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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Velonasaur in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

There’s guys can only shoot for a short amount of time so just hide behind a rock or something big and wait for it to stop shooting and then knock it

Just get a fast mount that u can hold a weapon on (iguanadon) then run up to it so it starts clawing u. Easiest tame ever. Doesn't do alot of damage unless its shooting u.

A must-have for new extinction players! Makes quick work of Defense Units and Enforcers even at lower levels. Very useful in base defense and scouting missions as they run forever and are only a bit slower than raptors.

A good way to tame these guys is to pick them up with a wyvern (for level selection) and put them in a metal bill board cage outside of the desert.If you don't have a wyvern available, sneak into it's face so it doesn't spike you (or have a buddy do that) and use…

Got an Allosaur equipped with a saddle? Tranq it with a good crossbow or a Longneck, hop onto your Allo until it walks away, fire into it's back again, repeat until it falls over. Much easier tame than I thought it would be.

Easy solo Megapithicis Boss Fight.

Take one velonasaur, buff mainly stamina and melee, some health too and run up to let ledge and stay there in turret mode shooting him. Their too stupid to come up and get you although occasionally a monke will run up at you but he can be…

Easiest thing to do is approach it from beside or behind, get close and shoot it and immediately run under its head, it goes into turret mode and won't hit you or melee you. Additionally you can move left or right and aim towards a certain spot that it will run to just…

Easy knockout get a managarmr and the managarmr can use its searing spit wich can oy freeze dinosaurs in first person view and freeze the velonosaur before he or she agros you then simply knock it out with shocking tranqs or normal tranqs.

A set of flak, crossbow and a pair of balls you can walk right up to one of these and it'll either run away from you or try to hit you with its needles, run underneath the tail to confuse it and you'll prolly knock it out without much trouble.

It's right click shotgun attack has been nerfed severely, I'd recommend focusing on melee and stam to make sure you can gun down everything in sight, because at close range it does not have a reliable melee attack anymore, other than its very weak claw attack. Be…