TOP 10 Essential TAMES to Have In Ark Survival Ascended!!! TOP 10 DINOS in ASA!!! 

Therizino. Therizinos are easy to find early game. Aim for a low level one (or pair) they'll be easier to knock out. They will give eggs that can be used to make the yellow kibble and very little agros to them in the swamp so you can use them to get the rare flowers for that kibble as well. EVERY kibble eatting creature on the island can be tamed off this kibble except thylas and yuties, even the higher level theriz that you can use for the dragon boss fight. Actually, bred theriz can be used for every boss fight, they also gather seeds/berries/fiber/thatch/wood, are great fighters and take up less space in your base. With the resource gathering leveling wheel, you can level their weight and then level power harvesting to make it harder to encumber them. My vote for Island mvp.

I slightly disagree with this. For PvE or solo okay a giga is not needed at all. I understand this for pvp though. But the rhynio is the most useful take in my opinion for the Island. You can pick up nearly everything for transport without cryos and to place in traps for taming. It's even fairly fast in the water and has good stats even at low levels. And yes, you forgot weight reduction of argy .

Dung Beetle and oviraptor are essencial to make kibbles and now they collect auto, is a nice life quality.

There should be a shout-out for the baryonix for pve at least. With a good saddle, it runs almost all the caves good underwater and can kill anything but gigs and carcas

Megatherium also draws no aggro unless you attack a wild dino or physically run into one. Exceptions are pegomastix and piranhas, which are both just just assholes, and wake up choosing violence every day. Makes it a great mount for scouting out potential tames. Basically you walk around invisible to all the wild creatures. Down side: because of the lack of aggro, it can make finding insects a bit more difficult.

I love your essential dinos recommendation. For me this is my 10 essentials not in particular order. Anky is really essential, I personally call my Anky "land shrimp" and I even use it as a bodyguard outside my base since it has very high damage output, the metal head. Also, I also partner my Anky with Doedicurus, the rocker head, they are the dynamic duo - the Batman and Robin and of course a little later when levelled up more, the beaver - the third man in the team, the humble wood cutter and emergency Smithy and early semi-water mount as well, afterwhich the big bird brother Argy who is a jack-of-all trades who is always realiable and will always be there for you all throughout. Next are the big 3 boss killer of the Island - Rex, Megatherium and Theri. Don't forget everyones favorite cave adventuring companion the very best choice who can take you to most caves in the Island - the Bary. And of course the cutest pet, mascot and personal temperature controller and artifact carrier and best shoulder dino - the otter. Last but not the least the best commander - I call the General of the army who can make you ascend - The Yuty. My special mention is the Dodo, if Ark will have an in-game currency surely it will be Dodo eggs 😂, it has so much use from foods, kibbles, custom recipes, etc. Might as well be implemented as currency. :D

Great tips! I’ll have to work on getting tames!

Thank you for your help with ARK

On #9: you mentioned the Dunky for an alternative metal gathering beast, but it also gathers stupid amounts of stone, and has both good weight reduction and high base carry weight. The only real issue I've had using a dunky for stone is trying to efficiently offload all the resources it's gathered. Well... that and you have to be comfortable with the ocean biome but fortunately for me it's my favorite part of the island to play in ;) For PVE at least I'm completely off Giganotosaurus; give me a Carchar instead. It doesn't hit quite as hard to start with, but it's way more agile, feels a little faster by default and leaves the giga in the dust when you've got a frenzy buff, and you have no worries about the rage meter. Warmed up, it'll catch up to and potentially exceed a giga's damage fairly quickly and has an insane healing rate. I've facetanked multiple wild gigas with mine farming hearts or clearing low spawns, and come out of every fight at full health despite the giga's bleed. Granted I don't do PvP so I don't know how they'll compare in that scenario, but when I watch others do pvp it seems to be pretty evenly split.

New sub mate, thanks for all the great info in sll your clips.

I’d argue the Mammoth is better than a Beaver due to higher weight stat and higher weight reduction on wood while also being a better gatherer of thatch and berries. The only thing the Beaver has over mammoth is being a mobile smithy, swim speed, and being carried by an Argy.

