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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for giganotosaurus? Tips and strategies for giganotosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Does it spawn on extinction? I’ve seen corrupted ones but are they tameable on extinction? Also never fight gigas, unless you have an insane imprinted giga
Knocking out the giga is the hard part. After you accomplish this, drop kibble and biotoxin into the unconscious beast and sit atop its prone form. Keep the gigas inventory open and watch it's torpor plummet until it gets to around 1500-2000 then pump the biotoxin into it. As long as the gigas torpor is raising, it can't drop. For Knocking out a giga, spare no expense on a metal trap. Use behemoth gates and large bear traps. You can use normal metal gates but it's tricky and I have died and lost many tames this way. Another trick I have used is on The Island. Find a giga in the snow and lead it to the ice floes on the river. The giga will get stuck and then you can tranq it with ease.
While walking on ragnorok for my first time playing the game I see this, I go up to it and next thing you know subway surfer music plays and a level 79 Giga is chasing a level 2 newbie… still haunting to this day.
If you get stuck inside it jump off your bird, run, and whistle all.... Remember your not suppose to survive your bird is!
By the way I warn you guys I saw a lvl 257 giga with 80k health after it was18k
Whoever said that giga don’t aggro if you’re on a mount on mobile is only half correct.
I tested this in multiplayer server, it will not aggro on you up close (even if you attack it, though I recommend not doing this because I haven’t test this in single player yet. Trust me, I’ve tried this a few times to lure it into trap and it only aggro when I left my mount)
BUT IT WILL AGGRO ON YOU IF YOU PLACE DOWN ANYTHING NEAR IT. I almost lost my lvl 367 argy because of this. So no, you can’t ride a mount, place metal walls around it and leave to tranq it. It will aggro and immediately attack you. Just build a trap somewhere near and lure it into it is your best option
I have over 1000 damage longneck through massive artifact it only take 12 dart for 150 level giga mean I don’t need trap
Once you have knocked out one of these beasts either have the food on you to begin with or have a friend who can get it while you. Sit there and feed it narcotics I swear you look away for ten seconds and it's dropped a quarter of its torpidity.
How to escape a giga on a mountain
Part 1 if u got a giga on your tail on a mountain
Parachute of the mountain if you land on a flat part of the mountain then run off the edge and keep parachuting till u hit land then (if you have and large bear trap) try to place it behind you and have the giga walk into it place more and more behind you if you have enough then while there trapped in each one keep shooting them oh hitting then with a pump/shotgun if u have one then the giga should die it depends on the amount of hp it has then boom if this does not work out I’m sorry keep trying
Check out Captain Fatdog's Giga trap on YouTube. His traps are always the best and dirt cheap. 14 metal pillars for a reusable giga trap and it has never failed me!
A decent way to cheese the giga taming is to use a grappling hook and attach to its tail, as it wont be able to hit you, so you can freely shoot its ass
for me the real hard part of taming these guys are waiting for my dinos to lay eggs, aside from that all i can really give from experience from taming these guys are non traps taming on flat lands are not your friends, bring an extra 50 darts/arrows in every tame, use a mix of bio toxins and narcotics, make sure to bring some extra kibble (i recommend 3-4), and just incase bring a tribe mate to constantly feed the giga incase it wakes up
Get a snow owl or argy and make sure it has a decent amount of life. Find your Giga and get slightly out of range of it. Set up 4 metal behemoth gates in box formation, but leave the door off the 4th wall facing the Giga. Get on your snow owl and aggro him. You may need to be low for him to follow, so do expect 3-5 bites from it as you lead the Giga into the cage, but often you can do it damage free. Each bite ranges from 200-500 damage depending on lvl, so make sure you can survive the damage.
When you fly up against the back wall, let him bite once more so you know he’s in. Fly up, turn around quick and hotbar the last door in, but stay above him. Fly out and land on top of the gate post. Carefully dismount... I’ve had some funny falls into the cage, but now I use a tek suit and keep my bird far away. Unless the ground is raised/rocky below, he shouldn’t be able to chomp you either way. You may need to bring a few hundred tranqs for high lvl ones, but plug away at him as he runs corner to corner. Bring some spare crossbows or rifles. Have some kibble, or mutton handy (# depending on your server rates) and throw it in his inventory when he goes down. Gigaty gigaty goo!
My first time taming one of these went amazing! You need to be prepared. Here’s some things to follow.
-have appropriate amount of tranqs (don’t stop shooting until it’s out, it’s torpor drops very fast.
-4 metal gateways, 2 large bear trap. Set up 3 gates in a good area to lure the giga, place the large bear traps inside the 3 gates, lure gig, once in bear trap place last gate behind it then start tranqin.
-Bring a bird with good weight an speed and that can take out any threats in the area. You can bring some spike walls if you want aswell to place around gig after KO
-bring bio toxin and cooked prime meat on your bring to preserve longer.
-have around 200 narcotic, (I recommend using soothing balm on mobile too)
-remember to feed narcotic to the giga repeatedly! And Enjoy your giga! My YouTube is 4ReelZ, hope this helped! ^^^^^
If your looking to find one go up I to the mountains to tame a anky you'll instantly find 3 max levels heart so people see
All you gotta do when you see these well if they agroed on you and your on land R.I.P. you if your on a flying mount just fly the heck away from it if it’s not argoed on you just run away as fast as you can