Best class for animal companion?

[Dishonored Guard]

Mad Dog?

[lemurs2]

Hunter, but the Hunter is not kit complete at the moment. Druid is second best.

[jsaving]

Mad dog is not "weak" but it isn't one of the better archetypes for an animal companion. Bloodrider, beast rider, animal/community cleric, feyspeaker, divine hound, sanctified slayer, arcane rider, sohei, nature oracle, paladin, demonslayer, wildland shaman, and sylvan sorcerer all lose less than mad dogs in exchange for getting an animal companion.

[Nismu]

i personally prefer sylvan sorceror as they can buff the pet (and other plus other magic) and eventually use greater polymorph to turn pet into dragon

Though martial classes are nice too being able to ride on it and get teamwork feats like outflank and seize the moment for lots of extra attacks

[MjKorz]

Originally posted by Itadori Yuji:

Mad Dog?

Beast Rider for martial.

Regular Cleric or Crusader for divine caster.

Wouldn't play one as an arcane caster, but there's Sylvan sorcerer for this purpose.

Originally posted by lemurs2:

Hunter, but the Hunter is not kit complete at the moment. Druid is second best.

Druid is made entirely irrelevant by the Cleric.

[GunStarX]

Hunter probably has the best buffs for the animal, divine hound gets you all of the judgement buffs which I think is the highest without factoring spell buffs.

[gmwaddington]

A Trickster Halfling Divine Hound Hunter isn't bad. You can get a wizard spellbook and cast Transformation.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812285025
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2811800953
For difficult enemies you can cast Trick Fate on both yourself and the dog.

[Mindeveler]

A LOT of classes have animal companions that differ heavily in terms of what bonuses they give to pets and what strengths and weaknesses they have themselves.
https://pathfinderkingmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Animal_Companions_(WotR)
There is no such thing as "best class for animal companion".

[titanopteryx]

I don't know if it's the best but my personal favorite is Divine Hunter. You can choose any companion, like dinosaurs. At level 1 you can pick a domain, which gives you access to impossible domain as a mystic ability. At level 2 you can get outflank for free. At level 3 you can add celestial template to your animal companion which gives it a bunch of elemental resistances, damage reduction, and spell resistance in addition to smite evil. Hunters get a ability to boost a stat of your companion or give it ability, including one that gives it evasion. So you can have a Bulwark companion that also has evasion. If you keep leveling your divine hunter to at least level 8 you get access to the second ability of your domain and the other domain(s) you get from impossible domain. In addition to at level 8 divine hunter being able to add 2 hunter buffs to your companion instead of 1. You also get access to druid spells yourself if that interests you.

If you pick divine hunter at level 1 then switch to something like sohei or cavalier or paladin, you can have any ridable companion as a mount once it reaches level 7 and it can have celestial template if you level divine hunter to level 3.

[Gorwe]

What do you intend to use your AnComp for?