I typically dont watch teach's videos or post comments but thought I'd give this one a watch and see what he has to say and help new players. I'm an official player and I would suggest theri's over rexes. They're more difficult to tame but worth while. Theri's deal about on par damage with rexes and possibly take less damage than most other creatures when fighting the dragon and you can put veggie cakes in the inventory to instantly and passively heal 500 hp I believe when the health count goes down so it's more difficult to kill your tame. Theri's are also the best at gathering fiber and rare flowers and can farm wood, thatch, berries, and meat so it's well rounded. Rexes are still very good for the mega (boss) with a yuty especially since they don't get knocked back as much for being a large dino. A giga isn't the most needed on the island but it does gather prime meat very easily and quickly if you want to make prime meat jerky or super food recipes with the cooked prime.

My thoughts: The Anky also great for farming crystal. Beaver: going to the swamp will probably kill you with Kaprosuchus throwing you off the saddle. Cool is that it doesn't drown when left alone, I tamed one that fell asleep under water.

I won't say they're essential but the Rhyniognatha has easily become my favorite tame in ark. They're really hard to get since they're basically like taming a Reaper, but they are worth every bit of trouble to tame. One of my buddies sent me a clip where he literally used it to carry a rex and dropped it in another tribes base 😂😂😂

My essentials in order I tame in a new game: 1) Ptero and iguano (or parassaur) at the beach I spawn. 2) Argie 3) Anqui, Doedic and beaver 4) A good carnivorous Build a good base. Tame the others.😊

Doed is also great for sand if you are in a desert biome obviously not yet as much as other maps. Also just to put my 2 cents in argys are definitely vulture related lol its got the mannerisms and the s shaped neck.

I love your functional base build. Can you do one that looks nice also? Would be a dream! As I'm not very creative...lol

Honorable mentions to the Spino, Thylacoleo, and Sarco.

The most criminal thing of this list is #1 not being the Rhynio. That is, quite literally, a game changer. The issue with taming Yuties you mentioned? Doesn't exist, when you can pluck a Yuty and drop it in a tame pen. It's the fastest flyer, one of the best aquatic mounts (somehow!), and with naturally high stats can rival most land tames outside of sheer damage output. The Giga being on the list is outclassed by the Carcharo in every way. It's faster, deals more damage, farms faster, and is easier to tame, and definitely isn't #1. I'd still put the Anky over the Doed. The Doed will eventually phase out, and farming with the Anky will get you a lot of stone incidentally. I haven't used my Doed in weeks. Anky > Beaver > Doed. Didn't think about using the Dodo in that way.

So I've been watching your vids for a couple years and it's GREAT to see you post all these vids. Is Teach teaching me things I already knew? Yes. Am I still glad to see it in the way Teach teaches? Yes. It's presented in such a way that even the greenhorns have no excuse to NOT understand it and THAT right there is where the magic is. If you can make a veteran still watch all your videos in their entirety you've got that (superstarryemotes) M A G I C (/superstarryemotes). Can't wait to see you hit that 100K \m/

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maybe you can clarify, I have a few hundred hours in ASA and have some very high level beavers and therizinosaurus and by far without question the therizino gathers more wood per tree but does not cut the weight so I have the beaver follow so I can load into it, am I missing something with the beavers gathering?

The way you say giga, my dude! 😂😂

Basilosaur???!!! 😢 literally the only thing I use in the water 😂

The two new dinos the carchar and the bug thing would be pretty high up on this list

According to the one explorer note which have voice actors now, its pronouced "Ji-GAN-oto-saw-rus" similar to Gigantic. The female actress says it so many times in that note that i feel like she's making a point of how we've all been saying "Giga", like gigabyte, is wrong lol. But great video and valid points.

Rynio is very valuable if you don’t have cryos

I used to put the Doedic on wander and it would farm stone on it's own. It was very convenient. Just have to go find it to get the stone out. Does it still do this on Ascended?

