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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a giganotosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a giganotosaurus.
How many normal raw meat with x15 soothing balm?
Alright, here's an actual tip for mobile players. You need a tamed argentavis with a saddle on and a 10x soothing balm or that other soothing balm if you love wasting ambers, 4x metal dinosaur gateway, 1 trillion biotoxins for showing your giga who's boss by making it experience Odin sleep and around... 69420 raw prime meats, kibbles are fine, but why tho? Also SET YOUR ARGENTAVIS TO PASSIVE.
For the weapons preparation, i suggest speedrunning the volcano cave, artifact of the massive so you can atleast obtain a high dmg ascendant crossbow, and you need around 100 million tranq arrows or if you're rich, Ascendant Longneck Rifle also with 1 million tranq darts
Gigas usually spawn in mountainous regions like the top of griffin mountain in north zone, snowy mountains and the highest point pursuit mountain , you can spend 100000 hours trying to find a high level one in medium-hard difficulty, I recommend tidy saving and save data on the game BEFORE the thing spawns, so if you end up getting low levels you can restore save data making it BEFORE you encountered the low lv Giga, who knows the RNG swaps your low level with high level Gigas?
Now in my experience Gigas ignores tamed creatures in MOBILE unless provoked so you can get yourself as close as possible with your tamed cargo birb as long as you don't attack it.
Now this is the "Pacifist" way to tame a Giga, i'd say..
-Time consuming 8.5/10, make it 9/10
-Danger Level: 2/10 (as long as you don't be a bob attacking the giga)
-Effectiveness: 6/10
-Resources Needed: Mid (ignore the ridicolous numbers, you need alot to knock one out and keep it asleep okay? So bring as many tranqs and biotoxins)
Once you've found your desired Giga, roam around it like National Geographic Camera-man, make a documentary of the Giga, follow the Giga, watch it murder anything in its way, be happy, be traumatized, be consumed with fear UNTIL the Giga finally walk itself into a FLAT location, now once this happens, you look its sorrounding, any victim for the giga? If there is, just keep watching the Giga murder them until theres none. Now your Giga is standing still, no more victims left, here's what you gotta do, land with your argentavis, and plant your 4 METAL dinosaur gateways WHILE RIDING your Argentavis, Lock the Giga in like a square of Metal Dinosaur Gateways. If it fails and Giga got distracted by more victims to murder, just destroy the gates and rebuild since Argentavis have smithy saddles. Repeat another 1000 times hoping it doesn't despawn until you successfully trap the Giga in your gates. Once trapped, your life becomes 1000x easier. Now place a bed near the Giga so you can respawn near if somehow killed.
If you dont understand what i mean by square gates, heres a diagram, (i hope it looks good once posted)
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See that? Yeah, that's what it means. Gate, gate, gate and gate, until Giga can't escape. Why metal?? Because dude can't bite metal.
Giga trapped? Now start blasting all those darts, arrows, whatever, at it in a distance to avoid being a victim of the Murder machine. Keep blasting, dont bother checking Torpor with spyglass, just keep shooting like those good ol days you're running away from Satan Tickle Chicken, keep shooting and shooting and shooting with your tranqs until it fell down and knocked out.
Waste no time, run into the Giga, and use your soothing balm, force feed all that 69420 raw prime meats to your Giga and show em who's boss by forcing it to an Odin sleep with Bio Toxins until it's tamed.
Congrats, you tamed a murder machine. Now their hp dropped to 17,000 from 80,000 and just pray that their melee damage is near 100% so you don't have to spend eternity lvling up its melee before it starts hitting hard.
Now what do you do? You tame another one, breed them and raise families of Gigas until one of them is 100% imprinted and mutated, now you can murder anything in your way.
Side note: ONLY LEVEL UP GIGA'S MELEE DAMAGE
Giga? Obtained. Casualties? None, other than the 1 billion souls of the damned the Giga murdered when it's wild. Resources? Nothing much other than a couple metal gateways, biotoxins and tranqs. Either good luck or good food, for the Giga's stomach
Trap it with 4 Dino gates or billboards with a large bear trap to knock it out a prim tek bow is better than a crossbow or longneck
They are actually easy to taim. I did some math and figured out I can knock it out with 13 shots from my mastercraft longneck rifle with tranq darts and you only need about 150 narcotics(when using prime meat) which is easy to get and only 13 prime meat without a soothing balm(only on mobile).
Very easy beginners tame, did kibble in last slot or prime meat. Go up to it and feed it. I got mine my first day of ark and love him.
I don't wanna tame one because im scared of rage and it killing my spino and stuff.
These guys are passive tames you just need some basic kibble and bug repellent and then sneak up on them with every single cryopod you own or it won’t work.
Haven't seen it mentioned so sorry if I missed it, but these guys lose food super fast. Keep an eye on your food levels and troughs with these guys around. Cryo pods will stop their hunger so they don't starve rage in your base on accident.
The hardest part about taming this monster was luring it into our trap. He wasn't interested in us as bait, so here is how we had to do it: get on your argentavis and pick up a tasty helpless creature like a megaloceros or a phoiomia. The giga will chase this creature for far longer than he will chase you or your tames. Have a friend on another argentavis ready to pick up aggro with another wild dino when yours inevitably gets chomped. Oh, and try not to die in the process. Good luck!
First tame tapajera next go to snow biome and bring rifle with darts lure the giga over a mountain use your tapajera to lan on mountain and start shooting and let your tribe mates do the rest
Put 1 large bear trap 1 dino gate in front of it then it will take 1 tranqu 1 raw meat for lvl 200 or less easier than a dodo try it yourself☺ then you got a giga easy
Its harder then you may think if your trying to lure it into a trap but it cant bite you it will run away but your pretty much dead if your to close to the ground. Be prepared. I just tamed one and its not easy.
R.I.P RoadRunner my gallimnus I was running around and found one of these gigas and I ran past it. It chased me but I was faster then my stamina ran out... luckily I some how managed to survive
Do the large bear trap and 4 metal gate strategy but whatever you do don't go on a cliff for I have seen one climb up to me but I did get away on my Argentina so that's a good thing (ps it will one shot you tek gear or not)
I had the luckiest Giga tame ever. Of course we come looking to tame an Ovis. That’s when we spot a Giga. It just sat there as we shot it with crossbows. Easy Tame!! And on our way back we came across a male and female Ovis. Lucky Day.
I personally think that on the island you need to lure it to the beach and trap in the metal Dino gateway and large bear trap, trap because in the mountains at my level (69) rexes are a problem to me so your best bet to tame use the dinosaur gateway bear trap, trap and make it on the beach (if the mountain is close to a beach)
I know everyone says to use Dino gates but they’re soooooooo expensive. So use billboards instead!
I tamed one in like 4 minutes I used a Rex to gather meat and prime that I just hopped on my stego and collected narcoberrys then I just went to sleep many many times to get spoiled meat (about 450) then I made it into a drug then I went giga hunting I shot a lvl 4 giga with (toxicant) i think that’s how you spell it) arrows with a cross bow until it got unconscious then I put the prime and normal meat in then the drugs I shoved a few dozen in its mouth that 4 to 6 minutes later it’s mine (I hope this is helpful) btw I had to kill a 3 Rex’s and 4 raptors in the process XD
Dont think to tame this when you're in low level
To only use 1 cooked fish meat your taming speed has to be at 449! Yes I did check no I didn't add an extra 4