Skills or Abilities are the stats of your pet, you can level them up by earning Experience which directly effects how well your pet does in Crafting, Combat and other activities.

There are also some Player skills, which are unaffected by your active pet.

The skill level is always rounded up to the nearest whole number, and are displayed on your pet's hover text, or in the Pet Stats.
Stats is an abbreviation of statistics

Krafties Creature Skills

Crafting Skill

Crafting is also called a Healing Skill since it decides when your pet learns Healing spells.

This skill is directly connected to the ability to use the Crafting Temple in order to create items. The higher the skill, better the chances at creating quality items.

Combat Skill Set

As the name implies, Combat skills effects how well your pet does in a fight

It is the calculated average of Attack, Strength, Defense and Hitpoints

Attack: Also known as Accuracy. Increasing your creature's attack level will improve their chances of scoring a hit in combat. This doesn't affect damage, just the ability to hit the opponent. Aviaas are often naturally designed for accuracy.
Strength: Strength is your creature's physical prowess, determining not only how much damage they can inflict, but the maximum damage possible. Creatures with high strength like Rexies tend to hit harder overall.
Defense: This determines the creature's ability to absorb damage, reducing their overall loss of hit points. Training your creature in combat constantly in certain battle styles helps build up their resistance, enabling them to hold up better in battle.
Hitpoints: Hitpoints is the health of your creature and measure how much damage your creature can take before they can no longer fight. Hit points regenerate over time, but the more hit points your creature has, the longer they can last against tough opponents.

Mental Skill Set

The mental ability of your pet can change your strategies in battle, since mental spells can either buff or debuff the target, which effects their stats.

It is the calculated average of Intellect, Focus and Fortitude

Intellect: Intellect determines the force of your mental spells. Similar to strength, the higher this level the more effective your mental spells are.
Focus: Focus determines the chance of success hit with your mental abilities. Similar to attack, the higher this level the more chance of striking a successful mental attack.
Fortitude: Fortitude is your ability to defend mental attacks. Similar to defense, the higher this level the more chance of you defending a mental attack.

Overall Skill Level

A creature's overall level is the average combined level of the creature's experience. Since the soul contains all the pet's experience, the overall effects how skilled your pet is at creating souls
calculated average of all the other creature skills