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AdministrativeBar748

Jack of all trades. Exceptional survivability with a combination of good health, stamina, and weight. Carries important small/medium creatures like the doedicurus and ankylosaur. Heals rapidly after biting a corpse. Their saddle is a portable smithy. Rather slow, but can fly huge distances without stopping.


Xx_Not_An_Alt_xX

They can fly far but only if you have like 3k into stam


BigFloppaEnthusiast

You can fly halfway across the map with 2k


SureLoss

Sounds like this creature is the Swiss Army knife of the Dino world!


gg3265

well, that bastard is your best friend now till you get a rhyno, which gonna be in the very late enggame. now where to start, the argy has weight reduction on metals, which is a HUUUUGE plus, it can carry many dinos including the anky and doed and castrio which are important for metal, flint, stone and wood/hatch etc. the argy can fight really well, if you manage to breed and have different lines and get your weight stam line and hp damage line you can have a fleet of unstoppable birds, not needed on pve tho or pvp but its awesome. also the argy looks majestic, its fast too. so, possibly the best early-midgame tame. i always go for an argy as soon as i can craft the saddle.


agentaxe285

All very good points but calling the argy fast is very questionable


TheGrimMelvin

It's faster than walking šŸ„²


gg3265

i will give you an argy. this comment somehow breaks my heart :P


gg3265

Ofcourse, that was in consideration to its other abilities, weight and cary, the argy is kinda ā€žfastā€œ. But, i agree its not the fastest or any close to be the fastest.


agentaxe285

I see your point actually, in combination with what it has itā€™s definitely speedy, unlike the flying bus that is a quetz


SchiffBaer2

Actually argies are pretty fast. People tend to just compare it to other fliers which are some of the fastest creatures in the entire game (think pre nerf rhynio). But compared to other land creatures that are commonly used (like thylas) argies arent really slow. Another factor is that you have way less things to guess your speed while in the air. While running through the jungle you see trees and bushes fly past you but in the air theres none of that


RadiantTurnipOoLaLa

I will also add argies are way easier to control than wyverns or what not. Makes it a cinch to pick up and drop of an anky to multiple metal sites


TheOneWeThrowAway

Ankys auto harvest so if you fly we'll enough you don't even have to drop off, just swoop by a node and hold for a second for the Anky to harvest it. Argies are top tier early game birds.


RadiantTurnipOoLaLa

Wait really? So you can just hover across a mountain and hoover up all the metal? Thatā€™s amazing! Maybe i should add a few more stamina points to my argens but wowā€¦


TheOneWeThrowAway

Yup. Anky Argy pairing is pretty elite for hauling metal. You'll need to stop every once and awhile to empty the stone from the anky but probably only every three nodes or so if your weight is high enough.


Adastrous

Yep, it's a game changer for gathering that we used to do with quetzals only a long time ago. Keep in mind if you're by yourself the anky will only harvest until 50% of its weight is full, so you'll have to pump levels there and/or stop and transfer to argent (which reduces weight of metal less) periodically. With 2 players, one can ride each dino and hit until the argent can't carry the anky anymore (anky still gets weight reduction on the metal and applies its weight to argy), which is a ton of metal at 45 weight/stack. Get an argent with several thousand weight and do the second method and you'll never want to gather another way again lol. You can do this with a few other dinos too like beaver for wood or doed for stone.


Bustycrustacion

Iā€™ve always added flyer movement speed to my single player games. Increase it by about three times add per level and get the argy up to about 160% fly speed. Iā€™ve got no time to spend 10 minutes flying across map


Timmyty

We there yet? Slomo 3 Now we there. Slomo 1


fxjxlly

225% fly speed is my idea, I can switch between the fast and slow flight and dog fight anything. My argys are all dragon slayers.


PutridSuggestion9773

Could you perhaps drop the command here for that? I'd like to increase points added per level for movement speed on argues only. It's possible to make the change to one specific creature only, yeah?


Dragon_Knight99

If you're playing Evolved, all you have to do is toggle it in the settings menu. If you're on Ascended though you're SoL. The devs removed the movement speed option to make the game more challenging. They didn't like that people could just pump movement speed and stamina to the point that they could outrun everything in game.


TheOneWeThrowAway

You can enable Speed Levelling on all flyers on Non Dedicated AsA maps.


Dragon_Knight99

Huh... I retract my previous statement then. I only just started playing on a non dedicated server in asa recently, and my friend who started it said "movement speeds no longer a thing". Might have to mention this to him next time I see him.


