Taming:

You need biotoxin and plant species z fruit. Don’t try and tame it without the trap. Make six triangle stone foundations and place them in a hexagon shape. Make 18 stone walls. Switch them to the tall doorframe (single door with no top) and stack them up on the perimeter of the foundations three tall (any shorter than three and the yi ling can get inside. Stand outside the trap and let it spray you with feathers. Once you have 30, get in the trap, ready your fruit, and watch it. Its trail in the air should be red, meaning it’ll do its rupture. Once it does it will dive at you really fast, but if you’re in the trap it should get stuck in the doorframe for a second, giving you enough time to throw the fruit and stun it. Once stunned get close and feed it biotoxin. Rinse and repeat until tamed. If you threw the fruit and it isn’t stopped in place, chances are you still stunned it, it just didn’t properly stun, so chase after if while it’s on the ground and feed it, it usually works. Don’t get hit by the rupture, so stay on the opposite side of the trap’s interior that the yi ling is by, as the rupture can still hit you if you’re inside, and it will remove all your feathers and deal a lot of damage, meaning you have to get feathered again. You can use other narcotics besides biotoxin, but it works best.

Once tamed, you have on upward dash, but while flying can dash sideways or down infinitely. Sprinting while flying makes it faster but you constantly lose altitude, but regular speed makes it slower but you don’t lose altitude so long as you don’t look down. You can rupture a target if you shoot at least one feather in it, and after a successful rupture, you get another upward dash to use in the air.

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

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

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

Mostly used to fly high above pay2win pyro users, you can pull out weapons while gliding (and if you angle it right the glide is basically infinite) which is big especially on aberration.

Pump stamina to get better feather regen and get infinite airtime by resetting your dash (latch onto vertical objects or shoot 1 feather into anything and rupture it). You have infinite side dashes which give you significant momentum when in the air (turn your mouse 45° and press C+A/D)

A great early/midgame dino (I don't get why people are saying it's a early game rock drake) you will need to get used to the mechanics but what sets it apart from rock drake is it's feathers. Overall it's not good good but it's good for early game

I like this thing, definitely recommend for early game. It can get around pretty quickly, and it can shoot spines from above.

Reposting under proper dino (was posted under Ravager but helped me).

In case anyone is wondering what you need for the different feather types. Also Xbox hold X to change feathers (can’t have pet on shoulder or it brings up Shoulder pet options)

You forcefeed the Yi Ling different stuff for feather variants that have 5min effect:

-Congealed gas balls for **Volatile**

-Narcotics or Biotoxin for **Sedate**

-Tree sap for **Sticky**

-Nameless venom for **Poison**

It’s a velonasaur and a deinonychus. Honestly it’s definetly gonna be a great tame not just for abberation

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.