Skypouncer

A skypouncer is a pet available from Solomon's General Store for 1170 Runecoins. The skypouncer originates on an icyene plane and seeing one before a battle was considered a good omen.

The skypouncer has three stages of growth - baby, adolescent, and adult. It takes roughly 15 hours for a skypouncer baby to grow into an adolescent skypouncer when following you, though this can be sped up by interacting with the pet. Stages can be skipped by using a Growth Surge on the pet, i.e. baby to adolescent or adolescent to adult.

It takes 900 pet points (XP) for a skypouncer to grow from a baby to an adolescent. It takes 1500 pet points (XP) for a skypouncer to grow from an adolescent into an adult.

It will take approximately 15 hours to reach the adolescent stage and 25 hours to reach the adult stage. This time can be halved by "playing" with your pet by making it do one of its two emotes. It appears that while the pet is with you, it generates its own pet points up to a cap of 30 points. When this cap is reached, simply making the pet do an emote will allow you to retrieve the generated points, making it possible to raise the pet in half the time.

A skypouncer does not need to be fed like a normal pet. Although, feeding it a Jelly Treat will increase the rate at which it grows by twice the speed, and feeding it a Tasty Treat will increase it by 50%.

The skypouncer has unique abilities, similar to Summoning familiars, which increase as it ages. As babies, skypouncers can forage for items near the player. Later, as an adolescent, a skypouncer is able to bank an item of its owner's choice once every ten minutes, and it still retains the ability to forage. Finally, as adults, they are able to scavenge loot from slain enemies, along with retaining their ability to bank and forage.

Like all pets and summoning familiars, it cannot enter or use its abilities in some areas of RuneScape.

There are several options for recolouring a skypouncer. The colour of the pet's fur cannot be altered, but you can change the colour of:


 * Skypouncer kitten: the spots on the kitten's back, and the end of its tail.
 * Skypouncer adolescent: some tufts of fur in the side of the skypouncer's mane, the two chevron markings on the skypouncer's back, the band of fur at the top of the skypouncer's legs, the tips of the skypouncer's wings, and the end of the skypouncer's tail.
 * Skypouncer adult: the tuft of fur on top of the skypouncer's head, its eyes, some tufts of fur in the side of the skypouncer's mane, the fur of its neck, the two chevron markings on the skypouncer's back, the band of fur at the top of the skypouncer's legs, the symbol on its kneebands, its wingtips, and the end of the skypouncer's tail.

The bloodpouncer, skypouncer, and blazehound can all forage from the moment they are obtained. Some of the things that a skypouncer is confirmed to be able to forage are as follows:


 * Coins: 10 to 500


 * Grimy Herbs: Guam, Harralander, Irit, Cadantine


 * Seeds: Potato, Sweetcorn, Onion, Wildblood, Jangerberry, Poison ivy, Dwarf Weed Seed


 * Remains: Bones, Big bones, Baby dragon bones

The two playing emotes for the skypouncer also change as it grows. As a kitten, the playing emotes are titled "Knot what I signed up for", in which the owner pulls out a string and plays with the kitten, and "Die, tiny victim", in which the owner winds a toy mouse for the kitten to attack. The adolescent emotes are "A shiny! It must die", in which the player produces a ball of light with magic for the skypouncer to pounce on, and "I think not", in which the player unsuccessfully tries to direct the skypouncer away. The emotes for the adult skypouncer are "Behold my glory!", in which the skypouncer will roar in your honour as white particles swirl around the skypouncer, the skypouncer will then fly slightly above the ground in tribute to you as the ground beneath the skypouncer glows, and then as the skypouncer flies back to the ground, it will roar in tribute to you a second time, and "Cat treat delivery", in which a goblin will come out of the ground and will attack your character, but the skypouncher will grab the goblin, shake it, throw it up into the air, grab it again and throw it down into the ground, and eat it.