Kentrosaurus

Guardian

Although survivors are unable to ride the Kentrosaurus, it is an ideal guard animal for both bases and on excursions, thanks to its armor piercing attacks, recoil damage, and picking up aggressors within its tail spikes while applying a bleeding effect. When it comes to Kentrosaurus, more is always the merrier, as they grow increasingly more effective in groups due to a pack related bonus. Simply following you on the move, it is easy to know how they function, but there are a few…

Alpha Genesis Brute Damage Deflector

Kentrosaurus' trait of its spikes doing damage to any creature dealing that attacks it is useful when fighting against brute creatures. A massive herd of kentrosaurus compound its spiky nature can deal serious damage. This makes an alpha brute creature's already high damage output a weakness and players can watch from a distance as the brute creature is tearing its own health when hitting the kentrosaurus herd. Be sure to maximize their health to allow them…

Damage

The Kentrosaurus does great damage, making it a good warfaring tame.

Early Game Base Defence

On early or mid game you won't be able to craft Turrets and power them, and perhaps the may be hard for you to get due to its spawn location and its requirements. The Kentrosaurus will be a good choice to protect your stone base from raids and pesky dinos. They're also easy to tame because you can easily knock a high level Kentro with or Tranq Arrows .

Transport

has good weight, useful for early game transport. Additionally, while it is technically true they cannot be ridden, a player is allowed to stand and crouch on their backs. Using a combination of move commands and whistles, the Kentrosaurus, with a little creativity, can be turned into an unusual but effective mount.

Boss DPS

With its herd ability based on the number of Kentrosaurus nearby just like the though lacking the howl ability, Kentrosaurus is viable for pumping out damage equivalent to a . With a Courage buff, , and pack boost, they can deal twice their normal damage. They can also prolong their survival time by using .

Level up: Health and Damage

PvP

The Kentrosaurus has an interesting role in PvP. They can be used as living s against strong tamed dinos, especially due to the fact that the Gigas can be turned against its own tribe when Kentros return some of the massive damage that it inflicts.

Pocket Kentro

An interesting role for the Kentro is to save some on s and throw them to the aggressors (Mainly ) with the Cryo Cooldown still active to throw them with Cryo Sickness, so when the enemy hits them it will return x10 its normal damage. The Kentros will return incredible damage back, though it will probably die.

Level up: Health

Hunter

The Kentrosaurus can impale medium size creatures and players, meaning that it can trap strategic targets and change the balance of power on certain situations. They also cannot be affected by s, so they are hard to deal with if the trapped player has no s with him.

Level up: Health and Damage

Genesis 1 Escort Missions

Kentrosaurus can impale most of the creatures in the following list that appear in these missions. Their impale attack can render them helpless and allow other high-damage tames to clean them up.

Level up: Stamina