Ark: Survival Ascended Brings players into a massive prehistoric survival game with many mighty tame creatures, but some are much cooler and more useful than their cohorts. The ability to tame creatures allows for unique experiences with animals that humans will likely never see again, making the harsh game world Easier to manage. Most creatures in Ark Can be tamed, with the trade-off of more effort being required the stronger they are.
Ark: Survival Ascended is a revamped version of Ark: Survival EvolvedWith a myriad of gameplay and visual alterations. The main differences between the two are a graphics update with quality of life changes to crafting, building and taming. However, the original Ark Has many DLCs not in yet ascended. All returned DLCs will be free for owners of ascendedBut will be added over time. This leaves the original map, The Island, as the only unmodded location for players to experience.
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Dodicurus
Roles: Harvester, Transportation
Also known by its shortened name, Doed, the Doedicurus is a peaceful herbivore found in the mountains and grasslands of the island. The lumbering mammal may not look as cool as some of the other creatures in the game, but it is incredibly useful and a powerful ally to have at the player’s disposal. The Doedicurus is protected by thick armor and is armed with a spiked ball at the tip of its tail. This makes the DOD a Great damage-resistant mount. It is also useful for avoiding small dinosaurs by swinging its powerful tail like a load.
A Doedicurus is also a great creature to tame for its harvesting skills. Doeds love stones so much that they can carry more of them at one time. Pointing a mounted dod at a large rock will almost instantly split the rock in half and collect the spoils. Players can drop one through a stone spawn point near their base and set the collection to passive, allowing the creature to collect the stone as soon as it appears automatically. A more efficient and infinitely more entertaining way to collect rock is to use an Argentavis to pick it up and fly near rocks with it to harvest rock on the fly (literally).
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Astrodelphis
Roles: Transportation, Brawler
Astrodelphis is Latin for “star dolphin,” which has earned it this versatility Ark: Survival Ascended Creature nicknamed “Space Dolphin.” The Astrodelphis was added to the game in the Genesis: Part 2 expansion and it is one of the few creatures in the game that is not based on actual prehistoric records. Instead, the Space Dolphin’s design was heavily influenced by the Irrawaddy dolphin, an expensive living species found in the coastal and river waters of South and Southeast Asia.
Unlike their gentler real-world counterparts, the Astrodelphis is an iridescent dolphin-shaped fantasy creature with two eyes on either side of its head. They make fantastic mounts because They can easily maneuver through water, and fly just as easily through the sky. Space dolphins are also equipped with radar and jets for even better propulsion. They can protect their riders with lasers, grenades and shockwave attacks. If that’s not enough, they even make barrel rolls. As useful as they are, Astrodelphis can be a nightmare to tame, taking a long time and a lot of resources.
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Tech Strider
Roles: Harvester, Brawler, Support
This mechanical creature looks like a metallic deer mixed with a Star Wars AT-AT. In addition to looking awesome, the Tek Stryder is an incredibly useful tool for players to keep on hand thanks to its attachments. The Strider can be equipped with various rigs To improve its fighting or harvesting abilities. Depending on what it has equipped, the Tek Stryder can be used to harvest almost anything at high speeds, fire lasers at opponents, or provide support by silencing or disabling various types of nearby creatures.
Despite its mean appearance, the Tek Stryder is a docile creature and will only fight if the player attacks it first. Players should watch out if they want to fight one, though, because they explode when defeated. Instead of the usual taming method, the robotic reindeer must be tamed by hacking, which requires giving the creature Mutagel and completing a hacking minigame.
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Mantis
Roles: Brawler, Harvester
The Empusa discipulus is a fantasy creature in the real-world kind of praying mantis. And it’s a good thing that the creature exists only in the game, because it is truly a terrifying one. The mantis in Ark Is massive, extremely aggressive, and very intelligent. It also developed opposing thumbs, which allowed it to Grab melee weapons like spears and spikes. This is one creature that players will want to have on their side.
To get the most out of the Mantis, players should consider increasing its weight as much as possible. At higher levels, these creatures make good harvesters and formidable opponents in battle. They can even be used as mounts. The downside of the Mantis is, as might be expected, the taming. The aggressive critters tend to aggressively every living thing that goes in its range, causing it to lose interest in the player and reset the already long taming process.
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Titanosaurus
Roles: Base Destroyer, Mobile Base
The aptly named titanosaur is one of the largest living creatures in the Ark: Survival Ascended. This massive dinosaur rises high above most trees and can easily crush any plants or structures in its path. The dinosaur is so big, in fact, that It can carry an entire base on its back when it moves. It’s also one of only three in-game creatures capable of breaking metal, so its main use is as a mobile base used to destroy other people’s bases.
