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Use Cat'Ie to remove all skills from a monster except the one you want to get before releasing it. That way when you finally get your letters they're only good ones.

You only need one Mythical pet and a little luck to start the incest program. The child seems to randomly inherit either parent's rarity.

Some more thoughts:

A tertiary goal is to get all these stats and abilities on a good monster base that's highly resistant to damage. Notables:
-Plague Spirit: resistant to physical; very resistant to fire, poison, water, air, and shadow.
-Metal Slime: very resistant to physical and fire.
-Sludge Spirit: very resistant to poison and shadow, resistant to water and lightning.

Verdigrizzly's Summon Floraconda is a nice-to-have ability. Probably not worth rolling the bones to breed it in, but definitely snag a couple and try to get it in a letter. This will let you proc the quest for growing plants in the Flooded Temple on any character, and it just puts another body on the field that can be attacked instead of you.

For readers, one of the best abilities:
Monster Hunter ability from Maniox
+50% DMG against monsters

It does. I don't care for charge-up abilities generally but in this case, one turn charge is often faster than it would be for you to reposition the fight yourself to get the pet in on the action.

Does Fierce Charge have a charge-up? Meaning: does it need 1 turn to activate and then jump in the second turn?

Thanks for the info, especially with the behaviour tag. I will keep an eye on it.

I will add Sandstorm and Fierce Charge to the table. Though, I think just killing the summons with massive AOE (Divine Storm and Plague Wave) is the better way to go in the late game.

The grizzled komodon is a great breeding pet for more than just Thick Hide. It also gets Sandstorm, an *aoe* blind skill which is a literal lifesaver in a swarm of summoned frogs or whatever, and Fierce Charge, a damaging movement ability that it uses to leap into the thick of battle when it cannot reach the enemy, so you don't have to stop what you're doing and reposition the fight out of a hallway or whatever.

Also, certain enemies, notably the Neutralizer, are actually horrible pets because of a behavior tag (you can see it in the mosterpedia) called "wander" which makes them zoom around the map completely ignoring you and what you're fighting. I don't know how breeding works w/r/t behavior tags but I will avoid breeding any monster with that tag after an awful experience with a Neutralizer pet that never helped me because it was constantly going on walkabout.

From Valcus in the forum:
I've only done a single play through so don't have a lot of experience with all of the abilities but I found Summon Floroconda on my pet to be fantastic. It summoned several which felt like walking around with my own army. I could be mistaken but it seemed like they all where benefiting from my floro-buffs and healing each other with vine heal. That might fit nicely with both your DPS and survivability goals.

I have added a table with skills that I consider must-have