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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

Alright, here's an actual tip for mobile players. You need a tamed argentavis with a saddle on and a 10x soothing balm or that other soothing balm if you love wasting ambers, 4x metal dinosaur gateway, 1 trillion biotoxins for showing your giga who's boss by making it experience Odin sleep and around... 69420 raw prime meats, kibbles are fine, but why tho? Also SET YOUR ARGENTAVIS TO PASSIVE.
For the weapons preparation, i suggest speedrunning the volcano cave, artifact of the massive so you can atleast obtain a high dmg ascendant crossbow, and you need around 100 million tranq arrows or if you're rich, Ascendant Longneck Rifle also with 1 million tranq darts
Gigas usually spawn in mountainous regions like the top of griffin mountain in north zone, snowy mountains and the highest point pursuit mountain , you can spend 100000 hours trying to find a high level one in medium-hard difficulty, I recommend tidy saving and save data on the game BEFORE the thing spawns, so if you end up getting low levels you can restore save data making it BEFORE you encountered the low lv Giga, who knows the RNG swaps your low level with high level Gigas?
Now in my experience Gigas ignores tamed creatures in MOBILE unless provoked so you can get yourself as close as possible with your tamed cargo birb as long as you don't attack it.
Now this is the "Pacifist" way to tame a Giga, i'd say..
-Time consuming 8.5/10, make it 9/10
-Danger Level: 2/10 (as long as you don't be a bob attacking the giga)
-Effectiveness: 6/10
-Resources Needed: Mid (ignore the ridicolous numbers, you need alot to knock one out and keep it asleep okay? So bring as many tranqs and biotoxins)
Once you've found your desired Giga, roam around it like National Geographic Camera-man, make a documentary of the Giga, follow the Giga, watch it murder anything in its way, be happy, be traumatized, be consumed with fear UNTIL the Giga finally walk itself into a FLAT location, now once this happens, you look its sorrounding, any victim for the giga? If there is, just keep watching the Giga murder them until theres none. Now your Giga is standing still, no more victims left, here's what you gotta do, land with your argentavis, and plant your 4 METAL dinosaur gateways WHILE RIDING your Argentavis, Lock the Giga in like a square of Metal Dinosaur Gateways. If it fails and Giga got distracted by more victims to murder, just destroy the gates and rebuild since Argentavis have smithy saddles. Repeat another 1000 times hoping it doesn't despawn until you successfully trap the Giga in your gates. Once trapped, your life becomes 1000x easier. Now place a bed near the Giga so you can respawn near if somehow killed.
If you dont understand what i mean by square gates, heres a diagram, (i hope it looks good once posted)
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See that? Yeah, that's what it means. Gate, gate, gate and gate, until Giga can't escape. Why metal?? Because dude can't bite metal.
Giga trapped? Now start blasting all those darts, arrows, whatever, at it in a distance to avoid being a victim of the Murder machine. Keep blasting, dont bother checking Torpor with spyglass, just keep shooting like those good ol days you're running away from Satan Tickle Chicken, keep shooting and shooting and shooting with your tranqs until it fell down and knocked out.
Waste no time, run into the Giga, and use your soothing balm, force feed all that 69420 raw prime meats to your Giga and show em who's boss by forcing it to an Odin sleep with Bio Toxins until it's tamed.
Congrats, you tamed a murder machine. Now their hp dropped to 17,000 from 80,000 and just pray that their melee damage is near 100% so you don't have to spend eternity lvling up its melee before it starts hitting hard.
Now what do you do? You tame another one, breed them and raise families of Gigas until one of them is 100% imprinted and mutated, now you can murder anything in your way.
Side note: ONLY LEVEL UP GIGA'S MELEE DAMAGE
Giga? Obtained. Casualties? None, other than the 1 billion souls of the damned the Giga murdered when it's wild. Resources? Nothing much other than a couple metal gateways, biotoxins and tranqs. Either good luck or good food, for the Giga's stomach
More Giganotosaurus Taming & KO Tips
I have one of these I will tell you how I got mine I was on a big hillside
So I could shoot it from the top I need 150 arrows the taming ones
Mine was a level 20 so you might need more than I did make sure you have prime meat it will tame faster than regular it wakes up really easily so make sure you have narcotic with you I need 200.so you might want more just in case hopefully this helps please like it if it helps ππ»
The things you need to tame a giga:-
1)Flyer (recommending an argy).
2)4-5 dinosaur metal gateways.
3)1-2 large bear traps.
4)10x soothing balm if your playing on mobile.
5)Your KO weapon (most recommended are ascendant longneck rifle or ascendant crossbow).
6)Your KO ammo (bring a decent amount).
7)Taming food of your choice (most recommended is raw prime meat or kibble if you can).
8)Decent amount of narcotics or bio toxin.
FIND GIGA: gigas usually spawn at mountains. On the island try looking around the volcano or the two mountains in the snow area.
SET YOUR TRAP: take 3 of your metal gateways and make this shape \_/ then put a large bear trap or 2 in the middle. Itβs easier if you build the trap on flat ground.
TRAP THE GIGA: get the giga to follow you and make it go inside the trap, then make sure itβs caught in the bear trap. When itβs stuck in the bear trap go behind it and complete the trap with another gateway. The final shape of the trap looks like a Trapezoidal.
KO THE GIGA: even a low level giga has a lot of torpor and it drops fast so keep shooting no matter what. Itβs recommended for a tribe-mate to help you.
START FEEDING: put the food in the gigaβs inventory and keep an eye on itβs torpor.
I hope this was helpful π
Many a tribe have been foolish enough to think they could fight a wild giga with a tamed and ended up with a dead giga. Don't be them.
I was looking to metal to make a saddle then I said to my brother βi am going to tame a gigaβ as a joke. Not even 10 seconds later a level 55 giga came into view. KEEP IN MIND WE ARE ONLY LEVEL 40!! We are gonna tame it tomorrow with arrows since we donβt have tranq dartsπ wish us luck!
Make 4 metal dino gates and 1 large bear trap. Place three frames and door into an incomplete square and the large bear trap in the I between them. Lure the Giga into the trap and while its trapped place 4th down to make the square. Then just light it up with tranqs
Just lure into a metal gate set ups some plant Xs and it will knock out you welcome
I 100% recommend charging straight on a Giga with a wooden club, you wonβt regret it.
TO THE GUY THAT SAID METAL SIGNPOSTS WORK, IT JUST WALKS RIGHT OVER THEM.
f for my argy
It takes about 5000 stone and 125 slingshots to knock one out
Anyone up to the challenge vote u
I knocked one out with a HUGE amount of froggoβs I started with 35 frogs all level 100-150 and by the time he fell I had 4 frogs one ^ is a frog memory!