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.

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.

Editing to add: I think it's the principle of it, that every "sub-optimal" companion costs me 100p per nana interaction. I just don't want to be charged unnecessarily lol

@Wolfe I feel that, it's hard for me to match companion colours, especially because I am more casual on here and there's just not many companions accessible to me (or in general, compared to FR, as I am used to that game as well XD.) The cooldown is incredibly annoying to me because I am simply on autopilot most of the time and I will forget to take them off when it's over.

I'm not really sure what's the absolute best companion-wolf combos for everything, but I do try to synergise according to some posts from a while back that I have to reference when I switch everything around. It's just that I am not nearly as rich as I want to be to be able to buy all the necessary companions-- hopefully that will change as more get added.