I like the challenge of clean lined breeding, but it's more of just that-- an additional challenge I do for fun. I do think they're more valuable often times because they are harder to accomplish and still have good stat wolves.

That said, when it comes to explore, inbreeding really doesn't matter. I have CL and IB wolves on my explore teams, I just use whoever's best to get the job done. Not all my explore wolves are even wolves I use for breeding.

Objectively and functionally, makes no difference. My podium hunters were IB to hell, I dragged them out of Trading Post and made them into stars. Subjectively, biology programming says ew in some people

The market for explore wolves has been booty in general, especially with all the high talent wolves, so more people may care about the IB part since they aren't exploring hardcore

Eno said:

If you're referring to these one and two wovles they would both be CL, but if bred together would have IB pups.

Personally I like short gen wolves purley because that is my preference. I'd take a low stat CL wolf over a high talent IB wolf. I can always slap on CP and train as needed, talents and heritage (other then weight and vitals, in my opinion) have no effect on how good a wolf is for explore.

Also I use my battlers as breeders too, and it's annoying to keep track of heritage so it's better that none of my wolves are related.

Spotlight Tango said:

IB literally affects nothing in game, so why care? If it's CL but sucks overall with my other important factors, I'm going to retire it and keep the IB with high talents, HW and high vitals. I used to care but then I realized hey, IB high talents with other high talents could totally save me from spending a butt load of mush on CP, so why not?