The Spino, while dealing a ton of damage, can retreat if it is low on hp, and is very, very fast on land. I only know this from mobile, but it could be true for pc. This also applies for when it is high on torpor, which makes it more difficult to tame, but it is in fact doable, so long as it collapses before it lands in an aggro area/ body of water.

For mobile players, here’s what you gotta do.

A spino requires a bunch of narcotics while it’s knocked out, not to mention the amount of trank arrows you’re gonna need. So get to grinding some narcotics and tranks on your herb mount.

Next we have to think about food, I think cooked meat will be enough for your hunger, but for the spino, they prefer argy kibble (cooking pot: one water skin,mejoberries,fiber,citronal, prime meat jerky,argy egg). A level 280 spino took me 3 kibble to tame, despite Dodo dex telling me I needed 4. The easiest way to get kibble is to just get a cooking bench from the amber store. But if you don’t have amber, or you’re in early game and can’t get argy eggs, prime meat will work alright.

For the knocking out you will require a trap, even if you aren’t in early game, the spino starts running when it’s on low health/torpor running. And most of the times you won’t be able to catch up.4 Stone gateways placed like this

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If you’re on single player just save it manually before attempting this since it might not work the first time.

If you’re on multiplayer, just set up a bunch of sleeping bags(or a bed) where your area is.

Get the spinos attention and start RUNNING this thing is super fast and unless your trap is really near or you have a flying mount, there is no way you’re outrunning it. Once it’s in the trap, make sure it agros on to it, you’ll know it does this when it turns its head to look at the trap and starts trying to hit it, quickly go behind it and place the gateway quickly.

Now for the knocking out part, crossbows and long necks work best but if you don’t have any of those you can use a bow, just make sure to have the materials to repair it.

Once it’s knocked out make sure you have all those narcotics you grinded for, because at the rate this think needs narcotics, it might as well be on the taming chart for #1 favorite food.

After that just wait a bit and BOOM, you have a new tame!

With its buff in water, agility, strength, if you see one, even if it’s a low rank, run…..

How to tame a spino

Step1:get a argy

Step2:get tranq darts and grappling hook

Step3:find wanted spino

Step4:fly argy directly above spino

Step5:hop off argy and shoot it with grappling hook,so your hanging in the air

Step6:ko the spino

Step7:land back down and feed taming food

Step8:enjoy your spino

I tamed a Lv 80 spino with raw prime meat

I used 200+ narcotics and 40+ bio toxin

These are one of the best in my opinion it spawned in like south zone 2 or 3 I was in 1 I was going to kill it when I saw one that was not a alpha so it was normal and it murdered 2 alpha trikes!These are op I hope I can kill it I’m only lvl 23 with some rappers and stuff but do not attack and don’t go in there domaine unless prepare and near high ground.

Rip me

These things nocked me off a cliff more than 5 times and took over 30 trank arrows for a level 20

u want to tame this beast uhh i suggest find some rocks that cannot reach you or maybe a high terrain shot tranq on its head if it runs away just goodluck because they are fast as hell so better be good shooting tranq arrows in long distance i tame it using kibble and prime meat u can use soothing balm if necessary

just tin

These guys are rlly hard to KO without a trap because they LIGIT will not stay on a single target. If they see something that they will Argo on they will turn around no questions asked, which is kinda rlly annoying when you’re tryna knock ‘em out.

If you have a direbear with good health you can tank the hits while you shoot from its back and catch it when it runs away.

They spawn in water when all the fish in the area have been killed

Spinos are a great tame but in the wild they are very dangerous. If u hit them they go crazy and attack u and everything else and they are very fast and deal lots of damage

Got my first spino pretty easy with my heart pounding after witnessing the havoc it can wreck..I laid a couple of large bear traps and lured it into them the shot it with tranq darts...and fed it with narcotics and fish meat..I am currently terrorizing my area with the spino and two baryonyx

Be careful this things torpor burns like tissue paper

I was starve feeding this thing till a darn theri aggravated at me but killed my sleeping spino instead ;[[[ what have we learned today? NEVER EVER try to tame something even remotely close to a theri, they will ruin your day ;[

I recommend using A long neck rifle to knock out these things. One bad thing about Spinos is they near fish💀 bro, these things are in love with fish,it is annoying that they always hunt them which makes it hard to tame. but all you really have to do is make a trap.or find high ground(that is high enough that the Spinosaurus can’t reach)or get A very fast mount that you can use weapons on and shoot the it down and put your food of Choice in it’s inventory. keep it asleep and boom there’s your spino

It’s quicker with prime fish meat than kibble easy getting The prime fish meat just hop on an ichthy and scrape da meat

I got mine from hopping on beefed sarco shot it with tranq arrows on crossbow and with about 16-20 it was tamable so then throw prime or regular fish meat and should go easy as long as you have at least 30-45 narcotic or 15-20 biotoxin with you

Be careful a lvl 4 murderd my lvl 41 thylocolo

these dudes, in my opinion and many others, are better than rexes. sure, rexes are super cool-looking and popular and powerful as well, but the spino is so much less resource consuming. it takes less than half the amount of tranq arrows/darts to knock out a max level spino than you need to knock out a max level rex. also, if you are in battle and you happen to be using a spino, make sure to touch water while on the spino. the water buff increases your chances of winning by a lot. the only downside about spinos, in my opinion, is the saddle. compared to the rexes saddle, the spino saddle is a tad more expensive than a rexes saddle. up this if you found this useful! -J