A Guide On Taming A Quetzal, Solo And On Console, Without The Net Gun:

1. Tame a high level Argentavis. Mine had 5,000 stamina and 120% movement speed. Tamed a level 135 at the volcano.

2. Make grappling hooks, parachutes and over 200 tranquilliser darts (I only ended up using 14)

3. Practice the method. Whistle your Argy to follow you, once it’s in the air, grapple onto it’s stomach. From there, look up and hit LB + Up on the D Pad. This is the ‘go here’ whistle command, which does NOT appear in the whistle wheel.

(This can cause problems - make sure you have assigned your Argy to a separate whistle group (in the inventory menu) from your other dinos and set that group as your active group. Otherwise, all your nearby dinos will try to reach the ‘go here’ location too)

4. Use the triggers to move up and down. I recommend moving down a little on the grapple - it seems easier.

5. Press crouch to release yourself from the grappling hook. This will cause you to fall in you’re in the air, so make sure you have a parachute - I think it might need to be on your hotbar.

6. Load up your Argy with everything, and then find your Quetzal. Land nearby. Repeat Step 3. Make sure your ‘go here’ is ABOVE the Quetzal - it’s easier to shoot it this way.

6.5. You can find Quetzals around but not limited to, the red obelisk, volcano, and cold north areas.

7. On xbox, the ‘go here’ command will make you change and/or put away your weapon. Best thing is to make sure your rifle is loaded after shooting before using the command again to catch up to the Quetzal.

8. If you reach the ground and can’t find your Quetzal, track it from the taming menu in the inventory. It should have a big icon over it’s head once you have tracked it.

BONUS INFO:

- Shooting the wings does not count as part of the hitbox. The best place to hit is the head, but the body is far easier.

- The Quetzal turns very often and quick during combat.

- It may be worth bringing a raft or making a small base with backup tools and armour and a bed nearby - especially if you’re in a more dangerous area. If you choose to do this, do it during Step 6.

- According to a reddit thread, trying to use a scorpion to knockout a Quetzal has a 70% death rate. This is because scorpions deal both melee and torpor damage. Both of them increase with leveling.

I got a ascendant qutez saddle from the ark mobile pursuit hunt argentavis. My argy killed all of them easy, the saddle has 86 armor which is decent I guess. So I am going to tame a quetz. I have a lot of amno leftover from a rex I tamed so I am going to look for a 110 I saw a while ago.

To Tame A Quetzal:

- Find Your Quetzal

- Hop on the passenger seat of your Tapejara

- Direct your Tapejara by whistling it when in the air

- Tranq the Quetz from the Tapejara until it is knocked out (Don’t knock out over water)

- Feed it Exceptional Kibble or Meat

Now You Have A Quetzal!

You Can Also Tame More Quetzals Much Easier

Knock out is too easy now that we have the net gun..

All you gotta do it bet it and shoot it’s eye wile it’s down it’ll do like 5-6x the amount of torpor then when it gets out of net just chase it for a bit and keep shooting till it knocks if your using a low tier weapon for tranqing you might need to net it again it used to be you had to chase em and try to bulls eye it’s eye to get the extra torpor but now the net gun makes it to easy you could also just trap it with some Dino gates and if you’ve got a tribe you could all shoot it wile it’s netted and knock it out real quick but careful not to shoot it once it’s out

To tame use a tapejara and use the chair button then shoot the Quatzal then let him run and once he unloads fly to him and he won’t be running away and just keep doing that and you will knock him or her out, they need a LOT of narcotics, hundreds really, and you can search for prime but leave the tapejara and put him on neutral so it can protect the quatzal, the quatzal is also nicknamed “lord of the skies” because he is the only flying Dino that can hold a platform saddle on the island map.

If you see a a lvl 10 or 20, and if you are only on 40 lvl with pterenedon and parachutes, jumb right above quetzal and hit at least 2 arrows each time. It will be k.o. in 10 to 20 arrows for real.

Or you can level up and use grappling hook. Take a pterenedon with low attack and high stamina, put some Wight on pterenedon to make it's speed same as quetzal. (Test it before flying by calling via whistle). Go above quetzal , open parachute and use grappling hook. Set the quetzal as target and you can change arrows to tranq and k.o. quetzal.

Keep your weight low only keep kibbles bio and tranq arrow in inventory and maybe some spikes in pterenedon because it may be slow when it is carrying you but once you choose quetzal as a target it will run neglacting your weight.