Hobblegrunt

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Hobblegrunt
Basic Information
Class	Stoker
Release Date	August 14th, 2014
Availability	Everyone (Limited Availability) (August 14th, 2014) Everyone (v2.11.0 - Unknown Date)
Model Animation	Scauldron/Original Animation
Stats
Racing	Max Speed: 5 Pitch Rate: 3 Turn Rate: 8.8 Acceleration: 10
Battle	Firepower: 9.1 Shot Limit: 13 Base Damage: 13 Max Health: 544 Fire Range: 31 Crit. Hit Chance: 23 Cooldown: 1 Recharge: 136 DPS: 16
Combat	ATK: 450 FPR: 455 MOVE: 3 CRIT: 225 HPR: 400 DEF: 30 Health: 1850
Skills (Role & Element)	Camouflage Focus
Price
Store	Regular Price: 250 Member Price: 200
UDT	Not Available

The Hobblegrunt is a Stoker Class dragon released on August 14th, 2014 for a limited time. It was formerly only available during the rare limited sale periods, or, if one was lucky enough, as a prize in the gold tier chest from Battle Events.

The Hobblegrunt is now always available in the store for 750 gems (600 for members), as of v2.11.0.

On April 13th, 2020, the Hobblegrunt received a price adjustment and was reduced to 250 Gems (200 for members).

Description

From the How to Train Your Dragon Wiki:

"The Hobblegrunt has a single horn and and an expandable frill surrounding its head. It has clawed wings, small arms and big legs like a Deadly Nadder. It also appears to have long neck and tail as well. Its tail has frilled edges, similar to that of a Monstrous Nightmare.

"The Hobblegrunt is able to change its colors like a chameleon, and this ability is similar to that of the Changewing. Instead of doing it for defensive purposes, it changes color depending on its mood. It can use this ability to calm other dragons. Using the large frill on its head, the Hobblegrunt is able to detect the subtle shifts in temperature, barometric pressure, and the emotional states of nearby dragons or humans."

For more information on the Hobblegrunt, visit here.

In Quests

Battle for the Edge

Quest: Threat of the Dragon Hunters

The player will find wild Hobblegrunts on Hobblegrunt Island, where they nest in group on sandy cliffs. Their nests are low mounds of sand, and they hold quite a large number of eggs, up to 10 each. Baby hobblegrunts lives with adults in the nest area. It is not explained in the quest, but probably they nest in group for self-defense.

The Dragon Hunters for some reason seem interested in the baby Hobblegrunts, probably because they are easier to capture. Adult dragons don't seem to have some defensive strategy, as they apparently don't fight back to the attackers.

Quest: The Hobblegrunt Mystery

The player needs to approach nesting Hobblegrunts on Hobblegrunt Island, without disturbing them, which seems to indicate that they are easily scared dragons.

Quest: Dragon Hunter Troubles

A baby and an adult Hubblegrunts are found trapped in a Dragon Hunter's cage along with other dragons at Hobblegrunt Island.

Hobblegrunt vs Threadtail Confusion

Ever since the release of the Hobblegrunt, it has been talked about and discussed between players due to the said released Hobblegrunt looked nothing like the already officially confirmed Hobblegrunt, going as far as to generate discussions about this Hobblegrunt being a sub-species of the real Hobblegrunt while others just call it "a lazy job" from the developers.

Things escalated really quickly with Dragons: Rise of Berk's February 16th, 2016 release, Threadtail, which looked exactly like the SoD's Hobblegrunt. Players that were already disappointed with the SoD's Hobblegrunt release started losing more of their patience as they started wondering how could they confuse these two different dragons, one of which was shown multiple times on screen during How To Train Your Dragon 2.

It wasn't until March 27th, 2017, Brian Yoon, one of SoD's Narrative Designers, cleared up the confusion of the Hobblegrunt vs Threadtail confusion:

The Hobblegrunt wasn't going to originally look like the Threadtail, instead, it was going to have its own model, and to an extent, the same for the Threadtail. But, back in 2014, the developers required the confirmation of DreamWorks to release one of the two models. One was released, and the other was then revised and released, resulting in two living Hobblegrunts.

