Ride A Pet Kitsune
The only pet holding two stat crowns, and the one whose acquisition route no site on the internet documents.
Kitsune at a glance
- Base speed
- 1B
- Base jump
- 170
- Base income
- 90,000,000%
- Index rarity
- 1 in 1Ql
Highest on the roster, at number 1
Highest on the roster, at number 1
Number 2 on income, well behind the top
Inside the offset band
Highest base speed and highest base jump in the game, but not the highest income, and not the rarest pet either.
Speed and income are graded S3 Multi-source. Jump is graded from a source where two independent sites publish identical values for every pet both sites cover, which is the cheapest corroboration available on this roster.
The Kitsune and the Dragon are the same trade in opposite directions
This is the single most useful thing to know about the top of this roster, and it falls straight out of the stat table rather than out of anyone’s opinion. Compare the two pets on the two axes that matter:
| Axis | Kitsune | Dragon | Who leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base speed | 1B | 300M | Kitsune, by 3.33x |
| Base income | 90,000,000% | 300,000,000% | Dragon, by 3.33x |
| Base jump | 170 | 150 | Kitsune, by a small margin |
| Index rarity | 1 in 1Ql | 1 in 5Ql | Dragon is rarer |
Read the first two rows together. One billion divided by three hundred million is 3.33. Three hundred million percent divided by ninety million percent is also 3.33. The Kitsune is faster than the Dragon by exactly the factor that the Dragon out-earns the Kitsune, and the factor is the same number on both rows.
That makes the decision between them unusually honest. You are not trading a little speed for a lot of money or the reverse. You are trading exactly one third of one stat for exactly three times another, whichever way you go, and the only question left is which stat your session actually needs. It is also why the answer to “which is better” is that neither is, and why any site that ranks one above the other without naming the axis has answered a different question than the one you asked.
Nobody documents how you get one
The highest-speed pet in the game has no published acquisition route. It does not appear in the Dragon Egg odds table, which is the only shop egg that publishes per-pet odds. The Giant Egg publishes no per-pet odds at all. No guide, fan site or media outlet we checked states which map egg or which biome produces a Kitsune.
This page could have filled that gap with a plausible sentence about the peak biome or an event hatch, and it would have read exactly like the competition. It would also have been invented. Instead the gap is published, because a reader who knows the route is missing can go find it and a reader who is handed a guess cannot tell the difference.
What is actually established is narrower and still useful: the Kitsune is not a Dragon Egg roll, so no amount of Robux spent on that gacha will produce one. That much is certain from the published odds, and it is enough to stop you spending on the wrong thing.
Why it wins the egg loop
The core loop in this game is carrying an egg from a fixed spawn point back to a nest on your plot before the restock message, and the developer’s own store description names that loop directly. Every part of it is a movement problem. Speed decides how quickly you close the distance in both directions, and jump decides whether the ground in between is passable at all.
The Kitsune is the only pet that leads both of those axes, which means it is not a compromise pick on either one. A pet that is fast but cannot clear a ridge still loses those routes to a slower pet that can, and that is the failure mode the Kitsune does not have. If you are chasing rare spawns at the awkward corners of the map, this is the pet the map was built around.
It is worth being precise about what that does and does not buy. More trips per restock window means more eggs, which means more Index progress and more chances at a rare hatch. It does not buy a better rarity on any individual egg, because rarity is decided when the egg is picked up rather than when it hatches. Speed buys you volume, not luck.
Next fastest
- Dragon300M
- Cerberus100M
- Phoenix1M
Next highest jump
- Dragon150
- Phoenix146
- Cerberus143
Two names worth noticing in those lists. Cerberus sits on 143 jump and 100M speed, which makes it a capable travel pet for a fraction of the rarity, and worth holding until you find a Kitsune. And the Kitsune’s lead on jump is much narrower than its lead on speed, so a pet that trails it badly on speed can still be within reach on terrain.
Rarity does not track speed
The intuitive assumption is that the rarest pet is the strongest one. At the top of this roster that is simply false, and it is false in a specific direction: the rarity ladder tracks income and ignores speed almost entirely. The Dragon is printed as rarer than the Kitsune and is slower, and the pet above the Kitsune in the Index is rarer still while publishing no stats at all.
