If this is your fist battle at level 11, and you're looking to win, you'll want your pet to be 20 or more in health, speed, strength and defence and you'll want to battle either Talon or Appy (available from the Trading Cards Shop). If you're level 13 you'll want your pet to be 20-50 in health, strength, defense, and speed, and you'll want to battle one of the weaker cards listed in the first list below. If you're level 15, you'll want your pet to be 50 or more in health, strength, speed and defence and you'll want to battle one of the cards listed in the second list below*. You can train with the Gym, games, Personal Trainer quests or a combination of all 3. The Gym requires crystals which are won from Haunted House quests. You can buy from user shops, too, but after a while this will become very expensive to do - especially during Maraween when prices tend to become insanely high, so best to stockpile your own hoard and best to start this stockpile as quickly as possible. How much to spend on each quest depends on your comfort zone and budget, but I personally limit my quests to around 8,000 - 15,000 mp. For Personal Trainer quests, I tend to limit them to around 200 Olympics points, but that's me. Whatever methods you use for pet training, you will want to stat up as evenly as possible. If you stat up with games, you'll want to get a pet stats gift box so the right pet gets the random stats. If you don't have a Pet Stats gift box, then a random pet will get the stat. The games that award stats are:
Fairy Flight
Gizmo Gravity
Gummy Bricks
Monty's Great Escape
Quack Mafia
Toy Blocks
Wallop!
Phantom Four (magic and charisma)
To find out what score you need for the stat you want, click the High Score Rewards icon at the game's gamepage.
Weapon: Mace, at 16 icons worth of damage, is the best weapon you can get without spending millions (and yes, I am assuming here that you don't want to spend millions). You can either win Mace from Defend the Castle (level 8, 2 star), or buy it in user shops. Since you can use 2 weapons per turn, it's best to get and equip 2. Defense weapons attack as well, so you can either get and equip 2 Combat Shield (also won from Defend the Castle) or leave these slots open. It's up to you.
Healing: For healing, you'll need Magic + 2 healers. Magic, you win from Computer Repair quests. Healers are listed on my blog "Healers" since healing strengths and prices are all over the place.
Opponents: Your battle opponents (Trading Cards) have both Health Points (HP) and Total Damage (TD). Health points are easy to see; they're right next to the card on the battle page. The TD, however, isn't easy to see, but they are found on my blog, "Trading Cards". For successful battling, it's best that your pet's Total Damage be greater than the Total Damage of the card you're battling. Your pet's Total Damage is found at the bottom of your pet's turn summary.
And speaking of total damage: you want stats as even as possible because your pet's total damage is factored from your pet's strength and speed which means that your pet will only be as strong as your weakest stat. Health is your longevity in battle, so it's worth training that as well and keeping it even-ish with the other stats. Defense, I also recommend training because it's useful for Olympics, Freelance Job Agency and some Pet jobs. Level can be roughly half of stats (or, stats can be double the level, however you want to think of it), but because it also means potentially higher cost at the Gym/Elite Gym, it's best not to level up your battle pet until you have to.
Boosters are another way of statting up your pet. There are 4 type of boosters and they all have a 2 hour cooldown:
*Max Boosters: Available from the Account Upgrades Shop. 5-10 gym, elite or magic stats
*Min booster: Sometimes won from Hospital. Can give 1 stat or restore your pets Happiness, Thirst, and Hunger.
*Regular boosters: Available from the boosters shop gives 3 - 6 Gym, Elite Gym, or Magic stats
*Theme: 1-3 gym, elite, or magic. Usually only 1 stat given. If they don't have the name of a stat or have the word "min" in them, they're theme.
Don't battle Wild Minipets until your pet has a total damage of 75 or more.
Sewer Struggle shouldn't really be played until your pet has a total damage of 14 or more
Spells: Useless in battle. You only get 1 hit point per level of spell learned, with a max of 10. A lot of spells aren't even coded for battle, so they return a message saying the pet hasn't learned this spell yet. They are useful for certain pet jobs and Fire Fairy rewards, but those are the only 2 uses they currently have.
It's also helpful to be flexible about your battle pet's species or colour. The reason being is that at times throughout the year, there are events that allow free training for pets of a certain costume. There are also double stats weeks which are great for training - if the pet has the right costume on for that week. Also, the Operations Portal, apart from doing nothing, can sometimes give stats or a transformation. If you do lose a transformation, you can get it back with Drew quests, but they're often expensive and the certificates are quite difficult to obtain.
*50? I thought it was 20! I don't want to train to 50!
