Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for mantis? Tips and strategies for mantis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Tame a giga with a 10K health mantis with 200-500 percent damage holding 2 clubs.🧐
Hi I’m the tame helper and help all of you guys tame a mantis 1 you’ll need rhino horns or deathworm horns 2 I recommend a mantis deaggro trap which is one stone foundation lurk it in with 6 walls beside and in front of it and 2 doorways
On Ragnarok, lure them into deep water. They only stay on the surface, so once you dive underwater, they'll lose aggro and you can feed from underneath. No ghille suit or bug repellant required!
I used an argy trap to get mine, couldnt get out and it was super easy to tame without it trying to attack innocent bystanders or run off
Don’t try to get them stuck under your wyvern and get off to solo tame them.. they will despawn mid tame.
If you don’t want to make bug repellent if taming on the server is very high just get a flyer on passive and drop on the mantis while spamming the passive tame button (works best with wyverns) and it should tame if you do it right and for baby mantis they eat spoiled meat until there adults so if your breeding them have some spare spoiled meat to feed them. For the harvesting the more lvls you put into melee will make you gather more materials if your using a sickle, pickaxes, or axe and for clubs it increases the melee and torpor damage so mantis are good for knocking out creatures if you have the right stats, if you didn’t know you can give your mantis a pike apparently. Sorry I write to much
They aren’t in mobile so for all those people out there who plays only mobile don’t waste time trying to find them
For babies:spoiled meat gives 50food,raw gives 10
You need to get one
1 get bug repellent, kill deathworms, get chillies armour and maybe a canteen or two
2 eat the bug repellent and put the deathworm horns in your last slot, find a high level and sneak up from behind. once you feed it run away and repeat
3 make sure to give him a sword or a tool for whatever you might harvest
WARNING: make sure that if you do this with a tame that you feed it bug repellent too otherwise the mantis will aggro and you can’t tame it. you can only tame a mantis when your over level 40 and the saddle unlocks at lvl 50
Trap it in a 1 by 2 trap, one wall high. It's legs or butt will stick out somewhere, go to it and get the angle where you can feed it the horns! No Ghille required
HELPFUL TIP! Make sure you have more horns than needed as Dododex was wrong on the amount, ruined my 150 tame
the time is between
1.20min and 1.45min withe rino horns
Instead of feeding it when you have the bug repellent, Gilly suit and cactus soup all in your bloodstream… why not take a couple of billboards and trap the mantis..
I was able to do it using just two billboards.. the mantis body is very long.. so I use one billboard to block it from moving forward and the other one was put down right on top of its middle section…. It was trapped….
I left the area and it glitched out of the trap…
I was able to do it again though. So billboards are really convenient for the mantis provided that you have the Gilly suit and the bug repellent and the cactus soup in play.