ARK Survival Evolved Soakers Tier List | What are the best raiding dinosaurs ranked!

[@gokugozilkaiju3833]

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[@chrisallum9044]

The thing you missed about the bronto is that its dead body blocks turrets. So you go up, die and then you can walk through it to the turrets only getting hit on the other side. You can block an entire wall. just don't harvest it lol

[@nikron4400]

then you can also say that a giga is a good soaker lol

[@VitoVaram]

Doesnt count as a good soaker if...its not even gonna be used for soaking

[@Beanpolr]

@@VitoVaram It is though? Soaking doesn't necessarily imply it has to be alive. It just has to soak up bullets.

[@berserker9501]

​@@Beanpolri believe soaking is drying the turrets of their bullets so in that regard bronto=useless... They nerfed him so badly to oblivion like what were they thinking

[@justinmay2523]

When I first started I didn't realize how good the stego was or how pvp it was. I made alot people uneasy cause I was always going out taming stegos cause I like the dino lol

[@budznbooze]

Stego got updated wasnt always this good

[@michaelwhite4713]

Before the TLC that touched up stegos they were only marginally useful

[@firestarters9308]

I love stegos there super good On the boosted i play atleast

[@alshee356]

A few weeks ago I'd just started on an official server and only had a steggo and 2 argies, logged on to find my base destroyed and all dinos missing. Found my argies first started searching for steggo, eventually found him being slowly killed by someone on a 260 wyvern, flew over and the moment I got there my steggo just grabbed it and drained it's energy, ended up killing the wyvern and surviving the attack from the much stronger player all because of my steggo

[@jayburn100]

You made no one uneasy.

[@elevateddave7310]

You forgot the water soakers the Basilosaurus, Tuso, and Megachalon. Rock elementals also can be used underwater so that gives them added utility.

[@steelslide9601]

Turtles too

[@marijnstenekes5182]

@@steelslide9601 he did carbonemys?

[@SmithNLesson]

@@marijnstenekes5182 no megachelon s but they are terrible at soaking

[@SmithNLesson]

@@steelslide9601 megachelon s are terrible at soaking

[@steelslide9601]

@@SmithNLesson body blocking tho

[@1986trinder]

Diplos are good if used correctly, 2 diplo and 4 turtles whistled at a wall will give you plenty of time to run in with a stego and take out turrets, using diplos in this manner can protect the steggo rider from player only tek turrets giving them the opportunity to take them out in no time

[@bobbobbyson1]

something you dont measure tho, not all bases are built on flat land. trikes with skiffs an gasbags are notorious raid powerhouses. trikes fit into tinier crevices, important if you intend to raid cave bases (the current pvp building meta) or ratholes. a gasbags in the lunar biome on genesis becomes incredibly potent too, but they have the ability to get places most tames cant without a skiff and this is an INVALUABLE thing when raiding high up bases.

[@matthewvandusen1943]

Megatherium w/ bug buff is pretty great - early game soaker especially since you can get high armor premade saddles super easy

[@prodbydavis]

racers are s tier as well for sure, gachas probably could be added to C tier as well because they can be good for online raids in specific situations against people with flyers mainly

[@bigbrainbuck6295]

what do gachas have against flyers?

[@dynamiteskye9007]

I have on average a dozen wild stegos around my base at all times and have tamed 20 max levels and 13 over max tek stegos. Ever since I saw them unintentionally protect my base from arthros and rexes, I keep their population high and am working on breeding super stegos. Thanks for the video, I can use it to convince my basemate I'm being smart instead of suffering from a stego addiction.

[@BostonBlues]

I smell a stego addiction

[@charlesxkelly7909]

Great comment! 😂🤣 👏🏾

[@dynamiteskye9007]

@@charlesxkelly7909 I now have over 100 tamed stegos and am breeding super stegos... wonder if anyone's ever done a boss fight with stegos 🤔

[@trizzlehizzle9068]

@@dynamiteskye9007 everyone does. ever been to abberration?

