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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a megalodon? megalodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
See one of these and either make sure your movement speed is super high and swim or swim to the surface and gain oxygen and be prepared to fight. I learned THAT the HARD way.
If it says the water is very dangerous get the hell out of there the mfs lvl 2 and lvl 5 killed my level 19 Carbo plus they are hella Tanky hope this helped up of yes.
These things are VICIOUS! They attack Wild Gigas at bay.
Tamed one, tried to get it to base, but was killed by other megalodons and that to everytime I have tamed it
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)
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
When I went to the red obelisk it was by mistake and I didn’t even realise the Megalodon army I just went through the water on my raft and went to see what it was. While I was doing that I had a mission to go the whole way around the island and I left the raft which reset it and I was 4/5 of the way there.
I killed one of these guys with a level 6 itchy. The hit box is just sad.
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.
This guys are a bit of a pest, all the more while taming in the open waters. Use a strong melee weapon to slay it fast. A good enough sword can be obtained after completing the Hunt: Terror Birds pursuit.
It has trouble hitting fast moving things like boats or a pelingoris, make sure it can’t hit you