Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Use a Baryonyx, use the gene scanner to locate them and kill the low level ones until a high level one spawns. A Baryonyx is also very good for killing other things attacking the archelon including the Cnidaria if you can handle doing a tail Whip at just the right time and it's at an ok time such that if it fails and your kicked off for while the baryonyx unstuns and kills them. Pull the high level ones on to land. On the centre there are small island with nothing them. Set the baryonyx on passive and low follow. The archelon will want to attack the baryonyx and will chase it. Now run around positioning your self behind it and to one side so it's constantly turning while chasing the baryonyx. Because of it large slow turning rate it won't catch up with the baryonyx and you will run have it running in circles in a safe spot while you run along side it taming it. If it hits the baryonyx it won't affect the tame. Just don't hit it back.
More Archelon Taming & KO Tips
DONT let their babies out of water
You can raise babies using their algae.
Tame four or more high level Archelons, cryo them for a few days then release them and level them up in food only. Put them in water and harvest the Algae until you have 40+ stacks in a fridge. You should be harvesting almost two stacks per hour (@x1) . Breed them for eggs and incubate the eggs using a gigantoraptor. Hatch the eggs and immediately drop the baby then cryo it and release underwater. Manually feed them the Algae unit the hit juvenile. Then feed them Mejoberries from troughs.
Breeding tip babies either need to be in a gigaraptor saddle or in the water or their health plummits very fast by 0.1 growth. Sorry for the category as I didn't know where to put this under.
They will eat berries after taming
To find this wonderful creature, it has a chance to spawn near the Cnidaria. So if you find the jellyfish, you just might be lucky enough to find yourself one of these bad boys. Passive tame using superior kibble or Bio Toxin. Obviously the kibble will take less time, but use what you got.
Seen a few in the swallow waters around herbivore island, seems to be a common spawn point for them
Raising Archelon needs to be done in water. Also they're bugged similarly to when snow owls came out. They eatt berries and eat more and faster then a baby giga. If you thought you could walk away, you were wrong.
Easiest way to tame, go under the flying island on the center, they are normally on the sides on land and are super easy to trap and tame, no need to tame in water, tamed two this way super easy!
The first one I saw was on Lava Island on the Center, it was a 140 and I used it to perfectly tame a high level Pyromane because it's so slow and has a high health pool.
Passive tame. They like to spawn around jellyfish, so take a bary or basilo (your best bet). On center they are in the open water near skull island/redwoods. Superior kibble is really easy to make so just use that --AK