Ultimate Castle Crashers Pet Tier List 

Many of these pets stats are changed in the remaster, for example, snailburt gives +5 defense and only -2 agility, scratchpaw gives +2 strength and +2 agility, as well as many pets giving hidden buffs, such as Pazzo giving +2 defense, seahorse giving +2 agility, Yeti granting +2 strength, and Cardinal granting +2 magic.

I used to pick animal orbs that fit with my knight's color because style points are important

I think bipolarbear really shines in the insane mode ice king fight, when you’re wailing away at the 10,000 hp wall

Bipolar bear for speedruns is insane tho. Literally cuts 10% off every bossfight.

*This list was made thinking about normal mode, I did not consider insane mode for any of these tiers* Also Yeti is F tier, idk why i decided to put him A tier lol

Personally I'd have Giraffe in S cuz he makes getting lvl99 faster. And even if we're only considering normal mode, the levels do make a difference.

Hawkster is S+ because every bite it does on enemies gives you EXP more efficiently then Giraffe

An important thing to note is that not only both of Install Ball and Sherbert's abilities are useless in the vast majority of scenarios, they are oftentimes detrimental to have in a team since their abilities will often mess up your own juggles.

I think Bipolar Bear is extremely underrated here. A lot of the issue I have is knowing when enemies are dead in a juggle. Bipolar Bear will attack dead enemies in a juggle so I know that I can stop.

Just gotta say, Hawkster, absolute unit. Struggled on the Icekimo Arena for a while, running through potion til i ended up using Hawkster (was looking for DPS) and him bringing me food helped me so much, i ended up only using 1 potion the whole arena

had some interesting opinions here. would surely like to see you do more of these ranking videos for the playable characters, bosses, etc.!

Just some info, bipolar only attacks enemy’s during when fighting for princess, also he finishes of some bosses.

IMHO the bipolar bear also has a use for frost king who is harder to hit when he's almost dead, and similarly for cyclops in insane mode. You can also avoid being frozen by simply not being on the ground when the attack goes off.

On top of Hawkster's consistent healing, each of his pecks also count as attacks, giving you XP, which makes a visible difference and only solidifies that he's the best pet in the game

Seahorse doesn't just raise speed in water it also secretly increases your agility stat. You don't notice it in speed but it will effect your arrows and you'll do more damage. Not super useful but he didn't mention everything about the pet

Ram is an easy S tier. Especially useful on a character built mainly for close combat, because he can knock down enemies that spam projectiles.

the troll pet, funnilly enough. has a special place in my heart, as hes the very last pet i unlocked. but also, as a kid, ((and even now)) i just REALY wanted the trolls to be playable, so when i eventually finally found out it was not a background troll, but a obtainable pet, i got quite happy, i just also think he looks adorable. rammy as well, is a big favorite of mine, just the way he suddenly leaves you to bonk enemies hard on the noggin, and then just floats back to you, hes also one of the cuter pets i think,

One thing I will also say about Frogglet as well for its F tier status is my buddy was trying to do a true Blacksmith build(using the Blacksmith hammer and Frogglet pet), and we found often that he was getting perma-deathed. For anyone unaware of this specific glitch, if you're dead in multiplayer, but somehow recover health while dead, there is no way to revive you. Im not sure if it's been patched in other places, but for Xbox Remastered version, it's still prevalent. We often found that bringing Frogglet would actually kill a lot of the fun because Frogglet would get my buddy perma-deathed(especially in corn boss dear god) and we would restart the level because obviously not gonna leave your buddy laying there for 10 mins. May seem like a niche nitpick, but with how often it was happening in one run before we forced him to drop the pet, I felt like it could be counted against Frogglet

This is exactly what I need when I'm sick, thank you!!

You did my boy instant ball dirty 😡

I feel like All of C should get raised to B. Giraffey gives more exp, which is self explanatory, Cardinal is the reason you can get the behemoth, which is an S tier for you, Tiger paws increases two different stats, and chicken Increases three.

