A Pet Battler's Guide to: Defeating the Celestial Tournament

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Introducing: The Celestial Tournament

The Celestial Tournament can be completed only once per week, per account.

A player must have leveled, themselves, a minimum of 15 Battle Pets that have reached Lv25.

During the Tournament, Pets cannot be healed with Battle Pet Bandage or with the Revive Battle Pets button.

Master LiThe Celestial TournamentMaster Li

There is no time limit for completing the Tournament.

Your pets do not suffer the 10% Health-loss when you forfeit a battle against a Tamer or Celestial.

You will not be able to watch other players compete in the Tournament, and similarly, other players will not be able to watch you.

You can leave and restart the Tournament instance as many times as you want - however, you will lose all progress when you zone out of the Tournament.

Tamer OpponentsCelestial Opponents

Find a Lv.25 Battle Pet with a strong "group heal" ability; such as Bleat or Inspiring Song

Place the healing pet in the first Battle Pet Slot and your injured (not dead) pets in the remaining two slots

Engage one of the designated "healing" Tamers or Celestials in battle

Use the healing ability

Forfeit the battle

Repeat until fully healed

Magical CrawdadWishThe Celestial Tournament

1 Celestial Coin

5 Valor Points

0 Timeless Coin

The Celestial TournamentThe Rainy Day is HereMaster Lione-time-onlyCelestial CoinCelestial CoinThe Rainy Day is HereCelestial CoinMaster Li

Cost

Reward

Celestial Coin x 1

Celestial Coin x 3

it's meant to be fun!Pet Lists

ORIGINAL PET LIST

AQUATIC

BEAST

CRITTER

DRAGONKIN

ELEMENTAL

Frog

Alpine Foxling S/S
Arctic Fox Kit
Amethyst Spiderling
Smolderweb Hatchling
Zandalari Anklerender
Zandalari Kneebiter

Brown Marmot
Rapana Whelk

Nether Faerie Dragon
Nexus Whelpling
Wild Crimson Hatchling

Core Hound Pup
Pandaren Water Spirit
Searing Scorchling
Terrible Turnip

FLYING

HUMANOID

MAGIC

MECHANICAL

UNDEAD

Amber Moth
Sandy Petrel
Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling S/S

Anubisath Idol
Bonkers
Curious Wolvar Pup
Pandaren Monk

Nordrassil Wisp (speed 310+)
Nordrassil Wisp (speed 310+)
Lofty Libram

Clockwork Gnome
Darkmoon Tonk
Darkmoon Zeppelin
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
Warbot

Blighthawk
Ghostly Skull
Scourged Whelpling
Unborn Val'kyr

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

CAGEABLE PET LIST

AQUATIC

BEAST

CRITTER

DRAGONKIN

ELEMENTAL

Mojo

Vengeful Porcupette Zandalari Anklerender P/PZandalari Kneebiter

Giant Sewer Rat Mr. Wiggles Snowshoe Rabbit

Death Talon Whelpguard

Ashstone Core

FLYING

HUMANOID

MAGIC

MECHANICAL

UNDEAD

Gilnean Raven

Anubisath Idol Corefire Imp Gregarious Grell

Lesser Voidcaller Spectral Porcupette

Darkmoon Tonk Darkmoon Zeppelin Lil' Bling Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling Son of Animus Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Macabre Marionette Stitched Pup Voodoo Figurine

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

CAPTURABLE PET LIST

AQUATIC

BEAST

CRITTER

DRAGONKIN

ELEMENTAL

Emperor Crab
Molten Hatchling?

SnailRabbit

FLYING

HUMANOID

MAGIC

MECHANICAL

UNDEAD

Skywisp Moth

Flayer Youngling (S/S)Stunted Yeti

Oily Slimeling (H/S?)

Infested SquirrelScourged WhelplingRestless Shadeling

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

BEGINNER'S PET LIST

AQUATIC

BEAST

CRITTER

DRAGONKIN

ELEMENTAL

HUMANOID

MAGIC

MECHANICAL

UNDEAD

WARNINGAdditional StrategiesADDITIONAL STRATEGY PETS

AQUATIC

BEAST

CRITTER

DRAGONKIN

ELEMENTAL

Emperor Crab Spineclaw Crab

Arctic Hare Darkmoon Rabbit Rapana Whelk Shimmershell Snail Silkbead Snail

Wild Jade Hatchling

Lava Crab Terrible Turnip

FLYING

HUMANOID

MAGIC

MECHANICAL

UNDEAD

Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji Crow Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling

Bonkers

Clock'em Clockwork Gnome Darkmoon Zeppelin Tiny Harvester

Crawling Claw Mr. Bigglesworth

Alternative / Replacement PetsAbout the Pet ListUsing the Pet ListFinding an Alternative Pet

The Frog is from the Aquatic family, so it will be listed under the Aquatic tab, located above.

