For beginners wanting to tame this thing (before tranq arrows): I have found 4-6 slingshots and a ridiculous amount of stone is suitable enough to knock one of these guys out. Make sure to bait it out of the water long & far enough so once they start running they will be to far away. Making a small thatch trap is also useful as it will help you secure some more hits even though it will eventually break it. I have found this method to only be viable though with Level 50 and lower Sarcos but as a beginner tame they are ridiculously good.

Keep your distance when you see him and don’t go anywhere in the water remotely near to him! They are quick

Note that if you plan on using this guy for a cave, dont if the cave has bats cause they have horrible vertical

You should be very carful one time a sarco attacked on my raft i wanted to tame him but I didn’t had much trank arrow so always cary trank arrows and a crossbow

I knocked a level 25 sarco when I was level 3 because I was spinning around him/her hitting him/her with a bat and they eventually got knocked and I tamed it then it died :c

This is the only reason that im bad at ark. It just keeps on camping one area. Behind that area there’s a whole lotta Silca pearls. The only other way to get to the other side would be swimming in water infested with megladons. R.I.P me.

Best thing to do about these guys if you haven’t learned tranq arrows is stay very far away. However taming is a good idea after you have tranq, they are really not that hard to tame. Best chances are to find one and shoot it and lure it on a fast-semi fast Dino (ON LAND) to a safe place and then just load it’s AssS with tranq. Then gibe some meat and you good.

A sarco is a very nice replacement for a raft and are faster than most aquatic animals. DO NOT DO THE RUN BACKWARDS METHOOD THEY JUMP. Standing on a rock is the best way and there easy to tame. DON'T FIGHT A TRIKES. They tear sarcos up

If u are weak follow it and wait for it to attack a normal dino like para or any other high hp dino that can’t attack back and u come from behind and start killing/taming

Bruh I JUST realized that fish literally tamed 10 faster lol. USE THE FISH

In the island, sarcos spawn pretty much everywhere in the swamps but it is not uncommon to see them in riverways and sometimes even near the beaches

My dodo bird killed one of these because he could not reach him. That is the power of the dodo.

I got to the redwoods on the island on default difficulty with nothing but a level 15 Sarco, at level 8. These guys are AWESOME.

Beware of em near the grassland lakes on lost island, got scared once or twice by em 😬

Otherwise they’re great for caving on underwater caves and are super easy to tame, personally I just use a taller/heftier tanky mount like my baboon Ted to just ride on the back of to tranq, btw the grassland lakes on LI are by far the best area to tame them since there’s no threats besides hyenas

This thing is probably the best possible animal you can have for water. The stamina regenerates instantly in the water and are super fast. They are lean mean fighting machines. It is actually really easy to tame as long as you are in a high spot and have tranq arrows and a crap ton of meat. I think that the only down side is that for some reason the food always goes down really fast, so always have a lot of meat in your sarco. I named mine Stanley.

There hit box is weird. Basically if you keep your enemy at bay, you will win fights!

I just tamed one of these but the thing is… I’m scared of the ocean and rivers and that’s all because mega piranhas and those jellyfish things I’m very scared I will get killed and I got a lot of progress so I don’t know what to do now.

A tip for newish-players: My Sarco is still only a level twenty-something, by even by level 7, she was killing Titanoboas and kiting megalodons with ease. I can't recommend the Sarco enough as a swamp hunting mount-- and as I said before, ESPECIALLY for Titanoboas. You'll have leather coming in by the hundreds. Just be careful that you go at them head-on, and that you don't take on more than a few beasties at a time. Be especially wary of the Kapro. They'll knock you flat and leave you vulnerable to whatever horrors are crouching in the shadows. Have a pike on hand for those pesky bugs that your Sarco can't reach. And beware, dear reader, the frumious Baryonyx, with jaws that bite and claws that catch. They have a penchant of attacking from the side, making it quite a hastle to get back at them. (At least, from my experiences.) Want to take on other Sarcos with your Sarco? Have no fear. Just get your melee damage up a little bit, and you should be fine.

But as always, tread carefully.

All you need to do is to kill a psycho is use your metal hatchet and start chopping away. It is so easy I am only a newb and I have already killed at least 20

The sarcos is probably the best early to mid game mount it’s high health and stamina make it a pretty fast mount and it levels up pretty fast also not to mention its stamina and health stats level up pretty quick if you were to upgrade them Sarcosuchus are semi aquatic animals meaning the are both land and sea creatures hope this helped