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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.
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
Fires work ONLY FOR PLAYERS ON MOBILE and you have to PICK IT OFF FROM MOUNTS.
I forgot to pull off this from my best mount and she died ......
If leeches stick to u you’ll need fire campfire or torch both do, if you get it on a tame just pull it off
If there is one on your screen in x box and no matter what you do it doesn’t come off check all your tames if a leech is latched on one of your tames it will show up on your screen.
I saw a comment saying you’d need an araneo to hunt leeches and I just wanna say you really don’t. For example I just use a sarco and have yet to have a leech stick on to me.
FOR MOBILE ONLY:
These are not as rare as you think. Every other I get yoinked off a mount by a kapro I end up running into at least one. That being said I don't get yoinked off mounts often but when I do in the swamp I find a leech. After puttering around on my pelagornis I managed to find enough to get 30ish leech blood.
They stay on your screen for a long time
So ckickin wrong remove it NOWWWW OR ELSE!!!! NEKO-SEEK WILL FIND YOU!!!!
um.. just use a refining thing or a campfire to get it off of you 😋
And if that doesnt work..
Pray
i got one on myself, heheh.
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Hovering over swamp with an Argentavis will lure leeches out and will form underneath you. Once this happens, attack with Argentavis for easy leech blood.
Why do the go on land??? That is so not cool
The reason I don't go into the swamp...
I would recommend to stay away from the Lil suckers because some of them have a dissese if you want to cure it drink a lesser antidote (lv 12)
I was riding my fastest Dino through the swamp because I was searching for boa eggs and prime meat. I saw these things coming for me. I know how to get leeches off but oh hell no I am not in a mood to get leeches on my gallimimus so I shot them so many times but they didn’t die 🤷