Within the Aquatic tab, you will see a column with the heading "FROG".

The "Seen in" row will contain all Opponent and Strategy names the Frog is used for.

The "Substitute with" row will contain all acceptable replacements for the Frog.

Occasionally, such as with the Frog, there will be circumstances that do not allow the same replacements for different Strategies or Opponents; this is generally due to factors such as the Speed Stat of the given pet. For example, the Huge Toad may be a suitable replacement for the Frog in one battle, whereas in a different battle, the Huge Toad may be an undesirable replacement because it does not have the necessary Speed that is needed to be faster than an opponent.

When only specific breeds of a pet can be used, they will be listed beside the replacement pet's name.

Understanding the Pet Family Tabs

≈

←This is the "almost equal to" sign; you will find it in front of pets that share similar move sets.

(1,2,1)

←This is an example of a move set selection; it will provide a recommended move set for similar pets.

Pet Type

Use Against

Do Not Use Against

Passive

Your Pet

Deals More Damage to

Takes Less Damage From

Deals Less Damage to

Takes More Damage From

Purity Harmful damage over time effects are reduced by 50% on Aquatic pets.

Enrage Beasts deal 25% extra damage below half health.

Elusive Critters are immune to stun, root, and sleep effects.

Execute Dragons deal 50% additional damage on the next round after bringing a target's health below 50%.

Weather Immune Elementals ignore all negative weather effects.

Swiftness Flying creatures gain 50% extra speed while above 50% health.

Recovery Humanoids recover 4% of their maximum health if they dealt damage this round.

Spellshield Magic pets cannot be dealt more than 35% of their maximum health in one attack.

Failsafe Comes back to life once per battle, returning to 20% health.

Damned Undead pets return to life immortal for one round when killed.

AQUATIC:

Emperor Crab
Frog
Mojo
Spineclaw Crab

EMPEROR CRAB

FROG

Seen in:

Crabbit: Blingtron 4000

Original: Sully McLearyOriginal: Wise Mari

Substitute with:

Shore Crab H/H, H/P
Shore Crawler H/P
Spirebound Crab H/H
Strand Crab H/H, H/P
Strand Crawler
≈ Spineclaw Crab P/P (1,2,1)

Sully McLeary and Wise Mari:
Biletoad P/S
Garden Frog
Horny Toad
Jubling
Jungle Darter
Leopard Tree Frog
Mac Frog
Mojo
Small Frog
Spotted Bell Frog
Toad H/B, B/B
Tree Frog
Wood Frog
Wise Mari Only:
Aqua Strider
Dancing Water Skimmer
Eternal Strider
Fishy
Huge Toad
Mirror Strider
Purple Puffer
Swamp Croaker
Tiny Goldfish
Tiny Green Carp
Tiny Red Carp
Tiny White Carp
Yellow-Bellied Bullfrog

MOJO

SPINECLAW CRAB

Seen in:

Hand Grenade of Porcupette: Sully McLeary

Black Magic: Wise Mari

Substitute with:

Biletoad P/S
Frog
Garden Frog
Horny Toad
Jubling
Jungle Darter
Leopard Tree Frog
Mac Frog
Small Frog
Spotted Bell Frog
Toad H/B, B/B
Tree Frog
Wood Frog

≈ Chuck (Rip, Surge, BitW)
≈ Muckbreath (Rip, Surge, BitW)
≈ Toothy (Rip, Surge, BitW)

BEAST:

Lv25 Alpine Foxling S/S
Lv25 Amethyst Spiderling
Lv25 Arctic Fox Kit
Lv25 Molten Hatchling
Lv25 Smolderweb Hatchling
Lv25 Vengeful Porcupette
Lv25 Zandalari Anklerender
Lv25 Zandalari Kneebiter

