Prodigy Mimic guide: where to find it and how it fights

Mimic is the pet that pretends to be a treasure chest, and then jumps out and fights you: a Shadow pet with huge health and gentle damage, found in almost every area of the game. You can rescue one for 200 Magicoin in Firefly Forest, Shiverchill Mountains, Shipwreck Shore or Skywatch, or buy it in the Pet Store for 190 Magicoin after you have defeated one. This guide shows where to find Mimic, how the rescue works, and how to use a pet that is built to outlast its enemies rather than outhit them.

What Mimic is

Mimic is a Shadow Element pet in Prodigy Math Game, and it is one of the most recognisable pets in the game: a living treasure chest with eyes, teeth and a habit of hiding in plain sight. It is a single-stage pet, which means it does not evolve into anything else, and what you catch is what you get. That sounds like a drawback, but Mimic makes up for it with its stats: it has some of the highest health of any pet, and some of the lowest damage, so it is built to take hits and keep fighting long after other pets would have fallen. It is a pet for players who like long battles and do not mind winning slowly. If you are still learning the game’s pets, the Prodigy pets list: all pets and where to find them puts Mimic in context with the rest of the collection.

Where to find Mimic

Mimic is unusually easy to find, because it lives almost everywhere. You can meet it in Firefly Forest, in the Shiverchill Mountains, at Shipwreck Shore and in Skywatch, and it also appears in the Academy Archives, on Dragon Isle and in Wizard Dash. In Firefly Forest, Shiverchill Mountains and Shipwreck Shore it appears in both Normal and Hard Mode, while in Skywatch it appears in Normal Mode. That means you do not have to wait for a late area to start hunting: Firefly Forest is the first area of the game, and Mimic is there from the start, hiding among the trees and the chests. Mimic is also found on Floor 89 of the Dark Tower, but do not try to catch it there: like every pet found in the Dark Tower, it cannot be rescued at that location, so a Dark Tower Mimic is a battle only, not a catch.

How to rescue a Mimic

Rescuing a Mimic works like rescuing any other pet, but it costs more than most. Find a Mimic in the wild and battle it: lower its health in battle, and when it is weak the game will offer you the chance to rescue it for 200 Magicoin. That is a lot of Magicoin for an early game player, so save up before you go hunting, and do not spend your Magicoin on hats and gear first. If you have already defeated a Mimic, there is a cheaper route: you can buy one in the Pet Store in Lamplight Town for 190 Magicoin, which is 10 Magicoin less than the rescue cost. Either way, you need to have battled a Mimic first, so your first step is always to find one in the wild and win the fight. Keep Magicoin saved, battle carefully, and the rescue offer will come when the Mimic is weak enough.

Mimic in battle

Mimic fights the way it looks: slowly, stubbornly and for a very long time. Its health is its strength: it can take hits that would knock out other pets, and it keeps fighting while your other pets recover. Its damage is its weakness: it hits gently, so a battle with Mimic on your team takes longer, and you will need to answer more maths questions to win. That makes Mimic a good pet for boss fights and long battles, where surviving matters more than hitting hard, and a poor pet for quick fights where you want to finish fast. Pair it with a hard hitter: let Mimic take the hits at the front, and let your attacker do the damage from behind it. And remember the element rules: Mimic is a Shadow pet, so it is strong against Astral pets and weak against them in return, and the full matchup chart is in Prodigy element matchups: strengths and weaknesses.

The treasure chest trick

Mimic’s most famous moment in the game is not a battle at all, but a trick. During the first quest at Shipwreck Shore, you meet three chests, and the Mimics are disguised among them: only one of them, the middle one, is a real chest with an item inside, the Breathing Bubble, and the others are Mimics waiting to jump out. It is the game’s way of teaching you what a Mimic is: a chest that is not a chest. After that quest, you will never look at a treasure chest in Prodigy quite the same way again, and that is exactly the point. The trick also tells you something useful: Mimics like water and shore areas, so if you are hunting one, Shipwreck Shore is a good place to start, and the shore is where the chest quest happens for a reason.

Is Mimic worth catching

Mimic is worth catching if you want a pet that will not quit. Its huge health makes it one of the best pets for long battles, boss fights and the Dark Tower, where surviving is half the battle, and its Shadow element gives you cover against Astral pets that other pets struggle with. It is not worth catching if you want a pet that ends fights quickly: its damage is low, and a team of only Mimics would take forever to win anything. The best use of a Mimic is as one pet in a balanced team: one Mimic to take the hits, one hard hitter to deal the damage, and one pet you are training up. Catch one, train it, and keep it for the fights that go long: that is where Mimic earns its place. The rare pets guide, Prodigy rare pets guide, explains which pets are genuinely hard to find, and Mimic is not one of them: it is common enough to find, and rare enough to be proud of.

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Related guides

• Prodigy pets list: all pets and where to find them
• Prodigy rare pets guide
• Prodigy element matchups: strengths and weaknesses

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