Best Pet combo for upgrading

Ive seen people using many different combos for their upgrading/repair summoner.

I use monkey/genie since it gets mana very fast but the monkey has crazy range so i can stay back in safer areas and still get mana.

My buddy does robot/genie to get mana in basically one hit with the pierce. Sadly robot dps sucks

so...
What is your prefered combo for summoner? Id love to get a general consensus on what the preferred pet combo is

Seahorse + Genie. I haven't got a monkey.

Djinnlet + Genie is the best imo.

Monkey + Genie imo, ur friend doesnt get full mana from 1 hit with a robot though, since mana gained is capped by the genies atk rate.

what are thoughts on djinnlet/imp for afk repairs?

what are thoughts on djinnlet/imp for afk repairs?

That's what I use for my active character. Just walk around and the IMP auto repairs everything while the djinnlet gets mana. Flash heal too. It's great!

For my AFK summoners, I use a Huntress Guardian and an Apprentice Guardian, and park them near my towers. Doubles the tower DPS.

Monkey + Genie has the range to hit enemies before towers kill them in earlier waves although with Ogres of the strength and numbers we have now enemies no reaching your defenses is hardly an issue anymore. I will still maintain an Apprentice with a Genie is the best upgrader overall though. Overcharge makes upgrades virtually instant even at moderate stats which saves far more time than not having to attack.

I concur with classic, I like the djinnlet + genie combo for fast mana generation

For those with the mana pets do you max the mana gain with the pet or still go for tower stats ?

For those with the mana pets do you max the mana gain with the pet or still go for tower stats ?

Stats, after a certain point anyway.

With genies damage > 2-4k is almost certainly wasted as diminishing returns hit extremely hard (and I think there's a hard cap near 270 mana anyways)
With djinnlets, somewhere in the 4-5k pet damage is enough to hit their hard cap on returns (80-90), but their tower stats are always BS anyways :p

perfect kobold and perfect kobold haha