ALPINE FOXLING

AMETHYST SPIDERLING

Seen in:

Original: Xu-Fu

Original: Lorewalker Cho

Substitute with:

≈ Moon Moon S/S (1,1,2)

Ash Spiderling
Crystal Spider
Desert Spider
Dusk Spiderling
Feverbite Hatchling
Forest Spiderling
Jumping Spider
Skittering Cavern Crawler
Smolderweb Hatchling
Spider
Twilight Spider
Venomspitter Hatchling
Widow Spiderling

ARCTIC FOXLING KIT

MOLTEN HATCHLING

Seen in:

Original: Xu-Fu

Unnamed: Blingtron 4000

Substitute with:

≈ Moon Moon S/S (1,1,2)

Strategy not yet in guide

SMOLDERWEB HATCHLING

VENGEFUL PORCUPETTE

Seen in:

Original: Lorewalker Cho

Hand Grenade of Porcupette: Sully McLeary

Substitute with:

Amethyst Spiderling
Ash Spiderling
Crystal Spider
Desert Spider
Dusk Spiderling
Feverbite Hatchling
Forest Spiderling
Jumping Spider
Skittering Cavern Crawler
Spider
Twilight Spider
Venomspitter Hatchling
Widow Spiderling

≈ Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen (Bite?, Feed?, Vengeance)
Have not yet tested difference between Bite/Feed vs. Spirit Claws/Moonfire

ZANDALARI ANKLERENDER

ZANDALARI KNEEBITER

Seen in:

Original: ZaoCho, Interrupted: Lorewalker Cho

Original: Zao

Substitute with:

Zandalari Kneebiter

Zandalari Anklerender

CRITTER:

Lv25 Arctic Hare
Lv25 Brown Marmot
Lv25 Darkmoon Rabbit
Lv25 Giant Sewer Rat
Lv25 Mr. Wiggles
Lv25 Rapana Whelk
Lv25 Shimmershell Snail
Lv25 Silkbead Snail
Lv25 Snowshoe Rabbit

ARCTIC HARE

BROWN MARMOT

Seen in:

Crabbit: Blingtron 4000

Original: Wrathion

Substitute with:

Lv25 Alpine Hare
Lv25 Brown Rabbit
Lv25 Darkmoon Rabbit (1,2,1)
Lv25 Elfin Rabbit
Lv25 Grasslands Cottontail B/B, S/S, H/S, S/B, H/B
Lv25 Hare
Lv25 Mountain Cottontail
Lv25 Rabbit
Lv25 Snowshoe Hare
Lv25 Snowshoe Rabbit
Lv25 Spring Rabbit
Lv25 Tolai Hare
Lv25 Tolai Hare Pup

Lv25 Borean Marmot
Lv25 Brown Prairie Dog
Lv25 Prairie Dog
Lv25 Yellow-Bellied Marmot

DARKMOON RABBIT

GIANT SEWER RAT

Seen in:

Bunny Love: Taran Zhu

The Swarming Dead: Chi-Chi

Substitute with:

No acceptable substitutes found

Possibly Infected Squirrel - needs testing
Possibly Pint-Sized Pachyderm - needs testing
Possibly Stunted Direhorn - needs testing

MR. WIGGLES

RAPANA WHELK

Seen in:

This Little Piggy: Taran Zhu

Original: Taran ZhuSnailception: Chi-Chi

Substitute with:

Lv25 Golden Pig
Lv25 Lucky
Lv25 Silver Pig

Lv25 Rusty Snail
Lv25 Scooter the Snail
Lv25 Shimmershell Snail
Lv25 Silkbead Snail

SHIMMERSHELL SNAIL

SILKBEAD SNAIL

Seen in:

Snailception: Chi-Chi

Substitute with:

Lv25 Rapana Whelk
Lv25 Rusty Snail
Lv25 Scooter the Snail
Lv25 Silkbead Snail

Lv25 Rapana Whelk
Lv25 Rusty Snail
Lv25 Scooter the Snail
Lv25 Shimmershell Snail

SNOWSHOE RABBIT

Seen in:

Goodbye Stranger: Wrathion

Lv25 Alpine Hare
Lv25 Arctic Hare
Lv25 Brown Rabbit
Lv25 Darkmoon Rabbit
Lv25 Elfin Rabbit
Lv25 Grasslands Cottontail
Lv25 Hare
Lv25 Mountain Cottontail
Lv25 Rabbit
Lv25 Snowshoe Hare
Lv25 Spring Rabbit
Lv25 Tolai Hare
Lv25 Tolai Hare Pup

