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What is a giganotosaurus used for? giganotosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
In the wild, you can't do much with them. You'd think they'd be excellent for luring to bases, but it will prioritize all other Dinos over you, so it isn't worth the effort. Once tamed, the Giganotosaurus is the best method for hunting. Should you need to stock up on meat for breeding, raising, or just feeding, this is your best bet. Of course they're also just high damage Dinos too, so they're excellent for PvP, tanks with jaw of iron. Fair warning, when trekking across a map with them, take the flattest route possible, they're terrible in forests, mountains, and water. They also take fall damage very easily, so avoid jumps of any kind. Should you end up falling off of a cliff, dismount before hitting the ground and the damage will be avoided.
Fun facts if you want to know more about the giganotosaurus!
-Gigas can be found in moutain-like areas on many of Ark's maps. They have a saddle unlock at level 96.
-To tame them, you must knock it out. This is very tricky, as they can destroy stone and do hundreds of damage per bite.
-Wild gigas have 80,000 health, while tame ones have only around 18,000 health. Becuase of this, it is NOT recommended to fight a wild giga with a tamed giga.
-Gigas have a rage meter that fills up whenever it takes too much damage in a certain time period. When enraged, it will dismount you and will attack everything around it, including you.
-They are one of the few creatures you cannot take into boss arenas. However, this does not apply to Extinction's titans, as they have open-world arenas.
That's all! Up if this was helpful.
Person who said they wanted a platform saddle.
Firstly, oh, sure, it's soooo balanced to have a F*CKING 17K HEALTH AT LEVEL ONE, INCREDIBLY HIGH DAMAGE TAME WITH AN ARMY OF RAPTORS ON TOP,
Secondly, these things will eat you over a bit of fall damage, imagine what they'd think of a platform saddle.
Thirdly, look at them, to they look like they could hold up a platform? Do they? Really? I mean, seriously.
Everything you need to know about the Giga
1. Taming. I suggest getting a flying mount with good stamina (argy) and using metal buildings to trap it. Then just shoot it
2. Tamed. When the Giga is tamed it loses around 65k hp. And loses a lot of attack. The giga has a bad turn radius thanks to its massive size but makes up for it in brute strength and power.
3. Rage. When a tamed giga loses a lot of hp in little time it will turn into a rage mode which is noticeable by glowing eyes. When in rage mode it will kick you off the saddle if your on it and kill you and your tames.
-Randomly Good Ark Player
Beware Gigas get nerfed once tamed so if tame try taming a lvl 140+ or whatever is max lvl wild spawn in your server a 20 giga have around 80 k health in wild and will one shot your dinos but once tamed will be reduced to 17k health and superless attributes like 400 stamina which is total shit
This Wild Beast is almost useless. To tame it, you Will need ALL YOUR TIME AND SANITY. And when you tame it, it gets the STUPID NERF OF 80% OF HP AND DAMAGE. No words. AND, if you LET it get MORE DAMAGE THAN USUAL… Say goodbye to hours and hours of Hard working and taming Going into gigas stomach in minutes. When this happen, Just take some popcorn and see your carchas, rexes, quetzals, spinos, ALL OF THEM DIYING. Seriously, tame a Carcha. It Will be better.