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Building your War Pet
Start with one good pet for the march you actually use.
Get the pet and skills working with your heroes first. You can chase better stats once the build is useful.
New to pets? Start with these terms.
- March
- The heroes and troops you send out as one legion.
- Talent
- A pet’s built-in ability. Its star rating shows its development.
- Trigger
- The event that activates an ability, such as a hero using a skill.
- Attributes
- Stats such as Strength and Intelligence. Each skill names the stat that improves its effect.
- Regeneration
- Rerolling a pet’s quality, base attributes, and skill slots.
- Inheritance
- Transferring skills between compatible pets. Check which pet and skills will be consumed.
Build your pet in six steps
Work through these in order. The extra details are there if you get stuck.
Choose your main march
Start with your usual heroes and troops. What does that march need most: more damage, help staying alive, or support for nearby allies?
Your next action: read the pet’s talent and check that your heroes can activate it.
What to look for
Check the trigger, cooldown, target count, and troop restrictions. Pet damage, hero-skill damage, and normal attacks are different effects; read which one a bonus improves.
Compare effects in CoD DBCapture and keep useful pets
Find the beast through map search, choose Capture, and purify it. Tame it in your enclosure and raise its Trust to level 2 so it can join a legion.
Keep: your best candidate and spare pets with useful talents or skills.
Capture and storage details
Capturing costs a Warrant. Before you release a spare pet, check its talent and skills. Bad stats don’t always mean it has nothing worth keeping.
Capture and Trust referenceImprove the right attributes
Read the talent description to see which stat it uses. When you reroll, look for that stat and the ones your other skills need.
Set a limit: decide how many potions to use, then keep a workable result.
How regeneration works
Regeneration rerolls quality, base attributes, and skill slots while keeping the species. Compare pets at the same level, allow room for your planned skills, and save the result you want.
The v1.0.34 guarantee was an Epic or Legendary result within 20 regenerations. It did not guarantee ideal attributes or a finished talent. Check the current rules in your game.
Regeneration reference · Patch notesPlan the talent upgrades
Check the stars on the talent, not just the pet’s quality. They’re separate. If this is a pet you’ll keep using, work toward 3★ while building its core skills.
Before confirming: check the cost, what will be consumed, and the resulting star rating.
What to look for
Keep useful talent donors until you have checked your upgrade options.
Before confirming: check the cost, what will be consumed, and the resulting star rating.
Build skills that work together
Choose skills that help the talent do its job. If a skill boosts another skill, make sure you’ve equipped the one it needs.
Check first: learning a new skill can replace an existing one, even with an empty slot.
Learning and inheritance
Read the current learning preview before spending valuable cards. For inheritance, confirm the receiver, donor, and surviving skills. The documented same-type process consumes the donor and replaces the receiver’s skills.
Developer explanation of skill learning · Inheritance referenceTest before spending more
Try changing one thing at a time. Keep your heroes, troops, artifact, and opponent as similar as you can, then compare a few battle reports.
Compare: damage, healing, shields, skill activations, and how long the march survives.
Budget and comparison tools
Our suggested spending order is a usable pet, a working talent and skill set, then stronger stars and attributes. Use your actual stats and realistic triggers in CoD DB; confirm the comparison in battle.
The official August 2026 update added Priority Coins. Older Exchange House videos may not include them, so check the current purchase and sale rules.
Open the War Pet Builder · Official update notes
Which pet fits your march?
These examples can help you narrow it down. Check which pets are available in your season.
Sapphire FaedrakeMagic damage
Good fit: magic heroes that apply Scorch, Freeze, or Ensnare for the relevant Painbloom modifier.
Attributes: Intelligence, then Spirit and Luck for the chosen skills.
Read the pet referenceSnowpeak RocHeroes that apply DEF Break
Good fit: a march that applies DEF Break, the defense-reducing effect used by Concentration. Nico and Kinnara are examples to evaluate.
Attributes: Luck for Concentration; Strength and Agility for the rest of the set.
Read the pet referenceAuric WarhoundCavalry with extra Rage generation
Good fit: cavalry heroes whose skills generate additional Rage. Check whether they generate Auric Marks; Neya is one example.
Attributes: Agility, Strength, and Luck. Read each Outburst modifier’s scaling.
Read the pet referenceMossrock AurochsInfantry with health-related skills
Good fit: infantry that benefits from HP bonuses. Coil and its modifiers connect damage with Infantry HP; Kuma and Lei Kuan are examples to assess.
Attributes: Strength and Endurance, with Agility for a Coil-focused set.
Read the pet referenceExample skill sets
Treat these as starting points. Read the skills on your own pet before spending on the build.
Sapphire Faedrake buildAdditional targets and magic pet damage
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Advanced Painbloom | Additional targets |
| Intense Painbloom | Benefits from the required debuffs |
| Follow-Up | Chance to repeat the magic pet Rage skill |
| Resonance | Magic pet skill damage |
| Magic Spirits | Critical damage |
| Magic Fortune | Critical chance |
Older guides use the names Split Painbloom and Forceful Painbloom. Match the descriptions if the names differ.
Compare in CoD DB · Build referenceMossrock Aurochs buildFrontline infantry example
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Advanced Coil | Strengthens the first Coil damage effect |
| Intense Coil | Improves the HP-related effect |
| Counterstrike | Responds to incoming normal attacks |
| Advanced Counterstrike | Supports Counterstrike |
| Blood Roar | Physical pet critical chance |
| Angry Roar | Physical pet critical chance |
Counterstrike needs your march to take normal attacks. If that rarely happens, this set may not be worth your resources.
Open-field and rally referenceIs your pet ready?
- My heroes can activate the pet’s talent.
- My attributes support the skills I equipped.
- Each modifier has its required base skill.
- I checked costs and consumed pets before upgrading.
- I compared more than one battle report.
- I know which upgrade I am saving for next.
Written guides and toolsWritten guides and tools
These builds are starting points, not a ranking of every pet. If a guide differs from your game, follow the current in-game skill descriptions, costs, and season rules.