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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Utility Tips

What is a triceratops used for? triceratops battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Utility Roles for Trike:
1. Tank. When faced with head on damage, they have a damage reduction. Be sure to pair with mate for extra damage resistance (level Health).
2. Short Range Scout. The Trike is not very fast, but again, due to the damage resistance it has (and it's just general beefiness), it can serve as a good scout for early game. Much better than the Para in that regard (level Health, Stam, and Movement Speed).
3. Harvester. This boi can collect quite a decent amount of wood and fiber, much more than you can by hand. Use with Charge attack for extra resources! (level Weight and Stamina).
4. Defender. Use him to defend your base and smaller tames. Really the only early game threat a Trike can't handle are alphas and the occasional Theri. But trust me, I've seen one of these things face down a Sarco and live (level Health and Melee Damage)
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I can not stress enough to my friends how useful the trike is. Early game it makes a great pack animal. Late game in groups of three or four it can be used as a decent battle mount. Taming a trike early on can be a great way to start a large base and keep you well fed with berries.
A triceratops is a very special dinosaur in this game. It is easy enough to tame at a low level, yet powerful enough to take on raptors that could kill you easily. It can collect enough berries that you would never go hungry again, and still have some berries leftover to help tame more trikes. They are very slow but it can make up for it if you increase the weight, attack, and stamina stats. It is an extremely good pack animal because it can carry a lot, but still defend itself, especially if it is in a large group. Overall, the triceratops is one of my favorite and most versatile dinosaurs.
The best way to utilize the trike when tamed or untamed when tamed it can gather loads of berries for you or when it's untamed you can use it as a shield for instance like a carno is running after you and there's a trike try to run for the trike to get the carno to fight the trike so you can escape unharmed
If you use the charge attack in a forest, they will get a lot of thatch but will get encumbered so beware of predators. Also, the turning radius is increased when charging and you can’t get berries when charging. Maybe this is helpful for lower level players. Thanks for reading and make sure to try it out
So this is all that I know about uses of trikes
1: they are good for protection even if wild and could be in groups of 3
2: they have red heads if there's a spino/rex/giga so run
3: you can spam attack so it can take on rexes
4: very tanky if you pump health into it
5: easy tame so you can always get one even if you noob
6: can give horn thingy so you can make saddles
7: can swim fast in water (out run's megs)
8: has a stun attack so you can hit and run
Now for weakness:
1: raptors can dis mount you
2: can't kill spinos
3: slow
4: not that useful in late game
That's all I know :written by dragonii
👆 For noobs to see and learn the uses
A lvl 20 trike can kill anything when your on the saddle if your not riding it then a lvl 1 raptor will be able to kill it put a saddle go to an alpha or rex spino and the trike will be able to obliterate it lvl melee and health to get the most powerful trike my trike tri horn can kill megs underwater I don’t what’s going on but trikes are underrated