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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a giganotosaurus? giganotosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
There is a alpha gigs but it’s a mod
DO NOT use a tamed Giga to kill a wild Giga. Tamed Gigas gain a massive nerf to health and attack and lack the ability to use the gnashed debuff like the wild Gigas can. If high lvl, imprinted and with a high quality saddle, you might be able to take on a low lvl Wild however.
Treat Wild Gigas like bosses, use a well leveled and saddled army of tames specced into melee and HP. Wild Gigas have 80k HP and 500 base melee, for reference a base Rex has a mere 1.1k hp and 65 base melee. Alternatively a mother load of auto turrets with a ton of ammo protected by metal gateways can eventually kill a Giga.
Fun fact: on mobile, the giga is neutral to tames.
I found this out when i was trying to wipe out some guy's tames in my server with a wild giga but the giga just stood there, and just wandered.
it applies when you are riding mounts too (for example, quetzal, galliminus, equus, argentavis*)
*that one guy who said that their argy ran out of stamina and landed next to a giga, if you're on mobile, that's perfectly fine since the giga is neutral to tames.
Me at lvl 26 thinking it’s a Rex hoping for a tame just as I notice it’s too lake R.I.P my brontos
Very easy to kill if you drown it, I’m on ragnarok near green ob and there is a pond that is deep enough to drown them, just lure them with scuba gear and shoot them once. Very easy
You can find gigas in the snow biome on valguero. Near the place that seems to spawn rock golems alot
One day I was playing a new server It was my first time playing ark so of course dumb old me spawned in the MIDDLE OF A FREAKING MOUNTAIN IN THE ARCTIC and thought it was a nice place. So I made tools and a campfire before dying to a saber tooth. So I went back TO THE SAME FREAKING PLACE and was hungry. So I bonked a mammoth. Little did I know I could’ve bonked penguins, INSTEAD OF BEING MAULED BY 15 MAMMOTHS. Try 3, STILL THE SAME FREAKING SPOT and I spawned on a giant mountain. So I was about to jump off to respawn somewhere when I saw A GIGA. I thought it was a cool T. Rex so I slid down and bonked him with a club I just crafted. Little did I know, that dang thing IS THE STRONGEST IN THE GAME. So I respawned, STILL IN THE FREAKING ARCTIC. I saw an iceberg with 3 allos on it and, dumb old me tried to tame them and I died. So I finally did it ONE MORE TIME. I bonked penguins, made a campfire and clothes, tools, and a big base. I finally started getting far when THE GIGA IS BACK AND ANGRY and ATE MY BASE, MY NEW PENGUIN, AND MY SABERTOOTH. Moral of the story: don’t live in the arctic. Ever.
P.S. 1 like = 1 prayer for Goomba (penguin) and Diego (sabertooth).
If you encounter a wild one of these on the mountain you are trying to mine in, once you have a Quetzal with a saddle, these guys are actually pretty easy to negotiate with. All you have to do is get it to notice you, and then kite it downwards until it either slips the rest of the way down or finds a prey item. You will have gotten rid of the beast without even provoking it, and both sides will have parted peacefully.
He killed my 4 argents.. ptera by trying to tame him, giga has 2 minutes for you to keep him down with narcos... be really careful!
If you want to take IT down , its etiher guns , GOOD imprinted giga or water where it can drown. Deal 8k DMG in 2 seconds and it will roar giving you time to hit it for free. Rage mode itself only eneabels team fire , the Rage buildup increases damage and defense of the giga.
Screw the giganotosaurus. If you see this kid, run away. Tame a carcha, mego, spino or rex.
Had a tough time finding Gigas at all on The Island, Ragnarok and Valguero. Been a while since I played Ark but remembered we used to tame them on The Center so I went and tried there. 3 hours later I tamed a 130 and150 male. Granted I’m playing on SP but still I was doing the same on the other maps and found next to nothing for days. Don’t waste your time looking on any other map
You see one god help you and just try to run
I had a friend I said I’d give him $100 if he ran away from the giga he did not want the money anymore as I laughed I saw the giga turn to and left my friend by accident just flew away
I came back ......eventually
Stop it with the ‘ bola your tribemate and run’ YOUR STILL DEAD!
If you see one near you base and you can't kill it or tame it use a pterodon and go somewhere safe and shoot it to get it's attention and lead it to some where not near you base
A real life Rex could easily kill a giga as it had stronger jaws and teeth plus the fighting style
Three of these spawned near my base out of no where, and then I tried to lead them to at least two or three brontosaurus, two died, and one got killed by like, 4 trikes, and I never got to see what stuff they had inside them, these things can see you from far away, and are extremely fast, so only encounter them when you know you could win
If you got a fast Dino hop on it and run
So for those about to go after one of these for the first time, you will know them when you see them. Also keep your distance when searching, getting to close trying to get one to spawn is an easy way for one to show up and murder you :) i would def recommend a trap and good luck taming!