“	Back in 2014, we created two different models for the Hobblegrunt; we released one, then revised and released another model shortly after. [...] We had two different Hobblegrunts live at one point (though never at the same time, since we updated all Hobblegrunts with the new model), and we eventually settled on the one.	”
	— Brian Yoon

What might've happened was not only did the SoD developers forgot what an Hobblegrunt looked like when releasing the model, neither did someone at DreamWorks, promptly resulting in Dreamworks calling the background dragon model a "Hobblegrunt" and allowing SoD to release the wrong species model.

Because of this, SoD can't just rename the dragon due to Dreamworks "officially" naming it as a "Hobblegrunt".

“	We got directly from Dreamworks. I understand the confusion with where the Hobblegrunt/Threadtail is in current knowledge, but we won't/can't change our Hobblegrunt because Dreamworks named it for us.	”
	— Kaneka

Trivia

• The Hobblegrunt is the only dragon that was purchasable only during limited-time windows; these are some of the few sale events it appeared:
  • March 31st - April 6th 2015;
  • May 29th - June 8th 2015;
  • July 2nd - 7th 2015;
  • March 24th - 31st 2016;
  • As of v2.11.0, the Hobblegrunt is now always available in the store.

Reference

Level	Attack Power	Fire Power	Healing Power	Health
1	9	9	8	135
2	18	18	16	170
3	27	27	24	205
4	36	36	32	240
5	45	46	40	275
6	54	55	48	310
7	63	64	56	345
8	72	73	64	380
9	81	82	72	415
10	90	91	80	450
11	99	100	88	485
12	108	109	96	520
13	117	118	104	555
14	126	127	112	590
15	135	137	120	625
16	144	146	128	660
17	153	155	136	695
18	162	164	144	730
19	171	173	152	765
20	180	182	160	800
21	189	191	168	835
22	198	200	176	870
23	207	209	184	905
24	216	218	192	940
25	225	228	200	975
26	234	237	208	1010
27	243	246	216	1045
28	252	255	224	1080
29	261	264	232	1115
30	270	273	240	1150
31	279	282	248	1185
32	288	291	256	1220
33	297	300	264	1255
34	306	309	272	1290
35	315	319	280	1325
36	324	328	288	1360
37	333	337	296	1395
38	342	346	304	1430
39	351	355	312	1465
40	360	364	320	1500
41	369	373	328	1535
42	378	382	336	1570
43	387	391	344	1605
44	396	400	352	1640
45	405	410	360	1675
46	414	419	368	1710
47	423	428	376	1745
48	432	437	384	1780
49	441	446	392	1815
50	450	455	400	1850

Hatchling and Adulthood

Hobblegrunt egg

Hobblegrunt before hatching

Hobblegrunt Default Colors

Hobblegrunt hatchling

Baby Hobblegrunt Standing

Baby Hobblegrunt Idle

Baby Hobblegrunt Sitting

Baby Hobblegrunt Sleeping (profile)

Baby Hobblegrunt Sleeping (upper view)

Baby Hobblegrunt Swimming

Size comparison between a Viking and a Baby Hobblegrunt

Hobblegrunt Standing

Hobblegrunt Idle

Hobblegrunt Sitting

Hobblegrunt Sleeping (upper view)

Hobblegrunt Sleeping (profile view)

Hobblegrunt Markings (upper view)

Hobblegrunt Markings (profile view)

Hobblegrunt's Head Markings (profile view)

Hobblegrunt's Head Markings (front view)

Hobblegrunt's Fire

Hobblegrunt flying

Hobblegrunt Hovering

Hobblegrunt Flying

Hobblegrunt firing while flying (front view)

Hobblegrunt firing while flying (profile view)

Hobblegrunt Gliding

Hobblegrunt Breaking

Hobblegrunt egg as advertised through Trader Johann's deals.

Bioluminescent Patterns

Racing Paint

Upperwings, limbs and tail patterns (profile)

Upperwings, legs and tail patterns