Tapir

The **Tapir** is a  Tier 6 Pet, available in the **Weekly pack** and **Custom packs**. When the Tapir faints, it will summon a copy of a random pet currently on the team, with the same level as the Tapir.

Tapir cannot summon another Tapir. It will not summon anything if the team doesn't have any valid targets, or if it's the last pet on the team.

## Strategy

The Tapir is one of the most flexible and powerful summoner, but with a high skill ceiling to utilize it properly. It's most useful for summoning teams, pairing well with things like  Turkey,  Eagle,  Orca, and so on.

Tapir can be used to force a specific summon. Giving a pet on the team  Donut can make all Tapirs target that pet to summon, as long as it doesn't get sniped and knocked out. Tapir also doesn't summon Tapirs, so a full team of Tapirs with another pet in the last position will continuously summon that pet. This is often used on Eagle for very strong and potentially infinite Tapir > Eagle > Tapir chains, but it can be applied to any pet of your choosing. The sky is the limit!

Tapir can be bought and  pilled to gain a copy of a pet on the team, this costs 4 gold so is often not recommended, but Donut can help with giving the exact copy that you want.

## POT Combo

The P.O.T. -  Pteranodon,  Oyster and  **Tapir** combo, is a niche setup capable of continuously generating gold in a single turn, allowing for nigh-indefinite rolling and... that's all it can do. This combo can't use the gold for anything else since it cannot afford anymore spaces, has no scaling synergies, and requires luck to keep going. It's used exclusively by  Sloth hunters, trying to force it to show up by rolling as many times as they can.

Because you cannot spend the gold on anything but rolling and regenerating gold, it's recommended, if not *required*, that the shop to be scaled to at least 40/40 before pivoting to POT. It's also recommended to put the  Meerkat in the pack, it will keep track of gold spent on the current turn, and you will get to see the numbers go up to the hundreds, if not thousands.

The setup is as follow:  Pteranodon,  Oyster with  Donut, and level 3  **Tapir** with  Mushroom. Then,  Pilling the Tapir will spawn a level 3 Tapir and 2 level 3 Oysters, thanks to Mushroom and Pteranodon's ability. Each level 3 Oyster is 12 gold, so by selling them, you will quickly hit the gold cap at 30.

Now all we need to do is roll and keep an eye out for:

* Sloth: Of course. It will always show up in the left-most unfrozen slot, so always pay attention to that slot.
* Pteranodon: Freeze at least 1 of them if you see it. Every pill will spend a trigger from the Pteranodon, so we will need to reset it by buying new ones, then combine the used up Pteranodon onto the fresh one, or buy-selling a new Pteranodon each time.
* Oyster: Buy selling each Oyster gives you a free roll.
* Mushroom and  Sleeping Pill: It's not recommended to freeze these. You should buy them in this order: Buy Mushroom on Tapir, Pill Tapir, Mushroom on Tapir, Pill Tapir and repeat. If you're having a lot of excess gold, and Tapir is already Mushroomed, you can give the Mushroom to Pteranodon instead. Pilling the Mushroomed Pteranodon will also reset its trigger.

Since the gold cap is 30, you cannot just Mushroom Pill the Tapir whenever you want and stack up lots of gold. Instead you will oftentimes have to spend the gold, sell the Oysters to free up spaces, then find Mushroom Pill to repeat the process. Managing gold correctly is the hardest part of the combo, but even then, you can still get unlucky with the foods and run out of gold anyway.

Should you find the Sloth, it will be trivial to pivot to a winning team thanks to shop scaling, and you should have plenty of gold to get it to level 3. Another way to achieve the level 3 Sloth is giving it Donut, selling the Donutted Oyster, then pilling the Tapir.

## Version History

### 30/03/2022

* The ability of Tapir no longer works on Tapirs and  Orcas

#### 14/04/2022

* Changed the tier of the Tapir to 6 from 5

### 22/04/2022

* The ability of the Tapir has been changed to copy a random friend except other Tapirs

## Trivia

* Before releasing to live servers, the Tapir's ability copied the last pet and could summon other Tapirs, creating an almost unbeatable team.

## Gallery

The standard sprite of the TapirThe old sprite of the Tapir