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What is a argentavis used for? argentavis battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
The Argentavis is THE metal run creature. It's high weight, plus the ability to pick up ankylosaurus, make it one of, if not THE best at what it does. If you find yourself in need of transporting large amounts of material, an argentavis is usually your go-to. They aren't very good at travel, as they are rather slow. However, their high base weight, stamina, and their reduction in weight on many materials, make them some of the best haulers and farmers you can find.
Extremely useful. They're not fast, bred well they can hit pretty damn hard. Think of them as Jeeps of the sky. From weight reduction on nessescary resources to picking certain Dino's up. Even after the changes i.e can't pick up Baryonx they're still a must in any playthrough. Make taming Otters a breeze by their alternate beak grip
Argentavis is hands down one of the most important tames you or your tribe will need early game. It’s an amazing workhorse tame. They have:
1.) Huge carrying capacity. weigh scales insanely allowing it to carry well over 10k with a balanced build and easily double to triple that if you min-max.
2.) Stamina for days. Easily fly corner to corner in one go as long as they aren’t encumbered.
3.) can lift and carry smaller Dino’s. Anything smaller than a Carno, basically can be lifted by an Argy. Most notably, Anky and Doeds for mining. Allowing for easy solo/duo mining.
4.) Also allows you to transport smaller Dino’s to a safe spot your taming. Especially stuff like snails.
5.) good for combat and harvesting primes early on.
6.) You can use it to solo tame a quetzal.
Biggest drawback to an Argy is it’s slower than other flyers, like Ptera and Wyverns. But, still faster than a Quetz. But for what you get it’s an easy trade off.
While slower than a ptera, they're pretty useful. They can pick up more dinosaurs and can kill them while flying, allowing you to pick off raptors and sabres and other small horrors with relative safety. Keep an eye on their stamina, just like a ptera you don't want to be forced down into a death trap
This one of the best all around creature in the game, it carries a lot and has a weight reduction on most mineral resources and polymer, it can have great damage, and can also have high health and lots of stamina, this creature is a must tame and is a great traveler and harvester even into late game.
If you are low on hp on a travel(say, to a metal rich area or another resource rich area), you can hunt a creature to get food. If you feed the argy a corpse, it will gain rapid regeneration, which can be useful for recovering hp during combat or if you have to land in a dangerous area.