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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a megalodon used for? megalodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Strangely enough, megalodons aren’t that bad when you think about it. They can solo some aquatic dinos, you don’t dismount off of them if shocked(Your hit box needs to be in the shock zone, if I’m not mistaken) on mobile, they can quickly shred through the hp of a balisosaurus if you pump the points in to the dps trait, and they can pretty easily hunt anglers for gel.
They are a good fighting early/mid-game mount
They have a decent amount of health and have a small turning circle, meaning that it is quite easy to kill mosas / alpha mosas
If you let a tuso grab you and if you dismount your meg you can easily kill the tuso with a good sword
They are great for farming angler gel but I would recommend using an ichty if you are on mobile because they won’t defend themselves
For anything that is not fighting, I think the ichty is still better: it can outrun any predators if you accidentally attack them. But if you live on herb island for example you might have noticed that there are some quite big fishy bois down there so you might want to use a meg to clear the area out
Hope this was useful ^^
~ Some bored Ark mobile player
These suck.
Basically every marine creature has more health than them.
Most marine creatures have more DPS and AoE than them
Anglers have 100 more carry weight at level one and megs only have 1.06 times the dps as an angler.
They are susceptible to all the movement impairing affects in the ocean (ie. squid grab, bary stun, torpor etc.)
They are rather fast when tamed but still outswam by other swift fighting creatures like mantas and plesios.
They have no special utility like producing oil, weight or damage reductions, rider fortitude, etc.
They they can only harvest corpses and can’t damage stone structures.
They have the same stamina depletion as a basi but slower stamina regen.
They can have a TEK saddle by by the time you can get TEK you can take a mosa and put a TEK saddle on one of them.
In short megs aren’t worth it.
A very useful early ocean going mount. Be sure to set it to passive so it doesn't swim off to where you can never find it again. Also level up on your oxygen so you won't have to make it surface so you can breathe all the time. Quite possibly a good ocean beasty tamer. Mine swam off killing things and I never saw it again. Emphasis on setting it to passive.
To people who think meg should be bigger and stronger
First of all megalodon is actually early game Dino you get the saddle at lv40 between lv50 I think anyways second of all megalodon is not 5x bigger because it would crash servers (delete progress) and mega lag plus they would spawn and instakill you/raft thanks for reading!
These guys suck when they're alone, but as soon as you got a pack of 4 or more they can shred almost anything. When I explore the ocean, I ride my tuso, but since the hitbox is a bit wonky I always bring along my pack of trusty sharks. Together we easily demolished an alpha megalodon and a swarm of plesiosaurs.
If you follow the taming quest and build a saddle for a metal Odín, pump it’s points(worth 8k exp) into dps, energy, and hp. I nicknamed mine submarine, and he absolutely shreds through hp(about 130 a hit), which is devastating for main ocean threats and those who stray too close to the hunting ground.