Pulmonoscorpius useless for KO?

[Pastah]

Is the Pulmonoscorpius useless to KO dinos to tame? I'm trying to tame a direbear, but it either ends up killing me or I end up killing it.

[Pastah]

Apparently it's ♥♥♥♥ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ14HEJy0fQ

[Nokim]

the descriptions of the scorpion is misleading. it makes it seem like you could tame it to knock things out but its quite garbage. would you have to sting things an impossible amount of times.

really just good vs players

the frog is the same way but possibly better than the scorpion.

with the frog ive managed to knock some things out but you leave them a bloody mess by the time you do. Players on the other hand get knocked out pretty easy with a frog.

i suppose if you dump enough melee the scorpion might knock out something, similar to the frog.If you breed them and can manage to get the melee to about 500% you would have in theory as good as a decent ramshackle crossbow. gl with getting melee that high though.

[Charcharodonto]

The problem with the scorpion is that it takes a full 10 seconds for it's torpor to apply, unlike the bows which is 4 seconds. Also he doesn't deal any instant torpor on each hit. so attacking repeadetly only refreshes the debuff really, yet you are still dealing damage.

In other words, you can KO stuff with it, it will just take longer then a bow.

On the plus side, you spend no arrows/narcotics.

but it does mean you either need to be able to have the animal in place and sting it every 10 second, then bugger out. or the scoprion needs to be tankier then the thing you try to KO