Valet Familiar Archetype & Teamwork Feats

[Marphod]

The Valet Archetype's "Teamwork" Ability (Ex) is: A valet is considered to have all the teamwork feats its master has.

I have a few questions about this one:

How do Teamwork feats work when sharing a square. If a character with a Rat Familiar has the Rat riding in a pouch, is the Familiar adjacent? Does the Familiar have to be an obvious target for Teamwork feats to fire?

The 2 most obvious teamwork feats for a spell caster with a familiar are "Allied Spellcaster" and "Shielded Caster".

With Allied Spellcaster, the Master will get a +2 competence bonus on level checks to overcome spell resistance, which increased to +4 and a +1 bonus to caster level if the other spellcaster has the same spell prepared (memorizing) or knows the spell and has a slot to cast it with (spontaneous).

How does this work with a Witch's Familiar? Does a witch always get the +4/+1? If not, how about if the witch has the spell memorized twice? Or if the witch is using Familiar Melding? (Are you considered adjacent when sharing a single body?)

Am I missing something or is Shielded Caster a no-brainer? (Although I'd probably not allow Anthropomorphic Animal and giving the familiar an appropriately sized shield unless it was no smaller than one size category smaller than the caster.)

[Jennica Fortune]

Marphod wrote:

With Allied Spellcaster, the Master will get a +2 competence bonus on level checks to overcome spell resistance, which increased to +4 and a +1 bonus to caster level if the other spellcaster has the same spell prepared (memorizing) or knows the spell and has a slot to cast it with (spontaneous).

How does this work with a Witch's Familiar? Does a witch always get the +4/+1? If not, how about if the witch has the spell memorized twice? Or if the witch is using Familiar Melding? (Are you considered adjacent when sharing a single body?)

I'm not a witch*, but I'd say that the familiar must be able to cast the spell also. Which means that you'd need the Familiar Spell metamagic feat and use it to grant the spell to the familiar to actually count for the feat. Under normal circumstances, a witch's familiar is not a spellcaster any more than my spellbook is a spellcaster.

As for the Shielded Caster, yeah. Pretty much seems to work exactly as it says... I'd imagine it as like your cat stands adjacent to you and hisses at your opponents, freaks em out a bit (OMG WTF is that thing RABID?), you get the bonuses. As you said though, having an actual shield for the further bonuses might be a bit much :)

Then finally in the case of Familiar Melding, I'd have to say no just as I'd say a demon possessing a human wouldn't get any benefit from shared teamwork feats.

*((By not a witch, i also jokingly am saying this is in no way an official ruling as I do not work for Paizo, it is merely my interpretation as to what constitutes a "spellcaster" in regards to a familiar in this situation)