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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a manta? manta battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
This swimming pancake doesn't like people who want to tame ichty's. Just wanted to warn ya.
It’s attacks are able to quickly shred through your armour, I have a theory that the manta may share coding with the Arthropleurea since they both can destroy armour and they both react to bug repellent similarly
I tamed one with only 9⅞ AnglerGel. Up if you have or tamed one with less!
I hate these guys. i was trying to tame an ichty and I got one but as soon as I got to shore a gang of about 4-6 high level mantas attacked my Ichty. my ichty was low level so it had low health so the mantas killed it. They damaged my raft quite a bit as well. I got revenge by killing all of them with my ascendant bow. I especially hate them because I also had an ascendant ichty saddle with my ichty and I couldn’t find the item cache that had it. I’d recommend you killing them with a powerful ranged weapon from out of the water because they are very agile and powerful and can easily kill you when you are underwater. Also forgot to mention,they also almost killed my trike that was waiting on shore.
Careful... they may look delicious in all but powerful...pancakes or waffles... Iost my megaladon to a pack of 8 of these which took 4 1/2 hours to tame...
Guys, it says passive tame because you do not have to knock it out.
Don’t mix these guys with your fav and only theri. R.I.P. Tickles 😭
THESE THINGS NEED TO BE NERFED THEY KILLED MY MAX LEVEL FULLY IMPRINTED SPINO THAT TOOK ME FOREVER TO GET NERF THESE THEY ARE SO BROKEN
Passive my ass. These things will come at you no matter what. Just avoid them. Or use a baryonxy tail spin until they die.
PASSIVE!? THAT WORD IS MORE UNTRUE THAN WHEN MY BROTHER SAID THERE WAS NO MORE ICECREAM LEFT!!,
When I was still a noob and didn’t know anything I saw 3 mantas, I didn’t know if they were aggressive so I went to check if they were at first for some unknown reason it didn’t attack me they just acted like ichthyosauruses so I thought they were passive but then when I tamed a low level ichthyosaurus the mantas started killing my ichthyosaurus I was like WHAT I THOUGHT U GUYS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE PASSIVE then it killed my ichthyosaurus, i went to check again but this time they killed me R.I.P me and my ichthyosaurus
Tip: DONT BE STUPID LIKE ME
They stalk you if you have an Itchy. They follow you into the shallows then attack. Annoying things. Kill them from range. They are hostile.
I found that in shallow water a giga is perfect for killing swarms of these guys but don’t go in to deep water gigas are terrible swimmers and will drown easily
I was swimming back to base on my sarco and when I get back to base I turn it off I come back to find my sarco missing but not dead me 17 days later: let’s explore the ocean on our Meg next thing I see is a sarco swimming in the ocean killing mantas fortunately I brought sarco back to base and tail stunned them with my baryonyx
This is not passive it is aggressive it will act friendly for a while
These guys often commit suicide by sliding up onto the beach, which can be an easy source of fish meat in the super early levels.
This BEAST killed my stego and my turtle and my icthy plus my Meg barely survived. DANGEROUS CREATURE.
They are dangerous! I thought they were passive lol
If you dont know how to effectivly fight these, dont. You may learn the hard way.
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.