Apex pets, the half percent row
Apex is a rarity. It is not a form you build and not a size you roll: it is the top row of the drop table inside the game's premium eggs, and it lands about once in two hundred openings.
An Apex pet has no damage number of its own. Its power is a ratio. It reads whatever your strongest ordinary pet does and multiplies that, which means an Apex keeps growing for as long as the rest of your collection does.
Where an Apex comes from
Apex is not on the standard egg at all. It sits inside the Exclusive Eggs you buy in the shop, the Space Egg among them, and inside the Season Egg. Those eggs all use the same drop table.
Half a percent works out at one in two hundred openings on average, which is why the shop's ten pack asks whether you can reach the Apex rather than promising it.
| Row | Chance |
|---|---|
| Exclusive, first variant | 40% |
| Exclusive, second variant | 35% |
| Exclusive, third variant | 14% |
| Exclusive, fourth variant | 7% |
| Prime | 3.5% |
| Apex | 0.5% |
What an Apex actually does
Pets from these eggs work differently from the ones on the normal egg. A Common or a Legendary has a fixed damage number printed in the catalogue. An Apex has none. Instead it reads your best ordinary pet and multiplies it, and the whole premium family is ranked on that one multiplier.
- The four Exclusive variants sit just under your best ordinary pet, at 0.8 to 0.95 times.
- Quantum is 2.5 times, and Prime is 3 times.
- Apex is 8 times, second only to Origin at 15 times.
- Because the multiplier is read at the moment it is used, an Apex you pulled early is worth more every time you improve the rest of your collection.
- Apex pets also gain a small level bonus as you keep opening eggs, worth one percent per level.
Apex, Nova and Titan are three different things
These three get confused constantly, because all of them are things a player brags about. They sit on three separate axes and a single pet can carry more than one of them.
| Apex | Nova | Titan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A rarity | A form | A size |
| Where it comes from | The premium egg table | Fusing six Astral pets | The die rolled when a pet is created |
| What it multiplies | Your best ordinary pet, by 8 | The pet's own damage, by 81 | The pet's own damage, by 8 |
| Can you build one | No, you roll it | Yes, in the Evolution Hub | No, you roll it |
| Kept through a Supernova | Yes | Yes | It belongs to the pet, so it lasts as long as the pet does |
It crosses the resets
This is the real argument for an Apex. The two big resets in the game take your levels, your coins and your ordinary pets. They do not take these. Every pet that came out of a premium egg crosses a Paradox with you, and a Supernova keeps Exclusive, season and Nova pets as well.
That is why an Apex is treated as a lifetime pet rather than a run pet, and why the game prices it the way it does.
Improving your Apex odds
There is one dial for it. Apex Attunement sits on the destiny branch of the Supernova tree, runs two levels, and at full strength doubles the Apex row: half a percent becomes one percent. The game caps it there and will not go further.
A matching Prime dial sits next to it. Both of them take their extra chance out of the most common row of the same table, so the odds still add up to a whole egg.
Taking an Apex up the form ladder
An Apex can go into the Golden, Rainbow and Astral machines like any other pet, with two differences. The fee is paid in TimeStars rather than coins, and the form bonus is much flatter than the one an ordinary pet gets: golden is 1.5 times, rainbow 2.5 and astral 4.5, against the 3, 9 and 27 an ordinary pet enjoys.
The Nova Machine does not accept them at all. Nova is a rung the ordinary pets have to themselves.
Is Apex something I can buy directly?
No. You buy the egg, not the pet. Apex is the rarest row inside that egg at half a percent, and the only thing you can change is the odds, by two levels of Apex Attunement.
Is an Apex stronger than a Secret pet?
They are measured differently. A Secret has a very large fixed damage number, while an Apex multiplies your best ordinary pet by eight and moves whenever that pet does. The bigger practical difference is that the Apex survives resets and an ordinary pet does not.
What is the difference between Prime and Apex?
Same egg, same table, different rows. Prime lands at 3.5 percent and multiplies by three. Apex lands at 0.5 percent and multiplies by eight.