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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
This is the first tip on Yi Qi
This creature will be on aberration when ASA comes out.
It will be a glider (not a flyer, more like a maewing or rock drake). We don't know about it's taming method yet, but it will be found in the blue and red zones of the map, not the green one. It will be able to shoot feathers that stack, and the more stacks there are on a Dino or player, the more damage will Yi Qi do to them. Good luck taming it when it comes out! - Tei
More Yi Ling Utility Tips
Why does everyone make tips about its abilities from the fan submission of the creature.. wait for the dossier to release! Most of these features will most likely change! Or at least say “in the submission” instead of “it will have” it causes confusion, wait for wildcard to release the actual abilities, because they probably won’t be the same as the submission. (take Rhyniognatha or fasola for example)
-Wyvernian
According the creature dossier, which is now available on ARK’s official discord server, the Yi Ling will posses a unique diet of mushrooms, congealed gas balls and Nameless venom that, and I quote, will ‘effect its attacks’. My hypothesis is that when the Yi Ling ingests certain items it will alter the creatures unique arrow attack in a way that best suits the item in question. For example the Nameless venom will create poison arrows whilst the gas balls will likely make explosive arrows. The mushrooms will probably inflict any player characters with the negative debuff of the collectible mushrooms located in the three aberrant zones, for example a Yi Ling that’s ingested Fertile zone mushrooms will confer hallucinations in afflicted player characters. This makes the Yi Long a fearsome prospect to anyone smart enough to use its unique abilities.
QUICK NOTE! This creature will not be added to ARK: Survival Evolved. It will be an exclusive mount to ARK: Survival Ascended, Aberration.
ABILITY/UTILITY
The Yi Qi's ability is very unique, as it uses its feathers as a weapon. The Yi Qi is a very fragile dinosaur, but not weak at all. Usually, in a dual with a raptor, this creature wouldn't stand a chance. But, the Yi Qi soars overhead its target, dropping down its needle like feathers. This will activate a debuff, which make it so the more feathers put into the prey = the more damage the Yi Qi can do to it. The feathers do not do any damage, but they will stack up on each other leaving the target/prey more vulnerable with open wounds.
The Yi Qi can coat its feathers with certain substances or chemicals, such as Ascerbic Mushrooms, Aquatic mushrooms, Narcotic, Bio Toxin, Propellant, Reaper Pheromone Glands, and more.
Each coat has a different outcome/ability.
Ascerbic Mushrooms will act just like the fertile mushrooms, giving the target hallucinations and no oxygen.
Aquatic Mushrooms make it so the target gets a resistance debuff and a freezing spore effect at the same time.
Narcotic/Biotoxin makes the feathers act like a tranq arrow/dart. Now, this is supposed to be way better than scorpions or pachys. Its just about the equivalent to a crossbow or longneck rifle.
Propellant: This will light the feathers on fire, acting as a flame arrow. When shot at a target, the target will go up in flames.
Reaper Pheromone Gland: This cocoons the target and gives the rider a reaper pheromone buff.
TAMING
To tame the ferocious Yi Qi, you must first let it pelt your player with feathers. I recommend doing this on foot, as it will launch at you quicker. Once it lunges at you, hit it with a chain bola or a harpoon net to trap it. once trapped, you will then feed it Mutton or Regular kibble. Repeat this process until tamed.
The Yi Qi is commonly found in the Fertile/Mushroom forest, or even the Luminous Marshlands, but will not be found in the element zone, because unlike rock drakes, they take radiation damage.
SIDE NOTE
A few things, all the stuff listed on here may not be added, so don't come for me if theres something incorrect about this.
Two, I wrote this WAY longer than it is now but I hit the wrong button and it all got erased. sorry.
Three, this dinosaur is pronounced "Yee-Chee", not "Yi qwee"
Four, this is all information from the ark webpage or the Yi Qi dossier.
Hope this helped! One of the first tips. 🦤
For those who want to know about this creature:
It will be a new creature from Ark: Survival Evolved Ascended, exclusive to Aberration, Looks like a Deinonychus, Climbs walls and attacks with its own feathers!
That's it, but I think maybe it's the size of a raptor, and maybe it has nests like a Deinonychus, but I don't know!