if you’re planning to tame one of these dudes, which is understandable considering how awesome they are, don’t waste your fish baskets on anything lower than 0.8 fish. trust me. anything lower than 0.8 barley raises the taming bar. i only go for 1.0 fish and up, but if i absolutely need to i’ll go for the occasional 0.9 or 0.8 fish. the best strategy is to, well, wait until it’s asleep. you NEED ghillie armor for this, so put on your ghillie and approach it, CROUCHING. do NOT approach it from the front, always approach from its rear end or its back. feed it the fish, then back up 10-15 meters and run away, because it will turn invisible and try to look for you. you should use the tracking ability to not lose sight of it, then wait until it’s calm and asleep again. repeat this process and you have a tame shadowmane. the males and the female are the exact same without a mate, but if they’re paired up, the male can use a roar buff, similar to a yutyrannus, to buff its pack. the female, on the other hand, can make, not only it’s pack, but any other tame creatures you have invisible with it. they each have a dash attack, they can leap super high, they negate fall damage, they double as amazing water mounts because they don’t have an oxygen meter and they get a water buff similar to a spino, and they have a charge meter that increases whenever you deal damage or kill something. when it’s maxed out, your shadowmane gets a speed and damage buff. if you found this helpful, up this! -J