Chao Island: Sonic Adventure 2

Statistic Trick/Glitch

Raising your Chao's stats can be a long and tiring task. It requires you to collect a maximum of 10 Chaos Drives and/or animals within the levels of the main game. Then you go into Chao World afterwards and give them to your Chao.

Since you can only have 10 drives/animals at a time, this becomes very repetitive. I'm sure that with your first few Chao you kept repeating levels over and over again just to raise your Chao's stats!

Well there is a glitch in the game that makes raising these stats easier/less time consuming.

Here's how to do it. Pick up an animal with your character, and stand about one Chao width apart from your Chao. Now put down the animal just in front of your Chao (instead of giving it to him). Position it so it just touches the Chao as it is placed down. If done correctly, instead of your Chao grabbing the animal, hugging it and flinging it away, it will do the same but without grabbing the animal.

It will still sparkle, but without grabbing the animal. The animal will even be flung away too! Now your Chao has gained the stats from this animal, but the animal is still able to be used again!

Chaos Drives can also be used with this method, but it is slightly trickier to position due to the way the Chaos Drive's float up and down.
To speed things up further, after you place the item down, you can catch it mid-air while it is being flung away from the Chao, to avoid having to run and pick it up again.

You will prefer to have your Chao stay in one place for this. So it's a good idea to pet, or pick up and put down your Chao so you can align yourself properly with it.