[@Sid3M4n]

Trike and Pachyrhinosaurus ( you forget this one) are easy to tame and fast and easy to breed. If you bring them in pair, mate boosted, imprinted, and you bring also a yuty to roar at them all the time, they take a very low dmg from front . so dont forget, imprint, mate boosted and buffed by yuty.

[@ledheadzeppelin]

whats a yuty?

[@Furkan123Furkan123]

@@ledheadzeppelin yutyrannus

[@nicklong8292]

Something I've looked for but never did find is, turn on damage numbers then show the exact difference between imprinted to you, imprinted to someone else and non imprinted. Also the difference between a max and prim saddle.... I've seen a few videos of this but none had damage numbers on

[@mrkiller6639]

I just raided a base today with some number i had a 150 trike saddle imprinted tek did 4 and heavy 5 dmg with yuti buff it because 3 tek and 4 heavy without inprint it because 12 and 13 with yuti buf and 14 and 16 without buff

[@nicklong8292]

@@mrkiller6639 see a video of that is what I've looked all over for and never found. But that is pretty much the perfect test

[@jf1484]

It's 35% less for 100% imprint

[@dannyzius777]

Finally Ark Tier Lists! I've been waiting so long. Thanks! Pls more Tier Lists, like for OSD's Cave Dinos, PVP in generell :)

[@adilenesanchez5706]

This man but diplo's in s he gets me brain ded

[@surkit6465]

@@adilenesanchez5706 fr

[@tylerfrench9060]

Personally I'd say the achatina is ATLEAST B teir, since they became breedable they've been a saving grace against rat holes, a few you've missed tho, megachelon, paracer, pachyrhino, stryder, astrocetus, and magmasaur (probably a few I've missed too ngl 😂 I've just listed dinos I've soaked with)

[@ninja19705]

I mean I soaked a base with a snow owl one time 😂 but cant believe he forgot paracers

[@-NB7979-]

Actually Reaper's tank ability is not that good compared to other well-breed and high-saddled dino, because Reaper's natural damage resistant is just equal to 100 armour saddle when facing against turrets (both regular and tek). I would put Reaper on B or C tier.

[@solobolo_0210]

i would prob but up carbo 1 and rock golem, and reaper and titan 1down, dont get me wrong titan can soak, but who actually tames it

[@sampiew]

@@solobolo_0210 me :)

[@GerrerGerrerson]

Idk why, but when the doedicurus he is in his shell, the damage turrets deal against him will increase. So doedi is one of the worst soaker ever.

[@pipunn5066]

Base defence dinos tier list ? Great video btw

[@OpinionatedZoomer69]

I like this idea

[@TeachersGameToo]

THANK YOU! I will add it to my list!

[@spicychicken9009]

If you get lucky with reaper king, it can have 150 max hp with official settings (except imprint - 2x when I tested that) and full imprint

[@cedrickmichaud6933]

Are you drunk?

[@andrejpokorny2565]

Hmmm nice list but missing there Forest titan (titans in general), what about Megachelon or Paracer (both have ability to build on them) or quetzal. Feeling like this can be decen soakers or utility dinos by siege. What do you think?

[@xXBMWVXx]

I rewatched the dodic pooping a few times over, idk why it was so funny to me but it had me rolling 😂😂 thanks for the helpful tips teach! Started breeding diplos last week because of your other video! Can’t wait to get a sick soaker!

[@MilkCurd]

My guy uploading almost daily! Keep up the grind man, great work!

