Pets & Taming

Companion creatures that fight alongside you, grant passive bonuses, and can be tamed from defeated bosses

1. Overview
2. Starter Pet
3. Pet Attacks
4. Taming Bosses
5. Tamer Bait
6. Ability Groups
7. Pets per Area
8. Catch Level & Upgrading
9. Season Reward Pets

1. Overview

Every character has one active pet. Pets provide two benefits:

Pet attack — a chance each combat round to deal elemental damage to the enemy
Passive ability — a stat bonus applied for the entire run (HP regen, flat damage, flat reduction, or magic find)

Pets are visible in town, during runs, nightmares, duels, and when other players inspect you. Select your active pet in the Town Well (Pets tab).

Source	Bound to	Count
Starter (Loyal Dog)	All characters	1
Tamed from bosses	Character	385
Season rewards	Account	varies

2. Starter Pet

Every new character automatically receives a Loyal Dog.

Property	Value
Ability	HP Regen: +1 per round
Attack element	Physical
Attack chance	20%
Attack damage	0.5 – 1.0 × player level

The starter dog scales with player level. Tamed pets scale with catch level (the difficulty they were caught at) instead.

3. Pet Attacks

Each round, your pet has a chance to attack the enemy. Pet attacks go through the full damage pipeline — armor, elemental weakness, resistance, and flat reduction all apply.

Attack Scaling (Tamed Pets)

min_damage = max(1, round(catch_level × min_per_pet_level))

max_damage = max(1, round(catch_level × max_per_pet_level))

Attack stats vary by creature group:

Group	Chance	Min multiplier	Max multiplier
Defensive	10–20%	0.30–0.50	0.50–0.70
Offensive	15–25%	0.50–0.70	0.70–1.00
No ability	20–25%	0.70–0.90	0.90–1.20

Example: An offensive dragon caught at difficulty 500 with multipliers 0.60/0.85 deals 300–425 damage per attack and adds flat elemental damage to your character. A no-ability spider caught at the same difficulty with 0.85/1.10 deals 425–550 but has no passive bonus.

4. Taming Bosses

During a run, bosses whose monster type is in the tameable pet list show a (Tamable) tag below their name. To tame them:

Buy Tamer Bait from the merchant or find one as a drop
Activate the bait in your backpack (click/tap) — this queues the taming buff
Start a run — the buff is consumed and active for the entire run
Defeat a tameable boss — the taming roll determines if the pet is caught

Taming vs. Skin Capture

Taming and skin capture are mutually exclusive. When bait is active and the boss is tameable, the taming roll replaces the skin capture — no skin is unlocked. Non-tameable bosses (or runs without bait) use the normal skin capture mechanic.

Tame Chance by Rarity

The bait's rarity determines the tame chance per boss encounter:

Bait Rarity	Tame Chance
Common	30%
Rare	40%
Exquisite	50%
Epic	60%
Ancient	70%

If the taming roll fails, the bait buff remains active for the rest of the run — you can try again on the next tameable boss.

What Can Be Tamed

Animals, beasts, and fantasy creatures are tameable. The following are excluded:

Humanoids — humans, elves, orcs, gnomes, halflings, barbarians, trolls, ogres, demons, imps, kobolds, etc.
Undead & constructs — skeletons, ghosts, golems, elementals, mummies, zombies, wraiths, gargoyles, etc.
Tier 7 mega-bosses — Giant Bone Dragons, Dragon Spirit, Fire Gryphon, and other tier-7-exclusive creatures

5. Tamer Bait

A consumable item sold by the merchant. Works like a Scroll of Pickyness — activate in town, consumed on next run start.

Property	Value
Price	70% of gold cap (`level × 70`)
Stack size	10
Duration	One full run (all boss encounters)
Limit	One active at a time

Tip: Tamer Bait covers the entire run. Longer runs at higher difficulties give more boss encounters and higher catch levels. Combine with boss-farming strategies for maximum value.

6. Ability Groups

Every catchable pet belongs to one of three groups based on its creature type. The group determines the passive ability and attack stat range.