I think I've watched this 10 times now for some reason lol

The chest size hahagaga

I would replace the giga with saber or wolf and put it at number 6 just for caving

The title caught my curiosity ; the first 3 seconds caught my attention

My list would be Argy #1, Theri #2, Otter #3. You can beat the island without any specific tame, but these all make life easier.

I see your gigs for fastest tame.....and raise you a frog and a kangaroo....wither if which will outrun a giga in their sleep

You completely forgot to mention that the Argentavis has a lot of weight reductions. It gives a 50% reduction on black pearls, polymer (both types), metal and metal ingots, stone, and crystal. This should be much higher than #6. Sure it is useful for picking dinos up, but it is incredibly useful for resource runs. Especially when you have to go further for crystal and obsidian. Yutyrannus is incredibly useful for it's eggs for kibble, but it makes an excellent mount for going through the hard ice cave. You would need cryos to do it, but I prefer the Yuty over the Allosaurus for that cave. Really no Therizino? I find that to be so versatile. I stopped taming beavers and started getting Therizino instead. 1. You can get an insane amount of fiber using their secondary attack. Will also get you rare mushrooms in the swamp. 2. Can stand up better against enemies when out harvesting. 3. You can level up it's different attacks so you can have 1 be your power hitter for wood and 1 be your gentle tickler for fiber. 4. It makes an excellent boss fighter. Best against the dragon, but I've used them successfully against all of them on Island and Scorched Earth. 5. If you drag a sea scorpion to the shore with a grappling hook, a Therizino can get you more black pearls.

I used to lile castors for wood, but they kinda lost the weight reduction to the mammoth, like, mammoth has a lot better reductions for whatever reason and since I don't have another player to spam left click the stupod thing will only gather his puny weight... seriously, castors should still have the reduction at 10% like doedics ..

Yo the raptors are easy to knock out if they are lower level, I had one run up on me and I just had my fist out and hoped for the best and ended up knocking him out. Mind you, I was like level 5 and thought for sure I was dead lol

Nice cake teach. I had a 23 yr old high-school teacher with cake just like that and more normal sized chest. I can't say too much more but she called me jailbait lol

The doed also has the swim ability

I feel the Rex has to be placed above the Giga. Like sure the Giga is the most powerful tame in the game but what do you do with it? PvP sure but other than that what else? Rexes are boss killers and are basically the biggest staple dino for boss fights and can also be used for everything a Giga can be used for. The boss killer use alone should place the Rex above the Giga.

im sad. i just watched the movie and sobbed. it was amazing. might be my new fav marvel movie ever

Can you do a guide on how to tame a yuty?

Atleast Honorable mantion the Moschops as best earlygame tame, they garther evrything including organic poli rlly well and requior no saddle with 2x the dmg of other early tames like the raptor. other than that I rlly miss the Barry, the perma stunn they have in the water and excellent cave clears should put them up there. not to mention how insane they heal from fish meat. thylacoleo, best cave mount since it can scale cliffs. and the dire bear, being able to harvest almost evrything and taking no dmg from beehives. Theri's are the best gatherers in game, there is no argument here.

I would say the mammoth is best for wood as it has a lot more carry weight

I’m new to ark teach can you give a vid on terms lol idk wtf soak means and I keep hearing it lol

I like your list but I'd argue some of your choices.. Therazinos are MUCH better, in my opinion, for wood gathering because they can fight back very well and can also gather TONS of fiber and berries. I also whole heartedly disagree with the Giga,.. it's too big and too dangerous for feasible use other than stomping around open terrain but I can't count how many times a small drop damaged the Giga and it went nutz on me.. not worth the time, effort or headache... Also .. Baryonyx should be in your list.. one of the best multi use creatures in the game,.. on land or sea or caves... I'm good with the rest of the list though :)

😢 I have a couple wolfs and a cat but it won’t let me breed them, put them on wondering and if I don’t name the right away I can’t change it or even fix them I am playing on PlayStation 5 if ya have any tips on how to fix that

In no order -argy -anky -beez -bary -theri -dire 🐻 -angler -basilo -oviraptor -rhynio

You forgot about the Moro Rex and Moro Raptor. =D

Teach is #1

Where is metal underwater besides the 3 nodes in Easy? I have like 4 dunkys that would be clutch

Teach always picks ‘em thiccums

As far as wood gathering, I know the beaver is better but I rather have a mammoth just because when you run into inevitable trouble Mammoth can defend itself pretty darn well, better than a beaver.

