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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a electrophorus? electrophorus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
THEY FLEE WHEN ATTACKED, JUST LIKE ANGLERS. IF YOUR RIDE GETS SHOCKED, PULL OUT YOUR CROSSBOW, SWIM AWAY FROM YOUR RIDE AND SHOOT THEM, AND ONE BY ONE, THEY WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE.
Idk why people are saying to swim away from your tame and use crossbows when you get attacked when crossbows have 36 dps and a pack of level 1 electrophoruses have almost triple of that plus if you are off your tame you will be caught in the electrophorus' shock aoe and also be stunned and most likely die in seconds.
But this is 2026 not 2019 so first of all downvtoe the tip that says that as it it outdated, and if you get caught off guard for some reason by electrophoruses while you are on your tame just attack with your tame until they either die or run away as all the electrophorus' "stun" effect does is just prevent you from sprinting and it no longer dismounts you, if you are lucky and you have a meg or ichthy you will survive with half health.
Also if you are on old mobile and you don't wanna lose a lot of health trying to kill them then just swim as fast as you can away from them until they disappear in your render distance as the stun effect from electrophoruses do not exist on old mobile.
You know that level 300 mosasaur you have. He is now just a decoration for your base.
Picture a gang of agile monkeys armed with tasers, fast deadly and OP. Sneakier too
If you see a swarm of them, run. They have pack bonus and will constantly shock you or your mount and knock you mount out. They will feed on your dreams!
Basilos can't be stunned by this.
Umm.. just don’t eat the bio toxin while doing this I tried and ate it twice. Thankfully I went to shore before a fainted
RUN if you see one earlygame, especially on genesis as there will always be more lurking around.
They are a real shocker when you. First meet them
It does not run away when you shoot it with a crossbow
In asa they now give you diminished returns which when after attacking you with their electric nonsense you have about 20 secs where you are safe from being stunned
But you aren’t safe from the damage that it does rip Dave the dolphin
Shock actually damages stone structures
I found one of these and sudenly there were a lot of them around me... They just melted my Megalodon in a second and there was nothing I could do because of the electric shocks!
I advise you, If you arent well geared up and with a Basilo (which is immune to the shocks) please just try to leave this beasts alone, DONT TRY TO FIGHT THEM UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
Rest in peace mate. You had a good run. Hope you didn't have any tames with you.
IT ISNT WORTH IT TO TAME THESE. Let me explain…
I tamed at least 3 of them and they all died bc things lik mantas and mega came to kill them… they last for a short period of time…
Just use a bary to stun them and they aren’t a problem.
These things ruin the ocean. Cant use any water tames besides basilos now. Its just dumb how OP they are.
They will glow in the dark and change colors.
They will stay at the surface at night.
These guys HATE mantas. Like rivals
Consider them like jellyfish but ranged. Were responsible for killing my Icthy in the west water cave on the island. RIP Seabird