The Red Bandana is pretty great too, since it's just a plain damage upgrade and also works with other allies, which you should commonly have in campaign mode. Mostly you just want to pick cards that APPLY rather than GAIN block, pick perks like innate training or the two pets perk and purchase the +25 HP Mettle upgrade if you're playing with Mettle. I don't think pets need that much support to work. They also accumulate in power by themselves if kept unharmed, though the ramping's pretty slow.įleads start with innate armor every round and can generate the most amount of Block of all pets when upgraded, but I still find them harder to keep from fleeing/dying than Vrocs and Shroogs.
Shroogs are also ridiculously cheap to buy and upgrade in Brawl mode.
Shroogs can sustain themselves with their self-healing bite attack and have no morale, so you never need to worry about them fleeing. Their upgraded ability to give extra energy to Sal is also just about the most useful pet ability in the game. Vrocs have their Evasion which lets them potentially absorb huge attacks for free, and generally you want to be finishing battles before their evasion specialty runs out. What I like about Vrocs and Shroogs is that they require minimal babysitting compared to other pets. I'm not impressed by Erchins, Yotes or those Hesh pets. The only pets I consider worth the money spent at Phroluk's store are Vrocs and Shroogs, with Fleads as a distant third. So, this is my question for the experienced grifters: how do other pets compare in combat, do they need a special strategy to support them properly, and which one is in your opinion the best and most useful one? I am for example not 100% sure, whether there is an actual CRAyote on offer sometimes, or if that is just the yote. Also, if Phroluk sells even different beasts, that I havent spotted yet. I am at the moment quite fixated on raising through the prestige ranks, and changing a reliable tactic, that does not depend on luck is a bit hard for me, but I AM still curious what the lizard or the bog monster actually DO in battle. I am considering, whether the perk for training them is really worth it, as all it does in the current version of the game is to give them 10(?) extra health in battle and keeps them from deteriorating as arguments after the first turn.I remember earlier versions, where untrained pets were rather a slight annoying disadvantage in negotiation, and am a bit sad Klei changed that, as it was actually funny, and made the training more valuable. Off course, that money could be potentially saved by just hoping Sal will pick up a pet from a random encounter, but on the other hand, if she already has her pets, she will just have different useful encounters. Great things about pets for Sal, yeah, they cost some coinage, but they just increase her survivability without needing special grafts, or a tailored card strategy to support them. I have seen Phroluk offer other pets, too, that blueish lizard with something something Lumin in the name, and a youngling of the bog monster, but so far I only bought the lizard-thing once, and it died right in its first battle, without me even figuring out what its all about. It needs a bit more care and defensive cards played on him, to make sure Formation triggers, or bosses and monsters don't one-shot it before Sal has the coins to armour it up, but once it gets going it turns the whole party into an armoured column. When I take the perk to have two pets (really useful for Sal) my second choice is the Yote, It's a bit cheaper, 200 sparks, and its main perk is Formation, giving itself and all allies a decent defense buff if it didn't take damage the turn before. Phroluk sells it regularly for 240 sparks, which is quite a steep price at day 1, but given the damage it will tank for Sal over a game, that, and later on the coins to have it upgraded, are well spent. It gives itself Evasion for the first three turns, so it just negates the first incoming hit and Sal usually doesn't have to spend cards to defend it to keep it from getting hurt or even worse, dying.
My absolute favorite so far is the Vrock, for his sheer capacity to tank damage. In my experience, it is totally worth it, and I stacked Sal to be able to run 2 pets, and have them trained right from the start. So, Sal can meet Phroluk 'of the Beasts' at the night market and buy, heal and upgrade pets from him.
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