Aberrant Ankylosaurus

Combatant/Guardian

The Ankylo is an excellent tank due to its high HP, low posture, and compact build. Along with high health for its size, the Ankylo is very powerful with its bite and tail swing attacks, the latter doing the most damage; both of these attacks have great AOE and knockback as well. These two factors can be quite useful when used to take damage from bullets and attack creatures in relatively small spaces where other heavy-built tames can not reach and its slow speed no longer…

Transport

While slow, it has a very good base carrying capacity and is quite powerful. One notable thing to mention is that the Ankylo significantly increases its speed when swimming compared to running on land, moving by or near water sources is most optimal for this task. Good for local transport but not recommended for long-distance travel unless being transported by a flyer or other carrying method.

Level up: , , and

Gatherer

The Ankylo excels at gathering as it can harvest most materials(with few exceptions, such as which can not be harvested by it) from trees, to rocks, to bushes. As it is one of the best viable ways of harvesting rocks and ores, the Ankylo is excellent for collecting essential materials such as , , , and . As of patch 256.3 (PC) Ankylos have an 85% weight reduction to raw metal in their inventories, allowing them to carry much more before becoming encumbered. (Level up and ). It is…

Underwater Miner

Despite being such a heavily built creature, Ankylosaurus is a surprisingly good swimmer and also capable of easily fending off sea predators with its tail club attack, since it can move while swinging its tail, making it more dangerous in the water than on land. Therefore, it can be used to gather from the bottom of the sea while easily fending off the most common sea creatures. Leveling up Oxygen also makes it swim much faster.

Level up: and , as well as and if desired.

Clearing/ Landscaping

Thanks to its rather large AOE and a little trick that involves using the tail wing attack immediately after using the bite attack to clear plants in a large radius, the Ankylo is perhaps the best creature to use when a large area needs to be cleared to make way for buildings, siege-weapons, artillery, war-mounts, battlefield, a race track, or any other purpose that would need to involve large swaths of trees and rocks to be chopped down or broken. Because the Ankylo can…

Caving mount

Owing to its small stature, high knockback, health, and wide aoe, the ankylo makes a great option for caves that are often overlooked. Its disadvantages such as speed and turning are mitigated by the tight tunnels of the Ark's cave systems. A general strategy for the cave ankylo is level mainly damage to support a kind of "one-two punch combo." Said combo is a bite and a tail swing, resulting in all nearby creatures being knocked away from the anky, as well as high damage in a…

Aberration Rare Mushroom Farmer

The Ankylo can harvest incredible amounts of rare mushrooms on the Aberration map with its bite attack from the mushrooms that normally give aberration mushrooms when harvested with a sickle.