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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a argentavis used for? argentavis utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I have a lvl 230 argentavis and a lvl 240 pteranodon. After some testing I have come to the conclusion that Argentavis are actual hot garbage in terms of combat and travel. Despite their relatively high stamina, they’re slow as heck. They have 18 base damage, which is a bit higher than the pteranodon’s 15. However, every time a pteranodon attacks, it actually makes a double hit, effectively raising its base damage to 30. These guys also don’t have other special attacks like the pteranodon’s barrel roll (which does 2.5-3x the normal damage of a pteranodon). They do have more health but why would you need so much health as a flyer? If you get hit too many times you just fly away. Only aspect in which argentavis is clearly better at is weight, plus the fact that it has weight reduction for like every type of resource. So yeah it’s basically a ferocious looking cargo plane. If you want a good battle flyer just get a pteranodon.
(Note; This is on mobile, the same may not be true for other versions)
Definitly the most needed tame in the entire game. They are great for solo, pvp, or multiplayer pve because of their base stats, wieght reduction, and heaing buff. They can be used in a reascource runer/meat&hide runner(all), pvp mount(pvp), traping partner(pvp and solo), or travel mount(all)
To those people who can't pick up stuff with their argy, I’m pretty sure you have to go to the part of the menu and assign the multi tap left/right to the alternate attack 2 or 3. Not sure which one it’ll be on the argy. But one of those should pick things up. Hope this helps! :D