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.

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

I did not know any of this lol, that would completely change the list... Thank you wiki lol

@spencerbeard3904

6 ай бұрын

Also, Burly bear now has +2 defense, alongside its original +3 strength. 5 stats on 1 animal. It's S tier

@magicmanmarley327

6 ай бұрын

burly bear has 3 strength and 1 defense, still good but not THAT good@@spencerbeard3904

@Laust_tj

5 ай бұрын

Raga baga boo

@8thgod769

Ай бұрын

@@Reckerlessr u gonna rank the weapons too

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

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

fashion crashers

@dominikkertesz9176

3 ай бұрын

Same

@user-gg9nh1le4d

9 күн бұрын

Lol

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

For insane mode i would definitely put him higher but for normal, i think hes pretty bad (this comment was made by a snoot fan)

@Laust_tj

5 ай бұрын

Raga baga boo

@GaulSoodman884

4 ай бұрын

​@@ReckerlessBiPolarbear is great for PvP

@ThePaper51

2 ай бұрын

​@@Reckerless monkey face underrated. Monkey increases gold chance, food chance, meaning almost every time you kill something you get food which is hella useful. Monkey face my favorite

@atsukana1704

Ай бұрын

@@Reckerlessagreed, it largely depends on the mode. Its also much better in multiplayer mode as it can be used with your friend having a different one for another purpose. It also helps finish off the greater number of enemies

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

@Reckerless

7 ай бұрын

this list was made for normal mode but yeah i completely agree

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.

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

valid opinion

@ProfessionalHumanTrash

8 ай бұрын

yeah, i felt like strangling someone when he put the giraffe so low on the list.

@Cooljonny11

8 ай бұрын

hawk does giraffes job better 🤷‍♂️

@candybetta4061

8 ай бұрын

@@Cooljonny11 The amount of hits hawk gets off gets nowhere close to a 10% boost in XP gain

@candybetta4061

8 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless Thank u :D good list overall

*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

@taylor69666

9 ай бұрын

part two?

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

something i may consider once i have played enough insane mode@@taylor69666

@FlittaLink

8 ай бұрын

I was about to off on this tier list if you didn’t mention this lmao

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

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

i didnt even consider that, makes them even better

@SpookyBike

8 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless Yup, possibly the best pet for insane mode runs due to its already extremely useful fruit grab ability from fallen enemies for survivability but not only that it will make leveling up throughout the playthrough much quicker if not starting off maximum stats.

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.

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

thats a good point yeah

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.

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

I do think he is extremely useful for insane,. for normal he is useful but not as good as others

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.!

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Definitely something I will do in the future!

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Yes definitely something I should of mentioned but I still think having a pet that sits there and does nothing for 95% of a boss fight is still useless (apart from painter) so always snoot 🔛🔝 :D

@boggle644

9 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless giraffey not being on S is a crime

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

@@boggle644 then I am a criminal

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

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.

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

for insane mode, polar bear is deffo S tier

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

I did not know that and the wiki did not mention it but thank you for letting me know!

@poofyfox6751

6 ай бұрын

D tier pet still

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,

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

if i made a list on cuteness, this list would be a whole lot different

@Watchinglisteningandnoting

3 ай бұрын

I agree Rammy and Trolly are my personal favorites as well. When I was but a wee child I would sit in the corner of the screen with my sheild up and Rammy would take out the enemies for me (that was long time ago lol)

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.

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

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

i never knew that since i play solo, if that is a common glitch then frogglet would deffo be F tier. Thank you for letting me know!

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Damn kraken hope you get well soon

@KrakenFried

9 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless I currently just have a terrible sore throat, I hope it goes away soon (and thank you!)

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

@@KrakenFried i hate sore throats dude, takes the fun out of eating and drinking, hope you get better soon :)

@KrakenFried

9 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless Thank you, and they are truly awful to have

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.

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

valid points

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Sherbert (to my knowledge) is the only pet that does not stay permanently on all characters when unlocked (you have to get him each time on every character) and you need the magic jump to get him anyway (there is a cheese to get him but it is not intended) so i think i would keep him f tier, but if it was cuteness, he would be S for sure :)

@tiers9385

8 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless Actually, you can get him by juggling on the door, and if you do it right, you get sherbert.

