Top 5 Rarest Pets in Adopt Me (2026)

Adopt Me has over 700 pets now, but the vast majority of them don't carry any real weight in the trading community. They hatch regularly, they're easy to get, and nobody's chasing them down. The pets people actually care about are a much smaller group, and the majority of them stopped being obtainable through normal gameplay years ago.

Rarity in this game gets confused with value a lot, a pet can be statistically rare because of a low hatch rate and still trade for less than a pet that's simply in high demand. What separates the rarest pets is usually a mix of retired events, low original odds, and the fact that the eggs or shops that offered them are long gone. Trading is the only route left for most of them.

In this article, we'll explore the top 5 rarest pets in Adopt Me for 2026, ranking each one with its release date, how it was originally obtained, how you can get it now, and its current trade value.

1. Bat Dragon

• Rarity: Legendary

• Release Date: October 2019, Halloween Event

• Original Obtain Method: Purchased from the Candy Trading Shop for 180,000 Candies

• Current Obtain Method: Trading only

• Current Trade Value: 933

The Bat Dragon is a Legendary pet that was released in October 2019 during the Halloween Event. Players had to grind Candies throughout the event and spend 180,000 of them in the Candy Trading Shop to get one, which made it one of the most expensive rewards available at the time. Once the event ended, it was removed from the shop and has never returned.

The only way to obtain a Bat Dragon now is through trading. Its Neon and Mega Neon forms need four and sixteen Bat Dragons respectively, which makes those versions even harder to put together. Its current trade value sits at the top of the game, ranking alongside the Shadow Dragon as one of the two most valuable pets, and depending on the trading server or value list you check, it sometimes edges the Shadow Dragon out entirely.

2. Shadow Dragon

• Rarity: Legendary

• Release Date: October 2019, Halloween Event

• Original Obtain Method: Purchased directly from the event shop for 1,000 Robux

• Current Obtain Method: Trading only

• Current Trade Value: 840

The Shadow Dragon is a Legendary pet that was released in October 2019 during the Halloween Event. Unlike the Bat Dragon, it didn't require any grinding, players could buy it directly with Robux for a flat price of 1,000. That simplicity didn't make it common though, since the purchase window closed with the event and the Shadow Dragon has never been brought back, not even in later Halloween events.

Trading is now the only way to get one. Its current trade value sits at the very top of the game, and most trading communities still treat it as the benchmark pet when negotiating high-tier trades, even in servers where the Bat Dragon occasionally trades higher.

3. Giraffe

• Rarity: Legendary

• Release Date: July 2019

• Original Obtain Method: Hatched from the Safari Egg at a 3% legendary rate

• Current Obtain Method: Trading, or hatching a leftover Safari Egg if you still have one

• Current Trade Value: 472

The Giraffe is a Legendary pet that came from the Safari Egg, released back in 2019. Unlike the Bat Dragon and Shadow Dragon, it wasn't a guaranteed purchase, players had to hatch the egg and land the 3% legendary chance to get one, which made it rare even while the egg was still available.

The Safari Egg has since been retired, so hatching one now only works if a player happens to still have an unhatched copy sitting in their inventory, which is increasingly uncommon years later. For almost everyone else, trading is the only realistic option.

4. Frost Dragon

• Rarity: Legendary

• Release Date: December 2019, Christmas Event

• Original Obtain Method: Purchased directly from the event shop for 1,000 Robux

• Current Obtain Method: Trading only

• Current Trade Value: 324

The Frost Dragon is a Legendary pet that was released in December 2019 during the Christmas Event. Like the Shadow Dragon, it was a direct Robux purchase priced at 1,000, available only for the short window the event shop stayed open. Once the Christmas Event ended, the Frost Dragon left the shop and has never been reintroduced.

5. Owl

• Rarity: Legendary

• Release Date: November 2019

• Original Obtain Method: Hatched from the Farm Egg at a 3% legendary rate

• Current Obtain Method: Trading, or hatching a leftover Farm Egg if you still have one

• Current Trade Value: 245

The Owl is a Legendary pet that came from the Farm Egg, released in 2019. It shared the same 3% legendary hatch rate as the Crow, so both pets were equally hard to land while the egg was still around, but the Owl pulled ahead over time due to stronger player demand.

The Farm Egg has since been retired, so the only way to get an Owl now, aside from an unhatched egg still sitting in someone's inventory, is through trading. Its current trade value sits consistently above the Crow despite the identical odds, and it closes out this list as one of the five hardest legendary pets to obtain in Adopt Me right now.

Final Words

The rarest pets in Adopt Me all trace back to 2019, and none of them are coming back through normal gameplay. The Bat Dragon and Shadow Dragon sit at the very top, both pulled from the Halloween Event that year, while the Frost Dragon carries that same weight from the Christmas Event a few months later. The Giraffe and Owl took a different route through retired eggs, but ended up just as scarce since the odds were never in anyone's favor to begin with. Trading is the only door left open for all five, and that's not likely to change as the years go on.