Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a megalodon? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a megalodon.
to those who have thalassophobia and wants to go in ocean on ark, try to practice yourself diving with an itchy below surface and roam so your anxiety will lessen until its gone completly.
after that try to tame megalodon using itchy or bary (use bary if you're not still fine with your phobia) because bigger aquatic mount empowers your mind for you to be not scared.
if you're done taming your first megalodon, congratulations cuz you just wasted your time and scared yourself in ocean hehehe
Be cautious while taming. Your megalodon WILL attract other megalodons once tamed, just like ichys. Make a saddle while taming so you can head to base ASAP, or exterminate any nearby wild megalodons. If you kill other nearby sharks, you'll get some prime fish meat to help speed the taming process!
make them aggravated and have them follow you in the shallow end. Use a bow and tranq arrows to knock it out.Meat and Fish meat work but take longer. If they are further down and you want one, ride a sarco and get it to follow you before knocking it out
Easiest is to be on a raft and shoot it with tranq darts or arrows, makes a great water mount, used a level 18 and a 21 to kill a level 10 alpha raptor when we lured it into water
They seem intimidating, but they're surprisingly an easy tame. Personally what always worked best for me was attracting them to shore, placing a bunch of dead dodos on the shoreline. The shark would get stuck in the ground, then I would use a long rifle with tranq darts and shoot it in the head.
These are quite hard tames until you realise their turn speed is horrible, then it’s so easy. Keep straining side ways and they can’t bite you. Tamed 2 at the same time solo
First off, get a whole bunch of these. You get your mantas or itchy(if you're on mobile), swim into an army of beasts, attract all of them into shallow water, and use your spyglass to see which ones you want. Then kill the ones you don't want with a good Dino or weapon(I used dire bear). After that block them off from the sea so that they can't run away and yeet them with tranques. They are unconscious for a super long time so don't worry about constantly hovering over the,.you don't need a pen or anything just make sure nothing interferes. Then you got yourself like 10 Megalodons.
It is easy to kill if you have sword and hit it a couple times.
Use 50 shocking darts to tame theses megalodons!!
They are annoying and a mid tame. There are better options. None the less it isn't the worst option. They best in groups. I do suggest taming at least one and determine if you personally like it. Use a harpoon tranq, with something that can destract and tank the Meg.
1:make crossbow
2:make tranq arrows
3:find meg
4:shoot meg
5:feed meg fish meet
And now you got your meg
Don’t use fish meat use normal meat
More efficiency
How to step by step
- Get a lot. LOT. of tranq arrows.
- After getting around 200-150 arrows get a crossbow
- You can use tranq spears in harpoons too!
- Get on a icthy (throwaway icthy)
- Find a lone shark with no mantas, other sharks, etc
- Get as far away as possible while being Able to hit
- Watchyour distance from shark and wait 5 seconds between shots.
-Tranq it
- Put around 100-150 fish meat in it
- Tame
And boom! That’s how I did it! Ofc please don’t forget to breathe when you need to. And these fellows need behemoth doors if your going to put it in a pen!
First, go find one or two (or four). Take a crossbow and and shoot with tranq arrows (make sure they’re in shallow water). I used 40 tranq arrows, but I had a lot left over. Once knocked out, feed it raw fish meat, or raw prime fish meat. The higher the level, the slower the taming goes up. In the meantime, hunt some of those neon blue jelly fish. How to kill: find a group near the shore. Swim out, and get them to see you and chase you. Go back onto shore, and get them into deeply shallow water (not enough to swim in). Stab them with a pike. Collect their bio toxin. Warning: they can electrocute you, which freezes you in place. Go back to megalodon and check it’s torpidity (unconsciousness). Feed fish meat and bio toxin when torpidity is low, and you’ll get yourself a meg. Hope this helped, and up for noobs to see!
Just tame it just shoot it with tranqs
When your finished taming it on ark mobile and you Meg gets 30 level ups 3 level ups for heath and then ready is for stamina because they have TRASH stamina I mean TRASH
Harpoon gun and tranq spear bolts knocks it out good 👌
One way is get a baryoniks and stun the megolon wich you want and if there are other megodon stun them two rhen kill all the meglodon that you don’t want so thy don’t interfere when you are taming then stun the meglodon again and shoot trans darts not normal darts or you may end up for sure killing the meglodon enjoy your tame
Stay on your raft and tranq them
You can fit these in a underwater taming raft if you use a large hatch frame