Chikipi is a great modern example of a ‘joke character,’ a character who’s main purpose is to give us a bit of a chuckle rather than doing anything actually useful.Palworldis, on the face of things, a game where you catch a bunch of Pokemon-like creatures called Pals to fight each other, but the reality is that Pals are oftenbetter suited to farming and crafting,as the battles are often best solved by you shooting the enemy instead.
Some Pals do have great attacks and type coverage to be useful, but Chikipi is definitelynotthat. Chikipi is meant for you to keep on your farm, whether for egg-laying or to give up and slaughter and cook. Chikipi is, as the name suggests, a chicken (no need forcopycatting Nintendo there).
So naturally I set it upon myself to turn this hapless creature into a staple of my Pal fighting team.
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Type Coverage And Attack Selection 101
I’ve played a lot of monster-catching games. There’sPokemonof course, but I’ve also sunk countless hours intoDigimonandNi No Kuni. This means I’ve learned the secret of the monster-catching and team-building genre:there are no weak monsters, just trainers who can’t make up for their weaknesses.Chikipi’s weakness is that Neutral types don’t have a type they are naturally strong against, with the benefit being they lack weaknesses right back.
However, there are fruits thatanyPal can eat that instantly unlock a specific attack, regardless of typing. This made me realize that Chikipi was the right choice for a Poison Blast fruit I found, giving Chikipi a Dark move that poisons the foe. She’s now the team poisoner, a classic skill I often rely on.
I melted a bunch of wild Chikipi into my Chikipi, smelting them into an ooze as a sacrifice to bring my Chikipi to a five-star rating.
My Chikipi also came with the natural ability Ferocious, which gives a 20% buff for attack damage (these abilities are random upon catch). Gonna be real, I don’t know if the game means this buffs Chikipi’s attack ormyattack, but this is a massive benefit and the kind of thing you should pay attention to with every Pal.
At one point, Chikipi even learned how to blow the hell up! No fruit this time, she just figured it out on her own. It turns out Pocketpair did assume people besides me would train a Chikipi, and gave it an ultra-powerful move, albeit one that instantly knocks it out for the rest of the fight. Not only does Implosion do massive Neutral damage, it will then set the enemy on fire, so it’s nothing to sleep on.
Pals can only have three moves at any given time, and you can swap them out for ones they already know. This is very important for Implosion as Pals seem to give priority to their stronger moves first. So, yeah, Chikipi tends to open with this move instead of saving it for when it’s more useful.
Hopefully, the AI improves down the road, but for the moment, keep Implosion away from your Pals unless you areplanningon having an emergency bomb.
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Grinding For Some Chicken Melts
The other things I did were focus on improving Chikipi’s stats. To do this, I melted a bunch of wild Chikipi into my Chikipi, smelting them into an ooze as a sacrifice to bring my Chikipi to a five-star rating. I’m currently doing this with my other party Pals as well, and boy, it takes a while. First I caught and melted four Chikipi, then 16, then32, then64.
If you know this game, you’re likely wondering how I’m doing in terms of using Small Pal Souls to increase Chikipi’s attack, defense, and health. That’s coming slower, but thankfully, all I have to do is track down Syndicate members, who tend to drop Small Pal Souls when they mysteriously die. I wonder who did that?
I even have a stash of medium Souls thanks to the Free Pal Alliance. They like to raid one of my bases but refuse to look behind them, giving me the chance to heroically shoot them in the back.
It was a long grind, but my beautiful Chikipi does massive damage now. She’s a complete trouncer, a hard-hitter rivaling the literal Dragons I’ve been coming across on my travels. Her lack of weaknesses is only rivaled by her poisons and peckings and sometimes Implosions.
Plus, all that hunting for other Chikipi means me and my other Pals may never go hungry again! Seriously, I cooked over 100 Chikipi sautees with the leftovers. I don’tthinkI fed any of them to my Chikipi, but who has time to pay attention to something like that?
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