Building a trap out of pillars in shallow water on the shoreline with a behemoth gate entrance on the waterside worked wonders for me.

I used a wild tame baryonyx to get the mantas aggro and led it into the trap, jumped of when on land and swam around the trap (while keeping an eye out for any of its friends) and closed the trap.

After that, it was as simple as swimming between the pillars on the opposite side of the gate and feeding it anglergel until it was mine. Got a breeding pair of them now.

what is so dangerous bout this flappy boi of the ocean i only had trouble with cnidarias. Just go near it then start going to shore it will follow (don't go too far from shore or u ded) then keep on feeding angler gel. hope this help :)

Ark devs make this thing less OP, passive, and just easier to tame. I tried to tame itchy and it killed me. Do not encounter at all not even at hight lv like 47

These things are like jetskis. Good for racing in water

This thing will attack you through armor. I got my 500 armor and 700 durability FLAK CHESTPLATE rekt by this little son of a.... Basically armor doesn't work against this creature, might as well kill it.

If you see one of them you know what to do {avenge Steve!!!}

DO NOT TRY TO TAKE ON THESE GUYS!!! I saw a group of 5-6 take down a turtle in the water!

Ironically called the "Manta", you would think it would be harmless. You'd be wrong. Where there is one, they'll often be other nearby.

Do not disturb.

I recommend using four metal Dino gates, with 2 gate doors, wade in manta waters and lure one into the trap to prevent them from wandering anywhere… I’ve tamed every single one of my mantas in crystals isles near eldritch isles with utmost ease…especially during events with 2x or 3x ~ Ghost

Use an itchy to tame as mantas dont agro on them

These water pancakes should be fed angler gel while riding an ichty because they will attack anything else except an ichty. They do surpringly high damage so be careful if you dismount.

Never enter waters which are infested by them if you are not riding an ichty or wearing bug spray as they will kill you as they usually move in packs. Oh and they eat eals

Stupid death pankakes killed my barry and my meg im sad

Tame it on an icthy, it won’t attack you that way

When taming place a stone foundations with doorframes on all sides except for one in the water with doorframes just under the water, aggro the manta in the spot and place a doorframe to lock it in. You can feed it while it aggro to a wall for safe taming.

They aren’t super useful on most maps but they are very useful on the Valguero map because Valguero’s lakes are VERY dangerous.

They are very fast in water. They can outrun Megaladons and other things.

Beware they are evil they killed my wyvern lesson learned stay high never run out of stam

So, they definitely aggro on an icthy, on console at least. And I was taming a basilo in the Abyss of Valg, didn’t feed it even once, just got close on my icthy, had 3 with me, the mantas aggro on my icthys, kill all three after I dismounted and then tried to defend myself with a mastercraft pike, got killed near the very top, like ceiling of the cave area. So I go back on my max level meg, no bag, no death beacon anywhere. Just dead manta bodies. So did my death make me glitch into the mesh of the ceiling? Would really love to get my 5 SCUBA tanks, brand new harpoon gun and that pike. Anybody else ever experience no death beacons in the underwater ocean of Valg?? Pls help.

~Greel

I didn’t know they were aggressive until 50 of them came at me!!