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Why would I use a giga over a thery?


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Why would I use a giga over a thery?

I've never tamed a giga, but I'm trying to figure out why I ever would. We have 8k health / 526% melee imprinted thery's on our server. We max them out at around 25k health and 1600% melee. They can beat untamed gigas 1v1. However, we still struggled doing red drops on Extinction. I keep seeing people using gigas in videos, but tamed gigas seem so inferior. Am I missing something?

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2 hours ago, unfungames said:

Why would I use a giga over a thery?

I've never tamed a giga, but I'm trying to figure out why I ever would. We have 8k health / 526% melee imprinted thery's on our server. We max them out at around 25k health and 1600% melee. They can beat untamed gigas 1v1. However, we still struggled doing red drops on Extinction. I keep seeing people using gigas in videos, but tamed gigas seem so inferior. Am I missing something?

Theri's are awesome. I'm surprised your struggling. I've solo'd a few Red's with mate boosted Theri pair.

However, the amount of damage from a Giga far surpasses a Theri. Base damage of a Theri is 52. Base damage of a Giga is I think 500 (Ark wiki has it listed at 1000 but pretty sure that's old). So your 1600 melee Theri is hitting for about 832 damage. That's less than a 200 melee Giga and the Giga's out now (depending on platform) are hatching with 600 melee and easily cresting over a 1000. It kills these high level corrupted faster and preserves the hp of the drop. Giga's are the superior choice for OSD's. 

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Giga's imprinted combined with AOE can be devastating, not to mention you only have to try to breed for attack stats on them.  Any giga imprinted will have a HP around 30k, so finding one with decent melee is a lot easier than finding a Theri with all around good stats.  You can have great Giga stats in a single generation, Theris you have to find attack, stam, and HP before you start getting a solid tame.

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On 12/21/2019 at 3:44 AM, unfungames said:

Why would I use a giga over a thery?

I've never tamed a giga, but I'm trying to figure out why I ever would. We have 8k health / 526% melee imprinted thery's on our server. We max them out at around 25k health and 1600% melee. They can beat untamed gigas 1v1. However, we still struggled doing red drops on Extinction. I keep seeing people using gigas in videos, but tamed gigas seem so inferior. Am I missing something?

They are definitely not inferior, the sheer offensive capabilities of a giga dwarfs a theri. They have dramatically better damage, AoE and have functionally infinite stamina. 

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