If you think a hundred narcotics are enough to tame this thing, you are sorely mistaken

I recommend using a longneck rifle with tranqdarts. Headshots do more physical damage and less torpor. Aim for the sail and the neck. Use argent kibble. Second prime fish, third mutton. When tamed, use a quetzal with a platform saddle to transport it to base.

Once tamed they are an absolute beast. I've talked down countless therizinos and rexes with my 130 perfect tame. If you attack and back up constantly, the knock back will protect you from almost anything besides maybe a giga.

I'm a average ark player but I just used 4 stone gateways and that's it I tried doing it on a cliff but it was to fast to try run and tranq so the trap is definitely easier but I do play single player with settings boosted a little so I don't know how hard stone gateways are to get normally.

Use this to protect your meg from other mega the best guard dino in my opinion

Killed one in .3 seconds Three trikes one carno one stego

And a dilo

Everything you should now about the spino

1. Taming. To tame a spino I would recommend getting a flying mount. Make a trap that allows you to fly through it and let's the spino get trapped. The just shoot with arrows or darts

2. Stats. The spinosaurus is a good all around tame thanks to its amazing speed on land and in water. And it being stronger than a rex. It is a really good mid-late game tame.

3. Stance. The spino has 2 different stances which allow for strategic battling. Bipedal mode is when the spino stands on 2 legs and does a slash attack with its arms which is its stronger attack. Quadropedal mode is when the spino stands on all four. Quad mode might have less attack strength but is much faster than the bipedal mode.

4. Buff. When the spino is halfway submerged in water, it gets a water buff which can help in fights.

P.S. don't let your spino attack jellyfish. It will die.

-Randomly Good Ark Player

I was just doing my exploring with my raptor then I went back to my base there is a spino like twenty steps away from my hous and I have no idea what to do because the only things I have are low lvl with like 200 health so I’m probably gonna die a million times

I think spinos are better than rexes in every way

but one they lay superior eggs and rexes lay exceptional eggs.

Wild Spinos love Raw Prime Fish Meat so much they eat one per 25 hunger instead of 50 when taming!

There is one right outside of my house. He destroyed my bed. Now I lost everything.

A great way to tame these early if you have a megalodon is to get the trap you have chosen and load it into the megalodon(you may need to upgrade weight some) then get the trap set up and take your megalodon and get some prime fish meat. Where nice you have done this keep the meat in your megalodon because it lasts longer in tames. Then trap the spino and knock it out and feed it the prime fish meat. I would encourage the use of prime fish meat to normal prime meat because it is slightly more and effective ad with the proper setup easier to get.

Trap the spino by making cage i don't know how to build it but see on youtube he it in the cage and then sleep and then tranq it it's food level will be 0

Always have higround on him on him when you are shooting trancets

I tamed a lvl 55 on Valguero. Took about 30-40 Darts and 20 Arrows.

Get on your gali and have someone in the back seat shoot at the spino.

If you need bodyguards while moving things across the ocean these with melee and some weight could make the whole process safer for a single person or really small tribes

I dont know if this was a spawning error or not for me, but on Astraeos at lat 40.5 long 56.4, on that area there was just an absurd amount of spinos (like over 25) and that was the main area they were staying in, I didn't really see any on any other part of the island

I’ve seen people say these are easier to tame than a Rex… forgive me for saying that is wrong. They do take less tranqs, but they run away way faster, and if doing it trapless, the Rex is way way easier to do, because they are so slow. Spinos also need a lot of narcotics or biotoxin, no matter what meat you feed them. Rexes don’t need any if you can keep them supplied with at least prime meat. Not to mention kibble😂 I hope this helped! It’s definitely not to be discouraging, and if using a trap and preparing plenty of narcs, the spino can be easier. Happy taming, everyone!

First make sure u have a major soothing balm the feed it fish meat then boom u have a spino (tho mine died getting back home long story short never bring a spino with 870 Ho and no saddle into the ocean)