Easy take strategy: you will need 4 stone Dino gates, large bear trap, and tranqs. Simply place 3 gates at 90 degree angles and it’s the opening facing the spino. Put a large bear trap in your he middle. Aggro the spino and have it run into the gate trap. When it is caught in the bear trap, walk around the other side and place the last gate where the spino came in from and tranq it. Boom, spino tamed.

All of y'all using traps to tame these, I mean its smart and all but it's way more fun to get a fast mount like a raptor or a sabertooth and run it in circles. The only problem is if you're near water, they'll start swimming, which could be bad if their torpor is already way down. In that case, baryonyx is your best mount for that, but just make sure to try and get it running inland and not towards the water. I'd also recommend a ravager for this since they jump super high and run fast.

Spinos aren’t necessarily actually better than a rex for a few reasons, and theres some stuff i’ve been reading here that is just flat out wrong. Rexes and spinos are almost equals, with rexes being a bit more combat focused and spinos being better at everything else

Spinos do outdamage a rex IF they stand on 2 legs, tamed unridded spinos will NOT do this. Meaning unless it is being ridden a rex will outdamage a spino in dps

A spino does have greater knockback than a rex, good enough to juggle alot of enemies die to the fast attack speed, rexes can do the same thing but it’s harder and it will not work against creatures too fast.

Spinos get the hydration buff which increases health regen slightly (barely noticeable) damage, and speed. It gets this buff if it touches even a tiny puddle of water. It does not have to go into deep water to get the buff

Rexes do have better health than spinos (and better dps if the spino is on all fours or unridden). Rexes are usually better for bossfights unless theres water in the arena.

Rexes are in general much easier to tame. Spinos are annoyingly hard to trap unless it is a pre built trap. Even then spinos havea much easier time climbing over walls than rexes, the also move much faster and have even less attention span

NOTE: Rexes do not have short attention spans UNLESS you are on a flyer. If you are on a flyer that is landed or on a land mount or even on foot it will follow you just fine. Spinos however would much rather target fish than you, and due to their preference of water leading them away may be difficult as it might lose interest if taken too far from the water, or focus on fish if any are nearby

Standing on a rock can work however once they start running they are fast with the hydration buff, and it is possible to knock them out in the water, meaning they will drown. I highly recommend using a pre built large box trap at least 3 walls high. Alternatively if you dont want to pre build a trap you can use a large beartrap, and a few stone gateways. Place down the beartrap, lead the spino to the trap, and place the gates around him and tranq at your leisure. I recommend the first option however

Another thing is that once knocked out they prefer fish to meat, they also prefer raw prime fish meat to raw mutton or prime meat. This may may it harder or easier depending on your location and environment. On valguero and ragnarok it is easy to get mutton if you have a flyer to quickly bring it back to a tame before it spoils. I usually do this with any large carnivores to save on kibble. But if you already have a capable water mount or have nearby sabertooth salmon available then this will be rather easy as long as you keep its torpor up. Kibble of course also works as always if you have access to it.

Thats about it just a few more side notes

Tamed rexes will not i initiate a roar when entering combat. Only wild rexes do.

Spinos arent nearly as maneuverable as other aquatic creatures in the water, and you may find yourself getting outmaneuvered and bitten in the back alot. Spinos are much better for rivers and lakes than open ocean.

Theres very good reason why rexes are so often used in boss fights rather than spinos. Unless theres water in the arena rexes are almost always a better choice, if not therizinos.

I am not a rex fanboy, i much prefer spinos myself. But i cant stand blatantly wrong information being posted here. Dont get me wrong a spino will absolutely body a rex if it stands up, but because tamed spinos dont do that unless ridden rexes will out damage them, ontop of that rexes absolutely have more health.

Spinos suit a much different role in my opinion, very equal as a battle mount, worse as an army. Far superior as a travel mount. A good high level spino will kill everything outside an alpha rex, or a giga. You may have a hard time against alpha wyverns or high level alpha carnos.

