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

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

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.

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

If i could recommend exactly 1 tame for abberation, it would be yi ling. This thing is way too useful to ignore. Sure the taming process can be hard sometimes, but you CAN claim a baby yi ling so if you find a parent with a child you can just kill the parent and take the baby. Once tamed, these guys can glide, shoot feathers, and overall to me are just better rock drakes that can latch instead of climb.

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**

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)

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. 🦤

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.