Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Since they tend to retreat and charge after taking some damage,having a fast water mount (or at least flippers) is good to get off and back on when trying to ko or kill. I prefer the Sarco for its AoE bite against multiple and infinite stamina in water (however it only has one speed in water anyways, but it's still fairly quick depending on level). If escape is necessary bite it with the Sarco when it gets too close and swim away when the angler retreats. Crossbows (and most, if not every, other weapon) do work on its back, if you'd rather not get off.
More Angler Encountering Tips
On mobile if you ride an itchyosaur anglers don't agro on you even if you attack them
Since thereβs no scuba gloves just give us webbed gloves like a platypus.
Fun fact, Arks anglers are only half correct, you see only the females are big and powerful, the males are tiny and puny and all they do is attach to the female and then get absorbed by her, she steals his privates and then uses it to reproduce. She can do this as many times as she wants, with multiple males fused to her sides as she so pleases. This may sound disturbing, but there's a reason for this, angler live in the deep sea where it's dark and death can loom around the corner, and food can be quite scarce an elusive, so by having the males fuse to a female shortly after birth, allows them to co exist without competing with each other. This is also seen in spiders, but the spiders are less extreme, with the males just being smaller and eating something else, or hunting on the ground in opposition to the female on the web. Of course just like how the titaboa doesn't constrict its prey in ark, things like this are hard to program and difficult to balance. This would no doubt make angler breeding in ark absolutely OP, with allowing the female to select between differnt males to breed with on the same creature.
Angler fish have the bright antenna, so look out for that whe. Trying to locate one.
SCUBA GEAR OR YOU WILL DIE BECAUSE IT IS TOO DEEP
It seems there is a strange circular underwater hill near herbivore island that is apsolutely crawling with anglers, how many does that mran? Well I've seen about the entire rest of the ocean's population of anglers all at that hill
There tend to be quite a lot of angler spawns in North zone near Carno Island
On valgero there all in the abberation cave
The terror birds of the sea the are extremely annoying just like the terror birds on land
They spawn a lot in the Ice Cave on the Island. Since theyβre in a cave they respawn fast too. My tribe leader made it out of there with multiple stacks of angler gel. It was actually starting to encumber him.