They technically do spawn on Lost Colony as a Gargoyle that comes to life. Horrible little surprise in the City.

This tip will show you how to tame a Yi Ling, since I’ve not seen anyone post something like this yet.

So you’ll need the following:

High durability armour

A lot of Plant Species Z fruit

A handful of narcotics or bio toxin

Once you acquire everything you need, head to anywhere near rivers/lakes in the green zone on aberration since they most commonly spawn there, when you find one it would be best to be at a flat surface. You will also need to clear out any other wild Dinos or Yi Ling that you aren’t trying to tame, once you do that you’ll have to let it pelt you with it’s feathers, when you get pelted with around above 30 feathers it will spin in the air then divebomb onto you and you’ll need to time throwing a Plant Species Z fruit at it when it does so.

If you do this successfully then the Yi Ling will become stunned, walk up to it and feed it either narcotics or bio toxin which will increase its torpor bar depending on which of the two you’re using, you’ll have to rinse and repeat this process depending on the level of the Yi Ling until it knocks out. Once unconscious, feed it it’s preferred taming food which is Exceptional Kibble and if you don’t have access to the kibble Raw Mutton will work just as well

I hope this helps anyone in the future for those that are stuck trying to tame one, get to it fellow survivors

Save your sanity and build a trap:

2x2 stone foundation

16 stone doorframe

Stand in middle, keep feather stacks at 30+ and wait for yi ling to dive, it'll get stuck on doorframe, throw plant species at head, feed narcotics, repeat...

I tamed a level 80 with 6 bio toxin and 6 Z fruit, It tamed to 119 with mutton and had 1900+ health stat, they spawn around water in the green zone, my base is by the first river next to portal and I have found about 5 in 4 hours.

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

Here's something, despite dododex saying you can't use a Bola. You can use a bola on the Yi lings. Hope this helps!

All these new creatures (arcalon creatosaurus armadoggo yi ling dreadnoughtus exnauthus deinosuchus and cosmo gigantoraptor ) can only be found on ascended

So I’ve checked the tips and I saw a few things missing so here are some tips to taming this thing. This is all without a trap because using a trap is boring and it ruins the game.

So when throwing the fruits, point your camera as much down as you can, while still being able to see the yi ling. this way when it dives you hit the ground and he gets hit by the explosion.

Second, keeping an eye on the feather count may be hard, so check if the yi ling can dive by looking at the trail when it flies. If it is red, he can dive at any moment. If you don’t stun him by missing, he does a lot of damage. This could one or two-shot you. So always have good armor on. And have some sleeping bags nearby.

So uhhh, that’s kinda all I have to say. Get that arrow pointing to the sky if this helped you!

Suggestion: (take notes wildcard!)

Since so many people are saying it's too similar to velos and rock drakes, make it so the yi ling's feathers have different abilities that match the spores on aberration, and one other just because it sounds fun:

Freezing feathers; slow the enemies with each hit, stacking like the rhynio ability.

Hallucagenic feathers: make the enemy hallucinate, with a certain amount of feathers needed to be shot at the enemy to trigger.

Pheromone feathers: attract reapers, and make nearby reapers less resistant. If near the player, stops the baby from killing you, and provides a passive xp buff to the unborn reaper

Anyone else think this should be on extinction?

The contrails will turn red when it's about to dive. It will barrel roll 3x before it dive bombs,

They are effected by bolas I repeat BOLAS people bolas

Yi Lings are op

They dive bomb like griffins

They shoot bullets like velonsaur

They hang on walls

There super hard to tame

Make a 2x2 with stone foundations and 2 rows high of single doorframes all around. Get your feather stacks up to 30 then stand in the middle of the trap. When Yi Ling does the dive it will now be hindered and get stuck for a second or 2 in the doorframe giving way more time to z fruit it. The stacks of feather will not consume because it cant hit you, making the dives more frequent and not waiting again from 1 stack.

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

The Yi Ling is excellent for stealing Rock Drake eggs on Aberration, it's small, turns tighter than rock drakes, and can dash up to avoid drakes following you. Mutate/level stamina and health if using it for this purpose. After 25 mutations into health, i was sitting at 5,600 health, and at 15 on stamina, it was about 3,400 stamina. It will be helpful, and is better at traversal than a drake.

Bio toxins work better then narcotics.

A level 145 took me 7 plant z’s and biotoxin on 2x official rates, hope this helps when gauging how many you will need.

Karkinos can carry it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably the best middle game tame in abberation purely because its effectively a more acrobatic rock drake! I actually like mine more than my rock drake! The trick is you need to get your technique correct with it if so than it will become your best friend and a formidable battle mount which will follow you up until you get a rock drake