Such an overpowered weapon has an equally humongous downside: once flavored, The titanosaur does not eat and will slowly starve to death After about a day. This can be overridden by enabling Raid Dino Feeding in the settings, but this doesn’t quite solve the problem but delays it. This is because even with the setting on, the titanosaur needs to be fed manually, eating massive amounts of food and taking a long time.
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Argentavis
Roles: Transportation, Hauler, Brawler, Harvester
The Argentavis is a simple prehistoric bird, but its simplicity, gorgeous looks, and overall utility make it the second best aerial dino in the game. This eagle/vulture hybrid is easy to find around the mountains on the island and easy to tame. Once tamed, Argentavis becomes a jack-of-all-trades, especially for transportation if the elusive quetzal cannot be found. The saddle used to drive the Argentavis also allows players to perform on the go, making it even better for long-term trips.
Although not the fastest flying creature, the Argentavis can be leveled up to be a great transportation and pack animal. It excels in transporting stone and metal as it takes a weight-reduction multiplier for the heavy materials. These prehistoric birds are also good fighters against most of Arks hostile creatures. This includes hunting for meat needed to eat or be used to tame other animals. Overall, the Argentavis is the perfect example of a jack of all trades but master of none that excels in the early to mid game but falls away in the late game to stronger options.
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Thezinosaur
Roles: Harvester, Brawler
The Therizinosaurus is one of the most dangerous dinosaurs in Ark For unprepared players, but also a great boon once tamed. This ferocious theropod comes equipped with long, sharp claws that are as dangerous as they look. Although it may be a herbivore, these terrifying dinosaurs will attack players if they wander into their territory. Despite its small size in comparison, The Therizinosaurus is more than capable of holding its own against a T-Rex or Spinosaurus.
Utility-wise, the Therizinosaurus offers a lot outside of its good land transportation. It is arguably one of the best harvesters in the game and can harvest in different ways. The power cut is used for wood, roof and meat, while its delicate cut is best for fiber, meat and corpse drops. The final harvesting technique is the bite harvest, used for berries and crop seeds. The Therizinosaurus isn’t the best for harvesting any particular resource, but its close second placement with great flexibility makes it a necessary dino.
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Eutyranus
Roles: Support, Brawler
The Eutyranus is one of the more fascinating dinosaurs in the Ark: Survival Ascended. Relative to the rex, this dino is much smaller and more feathered with more arms. It will be equally aggressive towards humans, making them dangerous to hunt alone. What makes it even scarier and cooler is that it will often have a pack of Carnotaurus that will hunt with it. However, the bonus of getting one of these dinosaurs tamed far outweighs the risk.
While the Utyranus can be built as an offensive weapon, its true strength lies as a support unit. It has two browers that can be used, both with different effects on surrounding dinosaurs. The courage roar will increase the damage and reduce the damage received by friendly dinosaurs. Meanwhile, the fear roar will increase the damage taken and decrease the damage of enemy creatures. Few creatures in Ark Can have effects on others, and the Utyranus can buff or debuff more easily than any other, making it one of the most necessary battle dinosaurs.
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Ceratosaurus
Roles: Support, Brawler
The ceratosaurus is one of many dinosaurs added to Ark: Survival Ascended By mods, but arguably the most popular. The Ceratosaurus is a unique dinosaur in-game because it has no close relatives and is more closely related to modern-day birds. The differences are the weight and poisonous spikes running down its back and tail. Looks alone may be enough to draw many to this dangerous creature, but adding the ability to use poison makes it even more appealing.
Ceratosaurus also has a unique taming method, requiring players to kill several of them, harvest their spikes and make them into a hemoglobin cocktail. Once acquired, players feed the cocktail to one of their already tamed, preferably high-health dinos, and let a ceratosaurus attack it until drunk, and it is tamed with its preferred food. Once tamed, its purpose is a semi-offensive support unit. Any spike attack will inflict poison on an enemy, and fellow carnivores that attack the target will be healed by eating the poisoned flesh.
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Tusoteuthis
Roles: Brawler, Harvester, Transportation
A close relative of the modern-day giant squid, Tusoteuttis is arguably the most dangerous aquatic creature in Ark: Survival Ascended. Although very similar in appearance to the giant squid, the main difference is the inclusion of hooked suction cups meant to make its target bleed. Tusoteuthis is an aggressive animal and will attack anything it sees as prey on sight. Even the other aquatic danger of the sea, Mosasaurus, could run into trouble if the Tusoteuthys strikes first.
Tusoteuthis has two main appeals outside water transportation: harvesting and fighting. Oil is essential for the end game closet, And the giant squid will passively create it. Its long-reaching range makes it great for harvesting, but this is mainly done from the corpses of its prey. As previously stated, Tusoteuthis is arguably the best water fighter, meaning it can hit anything encountered beneath the waves. It is also capable of fighting on beaches or pulling land-based prey into the water, making Tusoteuthis a dual threat that few other creatures in Ark Can add claim to.
