I always seem to struggle with whether to put a matchy companion on my wolves or one that gives me more rewards/optimal gameplay. What do you guys prefer for the majority of your wolves? Obviously you need a few wolves with more gameplay function regardless-- but for the rest of your wolves?

Personally, since I don't have a wide range of companions and I like to optimise for weekly events, I usually pick something functional, but it's not the case for every wolf. I'm sure as the game goes along I will get more options. Once my wolves hit level 10 I kinda need to switch them to something good for hunting or gauntlet or what have you.

At first, I tried very hard to give my wolves matchy companions. It's something I really enjoy doing on FR. After realizing my likes for wolf colors was so diverse and a lot of companions just didn't match what I was keeping, I then turned to try to make companions be paired with a wolf for the sake of functionality. I very much struggle with stars, especially, when it comes to hunts. Though, here lately, I seem to not even take either matchy or functionality into consideration and just slap a companion on a wolf I deem a keeper.

I'm a mix of both. I want my level 10 wolves to have companions that match their colors/type, but I 100% dislike companions that don't give pebble rewards, lol, sorry quillara and snowcat. I've only made a few special exceptions for hunting and appearances (e.g. Livia, Lucky, Divoky). Everyone else has something that's color/type-coherent and also gives high pebble rewards.