Hello everyone, i recently came across the discussion for finding each warden, but i havent seen nearly any information regarding the tactics required for fighting each warden (asside from the what i beleive is an outdated warden readme). i have been playing ARK with annunaki genesis for a while, so ive deciding to give back to the community a little bit for once. This post draws on experiences with fighting the wardens from a rather unmodded game (no other dinos mods other than AG, and no changes in levelling for creatures as far as i know (the server i had played on gave no information about changes to INI settings, so im assuming there were none)) and also drawing on some experience from my heavily modded/changed single player saves. These tactics are what i find work best, hopefully my facts are accurate and this is helpful to people. But first ill go over what i find best in preparation for the warden battles:

Dodorexies: Great for both tank and damage roles, firebreath attack increases susceptibility to damage. I suggest only levelling health and melee, nothing else.

Wyverns: Good for damage infliction, their firebreath increases the susceptibility to damage of the target. I reccomend leveling stamina, health, and melee.

Megapithecus: Similar to dodorexy, except no attack that increases suscptibility to damage.

Broodmother: I've never used a broodmother for a warden fight, so i don't have enough experience to say what works well. I would like some feedback on what other people with farily unmodded games would reccomend.

Drakes (yes, they're good for warden fights surprisingly): Great for increasing the susceptibility to damage. The debuff of the fire and ice drake stacks along with the wyvern and dodorexy, so if you have all four breathing fire the wardens will take massive amounts of damage.

Equipment: all creatures should have saddles, since the armor rating really helps. Always bring health boosters, bring stamina boosters for wyverns (or, optionally, for any creature), and oxygen boosters when nescesary.

Now to the wardens (in alphabetical order):

Bokito: Has a health drain super attack that effects basically every creature around him, and a rock throw attack that, while it can be easily avoided, does massive amounts of damage. ! would reccomend a few options, ill start with the easiest: A wyvern, a fire drake, and an ice drake; riding the wyvern, and whistling unmounted drakes to attack (i will call this the wyvern+drake combo from here on). The drakes add a debuff when they use their firebreath attack which increases the victims susceptibility to damage temporarily. The ice and fire debuffs stack, and if bokito is both on fire and slowed by the drakes, then he can be killed by the wyvern fairly quickly. Another option is simply going into the battle with multiple players on dodorexys, megas, and wyverns. if your soloing, other than the wyvern+drake combo, you can use a dodorexy with slightly levelled stamina, and atleast 3M health, then run in circles around him while attacking. This avoids the rock attack, and allows you just barely enough time to use a health booster.

Gnashor: Has very high damage resistance/health, so you must be able to outlast him, making ground dinos less usefull for the fight. The Wyvern+drake combo works well, although a wyvern alone will do. Unless you have multiple players (to distract the wraden while you run and use a health booster), i would avoid using dodorexys, as they can be killed very quickly with the wardens super attack, even if you have health boosters (because of their cooldown).

Karkinos: currently broken, cannot attack in water, and since i have not fought him outside of water since they made changes to wardens, i cannot reccomend any tactics. A wyvern alone works very well for the moment, however there is a good possiblilty that will change.

Mormaw: This is by far the hardest to kill. This battle is truly one to be afraid of, the only way i have ever tried to kill mormaw is with multiple players on wyverns, simply because they are fast swimmers (good for bailing out of the fight). Mormaw is so large that if your group spaced out correctly, only one person at a time will take the full force of the attack, which is the health drain "super attack". If you have atleast 2 people (more is reccmomended) then you can run and use a health booster while the other(s) stays to tank, and you can switch off fighting. His super attack also does a large oxygen drain (not sure the percentage, but i beleive its above 80%), so you absoultely need to have oxygen boosters.

Nilloc: This is another fairly simple, but not quite so easy fight. I would reccomend using the wyvern+drake combo again, and it should be over quite quickly. If you only use a wyvern, be prepared to run away to use health boosters, since nilloc's super attack drains quite a lot of health, and is hard to avoid when soloing with no drakes. Do not use land based creatures for this fight.

Perdition: The main difficulty with perdition is the massive amounts of damage he is capable of: if it charges you, its been known to 1-shot ubers (though i have not experienced this). The tactic for this fight is simple: deal as much damage as possible, kill it before it kills you. For this, i would reccomend 2 or more people on dodorexys. You will only be able to use a health booster once before having to bail, since the amount of damage he does is so high that you will not have time for another, and running away is not an option, since if he charges you, you're done for! I would not reccomend wyverns or drakes, since the range you have to stay in between either you not being able to hit him, and he being able to hit you, is small. Its a delicate, iritating, and dangerous balence to get in, but possible, and the only option for soloing (stamina boosters are nescesary for soloing, you do not want to run out of stamina when above, or flying away from, and aggroed perdition).

Rawaiim: The main difficulty is the torpor super attack, although (like all other wardens) the damage is a problem too. I would reccomend atleast 2 players, either both on dodorexys, or one on a wyvern and the other on a dodorexy. Drakes are not reccomended because his attack radius is masive, and they will be killed. Bring detox elixers to remove all torpor from your creature, and stam boosters for the wyvern(s).

Smough: Smough does a large health drain super attack, like nilloc, so i do not reccomend that you use ground creatures to fight him, even though it is possible (since smough is relatively slow, a dodorexy can run away to use a health booster, or jsut be killed relatively quickly by a group of high-damage dodorexys).

Tip for soloing: If you know your creature cannot survive, dismount it. You will die, however the fight will be over since creatures that are neutral automatically revert back to neutral when out of render range, meaning the creature you were on and the warden will not be attacking eachother when you get back to get your dino. I would not reccomend using dodorexys and megas for soloing the wardens because they cannot get away as easily to use health boosters and such.

I hope this helps people, is informative, and is accurate. If anyone has anything to add, change, or discuss, please dont hold baack, but be respectfull, and civil about it. I will edit this if there are things i missed that others can add. I am very curius about what people think of the uber stats i reccomended, if everybody thinks they are possible to achieve.

Please note: i will try to keep this up to date, however wardens are subject to constant chang, and at some point a part of this "guide" may become innacruate without my knowledge, or what i said may be innacurate, so please keep that in mind.