Pet Battles

[Flex]

Oh man. Lil Bling is a mechanical with a mechanical stampede. Need to get.

[Flex]

and I got Lil Bling last night. Leveled him to 25. Finished leveling a s/s breed Flock having chicken. Got some good levels on both Bonkers and Clock Em as well. Should be pretty set for this week's tournament.

[Flex]

Soloing Yu'la with Mr Bigglesworth:

Start with claw (pounce will do less damage as second attack will be full blocked), yu'la shields, cast Ice Tomb. yu'la lifts off, cast Ice Barrier, pass, yu'la's Lift Off finishes, pass again, Yu'la's breath attack blocked, Ice Tomb hits stunning Yu'la, Claw, Claw, take reduced damage from Yu'la's breath attack since Mr Bigglesworth is an undead.

Repeat the sequence.

How to kill Xu-Fu easily.

Get yourself a Skywhisp moth though any pet with Lightning Storm weather effect can work Moths take less damage from Xu-Fu's primary attack, though they take more damage from the moonlight Cast. On your first go use a normal attack. After Xu-Fu uses Moonlight cast Lightning Storm. If you survive the next attack just do normal attacks.

Swap in a fast pet, base speed of 297 or better, with a Stampede effect. You want the fastest speed so you can get in one more Stampede before moving to your third part so it has two rounds of the damage taken debuff on Xu-Fu. Lil Bling works great for this, also any flying type pet with a S/S breed works as well.

The third pet will be any mechanical with a strong mechanical attack to nuke Xu-Fu down while he takes increased damage.

Killing Chi-Chi for Dummies

Level up 3 Snails.

Alternatively use a snail as your first pet. Keep Acidic Goo on the Chi-Chi. Spam Ooze Touch.

If you have 2 snails you should easily be able to take out Chi-Chi. If you do not have two snails any magic pet will do, Oozes preferred since they can combine Acidic Goo and Ooze Touch, they'll just take normal damage from Chi-Chi's attack.

[Jabari]

Hmm, interesting. I'll have to level a couple of mine some more (Mr. Biggles, maybe another snail).

I'd been using Tiny Twister as my opener for Xu-Fu - they changed his Sandstorm to Lightning Storm in the last patch. Don't have a Lil' Bling yet - I think I just use Tonk/Zep afterward.

Chi-Chi has been the one that has given me the most problems in the past. I've been doing a "Wild Magic/DoTs" group against him. I'm sure I have a second snail close that I could level fast (I already use one for Pandarian Spirit Tamers) - been using a Lantern in that last slot that has rather a lot of magic burst.

Do you Shield at all with the Snails, or not bother?

Amusing pet I got: The Droplet of Ysaarjh (or however it's spelled). Seems like a decent opener, has both Cleansing Rain and Dreadful Breath.

[Flex]

Do you Shield at all with the Snails, or not bother?

I do not shield with my snails since that takes the place of Acidic Goo. The other moves are Dive and Headbutt. Headbutt if it stuns is okay, but being Beast damage it'll be a loss of DPS vs Ooze Touch if it doesn't stun. Dive might be doable if you time it so you're submerged during Chi-Chi's dodge.

[jere]

I only remember having to pass once per cycle with Mr. Bigglesworth. He should be hitting the barrier once on the same turn you lay it and then the second time on the turn you pass.


On Chi-Chi I have been successful with a lamb army. Sooth > Chew > Stampede (repeat). Takes two to kill him and I keep a surge of power user in back up incase of RNG misses/crits that mess up the strat. The nice thing about this strat is if you use Sooth 2 turns before the Ethereal Turn, he goes to sleep before he can use it, allowing stampede+chew to hit each cycle.

[Flex]

I only remember having to pass once per cycle with Mr. Bigglesworth. He should be hitting the barrier once on the same turn you lay it and then the second time on the turn you pass.

you're right, got my pass/claw pacing jumbled.

[Jabari]

Thanks for the tips Flex - went through this time with only a couple issues (on the trainers, not the celestials).

Snails and Bigglesworth worked perfectly, and I even messed up the Biggles timing the first pass.

One more week for getting another celestial pet!