[@cassaxiom8019]

you forgot the giant bee. load it up with stone and whistle attack. the drones will infinitely soak

[@dogs-game-too]

would that work for base defense too? like a bee turret lol

[@yukikuran911]

Now it would be funny to see someone rush a base with a bright yellow diplo and have it named the magic school bus

[@lanceward7048]

Hey now!! I once used all my dead brontos as cover while raiding Carno island, they have turret towers all over the island but we were able to maneuver through the field of dead brontos and secure the win, so they’re definitely not useless😂

[@LordRazer3]

5 mouths later and think's to the Desmodus craft sanguine elixir adding 30% imprinting to creature's that can't be breed yet like the basilisk making them just that much better

[@Messmer_Toes]

My Tek rexes have 120k health, I like soaking while ripping enemy tames apart, also dang op for bosses

[@lilboi4333]

Parcers should be A Tier. Rock ele is great soaker should be in A instead of B. Switch reaper to B there not great for tanking do to being very easy to counter. There more of an all around Dino for pvp.

[@adilenesanchez5706]

Rock should be c it's only usefull for day 1 of the wipe

[@giggagamingg3493]

Best part about the reaper tho is rarely will you get shot off head on no matter how high turrets are

[@OpinionatedZoomer69]

Damage output dino tier list? (There would probably need to be multiple parts because there's different ways to categorize damage output)

[@TeachersGameToo]

I can work on it

[@Shane-The-Pain]

Excellent, descriptive vid. Thank you very much.

[@Coo-tk5kn]

tek rex could honestly be A or S tier because of how good it is against tek walls with a tek saddle with racers or stego riders ahead of it just to clear tek turrets, doorframes, and even break into the gen boxes and break those too

[@zacharyneedham6044]

This has nothing to do with tier list but I was wondering if you could test out an idea I got for fighting pvp flyers. Tame a Gigantopithecus and a micro raptor and you can ride the Gigantopithecus and use it to pick up the micro raptor and throw it way up in the air and make it knock off/stun the rider and finish them on foot?

[@LameAssScreamoSinger]

I'm gunna try this now if you haven't yet

[@sethwesley6268]

you forgot the gods of water raiding, basil, and megachelon, automatic s tier, the megachelon allowing you to place 6 stegos on its back and another 10 or so below and just infinitely tank turrets from all directions, and the basil for getiting into those under water pesky ratholes

[@RUGER5264]

This is a tier list that we all needed!

[@boomerbray7443]

I was playing a very boosted server on rag doing a raid with my friends and we didn't have many soakers left so I sent in a Diplo without a saddle and there were so many bullets flying at that thing the sever crashed and when we got back on there were no bullets in any turret

[@loganblock1355]

This was a very useful video thank you!

[@connor_harris007]

Does the titanosaur stomp damage tek

[@thegunnednoob]

Carbonemys can be riden with a saddle that increases the dmg reduction along with you being able to ride them

[@Roughdraftotp]

Nice idea look forward to more Tier lists!

[@Messmer_Toes]

Any tips on raiding ice cave on island? These guys are major griefers and most of the server is together against em, but we keep dying. Too small for stegos to walk in, maybe we just cryo in stegos, but even then they die pretty quick. Should I just keep popping stegos to run them out of ammo?

[@tommallmann6480]

At which tier you would put Paracer?

[@horridfuture3835]

Didn’t realize the bronco took 4x so sad I love sauropods. Bro to tlc and give us a brachi.

[@kylewilson5892]

So happy to see the diplo appreciation here 👍🏻 watched a video trying to say its the worst tame 😂😂

[@ninja19705]

Stegos op that’s all you really need to know

[@LoLo-vh2hn]

Is ark still with playing on steam 2022 or is some better like coming out soon?

[@kyleescamez1179]

for pvp i would use reapers, high damage resistance, jump over walls, high damage and health pool with an aoe attack

[@strealxer2314]

U play unoffi dont u

[@kyleescamez1179]

@@strealxer2314 yeah

[@strealxer2314]

@@kyleescamez1179 because on nowipe servers stegos racers and carbos aswell as some underwater breeders are better for soaking because reaper are not breedanle

[@kyleescamez1179]

@@strealxer2314 i completely forgot about that lol that's funny

[@markpaterson6024]

Warning! Do not play “drink a shot” when the word stupid is said while watching this video! Otherwise enjoy, lot of good info here! 👍🏼

[@blackoutgaming6394]

At least on gen2 with the wild reaper kings, they can enrage an unimprinted giga with just about 10 hits or so.