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Mosasaurus
Roles: Mobile Base, Transportation, Hauler, Brawler
The mosasaur is considered the most dangerous aquatic animal in ascended And has good reason to be. This giant reptile, while rare, deals a lot of damage and boasts the second-highest health pool of any undersea animal. The large flippers can propel the massive beast through the water faster than one might think, with a bite powerful enough to instantly finish off most players. This is one dinosaur that players don’t want to run into unprepared.
The appeal of the Mosasaurus is that it can be used as an underwater base. This is due to the platform saddle required to drive it, which allows for the construction of structures and armaments. Along with its large prey size and ability to scare away annoying aquatic creatures, Mosasaurus is a great holler for oil and biotoxins. Its high speed also makes it the best water mode of transportation, only let down by its lack of agility.
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Carcharodontosaurus
Roles: Brawler
The Carcharodontosaurus, or Carcharo, is one of Ascended s Most dangerous dinosaurs. This bloodthirsty behemoth towers over most other creatures and has an intimidating appearance to match. Spikes run down its entire body with a mouth sharp enough to pierce even the toughest skin. To tame the carcharo is even more dangerous than trying to escape it, because it will require dead creatures to be fed to it until it is satisfied, which will be a lot of corpses.
Carcharo’s goal is to be one of the best fighting dinosaurs in the game. Its attack and health stats are some of the best, and it comes with many buffs. Upon landing killing blows, the Carcharo will gain movement speed, increased healing, increased damage and resistance to stuns. It can also use the stacks to increase the movement speed of nearby friendly dinos, while lowering the healing rate of the creature being attacked simply by dealing damage.
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Quetzal
Roles: Mobile Base, Transportation, Hauler
The quetzal was the best air creature in Ark: Survival Ascended Until recently, but still holds great value and rarity. The prehistoric bird is one of the largest animals in Ark. Its massive wingspan, high stats, and deceptively strong body allow it to have some of the best uses in the game. The one downside to the quetzal is that its attack is weak and slow, making it necessary to prepare it properly.
The purpose of Quetzal is to be a mobile air base. Much like the mosasaurs, the quetzal saddle is a platform that allows building. This turns the quetzal into one of the safest and most dangerous dinosLike the only real danger would be other players, but that would only happen on PvP servers. While the quetzal may not have the strength or buff ability of other top-tier dinosaurs, the opportunity to become a prehistoric airship overrides all that.
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Rhyniognatha
Roles: Brawler, Hauler, Transportation
The Riniognatha was the last addition to evolved and carried over to ascended. Although named after a real-life insect, this creature takes more inspiration from fiction, appearing to be a combination of many insects. Only living in swamps, it is one of the larger animals in the game and just as deadly as others. Along with being able to fly, Rhyniognatha can glide over water or swim for some time. It is also the only tamable creature that can pick up and carry animals over 400 drag weight, making it extremely useful for taming large dinosaurs.
Outside of transportation and healing, Rhyniognatha also makes a great fighting creature. The critical thing to remember is that it needs resin to attack. Fortunately, Rhyniognatha will passively turn sap into resin every five minutes. As long as it has resin, it can launch a steady shot of resin needles, a slow-moving resin ball, or a resin sticky bomb onto the ground. The last two attacks will apply the resin debuff, slowing enemy targets. Finally, Rhyniognatha can also use its resin to encase itself in a shield in a pinch.
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Giganotosaurus
Roles: Brawler
The Giganotosaurus is the most powerful dinosaur on the island and in all ascended Meanwhile. The carcharo’s cousin is three times bigger than any rex and far more intimidating than one. It has a bit of natural protection adorning its body but doesn’t need it due to its extremely high stats. The Giga is an extremely rare spawn, with only two to three allowed on the map at one time. However, it will wander around, making it one of the most dangerous surprise encounters.
Much like its cousin, the Giganotosaurus had one purpose: battle. The Giga will instantly kill most dinos in the game and only get stronger against high-health targets. When you take a certain amount of damage, the Giga will enter its Rage Mode, receiving massive increases in its damage and resistance. This ability, along with its already top-tier damage plus heavy bleeding mechanic, makes it the most popular and powerful option in Ark: Survival Ascended.
Meanwhile, ascended Has over 140 different creatures for players to interact with. The beauty of Ark Is the ability to tame as many dinosaurs as one would like and use them in different ways. Most, if not all, of the other 130 creatures are exciting, and just experiencing these extinct animals is worth it. However, as with most games, some creatures will be more popular than others, and as it stands, these 10 are currently the coolest tamables in Ark: Survival Ascended.