Any tips for how to get up to the sky-moths on the Timeless Isle?

[Flex]

Any tips for how to get up to the sky-moths on the Timeless Isle?

1) Albatross taxi service
2) Mount up in fatigue water, fly really high, fly in until you're dismounted, use either a goblin glider or the glider that is sold on the island to fly to a peak.

[jere]

Any suggestions for the second celestial to pick this week? I got Xu-fu last week. I'm more looking for function (as opposed to cuteness). I was thinking Chi-Chi would be a good choice for second, but still playing around with the idea.

[Winkle]

Just stumbled across this thread after developing a mild interest in pet battles, currently i have 4 pets in the lvl 21-22 range with all my other pets level 18-1.

My lvl 21-22 pets are:
Giant Bone Spider (seemed good at lower levels by web doesn't seem to hit hard anymore)
Jade oozling
Son of Animus
Dark Phoneix hatchling

My current target is to get the pets to level 25 and complete the pet trainer quests from StormWind. Currently doing the outland ones.

Any suggestions for what i should after that?

[Worldie]

Your first aim to complete the quest from stormwind would be having 1 lvl 25 pet of each element (or a lvl 25 pet with attacks of each element)
From Northrend onwards, you will be facing Epic quality pets, meaning your only way to defeat them is using their counter element (either resistant to their attack, or strong against them, or both)

With those you should be able to clear everything up to spirits of pandaria and legendary beasts. At that point, you will need several pets of each element.

However, once you got 2 lvl 25 pets, training a pet to lvl 25 takes a couple hours at most.

[Jabari]

That's a pretty nice set of pets to start with!
(Note: For the Bone Spider, you'll want the two DoTs and Death Grip - put both DoTs on, then shove it to the back - that one will still be taking damage while you're laying more DoTs on the new front guy.)

For the moment, the thing you'll want to do is get at least 2 pets up to level 25 ASAP, and do as many of the trainer quests as you can handle. When you finish a "set" of them (i.e., all the Outland ones) those turn into dailies you can repeat.

You want 2 25s to quickly level other pets using those dailies - the 25s don't soak any XP at all and will destroy the trainers, so the "lowbie" only has to be in there for one turn and then can hide in the back - it'll get a ton of XP after each trainer daily.

After that, it's just a matter of going around and collecting rares of the "good" pets, then leveling them up. You'll want a variety of families and attacks to proceed through the later trainers (Northrend/Cata/Pandaria), and then on to Spirit Tamers and the tournament at the end. Pet PvP is also kind of fun.

I'd start with this list:
Anubsith Idol (AQ 40 - Twin Emps, or the AH)
Fel Flame (Shadowmoon Valley)
Any Snail (elemental killers)
Clockwork Gnome (Archeology, or the AH)
Moths (lots of choices - Moths are strong!)
Kun-Lai Runt (Kun-Lai)
Nether Faeire Dragon (near Dire Maul)
Crow (darkmoon faire, you'll have to fight a level 5+ fly as they only appear in the back. You'll probably need an upgrade stone to get a rare of this.)
Scourged Whelpling (haha yeah right, this is an impossible camp. I did the PvP-RP server bit to get one. Ridiculously good, though.)

Lots of other good pets too obviously, level up anything that you think is interesting.

You'll also want to get the BattlePetTeams addon.

[Flex]

If you have a worgen you can buy a Gilnean Raven from the trainer and save time farming a crow.

My favorite Flying type is the Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling. They can counter nukes with Lift Off, or they can do a flying damage stampede, and are offensive power houses in their other slots.

My favorite aquatic type or water striders, basically regular elemental killers.

You'll also want to toss in a few extra mechanicals. Darkmoon Zeppelin and Pandaren Mechanical Dragonling are strong due to decoy.

My normal power leveling is quite tame since I have 100+ level 25s. I hit up Farmer Nishi, Grandmaster Aki and the Flowing Water Spirit. I can get a pet from level 1 to 22 from those three fights using Safari Hat and 25% sausage.

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The move set for Rascal-Bot amuses me. Phaser, Lens Flare, Plot Twist (he attacks with a stampede of Polar Bears), Reboot.

