Chao in Sonic World

The chao in Sonic World play a more crucial role in this game as it is from chao raising you can develop your own abilities by partnering with them and have abilities from them.
Besides Sonic Chronicles, traditionally Sonic games don't utilize RPG elements such as skill development or leveling. The heroes usually have basic abilities for platform gameplay. Sonic World still upholds that tradition to not have major characters with developable statistic to level up. However since chao are the "pets" of Sonic's world, they make the ideal gameplay elements needed for the RPG elements the MMO needs. Since you can raise a chao and increase it's stats, it's through chao you can become more powerful.
By feeding them and giving them animals and Chaos Drives they can develop in various strengths and learn abilities. These skills are accessible by the character they are partnered with. Chao grow by having 6 major statistics and depending on how a chao is raised may result in new abilities to learn.
The primary statistics are:
*Speed
*Power
*Fly
The derived statistics are:
*Stamina
*Food
*Happy
Speed, Power and Fly are the stats that will "level up" once full, emptying again for the next level while Stamina, Food and Happy are the only stats that will decrease if not attended too.
The "Swim" stat is removed because it is not compatible with the Class types. However swim type chao maybe involved somewhere, especially for it to be reimplimated for players to learn how to swim like Knuckles or Rouge in Sonic Adventure 2.
==Chao Gardens and Partnering==
You can only raise chao at Chao Gardens in Sonic World. The gardens will be bigger than traditional gardens as online features like garden sharing and play-dates will be allowed where your chao can socialise with other chao.
While chao can only live in chao gardens an important feature of Sonic World is to be able to partner with your chao. Your chao will follow you everywhere floating just by your side (despite of Fly stat). This way your strength will increase and vary depending on the levels of your chao as well as learn abilities your chao have for you. You can equip and use them and after well use of the ability (helps to have a good relationship with chao) you can keep the ability for yourself.
You can "Dismiss" your chao in which it will vanish but you may summon it back to your side. You cannot build your relationship with your partnered chao if it's dismissed nor able to use abilities you are learning from it.
==Raising chao==
===Feeding===
A chao diet is fruit and nuts which satisfies the "Food" status as well as among other various statuses depending on what it is eatting.
===Animals===
Chao can also inherit features from small animals collected which may permanently effect it's status and Chaos Drives effects.
With the right combinations and how you raise your chao you can customise your chao appearance as well as develop new abilities you can learn.
===Chaos Drives===
Besides Light Cores for your boost meter, enemies may drop Chaos Drives, they are crystals that can be found by destroying robots or other various means. They take the form of coloured glowing quartz-crystal shaped gems and with these can add to the Speed, Power and Fly stats.
A fourth Chaos Drive (which takes the form of a yellow point-cut gem) maybe included for an "Experiance" status. However if chao will have this stat or this stat will only be for the playing character (so that they may learn abilities of an advance level) has not been decided yet.
===Evolution===
Chao will have a more expanded evolution tree than before. This is to allow chao to come in new shapes that can be further altered with animals or accessories. This is so that chao can be more unique as well as hold more variety of abilities that the player can learn as well as to customise their chao to be more personal. such chao evolutions planned are Swim, Priest and Warrior chao.
==Ability types==
There will be 6 types of abilities players can learn. The three additional ability types that all classes have use.
Abilities can be assigned to commands (hotkeys on keyboard or alternatively can be used with gamepad).
Ability type	Description 	Default/first ability
Speed 	Abilities that only Speed types can use. Usually abilities around agility. 	BoostMove forward at instant great speed, a Primary command. Gradually drains the meter when used.
Power 	Abilities that only Power types can use. Usually powerful attacks. 	Punch or KickPrimary commands. Basic attack that can be continuously chained if energy on the meter.
Fly 	Abilities that only Fly types can use. Usually aerial abilities or to achieve height. 	FlightA Secondary command that stacks over jump. Ability to defy gravity in some way. Gradually drains the meter when used.
Chaos 	A rare type of ability that everyone can learn, they are powerful but require time to master.	Chaos ControlA powerful variant of the Boost ability.
Action 	Standard abilities that does not tax the meter. 	Spin JumpReplaces standard jump with spin jump. Common ability to learn from neutral chao.
Attribute 	Non-masterable. Abilities that are in constant effect as long as partnered with chao. 	Additional points in various stats.Minor gameplay advantages.
Depending on the ability it could be either a Primary or Secondary ability, in which secondary abilites can be stacked over primary commands and used with the double-press of the commands button (flying for example).
===Chao abilities===
Chao can have the maximum of three abilities to "teach" it's partner. Once partnered the player can freely use the ability until the chao is dismissed or left at a chao garden. The abilities can be "mastered" after much use in which the player will be able to equip the ability freely without the chao. Mastered abilities will be logged and equippable to commands to allow the player to personally customise there characters abilities.
All chao can partner with any class type of player but the player will not be able to learn abilities outside of own class unless Action or Chaos which all class types may learn.
===Equipment abilities===
It's important to know that you can also use abilities from equipment your mobian wears. Unlike chao where you can learn up to three abilities, items may have singular specific abilities and can only be available when wearing the equipment. These singular abilities can be from special clothing, weapons or items.
Light Speed Shoes for example has the Speed type ability Light Speed Dash which allows to move along trails of rings fast. It cannot be learned by chao and can only be used when the item is worn. Other shoes or equipment may also have the Light Speed Dash ability.
Weapons being another example which usually provide Action type abilities when equipped for their use.
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