Coconut

The **Coconut** is a Tier 6 Food, but isn't normally available in the shop and can only be obtained through abilities. The first time a pet with the Coconut perk takes damage, the damage is reduced to 0. It can be considered as a direct upgrade from the  Melon.

## Strategy

Blocking all damage makes it a hard counter to  Peanut perk, as well as allowing pets to survive high burst of damage regardless of their health. However it's not always better than the more readily available  Melon, since Coconut cannot trigger Hurt abilities.

For example: When a 50/50  Gorilla with Coconut goes up against another 50/50 enemy with any defensive food perk, they will knock each other out after 2 hits. However if the Gorilla had had Melon or Garlic instead, it would've knocked the other 50/50 out in 2 hits, but survived and could get a 3rd hit in against the second enemy.

## Obtaining Coconut outside battle

### Turtle pack

Hurting a  Gorilla in the shop phase will trigger its ability and give it permanent Coconut. This can be done by  Pilling a  Hedgehog or  Badger.

### Puppy pack

Buying a  Mongoose to get  Air Palm Tree, then  Pilling a  Chameleon to give the front-most pet Coconut. Give a  Chipmunk Coconut and sell it for Coconut in the shop. Then after Chameleon Pilling onto 4 pets, we can fill the last slot with a 5th pet and give it the Coconut in the shop.

### Other packs

It's not possible to gain Coconut during shop phase with Star pack and Golden pack, however we can create a Custom pack that can give Coconut to any pet or potentially the entire team, without the help of Puppy pack pets.

#### Step 1: Parrot

Acquire the following pets and put them in this order:  Leech,  Parrot,  Gorilla. For consistency, the Leech has to have lower attack than the Parrot.

At the end of turn, Parrot will copy Gorilla's ability, Leech will then hurt the Parrot, triggering its ability, and giving the Parrot a Coconut.

#### Step 2: Seagull

The Gorilla is no longer needed, now we need to assemble:  Leech, (A PET) with  Mushroom,  Parrot with  **Coconut**,  Seagull. The pet in front of Leech can be a  Chipmunk,  Toucan, or another  Seagull.

Once again, the Leech has to have lower attack than the Parrot. The Seagull in front of the Parrot should not have any Food perk, or has run out of triggers already.

Now, we need the Leech to knock out the pet in front. This can be guaranteed by putting that pet at 1 health: by letting it get hurt by the Leech prior to this turn, feeding it  Fried Shrimp, or giving it a  Mushroom then  Sleeping Pill so it will respawn as 1/1. Alternatively, putting  Pineapple on the Leech will allow it to knock out a base stats Chipmunk/Toucan/Seagull immediately.

At the end of turn, Parrot will copy Seagull's ability, Leech will knock out the pet in front. When this pet respawns, the Parrot will give it Coconut.

If a Chipmunk was given Coconut, sell it to spawn a Coconut in the shop, then give this Coconut to the Seagull.

If a Toucan was given Coconut, Pill it in front of the Seagull.

If the Seagull was given Coconut, we are almost on our way to a full Coconut team. Buying new pets will trigger the Seagull's ability, and they will receive Coconut. Having a high level Seagull or buying more Seagulls will speed up this process.

#### Step 3: Chipmunk

In order to achieve a full Coconut team that isn't stuck with a Seagull, we'll need to finish one last step.

Buy a  Chipmunk then sell it for a Coconut in the shop. Now after filling the team with 4 new Coconutted pets, we can finally replace the Seagull with our 5th pet, then give it the Coconut in the shop.

Congratulations! Hopefully that takes less than 20 turns, enjoy the full Coconut team!