What is the strongest pet in game?

[Rob]

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[Ficelle]

Thrumbo, but pretty useless even as bonded from start as it will takes years if not decades to fully train it.
And they eat trees (not only but still...).

Megatherium is second but pretty hard too.


Elephants and bears are the most realistic strong pets to use...

By the time you would have a thrumbo trained, you could have 30 or so bears...

[Rob]

thanks)

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Panthers are also pretty decent.

[Scruffy]

Arctic Wolves just for the cool factor

[SquareDildo]

Panthers, cougars are nice, they trade some bear toughness for extra speed. Wargs are okay, but weaker, but still tougher than wolves.

[BrowneHawk]

Started a game with a monkey. The monkey is useless. It just eats. It can also only be trained to attack.

[Feldspar]

a slave

[JoMo02]

Wargs i think. They aren't the toughest, but they train and breed really fast and don't bond as often as regular dogs.

[TwoTonGamer]

Wargs are practical, too. They can haul and only eat raw meat/corpses so they won't eat your prepared meals. A freezer full of raider corpses next to their sleeping area suits them just fine and saves you hassle.
I'm sure they will get into the alcohol/drugs so keep them zoned out of that stuff.

[Bozobub]

Bears have a special "stun" attack, or at least did back in A18; not sure about now. Whether or not they still have the special attack, they still do a LOT of damage, while remaining very tanky.

Several of the smaller carnivores do very well for attack damage but they simply can't sponge as much incoming fire. If I didn't go for bears, I'd choose hordes of squirrels =).

[Beanut Putter]

Originally posted by Bozobub:

Bears have a special "stun" attack, or at least did back in A18; not sure about now. Whether or not they still have the special attack, they still do a LOT of damage, while remaining very tanky.

Several of the smaller carnivores do very well for attack damage but they simply can't sponge as much incoming fire. If I didn't go for bears, I'd choose hordes of squirrels =).

A horde of squirrels would be alot scarier than a bear tbh.

[crgzero]

Squirrels,,, they're hard to hit and I've seen them kill raptors. (modded game obviously) The squirrel eventually died from wounds/bleeding but the fact that they're so hard to hit can make them dangerous in groups.

[KalkiKrosah]

What are you using to base your power ranking on? Combat effectiveness? Production value? Ease of feeding? Trainability? Overall usefulness? You need to specify what you're actually looking for because there is no animal that can do everything.

Assuming you mean "overall usefullness" the Muffalo is the only animal that comes close to being able to "do it all." Its easy to train. Can tank lots of damage. Produces wool for clothing. Produces milk for meals. Can be fed grass. Can lift a lot of weight for caravans. The only thing it cannot do is haul... but all of the things it can do more than makes up for it. If you can have only one animal in a colony, that is the one that you would want.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by BrowneHawk:

Started a game with a monkey. The monkey is useless. It just eats. It can also only be trained to attack.

I really wish they could be trained to haul. I was in NYC last week and saw a street performer in the park with a trained monkey. The monkey could be told to pick up his hat or move other small objects around. I don't anticipate the monkey could lift much weight but I think they should be trainable to be able to. Maybe they were kept that way for balance reasons but in terms of realism I'm on the "monkeys need a buff" team.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by SquareDildo:

Panthers, cougars are nice, they trade some bear toughness for extra speed. Wargs are okay, but weaker, but still tougher than wolves.

I think the hierarchy for large combat animals goes like:

Thrumbo > Elephant > Rhino > Bear > Panther/cougar > Warg > Wolf > Dog

I usually go with cougars or panthers. They are the fastest animals and typically my defenses are strong enough to where my animals are more of a clean up crew than anything else. And cougars and panthers can chase down that raider with the sniper rifle who was sitting all the way in the back of the fire fight.