Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a giganotosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a giganotosaurus.
Naa me not tame giga. today me go tame giga with 150 tranq aroow- a normal person who's English is very dengerous.
It’s a passive tame go up to it and punch it then it will tame:)
Breeding is best when u raise atleast 6 to 10 at a time. Reward is greater for same time period and time will pass faster for you while occupied feeding so many. Another trick is to run ur gachas for ele while you raise. Two things at once
Easiest way to knock them out is with a Tapejara and a friend. One flies, one shoots tranq darts out of a longneck rifle. Bring way more darts then dododex says, bring kibble and at least 400-500 Narcotics no matter the level.
If your with a friend hold them above the giga with an argy while they shoot the giga with tranqs
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.
All you need to do to tame a giga level 4 is a minor soothing bathe and 3 raw prime meat and a truck load of nac
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!
How to tame a giga u ask? Ez get 4 metal gates place 3 of them in a box don't place the last one put 2 bear traps inside lead the giga to u make it stuck in a bear trap place the metal gate boom 💥 u trapped it and then knock it out put 200 narcotics put some quetzal kibbles boom again u have a giga
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.
Tip on conserving narctotics for this guy: Let his torpor almost completely drain then use a few hundred Narcotics. The time it takes for the torpor to refill and drain again buys you a lot more time.
Also bring a decent carnivore to source raw prime meat on the spot so you don't waste time or taming effectiveness, futher decreasing the narcotics needed.
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
Lvl 215 Giga will take 250-300 Tranq darts out of blue rifles stay on high ground!!
This is for all the mobile players who want a monster! So you need 4 stone gateways and 3 baretraps or one. Get it to chase you make sure you have a box with the way the giga gets in open. You run and let it chase you until you go through. It be trap and run behind it and fill box him like Fortnite. Then knock him out WARNING: you need ALOT of tranqs. Then idk if this always happen but have one 10x palm and one prime meat WARNING: this is how I tamed it then bam! Youre now crying in happiness! Hopefully..,
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! ^^^^^
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
Just bring 4 - 6 metal dino gateways, 400 narcodics(or a bunch of bio toxin if you have it), a lot of tranq darts and an ascendant rifle, 15 - 25 kibble, and 1 or 2 bear traps. Set the metal gates like this \_/ and put a bear trap in the center. Get it stuck in the bear trap and very quickly close off the trap but dont put the back metal gateway too close to it or it will squeeze out. Many people make that mistake. And once you trap it just tranq the thing out. Then pump a lot of narcodics into it and make sure to not accidentally force feed kibble into it. Then BOOM. You have a tame giga. For those who are doing this and have never owned a giga I have 2 things i advise.
1. DO NOT PUMP ANYTHING UNLESS ITS MELEE
2. DO NOT FIGHT A WILD GIGA WITH YOUR TAMED ONE. Its just free dinner for the wild one.