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How do I kill a megalodon? megalodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
These are a joke my Barry killed an alpha in 2 mins
These things are VICIOUS! They attack Wild Gigas at bay.
Put a couple points in a sarco's health and boom these get like 3 or 4 shotted
So I was in the Ragnarok map, and I was trying to get down to the desert from near the top right corner of the island. Later I got to a point were I had to swim across a river. I was about half way across when I was attacked by a megalodon. It was a death match! All the sudden, another on shows up and its then that I stop trying to kill them and I try swimming away. I had managed to make it out alive but with extremely low health. However I am glad I survived.
PS: About five minutes later I died to a raptor.
Use a high level Basilosaurus with high health to lead it to shallow water where the basilo gains health faster. Dismount and let the megalodon bite at your basilo while you traq it. Tamed 4 150 megalodon with this method works like a charm.
Tamed one, tried to get it to base, but was killed by other megalodons and that to everytime I have tamed it
I don’t think it was meant to be the rex of the ocean more the raptor (Mosa rex, touso giga,) but yes they should be much more dangerous but it would be harder for beginners to try to get a stronger ocean tame.
If you need to do work underwater (I used this when building bridges between all of the islands) then, at least on mobile, you can go into camera mode by swiping from the left side of the screen. THIS PAUSES THE GAME!!! You can use this to check for megs before diving in the water.
What you wanna do when seeing Meg(ark mobile) is get to shallow place and shoot a bunch of free hits because for some reason if you shoot it from shallow place it doesn't aggro
Be careful when under water if you are still new because they real dangerous.
Stay on your raft! As long as you don’t put even a single toe in the water, they won’t even know you’re there. Learned this after having a panic attack of a Meg being right underneath my raft. Same thing with any dinos you have on your raft.
Since the latest patch made so these guys do bleed damage they can really be a pain in the ass, my Barry almost died to 3 megs yesterday, and before the patch it would murder all the megalodons
Warning: When tamed wild ones CAN and WILL target your tamed ones. BUILD A PEN!!!
There are a ton spawning up by the hidden lagoon!
Swimming up or down while making your way back to shore is the best way to avoid their attacks. They can be deadly in packs now as they have bleed and an OP pack buff, so bring your own sea mounts to fight em.
I found a level five meg when I was sarco hunting I used a club and this worked great luckily my water Dino didn’t die in the proses.
I spawned at a beach and the water was filled with a whole ton of Megalodons there was also spino nearby and killed everything I had so I let it into their territory the spino cleaned them out but then it died.
You don’t look right now they look different.
If you tame an ichtyosaurus before, you can beat a Megalodon when you’re riding the ichtyo, he will not attack you back (even if he do you can escape easily)
I killed one of these guys with a level 6 itchy. The hit box is just sad.