My first run through of this part of RotRL I didn't notice Stickfoot isn't combat trained. So is Stickfoot supposed to be combat trained?
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My first run through of this part of RotRL I didn't notice Stickfoot isn't combat trained. So is Stickfoot supposed to be combat trained?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Often, animal tricks get left out of stat blocks because they ride the line between stat-block clutter and actually useful. There's no real good place to put them in the stat block line without distracting from more important information. They're a good example of a rule that is kinda unnecessary for NPCs, in my opinion, since it's pretty common sense obvious that if you have an NPC villain who rides an animal into combat, said animal will be combat trained.
Feel free to delve in and give all the various animal companion NPCs in the adventures a full suite of tricks, but in my opinion, that's time better spent doing other things and then when it comes to the encounter, just hand wave it.
Thank you JJasaurus, thank you for the advice as well.