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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Encountering Tips

How do I kill a angler? angler battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
On mobile if you ride an itchyosaur anglers don't agro on you even if you attack them
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
Since there’s no scuba gloves just give us webbed gloves like a platypus.
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 they’re 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.
I don’t understand how people eat this thing, I just wet my pants looking at it’s face
The dilophosaurus of the seas...
In Mobile, these things spawn in the water section of the lower south cave the one you get the hunter artifact from.
There's nothing quite like having one of these sneak up behind you while illuminating the toothy grin of a plesi.
(Mobile not sure about pc)
If these angler going after your tame just bite them they are like “why this thing so strong” “this is not good i must swim away” and just like that you can chase them k i l l them and harvest with an axe
If u are for some reason in the deep water (witch I very much don't recommend) and u run into this thing just use a crossbow but if u don't have one yet just use a spear -Big Bill
Will calm down once you hit them once
Lives deep in the ocean waters, at the darker zone where the Dunk lives.
These can spawn only in deep ocean so if you wanna tame or kill one go to the deep ocean
From a distance they have a similar appearance as silica pearls. Tread carefully everywhere you go