I've tamed 2 I. My life and my first died because I made it fight some megalodon's and mantas and it got killed by a megalodon after killing like 10 of each, anyway my second was tamed in a swamp and I made it home on foot with him by my side, (I tamed him yesterday) and I loovvvvvvvvvvvveee him a lot. He's the best spino ever.

I built a small wooden house boat specifically to go down the river between fars peak and smugglers pass. I was half way between the mouth of the river and the bottom of that frozen peak where there where rocks in the stream, when I saw a spino. At the time I was pretty low level, so I waited for it to fight some dinos and get lower in health. Well, it happened. A herd of trikes fought it, and when I thought it was dead, I started passing through. Then a raptor pack showed, so I stood in the center of my boat, and attacked their heads through my walls. When I finally killed the pack, the spino was back. It wasn't dead enough for me to kill it at the time, so I had 10 seconds to process what to do: save my chest of stuff, or get out. Well I had to destroy my wall to escape. To most, that is crazy to try to escape such a fast dino, but to me, it wasn't. I had always put points to my own movement speed since the very beginning. I out ran that sucker. So dont ever assume their dead. Never.

Here is the truth about the Spino no one is talking about for some reason. First, the bad: It is VERY slow on land. Don’t bother wasting points on movement. It will never have as much health as a Rex. While it is amphibious, it must come up for air occasionally. Keep an eye on his oxygen marker.

The good: It only has one speed while swimming.., FAST. Don’t bother double clicking to swim faster. He always sprints in water. His oxygen lasts an eternity underwater. Increase points into his oxygen an you will make his already impressive swimming speed even faster and allow him to stay underwater for days. His stamina drain is very slow. His bite is VERY fast, makes for some high DPS. They can swim BACKWARDS, which makes underwater fights SO much easier.

Bottom line, don’t try to make it a land fighter, that role is well taken by the Rex. I put points into melee, oxygen and Health and make it an underwater absolute beast.

Ok I was just taking a trip to the red woods with my lvl 37 sarco and a lvl 20 Carno I spotted one of these on a bay and started shooting it with tranks I put my creatures on neutral and told them to attack a carbememys and my sarco while turning jumped off the godamn cliff 200 iq moves right there and my Carno started attacking it too it killed both my creatures and mf ran away in to the water and drowned cha cha real smooth

I tamed one a couple levels over getting the Tranq arrows, I used four Dino Gate door frames because it’s spine get stuck in the top and it can’t get out ( I used four of them to be all around it) you put three down get it stuck in those and put one on the back (that’s the dangerous part) and when it gets stuck in all of them it can’t get out so then you shoot it with tranq arrows and feed it fish meat or prime fish meat but you’ll need a lot of narcotics (if it wakes up it’s still stuck)