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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a ichthyosaurus used for? ichthyosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Please read the whole thing if you're here because the water creatures aggroed on you. Sorry for bad grammar. I am playing on mobile btw
I know this sounds really dumb. The de aggro ability will only work if you tame it with fish meat or prime fish meat. If you use normal meat or prime meat, you will get a better taming effectiveness but every aggressive water creature will still aggro on you. No one has said this before. I just tested it right now. I tamed a high level one tamed with raw meat. Everything aggroed on me. It surprised me because i tamed one not too long ago and nothing aggroed me back then. That got me thinking and I got this idea. I tamed a low level one with fish meat and nothing aggroed it. Consider testing it yourself before disliking this tip
My added tip for MOBILE players: The Icthies can get attacked once by a Meg if you attack it. So be sure to always have a good saddle. I also use this guy to tame a Basilosaurus. Please NOTE that 1: Feed the Basilo WHILE on the Icthy. 2: Always have good saddle. Kill everything that can aggro on the basilo once tamed. 3: Beware of Megs. Tested on Mobile. They bite once on your first few bites and if you survive it they will de-aggro and NOT bite anymore no matter how many times you bite them. But MANTAS will not aggro on you no matter how many times you bite them. Mantas will literally be searching for you swimming in circles.
I have read comments that ichtys are being killed by other creatures. So you can take a bunch of these so they will attack the predator. Because after you tame they will attack if you whistle “attack”. Or you can place dinosaur gate.(these tips are for single player ark mobile). In multiplayer p v e mod you can place them near other players dinosaurs like the other players tamed mosasaur or megalodon,etc or you can use single player tips if you want to protect them yourself.