What's the difference between pets?

And what do all these numbers mean??
They're super important and determine what your pet can do, it's tier actually being irrelevant!

Let's start by having a look at one of our pets, I'll continue using the example of fox, but you can choose whatever.
We start by dexing our pet like this:

Hasse

15:34

owo dex fox

OwO

✓APP15:35

gfox

Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Nickname: Fennekin Count: 0/464 Rank: :legendary:

legendary Rarity: 18,206,767 total caught Alias: gfox, fox Points: 10000 Sell: 15000 Cowoncy | 11 sold Sacrifice: 10000 Essence | 453 killed :hp:

4

9

1

3

1

2

Fox has base stats of:

4 Health
9 Strength
1 Physical Resistance
3 Weapon Points (basically Mana)
1 Magic
2 Magical resistance

What I see in these stats, is a tanky strength-based attacker, with a little bit of WP.
→ I also see 20 stats overall, Fox is a 20-Stat.
Pet stats are often talked about in this format: Hp.Str.Pr.Wp.Mag.Mr. Thus, our Fox would be a 4.9.1.3.1.2. For simpler pets, like 8.1.1.8.1.1, people also often leave out the unimportant ones, calling the pet an "8 8".
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What do all these numbers mean though? My Fox has different numbers!
Well, these base stats don't tell the whole story, they're just used to calculate your actual stats.
The formulas to calculate your actual stats look like this:
(Passives can affect these stats too, but I'll talk about them in passives.)

500 + 2 * Lvl * Stat = HP 100 + Lvl * Stat = STR 25 + 2 * Lvl * Stat = iPR
500 + 2 * Lvl * Stat = WP 100 + Lvl * Stat = MAG 25 + 2 * Lvl * Stat = iMR
Hence, a level 20 fox would have:
500 + 2 * 20 * 4 = 660 HP 100 + 20 * 9 = 280 STR 25 + 2 * 20 * 1 = 65 iPR
500 + 2 * 20 * 3 = 620 WP 100 + 20 * 1 = 120 MAG 25 + 2 * 20 * 2 = 105 iMR

           
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These are now all your stats! ...well with a little asterisk, the resistance values you're seeing are your internal resistances. To convert them to usable percentages, we do this calculation:

0.8 (iPR) / (100 + iPR) = PR
0.8 (iMR) / (100 + iMR) = MR

0.8 ( 65) / (100 + 65) = 0.3152 → 31.5% PR :pr:
0.8 (105) / (100 + 105) = 0.4098 → 41% MR :mr: