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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a raptor? raptor encountering and battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
They will get you even on a boat
They will get you even if you are on a boom
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If you see a raptor try keep your distance if you don’t have a bola. Try carry one at all times because it is almost impossible to kill higher level raptors without a bola. If they do start running bola them and it shouldn’t take over 5 tranq arrows to the head to kill them.
I encountered a lvl 100 and only used about four tranq arrows out of a crossbow before he went unconscious
If you don’t have a bola try either running to deep water and swimming away until they turn back to shore or run to a large creature like a stego or trike and hope they bother it instead of you while you make your escape.
Raptors are a good and easy to tame mount for starter players just have bolas and you will be fine in taming. If your playing Ragnarok and looking for one try up near the alpha plateau or in jungle.
As if Raptors weren't annoying enough for low level players, they got a tlc that allows them to seal your fate with a leap and pin. If they aggro on to you before you can get bolas, you're just dead. There is no running, just acceptance.
The TLC update has made these things even more of a pain in the butt, they pin you now. If you have low health, raptors will literally eat your face off. My advice is to hope you have enough stamina and movement speed to outrun them, otherwise you can't do much else.
With the new pounce ability added in the Tlc patch you'll have to punch them to get them off or they will kill you. If not then just make sure you are faster than them, or bola your mate.
WATCH OUT! With the new update they have a pack bonus like allos and wolves the leader has a orange/red glow to them. They can even jump on top of you hand eat you alive they can even knock you off your bird so watch out these guys got a whole lot tougher.
Fun fact: alpha creatures can't harvest corpses to heal themselves or be damaged by wild animals, so only tames can kill alphas.
You would think that you could hide near a brontos legs when you are being chased by an alpha raptor or carno, but this is a bad idea since you will automatically take stomping damage once the bronto gets mad at the alpha raptor or carno, and the alpha raptor or carno will continue to chase you since it has no reason to go after the bronto since wild brontos cant damage alphas.
People really are writing tips about running from alpha raptors when you can get killed in 3 bites or less if youre not riding a mount and they can outrun any land creature. That's funny cause any mount thats not smaller than a carno can kill an alpha raptor, including trikes.
Watch out for aberrant raptors! I ran into them multiple times... They jump onto you and trap you. They killed me so much times 😭
Easily the best way to kill them is to just get a pike and hit their sides. (Unless, of course, you have a gun…)
Get a high level herb then attack
5he first time I found this guy, I ran into a therizino and the raptor hit 85 and they fought to the death, the raptor fell asleep and I timed it.
Whenever you're exploring a forest with a lot of trees, have some bolas ready. They will come and get you
So, a thing about Mobile Raptors is they are insanely overpowered anti-survivor creatures on the beaches, the BEACHES. But anyway, I've learned from being jumped dozens of times as a noob and now is that after 3 primary attacks, they jump/pounce on you for 10-15 seconds dealing a lot of damage and you cannot do ANYTHING about it, sadly. There is a way though to avoid this issue by:
1. Kill it before the third attack
2.whistle neutral/attack target on raptor when there is a tame nearby
Here are some creatures a raptor can kindly kidnap you from:
Argentavis
Carnotaurus
Raptor
Phiomia
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And some more, I didn't test you everything
I hope this helps for some mobile guys (if any of you are there) so....
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What are you waiting for? Move on to the next tip or some [__] like that? Are you?
Oh right, CPG I am
Can knock you out of a trike and some taller mounts with their 1 meter jump
Stay invisible
If you see a raptor, just tame 5 dodos and then run as fast as you can while the raptor is chasing you.
They may be the weakest alpha but they still kill (ok nvm get a trike to atleast lev 200 then spam it's attack don't move then you have a dead prime meat explosion)
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