I think Sherbert deserves at least D tier, he allows early game non-magic characters access to flight regardless of their build, meaning he at least has a fringe use case earlier on

Chicken is S Tier because it's a chicken (Also Hawkster is really good for necromancer)

Based Hawkster W (very common)

Fun fact: Hawkster can do crits if you have a weapon that can do crits. It works with other things like that too, like freeze

this was the last castle crashers video u have for me to watch for now I NEED MORE

Let’s gooo W video, I do say by polar (idk how to spell it) is very useful during insane mode because he can deal up to 150 damage to enemies that are low

I do think Rammy should be in A tier or S tier because he helps with the most annoying part of the game the necromancer, and can be combo with Hawkster where he can just go on the enemies the rammy knocks down

I’ve been playing this game now for like 15 years and I SWEAR by Hawkster. I have no clue why the devs would create a character who can do everything. He does damage, he interrupts bosses and he fetches healing, not to mention he is the key component to a simple to do EXP glitch, so easy to find. This is the dude who SHOULD have been locked behind a full madness playthrough.

I think the best thing about chicken is that it's an easy switch from Seahorse in that one level. You bring in Seahorse for the water, then you find Behemoth in the level like immediately after iirc (I haven't played the level in literal years this is all from memory of what I'd do when I was a kid)

Lies and heresy!!! The Cardinal gives a hidden +2 magic in the remaster! Love the video haha Edit: saw in a comment below that there are more buffs than just that. I'm slow to the party

One thing you forgot to mention about Hawkster is that he's very good with XP farming as well. Since he's often pecking at enemies dealing only 1 damage, and each peck counts as 1 xp, you get a lot more xp per enemy

I do disagree with froggler due to my experience in insane mode or the troll boss. In the troll boss when your farming exp, you most likely will just get wobbled in your shield and cant escape but when you wait for more to spawn in. Froggler can get food you may need, and in the swamp with the beefy skeletons and the second troll boss is helpful as well

honestly golden whale should be put on the same tier as monkey, cardinal and pazzo, seeing as they all help you unlock/buy items but after that become kinda useless once you unlock everything, somewhere around C maybe?

Bipolar Bear is more helpful on Insane Mode. Deserves a C imo

Can we get a weapon teir list, and a boss tier list, and an enemy tier list too?

I don't see how yeti that is useful only for one place in entire game vs Ice king and it can be ignored simply by dodging Ice king's ice power up blast. I would say he is even less useful than sea horse My favourite pet is Ramy. I think he is A tier. His knocking helps quite a lot for crowd control and against big enemies often knocking them down from their feet. Very notable help in Necromancer fight

Fun video, great job!

Rammy deserves S-tier in my opinion, fr. Love that little goat.

It's really sad how good some of these dudes used to be. Don't get me wrong, I love the buffs that the orbs received, it makes the choice so much more impactful and interesting. But they really left some of them in the dust without new changes, making their measly +1s or niche abilities uterly useless despite being so cute or cool looking.

For Pelter, the only reason I ever even thought about unlocking him was because I thought his projectile would freeze enemies, just to realize it didn't even do that.

Very nice list 👍👍👍

Personally I think piggy and monkey should be A tier because they can be a HUGE help thru insane playthroughs, piggy especially for necromancer, still loved the video!!

