Coelophysis- Vermin Hunter

[LoganTheWyrmLord]

Name: Coelophysis

Time: Triassic 

Diet: Carnivore

Temperament: Opportunistic

Wild: Coelophysis can be found roaming across the ARK in large groups. These creatures primarily specialize in hunting the smallest creatures, but when the opportunity presents itself they will hunt larger creatures when injured. Depending on the size of the pack will increase how bold the group is. They are quick to flee when faced with adversity. The Coelophysis has also been observed to exhibit cannibalistic behavior on the smallest members of the group. Rarely an individual can be seen with a crest and show dominant behavior.

Domesticated: Although they are small and have a light frame, Coelophysis makes an excellent creature for hunting pest. Due to their powerful drive they can pounce and tear off critters that rest on the shoulders of survivors. They also are effective when working together and gain increased strength in the presence of their kin. They also can swarm and hang onto larger creatures. They also don't make bad companions!

Combat: Although they are not strong they have increased damage against the smallest creatures on the ARK and gain a pack boost granting damage resistance. Their greatest utility is the ability to remove and snatch shoulder mounts! They can also swarm and attach onto small to mid sized creatures to inflict damage. 

Other uses: The creatures vary in size and the smaller specimens can be equipped as a shoulder mount. They make excellent guard animals against creatures like dilophosaurus, compies, and insects. In numbers they can repel other kinds of wildlife and can make a nuisance against attackers!

[Tarbonite]

Another really cool ability this guy could have is to eat off leeches automatically that attach to you or your mount .

[Tarbonite]

This would be a perfect counterpart to my suggestion the Vintana Sertichi. 

[tyrunt77]

Habitat: Jungle, Riverbanks 

Diet: Carnivore 

Temperament: Calculated Hunter 

Taming: To tame this beast you must wear no armour and proceed to beat all 5 pack members of Coelophysis with your bare hands to death, the last Coelophysis will gain your respect, you must then feed it prime meat to finish the tame, this is certainly a brutal method, requiring health brews and a mind wipe tonic for those extra health and melee points, no tamed creatures or structures must be in close range when taming the Coelophysis 

Abilities: A frail, but calculated, agile and swift hunter, can be used as a backpack pet (wingsuits will still be allowed to be worn when carrying a Coelophysis), compared to the ‘kill or be killed’ lifestyle that most of the creatures of the ARK follow, the Coelophysis is an intelligent pack hunter, using calculated attacks rather than brute strength to overcome enemies. By changing settings in your tamed Coelophysis’ pinwheel and selecting ‘ambush’ mode, it will jump off your back at your command and latch onto the enemy’s face, goring their faces and poisoning them. When set on ‘stalker mode’, it will stalk up to enemies carefully avoiding their view before jumping on the unsuspecting foe, poisoning and dealing bleed damage, up to 5 Coelophysis can latch onto a single human, Coelophysis will stay latched onto the enemy until they are shaken off or dealt serious damage. They receive a pack buff improving movement speed 

[Compystuff]

APPERIENCE

Same height as a raptor yet longer and skinnier. Coelophysis is a medium theropod that comes in colors of tan, red, brown, and orange.

 

WILD

Coelophysis are group animals that like to congregate around water and food areas. However, they do not pack up and there are no leaders a no social hierarchy. They don't get a pack boost and just group up for protection and feeding opportunities. They prefer arid deserts and dry lands and while encountering a Coelophysis group, it's almost impossible to spot them, they have the ability to camouflage and therefor hide in plain sight. When the Coelophysis group detects you, they will start swarming from all sides making your items drop on the ground, coming out of camo mode attacking and going back into it and they have a stamina draining bite so running into a group without prep is a mistake. They have a similar outnumbered behavior as the hyaenodon however, Coelophysis don't just run they bolt in the other direction far away from the area and being that there so fast it's very hard to find and track them.

TAMING

Like many other creatures Coelophysis are too wild to tranq tame and hand feed, so you have to get their eggs. Interestingly Coelophysis keep the eggs in their inventory, and they need to be knocked out to take to the eggs. This is no easy task as Coelophysis have an auto dodge ability (I'll get into that later) and will run if their alone and since their so fast and stealthy it can be hard to even land shoots. Once hatched and tamed Coelophysis is a loyal yet dangerous companion it has a saddle, but you don't need a saddle to ride it.

Their incredible agile able to jump far and run on walls for a short time, pressing the jump button while jumping off walls or jumping will make the Coelophysis do tricks like flipping, spinning etc. Not only does this look cool but doing this 5 times in a row will give Coelophysis a speed and stamina buff that last for 3 minutes.

In combat Coelophysis is a glass canon, even with a saddle Coelophysis is quite easy to kill however, they auto dodge ability which has a chance for them to not take any damage. They can dodge bullets, bites, turret fire, player melee and ranged attacks pretty much anything except for explosions and this dodge chance is determined by a stat usually level is determined how much dodge chance they have the minimum is 5% the max is 75% it can be leveled and mutated but it cannot exceed 75%. Next is the basic attack, as said before it drains stam and does good damage but where this move shines is the buffed damage it gets when you attack creatures from behind. Attacking any and all creature when they are turned away will do massive damage until the creature turns around, if a human turns away any weapon their holding is dropped and biting again will pick up the weapon similar to the whip.

Camouflage it's pretty self-explanatory in cloaks and can't be seen by dinos or turrets. Lasty is the claw stab, by itself it's not the best but feeding it recipes is where this attack works for example feeding it med brews will make the claws inject its victims with med brews or feeding it energy brews will make it inject energy brews this even works with custom recipes. So, you can basically give your Coelophysis a poison claw attack or a health claw attack to heal allies, but the recipe only works once so you have to make multiple recipes for you creature to consume.

 

 

INSHORT

I tried going for an assassin creature and I think Coelophysis makes since for it and Coelophysis is very popular, so I think be a good creature for ark. And if this dossier DOES NOT CONVINCE YOU, THIS WILL!