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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Encountering Tips

How do I kill a tusoteuthis? tusoteuthis battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
They are easier to find while riding a raft, having a monkey on your shoulder, and having a beard. It is recommended to have a big raft that looks like a pirate ship. The ship must have cannons.
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WARNING THIS CREATURE IS AGGRESSIVE AND KILLS YOU
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When the tusoteuthis grabs you you can avoid its attacks by firing an arrow at its beak during the attack
This noodle monster destroyed my lvl 46 itchy in under 5 seconds and didn’t even let me get its stuff back. After trying to kill it in my rage it decides to run when it’s health gets low. Now I kill any tuso I find for revenge.
R.I.P Fish bait-2021
If you have spent a really long time looking for one then it could possibly be because there are to many wild dinos in your world which means you need to go on a huge killing spree to open up some spots for the Tuso or any other Dino you can’t find to be able to spawn
-cookies
When Ark says that the unicorn is the rarest creature. That’s a lie. At least the unicorn spawns. This thing is supposed to. I have spent the last week living in a pearl cave in their spawn hotspot and have not seen evidence of a single one. Reply to me @Tofuna
These Dino’s cannot grab arhelons or basilos it can grab basically everything else tho. They spawn fairly common along the bottom of the entire border of the island. They cost 50 black pearls per time you try to tame it it shouldn’t take too long.
People say he's rare and they are damn right
When you see one of these, be ready to die.
Be extra careful around them, when exploring the sea caves, as they can grapple your dino (even your mosasaurus).
Tuso on mobile are very rare. The only way to find them consistently is by playing brutal as difficulty and level contribute to spawns. If playing anything other than brutal, you should use tidy saves in single player. Tidy saves kill all Dinos outside of your tamed ones and those in your general area.
Because the Mosa cannot be grabbed on mobile, I recommend to just tame them instead as it is easier to get a ascendant saddle for them (Snow cave drop) and because they are much more common on medium/hard. They might take longer to tame but generally they are better.
If you cannot find a tuso, it is not because you aren’t looking hard enough, in fact, the ocean giants load in far before anything else. It is because the tuso refuses to spawn due to it being low on the spawn priority list.
P.S When you make a single player world for the first time, there is a set amount of tusos on the initial world gen.
Easy: Chance of 1 tuso spawning, guaranteed after surpassing level 80.
Medium: 2 spawn initially and a increased chance after surpassing level 85
Hard: 3 spawn initially and a chance of up to 2 more after surpassing 85
Brutal: 4 spawn initially and level doesn’t matter.
When attacking, use Basilosaurus whales, they cannot be grabbed, be aware that once low health, the squid will flee and emit ink, and debuff you by making all nearby creatures aggro you. I almost lost a 265 basilosaurus to 4 dunkleos and 10 megalos that boxes me into a star formation.
You will know you have found one when the halo flood theme starts playing
How to fight an alpha one
You don’t cuz it’s the actual freaking kraken
Please do not go into the new water cave before they fix this invisible squid lost two high lvl Spinos
KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Everyone says this thing is rare, but I ran into two of them with in 10 mins apart off the coast of herb island around 85ish,90ish. Recommend your tames have high health because this thing ripped apart my dinos.
Get a cryopoded turtle, when your mosa gets into a battle with the hentai master, uncryopod your turtle. The tuso will grab your turtle. Then you can attack it
To whoever is questioning the non-violent thing: That means taming is passive, and not a knock-out tame
If you don’t have cheats hide and pray it won’t find you