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Encountering Tips

How do I kill a megapithecus? megapithecus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Heres a tip- if u go into the bosses arena and forcetame it.... you'll be stuck there forever bc the boss gotta die in order for u to leave. :) hit de good button so more peeps can see
Hardest part about this boss on The Island is getting the Spino sails for the alpha summoning. Spinos don't like to spawn on this map (FYI they are water spawns so kill fish to try to get them to spawn in) and I had to go to Crystal isles and transfer a few stacks over. He's a pushover and a glass cannon. Just avoid the pit falls in the arena and bring him to your tames in the trees and swarm him with theris or rexes while you ride a screaming yuti and he goes down really fast.
Make sure that you move your Rexs or creatures into the trees when you get teleported into the arena. This is to prevent your tames from falling into the hole in the arena, because if they fall they just die, and you lose the saddles and everything. Then you can go up on your yuty or whatever you are riding and you lead the Megapithicus to your tames, then let them go ham on the monkey. The Megapithicus is a glass cannon and anything g with a good saddle and a high health stat can easily destroy it. Just make sure that nothing falls into the death hole and you’ll be fine to actually fight the boss.
For gamma:
12 rex 20k hp 300 melee
Beta :
14 rex 25hp 500 melee 1 yuty
Alpha :
18 rex 25 hp 500 melee 1 yuty 1 health pig
U dont need good saddles trust me the different between primitive and ascendant saddles only 10% damage resistance
The megapithecus has two attacks a direct hit attack and a ranged Boulder attack. The boulder attack can and will kill you off your tame and I figured this out the hard way.so safest thing is to wistle attack Target hope off and have someone roar the Yuri good luck survivors.
To battle the megapithecus, I would suggest using a pack of allos,a yutyrannus, and a daeodon. The reason I pick these creatures are because that first of all, allos in a pack are dangerous, and one of them will be boosted as the alpha, and the other allos will also be stronger. Second, yutyrannus’s can scare away the minions the boss summons, and can make the creatures deal more damage. I also HIGHLY request a daeodon because they can heal your Dino’s, and itself durning battle, just make sure it has enough meat to last the battle. This method will work with any boss on the island DLC, not the overseer, but I used this method on the broodmother,megapithecus, and dragon, and it worked perfectly.
Been said to be one of the easiest but yuti and rexs is all you will need. This boss on hard takes us about 4 mins. Surround and start chomping. Debuff with yuti plus buff your rexs.
This thing spawned on my map for literally no reason and now I have to run away from a giant death monkey, and no I did not summon it. I have no idea what to do
This boss really isn’t that hard. All you need for yourself is mastercraft or ascendant assault rifle (journeyman will do, but Isn’t as good). Then, to deal with his minions,get 4-5 high level troodons, because they will absolutely WRECK the minions. As tanks, Rexes are, of course, nessecary. And to keep yourself out of trouble, get a fast but durable mount, like an allo or a really high level raptor. Hope this helps!
I wanna be like you.
Now I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle VIP.
He's reached the top but had to stop.
And that's what's botherin' me.
I wanna be a man, man-cub and stroll right into town.
And be just like the other men, I'm tired of monkeyin' around.
Oh Ooh ohh ooh.
I wanna be like you ooh ooh.
I wanna walk like you, talk like you.
Ooh ooh ooh.
You see it's true ooh ooh.
An ape like me hee hee.
Can learn to be hu hoo hoo man too hoo hoo.
Now listen closely man-cub.
We've got some plans for you.
The choice is clear.
We need you here.
To make our dreams come true.
Oh Ooh ooh ooh.
I wanna be like you ooh ooh
I wanna talk like you.
Walk like you.
Ooh ooh ooh.
You see it's true ooh ooh.
An ape like me hee hee.
Can learn to be hu ooh ooh man too hoo hoo.
I like the jungle book.
Deal with it.
I struggled to find exactly what would be needed to fight the Alpha so I decided to do an experiment run with tames I didn't really care about. I had 18 rexes, 100% imprinted and with 29k health and 1k melee without any levels. Leveled their melee to about 1.4k then got bored, I also didn't make sadles, cuz test run. I brought a yuti with 10k stam and a pig with 80k food. In the end we got the boss to about 1/5th health before being wiped out. Pig made literally no difference. And definitely do not do it without sadles. I'm gonna get 50k health and 2k melee on my rexes and try again, next time with sadles with 60 armor and no pig. Should be able to beat it with some casualties then
Take a male and female gigantopithecus mackerel them breed them do the same again mackerel the babies breed them repeat about 8 times then take the final end product put it in a good hat and go kill this boss!
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If you are dumb enough to force tame one of these, you deserve to get stuck
If you really want to go overboard bring in max dino cap (20 is Max) with at least 17 Rex's and 3 yutyranus. This will obviously increase your chances of killing it, try to level your Rex's in health way more than melee considering you have the yutyranus buff already assisting you or you can go full melee for a glass cannon run. Be aware that this may have a huge risk to it though if you don't have more than MINUMUM 10K health ON HATCH you may or may not die depending on your saddles and or melee damage. Don't forget the rock throw can kill you off of your mount so spread yourselves out if you aren't going to dismount. Otherwise whistle attack target and only mount the yutyranus for the empowerment of the Rex's. The rest of you bring compound bows, snipers, fab pistols, rocket launchers etc. You will also need some focal chilli to increase your chances of survival. Good luck :)
Megapithecus is the monkey like boss on ark the island,the center and valgureo this is second easiest boss in the island
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On mobile, they are only found in dungeons. There is no point in taming it. It is simply a large monkey. Or gorilla. Anyway, don’t tame these things, waste of time and to leave the boss arena, the boss has to die. Oh, AND, they have little monkey minions! Mesopithecuses (the little ones) and Gigantopithecuses! (The big ones that can throw you if tamed.) Hope this helped!
I was the one who wrote the tip of forcetaming in arena causes you to be stuck, I'm so happy for the likes this is the highest amount of likes I've ever gotten!
Don’t fight it on the bridge, it will knock you tamed off, lure it over to the place you spawn in.