Defensive Pets — Flat Elemental Reduction

Tanky, armored creatures that absorb incoming damage. Grants flat reduction against the element matching the area's drop armor element (the element that area's gear gives resistance for).

flat_reduction = max(1, round(catch_level × 0.3))

Exception — Verdant Woods: Defensive pets from this area grant bonus armor instead of flat elemental reduction, since the area is purely physical.

armor = max(1, round(catch_level × 3))

Creature families: Turtle, Scorpion, Basilisk, Dinosaur, Living Mound, Hydra, Rocks, Gelatinous Cube, Cow, War Elephant, Gryphon, Yeti, Horse, Mule, Beetle Warrior, Bear

Offensive Pets — Flat Elemental Damage

Powerful mythical creatures that add elemental damage to your attacks. The element matches the pet's attack element (the area's dominant element).

flat_damage = max(1, round(catch_level × 0.5))

Creature families: Dragon (Baby, Young, Adult, Ancient, Ancient Lord), Drake, Phoenix, Jellyfish, Mold, Mushroom, Ooze, Serpent, Unicorn

No-Ability Pets — Attack Only

Fast, venomous, or swarming creatures with the highest attack stats but no passive bonus. Their raw pet attack damage compensates.

Creature families: Snake, Cobra, Spider, Ant, Beetle, Bug, Centipede, Bat, Dragonfly, Worm, Eagle, Floating Eye, Fly, Frog, Rat, Lizard, Dog, Wolf, Grass Killer, Crawler, Chicken

Trade-off: Defensive and offensive pets provide sustained value through passive stats, while no-ability pets gamble on higher per-hit damage. At difficulty 500, a defensive turtle gives 150 flat reduction every round guaranteed, while a no-ability spider deals 425–550 damage on a 20–25% chance per round.

7. Pets per Area

Multi-area monsters have separate pet entries per area. The pet's attack element and defensive reduction element depend on the area it was caught in.

Area	Total	Attack Element	Def. Reduction	Def.	Off.	None
Verdant Woods	64	Physical	Physical	21	11	32
Murky Swamp	36	Earth	Energy	16	7	13
Canalization	51	Energy	Magic	8	15	28
Catacombs	24	Magic	Fire	5	6	13
Volcanic Caves	57	Fire	Ice	15	10	32
Ice Mountains	50	Ice	Earth	19	8	23
Shadow Realm	46	Magic	Ice / Fire	6	12	28
Dragon's Lair	57	Per creature	Earth / Energy	1	54	2

Dragon's Lair is dominated by offensive dragons and drakes (54 of 57 pets) — all granting flat elemental damage. The attack element is inferred per creature — a Frost Ancient Dragon attacks with Ice, a Fire Adult Dragon with Fire, etc.

Tameable Pets by Area & Difficulty

Monsters spawn based on difficulty tier. Higher difficulty unlocks stronger (and rarer) tameable creatures. The table below shows how many tameable pets are available at each difficulty range per area.

Area	T1 1–10	T2 11–30	T3 31–50	T4 51–100	T5 101–300	T6 301–500	Total
Verdant Woods	31	15	11	4	3	–	64
Murky Swamp	19	3	4	6	1	3	36
Canalization	27	11	6	7	–	–	51
Catacombs	11	3	8	1	1	–	24
Volcanic Caves	25	10	15	4	1	2	57
Ice Mountains	13	6	23	7	1	–	50
Shadow Realm	15	7	13	7	2	2	46
Dragon's Lair	1	8	16	14	16	2	57

Non-cumulative tiers: each monster only spawns in its own tier range. At difficulty 35 (tier 3), you encounter tier-3 creatures only — not tier 1 or 2. To catch lower-tier pets, run at lower difficulties.

8. Catch Level & Upgrading

When you tame a pet, its catch level is the difficulty of the run where the boss was defeated. This determines both attack damage and ability value.

Catch Level	Offensive Flat Dmg	Defensive Flat Red	Armor (Verdant Woods)	Attack (0.7/1.0 mult)
10	5	3	30	7 – 10
50	25	15	150	35 – 50
100	50	30	300	70 – 100
250	125	75	750	175 – 250
500	250	150	1,500	350 – 500
1,000	500	300	3,000	700 – 1,000

Re-catching

Taming the same pet you already own does nothing unless the new catch level is higher
Higher catch level overwrites the existing entry — ability and attack scale up
There is no way to downgrade a pet

9. Season Reward Pets

Special pets awarded at the end of a season. Account-wide (not character-bound). See Season 1 for current rewards.

Pet	Ability	Attack
Lucky Chicken (Season 1)	Magic Find: 1–10% based on final rank	Magic, 20% chance, 0.5–1.0 × player level

Season pets scale with player level (not catch level) and have fixed abilities determined by final leaderboard rank.

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