So a Kitsune is not a flex by rarity, and it is not a consolation prize either. It is the answer to a movement problem, which is a different axis from the one the rarity ladder measures. Players who chase the rarest hatch and then wonder why the egg loop still feels slow have optimized the wrong column.
One caveat covers the whole rarity column, and it applies to this pet as much as any other. Roonby and rideapetguides.wiki both list a Lion pet at 1 in 1.2M. The table this site transcribed does not include Lion at all. Aligning the two lists shows they are offset by exactly one row from that point onward: the rarity this site prints for Ostrich is Lion's, the one for Fox is Ostrich's, and so on up the table. Either one of the lists omitted a pet, or one of them shifted a value. Until a gameplay frame of the Index settles it, the rarity labels on this page from Ostrich upward should be treated as possibly belonging to the pet above.
The full explanation and the affected rows are on the pet database. The speed, jump and income columns above are not affected, because they come from a different source that two independent sites agree on.
Mutating a Kitsune
A mutation multiplies a base stat rather than replacing it, which makes the Kitsune the loudest possible target for a speed mutation. There is no pet with a larger speed base, so the same multiplier produces the largest absolute speed gain in the game here. Whether that is worth a mutation on your account depends on whether you are running the egg loop or banking income, and those two answers do not agree.
| Mutation | Multiplier | Stat it raises |
|---|---|---|
| Shocked | 2x | speed |
| Volted | 3x | not established |
| Rage | 4x | not established |
Every mutation multiplies base stats, but WHICH base stats is only stated for one of the three. The Shocked mutation is described as a 2x SPEED bonus specifically, with the note that it can completely reverse a performance comparison. Nothing corroborated states whether Volted and Rage affect speed, income, or both. The distinction matters because a speed-only mutation does nothing for a pet sitting on your plot, and an income-only mutation does nothing for the egg loop. For the Kitsune specifically that matters more than usual, because a speed-only mutation on the fastest pet is the strongest combination in the game while an income-only reading would make it a poor fit for a pet you are riding rather than parking.
What is still not established about this pet
- Which egg produces a Kitsune. No source checked documents the route.
- Whether the printed 1 in 1Ql rarity label belongs to this pet. It sits inside the one-row offset described on the pet database.
- What the jump value is measured in. It is an absolute number with no stated unit.
- Whether one billion is the speed ceiling, or whether the still-unrevealed pet above it on the ladder goes higher.
Common questions
- Is the Kitsune the best pet in Ride A Pet?
- It is the best travel pet in the game and holds two of the three stat crowns, with the highest base speed and the highest base jump. It is not the best earning pet: the Dragon out-earns it, and by exactly the same factor the Kitsune outruns the Dragon. If your goal is reaching nests and hatching more eggs, the Kitsune wins outright. If your goal is cash while you are away from the screen, it does not.
- How do you get a Kitsune?
- No source we could find documents which egg hatches a Kitsune. It is not in the published odds for the Dragon Egg, and the Giant Egg publishes no per-pet odds at all. Rather than guess at a route, this page states the gap. If you find a frame showing the hatch, that settles it and the page gets updated in the same commit.
- Is the Kitsune rarer than the Dragon?
- No, and this is the most counter-intuitive thing about the top of the ladder. The Dragon carries a printed rarity of 1 in 5Ql against the Kitsune at 1 in 1Ql, which makes the Dragon the rarer of the two. The rarer pet is also the slower one and the higher earning one, so rarity here tracks income rather than speed.
- Should I mutate a Kitsune?
- It is the most defensible target for a speed mutation, because it already has the largest speed base in the game and a multiplier multiplies a base rather than replacing it. One caveat applies: only one mutation has a corroborated stat scope, and it is described as a speed bonus specifically. Read the speed column of the calculator as the well-supported half.
- What pet should I pair it with?
- The Dragon. The two are designed to be complementary, and the arithmetic behind that is unusually clean: the Kitsune is faster than the Dragon by the same factor that the Dragon out-earns the Kitsune, and that factor is identical on both axes. Ride one and park the other rather than choosing between them.