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.
400hp and full armor still 1 hit me?
I’m about to go tame my first Giga. My idea is to hop on my Quetz with a platform saddle, dismount and stay on the saddle, and shoot at the giga until I’m able to knock him out. Hoping this works
This this would be friggin awesome if it had a fear roar like a yuty.
When you look for one... you don’t find one.
You dont look for one... you find loads
Moral of the story. Always look for Gigas!!!
Search YouTube for ‘Captain Fatdog Giga Trap’. It costs the fraction of the materials of a typical gate trap and is way less risky. Just a few metal pillars is all you need. Fatdog traps are the way to go!
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When taming a Giga it's torpor drops in 2min so wait til it's torpor is at about 4,000 then pump a several hundred Narcotics all at once. 100 Narc = 4,000 torpor. It takes longer for the torpor to rise than it does to drop. Took mine 30min to go from 4,000 torpor back to max.
If you're low on metals or want a trap that doesn't cost too much then use metal billboards. They work the same as metal gates and basically just cheaper. Be sure to use large bear traps tho.
Here is a pearl of wisdom that I wish I was given when I tamed a giga:
Don't use three metal dino-gates, use four!
You make a U shape with three and put a large bear trap in the middle.
You then lure the giga onto the bear trap and place the final Dino-gate behind it to trap it.
Everyone says that you can use three metal Dino-gates but you really want to use four when you are being chased by the most terrifying creature on the island.
The numbers they give you are way off. If it says 500 dart's take 1000 or 1500 just to be sure.
Here’s what you need. Not too heavy resources needed.
5-6 metal gateways
200+ tranq arrows (Ascendant crossbow)
Babies in cryopod for prime meat
3-4 large bear traps
Lots of Biotoxin
Lure the giga to the trap with a flier and make sure it gets stuck. Then you wanna place the final gateways behind it to trap it. It might seem way too large for the regular Dinogates but it can’t get out. After you knock it out, you can uncryo the babies, unclaim them and have your flier kill it for prime. Should be smooth sailing from there!
I tried trapping mine with less than 5 gates and it decided to drown itself. I recommend kiting the giga away from the water since it’s too stupid to realize it’s gonna drown while it’s asleep. Lesson learnt. At the price of my sanity and time at 4 am. 💀
Easy to tame if u are not lazy easier than rhyniogantha taming u need to just find 1 and lure it to trap shoot it with 100 tranq dart or lots of tranq arrow feed him and torqidity increading thing v fast wait and u got ur giga taming dificlty is mid u can use 1000 narco berries or 1500 for even safe use bio toxin if u can get get 2 long neck rifle so u have a back up and crossbow and tranq arrow for even more back up
Bring double the amount of arrows or darts Dododex tell you to bring
Once you think you’ve made enough tracks to tame one, trust me and make more bc these things tank
I recommend using a trap, I learnt the hard way
It makes it a lot easier to tame when it's tamed on 2x weekend !
Tamed this thing knowing it will have much weaker stats, still got disappointed by the stats SCALE on level up, absolute garbage, this thing needs to rest every 50 meters sprint and it doesn't help no matter how mnay levels you put in stamina, a decently leveled up rex or spino are worlds better than this oversized lazy bum
Since the calc doesn’t show darts for some reason... A 150 took 200 darts from a 177 longneck. Hope this helps someone
do NOT underestimate the torpor drop of this guy.
Wall Giga Wall Giga, We love Wall Gigas and especially if you’ve only now got your first flyer and tranqs!!!!!!! And Narcotics!!!!!!!!!