It should also be noted that alpha mosas and alpha squids will, obviously prove to you that they are the kings of the deep by ripping amd tearing your spino a new a**hole.

I’m going to start breeding spinos soon to create a really good traveling tame to take me anywhere. And in my opinion thats what they’re for, traveling while being good protection against anything a same level rex can kill.

To the guy who said a level 2 spino was really near your base: Same thing happened to me! I say trust Dododex. If you’d like a tip from me, climb up very high and tranq it. Or if you want to kill it, bows and normal arrows work (really, I almost did it once, when it was down a cliff and couldn’t climb up to attack, and then I accidentally jumped... R.I.P.). When I knocked mine out, it was in water. But where it was when standing, it could breath. Even when I knocked it out (with it’s head now underwater), it’s oxygen didn’t drop. I had lots of bio toxin and used around 30. Also, again, about the bow-and-arrow killing, I suggest 80 arrows (or 70, maybe, just around there). Well, I hope this helped!

i dont know if this works on all devices, but it does on nintendo!

how to tame very fast:

you dont need many narcotics, id say like 10. up to 75 narcotics should be good.

but bring a lot of raw FISH meat. raw fish meat tames it real fast. just go kill some pirranah cealocanth or salmon. or any other fish.

i tamed mine in about 1 min [including knocking out time] just make sure you got a good perch or a flyer to chase it once it runs. also please do this if its in the water- it will tame before it drowns.

Hilariously and I’m not joking these are great beginner tames on mobile do dilo pursuit and get a good bow and then get tranqs and do megapirahna pursuit. I did this as a level 25 then I just shot it and put fish meat and balm in it and it tamed but I got the saddle at level 71 so…. Overall great tame way better than Rex.

I got two level twenty’s that made a baby and when I tranqed these guys they took 5 raw meat but I tranqed another and it took so long I used smoothing balm just tranq from the high ground there in beaches and swamps for a level 10-20 it will take 5-20 tranqs use smoothing balm or kibble to tame prefers kibble regular kibble and argentavis kibble easy to kill and they might kill your weaker pets so defend like to bless the baby also it takes 5 campfires to warm the egg

Using these beast’s in swamps is the most efficient way of farming meat, first you get a buff helping you in demolishing the hostile Dino’s in the swamp, and while standing on 2 legs it deals even more damage and attacks very fast, allowing it to collect thousands of thousands of Meat

Contrary to popular belief, these guys are simply territorial rather than aggressive; they would much rather play in the rivers and catch fish than chase a human. Because of this temperament, even Spinos know their limits.

This can be taken advantage of by reducing their health until they are greatly wounded - less than half.

This will send the Spino into a panic that will cause it to run away from players, tamed creatures, and anything that will fight back (although it will still try to catch fish if left unprovoked, but seems to get frightened and run away if hit by piranha during this time).

All you have to do from here is chase it and shoot it with Tranq Arrows as it continues to flee in panic.

Having a Mesopithecus set totarget the Spino on your shoulder during this time will be beneficial, as frightened Spinos can easily outrun a player if they want to if the player hasnt sufficiently leveled their movement speed stat.

As for how to damage it to where it will become startled, all you have to do is use your creature that can deal the most damage out of all of your tames, and hit the Spino until it becomes panicked and runs away in a desparate attempt to preserve itself, and then get off and proceed to chase it with your Tranqs and Mesopithecus. Just be careful not to get near its feet and watch out for other predators during that time.

Hopefully this should help.

HOW TO GET RID OF A SPINO:

Pretty easy at high levels but that's not why you're reading this anyway. At low level you probably lack the fire power to take one out and the cliff and bow tactic won't work, because they're fast and you won't be able to hit them. Try and make a trap instead:

Place a wooden spike wall.

Place a fence foundation behind it.

Place 2 walls on the foundation.

Expand to the sides the same way.

Spinos are stupid so it will run straight at you and die from its own damage. You can also shoot it from afar as it will be attacking the spikes and not you. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome!