They spawn in rivers, lakes, the swamp biome (the cancerous place with the doberman-crocodiles and titanoboas), and sometimes beaches. They are most common in aberration and do not spawn in scorched earth.

I use my sarco to take down alpha raptors and even carnos but lately theirs been a glitch that my sarco randomly died when fight a alpha carno 10k hp left and just died

With the new addition (death roll) keep an eye on the Torpidity level. To much spinning will knock your sarco out like it did mine. It will take forever to wake back up so make sure you also have good weaponry/armor in case you end up playing body guard for your sarco.

I have three sarcos Fangtooth,Crockey and Swamp. I seen them kill a few mantas and a meg.

Battling, use some high level games if possible and they should kill it if you want the skin, hide, or meat. Escaping, if you are new to ark pump movement speed to run away from predators, if not get on your tame and skedaddle.

Extremely fast, faster than Megalodons.

Pressing C on PC makes it swim down really fast; be careful bc it takes forever to swim to the surface again

I use them for DESTROYING megaladons.

Sacro is useful for navigating rivers and the ocean. Piranhas no more. They are scared of the Sarco

Use a bow/crossbow with tranks and stay on land if you go in water say goodbye to your stuff 4 ever

Shoot from far away then back onto dry land where u can then shoot with tranqs. I needed about fifteen tranqs but it was only lvl. 2

These puppies are a semi-noob's best friend. Find them in swamps and near water holes. They really open up the map to you when you're a noob as they allow you to traverse waterways quite easily and quickly. All you need are some tranquil arrows and a decent distance and some raw meat. I've personally tamed 3 of them. They are also very useful for traveling up coasts and collecting lots of meat from dodos and scouting out those rounded rocks that give good metal. 10/10 my favorite dino.

Go to a tall rock climb into it and shoot the sarco if you want to make it easier use tranq or slingshot for the slingshot it takes 40 rocks and the tranq 25 if the sarco is level 2 or 9

A tip, use Fish meat over regular meat, from my personal experience, fish meat works way better if you don’t have any prime fish meat

Just stay in the middle of it and club it, it was my first tame on ark use raw fish meat it likes it better then raw meat

In the water, it's fast. Like absurdly fast. Like so fast it's hard to attack stuff because you can't stop in time.

Tame one of these overgrown alligators and Mega Phiranas will treat you like a king and leave you alone whenever you go in the water while sarcos are next to you

If you have no choice but to kill this thing, go on land and attack from there. Make sure to stay behind the sarco, where its head will not be able to attack you. They are very bad at turning and will have a hard time fighting.

- Sands

When taming these big bois use fish meat instead of normal because it shortens the time it takes to tame it. Up if this helped!

Need jerky early game but have no reliable oil source? Best mount for early underwater oil collecting. Put it on follow, find some underwater oil nodes, dive, dismount, collect 1 node with your pick, mount and surface before you drown. Rinse and repeat. Keep it on neutral to take care of the mantas and sharks that’ll sneak up on you. If it dies, you die and getting your stuff back will be difficult if not impossible without another water mount so don’t take anything you’d lament losing.

Guys….if ur on mobile u don’t need a slingshot…or tranqs….I tamed uncountable sarcos with a wood bat hitting its hind leg. The first thing u have to do is get it to see u. Once it is close jump over it. It might bite u but that’s ok. Then hit its hind leg until flee then run up the the snout and nock it more. It’s so easy and, ya doing it with ranges weapons are a little easier but either way works fine. I tried on ps4 and it was a little harder but I am a mobile player so don’t take my word for that

-sarco master