Battling Info

Battling Guide:

For the sake of this guide, always put points into battling.

At level one, you're stuck with scratch and defend... with defend being basically useless. Scratch does minimal damage, so watch your dino's health. Any dino can die quite easily if you get unlucky, so watch out. Heal all the way up after battles. If you have third party battles bought, just use Roger until level two.

At level two, battling is easy, assuming you put both points into battling. Bite does a lot more damage than scratch, and you'll out-damage the NPCs most of the time. Watch for crits and misses, though, as dinos can still die. Heal up to at least 92~% after battles.

At level six, start using swipe. Heal up to at least 90% after battles to make up for crits and misses. It's difficult to die at this point, so long as you heal after every battle.

At level eight, get your opponent down to around 33%, then use lick wounds until you're as close to 100% as possible. You hardly ever need healing items after a battle, unless you get crit at the end (even then, you only need a band-aid.) If your health drops below 50%, use lick wounds as well, just to be safe.

From level eight onwards, just continue to use the best damaging move available, and heal before finishing an opponent off. At level eight/ten, you can stop putting points into battling if you want, and put them into anything else.

Defend

Lvl 1. 0 points. Blocks -some- damage.

Scratch

Lvl 1. 0 points. Deals -low- damage.

Bite

Lvl 2. 2 points. Deals 5-17 (?) damage. Averages around 6-7 (?).

Leap

Lvl 4. 4 points. Dodge an incoming attack. 3 times per battle.

Swipe

Lvl 6. 6 points. Deals 7-18 (?) damage. Averages around 8-9 (?).

Lick Wounds

Lvl 8. 8 points. Heals 20% to 25%.

Kick

Lvl 10. 10 points. Deals 10-23 (?) damage. Averages 11-12 (?).

Scream

Lvl 15. 15 points. ???

Tackle

Lvl 30. 30 points. ???

Rest

Lvl 35. 35 points. ???

Healing Items

To my knowledge, the best healing items are as follows:
Eye Drops
Soothing Cloth
Disinfectant Spray
Band-Aid & Healing Pills
Box of Band-aids

The other items are much more expensive.

Band-aid

Heals 20 HP. 1 Use. Costs 100. 5 per percent healed.

Bottle o' Medicine

Heals 35 HP. 20 Uses. Costs 8000. 11.43 per percent healed.

Box of Band-aids

Heals 20 HP. 10 Uses. Costs 1100. 5.5 per percent healed.

Disinfectant Spray

Heals 65 HP. 10 Uses. Costs 3200. 4.92 per percent healed.

Eye Drops

Heals 50 HP. 10 Uses. Costs 1500. 3 per percent healed.

Healing Pills

Heals 50 HP. 10 Uses. Costs 2500. 5 per percent healed.

Roll of Gauze

Heals 40 HP. 25 Uses. Costs 7000. 7 per percent healed.

Soothing Cloth

Heals 35 HP. 5 Uses. Costs 600. 3.43 per percent healed.

Tube of Healing Cream

Heals 70 HP. 10 Uses. Costs 5000. 7.14 per percent healed.