Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a pyromane? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a pyromane.
To tame, bring to water to extinguish its flames makes it easy to be able to ride you want to hit it couple times, then it’ll do a animation which is a little roar that’s when it’s ready to be ridden make sure there are dinos around high level will be better cause they’ll last longer and keep hitting away at them if your timer gets low just absorb flame then it’ll shoot back up to 30 secs the more of the bar you fill on the dinos you hit the more it’ll fill the tame bar
1.find one. 2.shoot it with pump shot gun(best option). 3.when it roars it should say ride so press ride. 4.kill dinos until you can use flame absorb. 5.keep attacking it and pressing flame absorb. 6.now when you done it and the bar is full at the bottom it should say tame with some buttons. Please like I spent a lot of righting/good luck
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
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
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.
You can tame it right at the start with spears. Lure it into water deep enough for you to get comfortably under it, then hit it until it roars. It may take a few attempts.
It’s also easier to tame a higher level one because it’s less likely to die during the taming process.
You can use the Extinguisher Grenade to give him the doused debuff
Controller button for drain flames is RB + LT Xbox and R1 +L2 for PS.
Then to tame it fully its RB + RT (R1 + L2) for some reason so it puts you in 1st person dino mode.
On PS5 hit R1+R2 to tame it when at 100%
2 Bolas and a pike in the rain for a 135 to roar
Don’t take these down to the bottom of the ocean as they will explode
The extinguisher grenade works for putting out their flame 👍🏼
Do not try to tame if you don't own the DLC, just spent 5 mins dragging it to water just to find out 😂
I usally pick it up with an argy (when it’s picked up it won’t attack u unless u attack it) bring to somewhere with a lot of dinos then start shooting makes the taming process a lot easier and safer
If you try to tame when raining it will already have its flames extinguished.
They can be found in a map without owning the dlc however the dlc needs to be purchased before being able to tame it
For PS5
R2 attak
R1+L2 return fire, restore health
Hold R1 press R2 to finish tamming then bar on 100%
You can grab them with an argy. Just don't attack them and even if they attack you before you can grab them they won't hurt you while your carrying them off to the ocean or a puddle to give them the doused debuff and allow you to damage them enough to get to the taming process. 30 seconds is tough so make sure your in an area with lots of stuff to kill close by
Tame when it’s raining. The rain douses their flames so you don’t have to lead them to water.
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