Griffin

Carrier

The Griffin is a fast flyer, and a rider who has it tamed can pick up players and small-class dinosaurs. (Level Health and Weight)

Combatant

The Griffin is a land and air predator. It has a dive bomb attack that thrusts you towards the ground for quite a bit of damage. You can pound the ground for three times your base damage, or dive and pull horizontal and attack with your base attack for ten to fifteen times more damage than your landing attack. (Level Health and Damage)

Keep in mind, a player who is holding an item CANNOT dive attack with a Griffin. So make sure your hands are empty! Even things like es and maps count.

Aerial Firing Platform

The Griffin can carry two riders, both of which can use their weapons whilst flying. This combined with its ability to strafe sideways makes it useful in chasing down wild creatures for taming, or as a gunship in PvP. (Level Health and Weight)

Energy Dogfighter

The extreme increase in speed whilst diving allows the Griffin to easily escape aerial engagements by simply going for the deck. Much of this speed is retained when pulling out of the dive into level flight, and the momentum can even be used to regain some lost altitude. Though the Griffin suffers in air-to-air combat due to its poor turn radius in level flight, practicing 'boom and zoom' tactics is a viable alternative. (Level Stamina)

Wyvern Egg Collector

With its high base speed, dual passenger seat and skydive ability, the Griffin makes an ideal egg picker mount. Using a whip makes this very viable. (Level Stamina and Health)

Taming Assist

Due to their ability to lean forward in midair, even a single person can easily shoot s and darts at any creature while staying out of their AOE. This comes with the additional benefit that most creatures will stay perfectly still facing towards the player. Griffins also have a decent movement speed allowing you to catch escaping carnivores. In singleplayer it is possibly the best dino to bring along to tame a as you can fly after the Quetzal while shooting at it. (Level Stamina…