DRAGONKIN:

Lv25 Death Talon Whelpguard
Lv25 Nether Faerie Dragon
Lv25 Nexus Whelpling
Lv25 Wild Crimson Hatchling
Lv25 Wild Jade Hatchling

DEATH TALON WHELPGUARD

NETHER FAERIE DRAGON

Seen in:

Cho, Interrupted: Lorewalker Cho

Original: Lorewalker Cho

Substitute with:

No acceptable substitutes at this time

Sprite Darter Hatchling

NEXUS WHELPLING

WILD CRIMSON HATCHLING

Seen in:

Original: Ion Goldbloom

Substitute with:

No acceptable substitutes at this time

≈ Crimson Whelpling (2,1,1)
≈ Jadefire Spirit (1,1,1)
≈ Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling (1,1,2
≈ Onyxian Whelpling (2,1,1)
≈ Spawn of Onyxia (2,1,1)
≈ Untamed Hatchling (2,2,2)

WILD JADE HATCHLING

Seen in:

W.T.Flock: Xu-Fu

Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
Thundering Serpent Hatchling
Tiny Red Dragon
Tiny Twister
Tranquil Mechanical Yeti
Wild Golden Hatchling

ELEMENTAL:

Lv25 Ashstone Core
Lv25 Core Hound Pup
Lv25 Lava Crab
Lv25 Pandaren Water Spirit
Lv25 Searing Scorchling
Lv25 Terrible Turnip

ASHSTONE CORE

CORE HOUND PUP

Seen in:

Nairn... STAHP!: Shademaster Kiryn

Original: Blingtron 4000

Substitute with:

Under construction

LAVA CRAB

PANDAREN WATER SPIRIT

Seen in:

Crabbit: Blingtron 4000

Original: Blingtron 4000Original: Chen Stormstout

Substitute with:

Lv25 Phoenix Hatchling

Under construction

SEARING SCORCHLING

TERRIBLE TURNIP

Seen in:

Original: Blingtron 4000

Original: Shademaster KirynNairn-B-Gone: Shademaster Kiryn

Substitute with:

Lv25 Dark Phoenix Hatchling
Lv25 Fel Flame
Lv25 Pandaren Fire Spirit
Lv25 Phoenix Hatchling
Lv25 Spirit of Summer

Lv25 Lil' Ragnaros (2,2,2)

FLYING:

Lv25 Amber Moth
Lv25 Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji
Lv25 Crow
Lv25 Gilnean Raven
Lv25 Sandy Petrel
Lv25 Skywisp Moth
Lv25 Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling

AMBER MOTH

SANDY PETREL

Seen in:

Original: Sully McLeary

Substitute with:

Lv25 Blue Moth
Lv25 Crimson Moth
Lv25 Forest Moth
Lv25 Fungal Moth
Lv25 Garden Moth
Lv25 Gilded Moth
Lv25 Grey Moth
Lv25 Imperial Moth
Lv25 Luyu Moth
Lv25 Oasis Moth
Lv25 Red Moth
Lv25 Silky Moth
Lv25 Skywisp Moth
Lv25 Swamp Moth
Lv25 Tainted Moth
Lv25 White Moth
Lv25 Yellow Moth

Lv25 Rustberg Gull
Lv25 Sea Gull
Lv25 Tickbird Hatchling
Lv25 White Tickbird Hatchling

WILDHAMMER GRYPHON HATCHLING

Seen in:

W.T.Flock: Xu-Fu

Substitute with:

Lv25 Azure Crane Chick S/S
Lv25 Chicken S/S
Lv25 Crow S/S
Lv25 Firefly H/S, S/S
Lv25 Shrine Fly S/S
Lv25 Szechuan Chicken S/S
Lv25 Turkey S/S

HUMANOID:

Lv25 Anubisath Idol
Lv25 Bonkers
Lv25 Corefire Imp
Lv25 Curious Wolvar Pup
Lv25 Flayer Youngling
Lv25 Gregarious Grell
Lv25 Pandaren Monk
Lv25 Stunted Yeti

ANUBISATH IDOL

BONKERS

Seen in:

