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

It deal 50 dmg if spammed (mobile)

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.

ROLES

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.

A tamed argentavis with a saddle is a portable smithy

They got the new tlc which makes them look more like a vulture, can carry things like ankys and thylacoleos, gets a health and stamina regen after eating a corpse.

TLC 2 has made the argentavis even better by making its saddle a mobile smithy and on top of that, this amazing creature minimizes the weight of metal, obsidian, and other resources!

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

Thanks for reading! >:3

Tame this and a desmodus and you have every role for a flyer in ark (except neither have platform saddles so tame a quest if you want that)

These things are crazy, pick up an anky, gather metal, cook metal, then craft in your beard. Their saddles a smithy and so many people don't know this.

Not only can Argys pick things up with their claws but smaller creatures with their beaks as well holding 2 creatures at the same time. They can grab an otter in their beaks and hold them still will you bring them fish to tame!

Argys are good, but only if you are using them for weight and stamina because they are mostly meant for transporting items and dinos.

Just so everyone knows, Argents are able to reduce black pearl weight by half. It can be very handy after battling with an Alpha Tuso or Mosa.

You can pick up anky with player on anky with Argy. Have player 1 fly Argy. Pick up anky with other player riding anky and collect all the metal.

How on earth does this not have the pack mule tag?

On mobile u can pick up baryonyx 🤷🏻‍♂️

Argy has half weight for metal,obsidian,stone,metal ingot,black pearl,crystal,organic polymer,polymer so its a must have.

The most common trap is the Dino gate trap, might I suggest DONT USE THEM?! They are highly inefficient and take a while to set up. I used this method to tame a argy and both times took around 15 minutes so that’s half an hour of trying to trap a bird lost. That’s the inefficient part. The tedious part is tryna build it. This method is viable if you build like 10 gateways and the gates open out. Best way to get argies is by watching videos on making taming pens/ traps for them

My answer to the Would you Rather question-

Personally, I’d rather infinite stamina over weight. Yes, the whole point of an agry is to carry tons of weight, but they already have tons of weight reduction on a lot of things.

Since argies are not really fast, I have to land all the time when carrying my anky, leaving both me and it exposed to predators (Keep in mind, I don’t have cryopods yet). Having infinite stamina would avoid this problem entirely.

However, this is just my opinion. I’d love to see what other people think as well!

Ah, the Argentavis. What can be said about this giant hawk boi that hasn't been said already?

I like to have what I call 'mobile mines' depending on what resource I need at a time. I usually keep 3-4 Argys around my base, alongside my Dodecs and Ankys. If I'm low on stone, I take my Dodecs with this thing. If I'm low on metal, I use it with Ankys. They make resource runs so much easier and their saddle makes smithing on the go a breeze. Plus, they aren't squishy, so using them in combat is very practical. They are slower than a Ptera, but having more stamina makes up for it.

So i tamed and argy level ten (im on easy mode btw) i used a soothing balm and a stego kibble to tame it. After i tame it it become level 22 and have like 800 stamina up if i should try get good meele and health argents to bread with it down if i shouldn't bother . (Other stats average btw)