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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Gigantopithecus profile:
How to tame: get behind it and get close to it (I suggest crouching) and then feed it, titanaboa kibble is the best taming food for it, but mejoberrys work great too, don’t touch it or get too close or it will attack you and won’t stop until you are out of sight.
Abilities when tamed: This guy can throw you VERY far away which could be helpful if you need to escape quickly, it has good damage, decent-good health (about 600-700 at low level) it has good speed, decent stamina, it’s weight is kind of low but still pretty good, they swim fast too.
ENCOUNTERING: they won’t attack you unless you touch them or get very very close (right on top of it basically) also these guys can save you, if you are being attacked by something and need help, run up to these guys and try to make your enemy attack it and this thing might save you!
Where to find: they are a uncommon creature in the redwoods, pretty easy to find just careful for thylas and other creatures, they only spawn in redwoods or beaches next to redwoods (very close). Sorry for the long tip, I hope I helped someone out! Have a good day/night!
More Gigantopithecus Utility Tips
To the people saying that these things should be able to wield swords:
Imagine being on a pvp server, and then someone with a fully imprinted and mutated big monke with 1.5K% melee shows up and pulls out an ascendent sword that does 400 base damage...
Sounds pretty balanced and fun
Situation described above will result in 6000 damage per hit btw, aka enough to kill tamed giga (without saddle) in 3 hits