X-type 140 took me about 140 arrows with prim crossbow .
Megalodon
Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Megalodon in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I killed three of them while riding a sarco
A high level one will absolutely shred the alpha Mosas and tuso’s for the tributes because of bleed damage
Just aggro the megalodon and stand on the shore when you tranq it.
Don't get stuck.
You can unlock their saddle relatively early in the game.
I used 10 tranq arrows with a cross bow and 10 raw meat to tame for a level 10 not 20 raw meat
Was able to trap it in a boat very easy tame that way. Named the boat Orca did not get destroyed...doing better then Flynn...
The X type takes about 3x more arrows to knock it out from what i can tell this is the same for most x dinos.
While taming an x meg, use tranq spears instead of darts or arrows, seem to work better for me
Their new gashing/bleeding effect is deadly even to a high level imprinted basilo solo if they start to swarm you
People say to make it bigger but the size is just fine!
But make it have rip apart attack where it grabs something like the size of a itchy and shred it but it would take some stamina.
The easiest way to kill these guys is to lead them to the shore and for some reason they will glitch and get stuck, letting you get close and personal (without getting attacked) or you can shoot it down with your ranged weapon. I wish I knew that before I lost a perfectly new…
The easiest way to kill these guys is to lead them to the shore and for some reason they will glitch and get stuck, letting you get close and personal (without getting attacked) or you can shoot it down with your ranged weapon. I wish I knew that before I lost a perfectly new pteranodon! Every up= RIP for Dwayne and everyone else’s tames lost! 😞
They spawn a lot around the red obelisk and the ocean by the most western spawn area
Not going to lie, the easiest way to tame these is by using a Icthy, they are so easy to juke Megalodons with while you shoot them with tranqs using your crossbow.
Check the level before killing or taming it because a good high level shark can be very good for deep sea loot crates
Tamed one of these for fast movement in the water early game, it works well enough and allows me to collect oil from the depths. Haven’t explored more than that but it was definitely worth taming just for that.
Fairly easy tame with slingshot on mobile. I found a female stuck on herb island, grabbed meat, knocked it out and started tame ing it. Trill in the process, but ye! Just get like 300 hungered rocks and like 3 slingshots and ur good! (Mobile btw)
I personally think that meg's are great water mounts who need more love:)
Spinos or sarcos don't get prime fish meat anymore off megladons. Not sure if it's a change from one of the last updates.