Quick facts about Lions

For Fire/Water/Thunder Lions:
- Level 1 lions normally have 5HP, 4000 defense, and attack for trivial damage every turn
- If there is a Level 2 lion, they will inherit its defense, bumping it to 8000, trivial damage
- If there is a Level 5 lion, they will inherit its defense, bumping it to 20000, trivial damage
- Level 2 lions have around 10HP; Level 5 lions have around 20HP
- 20 energy for 5 stages
- About 1000 exp and a small amount of gold; varies based on randomness of enemies

For Holy Lions
- Same applies as Fire/Water/Thunder lions with exceptions listed below
- 20 energy for 7 stages
- You gain a lot more gold

For Dark Lions
- Same as Fire/Water/Thunder lions, except it only costs 15 energy for 5 stages

For Super Dark Lions
- No Level 1 lions appear
- Guaranteed Level 6 lion at the final stage, and might appear in earlier stages
- Level 6 Dark Lions hit for 9999 damage and have 60000 defense, with a lot more HP (not in the double digits).  However, any Ganon skill with a 75% defense reduction skill will kill them instantly.  As a reference, an unevolved max level Baal can also instantly kill them with its skill under the same conditions.

Level 1 lions give 5000xp.
Level 2 lions give 10000xp.
Level 5 lions give 60000xp.
Level 6 lions give 100000xp.