Steal Animal Egg Best Pets in Steal An Egg

This Best Pets tier list ranks Steal An Egg companions by passive dollars per second. In a game where treadmill Speed gates every nest, the pets that mint cash are the pets that unlock Lake, Desert, Cosmic, and eventually Enchanted Forest. Visual rarity still feels good — but $/s pays the bills.

Figures below reflect community income snapshots around late 2026. Exact numbers shift with mutations, upgrades, and patches, so treat them as relative ranks. For multiplier math, open the Mutations list. For recipes, open Mutations & Fusion.

Ranking rules

• Primary stat: equipped income ($/s).
• Secondary: how hard the pet is to obtain versus the Speed era you unlock it.
• Tertiary: fusion usefulness (especially Secret Shrine pieces).
• Excluded: trade-only value (trading is not live yet).
• Assumption: you actually hatch and equip the pet; vault trophies earn nothing.

Best pets and income rankings for Steal An Egg

S tier — endgame income kings

Pet	Approx income	Notes
Skeletal Sabertooth	~$9B/s	Current top earner in public snapshots
Mecha Scrambler	~$7.5B/s	Near-top alternative when Sabertooth is missing
Aetheron	~$6.9B/s	Secret Shrine result (ArchAngel + World Burner)

S-tier pets change how you schedule steals. With multi-billion $/s, buying Speed toward Cherry Blossom (2.5B), Titan Temple (7B), Angels & Demons (20B), and Enchanted Forest (50B) becomes a planning problem instead of a wall. Protect these units — reckless fusion food is an expensive mistake.

If you own ArchAngel and World Burner from the Angels & Demons era, read the fusion guide before sacrificing them to random 3-to-1 crafts. Aetheron is intentionally a sink for those mythics.

A tier — excellent funders

A-tier pets do not always headline highlight reels, but they bankroll mid-to-late biomes when S-tier hatches refuse to appear. Prioritize any A-tier unit that lands with Golden or better mutations. A Golden A-tier can temporarily out-earn a plain mid hatch while you hunt Skeletal Sabertooth.

Play pattern:

1. Equip your highest combined $/s roster.
2. Dump income into Speed until the next biome recommendation is met.
3. Run nest routes from How to Steal Eggs.
4. Hatch everything with upside; keep the best earners equipped.
5. Park duplicates for fusion only after you confirm they are not shrine ingredients.

B tier — solid climbers

B-tier shines from Jungle (40K) through Volcano (700K) and into Abyss Ocean (2.5M). These pets are the workhorses that stop Desert from feeling permanent. Do not disdain them. Many accounts reach Prehistoric on stacked B-tier income plus smart mutations.

When to replace a B-tier:

• You hatch a clearly higher base earner.
• You land Rainbow/Parasite on a better base and need the slot.
• You need fusion fodder and the B-tier is a common duplicate.

When not to replace a B-tier:

• The replacement looks cooler but earns less.
• You are below the Speed requirement for the biome that drops the “upgrade.”
• You are about to attempt a dangerous Cosmic run with no income buffer.

C tier — early scaffolding

Forest and Lake pets belong here for most accounts. They exist to fund the first treadmill spikes: no Speed gate in Forest (Chicken guardian), then 900 Speed for Lake (Swan), then 10K for Desert (Scorpion). Hatch early eggs immediately. Holding unhatched eggs while your $/s is near zero slows everything.

Pair C-tier play with:

• Free social gifts on the Codes Hub
• The Getting Started hour-one plan
• Focused treadmill sessions in How to Get Speed

Mutation impact on tiers

Approximate multipliers used on this wiki:

Mutation	Multiplier
Rainbow	~x3.5
Parasite	~x3
Golden	~x2.5
Silver	~x1.2

A Rainbow B-tier can punch into A-tier income ranges. A Silver S-tier is still usually better than a Rainbow C-tier. Always multiply base income first, then compare. Full commentary lives on Mutations.

Biome-oriented shopping list

Use this as a mental model while reading Biomes & Speed Requirements:

Biome focus	Speed rec	Pet goal
Forest → Desert	0 → 10K	Hatch anything; upgrade Speed obsessively
Jungle → Volcano	40K → 700K	Stabilize B/A earners; start Golden hunts
Abyss → Cosmic	2.5M → 700M	Chase A/S bases; stop casual fodder fusion
Cherry → Enchanted	2.5B → 50B	S-tier + high mutations; shrine planning

Fusion and Secret Shrine reminders

• Standard machine: 3-to-1 fusion.
• Secret Shrine: ArchAngel + World Burner = Aetheron.
• Do not feed S-tier pets into random crafts.
• Document shrine ingredients in your notes before mass fusing Angels & Demons drops.

How this list relates to other pages

• Hub criteria: Tier List Hub
• Multipliers: Mutations
• Mechanics: Mutations & Fusion
• Collection framing: Pets Hub
• Patch shifts: Updates Hub

Practical weekly routine

1. Claim any free gifts (Codes Hub).
2. Check whether a patch added pets or biomes (Updates).
3. Re-rank your equipped team by live $/s.
4. Train Speed to the next guardian breakpoint.
5. Steal in a biome you can actually escape.
6. Hatch, mutate targets, fuse only duplicates you can spare.

Final advice

Owning Skeletal Sabertooth is wonderful. Building a roster that reaches the content that drops S-tier eggs matters more. If your Speed is stuck under Volcano requirements, grind income and treadmill time before obsessing over Cosmic Skeleton neighbors. Climb biomes in order, keep earners equipped, and let the tier list inform upgrades — not paralyze them.

Return here after major updates. Update 7’s Enchanted Forest added eight new Index pets (community names include Prism Gecko, Petal Beetle, and Astral Jackalope — verify live). Hatch them, compare $/s against your current roster, and only then retire older earners. The income-first philosophy stays the same even when the Index grows.