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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for velonasaur? Tips and strategies for velonasaur in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
A really good method I used to tame a lvl 130 was to get my snow owl (anything will work as long as it has 3K health minimum), land it right next to the velonasaur, wait till it aggroed and jumped off, from there what happened was it was too close to my snow owl to use turret mode so it used the swipe which does pretty much no damage. When I started tranqing it it was focused on my snow owl and kept attack it until it started torpor running even though I was right next to it. Up if you find that this works because I’m not certain how reliable this is
They have a very bad melee attack if you have good enough armor or enough health you can beat them with clubs
What you want to do is tame a male and a female (high levels of course) then have them mass produce. When you have about 10-15 set pump them all into melee and stam and have them wander around the base. And have then on nuetral. So that way the next person to raid you will crash once all of the velonsaurs start shooting
If you play by yourself you can tame a velonasaur by using a tranq creature and tranqing it while constantly moving in circles to dodge its needles or by being on a rock/small cliff then tranqing it In my first time taming one I was on a cliff and the velonasour couldn't attack me I was using a slingshot so it was hard.one last way to tame it is to use a tanky creature and tranq it while your dino is risking his life
Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore to just run up to it and walk circles around it (it will stay in turret and shoot you till you're dead). Instead find a cliff and try shooting it from above so that it will shoot against the cliff instead of you.
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Try a decently high level snow owl with stats invested in health and stam set to passive stay no wander, land right in front of the vela you wish to tame getting aggro on the owl then tranq, tame, and cryo the vela keeping an eye on your owl the entire time, if they get too bloodyvyou can always hop onto the owl and freeze up for a heal on both you and the wild Dino making it less likely for both creatures to die without affecting the torp too much
This is the best Dino in the whole entire game
These guys are really easy to tame now with the net gun. Just net them and box them in instead of trying to lure them into a trap. Once netted, they can't shoot.
When knocking out, engage at far range but close enough to keep it in turret mode. If its still in turret mode when it trys to flee, resulting in a snail like getaway. Allowing you to move in closer near the end.
U can make wood walls to lead it toa trap
If you have a large creature I used a reaper because reduced damage and stand on its back and shot it
upgrade a dodos hp a lot the have it shoot the dodo instead of you
Use a quetzal and pick it up and it won’t attack the quetzal but be careful when around other velanasours
These Dino's are really easy to tame.if your solo you can shoot it with tranqs,then run away,then rinse and repeat!if you have a Dino,use it to tank the hits from the Dino!if you have tribe mates,you can do the solo method or give a shield to your tribe mate to tank
Can’t be picked up be pteradons! Good way to tame is getting a trap 4 stone foundations 4 ramps 8 stone door frames and lure it in. They eat super fast and take little prime.
These things have a 1 meter Agro range but take a while to give up on attacking you. Usually spawns alone or in a pack of 2 or 3.
Their ranged attack is only effected by melee damage when ridden. If used as a turret (which is what these things are best at) then only do health and stamina. Even a freshly tamed 224 can handle blue and yellow drops alone.
Upgrade melee on your mount, the rest just do health and stamina. A ridden imprinted velo can do literal thousands of damage per second, and a decent turret can do it’s dps (shoots about five times a second I think, so 100?) for about thirty seconds.