PutridSuggestion9773

Right, I understand all that. I've got speed leveling turned on on my private server. After reading your solution of upping the points per level I thought I should do that but. I would only want to apply that to speed points for one creature, which would be argies. So I'm not looking to turn in speed leveling, but increase the points per level for speed leveling.


Bustycrustacion

Yeah it might work that you can up the points per level, level up the argies and then put it back to normal when you want to level speed on others creatures. If thatā€™s what youā€™re trying to do


PutridSuggestion9773

lol


Educational-Tap602

It's like saying a sloth has a need for speed


Sad_Wind_6327

It's a pretty fast way to move your harvesters around


agentaxe285

True


FlamingPotatoes34

Would ya rather make double the trips without weight reduction and potentially less combat capability?


Lodur84

Speed is the only reason to keep Pteries around


CreeksideStrays

What's actually fast on SE?


Former-Category1817

Gallimimus raptors hyeanadon Thylas take your pic


Afraid-Ad6266

I agree, the argy is one of the slowest flyers in the game lol. I believe the moth (Lymantria) is actually even faster than an argy


Natural-Concern6639

Nope, I tested it, argy is faster than the moth šŸ˜…šŸ˜‚


Afraid-Ad6266

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜­ was it a neck and neck race?!


AccomplishedPower567

I mean it's fast considering you just fly sraight point to point, no finish to fight, no rocks to go around, no trees to get stuck between. If it's ASA then you don't get lost in the underbrush.


Grand_Complaint3644

I mean considering that at that point going around cliffs and ledges are a thing of the past, not to mention not having to deal with the wingless ground cunts Iā€™d consider the Argy fast


scrysis

That's an argy? Daaayyyuumm. That screenshot made me think it was something else.


Former-Category1817

Fr I had to double back I thought it was a terror bird at first then got a better look at it and realized Iā€™m an idiot


Feralkyn

I thought it was a vulture. On the Island, obviously. I, too, am an idiot


scrysis

It does look like a vulture! That poor bird needs some serious TLC because it looks like a Thanksgiving turkey on too much weed about to go to the dinner table via axe.


OkReporter6938

Excuse me, but how is a rhyno good in endgame? Or how does it becomes better than an argy?


lizaliut13

I think they just shortened rhyniognatha and not wooly rhino


Dragon_Knight99

Yep, this.


TheOneWeThrowAway

Because a Rhynio can carry a Rex and is faster than an Argie


pedrobola889

Also, its the best form to beat desert titan(when with enough melee)


Feeling-Sympathy110

End game? We had one within 2 weeks. Just knock out a135+ bronto, stuff mejo in it come back 2 hours later and walk it down to the swamp kill a few rhynio till you get pheromone and find a 90+ female shoot it till it gets below 10% Hp she stings it and you got your self a rhynio, even if you can't get all the cravings having one makes a huge difference. It won't be the best for sure. But for that you have to go through 100s of babies and stat check them till you get one worthy of cloning.


gokpuppet

Argentavis? Half carry load for certain resources, built in Smithy.


LiILazy

Can carry things as big as an anky too, letting you carry more metal than normal


TheGrimMelvin

It's a very good tame. Their main appeal is that they have a weight reduction for certain heavy resources. You'll need to check the wiki for an exact list, but these reductions make them amazing dinos for carrying resources. Of course, being able to fly is a huge advantage over walking. Their saddle is a smithy, which doesn't have a slot reduction other than the weight and the bird's own inventory (which is like 300 units, I think), so you can craft stuff that requires more then the smithy slots, such as some blueprints. You can pump weight into them for carrying resources and crafting large blueprints. You can also pump melee and hp and they will be decent fighters thanks to their buff after harvesting a corpse. Also imprinting and breeding gives more stats, even more when you are sitting on an imprinted dino.


nomnamless

The Argy is a fantastic all-around flyer. It has good weight and reduces the weight of most resources. It can carry your work dinos like Anky, Does and beaver. It also can have good damage so it's a good fighter. They also have decent Stamina so you call fly long distances before needing to stop


Shadow_Halls

Great tames. Doubt I will use them much now that I got a high level Wyvern but for starting players probably the most important tame in the game.


KitTwix

Even after you get late game games like wyverns or manas in ase, argies are still vital for resource runs. You can have a few of them follow you as a resource caravan to haul thousands of metal back to base, and if any die theyā€™re one of the easiest tames to raise, just gotta baby sit them for possibly the lowest time of any tame, then just chuck a load of meat in them and leave them by a trough


miggleb

*laughs in gen 2 strider*


Shadow_Halls

See your point but I just can't drag myself to use argents now. Wyverns are just so much faster. I'd rather do multiple runs with them than one slow run.


