>>14271669no, I'm not new to pets. I'm new to AP. I played a ton of vanilla Elona and tended to have a bunch of Yiths around me. When I first started playing Elona+ I managed to get a demon's lord, vishnu, and kali, all of which are obscenely powerful but won't ever get AP. Neither would I, since my INI was based off my level ~30 stats, not my starting stats. So AP wasn't something I could ever use, since I literally never got any.
I made a new character for this after hearing about Elona+ Custom. I've evolved my little girl into a valkyrie, and she's pretty strong and still gains AP. My <Isca> does not gain any AP, at least not from the monsters that I'm fighting (dragons, for example). Hence me asking, "should I avoid getting obscenely strong pets that will have trouble gaining AP?"
Oh, and a related question, what about evolutions that give new abilities? E.g. Little girl->Littler girl->Witch? (+10 chr, +10 spd, +60 magic, Rain of Sanity special action, Crystal Spear spell). I do want a decent magic pet, and not one that will spam teleport constantly. But I don't know if that'd be worth it over just taming a demon. A demon would have trouble getting AP, but would start off much stronger.