Original: Chen Stormstout

Original: Yu'la

Substitute with:

Lv25 ≈Qiraji Guardling (1,2,2)

Lv25 ≈Pandaren Monk
Non-Humanoid
Lv25 ≈Clock'em (1,2,2)

CURIOUS WOLVAR PUP

PANDAREN MONK

Seen in:

Original: Wrathion

Original: Yu'la

Substitute with:

Lv25 ≈Curious Oracle Hatchling (1,2,1)
Lv25 ≈Deathy (1,2,1)
Lv25 ≈Gregarious Grell (1,2,1)
Lv25 ≈Murkimus the Gladiator (1,1,1)
Lv25 ≈Pandaren Monk
Lv25 ≈Sporeling Sprout
Lv25 ≈Stunted Yeti (2,2,2)
Non-Humanoid
Lv25 ≈Clock'em (1,2,2)
Lv25 ≈Macabre Marionette

Lv25
Lv25

MAGIC:

Lv25 Lesser Voidcaller
Lv25 Lofty Libram
Lv25 Nordrassil Wisp S/S, S/B, H/S
Lv25 Nordrassil Wisp S/S, S/B, H/S
Lv25 Oily Slimeling
Lv25 Spectral Porcupette

LOFTY LIBRAM

NORDRASSIL WISP

Seen in:

Original: Shademaster Kiryn

Original: Chi-Chi

Substitute with:

Lv25 ≈Gusting Grimoire (2,2,2)

No acceptable substitutes found

MECHANICAL:

Lv25 Clock'em
Lv25 Clockwork Gnome
Lv25 Darkmoon Tonk
Lv25 Darkmoon Zeppelin
Lv25 Lil' Bling
Lv25 Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
Lv25 Son of Animus
Lv25 Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
Lv25 Tiny Harvester
Lv25 Warbot

CLOCKWORK GNOME

DARKMOON TONK

DARKMOON ZEPPELIN

Seen in:

Original: Little Tommy NewcomerOriginal: Chen Stormstout

Original: Shademaster Kiryn

Original: Little Tommy NewcomerOriginal: Xu-Fu

Substitute with:

No acceptable substitutes found

Lv25 ≈Menagerie Custodian (1,1,2)

Lv25 ≈Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling (1,1,2)

MECHANICAL PANDAREN DRAGONLING

SUNREAVER MICRO-SENTRY

TINY HARVESTER

Seen in:

Original: Wise Mari

Original: Little Tommy NewcomerOriginal: Zao

Nairn-B-Gone: Shademaster Kiryn

Substitute with:

No acceptable substitutions found

Lv25 Dragon Kite
Lv25 Skywisp Moth
Lv25 Thundering Serpent Hatchling
Lv25 Tiny Twister
Lv25 Tranquil Mechanical Yeti
Lv25 Wild Golden Hatchling
Lv25 Wild Jade Hatchling

Lv25 De-Weaponized Mechanical Companion
Lv25 Mechanical Squirrel
Lv25 Rabid Nut Varmint 5000

WARBOT

Seen in:

Original: Ion Goldbloom

Lv25 Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot
Lv25 Clockwork Rocket Bot
Lv25 Darkmoon Tonk (1,2,1)
Lv25 Lil' Smoky

UNDEAD:

Lv25 Blighthawk
Lv25 Crawling Claw
Lv25 Ghostly Skull
Lv25 Macabre Marionette
Lv25 Mr. Bigglesworth
Lv25 Scourged Whelpling
Lv25 Stitched Pup
Lv25 Unborn Val'kyr
Lv25 Voodoo Figurine

BLIGHTHAWK

CRAWLING CLAW

GHOSTLY SKULL

Seen in:

Original: Taran Zhu

Nairn-B-Gone: Shademaster KirynBunny Love: Taran Zhu

Original: Yu'la

Substitute with:

Lv25 ≈Ghostly Skull (1,1,2)

No acceptable substitutes found

Lv25 ≈Unborn Val'kyr (1,2,2)

SCOURGED WHELPLING

UNBORN VAL'KYR

Seen in:

Original: Wrathion

Original: Chi-Chi

Substitute with:

Lv25 ≈Curious Oracle Hatchling (1,2,2)
Lv25 ≈Droplet of Y'Shaarj (2,1,1)

