Take a Baryonyx or a powerful swimming creature to kill off the Manta's and then go in for the tame

If one spawns 3 mantas will automatically spawn near it, and start following it and group up near its belly. If you feed a basilo every ichthy/megalodon/manta near the basilo will automatically take one damage (the game inflicts the damage as if it was inflicted by you), then get angry at you and start chasing you. You should then run away if your tame can't kill the mantas quickly because mantas do more damage through armor like saddles than other creatures, so your tame's health might get shredded in seconds.

They have 12000 drag weight, the 2nd most in the game along with liopleurodons.

I have a tip to share on how to deal with the Mantas and Megalodons that are surrounding the area where the Basilosaurus roams. Make sure to go with a high level Baryonyx because of its underwater stun ability and damage in general. Make sure to damage one manta so they will all start following you. Then lead them away and kill them. Killing the Megs is easier in my opinion, plus you can gather them all in one place, stun them and start killing them!

After you feed the first time, it must lose 10% of its food before it can be fed the second time. After the second feeding, it takes about 15 seconds between feedings. So you have some time to gather prime after the first feeding, but not after the second!

I use my 170 basilosaurus to kill the alpha mosasaurus (level 50+) mine has 30k health. I bite until half health, rise all the way to the surface and continue until the mosa is dead. Health rises so fast at the surface!

Get an ichy and aggro mantas. Then lead them far away. Then return to basi quicky fees it and run off wait 5 mins then return to feed again. People keep saying ichys do not get aggro by other creatures but that is so not true so becareful and watch your surroundings.

Yo to find them check near herb island they do spawn near the shore

The health regen on these things is insane. Keep fights near the surface and avoid crush depth for best results.

Takes ages to feed after the first time but after that it is nearly instant worth taming as they have high weight and good damage bit they are usually followed by 20 mantas so taming can be difficult

I don’t know what everyone else did but In my experience the Icythaurus or whatever the dolphin is called, still gets attacked. Everything is chasing me on it. Sure I can out run everything but the tips here made it sound like you would get ignored.

Also, someone said you could tame it from the saddle you can’t you have to dismount.

Now this is all PS4.

So best bet is to have 2 - 3 people 1 to feed and the others to agro and lure away the mantas and megs.

Icys are fastest in my experience. So best bet to bait away and dart in and out.

This will be your best ocean mount due to the fact that it can not be shocked by the eels and Cnidaria,cant be grabbed by a tuso,regens health very fast on rhe surface,and many other uses.

Dodex fix your stuff takes like 5 mins for hungry again

Kill all the mantas with a baryonix and feed it meat when its hungry. Easy but op underwater tame. Hope i helped someone

When they eat they produce oil...

To tame the basilosaurus it's a passive tame so kill every thing around it and start feeding it

Discovered this by accident, but a Sinomacrops will scream at and scare away all the mantas that surround the Basi. Not required, but the easiest way I found was to set my Sino to have "auto scream" enabled and "scream requires aggro" disabled. When you get semi close it'll scream which will make all, or most of the Mantas flee for long enough to feed the Basi. Hope this helps and happy whaling!!

Only one manta on Genesis!! Thank goodness!!

If only it had a horn then it could be a narwhal

Passively generates oil, America might want to come for you and steal it, I recomend hiding