Today I tamed an Equus. Lvl 435 on Ark mobile, in the wild, with 100% efficiency using soothing balm and Rockaroots (DO NOT MOUNT ON MOBILE, I will explain why later in the text) + 1 dilo kibble.

I got lvl 652 (+217 levels), and I must say - this is a great begginer>middle game mount. It's buck kick gives a lot of torphor (mine has 835% melee, up it to get even more torphor per hit), swipe up for a special attack (buck kick).

It can jump pretty high, doesn't take fall damage (Tested it above western southern cave, a.k.a - the lava cave - and it didn't take any damage with 145 armor saddle gotten from the pursuit).

So - why shouldn't you mount Equus while taming on Ark mobile?

1. It lowers efficiency. Taming using soothing balm doesn't work either, the effect gets lost.

6.4% per rockaroot unmounted, 2.4% mounted with efficiency falling by 20% each time.

2. You will need a LOT of rockaroots.

3. Soothing balm won't help in maintaining efficiency rate.

In conclusion, Equus are very hard to tame on mobile (if you want a perfect, high level tame like I wanted), but with patience and a lot of crouching behind its back to feed it, you will get an interesting mount that also acts like mortar and pestle.