Good all-around pet battle team

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I have never been a fan of pet battles, but have been doing them recently when I see them up as WQs. I only have three lvl 25 pets who I used every time and I’m just looking for tips on what is a good all around team for BfA pet battle WQs. I can win almost every one of them, but have run into a couple that totally smoked me.

My current team is:
Abyssius
Teroclaw Hatchling
Terrible Turnip

If anyone has any recommendations for a good all around team as well as tips on speed leveling, I’d love to hear it!

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The iron starlette can solo, or get close to it, most of the new wqs.

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You really need:

-iron starlett: Very handy for many quests

-Ambushi idol: A basic pet battle pet.

-I am also a fan of the singing sunflower. Good for the bee WQ and the mechanical WQ in the stormsong valley across the water from the flight path.

There are all sorts of other great pets. Also be sure to try to get a few from each type (elemental, dragonkin, etc.) as you are building your pets up.

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for the WQ pets (the ones with no backups) i usually suicide-bomb them with 2 spores and then finish them off with mechanical axebeak

aside from the krolusk it has worked for every single ‘boss’ pet.

i may overuse Ikky (and soon Foulfeather) for black talon and flock on the WQ teams, but it doesn’t work with every one.

As above, iron starlette can oneshot most pets with wind up, supercharge and wind again, with some exceptions (like magic and special defensive pets)

for real unique teams like the bees who kill themselves, emerald dragon pets are very common-use for a reason.

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Somehow my janky team beat the socks off of the bee team. Terrible Turnip did most of the leg work on that one. Ty for info, I’ll get to leveling an Iron Starlette.

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My standard three battle pets by default are:

Iron Starlette
Ethereal Soul Trader
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

That setup beats most pet battles, although I sometimes have to rearrange them (e.g., that setup above works for the DMF pet battle guy on the left, and I switch the order of the first two for the pet battle guy on the right).

But there are exceptions. In the garrison, the King and Queen florets really require one or two max level calfs (e.g., the meadowstomper stomper type calves). And there’s one pet battle in Tirisgarde (the chitten one Chitarra?) that requires one of those moths with the moth ball attack (5 attacks per turn).

Other good all around pets are the Anubisath Idol and the Emerald Whelpling (or any similar ones with good heals) and the Magical Crawdad, also the gnome one from archaeology.

I’d suggest, if you have higher level alts, to take advantage of the garrison pet menagerie building, since that quest chain gives you that item that makes any pet level 25. If you do that on a few alts, you can start to quickly build up more level 25 pets.

Also, keep an eye out for Squirt in the pet menagerie and read the guides to use her to level up pets to round out your team.

When Squirt is up in the garrison during a pet battle bonus event, that’s when you can level up pets even faster.

Note that there are pet battle items that increase the XP your pets get, so that can help out with leveling.

But generally, just go out into the world and capture pets in BfA, Legion, and WoD, which will all be level 22 or so when captured, so you can quickly get them to max level to try and have a stable of them to use for special situations. I’d recommend using a non-max level toon to capture those pets, so you can benefit from the XP gains, too, to your toons.

/moo :cow:

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A Nexus Whelping is great against flying pets. I also use Iron Starlette, Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling and Zandari Kneebiter quite a bit.

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The mechanical panderen dragonling is a must.

I like the soul trader, but I will say it is really hard to come by. This is probably not a pet for a beginner.

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A great team.

I would say you must get at least two in the “Zandari” category, as there are many situations where they come in handy!

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the machanical panda dragon
iron starlette
chrominius
emerald dragon
anubisath

Go take a peek at Xu-Fu’s website—everyone who doesnt know about the site—for the best pets to use per fight. AMAZING site

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I find my hyjal wisp carries my team a lot. Has an attack, heal and Dodge.

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‘‘‘Tis the season for the Christmas team.

Tiny Snowman
Winter Reindeer
Father Winter’s Helper

It’s fun to use and they work well together. Give it a try.

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Once you reach round 11, the bees suicide anyway. Just toss in something that can heal itself as needed and you can pass on any round you would otherwise attack on.

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I change up a lot depending on the fight… but my go team is often:

Anubisath Idol
Sprite Darter Hatchling
Lil’Bling

For the boss mobs… I have three Iron Starlettes lol.

:cookie:

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My default for the longest time (since MoP) has been Unborn Val’kyr, Menagerie Custodian, and Spawn of G’nathus. Its usually worked for a lot of my needs. As far as single target nuking goes, I just do Unborn Val’kyr, Zandalari Anklebiter (think that’s the right one), and Lil’ Bling.

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Here’s a handy chart to keep on hand.

Aquatic >> Strong Against >> Elemental
Beast >> Strong Against >> Critter
Critter >> Strong Against >> Undead
Dragonkin >> Strong Against >> Magic
Elemental >> Strong Against >> Mechanical
Flying >> Strong Against >> Aquatic
Humanoid >> Strong Against >> Dragonkin
Magic >> Strong Against >> Flying
Mechanical >> Strong Against >> Beast
Undead >> Strong Against >> Humanoid

(Remember that back line pets of opponent might not be the same species, so take in your environment)

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I am very surprised no one has mentioned the falcosaurs. Direbeak hatchling, Sharptalon hatchling, Bloodgazer hatchling, and Snowfeather hatchling. They are from legion and take a bit of doing to get them, but they are hugely OP. Especially the Direbeak. Any three of them can do every single pet battle world quest in BfA with ease. (Well, I think there was one, maybe two, that I had to do more than one attempt to get it, but I have done them all with that team.) I use them so much I have actually started to get tired of them and am thinking of switching just for varieties sake.

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Should also mention Xufus guides. Can’t link yet but Google xufu pet battle it will be first. Xufu has tons of guides. Including multiple strats for each wq so you can find something to work with what you have.

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https://wow-petguide.com/index.php

Just throw some ` around it and it’ll show up as text.

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I like my unborn val’kyr, ikky, and teroclaw hatchling. There’s a lot of good ones, those are just my personal favorites

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