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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a leech? leech battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Bug with the leach not falling off your screen even though its dead... just encountered it. Log off and back on to clear it...
There are a crap load of them in the water in the toxic cave bring a megathreum
I was hunting sarcos and found a baryonyx I wanted to tame. Then I found this guy and he chased me halfway from the swamp to my base. I took care of him with my shotgun though.
I have never encountered a single Leech in my entire playtime on Ark. I’ve taken dino’s at both night and day through both swamps on Ragnarok, swam through them and stood next to the shore hoping to get attacked. (I’m on official by the way) and I have Swamp Fever somehow.
Let's say you went down to the swamp and you ended up getting sucked on.
You can use a campfire or a tribemate to remove the leedh, and a Lesser Antidote to cure the swamp fever if you get infected.
to kill, just take your crossbow, point the crossbow at the Leech, yell, “DISGUSTING” and shoot it.
If you get one on you roast yourself over a fire
So the people who say leech’s are rare in mobile is right and wrong because yes it is still rare to find but I have found them FOUR TIMES but I have never encountered a diseased one and I hope I don’t.
PS: I can only play mobile. Oh and plz can someone tell me how to paint tamed dinos. Plz tell me in dodo section. Ok have a nice day y’all and bye
-Break-it
Just step on them if you have anything that can deal damage when walking
To remove this bugger on Xbox since an “e” button fails to exist. Hold y. And above access inventory it’ll say hold to remove leech. Literally just watched 20 videos about the e button but nothing about Xbox or console buttons b were mentioned
I hate leeches so only go throw the swamp with my spino so if a leech get on me i can get it off kill it and get the blood
Idk if Anyone knows this but if you have a leech a argentavius can remove them stand in front and open the command menu should be up saying( remove leech) my pro freinds were like u lieing but it's true thumbs for safe leech removal
Just hit the green finned ones with whatever happens to be the strongest weapon in your inventory they will pop and die but run if you see orange finned ones they carry the plague
If you want to get this off go to one of your carnivore creatures (I did it with a dilo) and press take off leech and boom it’s off
These do exist on mobile I’ve killed multiple just hit with a pike
Removal is easy. Walk up to your dino n you will be prompted to remove. Remove.
Use fire to get them off of your tame by walking over a lit campfire
Take a spino do the DJ claw move around river! They don't latch on him. Lots in redwoods.
If u want to escape they are usually not at the edges a the swamp. Most of the time.
When u eat leech blood u will eventually get your torpor uppd