Slow speed

high stamina

Easy tame

Why is this my #1 tame?

1. Mobile smithy

2. Weight reduction on all heavy precious items.

3. Easily tamed

4. High levels everywhere

5. Great stats except speed

These are arguably the best all round flier for traveling, they have good stam and carry weight, decent health and damage, and can regenerate health when harvesting meat, with an argie you could probably set up multiple bases around the map in about a week or two, I highly recommend looking for a high level instead of a low level because even though it may be harder to tame it will be worth it

If u are on scorched earth it's a good dino to replace phiomia because this dino poop a lot

There really good flyers and very usefull so when you get nicrotics tame one as soon as possible.

Guys get one of these! I can not stress this enough. They are awesome! With enough health they can be flying tanks, and their OP stamina levels make up for their medium level speed. My argie Gibraltar can take out most dinos in one to three hits! He’s currently level 111 (ik not that good but it’s my first world I’ve actually played on and I was weak so max levels are like 115) They are also helpful when starting on a new base. Their saddles work as smithies and you can store all that crap on them easy peasy. Wild Dino broke all your armor? Rifle or crossbow snapped? Just turn around to your argie that you would obviously take every where bc you’re so smart! You can pop that stuff in there and it’ll be fixed in no time! Guys, seriously these are one of the best dinos to get. Good stamina, carrying weight, beefy fighters— what more could a man want?

Would be really helpful if there was a tab that showed what a tame can carry, not just what can carry it.

Os really good in charging metal cause when I used an paracer it tools me one hour to go to the mountain and come back just with 451 of iron (had 850 of weight) and when I used an argentavis (450 weight) it took me 15 minutes and I get same as paracer

Gotta say after the flyer nerf they seem to be less desirable but since it's tlc it has just been so useful for mid tier players, most of my high level mid sized dinos was tamed by my argent like my max level thyla, bary and even my ankies and doedics, everytime i venture out, i use my argent, yeah they are kinda slow but I'm in a single player save so it doesnt really matter, plus they can stay in the air for a very long time

Despite their huge size the argy will Agro EVERY carnivore so make sure to put them somewhere safe.

One of the most useful tames in Ark, especially for mid level players. I put a lot of points into health to help me carry creatures to a taming pen and a lot in stamina to make them killing machines. They can easily kill wyverns as long as the rider doesn't die. They are great pack animals, especially with the reduced weight for stone, metal, obsidian, and crystal. The only real downside is that they're somewhat slow, although they tend to have decent stamina which makes up for it a bit.

Great tames in PVP because they work like a portable smithy, so if you get one you can get better weapons.

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These animals can actually carry a baryonix

it says that it can’t be effected by regular bear traps but it can I tested it

very good birb

gives you a portable smithy

has weight reduction on metal, obsidian and crystal

good attack damage

not a fast flyer but still has decent movement speed

can carry dinos like paras, ankys, raptors etc

regens health like crazy when eating corpses

easy to trap and tame

Can we talk about how the Argentavis are one the few flyers that don’t get a boost in speed after being tamed? For example every wild flyer is at 100% speed the normal speed, and if you knock out and tame a pteranodon then check their speed, it goes from 100% to 136% giving a 36% boost in speed just for being tamed. With the Argentavis even after being tamed it remains at 100% giving no boost😭 a fast Argentavis would be a completely game changer so that’s why they don’t give it a boost🥲 my current Argentavis is sitting at a 216% speed (that’s with a boost) and it’s faster than a wild Tapejara and that’s pretty fast. So if you’re gonna really invest into any Argentavis, it’s better if that argentavis is a fully imprinted one because with a full imprint it’s gives a 20% boost in health, weight, damage, and SPEED. That way you put less points into speed and add them mainly into weight because they’re great at transporting thing with the weight reduction. Anyways that’s all you mainly want to know about their speed.

Has smithy on it (mobile). Don’t be like me and make one just to carry with me…

The argentavis is a late to middle early-game flying workhorse, which many players see as essential to tame. It is slower than pteranodons and tapejaras, but faster than the quetzalocalus, making it the second slowest flying tame on the Island. It is generally untouchable from most land predators while in the air, but is very vunerable when perched on the ground. If attacked by land predators, DO NOT RETALIATE if said predator is larger than a raptor if your argentavis level is 1-25. Simply get off your mount if you are sure you can kill it, otherwise, wait unti your stamina is at ca 1/3 of the max, or about 300 and escape from it. I recommend perching on tall rocks or in isolated areas, and with a bit of stamina left. When flying, carrying three or even four parachutes will help to ensure your longevity, as geting your mount killed in pvp or simply accidentally hitting dismount can have very fatal results for you. The parachute is easy to make and will save you from a fall, a headache, or won't matter in the end, as those dudes in their tapejara followed you onto the ground.

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GATHERER TRANSPORT

The Argentavis suited for harvesting resources, as it can carry any parasaur-sized creatures or smaller in its talons, allowing you to transport your otherwise slow and bulky ankylo over the entire Island in twenty minuters or more. The Argentavis carries stone, metal, obsidian and more at reduced weight by itself, so having no good harvesting dinos makes little difference wheightwise.

HAULER

As the argentavis has relatively high base weight capacity for a flyer, making it effective at transporting base building materials, raw materials, dinos, and even pepole long distances at low risk for running into a level 500 alpha Rex. It is a bit more risky adding in a human factor, however, so if a server is populated enough, you might want an escort.

EMERGENCY HUNTER

In a pinch, an Argentavis serves well for hunting small medium creatures or sauropods. It can hunt raptors and parasaurs with ease, as it can pick them from the ground and kill them in the air. Sauropods are a bit trickier, but also a valuable source of easy prime meat for a sudden, rare tame like a tek Rex or quetzalocalus. The oly thing you have to do to take out sauropods is stay close to them, find a sweet spot where the cannot attack you and pray your stamina doesn't run out. They generally do very little damage, so this is easy. DO NOT attack titanosaurs (the ones with rocks on their backs) , as they will qiuckly reduce you to a boken mess.

TROLLING AID

Webever you are bored, you can fly up to a player, grab them off their mount, and drop them from a small distance. Then simply wrote "we do a little trolling" in the chat and leave before they unload their assault rifle into your face.

TAMING AID

The Argentavis can pick up and immobilize most small creatures, making them easier to tame, eg picking a wild raptor from an unwinnable fight, or a diplocalus from a swamp.

Argies are very good traveling Dino’s they can carry a good amounts of wait and they don’t get cold so you can fly them up a MT and it won’t die of cold.-DJ Fox7222

Id recommend making your smelting room for metal/storage and such accessible to your Argy, that way when you’re coming back from a metal run you have an easier time carrying all the stuff to where it’s supposed to be. Less walking. -KD