This insect can carry tools and use them to get cooler resources

Give it a club and it can KO other dinos for you to tame

Put it in a taming pen so nothing attacks it while taming

Tried basic, extordinary, supiour kibble did not work

I just use bug repellent without a ghillie suit and it works fine. Don't forget to use bug repellant on you and your mount if u bring one. And also be leary once you tame it if there are nearby bug creatures, they may ignore you but will attack the mantis right when it tames.

Mantis are excellent for extinction, get a couple Gigas or Manas and farm element nodes once the nodes are finished get a mantis will all point in melee and the best metal pickaxe you can find and you have yourself an easy 300+ element

When equipped with swords THEY ARE THE MOST OP DINO🤬😡😡😡

This thing Can hold swords , picks, axes, Clubs!!!!!!

They are passive feeders, you're gonna need some horns and bug repellant

I spent 2 hours finding deathworm horns on scorched earth. To find the latest update telling me all that was useless.

Mantis can now be tamed on Gen 2 using Rhino Horns per Wildcard.

I was able to knock out a lvl 100 bronto so easily with only 160 club, 380 attack and imprint buff. Also really good for knocking out crystal wyverns but you need to force feed meat after two wyverns because the mantis has low health. No more tranq darts needed!

Place one foundation, then put two walls high on every side. You can then drop the Mantis in there. (it's easiest with a quetzal, but wyverns will work too) Then you just stand outside of the box and feed it, without worrying about it attacking you, or anything attacking it.

You can’t even tame them on crystal isles

Pack bug repellent and a raptor. Without them, you’re toast. P.S. If you have no repellent, the mantis might trick you to following it and it will do a sneaky attack.

Combine with good clubs for near instant tame

Landing on it with wyvern might make it despawn and waste your valuable horns!

If you tame a lot of low level female mantis they lay eggs you can use to make mantis kibble, which lets you tame a rock elemental super fast and efficient!~L

It's a PASSIVE TAME so don't try to beat it up or you will regret it

Lure one into a closed trap and seal it off, a 2x2x2 will suffice. You'll leave one wall open until it's in and then place it. A doorway and door on the other side. After that add ceilings and go out of render. Once you come back it should be calm and you can feed it through the walls easily as they almost never move.