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I did something very similar to this badger shaman and am currently still playing it happily.

All I did, though, was take the Bear Shaman, replace its swim totem transformation with climb, replace the protection domain with rage (similar to what you did up there), and replaced all bear wild shaping and summoning with wolverine.

BAM! Instant Wolverine Shaman. My GM had zero issues with that.

THOMAS GREGORY wrote:

Given the real world average sizes of bears and wolves I think that the sizes are backwards.

Animal Companions have almost no ties to Bestiary monsters. So no real world or even monster writeup in the Bestiary matters when it comes to Animal Companion stats.

The A.C.'s are written for balance reasons.

Balance reasons? I'd like to take a second look between the bear and large cats and tell me exactly how these two are balanced in any way. I fail to see why they would reduce the bear in size as they have. At first I thought it was because they gave them all primary attacks, but then I saw they did the same for the cat. So I'm at a loss.