Battle Dome - Training Guide

The most efficient way to train your Neopets

Level 1-10 (Sea Urchin/Grasshopper)

Getting your level to 10, then your HP, strength, and defence to 20 (unless you're ignoring defence, in which case you can skip it) will be your very first training goal. You can do this in any order, though a newborn pet will usually need to train its level a bit first. Simple enough, right?

Level 11-20 (Deckhand/Grasshopper)

Next, train your level to 20, then your HP, strength, and defence to 40 in any order.

At level 20, you have the option of using Codestones to train your HP to 60 if you want to save time, at a higher price.

Level 21-30 (Pirate/Basic)

Train your level to 30 and your HP, strength, and defence each to 60. If you trained your health to 60 in the last step, then you'll need to train your level to 30 first, but otherwise, you can do this in any order.

As a side-note, if all you really want out of the Battledome is to farm Koi Warrior or Jetsam Ace and you're annoyed that you don't have Lens Flare yet, you can rush your level to 50 after you get to 55 strength. You can beat either challenger 100% of the time with a pet that strong in a single shot with Lens Flare, Lightning in a Bottle, and Jhudoras Potion (both of these weapons are buyable). Be careful: this will make further training more expensive than it needs to be.

Level 31-40 (Cap'n/Basic)

Train your level to 40 and your other stats each to 80. The Pirate Academy gets really slow at this point, but it's not really worth cracking an NC Training Cookie yet (if you're using them, you'll want them later).

After you've done that, it's time to say goodbye to Cap'n Threelegs for good... but it's not yet time to raise your level.

Level 40 (Basic)

Before you train another level, head on over to the Island Training School and train your HP to 120.

Level 41-80 (Intermediate)

Since your pet should have 120 HP now, you'll need to train your level to 60 before you can train anything else.

After reaching level 60, you can train your level to 80, and your strength and defence each to 160. After doing all that, train your HP to 200.

Level 81-100 (Adept)

Train your pet's level to 100, then train your other stats each to 200. Finally, train your pet's HP to 240.

Level 101-120 (Advanced)

Your average red codestone and your average 5 tan codestones are approximately the same in price (though the 5 tans are usually a little bit cheaper). Also, training times are starting to get very long, very quickly, and training at the Ninja School will be a lot faster than training at the Island School -- Advanced Island courses are 8 hours, while the first Ninja courses are only 4 hours.

Because of this, if you want to save a little bit of time in total at the cost of waiting longer for your stats to go up in the short-term, you might want to start grinding your level to 250 now.

Otherwise, you can train your level to 120, then your other stats to 240, and finally your HP to 360.

Level 121-200 (Expert, Master)

Since the price of 6 tan codestones on average exceeds the price of 1 red codestone, grinding your level straight to 250 is both the time-saving choice and the economical one, so that's what you should do.

Need more levels and don't mind banishing your non-battle pets to a side account? Scratch five Terror Trove or Faeries Fortune Scratchcards per day for that level-up chance. This is also the point in time when Bubbling Fungus starts to be worth using depending on how cheaply you can buy it; if you can get it for 30,000 NP or so, it's cheaper per strength point on average than 1 red codestone or 6 tan codestones. Of course, it's random, varies in price somewhat, and can take away strength as well, so don't be too careless...

Level 201-250 (Grand Master)

This is it; you've just entered the most painful part of the training ladder. Keep training to level 250!

If you've been saving any Training Fortune Cookies, now is the time to use them, because these 24-hour training times are the longest in the entire game.

Level 250-299 (Ninja Intermediate)

Congratulations! You've made it to the Ninja School, and you can say hello to 4-hour training times again. Conveniently, there's a lot of training to be done in this bracket: you'll want to get your level to 299 and your HP, strength, and defence each to 598. After that, train your HP to 750. You can train it up to 798 if you really want, but stopping at 750 will allow you to train your strength and defence to 750 sooner.

While you could train at both the Ninja School and the Island School at the same time if your level is exactly 250 and you want to save just a little bit of time, this leaves you vulnerable to random events that subtract levels.

It's worth mentioning again that Bubbling Fungus may be worth using, again depending on how cheaply you can buy it.

Level 300-399 (Ninja Adept)

Train your pet's level to 375 (or to level 399, if you trained your HP up to 798) first. Then train your strength and defence to 750.

After that, give yourself a major pat on the back! 750 is an important number because it's the game's current maximum boost, which means that we don't have to train either defence or strength any further. Congratulations on reaching the maximum boosts, and welcome to the endless grind for HP!

Now that you're all big and strong, train your level to 399, and your HP to 1197.

Level 400-499 (Ninja Advanced)

Train your pet's level to 499, and then its HP to 1497.

At this point, if you aren't already, you should start doing Kitchen Quests to augment your training.

Level 500+ (Ninja Expert, Ninja Master, Ninja Grand Master)

From here on in, you should keep your HP at 3 times your level. HP is the only stat that matters now, so you should definitely be scratching your daily scratchcards (if your battle pet is the only pet on your account) and doing your daily Kitchen Quests.

If you haven't been zapping your battle pet, you might want to consider starting, because it can never take away HP and thus can help out a lot with the endless grind for more.