So I did some number crunching on the polar bear. I tested vs insane mode frost king who has the highest hp in the game, as in theory this would be where you get the most bang for your buck. This is assuming normal light attack damage ***TL;DR*** Polar Bear is actually at its best in coop, where it is imo literally always worth it if you have 4 players. It is also worth using in case where you really don't want to fight a boss when it is at low hp. Now then at lvl 99, maxed stats, and the gold skull mace (highest dps weapon in the game with these stats) and snoot it'd take 1015 hits to kill it. replacing snoot with polar bear means it would take 1027 hits to bring frost King down to the instant kill threshold. Therefore when optimizing for DPS, it is not worth it. If you are instead optimizing for a mix of defense and strength, and using say the club, then things become different. 1087 hits to kill with snoot, 1095 hits to kill with polar bear, 1191 hits to kill with snailbert/spiny. If you are going all in on defense and using the evil sword, the numbers become 1352 with snailbert, 1220 with snoot, and 1243 with the polar bear. Also something worth noting here, is that the burly bear would result in you need exactly 1250 hits, therefore, with burly bear you can get basically the same number of hits required as the polar bear but also get +1 defense. For max level physical builds, polar bear is probably never worth it, except for bosses with really hard final stages, where it is arguably better. Got a few more ideas (causing I just like crunching numbers), so I'll list em here, so you can skip them if you like. What happens if you have lower stats? what happens if you only account for later stages of the boss fight? what about multiplayer? Lets look at that no stat increases insane mode run. Gold skull mace, 1712 hits total with polar bear, 1595 hits with snoot. Basically lower damage means you benefit from snoot more, and polar bear less. Frost King starts stage 2 of his boss fight at ~60% hp, and phase 3 at ~10% hp. What if we assume stage one is so easy its basically free and should not be counted. Therefore Frost King has 30k hp, and dies to Polar Bear at 13.33% health. Well with golden skull and snoot, you have 609 attacks remaining. With Polar Bear you have 581 hits remaining. It is, finally, actually better. There are some other ways to calc this, but if you want to avoid later stages of the fight, polar bear is better. Unless its Evil Wizard, or doesn't have a 2nd phase or even gets easier over time. then polar bear sucks. Ok so what about coop? With 4 players Frost King will have 90000 health. Let's assume all players are level 99, with 25 strength, and all using golden skull mace. We will compare 3 players with snoot and 1 player with polar bear, vs 4 players with snoot. 1827 hits for all snoot 457 hits on average per player. 1720 hits total for 3 snoots, 1 polar bear. 430 hits on average per player. That is a big difference. This makes the true power of the polar bear co-op, despite the team killing. Now you will note that this is basically the absolute best case scenario for polar bear. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure you can't use multiple copies of the same animal orb in multiplayer. Can't find anything on the wiki though. ok doing the math again just in case. This time, same stats, one group has snoot, scratch paw, burly bear, and chicken. The other swaps chicken for polar bear. 1891 hits for no polar bear, 1750 with polar bear. Its worth noting here that in multiplayer you'd probably have more build diversity. Well. What about the worst case scenario in coop? Everyone is level 9 or lower. You are fighting the barbarian boss. No one has put any levels into strength. If everyone is using a -1 strength weapon and still exclusively using melee for some reason? 167 hits without polar bear, 163 with polar bear. Still better.

Hawkster is very useful during the Necromancer build up (the 2 waves) He makes it so you get two food from one enemy (usually)

Literally The GOAT in B tier????? I dropped the video as soon as I saw this heresy

Seahorse is a one and done because you only need it for Medusas lair

Someone might have said this already but there are quite a few animal orbs with a main effect has a hidden stat buff.

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Love ur channel

I didn't miss the battleblock theatre music in the backround

If it was me, I would have made a separate tier for pets that were created to have a one-time use for a specific thing, as I believe it's unfair to rank them in the tiers with other pets.

Hawkster also counts as hits for your character… he is a free xp booster WAY better than giraffe.

Another thing to add for hawkster since castle crashers xp is based is on the amount of hits there are beacuse hawkster hits multiple times he's better then leveling up then the giraffe.

Say what you will about Chickens small boost. But considering you can only have one pet, it reminds me heavily of the Ring of Favor and Protection from Dark souls 1, the tiny 2 ring slots available to the player in that game makes that ring so good. To Conclude: The Chicken of Favor and Protection, is always solid.

Nice video ! 3.5/10 I stay in the spirit ;)

Rammy is a PVP nightmare

Giraffe and ram both deserve at least A tier but personally id put them in my S tier. I use the giraffe until I've maxed all my stats before switching. It may only be a 0.1 additional increase to xp per hit but that goes a loooong way when you are melting bosses and juggling groups of enemies. I dont complete the troll boss without at least 3 or 4 level ups.

Puts install ball in F tier 5 years later: Hi guys, and our today challenge run is beating the game in insane mode, without upgrades, with my left toe, using only install ball

Defenatly afree with the bipolarbear ranking.

