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.
When you want to knock it out the easy way is to just put metal dinosaur gates next to it but first corner it then someone places down the gates because if you put stone or wood gates it'll eat it and kill you
If u have a Giga the only thing that can kill a tamed 1 is a wild giga because after a wild giga tames the stats go down. Be carful
Giga's are easily drowned and are extremely slow in water leaving them open for attacks
The Giga when tammed can enrage when it's health goes to far down when enraged it will kill everything near it encluding you and your other tames
Crouching or laying down lowers the chance of the giga seeing you.. but don't trust it 100% when you get the chance... RUN!
When knocked out let torpor drop to 1500 then pump if full of narcotics, this way you can do a little farming while you wait and you don't have to watch it every 3 minutes!
A good method for trapping a giga is to place 3 metal Dino gates in a small square and place a large bear trap in the middle. Lure the giga into the bear trap when activated you have 10 seconds to place a metal gate behind it to complete the square. Then the giga will be stuck. I recommend you have multiple people to shoot the giga with tranqz as the giga loses 200 topour every 5 seconds
Once you find the lvl you want ( go as low as possible if it's your first ever gigs tame) get supplies and I mean supplies! You can never have enough when taming a giga so get together at LEAST 1000 narcotic a few hundred tranq darts and arrows for backup as well as any food source u want to use. Then make a large trap an a few metal Dino gates to make a trap lure it into the trap and surround it with the gates to keep it stuck....then KO it and go through the normal process of taming an animal once you have finished enjoy your new "pet"
Ignore all these metal behemoths traps because they cost too much, use stone behemoths. The gigas can damage the gates but you should easily knock it out way before it can breakthrough, after every tame you can just fix the gates, simple as.
From experience, three key things to focus on when taming: 1.) Always bring 400-500 extra narcotics and tranq arrows/darts. 2.) Never put kibble in a dino's inventory. 3.) Lure it away from any water. When it is knocked out, give it 1 narcotic every 2-3 seconds and every 5-10 minutes, look around and check for any hostile dino's.
When applying narcotics to your knocked out giga use your dododex app beforehand to find out how low to let it's torpor drop to apply the suggested nacortics all at once. Then all you would need to do is sit and watch. it would also be a good idea to have extra narcotics/tranqs you can never be overprepared!
For a low level giga trap it in a circle of stone dinosaur gates, for a high level use metal. The torpor of a giga drops about 200/second so if you stop shooting it it will lose it all. It's possible to solo tame, though the more you have the less time it will take to knock down. You should use darts, always bring a couple extra hundred.
Don't use a long neck to knock it out. A crossbow is much more effective because of its shorter reload time. Using a long neck will waste a ton of tranq darts.
An easy way to tame/knockout a giga is to, craft 4 metal dinosaur gateways with a large bear trap. You place 3 of the gateways in a square shape spread a few inches from each other. Then place the large bear trap in the middle. Then with an argy or ptera pick up a dodo and lure the giga into the center of the gates to get trapped by the trap then jump off and place the last Dino gate in the open area and the giga will be trapped and able to shoot and tamed:)
Do not swim with your giga they do not like that don't swim to carno island may kill it
So the beat way to tame a giga would be to use the grapple hook. It allows you to hang over the giga and keep his attention on you and not other dinos around you. You want to either use a quetz or argy and have a buddy fly it. Also once the giga is down allow his torpor to drop to the last bit and pump him full of narcotics using the amount the app specifies. It will save you a lot of trouble and you can literally go do anything else for a solid hour.
Knocked out a giga with a catapult turret on tge back of my quetz
This method works great for taming! Knocked out WAY faster! Save your tranqs! Not worth the amount of time and resources you use for tranqs!
Use 2 metal dino gateways with doors, 2 metal behemoth gates with doors, and 4 large bear traps to keep it trapped long enough to close the door
Keep just enough space for you to squeeze your character through the cracks
It'll be too busy attacking the structure and you can walk right up to it with a magnifying glass at it's foot
Sit in front of it with your quetz at a safe distance and aim for its head
Feed mutton for quick taming if you don't have kibble, but on most servers, you should let it starve a little first for best effectiveness
We tamed ours on Just Survive cluster Ragnarock on ps4 ^^
You should join! Just tell them Church sent you ^^
If I were you guys I would use arrows and Mastercraft or ascendant crossbow cuz of reload timer
People who say YOU NEED to knock these out they are WRONG! You need to go up to it and hit it with a club an it will instantly tame. Up so noobs can see.
Normal narcoberries are cheaper then narcotics