Faint (Trigger)

an example of a pet with a faint ability trigger

Faint is an ability trigger that activates when a pet loses all of its hp. This most commonly happens in battle, but can also activate in the shop with the assist of the Sleeping Pill.

Strategy

The description of the sleeping pill

Faint is one of the most common triggers in the game. Therefore, there a lot of interactions with it. Usually, every pet has one change to faint in the game, making the abilities very consistent. However, there are ways to get more value out of your faint pets.

Faint abilities are usually pretty strong, so are commonly useful to achieve in shop:

• The easiest way to do so is with the use of the Sleeping Pill. Only costing 1 gold, the pill can activate most abilities for cheap, and is vital in every pack containing powerful faint pets like Mammoth or Blobfish.

• Another way to faint an animal in shop is the Praying Mantis. while being pretty situational, requiring a sacrifice every turn, this pet supplies free and reliable faint triggers.

• Lastly, if a Leech is put behind a pet with 1 health at the end of the turn, it also faints it. This can be used in certain circumstances, and is easier to pull off if the pet's health is reduced via Fried Shrimp.

In battle, there are 2 ways to get extra faint triggers:

• Use Mushroom on a pet. upon fainting, it'll summon a copy of it as a 1/1, creating another faint opportunity. If there isn't enough space (e.g if used on a frontline Deer) the extra pet won't spawn.
• Put a Whale behind the pet. when the whale faints, it'll summon an extra copy of the swallowed pet.

A lot of pets, while not having a faint trigger themselves, get value from other friendly pets fainting. Those include Shark, Ox, Fly, and Vulture. Since many of the faint pets summon pets themselves, those pair well with those pets.

Since faint pets that summon other pets are so common, they are very often part of summon teams, getting value from pets like Turkey.

Frilled Dragon gets temporary buffs for each faint pet in the team.

Parrot is very often put behind faint pets.

Though Panda is not categorized as a Faint pet, its ability causes it to faint. Similarly, Wombat is not categorized as a Faint pet but it gains a Faint trigger in battle if the enemy has a pet with a Faint ability.

Pets

Tier	Pet	Ability
1	Ant	Faint: Give a random friend (+2/+1)/(+4/+2)/(+6/+3).
1	Cricket	Faint: Summon a (1/1)/(2/2)/(3/3) Zombie Cricket.
2	Flamingo	Before Faint: Give the two nearest friends behind (+1/+1)/(+2/+2)/(+3/+3).
2	Hedgehog	Faint: Deal 2/4/6 damage to all.
2	Rat	Faint: Summon one/two/three 1/1 Dirty Rats up front for the opponent.
2	Spider	Faint: Summon a lvl 1/2/3 tier 3 pet as (2/2)/(4/4)/(6/6).
2	Toucan	Before Faint: Give Toucan's held Food to 1/2/3 friend(s) behind.
2	Dove	Faint: Give 2 Strawberry friends (+2/+1)/(+4/+2)/(+6/+3).
2	Stork	Faint: Summon a level 1/2/3 pet from your previous shop tier.
3	Badger	Before Faint: Deal 50%/100%/150% ATK to adjacent pets.
3	Sheep	Faint: Summon two (2/2)/(4/4)/(6/6) Rams.
3	Blobfish	Before Faint: Give friend behind (+1/+1)/(+2/+2)/(+3/+3) and +1/+2/+3 Experience.
3	Bear	Faint: Give Honey to all pets that are 1/2/3 space(s) away.
4	Deer	Faint: Summon a (5/5)/(10/10)/(15/15) Bus with Splash ATK.
4	Rooster	Faint: Summon 1/2/3 chicks with 1 HP and half ATK.
4	Turtle	Before Faint: Give 1/2/3 friends behind Melon Armor.
4	Microbe	Faint: Make all pets Weak.
4	Anteater	Faint: Summon two Lvl. 1/2/3 Ants.
4	Armadillo	Hurt & Faint: Give friends +1/+2/+3 HP.
5	Eagle	Faint: Summon one lvl 1/2/3 tier 6 pet.
6	Mammoth	Faint: Give all friends (+2/+2)/(+4/+4)/(+6/+6).
6	Orca	Faint: Summon a random Lvl. 1/2/3 pet with Faint ability from any pack.
6	Piranha	Hurt & Faint: Give friends +3/6/9 ATK.
6	Tapir	Faint: Summon a Lvl. 1/2/3 copy of a random friendly pet. Except other Tapirs.
6	Walrus	Faint: Give 1/2/3 random friends Peanuts.

Friend Faint Abilities

This abilities trigger upon a friend fainting and have the word faint in their trigger but cannot be summoned from Orca, can't be copied by Wombat, and don't trigger Frilled Dragon's ability

Tier	Pet	Ability
3	Ox	Friend ahead faints: Gain Melon Armor and +1/+2/+3 ATK.
4	Donkey	Friend faints: Push last enemy to the front. Works 1/2/3 time(s) per turn.
5	Shark	Friend faints: Gain (+1/+2)/(+2/+4)/(+3/+6). Double outside battle.
5	Vulture	Two friend faints: Deal 4/8/12 damage to a random enemy.
6	Fly	Friend faints: Summon a (4/4)/(8/8)/(12/12) Zombie Fly in its place. Works 3 time(s) per turn.
6	Spinosaurus	Friend faints: Give a random friend (+3/+2)/(+6/+4)/(+9/+6).

Trivia

Triggers

Hurt, Buy, Sell, Start of Battle, Knockout, Faint