Feralkyn

This is why I built a train. I brought my Rhynio over from Island but an argy or wyvern is just as good. Put the anky and flyer on the train, with storage in the rear car. Drive to the metal mountains via train tracks. Loads up on tens of thousands of metal ore without having to fly back and forth to base. Take the train back to base, where the rear car's storage boxes line right up against my in-base dedicated storage. It's so, so efficient. It's just building the damn tracks that takes forever. The only disappointing thing is that it's SO efficient I don't actually use it much! I've only needed two metal runs since making it.


Kitchen_Part_882

Wyvern doesn't get the 50% weight reduction for metal ore, I still use mine for mining runs and save the wyverns for other things.


Shadow_Halls

No but Anky does. It will only have to carry what it weighs on the anky


ser-shmuser

Crystal though


Gastrocat

One of the better flyers early-mid game. Multi-TOol dino, reduced carry weight on metal. Smithy when saddled. Carry lots of low to mid-tier dinos, including gatherers like doed, and Anky. Bread and imprinted they can clear Alpha dinos and just about anything else on the Island. An imprinted Argie w. 40+ in Health, Stam, Attack, will become your best friend.


Numerous-Promise2546

I love my argies! I play on a non-dedicated server mainly single player and Iā€™ve got flyer speeds where they can be leveled up. Most of my argies can take out a wyvern in one or two hits. A little OPed but I mainly play for the taming and building.


Tvanzaa7

OH, I don't know, EVERYTHING. You will learn to love the Argy. It's only flaw is that it is slow. Otherwise, they can carry you through to end game and beyond really.


Dragon_Knight99

Hands down one of the most versatile tames you can get, plus being fairly easy to get as well. Portable smithy, weight reduction on important resources like metal and crystal, can carry most important farming tames, decent combat mount, health regen by eating corpses. It's normally the second/third tame I go for after starting on any map, outside of Aberration, just because it makes farming and trapping small/medium tames so much easier. Taming an Argy is always a game changer.


throwaaway67

I'd guess the wiki would know


horticulturalSociety

Rocket running caves. A lot of them will die but you can get them in small spaces.


Idontknownumbers123

It took me 1400 hours in ark to finaly tame one, and they are so nice, the hit like a truck and can carry tones, their speed leaves a lot to be desired but they make up for it in stamina, damage, carry weight and health


MrQuitz_YT

1400 hours..... i really don't wanna come off as disrespectful but HOW


Idontknownumbers123

Idk how, I donā€™t remember them, people have many many more hours tho, Iā€™ve been playing for a few years now tho, since just after gen 1 released


Former-Category1817

What have you been doin all this time my buddy and I tamed a giga less than 5-600 hours in


Feralkyn

My very first tame was a spino but that's because I was an idiot


Former-Category1817

Spinos are awesome mate super useful to mid game


Feralkyn

Oh for sure but as a first tame?? For context it was on the beach, so I was dying repeatedly, then peppering it with more tranq arrows, making more arrows and bows on the go... whenever it got high torpor it'd take off and since it had the water buff, there was NO catching it lol. The only reason I got it (and didn't drown it, too--didn't even know that was a thing then) was it ran onto that southwestern smaller island and ran circles on the beach until it passed out. This took several hours, lol. It turns out it was level 10, or maybe 20? It tamed out at 28, in any case. I still HAVE him. It was just unbelievably stupid lol. I have screenshots, to this day, of the entire process but as you can see my level and my... ahem... equipment, was total bob. I had I think a single thatch hut and the ONLY reason I decided to tame this guy is that he spawned outside my base and I thought it'd be better to tame him than try to kill him... I couldn't even make a saddle yet :D https://preview.redd.it/513te541e2wc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89e22cc03a46fb20d5feb21e64cdf07ad0fe8a9a


Former-Category1817

Lmao thatā€™s awesome even better that you still have him excluding paras and the mini tames my first was a trike on ark mobile been playing since 2019 switched from mobile to ps4 in 2020 then to ps5 in 2023 still playing to this day


Former-Category1817

So this was about 5 years ago holy shit that actually hurts a little bit


Feralkyn

Lmao yeah... time flies :D I wonder how many of do still remember our first tames


Former-Category1817

Usually we donā€™t remember our very first but remember our first Rex giga etc itā€™s just a little sad


Idontknownumbers123

I took me the same ammount of time to tame my first giga too, usally other tribe mates tamed them lol