It's entirely up to you when you want to start battling, but I've found that stats of 50 or more makes battling less of a struggle, especially with Knutt Knight. At stats of 20 and with Mace, the pet's total damage is over 12. At that total damage, these are the cards your pet can beat:
Now, compare that with stats of 50 which would give your pet a total damage of over 30. With that sort of total damage, these are the cards your pet can beat:
That's why there is no such thing as over training for Knutt Knight quests. The stronger your pet is, the more cards that pet can beat (because of their higher total damage), the less of a struggle you'll potentially have doing the quests.
Magnets and Venom: Are both handy to use if you find you're in a battle against an opponent that's too strong for your pet. Magnets take that amount from your enemy and heals your pet by that same amount. Venom takes that amount from your enemy and blocks their attack by that same amount. Both are single use items and will disappear after the turn is over. Magnets can be won from Gizmo Gravity while Venom can be won from Peoria Prey which requires map. Both can also be bought from other users.
What about Rarity? Rarity doesn't mean anything in terms of weapon strength. If you look at the list of top weapons over or under 1 milllion MP, you'll see that the R numbers (rarity) are quite all over the place. Also, it's worth noting that the highest rarity is 50, and there are no r50 weapons on either list. Only icons worth of damage is the true measure of a strong weapon vs. a weak one, not rarity.
Even despite having the best weapons, a pet with stats and a decent deck, there will still be times where Knutt Knight will throw improbable or impossible opponents at you. Just let those quests time out and try again. Eventually you'll get a card your pet can beat.
"But I'd rather borrow a pet..." Yes, that is an option, but that could get very expensive very quickly. Especially since you'll be asked to battle many times along the way - even during events.
BUT if you want to borrow anyway, the following people are lending battle pets. Tips not required, but a crystal or diamond sent to the lender after returning the pet is always appreciated. Photos or plates are appreciated as well.
*Alisha 3 pets available. Stats and fees vary. Lending in 6 hour increments. Discuss with lender if you want more time. (Click Here for thread)
*ChristinaS Battle pet Baesa - around 4,247,520 MP in fees. Apx. 343 damage. Discuss lending times with lender. (Click Here to Mail)
*Cowpro Battle pet Brought - around 1,000,000 MP in fees for 6 hours. Apx. 482 damage. (Click Here to Mail)
*Dani 2 pets available Keig - around 510,200 MP. Apx 194 damage. Marnela - around 683.160 MP. Apx 238 damage Discuss lending times with lender. (Click Here to Mail)
*ratcliffhouse Determine - around 282,000 MP fees. Stats in the high 200s. Discuss lending times with lender. (Click Here to Mail)
*Shan2016 Tuxic - around 2,539,000 MP for 24 hours. Stats in the 500s. Disabling - around 500k MP for 24 hours. Stats in the high 250s. Mail to discuss borrowing for longer. (Click Here for thread) (Click Here to Mail)
*Violotta Zeldah, Beauforte, Xadrion available. Stats and fees vary. Discuss with lender (Click Here to Mail)
If you have more questions, then join us at https://www.marapets.com/subforum.php?id=40
TOP WEAPONS UNDER AND OVER 1 MILLION MP
Top 10 weapons under a million MP. IWD indicates Icons Worth of Damage, or the actual strength of the weapon.
@spanishmusicfan your guidance will help me a lot. I've always lost in Battle against any opponents
15 months & 24 days ago 9th Nov 2023 19:53
Great guide , thank you.
16 months, 3 days & 7 hrs ago 30th Oct 2023 13:23
Thanks for the help. It took me a while to answer because, as you didn't mark my name, the site didn't notify me that you had answered.
@spanishmusicfan
19 months, 9 days & 11 hrs ago 24th Jul 2023 10:16
"attach weapon" is what you want. If you click "use item", you then have to choose which pet gets to play with it as a toy.
19 months, 13 days & 7 hrs ago 20th Jul 2023 13:23
How do I make the magnet work for my pet?
Do I click "use item" or "attach weapon"?
@spanishmusicfan
19 months, 13 days & 8 hrs ago 20th Jul 2023 13:11
You can win Magic from Computer repair quests, or different games page games. Sometimes, you can even win magic from quick games (like Murfin Madness)
19 months, 14 days & 5 hrs ago 19th Jul 2023 15:30
Where do I get magic? (It's just that I haven't figured it out yet. )
@spanishmusicfan
19 months, 14 days & 6 hrs ago 19th Jul 2023 15:00
Good tips thanks
19 months, 17 days & 21 hrs ago 16th Jul 2023 00:04
thank you
110 months, 10 days & 6 hrs ago 25th Jun 2023 14:22
This is really helpful!
111 months, 7 days & 4 hrs ago 28th May 2023 17:00
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