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.
If you raise one make sure you have a cryopod and something to get a lot of meat I is only a pain in the arse for the first few hours
Gigas are easy to tame when you have a dinosaur gate way and large dinosaur Bear trap but mobile use boi toxin when his almost awake use prime meat to get 20.5 taming on my mobile
I was able to tame one using an ascended longneck, shocking tranq darts, and about 50 large bear traps laid out in a cluster in a flat, open place. The giga chased be into one trap, stood still for a couple seconds, broke out, and immediately went into another one over and over again. I resorted to this after learning how cheap large bear traps were and how ineffective using a grappling hook and argie was for me.
Don’t be cheap with the narcotics. Use the best you’ve got, use a LOT and don’t look away. I looked away for ten seconds and he woke up. Had to use another 200 arrows to put him down again.
I haven't tamed one yet, but here's two ideas how to do it safely
1: Common Trap
Outrunning a giga on a mountain is near impossible ehile shooting tranqs, thankfully us human beings aren't stupid. Gather 4-6 Metal dino gates and either ride a dino and place them ehile giga is standing or lure it inside (suggested use beartrap to hold it in) afterwards, just fire away!
2. Cliff Hang
My original plan was to use a Tapajara and hang on a cliff while shooting, so when topor run occurs, I can grapple on it or use Quetzal trick to KO the giga. Not sure if this idea works, but worth a go if you don't have metal gates.
TAMING GOOD FOR DINGLE PLAYER
Quetzal Kibble or raw prime meat are literally your only hope, along with over 100 narcotics or bio toxins. If you have a soothingbalm, it'll definitely take care of timespending.
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AS SOON AS ITS KNOCKED OUT FEED IT BIOTOXIN IMMEDIATELY ITS DRAIN IS MONSTROUS.
Get the high ground and dart it
to tame a giga in ark mobile you need Quetz kibble.I recomend using prime meat if you dont have kibble... For knocking out I recomend using shocking arrovs they are made by using arrovs(normal) and bio tocin.
Never tame this thing without a trap and kibble.
Would recommended a quetzal drop ship to tame or kill for its maneuverability
Taming this is not easy better use smooting balm
I suggest taking a Tapejara or griffin to shoot off of
How to tame a giga (The island map):
Bring:
-A lot of arrows or tranqulizer darts (Max lvl needs 853 tranq darts)
-Sooting balm (Recommended) (If possible bring a 15x or 10x sooting balm)
-Taming foods (Recommended its preferred kibble)
-A lot of Narotics/Biotoxin (For me I brought 200)
-1-2 Large bear traps (Optional)
-4-5 Metal Dino gateway (Optional)
Taming with trap:
Find a giga. They usually spawn on high mountains. Try finding them at the artic or Far's peak. Set your trap,Use 3 of your dino gateway and a large bear trap in the middle and make the trap like this: \_/ . Get the giga to aggro on you and lead it to the trap. Take your final dino gateway and close the trap. Now, Shoot it with arrows or tranq darts. When its' knocked out, Feed it the recommended sooting balm and kibble, or use meat if not possible. Keep an eye on its torpor and feed it bio toxin or narotics if necessary. Wait for a while and you'll get it. Make sure to protect it to while its being tamed! Goodluck, Players!
Tamed using the metal gateway method w/ beartrap. Biotoxin is incredibly useful. I crypoded my equus to take with me in case I needed emergency narcotics. Traps are a must for solo players.
These guys become extremely unnecessary if you tame carcha.Taming one of these is hard job you will need tons of tranq arrows ranging from 200 and others put bio toxin in it
The only real way to tame a giga is using a trap because missing one shot or letting run for even a bit too long can make you have to waste 10 more shots
I recommend having an Argo for a flier to get this guy. 10x soothing balm(you may not have it since wrong device). 20 - 50 large bear traps. For the tranquilizer to work and him not to wake up. Try shooting him with Tranq arrows when he’s down. 7 behemoth gateways. And lure him into the trap. Make sure he doesn’t get out of the bear traps. I recommend using 6 or 7 bows. If you liked the info. Hit the button facing the sky /\ If you disliked the info. Hit the button facing underground \/
Take a crossbow with some grabs hooks and then you hook. Hook yourself up to its ass and knock it down
I use 4 metal dino gates to trap. Put 3-4 in place of choice (clear carnivores before in the area), leave a gap for giga to enter, then put 1-2 bear traps in the middle. the last dino gate put once giga is in bear trap. i use thylacaleo to lure giga in the trap. thyla is fast and decent hp, put some points in both. i just took lvl 150 on official pve server down with ca 300 darts and 257% longneck. bring everything 20% more than adviced here just in case. put see sleeping bag. once giga is down surround it with 15 wooden spikes but check giga torpor meanwhile, it starts dropping 400 per second. let it drop half then spam narcotics. you can dosm hundreds, check dododex and put more just calculate that 100 narc will up torpor by 4000 so u need it to be half or something to spam all narc in and then sit down and relax. if u have it surrounded with spikes. i put also thyla on aggressive to keep animals away from me, they will probably not attack wild giga, but you. i also bring wyvern and put it on agressive and in turret mode then it will not fly away. good luck!
Honestly I was so scared taming my first one yesterday and all you need is a good long neck rifle I used a mastercraft 190%, I used raw mutton in a preserving bin and carried about 700 narcotics but only feed him like 400. Easy giga tame