1. Find the pyromane you want to tame

2. Let it agro on you

3. Lead it into any type of water (I’m not sure but should work with all types of water.)

4. Once you lead it into water start damaging it

5. Wait for it to do the roar animation

6.Start kill creatures with the flame attacks and keep doing this until it tames

7. Enjoy your shadowman- I mean pyromane!

-Lavish_spider01

Devs have patched the bug where the bag despawns after cryopoding

Be careful when cryopoding your new pyromane if you left important gear on it expecting it to drop a bag. As of the moment the bag disappears in 0.5 seconds deleting anything in it. I hope this can help people to not lose important items.

A good strategy is to scout the area first to make sure there are some dinos around. Then find the pyromane you want damage to 50% in water and ride it when you see the roar animation. Then go attack dinos and absorb the flames. If you don't see any more dinos around but are currently attacking one. Just hit the dino so it catches flames and absorb to reset 30 sec timer, then start riding away while the dino you were attacking aggros you. As you keep riding away only turn back and hit the aggroing dino and absorb flames if your 30 sec timer is running out. Keep repeating this until you find more dinos. Rinse repeat. If you think this was helpful. Sky high please

Pyromane abilities and benefits

It passively cooks meat, along with that transforming it into jerky over time without oil (unsure if spark power needed)

In both forms it provides insulation but the lion form provides much greater insulation

It can provide fuel to refining forges and campfires

It has a immense damage over time ability in the form of its fire effect, this can go up in stages to 10

Think of its DOT being similar to the thylacoleo’s DOT (unsure of which is more)

Its battle abilities includes, a m1 bite applying the status

effect and dealing a base of 20 damage I believe, however the attack is a brutal one due to its speed of attack

Right click/Left bumper for console (I believe) uses the flame leap ability this can be used every 5 seconds

Holding right click/left bumper uses the flame trail ability this consumes some of its absorbed flames

Ctrl right click/ r3 + left bumper (I think) uses the flame absorb ability, it absorbs nearby flames and stores them for battle use

Ctrl + left click/r3 Right bumper uses the flame boost effect, this consumes absorbed flames to deal an additional 50% damage, lasts until cancelled or depleted of absorbed flames

Swap to shoulder pet, Ctrl + C (unknown of console keybind)

Self explanatory, it transforms it to the shoulder pet form

This has been utility of the pyromane, I apologize if I got some of the console keybinds wrong

On PS5 hit R1+R2 to tame it when at 100%

If having difficulty in the area losing them to wild Dinos while taming. Pick them up with an argy. Bring them to another area or island with their body in the water to prevent them catching you on fire and fight all the easier Dinos. Makes the taming way less annoying and heavily lowers the death risk and having to find another high level one.

From my experience this thing gets chitin better than any other creature. Went out killing things on scorched earth, came back 10 minutes later with 2 lockers full of chitin and keratin

The extinguisher grenade works for putting out their flame 👍🏼

When you have a pyromane on your shoulder leeches that attach will burn of automatically!

It's poo spoils into charcoal if collected

Don’t take these down to the bottom of the ocean as they will explode

To tame these guys you need to get them below 50% health (I might be wrong it could be lower) and apply the “doused” effect to them, which you can do simply by having it rain or putting it in water

After that you must ride the Pyromane and fight creatures/absorb fire (ctrl + right click, and I think L1 R2 for console)

Upon riding you’ll notice a timer, this is until your are dismounted and put at risk of attack from the Pyromane however it will reset upon killing a enemy or absorbing fire (unsure about killing enemy)

This creature can be a difficult and confusing tame however it is worth it

For PS5

R2 attak

R1+L2 return fire, restore health

Hold R1 press R2 to finish tamming then bar on 100%

U can’t tame unless u own fantastic tames mod I tried but I couldn’t

If you have a Wyvern, build a pen and go grab small animals with your wyvern and drop them in the pen, then once you are riding the Pyro to tame, jump in the pen and it’s free eats.

You need to buy a pack to tame it. If you dont have the pack you can see it, kill it and it can kill you but when you want to tame it youll need the pack. Hope this helps

Update what this thing can be affected by NOW. Dododex said this could not be bola'd, so I went to PVP some guys in their cave and SURE enough, first thing they did was bola the pyromane and it knocked me off the Pyro. I ended up being killed along with my pyro. This happened to me last night in Ark Ascended.

PYROMANE's ARE AFFECTED by BOLA's in BOTH ASE/ASA.

For Xbox

Take to water

Pike until it lets you ride

Go around swiping stuff once in fire RB+LT to absorb flames rinse and repeat until dead.

Move on to next wild dino keep doing this until 100% then RB+RT to complete the tame.

Build a trap, lure a ton of wild dinos in, get pyro to rideable state, munch and absorb flame