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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for argentavis? Tips and strategies for argentavis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Guys I accidentally dropped off my argy and fell into the waters…..of the center ring circle….and then got eaten by megs..he isn’t dead….buuuutttt…..he’s very high up and I don’t have any fliers….10 upvurts for taming a low lvl pt and flying it to the argy and abandoning the pt…or coming back for it somehow later, or 10 downvurts for just somehow forgetting about my lvl 86?!? Argy!!! Which was very hard to tame….
Give it a corpse before it gets knocked. Then finish the tranqing process while it has regen buff it’s good will drop to zero. Up for others to see.
If you need an argy and don’t have time to tame one with a trap, just go to carno island, kill a Dino in front of an argy and let it harvest its body. When the green health icon shows up on top of it, knock it out with tranq arrows and the argy is instantly yours.
Only tested this on mobile, but if you knock them out when they have the healing buff from eating a corpse, almost all of their food will be gone, making for a quick and easy tame if you know what you’re doing.
CAN BE LASSO'D
That just made everything MUCH easier.
If you are at carno island or at mountains they can spawn alone or up to a pack of 3, if you are in the snow they can spawn alone or 2 at a time.
Please note: the Argentavis can now fit through one tile spaces, good to know if you are using a ptera (which can also fit through one tile spaces) and trap method to tame.
There is a working glitch right now that allows you to (almost) instant tame these things. First, trap the Argy in a simple trap you can walk out of but the Argy cant fly out of. Second, put all of your items in a box next to a sleeping bag next to the trap and then commit die. Respawn at your bag, shoot the argy with lots of tranqs and use dododex to make sure you dont knock it out. Third, take your dead body and drag it within reach of the Argy, once the Argy consumes it its head will glow green, now knock the Argy out the rest of the way and its food bar will be drained heavily.
This allows for a near instant tame and works best on the lower levels. Using this method on an Argy makes it a faster name than a Pteranadon.
I used this on Thanksgiving day 2019.
Taming an Argenta is is easy but slow
1. First you put 4 dinosaur gateways in a line make some space between them
(don't make them too big)
2. Put a gate at the very last gateway
3. Then distract it so it flies into the trap by following you fast build another gate in the very first gate way and now it's stuck
4. Shoot it untill it called to sleep 💤 and feed it meat
5. Wait for a bit and you can name it!!! ( if wanted
Argies are great for attack from above to easly kill rexs but remember to still pump health becuase if you get stuck under your dead
These are literally the best tames in the whole game.
50% weight reduction on metal, crystal, and obsidian
Good health, weight, stamina, and attack damage
Their saddle is a smithy
Good at gathering meat and hide
Quick to knock out and tame
Gets a health and stamina regeneration boost when you eat a body
Can pick up two creatures at a time, one in the beak and one in the claws
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if someone found out they can shapeshift into a giga
These big birds are one of the greatest dinos in all of ark they are great for obsidian, metal and crystal runs on the biggest mountains. Try to tame a high level as you can get better stats (that’s pretty obvious I know). The main stats you should upgrade mainly for material runs is weight to carry for things, stamina so you don’t have to keep stopping for rest, and movement speed so you can have multiple runs of materials if you don’t want to upgrade weight.
Thanks for reading hope this is helpful