I save foods and items for a whole run then sell them all at a cheap forge and upgrade my items so I don't have to scrounge around for food to boost my stats, but the only stats that matter left are my tizik's int.
all good monsters, but using an urso in a nest to get double ursos, get 1 or both of them to rapidly cast with the max evolution ability Beatdown, and you can cause your monsters to attack extremely rapidly, with krog and scutter it can be pretty op, a shred mudgill could be good too.