Whale and snale are not better than the bi-polar bear, that's crazy.

I feel like Ramey deserves to be in s

rammy is definitely atleast an A tier, at the necromancer fight it is very useful

You should do a tier list for Impossible mode pets and all the characters

What really puts the nail in the coffin for Bipolar bear is that it will even attack the player using it. That alone makes me believe that even D tier is far too generous.

Hawkster is an easy s tier, been getting back into the game and he makes the single player arenas much easier with those crazy good heals, if only you could run piggy with hawkster for that mad combo

The fact that you get the zebra in the desert still leaves me confused

I use the bat because it's cute

I’d let you off the hook with this one if you switched snailbert and rammys rank, those placements are crazy

The only reason I don't really like Rammy is because he messes up any stun magic ability, such as red, blue, or pink knight

Vid idea: Installball only run, you can do Insane mode if you want to suffer more.

I think Rammy should be in S teir because if you run across slimes with him its an easy way to farm exp because the slimes don't take knock back and just have the damage applied multiple times

SO I'M NOT JUST CRAZY! Can't believe hawkster isn't just a weird preference and actually good

This is a good list some of the one and d tiers you did can be pretty good but I understand why you put them there as they don’t help you much after you have unlocked everything, also I kind of like the troll pet he can be really useful, what was that you were saying about character regen I wasn’t really following

I agree with bi-polar bear rating. The problem is that it happens when the enemy is already practically dead. Maybe if it was 25% it might be more significant but 8% is too close to nothing. Also buddy should be in F tier, digging 2 seconds faster has less uses than jump boosting.

My brother is mad for Putting the jump cat in the f teir and the agility cat in the a teir

Rammy is the PERFECT juggle starter, show my boy some respect

Considering how often they attack and the set ups for air combos they provide, I think Rammy should at least be A tier, S tier maybe.

If there was a higher tier than S, Bipolar bear would be in it. The last 5 bosses PLUS the corn boss are such a pain and Bipolar bear finishes them off early

i can agree sherbert pelter and froglet are kinda useless but your honor they are lil skrunklo's thus making them s tier based off design

In my opinion monkey face pet is an S tier because he have a high chance to drop fruits and meat which is the best for all levels except for wizard interior castle

Frogglet is only useful when trying to get Unicorn's horn, and no where else

my underrated opinion: cardinal and dragon head is the best pet in the game.

I do not understand the utility of yeti, even in the ice king boss fight. To resist being frozen, you can just jump.

Cant agree with yeti and seahorse pick you mention how seahorse can only be used on two levels then go on to say yeti can only be used on one level but he’s A tier Yeti is very good when resisting the ice don’t get me wrong but it’s the same terminology being used just to throw one in F and the other in A

Furthermore, Rammy is a very annoying poke in PvP, I know the game is not PvP focused and its just fighting your friends for fun, it does make the player with Rammy harder to defeat as Rammy can interrupt you and give openings. Another aspect to mention on Rammy. (Two separate comments making separate points.)

Putting giraffy in C is criminal

In insane mode Rammy helps alot for getting stun locks(troll mother)

Forgot about the hawkster exp glitch making it even better

Also seahorse is bad because there are ways to pass water faster anyway like holding boomerang will let you fly in the air and pass water and spamming the bow and arrow will also let you fly

Will you be ranking bosses?

I do agree with you on rammy however.......... since he is my favouriet he show definatly go top 10. Don't make that mistake agin xoxo rammyslover69

As a Alien main, this Install Ball slander will not stand.

Nice video

Will there be a pet only run

How is the snail gonna be S tier with a minus 5 to agility, but the spikey thing has 1 less defense point but NO DRAWBACKS? That makes NO SENSE.

Monkey face is S tier, basically the hawkster but drops better food more often

I really Like install ball and I legit Main him in insane

i would have put Rammy in S teir because he attacks enemies for me which is a huge advantage i also put the Troll pet in S teir just because it's my favorite

Hawkster got my Hatty to level 99