Ever since the Carnival patch, I've seen way too many players act like Elephants are just a flex pet. They're not. They're basically a weight machine if you use them with a plan, and if you're short on budget, picking up cheap Grow A Garden Tokens can help you get the pieces faster without stalling your whole garden for days. The key is Jumbo Blessing: it snaps a pet's age back to 1 and still gives a flat +0.1kg base weight. That sounds small until you realise you're repeating it over and over on the same target, stacking weight while keeping the pet in the "easy to level" range.
How the Double Blessing actually lands
Most people mess this up by firing one Elephant whenever it's ready. Don't. You want two Elephants with cooldowns that line up close enough to hit the same target in the same window. I'll usually watch the timers and drop my target pet into the active slot right before both triggers. When it works, you'll see two resets back-to-back and you walk away with a clean +0.2kg jump instead of +0.1kg. It's especially noticeable on a pet you thought was "done" already, like a maxed Dilo that suddenly starts creeping upward again.
Leveling Elephants without losing your mind
The grind is real until your Elephants hit higher hunger tiers, because cooldowns can feel like they take forever. Push them up to the point where the ability loop doesn't drag—H20+ is where it starts feeling playable, with cooldowns tightening into a range you can plan around. XP farming is the whole job here. Rainbow Dilophosaurus is the obvious choice if you've got it, but even a Mimic Octopus can do the heavy lifting if you're patient. And if you're running the Carnival Elephant, that "Show Must Go On" style retrigger passive is massive, because it can effectively give you extra chances at blessings without waiting out the full cycle.
Build paths that match your token stash
1) Budget route: run French Fry Ferrets plus Peacocks and one Elephant you're trying to grow. The Peacocks help keep things refreshing so the garden doesn't feel dead, while Ferrets help on the age-level side. It's slower, but it's stable, and you won't constantly fight hunger. 2) Mid-tier route: swap toward a Dilo-heavy setup and add a Reaper for the passive XP boost. That combo levels Elephants fast enough that you can start timing double blessings without sitting around. 3) Endgame route: Rainbow Dilos and Rainbow Elephants. It costs a ton, but when your cooldowns dip low and your XP flow is silly, you can pump out pets that hit scary weights surprisingly quickly.
When skipping the grind makes sense
Not everyone wants a 100-hour routine just to get two Elephants synced, and honestly, I get it. If trades are dry or your rolls are cursed, using U4GM to pick up tokens or ready-to-run pets can be the clean shortcut, since the whole point is getting back to testing combos, not staring at cooldowns all night.