[jere]

I definitely recommand the Anub Idol. With him, I am able to solo 2 of the pandaria tamers (aki,yon) as well as the fire elemental. He will be useful in levelling other pets and is a very useful pet in general.

A fast bunny is definitely suggested (S/S breed). The ability to dodge 2 attacks and also burrow away from another is useful in quite a few fights, even in those where you don't have an elemental advantage.

The Terrible Turnip is good for capturing other pets due to it's main attack (Weakened blows I think) not being able to kill enemies.

One that I have come upon recently: A S/S breed Death Adder. In this breed, it will be able to fully blind a target for two rounds + do some decent burst damage. This may not seem much different from dodge, but there are some abilities the tamers have that will still put up a debuff even if the attack is dodged or that do AoE damage even if the first pet dodges. Blind Poison actually prevents some debuffs from being applied (haven't tested against all, but whirlpool is one example) and nullifies AoE while up. I wish I had him while levelling so I could have some more concrete experience.

[Zobel]

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[halabar]

Best battle pet evah...

[Jabari]

Any suggestions for the second celestial to pick this week? I got Xu-fu last week. I'm more looking for function (as opposed to cuteness). I was thinking Chi-Chi would be a good choice for second, but still playing around with the idea.

Heh, I actually picked up Chi-Chi myself. Wild Magic is always a neat skill to mess with, and it works well with both quills and alpha strike.

Was tempted by Yu'la though - that AoE (in the 10-slot) looks really good, especially with Lightning Storm, and a shield to possibly protect yourself. *shrug*

[jere]

Yeah, I ended up going with Chi-Chi. I only tried once, but I think I can solo the Flowing Water Spirit team with just him if I tried hard enough. I'll have to play with him some more.

[Andurin]

Any tips for a first timer going to give the Celestial Tournament a shot? Or should I just try it and see how far I get? ^^

[Flex]

Any tips for a first timer going to give the Celestial Tournament a shot? Or should I just try it and see how far I get? ^^

Build your teams for the celestial bosses first. Then work backwards to create teams to go against the Champion tamers and not use any members from your boss teams.

Taran Zhu has a humanoid that can feign death which can crimp your entire round so I like to hit him with a big undead nuke that one shots him, well I basically do that for all of his pets. I use a Curse of Doom Magic pet since his first pet does a critter attack then I use a Blighthawk to nuke out his second pet.

Most of the tamers are pretty easy to counter and if you run into issues wowhead basically has "plays the game for you" tips.

[Ruldar]

I really need to look into running the tournament. I have a pretty sizable stable of lvl 25 pets, somewhere over 75 so I imagine I should be able to come up with the combinations to do it.

[jere]

To add on to what Flex said: If you are just starting out, see if you can prepare 2 teams for each celestial boss, incase you flop once or have bad RNG (for teams that this matters).

Also, if you look up strategies on sites like warcraftpets but don't have all the pets listed, see if you can find a pet you do have that has a similar enough move set for the strat, don't be afraid to try it out (especially on the first 3 tramers).

Try to get a good leveling process for outside the tournament. Once you have identified the pets you need, see if you need to level any. Then go from tamer to tamer and try to level up your next pet. You should be able to level one pet per day without a huge time sink (an hour or less) if you have the safari hat and can do about 6 of the pandaria trainers with 2 or less pets. Shoot the Anubiseth Idol can solo 3 trainers, so you just need him plus a couple other 2 pet teams.

[Flex]

The only Celestial I have an issue with is Zao. If I get a miss his Wish will go off and I'll lose. Luckily he doesn't have a one hit kill so a simple bomb team will take care of him.

[jere]

A lot of people have trouble with Xu Fu and Chi Chi. Some beginners might have trouble, so it is usually a good idea to have some backups incase you mess up or have bad RNG.

Each person has different battles that can be risky based on their teams. For me for example, Zao is pretty solid. I've never had issues and he could use wish all day long and my team will still take him down (not to say it is perfect, but I would have to miss a lot of abilities in a row). Xu-Fu does have a more random component for me (as does Yu-la), so I make sure to have a backup team just incase. As I level more pets, I can probably whittle out those riskier teams.