AION 2 Pets List — Companions, Mounts & Launch Reward Pets

The full AION 2 pets list: all 5 confirmed launch pets

Every pet below is named in NC’s global launch press release as a newsletter reward, and the table is the complete list of officially confirmed pets for the global client as of launch day — each name links to its own page. Pagati requires no choice — every subscriber gets it. The other four are the pick-one options, and their published bonuses differ enough to make the choice real.

Creature types and bonus lines come from the community pet database — first published for the KR/TW build (verified 2026-09-28), and re-checked against the global client after launch: the database now shows the same rows for Konutin Worker and Papis (verified 2026-10-06). The five names and the reward rules are official (NC press release, verified 2026-09-28).

Beyond the launch rewards: the global-client pet roster

The launch rewards are not the whole roster. The community pet database for the global client tracks roughly 120 collectible creatures, and two groups now have pages here: the database’s “special” bucket — six named pets granted by items rather than captured by hunting — and Kernon, a feral capture pet whose full three-level bonus line the database already publishes. The remaining capture pets are versions of field monsters; they are tracked on this page as their routes are documented.

Community-reported — global client pet database, verified 2026-10-06. The special-bucket pets have no published bonus rows yet, and for most of them the issuing shop or event is not documented; treat their entries as a database record, not an acquisition guide.

What Pets Do: Companion on Foot, Mount When You Ride

The defining trait reported for AION 2’s pet system is the dual role. A pet follows your character like a companion in most MMOs — and when you set out to travel, the same creature becomes the mount you ride, instead of the two being separate collectibles. That framing comes from press coverage of NCSOFT’s official developer video and from KR/TW launch reporting, and it is what makes the reward pets’ mount bonuses worth reading closely: a Mount Ground Move Speed line on a pet is also a speed line on your everyday travel.

The second reported layer is growth. Community guides from the KR/TW service describe pet bonuses that strengthen as the pet’s affinity level rises from 1 to 3 — the same progression visible in the published bonus rows for the four choice pets, which list separate level 1, level 2 and level 3 values. What exactly raises that level in the global client is not yet confirmed.

Community-reported — sources: press coverage of the official AION 2 developer video; KR/TW launch reporting and community guides. Not yet confirmed for the global client.

How to Get Pets in AION 2

At global launch there are two confirmed routes, both from official channels: the newsletter reward — sign up on the official AION 2 site before launch and receive Pagati plus your choice of one additional pet, redeemable in-game at launch — and Founder’s Pack contents, where NCSOFT’s own Ultimate pack promo shows the Black Dragon pet as a pack companion. Undecided between the four reward options? The pet selection chest guide compares their published numbers, the claim windows and the no-undo rule.

Beyond the launch rewards, the KR/TW service reports a capture system as the main pipeline for expanding a collection. The short version from community guides: hunt a field monster repeatedly, collect what it drops, and register the creature as your pet once the requirement is met — with further hunting raising the pet’s affinity level and its bonuses. Working out where those field monsters live? The AION 2 interactive map lays out the launch zones and hunting grounds on one schematic.

Community-reported — source: KR/TW community guides and the community pet database · Verified 2026-09-28. Not officially confirmed for the global client.

AION 2 Pet Creature Types

The community pet database sorts pets into creature types, and the KR/TW community writes about three main groups — wild/feral, nature and intellect types — with different bonus flavours. The five launch pets cover three of them: the two Stamina pets are nature type, the mount-speed pet is feral, the sprint-stamina pet sits in the database’s “trans” bucket, and the guaranteed Pagati is in its “special” bucket alongside pets like the Black Dragon. Type names below follow the community database, not official NCSOFT terminology.

Which Newsletter Pet Should You Pick?

Pagati needs no decision — it arrives with the sign-up. The real choice is the second pet, and the published bonus lines make it a three-way decision (the community database lists Konutin Worker and Black Smoke Murute with identical bonuses, so those two are a cosmetic pick). Values below are from the KR/TW build and may change for the global client.

• You ride everywhere and want raw speed: Papis — the only option with a Mount Ground Move Speed line, scaling to +3.
• You sprint in long stretches: Silver Blade Rotan — cuts Mount Sprint Stamina Cost, scaling to +30.
• You want survivability numbers: Konutin Worker or Black Smoke Murute — identical Stamina (to +900) / Critical Hit Resist lines; pick the look.

The Full AION 2 Pet Roster

NCSOFT has not published a full official pet list for the global client. The community pet database for the global client tracks roughly 120 collectible creatures — capture versions of field monsters from the starting zones upward, spirit variants, and a small “special” bucket of six named item-grant pets (Black Dragon, White Dragon, Chonky Hamster, Two, Swift Lugi and Wandering Merchant Lugi). Per-pet pages are live for those six, the capture pet Kernon, and the five launch reward pets; the remaining capture variants are covered here as their hunting grounds and bonus rows are documented. One pre-launch name is missing so far: the Sky Whale that KR/TW guides mentioned does not appear in the global database yet.

Planning your first week around capture routes? The AION 2 classes overview covers which classes farm comfortably solo, the dungeons and expeditions page tracks the instanced side of farming, and the launch guide tracks server times and launch-week events.

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