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Your personal chocobo can be called to fight by your side after completing the quest My Feisty Little Chocobo. Upon being called using Gysahl Greens, your companion will be of equal level to your job/class. Your companion has its own separate leveling curve, with increased companion levels leading to increased skills/abilities. Companion EXP is gained simply by killing mobs with your Chocobo companion out, and from certain challenges in the Challenge Log.

Experience Points

Your chocobo will max out its level when it reaches rank 10. To get it past 10, you will need to unlock the ability for it to earn experience for its current level by using a Thavnairian Onion. You'll know if a chocobo is maxed on experience when its "Rank" and "Exp Value" in the Companion Details window changed to a different color. When it is changed, select "Train" from the Chocobo Stable menu and select a Thavnairian Onion as the reward (do not select "Feed" as it is not Chocobo Feed) and the color will change back to normal, allowing it to receive EXP again. Every level it needs to gain in this method (10 -> 11, 11 -> 12, 12 -> 13, etc. up to 20) requires an onion. If your chocobo reaches maximum experience while in your Free Company or Personal Housing Chocobo Stable, you'll need to take it out, summon it with a Gysahl Greens and kill something to earn 1 exp in order to properly level it. After it levels from that experience, feed it an Onion to let it unlock experience for its new level!

Rank 1-10 Rank Exp Rank 1 4,000 Rank 2 38,000 Rank 3 82,000 Rank 4 158,000 Rank 5 294,000 Rank 6 490,000 Rank 7 700,000 Rank 8 940,000 Rank 9 1,200,000 Rank 10 1,458,000

Rank 11-20 Rank Exp Rank 11 1,714,000 Rank 12 1,967,000 Rank 13 2,217,000 Rank 14 2,463,000 Rank 15 2,705,000 Rank 16 2,942,000 Rank 17 3,174,000 Rank 18 3,400,000 Rank 19 3,620,000 Rank 20 0

Training your Chocobo

To unlock Chocobo Raising you first need to complete Bird in Hand. You will then be able to train your chocobo once per hour while stabled to earn experience points.

• Chocobo experience gained is the same for any item selected. Poorly tended stables, however, will reduce experience gains.
• Depending on the feed used, your chocobo will gain a special effect when called in the field. If you train your chocobo on the same feed for a certain period of time, that feed will become its favorite and yield added benefits while called.
• You can change your chocobo's favorite feed by feeding a different feed for a period of time.

Feed	Normal Effect	Favorite Effect
Tantalplant	Companion Maximum HP Up	Companion Maximum HP Up II
Sylkis Bud	Companion Attack Up	Companion Attack Up II
Pahsana Fruit	Companion Enmity Up	Companion Enmity Up II
Mimett Gourd	Companion Healing Potency Up	Companion Healing Potency Up II
Curiel Root	Companion EXP Up	Companion EXP Up II

Commands

	Follow	Order your companion to follow you.
	Free Stance	Allow your companion to make his own decisions in battle.
	Defender Stance	Order your companion to focus on defensive maneuvers, using only actions learned from the Defender skill tree.
	Attacker Stance	Order your companion to focus more on offensive maneuvers, using only actions learned from the Attacker skill tree.
	Healer Stance	Order your companion to stop fighting and concentrate on healing maneuvers, using only actions learned from the Healer skill tree.

Skills

Killing mobs with your Chocobo grants Companion EXP , which leads to increased ranks. With each rank up that your Chocobo receives, you will be granted a certain amount of SP (Skill Points) that you can use in order to unlock a new ability or trait in either the Defender, Attacker or Healer roles.

• Chocobo skills can be reset by using a Reagan Pepper, which is purchased from your Grand Company's Billmaster for 20 Allied Seals or 48,000 Grand Company seals from the Quartermaster.

SP	Defender	Attacker	Healer
1	Choco Drop	Choco Slash	Choco Regen
2	Enhanced Strength	Enhanced Strength	Enhanced Mind
3	Increased HP	Increased HP	Increased HP
4	Choco Kick	Choco Beak	Choco Cure (Companion Ability)
5	Enhanced Accuracy	Enhanced Accuracy	Enhanced Accuracy
6	Enhanced Critical Hit Rate	Enhanced Critical Hit Rate	Enhanced Critical Hit Rate
7	Choco Guard	Choco Rush	Choco Surge
8	Enhanced Strength	Enhanced Strength	Enhanced Mind
9	Increased HP	Increased Attack Speed	Increased HP
10	Choco Strike	Choco Blast	Choco Medica

Skill Points (SP) Earned Per Rank

Rank 1-10 Rank SP Total Rank 1 1 1 Rank 2 2 3 Rank 3 3 6 Rank 4 4 10 Rank 5 5 15 Rank 6 6 21 Rank 7 7 28 Rank 8 8 36 Rank 9 9 45 Rank 10 10 55

Rank 11-20 Rank SP Total Rank 11 10 65 Rank 12 10 75 Rank 13 10 85 Rank 14 10 95 Rank 15 10 105 Rank 16 10 115 Rank 17 11 126 Rank 18 12 138 Rank 19 13 151 Rank 20 14 165

Auto-Attack At level 50 Base 108-119* With +5% Strength from traits # With +10% Strength from traits 118-131 With +15% Strength from traits # All numbers non critical vs training dummy*

Healing At level 50 Base Choco Regen With +10% Mind 29-31* per tic With +10% Mind and Choco Surge # per tic With +25% Mind # per tic With +25% Mind and Choco Surge 44-49 per tic All numbers non critical*

Dyeing

Main Article: Chocobo Dyeing

Chocobo Dyeing is the most common name attributed by players to the system of coloring the plumage of Chocobo Companions by feeding them certain snacks. The system is a heavily customized RGB color model in which deeper colors have lower values and approach black, whereas lighter colors have higher values and approach white.

Barding

Main Article: Chocobo Barding

Chocobo gear known as 'barding' has been issued by the Grand Companies, and is also separately available through other means, is said to protect these avian mounts on and off the turmoils of the battlefield.

• Barding does not affect a chocobo in any way aside from changing its appearance.
• Barding cannot be lost, damaged, or discarded.

Racing

Main Article: Chocobo Racing

See also: Guide:Chocobo Covering

Players can participate in chocobo racing via the Manderville Gold Saucer using specially trained race chocobos (chocobo companions are not eligible). From improving their abilities through rigorous training to breeding retired chocobos for their traits, you can raise the champion chocobo you’ve always wanted.