@GamingChair420

8 ай бұрын

@@tiers9385he said there is a cheese but it is non intended not sure if you read all of the message

@adambryant4149

8 ай бұрын

All Sherbert does is end up messing up your juggles

@KankreesCanvas

8 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless Forgive my late response but, who's to say bouncing off the door wasn't an intended way to get him? And even if so, who's that stopping? Seems like a weird thing to consider. And off that point, even if he's not unlocked permanently on all characters (which I'm pretty sure isn't the case if memory serves?), for the above stated reason that's kind of a non-issue lol. An inconvenience at most

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Hawkster is just a great option for the whole game! And chicken design is S tier for sure

@whathappenedtothis

9 ай бұрын

I HAVE A MILLION DOLLAR CHECK FOR SOMEONE NAMED CHICKEN

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

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

aiming for 2 a week (one shorter and one longer) but there are always live streams :)

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

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Yes I made this list with only normal mode in mind, can definitely see polar bear being much higher for insane!

You did my boy instant ball dirty 😡

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

I’m sorryyyyyyy he’s so bad I can’t defend him

@vincentf2658

9 ай бұрын

Maybe he's bad but he's trying his best ok?? Plus look at him go

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.

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

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)

Fun video, great job!

@Reckerless

7 ай бұрын

thank you :)

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

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

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

only issue is, he can mess up juggles and combos

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

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

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

Very nice list 👍👍👍

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Caleb :D

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.

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?

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

but golden whale never outlives his usefulness (for me at least) when i need to farm money for healing, bombs etc.. he comes clutch

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!!

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

What does monkey do on insane mode, I didn’t even consider insane mode for this, and hawkster definitely influenced all the food animals in the list as he’s just so good, if it was not for hawkster then piggy would be higher for sure

@Flamming

9 ай бұрын

@@Reckerlessmonkeyface increases food drop rate by 3x which includes meat drops. It is on average better health gain than Piggy depending depending on the guaranteed food drops in the level. In solo Hawkster would be better than both if you utilize him to his max potential, but there are many factors that can cause Hawkster to not get as much food like him attacking the wrong enemy as another one is dying or killing an entire group of enemies at once causing him to only get food from one enemy. In multiplayer if multiple players use hawkster, then he will almost always gain more health than any other pet

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Love ur channel

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

Defenatly afree with the bipolarbear ranking.

8:38 I love seals put it in S tier okay and he’s pretty useful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭

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

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

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.

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.

@jamesonheidemann

4 ай бұрын

Also, I think you should go more in-depth in these videos and consider were you unlock these pets throughout the game, because it's definitely an important element to consider.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

@Reckerless

5 ай бұрын

i want to do other tier lists first but i might do, i definitely want to change things

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.

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

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

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

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.

Rammy is a PVP nightmare

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

I feel like Ramey deserves to be in s

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

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.

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 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

@Reckerless

5 ай бұрын

rammy is honestly interchangeable, i feel like i can move him around a lot depending on his use

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

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

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

That is very true, good point

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

I made the list thinking of normal so 100% I would change things around for insane!

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

Forgot about the hawkster exp glitch making it even better

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

True 😳

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

@Reckerless

7 ай бұрын

Closest thing to a savannah i guess

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

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

i would just rate every single animal orb on S because they're good on they're own way and also looks C U T E AS HELL

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

@Reckerless

6 ай бұрын

rammy interrupts my juggles a lot so i couldn't put him s tier (for me personally)

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.)

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

I use the bat because it's cute

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

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

Mom wake up! Reckerless posted!

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Mum wake up! Carto commented!

@carto6991

9 ай бұрын

@@Reckerless 😂 😂

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

@Reckerless

8 ай бұрын

that is insane

Nice video

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! :D

Will you be ranking bosses?

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

I can do yes!

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.

hawkster is my homie fr, use him all the time

Trolly will level up with you and heal you faster and faster as you go on, meaning I respectively disagree. I have done an entire run with Snakey and Trolly to the point where Trolly with heal 9 health every 10-15 seconds or so. Really op in my opinion, but definitley not as good as hawkster.

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

@Reckerless

9 ай бұрын

Because seahorse has a very useless ability, only allowing you to move faster in water when you can just jump through the water to begin with. Yeti has an absolutely amazing ability that makes a boss trivial, thats my thinking anyway :)