[@Jidensha]

Not putting basilosaurus on this list is criminal

[@hamzagallo2000]

Stego easily is the best it fits almost everywhere and you can barely be shot off

[@archer5827]

@teachers Game Too, your Diplo is broken. Please check your imprint settings bevor you make a video and state them in the Description or set them to vanilla because a Diplo can get max too 123K with the same stats as yours shown.

[@_MANGOS234]

How u gonna leave out the racer and put diplo with stego

[@Sem0252]

Tbh trike is good for running things with rockets, and tek rifles.

[@ag.m.2280]

How does anky rank? it used to be a tank dino due to high HP and it is also easy to breed in rathole bases due to tiny size.

[@snakeman830]

Has to be below carbos. Lacking the damage reduction and a lower health is pretty meaningful.

[@ag.m.2280]

@@snakeman830 yeah maybe. Still it wins carbons imp due to the extra utility and it can be carried by argy.

[@surkit6465]

Anky ranks very badly for soaking

[@jaimeperez3616]

What’s better a tech stego or a regular stego?

[@perrusvosloo1179]

I was going to say the reaper would be nice to breed with then I remembered that I can't breed them.... They breed with me....

[@GrandORdEr40]

Does the Tek Stego have any weird interactions with Tek turrets or is the Tek level buff a pure positive

[@NoobMaster-vl7vd]

Pure positive

[@greeninitiatives]

Needed, very cool

[@TeachersGameToo]

Glad you liked it!

[@BostonBlues]

bro that Tippman 98 skin is fucking awesome 👌🏻

[@warlord5295]

Paracers are s tier plus if you build on the platform saddle right you can use it to blow up walls.

[@morky3673]

You know he doesnt know squat about pvp when he forgets Racers.

[@benignant3947]

Honestly I doubt you be a regular pvp player. You're not mention some importants dinos and also you're mention somethat are kinda joke...

[@nebula_clipz9230]

Also rexes can usually shoot turrets that can’t shoot them

[@joaopedrorossi3018]

Wait where's ma boy Racer

[@zachlong8732]

Mormons clicked on this video for a whole different reason.

[@wileygates4348]

U should do racers they are the best on official PvP and definitely deserve s tier

[@vahnnoa3990]

No mention of the Mechaladon?

[@tylerdexter5492]

You forgot to talk about the tek versions of the trike rex and stego

[@xwolfpup8986]

rexes should be ranked higher you can shoot the turrets with the tek saddle with a good range and they can soak for awhile

[@CrimsonCr0wn]

Racers should move into this Tier list. When they have their heads up and a Box, they are pretty good. I am missing Megachelons too. Like you mentioned multiple times, it depends on the situation. You always have to keep in mind, that turrets shoot you off the mount. Or Bloodstalkers reel you in. So a Diplo is only good without Riders. Reaper Kings are more like a B Tier Dino. You can counter them with Light and you sit up very high on them. Also worth a mention, but not high Tier are pachyrhinos. As long as they havent been nerfed. And I am a bit confused that you made a Video about the Amargasaurs being a good soaker but now they are missing. They are similair to Diplos. What about Quetzals? Or Basilos for underwater Action? I think tactics are better to blow up towers/bases than purely soaking every bullet. I would simply say that the Video needs an upgrade combined with some testing :)

[@TeachersGameToo]

I forgot some stuff for sure! My next one I will be going over more dinos for sure!

