For beginners wanting to tame this thing (before tranq arrows): I have found 4-6 slingshots and a ridiculous amount of stone is suitable enough to knock one of these guys out. Make sure to bait it out of the water long & far enough so once they start running they will be to far away. Making a small thatch trap is also useful as it will help you secure some more hits even though it will eventually break it. I have found this method to only be viable though with Level 50 and lower Sarcos but as a beginner tame they are ridiculously good.

Best thing to do about these guys if you haven’t learned tranq arrows is stay very far away. However taming is a good idea after you have tranq, they are really not that hard to tame. Best chances are to find one and shoot it and lure it on a fast-semi fast Dino (ON LAND) to a safe place and then just load it’s AssS with tranq. Then gibe some meat and you good.

This damn boy is a machine in early game to mid might be hard to find a sarco with an ho under 1k if your a beginner but it is what it is if your lazy to make a trap get your tranqs ready go to a swamp and get it's attention shoot it and run shoot it and run it fells like your fighting Micheal Myers if he ever was a reptile keep going untill he's knocked out the sarco has a long cooldown to feed it again if your at the stage where you unlocked a sword go on a massacre killing diplo and other sarcos and paraar to get prime meat if your scared to go killing then from the start have a ton of narcotics with you when you tame a sarco put the skill points on stamina or health it's damage is already good but if you want go damage and HP if you get a pack of these bad boys your gonna start slaying megalodons easily (if you have a baryonx with you so he can stun)

Hope this helps

This thing is probably the best possible animal you can have for water. The stamina regenerates instantly in the water and are super fast. They are lean mean fighting machines. It is actually really easy to tame as long as you are in a high spot and have tranq arrows and a crap ton of meat. I think that the only down side is that for some reason the food always goes down really fast, so always have a lot of meat in your sarco. I named mine Stanley.

A tip for newish-players: My Sarco is still only a level twenty-something, by even by level 7, she was killing Titanoboas and kiting megalodons with ease. I can't recommend the Sarco enough as a swamp hunting mount-- and as I said before, ESPECIALLY for Titanoboas. You'll have leather coming in by the hundreds. Just be careful that you go at them head-on, and that you don't take on more than a few beasties at a time. Be especially wary of the Kapro. They'll knock you flat and leave you vulnerable to whatever horrors are crouching in the shadows. Have a pike on hand for those pesky bugs that your Sarco can't reach. And beware, dear reader, the frumious Baryonyx, with jaws that bite and claws that catch. They have a penchant of attacking from the side, making it quite a hastle to get back at them. (At least, from my experiences.) Want to take on other Sarcos with your Sarco? Have no fear. Just get your melee damage up a little bit, and you should be fine.

But as always, tread carefully.

Beware of em near the grassland lakes on lost island, got scared once or twice by em 😬

Otherwise they’re great for caving on underwater caves and are super easy to tame, personally I just use a taller/heftier tanky mount like my baboon Ted to just ride on the back of to tranq, btw the grassland lakes on LI are by far the best area to tame them since there’s no threats besides hyenas