer to attack on four legs so they do less dps than a Rex so I would only recommend for bosses if there is water in the arena