Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a plesiosaur? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a plesiosaur.
Always, always, make sure you bring at least a couple of oxygen tanks when taming one. If you unfortunately knock one out near the bottom of the ocean, it is a pain to tame when your tank breaks....
There’s one underwater cave that higher then normal animals. The devs made it so you
Can’t tame any on the animals in this cave so no one would farm it like crazy. Also if a animal is over level 150 it is untamable.
If you're looking to tame one of these, it'll be interesting. Have a fast and strong megalodon to ride on so you can get around fast (or a manta/itchy). They can't go up much because of a sea barrier keep that in mind. Use that to your advantage! Tranq arrow it (bring a spare bow if using normal gear) and make sure you watch your oxygen levels.
How to tame on mobile
Optional: Get soothing balm. It’ll make taming go a lot quicker, but it’s not necessary.
Step 1: Get crossbow, tranq/toxicant arrows and narcotics/biotoxin.
Step 2: Ride a basilo and find a plesiosaur.
Step 3: Get plesiosaur to chase you until it reaches depth limit and stops. Continue to surface and kill any eels/megs that may’ve followed you.
Step 4: Dismount basilo and shoot plesiosaur until unconscious. You should be able to shoot it without going too deep.
Step 5: Feed that sucker meat and narcotics until it loves you
Congrats, you have a plesiosaur. Enjoy
Just piss em off and make them follow you by the time it rains away just rapid fire really effective
These soak tranqs that’s all I’m going to say
There is a glitch where if you aggro a group of Ples, they will spawn new Ples as well. I went farming for a high level one, ended up having 30 in 1 area that I just had cleared out.
Plesis are outsped by Sarcos, which when leveled in health can also tank a few stray hits coming from the death noodle.
The real challenge lies in just how many arrows/bolts it takes to knock them out, furthermore they tend to swim in pairs making it problematic to try landing all your shots unless you kill its buddy.
Lead them to a pearl cave on the island and ko from the safety of the cave
If trying to tame one make like a wyvern trap on the bottom on the ocean and hive someone else shut it. I use a sarco to lead it in the trap. On the center you can make the trap right next to the air bubble to escaped in the Airr away from any attack range and have a keypad to shut it.
Last comment on this beast! The aquatic dinosaur that has the letter p
Don’t use sarco. Use kapro. *chad music intensifies.*
Found one right at height limit so taming was sooo easy I just shot from the back of my itchy
They look like backwards mosas.
If you don't have SCUBA gear yet, use lazarus chowder! It helped me so much when I tamed mine. I could stay underwater and not worry about dying! Highly reccomend lazarus chowder, it doesn't take much to make, too.
I just swim above them.Then i shoot down with a tamed megalodon near by.you can out maneuver them as long as you're above them.
It’s easy to tame one with a tuso. Grab it and carry it to the surface, with your character above the water, and the plesiosaur below. It will not attack you because it’s not in the deep sea. Wait a bit in till it’s knocked out. Have fun with you super fast tame.🦖
I was traveling on willie, my basilo, to get some more oil. Whilst avoiding those stupid eels, one of these bad boys rose from the depths and chased me. I checked the app, and apparently they eat Rex kibble. I had two of those and a soothing balm from the Artifact of the Hunter, so I went. I used the scuba tank that I got from my outpost, grabbed my bow (323% confound bow from a free shop gift) and 28 toxicant arrows. I missed a few, but it only took 4 arrows to take out. Popped in the kibble and balm, and she was mine. A level 11 only took 1 piece (its reaaal). I named her Nessy, and now I have my first good deep-sea tame!
The method i used was to aggro him and use a Basilosaurus(big whale) and go to the surface where he will just keep reggening and while the plesiosaur is focused on my Basilosaurus i just get out my crossbow and pelt him with arrows
If you're on the Center there's multiple spots where plesiosaurs are glitched and can't move. One is at the redwood forest shoreline near a rock and the other is somewhat in the center islands underwater. The second one has one on top of the other so kill one or tame both.