No acceptable substitutes found

Celestial OpponentsLittle Tommy Newcomer

Little Tommy Newcomer

OPPOSING TEAM

Lil' Oondasta

2631 750 206

Spiritfire Beam Frill Blast Crush

Counter With:

Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Clockwork Gnome

Darkmoon Zeppelin

Fel Immolate Extra Plating Call Lightning

Metal Fist Repair Build Turret

Missile Bombing Run Decoy

Open with Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Lil' Oondasta's Frill Blast ability will force Clockwork Gnome out

Failsafe

Bring out Clockwork Gnome

Clockwork Gnome usually dies here

Bring out Darkmoon Zeppelin

Lil' Oondasta should be dead at this point

Notes:
*Remember to heal your pets before entering the Celestial Tournament.

Counter With:

Notes:

Round 1: TamersLorewalker Cho

Lorewalker Cho

OPPOSING TEAM

Wisdom
1600 281 394

Patience
2209 300 253

Knowledge
1600 431 244

Peck Wild Magic Rip

Broom Tranquility Clean-Up

Tail Sweep Amplify Magic Solar Beam

Counter With:

Lorewalker Cho begins with Wisdom

Open with Nether Faerie Dragon

Lorewalker Cho brings out Patience

Bring out either Spider

more than

Lorewalker Cho brings out Knowledge

Bring out second Spider

Counter With:

Spectral Porcupette

Zandalari Anklerender

Death Talon Whelpguard

Lorewalker Cho beings with Wisdom

Open with Spectral Porcupette

Lorewalker Cho brings out Patience

Swap to Zandalari Anklerender

Lorewalker Cho brings out Wisdom

Swap to Death Talon Whelpguard

Dr. Ion Goldbloom

OPPOSING TEAM

Screamer
1600 422 253

Trike
2163 314 248

Chaos
1600 281 394

Alpha Strike Feign Death Lift-Off

Bite Adrenaline Rush Horn Attack

Logic Uncertainty Instability

Counter With:

Warbot

Nexus Whelpling

Wild Crimson Hatchling

Dr. Ion Goldbloom begins with Screamer

Open with Warbot

Swap to Nexus Whelpling

Screamer uses Feign Death and Dr. Ion Goldbloom swaps in Trike

Swap to Warbot

Dr. Ion Goldbloom brings out Screamer

Dr. Ion Goldbloom brings out Chaos

Bring out Wild Crimson Hatchling

Counter With:

Lesser Voidcaller

Son of Animus

Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Dr. Ion Goldbloom opens with Screamer

Begin with Lesser Voidcaller

Swap to Son of Animus

Screamer uses Feign Death and Dr. Ion Goldbloom swaps in Trike

Dr. Ion Goldbloom brings out Screamer

Dr. Ion Goldbloom brings out Chaos

Swap to Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Sully "The Pickle" McLeary

OPPOSING TEAM

Socks
1975 319 263

Monte
1600 431 263

Rikki
1741 319 309

Claw Infected Claw Unholy Ascension

Huge, Sharp Teeth!Vicious Streak Burrow

Gnaw Cute Face Bloodfang

Counter With:

Sully McLeary begins with Socks

Open with Frog

Sully McLeary brings out Monte

Bring out Sandy Petrel

Sully McLeary brings out Rikki

Bring out Moth

Counter With:

Sully McLeary opens with Socks

Begin with Mojo

Sully McLeary brings out Monte

Swap to Vengeful Porcupette

Sully McLeary brings out Rikki

Swap to Gilnean Raven

Wrathion

OPPOSING TEAM

Cindy
1600 300 375

Alex
1975 300 300

Dah'da
1600 375 300

Diseased Bite Blistering Cold Ice Tomb

Breath Ancient Blessing Flamethrower

Shadowflame Roll Elementium Bolt

Counter With:

Wrathion begins with Cindy

Open with Brown Marmot

Wrathion brings out Alex

Bring out Scourged Whelpling

Wrathion brings out Dah'da

Bring out Curious Wolvar Pup

Kun-Lai RuntAnubisath IdolFeral VermlingHoplingFlayer YounglingQiraji Guardling

Counter With:

