Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I once went after one as a noob and got swarmed tip 1 get slingshot
2find rocks probably 30
3 mass slaughter
Try not to hit them, because if provoked they suck your blood
If you attack one, they ALL come after you. They’re pretty easy to kill on their own, but when 20 or more are attacking you at once, it probably won’t end well.
I always kill these fish when they grow huge. Idk why, it just makes me feel like defeating an alpha (Which I never have), and also for the prime fish meat. Not much to say here but... They have a bleed effect, and they all swarm you like megapirahnas when one is attacked. If no other sabertooth salmons are there, it will flee (According to dossier I think).
Their best utility is fishing them use leach blood or amber if you are on mobile take your best pech cane and a chair go to a river find these guys and fish them they give very good loot (engrame/prime meat/silica,black pearl/the thing that you need to get gas mask(idk what its name is)...ect) it is very op even if you have ascendant pesh cane
Even if you only see one, keep an eye out for others after you've killed it.
These may look harmless and shy but NEVER EVER attack one if more are in the vicinity they will swarm you and suck your blood! But if you can kill them lovely tasty meat that works as veggiecake for Gary's
One time I saw a giant one of these it was as big as a trike conveniently there was a trike for comparison.
There are 3 different types of salmon in the game regs,ab version and the x version on gen1 they all have the same taming mechanic by putting a fish basket down and waiting for the prompt to catch it appears
You can tame these by placing an abberation fish trap next to them, and if they stay within a small area for long enough, they will be tamed and transportable with the fish trap by picking it up.
Snipe them from the beach with arrows, or slingshot, they die when they leave the water instantly, so if u get swarmed, it doesn't matter! Like so others see!
-spiritbird8960
Fish Basket only on Aberration.
Everyone's afraid of them but come with a pike or spear and they be running like baby's. Pikes also kill them faster. 🤟
I'm fairly positive, whether by accident or design, aberrant salmon can not be fished. I built an enclosed fishing boat so I could safely fish for blueprints (hopefully saddles for abblerrant creatures) in the caves (the only place salmon it exist on the map) and after letting the game sit idle fishing for hours I have not gotten one bite.
Use a hatchet or a sword they hunt in packs
On Rag there’s a cool river where they jump out of the water going upstream, just like real salmon. In irl they get to the top, breed and hatch their eggs. They had to put thatch over a bridge to stop the leaping salmon from giving themselves concussion as they clobbered into it. Personally I love little things like that, wish there were more in ark
This is the first time I got the bleed effect.
It was interesting.
Kill them with arrows on the beach,do it quick or they’ll swim away