What is the best pet, way to train, and abilities to get for a BD pet?

Train using Dubloons if you are at Level 40.

Well, any pet is as good as any other! :) The best way, from what I've heard, is to train manually through the training schools. The Swashbuckling Academy is cheaper (slightly) but it takes longer than the Training School on Mystery Island. After level 40 (I think?) you have to train through the school on Mystery Island anyway. You can try to train through the Lab Ray, but the stats are not guarranteed, and it can take a lot longer. Also, it takes and gives all stats except for hit points, so it can make it difficult to train a pet later on through the schools. :)

 

TDN has a guide here: http://battlepedia.thedailyneopets.com/index.php/articles/viewarticle/Fast-Training/

well actually I heard that some pets are better for (battledomeing?, Battle-domers? what ever >.>) like some have resistance to things

I use the Mystery Island training school and save up all the Codestones I receive through REs and try to find bulk "sales" of codestones in the Trading Post. You can also sometimes find people selling them for quite cheap on the Shop Ads or just by using the Shop Wizard.

If you use the lab to train, you may end up losing stats, and your pet usually ends up with uneven stats, so you have to "hand" train anyways.

Your pet also gains abilities once he/she levels up enough, you can see those here:

http://www.neopets.com/abilities.phtml?pet_name=PETNAMEHERE

And all of your pet's abilities are located here:

http://www.neopets.com/ability_info.phtml

Here is more information about the Faerie abilities:

http://battlepedia.thedailyneopets.com/index.php/abilities/index/

i used to use codestones but it was way too expensive, so now i only boost its stats by using the lab ray and sometimes getting hp from faerie quests :)

well actually I heard that some pets are better for (battledomeing?, Battle-domers? what ever >.>) like some have resistance to things

 

Yes, these are called species abilities and weaknesses/resistances. Our page is still under construction as we are still testing a lot of them, but here are the preliminaries: http://battlepedia.thedailyneopets.com/index.php/articles/viewarticle/Species-Stats/

 

Other factors include species weapons as some pets have cheaper freezers and healers. http://battlepedia.thedailyneopets.com/index.php/species/index/

i read the guide but what in your opinion is the BEST one?

There is no single best species :P It wouldn't be fun, would it?

i read the guide but what in your opinion is the BEST one?

 

 

I like pteris and scorchios. Pteris for their air resistance and scorchios for their fire resistance. But if you are looking for cheap yet effective weapons, kacheeks, lennies, and lupes are (in my opinion) the best. Of the three, I prefer lennies and kacheeks. :)

I use Mystery Island and codestones only because I get them for free generally through key quest and have a large stockpile of them in my safety deposit box otherwise Krawk Island and the dubloons is a cheaper option until your pet is lvl 40