With the frequent introduction of new characters, 's meta is always changing. However, one thing has stayed consistent in that there are five Ancient cookies which can be found, and more recently five Beast cookies were introduced into the lore to parallel the Ancients.
There's also a slowly growing portion of Legendary cookies, and several rarities such as Special, Dragon, and Super Epic have been implemented in the last two years.
Ancient, Legendary, and Beast cookies tend to be the ones sought after the most. They're also the ones most connected to the story of, especially Pure Vanilla Cookie and White Lily Cookie.
However, how do these exceptionally rare cookies fare when compared to one another? Pure Vanilla was once the best healer in the game, but eventually fell short in the meta in favor of others such as Mystic Flour and Snapdragon.
Though he’s still a decent choice for a healer, and is a good substitute for the cookies that outgrew him. The same can’t be said about Dark Cacao, who doesn’t have much going for him other than his ability to cancel out HP shields.