Piggle's Lycosuchus

By
senorpiggles

Add the dual saber toothed Lycosuchus to your Ark today!

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Find and tame the new Lycosuchus! Notable for its strong dual-saber teeth, Lycosuchus serves as an early game hunting "dog".

Craft multiple saddle attachments to suit your hunting style. Just try not to keep your new companion around too many critters. They tend to get a bit jealous when they aren't the center of attention.

How to Tame:

Lycosuchus is an easy to tame creature, allowing players to approach and feed it. It is found in three tameable variants, Standard, Aberrant, and Scorched, as well as an Alpha variant. You can find them spawning on most maps in starter zones. There is another variant known as the Greater variant that cannot be found spawning naturally, and instead can be obtained via breeding your Lycos together.

Spawns:

Standard Variant: Spawns on The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero in the Beaches, Redwoods, Jungles, and Forests

Scorched Variant: Spawns on Scorched Earth and Ragnarok in the Oasis and Badlands

Aberrant Variant: Spawns on Aberration in the Fertile Region

Abilities:

Lycosuchus brings with it a couple of new abilities. First is its Lone Wolf buff. Lycosuchus prefers to live in solitude or small groups in the wild. When tamed this translates to a buff to Lycosuchus in smaller hunting parties, improving its stats when in small groups.

Second, Lycosuchus makes use of its deadly dual-saber teeth to inflict the Punctured debuff on targets. This debuff is only available if the Lycosuchus has the Lone Wolf buff. Punctured causes targets to take increased damage from a survivor's projectile weaponry, such as arrows and spears.

Third is the Lycosuchus' armor. You can equip a Lycosuchus with a basic saddle like most tames. While standard Lycos can't be ridden, this saddle allows you to equip the Lycosuchus with additional attachments, each granting new buffs to your hunting companion.

Current Saddle Attachments:

Saddle Bags - Increase the carry weight while also reducing the weight of basic building resources

Extra Armor - Grants additional armor to the Lycosuchus, and some damage resistance to basic arms

Ghillie - Makes the Lycosuchus more stealthy, while also granting the ability to inflict a Stealth Attack, dealing 2.5x damage for the first hit in combat

Sabers - Crafted from Alpha Lyco Sabers, this grants Lycosuchus the ability to inflict the Deep Wounds debuff in place of Punctured. Deep Wounds applys a similar debuff as Punctured, but with a bigger boost to damage and it affects most ranged weaponry, including guns

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