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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Encountering Tips

How do I kill a therizinosaurus? therizinosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
If you see this thing it will kill you, your friends, your family, some guy down in Africa, and an alien on another planet.
Hug the chicken
Trust me just hug it
You do not find tickle chicken. Tickle chicken finds you.
Kill all of them. I left my Argy (Balerion) alone for one second to collect berries. When I returned Balerion was killed by one of these shit.
One kill= one pray for Balerion. He was the best
A level 10 did 4000 damage to our level 137 Giga, and almost killed a level 200+ Argie. Be very very careful with these guys.
Anyone who is saying to run from these clearly doesn’t understand how fast they are.
Do not come close, because we're not passive.
When you get too close, we become aggressive.
We can kill hundreds of things that's in our way, all just in one day.
Do not come close, because we're not passive.
When you get too close, we become aggressive.
3 metal billboards in a u shape with a bear trap in the middle, lure tickle monster into the trap then be quick about closing it off with the 4th billboard as the trap gives you only 10 seconds, tame as desired.
These guys appear at the wrong place at the wrong time ALWAYS and I hate it
First time I met the tickle chicken.. it was terrifying.
So, I didn’t know they were hostile, and was like “ what the hell is that??” And went up to it, it hissed and me and started using its large tickle claws and chased me. I survived.. I swam through water, and climbed a rock.
Please man, if you are new to the game, and see one of these, TURN 180 DEGREES AROUND, AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.
I know what you're thinking: I can take one of those! No problem!
Yeah, that's what I thought too. That's how I lost my lvl 28 Dilo Phospho, lvl 27 Dilo Sauro, two lvl 6 dilos (yes I am a Dilo addict- why do you ask?), AND lvl 6 Raptor Resilience- along with several dino eggs I was about to use to tame the darn thing. Those were all my first tames, by the way. (R.I.P to them- rest their souls, likely still haunting me to this day for my stupidity. I deserve it :D)
Trust me, YOU CAN NOT DEFEAT A THERIZINOSAURUS WITH ANY MELEE WEAPONS WITHOUT DECENT ARMOR!
Oh. And bolas don't work on them either. As if the LITERAL DAGGER HANDS WEREN'T ENOUGH.
If you see one of these early game, DO NOT ENGAGE. It's not worth it, and it will cause heartbreak seeing your tames die to these Edward Scissorhand spawns from the pits of Tartarus.
If you must tame one, please use a trap or load em up with tranq arrows from a VERY GENEROUS DISTANCE. They don't look it, but these things are SPEED. If it starts running at you, either pray to a god of your choice, or get on your mount and start running like your life depends on it- because it very well does.
Overall, if you don't have an Army of Trikes and Raptors to back you up or a getaway flier, I do not recommend confrontating one of these things. They are deadly- if the samurai sword fingers don't scream death and doom, I don't know what to tell you.
All those years of PTSD from the tickle monster when you were little will suddenly come back when you meet one of these
I got DESTROYED by a mate boosted level 125 while wearing Ascendant & Mastercraft Flak Armor (1500 Total Armor). Avoid these on foot at all costs. If your character doesn't have high movement speed, you probably won't survive. The Ark Freddy Krueger
When I was a noob I approached one of these to read the name and look it up. I approached very, very slowly to judge whether it was hostile or not. When I reached it, I was surprised, but glad that it wasn’t going to attack me. Just as I got close enough to read the name, I’m suddenly thrown back. I close the app and use the app preview thing to read the name, then look it up. I haven’t stopped kicking myself for walking up to one of the strongest hostiles in the game
i was chased by an angry tickle chicken and it killed my parasaur moschops and igaunadon but not me for some reason
This monster will chase you if you get too close! So be sure to have a fast way out or ranged weaponry. (It has a fairly decent aggro range, too!)
Edward scissor hands...
RUN if near your base RUN it’s time to start a new
If one of these comes near your house and you are low level, just put all your items in a chest (make sure you have a bed) and then use yourself as bait to lure it away from your tames
It's ridiculous how strong these are I hate them