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.

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

They look like backwards mosas.

Found one right at height limit so taming was sooo easy I just shot from the back of my itchy

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.

Use something fast that you can use weapons on like a icthy or a sarco than make kill off the ones you don’t want to tame than make one chase you up to where they will start running because you’re too high than it might glitch and go to the surface and pelt it with tranqs.(ur welcome)

These soak tranqs that’s all I’m going to say

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.

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!

He us relativly easy to tame, first one i got was level 15, i used accendant compound bow, with tranq arrows, 10 arrows and it was down, simple, but for a higher level one, place a revival platform in deep ocean, sartound it with walls, stone, metal ect, and revive it, it will take more arrows, lets say 40 if you have a bow as good as mine

Just taned a 150 with 410 melee on valguero

Mutton consumption is WAY off, BRING MORE MUTTON THAN RECOMMENDED

Give yourself 160% movement speed and some flippers and it’s an easy tame just chase it around till it goes to sleep.

Use a fast mount to lure it to a trap as to avoid it from running to the depths again. Oh and use scuba gear

These beasts are one of the top predators in Ark get your good old tranq gun and fish meat to have your own plesiosaurs well done :)

If you are on mobile, just get a rex kibble and a soothing balm, knock one out, feed it, then swim up and wait!

Get a megalodon and build health and damage. I usually encounter them in pairs so kill one, and uss tranq arrows while megalodon tanks damage, or try and tame both instead.

Get a baryonix with decent speed and just swim circles around it crossbow and tranq and its yours.

Lessen ive learned,a acendent saddle doesnt help against 20+ megalodons.