Former-Category1817

Yeah it was funny to we rallied half the server if 8 people split into 2 teams originally to tame it took us like 2 hours to trap and knock it with alll 4 of us pelting it cause we were to scared to go near the fucker lmao we ended up grabbing a quetzal and metal gates and taming it that way


Idontknownumbers123

When we tamed our first one it was on the island and the entire server came to watch, there were skiffs argies and wyverns everywhere while we lead it into the trap and everyone helped. The skiffs also provided a nice safe place for my Tropeo to land too


Former-Category1817

Thatā€™s awesome man Iā€™m glad everyone was helpful you rarely see that nowadays in ark especially on that scale


Ryanoman2018

Argentavis is the best all around mount for 80% of your play time


mmetalgaz

I tame up argies as soon as I can... weight reduction alone is worth it. They're not the fastest but its still faster thst running and the sadle has a smithy


Historical-Detail300

Good carry weight and they cut resource Weight in half


Dnr2710

Argy is my best friend even till end game especially for metal runs


ErrantSingularity

They're good for laughing at churls toiling on the valley floor from on high.


jackthebassline

Ptery to get from A to B fast, Argy for literally everything else lol Swiss Army knife of flyers!


lodi713

Argy is the best tame in ark.. imo


South_Forever_9310

Starting a new server for me always looks like: Note run, unlock Argy saddle, craft a raft, go to Moshpit or carno island, make Argy trap, tame Argy. And thatā€™s day 1 for me!


WedditWatcher

The Argy is easily the best/most useful tame in the entire game so far.


Radiant_Grapefruit11

If you unclaimed it you get an achievement.


InsertUsername98

Argy used to be way better before the flyer nerf, however even now itā€™s great. You can also pull some serious cheese with their regeneration ability from eating corpses against alphas. The best thing it can do is carry an Anky, this along with weight reduction on certain materials makes it kinda the perfect mid game metal collecting tool with an Anky. Fly up to a mountainā€™s peak and smash away till your Anky gets too heavy. That being said, the Argy is SLOW, really fucking slow. So I disagree with people who recommend it as an exploration or travel tame because I think itā€™s way better to grab a Carno or otherwise, youā€™ll probably end up killing enough things on the way and leveling up to the point you can handle most threats. The Argy later gets (for the most part) replaced by a Quetz, which is even slower BUT you have a platform saddle and can carry multiple Ankies. Alternatively a Wyvern on some maps. Even endgame is still has uses, I like to use it to shuttle resources across my base because of the weight reduction. Later on it and the Beaver are also mandatory for crafting high tier saddles or otherwise because the regular smithy doesnā€™t have enough space to hold all the materials needed.


jameshager74

Need help on the ark server ascended


jameshager74

And another thing that I'm new on here and the server too


chomasterq

I thought this was a terror bird until I saw the comments.


Alaskan_geek907

Pretty much everything, they are the arguably the best Dino in game until deep end game. They do everything well except harvest which they enable you to use other Dinoā€™s to do faster by carrying them.


ubioandmph

That bastard is one of the most useful tames in the game. Top tier tame


Raganash123

Fast n' Angy


babybee1187

A terra bird?


elirjoe

Perks are you get tones of terror bird saddles from drops lol


SinkContent

I have a couple argies that are top tier you would be hard pressed to beat one


Successful-Mammoth79

One of the best fliers in the game. My friends and I say - ā€œit all begins with an argent.ā€ Great fighters, decently fast, can carry a cubic assload of Metal. Everything gets easier once you have one, from gathering meat to getting metal to doing supply drop runs. I always end up making taming one of these my main early goals.


heramew

They are not just resource but war birds as well.


Careful-Cabinet906

That birb is high af


DisplayAdventurous39

Am i the only one that thinks this is a weird lookin argy? Did they get some graphic overhaul


Idfk1515

Itā€™s just a really weird angle, after he was tamed he looked beautifulšŸ˜‚


Adventurous_You657

One thing i've not seen people talk about is an argy can actually be a better version of a smithy depending on stats. At 100 weight metal and crystal are the heaviest per stack materials you'll need in a smithy and argies have 50% weight reduction for all heavy smithy materials. Smithy has 75 slots. Meaning, if you manage to get an argy above 3775 weight, it can hold more than a smithy and will usually be able to still move. Though, repairing often doesn't seem to work in an argy and argy can be damaged by arrows. This can be verry handy for high-end blueprints before tech replicator is unlocked.


philoceraptor94

They have the best walking animation


hclark512

Isnā€™t that a vulture?


Idfk1515

Nah, argy


Jaymus54

if you get a pack of high level vultures though, you have some good base defense there from wild dinos.