[@CrimsonCr0wn]

@@TeachersGameToo I only hear "more Videos"! Yay :D

[@111TimG]

Another good use for bronto is crystal and wood farm on gen 1 lunar fill crystal dedi 2runs just saying lol

[@Spinosaur101]

Wow, I'm relatively new to Ark, but I would've expected the Bronto to be slightly better than useless, lol I've been playing Ark for a couple years, but there's still so much to learn, and I personally haven't ever tamed a Bronto, just because I haven't really needed to and Sauropods take up so much space. I know they're definitely not a good utility dino, but what makes them a worse damage sponge than, say, a Paraceratherium? Is it the hit box size, lack of mobility, no reduced damage, or-?? I'm assuming it's a combination of reasons, but I do want to know

[@unitard9701]

theres a lot of ways paracer can be built into a box to soak or basically take no damage at all, but yes , breeding requires a lot of space so kinda pain

[@einheit02]

No love for the Stego at all, huh?

[@hamzagallo2000]

Brontosaurus dead body can also block turrets so is decent in raids

[@gizikop1913]

what hapen with amargasurus

[@mikeoxlong9089]

So the Reaper King is like a Megalosaurus Daytime/Light is their weakness?

[@snakeman830]

Only charge light. Daytime is irrelevant to Reapers, but a bulbdog or Plant Species Z fruit is their bane.

[@Sem0252]

I disagree with the karki bcuz it takes less or same damage then a rock elemental cuz the rock elemental is not breedable and it can pick up things wich the rock ele cant, karki can soak underwater too and u can throw ur tribe m8 on a stego into a base, plus the rex cant even soak its just that it has a saddle thats why its good

[@cheesy384]

You didn’t seriously put a trilobite and snail over the bronto

[@iam_tracer9306]

What abput tapejara or quetz?

[@yoman99able]

pachyrhino?

[@rebeccaprice7416]

the Bronto is useful if u have 1 million of em yeh

[@EndyDino]

Me to useless dinos: You are useless (like ichy in TLBT)

[@tacodriver89]

How is the racer not on here

[@TheLoudBird5051]

you forgot about the pachyrhino

[@Champronsi82827]

Me and my bro soaked dum turrets with out shadowmanes cause we where to lazy to tame soakers😅

[@klutz-k8l]

bro put a diplo

[@milesmyers5183]

austin is really good!

[@bobbobbyson1]

and i hate how you refuse to mention the value of veggie cakes in soaking. big factor

[@coolfire3509]

Diplos are useless, you get shot off and trikes with all buffs have the highest s resistance in the game by FAR. Like it’s not even close, 2 yuty buffed golems is about equal to one fully buffed trike, mate boost, alpha buff wyvern milk, veggie cakes, yuty buff on the trike it doesn’t take dmg

[@komorikopf]

bro do we play the same game?

[@iNFERNALxKiLLA]

when pve players talk about pvp....no one uses diplo on official... did not even add the racer sadly...

[@SpringsArk]

Lymantria but no snow owl?

[@bobbobbyson1]

also reapers are very very very stupid easily countered, using them as soakers is a lil too risky to rank them that high when a skiff makes alot of these and many other dinos better soakers

[@tigobraun5118]

Where are the magmasaurs?

[@justsomepersonyoudontknow8401]

what about titanoszur?

[@mikecorcoran3414]

What about racers?

[@danieljohnson9965]

This list is sound. The only thing that would have made it better is if he talked about the net gun or better yet. Tested it on each Dino so we could see what is affected against it. I was doing a raid and the net gun basically made my stenosis useless 😒

[@apexhunter7507]

What about the titans

[@survivorsfederation4346]

You can’t ride a turtle anymore, but you can crouch behind it and whip it into turrets, also put the gasbags face in a rock eles nuts, walk them in together.

[@SpringsArk]

Where the snow owl?

[@degerbrocken2688]

Stego stego 🙌😬

[@punkbeluga5091]

How in da heckity heck is a Carbonemys better at soakin...than a Titan..? 😅😅😅 don't get me wrong I love Carbo's they're hella underrated starter tames but I just don't understand the comparison to the Titan 😅😅

[@jasongriffith1614]

Teach.... You forgot Paracers. Like c'mon bud. How could you not include them??? They're a for sure A tiered soaker. Build a box around the pilot seat and walk on up! They stand there taking bullets like it's dust rolling off their shoulders!