I agree with most, but you can literary remove Rex and beaver from list, and replace it with Theri. Theri is better boss killer bcz of dragon, that deals extra dmg to carnis, why breed rex and theri when you can just breed theri. They can also gather wood, berry, fiber, and even leather.

I agree generally, but the Beaver is not an early game tame. His saddle requires level 61

I get a moschops first lol berries fiber wieght thatch etc no saddle hes a goid starter mount 😅

Teachers how do we remove trees

The king is actually the acro which is also on the island

Hey teach, how do you feel about battle passes coming to ark

How can ye forget the big bug! Carries everything! Kills good, goes into water, flies fast.. :P

Yooo are you gonna drop the tutorial for that character creation? She’s looking really good!

this list is backwards

How did you make your character so busty??

tuso smokes everything in a pipe ngl

I'd be quite negligent if I ignored your blatant disregardful for Therizino and Ankylo/Argent Combo should definitely be discussed. Though you are quite thorough, so im sure you did for another clip. I know you are wanting to make vids for the beginner..... but with all this time you have on Ark have you not gone into building? the AMAZING MECHANICS QOL in ASA and the now, essentially armored base? what about raids? have we gone and discovered raids? Also I'd love to play on your server, and create.

Fundamentally disagree with the rankings as 90% of your game is spent breeding and building resources for building/ammo/blueprints. The argents ability to reduce reource weights, be a mobile smithy, scout for and carry all main resource gatherers, scout/carry many up to mid game fighters to selectively breed from, fight any land based threat outside of a giga/carchar (you still can but super carfully), scout and lure late game tames to traps, etc. A good argent outweighs anything in usefullness until you can get a rhynio much later. Also silica pearls are great but the electical invulnerability, tankiness, and decent damage output of the basilo has always made it the go to tame for the ocean.

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Pve players will know the struggle to find a beaver because spawns are usually selfishly blocked by foundations

TAME THOSE MELONS HOSS

The giga is why I don't play PvP lol I remember when Ark SE came out on console, my first server was a PvP one and as soon as I loaded in a tamed 300+ giga ate me . . Never went on another PvP server again lol plus I love building and would hate to see my work destroyed

megatherium all the way!! my number one tame.

Rex is the king of the game.

That's not how the note narrator pronounces the giga

i think 10 dinos not all what you must to have in base!!! I'm PVE player!, don't remember already what about PVP dinos, but Achatina, Oviraptor with Yuti??? I thimk you must to video "must have in PVE base" and "dino of PVP base" because 10 is not enough!!!!!!! but thanks for all other video.

Carchas are arguably better than gigas

So same dinos from SE. It couldn't have been a 20 sec video

Rhino....

I disagree With the yuty is only being a end game tame It is the easiest way to get eggs for Extraordinary kibble

That's definitely not how you pronounce Giganotosaurus. 😅 good list though.

And you're actually high putting the beaver on here 😂 it's so obsolete bro thary woops dragon and mammoth is the way to go when you need wood

Giganotosaurus are overrated. In PvE, they really do nothing special. Can’t be used for boss fights either

Like alot of your dinos you said but the thing is Ranking argys at number 6 is makes your hole list invalid and reason behind it argys are the most used flyer for pvp because they can pick and do so much damage and have good hp yes there slow but you can win vs pts most of the time if you know how to use them

Sure just brag about ur hours. lol

Giga is so hard to tame though......

no basilo, no theri, cant do dragon no oviraptor, cant mutate efficiently no ryna, cant catch theris easily no otter, tek cave is going to suck no bary, caves are going to suck in general carcha is nearly a direct upgrade on giga these videos are bordering on rage bait mr 12k hours

7 minutes in. way too many errors or bad information. Am I supposed to believe your a teacher cause that worries me now.

Gigas are useless pve

Lots of bad info or incomplete info.

Mammoth are better for wood with jump to farm wood