Pure Vanilla Cookie is the third ancient cookie to receive an awakened form in Cookie Run: Kingdom. With this upgrade, he has earned his place back in the arena meta and has several new abilities. He can even deal damage now, which came as a surprise to a lot of fans, considering his status as a healer cookie.

He’s now a must-have to reach the higher master tiers and even the arena in Cookie Run: Kingdom, but you may find yourself falling through despite having obtained him. This is because his upgraded abilities are slightly different compared to his old ones, and there is a different way to optimize him. What is the new way to build Pure Vanilla Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom?

Which Toppings Are Best For Awakened Pure Vanilla Cookie?

Truthful Almond Toppings, But You Can Throw In Some Raspberries If You Get Lucky

Before he received an awakened form, the best choice of toppings were Swift Chocolates to reduce his significant Cooldown time. However, since he received his awakened upgrade, you may have seen recommendations to ditch his old set-up for something new—and there is a very good reason for this. When awakened, Pure Vanilla Cookie’s Cooldown decreases according to how high his damage resistance is and caps when his damage resistance reaches 50%.

Focusing solely on cooldown/swift chocolates will lower Pure Vanilla’s starting cooldown to three seconds. This is good for quickly countering Shadow Milk Cookie’s initial 1-2 second starting cooldown, but ultimately isn’t the best choice for him and his team’s survivability.

The best toppings for Awakened Pure Vanilla Cookie are Truthful Almonds, but solid almonds also work decently well. Regarding the topping substats, you should look out for damage resistance, attack, and cooldown. Get particularly lucky with your damage resistance stats from Pure Vanilla Cookie’s toppings and beascuits. You may also consider swapping out some solid almonds for searing raspberries to increase his healing and damage output.

Which Beascuits Are Best For Awakened Pure Vanilla Cookie?

A Regular Or Gleaming Sweet Beascuit

As a healer, Pure Vanilla Cookie can use sweet Beascuits and will benefit the most from one of the legendary varieties. You can apply a sweet gleaming beascuit to him for extra light damage, but since attack is not his primary purpose, you’re likely going to want a beascuit without elements - though with that being said, my Awakened PV does more damage than my Black Pearl Cookie. This is because elemental beascuits have one buff locked into one damage type, which isn’t the best for a -focused cookie.

If you didn’t manage to reach 40-50% extra damage resistance in his toppings, then you could opt for a few cooldown stats on Pure Vanilla’s Beascuit. Otherwise, you should focus on damage resistance. Other stats, such as attack and amplify buff, are good to settle on if you run out of beascuit dough, but you’ll want to focus on damage resistance, so Pure Vanilla Cookie can quickly heal your team whilst also being a sturdy figure on the battlefield in Cookie Run: Kingdom.