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Training Guide

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Training Your Pet


When you first created your pet, you may have noticed its stats told you that its strength was average, strong, or something of the like, right? Well, most of it is lies; your darling pet was really weak when it was created. So, now that you've come to terms with your pet's weakness, what can you do about it? Well, you can train up your pet's stats to turn it into a fighting machine! There are a number of ways for you to train your pet, which are (in no particular order):

At the Mystery Island Training School, you can train your pets, through training courses. Each course takes a fixed amount of time, depending on your pet's level. (For detailed information, this page.) Each course raises a chosen stat by one point, although occasionally, you can get a training bonus, which raises that stat by more than one point. Each course is paid with codestones. The Training School is only for pets at or under level 250. It should also be noted that codestones can be obtained for free from Tombola as well as Key Quest.

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The Secret Ninja School is very similar to the Training School. Courses are selected in a similar fashion. The main difference, however, is that in order to use this training school, your pet has to be level 250 or higher. Additionally, instead of paying with normal codestones, you pay for courses with red codestones, which are more expensive. The main advantage of this school over the Training School is time. A level 250 pet at the Training School takes 24 hours, while the same pet at the Ninja School takes 4 hours.

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Cap'n Threelegs' Swashbuckling Academy is also follows the same similar pattern as the two other schools. However, the academy is for pets at or under level 40. Additionally, courses are paid with dubloons. Also, courses here take a bit longer than those in the Training School. One slight advantage here is that you are able to cancel unpaid courses here, unlike the two other schools.

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For all three schools, you're limited in how you can train your pet. In order to be able to train your pet, your stats have to be less than twice your level, with one exception. For example, a level 3 pet with 15 strength won't be able to train; your level would need to be 8 before you can train your strength to 16. The exception to this is your pet's HP. You can train your HP to three times your level. However, in order to train any other stats, your HP would need to be twice your level again. Using this knowledge, you can make the most of your money. For example, if you have a pet at level 20 with 40 HP, strength, and defence, you can train your HP to 60 before raising continuing. That way, you're able to train 20 points of HP using only one codestone each course, instead of two. Then you can raise your level to 30 to 40, and continue training.

In addition to just normal training, there are also Kitchen Quests. While there is a limit of ten a day, it can be quick and (possibly) cheap training. Each quest gives a reward of either an item, neopoints, or a random stat point to any of your pets. Even though you don't always get a stat point, your odds are pretty good on gaining a few stat points per day. Furthermore, you are also allowed to reject quests (although you have to wait for a little bit before being able to do another quest) if you find the ingredients are too expensive. Because of randomness in choosing a pet to reward stats, Kitchen Quests work best when you only have one pet.

The Lab Ray is a training method acquired through the purchase of all nine pieces of the Secret Laboratory Map. Once you have all nine pieces, you get a 10,000 neopoint reward and access to the lab ray, where you can zap a pet of your choice once each day. It can change your pet's species, color, or gender, as well as adding to or taking away any of your pet's stats. The lab does not give out stats evenly. A pet that solely relied on the lab would stay at a low level (because it subtracts levels more), while having high HP, somewhat high strength, low defense, and somewhat high movement. Because of the uneven stats from lab, it may be a bit tedious to both lab and use training schools simultaneously.

Faerie Quests are randomly given quests where you must fetch an item to make a faerie happy. This is probably the cheapest method to gain stats, except they're randomly given. Also, like Kitchen Quests, stats are rewarded to a random pet.
  • Earth Faerie – Makes your pets full
  • Light Faerie – +1 level
  • Darkness Faerie – +2 HP
  • Fire Faerie – +2 strength
  • Water Faerie – +2 defense
  • Faerie Queen – +1 level, +3 HP, +3 strength
  • Space Faerie – +4 levels
  • Fountain Faerie – A free color of your choice for your pet

For those that want faster stats, stat-increasing neggs and potions exist for that very purpose. However, these are much more expensive than other training methods. Generally, only very high-level pets use these, as the training alternatives are probably too slow. A full list of stat-increasing neggs and potions can be found here.

Additionally, some dailies give out stats, although it's not a very good method of training. For example, Coltzans Shrine, which you can visit every 12 hours, occasionally gives out stats, and the Fruit Machine rarely gives out some stats when you win. Also, every once in a while, you might get a random event where your pet will gain stats. Don't count on it, though.

Pet builds



Below are a few commonly seen pet stat builds that you may encounter in the battledome, as well as some advantages and disadvantages in comparison to other pets. The reason for different builds is to pose some sort of statistical advantage over another pet instead of an advantage in terms of weapons.

Balanced pets have fairly even stats for HP, strength, and defense. Some balanced pets can also opt to not train defense, but it's generally recommended to train defense as well. Balanced pets are probably most commonly seen. Because it's balanced, it's easy to find similar stat opponents as well, by just using boost and similar HP. Balanced pets, however, can get beaten by non-balanced pets in league battles, which are made to perform the best with a given league formula.

Tank pets are pets with much higher defense than strength and HP. Because some competitions are sorted into leagues depending on your stats, where defense is not considered to be as effective as it should be (because it's a difficult stat to factor for), those with much higher defense boosts are able to block most of the damage done while still doing a decent amount of damage. These pets are generally suited for competitive battling environments, as 1-player opponents will eventually get to a point where your defense won't nearly be as effective (since their stats usually reach far beyond your own by the time you have maxed out). Creating a tank pet requires good knowledge of how league formulas work (or a friend that knows) and access to good defensive weapons and strategy.

A noobinator is a general term to describe pets which usually have some sort of statistical disadvantage, but manages to defeat opponents with higher stats. There are different stat builds which can still be considered a noobinator. Some noobinators will have an extremely small amount of HP coupled with high strength, while some others just appear to be low-level balanced pets. The most common trait of a noobinator is the use of Everlasting Crystal Apple, or some other multiple use healer. Some despise noobinators, claiming them to be cheap or unfair, so if you have sensitive feelings, you might want to stay away from this. To be a good noobinator, you need a fairly big pocketbook and good battling strategy.

Lab rats, an unintentional pet build, are pets who receive all their training through the use of the lab ray. Two good signs of a lab rat are high HP coupled with moderate strength and extremely low level, and a non-default but not popular pet color/species (such as a Radioactive Uni). Usually, the reason lab rats are at such a disadvantage are because of not-so-great weapons; because the owner doesn't have enough neopoints to actually train and purchase weapons for their pet, they just purchase the lab ray, a one-time cost, and use that to train.