Wrathion begins with Cindy

Open with Snowshoe Rabbit

Wrathion brings out Alex

Swap to Anubisath Idol

Wrathion brings out Dah'da

If Anubisath Idol has died, bring out Macabre Marionette

Chen Stormstout

OPPOSING TEAM

Tonsa
1600 381 287

Chirps
1600 319 375

Brewly
2069 300 281

Bite Headbutt Chew

Flank Lullaby Locust Swarm

Brew Bolt Barrel Toss Inebriate

Counter With:

Clockwork Gnome

Anubisath Idol

Pandaren Water Spirit

Chen Stormstout begins with Tonsa

Open with Clockwork Gnome

Chen Stormstout brings out Chirps

Swap to Anubisath Idol

Chen Stormstout brings out Brewly

Bring out Pandaren Water Spirit

Counter With:

Chen Stormstout begins with Tonsa

Open with Son of Animus

Chen Stormstout brings out Chirps

Swap to Corefire Imp

Chen Stormstout brings out Brewly

Swap to Spectral Porcupette

Taran Zhu

OPPOSING TEAM

Yen
1600 362 306

Bolo
1863 334 300

Li
1600 300 394

Comeback Blackout Kick Feign Death

Punch Blinding Powder Rampage

Triple Snap Bandage Spin Kick

Counter With:

Taran Zhu begins with Yen

Open with Rapana Whelk

Swap to Moth - do this on the same round, but before, Yen uses Feign Death

Yen uses Feign Death and Taran Zhu swaps to Bolo

Bring out Blighthawk

Taran Zhu brings out Yen - Yen uses Feign Death (which is good because Blighthawk is stunned from Ghostly Bite)

Taran Zhu brings out Li

Taran Zhu brings out Yen

Bring out Rapana Whelp

Counter With:

Taran Zhu begins with Yen

Open with Darkmoon Rabbit

Swap to Crawling Claw - Yen should not have used Feign Death yet

Yen uses Feign Death and Taran Zhu swaps to Bolo

Death Grip will bring Yen back out

Swap to Darkmoon Rabbit

Taran Zhu brings out Li

Swap to Crawling Claw

Swap to Crow

Counter With:

Open with Mr. Wiggles

Taran Zhu begins with Yen

Swap to Lesser Voidcaller - Yen will not have used Feign Death yet

Yen uses Feign Death

Taran Zhu brings out Bolo

Swap to Stitched Pup

Taran Zhu brings out Yen

Swap to Mr. Wiggles

Taran Zhu brings out Li

Swap to Lesser Voidcaller

Swap to Stitched Pup

Blingtron 4000

OPPOSING TEAM

Au
1600 384 272

Banks
2069 300 281

Lil' B
1694 300 356

Gilded Fist Goldskin Gold Rush

Make it Rain Uncanny Luck Buried Treasure

SMCKTHAT.EXE Extra Plating Blingtron Gift Package

Counter With:

Pandaren Water Spirit

Blingtron 4000 begins with Au

Open with Pandaren Water Spirit

Blingtron 4000 brings out Banks

Swap to Core Hound Pup

Blingtron 4000 brings out Lil' B

With buff from Howl still active <-(this is important!), swap to Searing Scorchling

Counter With:

Blingtron 4000 begins with Au

Open with Rabbit

Blingtron 4000 brings out Banks

Bring out Crab

Blingtron 4000 brings out Lil' B

Make it Rain

Swap to Lava Crab

Extra PlatingsecondExtra PlatingBlingtron Gift PackageWise Mari

Wise Mari

OPPOSING TEAM

Carpe Diem
2209 300 263

Spirus
1600 375 300

River
1600 300 384

Grasp Cleansing Rain Dreadful Breath

Arcane Blast Healing Wave Soul Ward

Whirlpool Pump Dive

Counter With:

Amber Moth

Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Wise Mari begins with Carpe Diem

Open with Moth

Wise Mari brings out Spirus

Swap to Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Wise Mari brings out River

Bring out Moth

Bring out Frog if Moth dies

Counter With:

Gilnean Raven

Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Wise Mari begins with Carpe Diem

Open with Gilnean Raven

Wise Mari brings out Spirus

Swap to Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Wise Mari brings out River

Swap to Lesser Voidcaller

Counter With:

Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji

Wise Mari begins with Carpe Diem

Open with Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi'Ji

Wise Mari brings out Spirus

Clockwork Gnome will be swapped in from Chi-Chi's Feign Death

Wise Mari brings out River

Swap to Spineclaw Crab

Spineclaw CrabFeign DeathClockwork GnomeShademaster Kiryn

Shademaster Kiryn

OPPOSING TEAM

Nairn
2256 300 244

Stormoen
1600 413 272

Summer
1577 295 384

Nairn!Call of Winter Giant's Blood

Batter Call Lightning Build Turret

Counter With:

Shademaster Kiryn begins with Nairn

Open with Lofty Libram

Shademaster Kiryn brings out Stormoen

Bring out Terrible Turnip

Shademaster Kiryn brings out Summer

Bring out Darkmoon Tonk

Counter With:

Shademaster Kiryn begins with Nairn

Open with Crawling Claw

Crawling Claw's Death Grip will bring Summer out

Swap to Tiny Harvester

Kiryn brings out Nairn

Swap to Crawling Claw

Crawling Claw's Death Grip will bring Stormoen out

Swap to Terrible Turnip

Counter With:

Shademaster Kiryn begins with Nairn

Open with Ashstone Core

Shademaster Kiryn swaps to Stormoen

Shademaster Kiryn brings out Nairn

While Nairn is stunned, swap to Darkmoon Zeppelin

Shademaster Kiryn swaps to Summer

Bring out Stitched Pup

Shademaster Kiryn brings out Nairn

Round 2: CelestialsChi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji

Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji

Fire QuillsFlings 1-2 fiery quills at the enemy, dealing 272 Elemental damage per hit.Hits an additional time if the user attacks first.

EtherealEnter an ethereal state, avoiding all attacks the round it is used.This ability always goes first.

TranquilityFills the area with peace, causing your active pet to restore 272 health every round. Lasts 2 rounds. Persists through pet swaps.

Counter With:

Unborn Val'kyr

Nordrassil WispSpeed stat must be 322-357

Shadow Shock Curse of Doom Unholy Ascension

Light Flash Soul Ward

Open with Unborn Val'kyr

Bring in a Nordrassil Wisp

Repeat Turn 7 through 10 (Soul Ward, Flash, Light, Pass turn) until Chi-Chi is dead. This generally takes 2 to 3 rotations.

Counter With:

Voodoo Figurine

Giant Sewer Rat

Flame Breath Wild Magic Rot

Scratch Flurry Stampede

Begin with Voodoo Figurine

Swap to Giant Sewer Rat

Counter With:

Rapana Whelk

Shimmershell Snail

Silkbead Snail

Ooze Touch Acidic Goo Dive

Open with any Snail

Acidic GooEthereal

Repeat this priority sequence with all Snails until Chi-Chi is dead

Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen

Spirit ClawsRakes the enemy with ghostly claws, dealing 763 Beast damage.Always hits when the weather is Moonlight.

MoonfireDeals 681 Magic damage and turns the weather into Moonlight for 9 rounds.During Moonlight, all pets receive 25% additional healing and Magic abilities deal 10% additional damage.

FeedDeals 545 Beast damage.The user is healed for 100% of the damage dealt.

Counter With:

Alpine FoxlingS/S Breed (Speed of 297+)

FoxP/S Breed is best

Darkmoon Zeppelin

Bite Howl Dazzling Dance

Flurry Howl

Missile Decoy

Open with Alpine Foxling

Alpine Foxling usually dies here, bring out second Fox

Second Fox usually dies here, bring out Darkmoon Zeppelin

Xu-Fu should be dead at this point

Note:

I originally used the Direhorn Runt on this strategy, but after the second week, I was no longer able to put out enough damage to kill Xu-Fu before his Feed came off of cool down. Since changing to the Darkmoon Zeppelin, I've had no problems.
This strategy has worked amazingly well for me, but the setup allows zero room for error or misses. If you would like a strategy that gives a little more freedom, please see the one outlined below.

Counter With:

Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Lil' Bling

Darkmoon Tonk

Fel Immolate Extra Plating Call Lightning

Inflation Extra Plating Make it Rain

Missile Shock and Awe Ion Cannon

Open with Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Swap to Lil' Bling

Continue to use Inflation until Lil' Bling is dead

Bring out Darkmoon Tonk

Xu-Fu should be dead at this point

Counter With:

Wild Jade Hatchling

Wildhammer Gryphon HatchlingSpeed Stat 305-325

Darkmoon Zeppelin

Call Lightning

Flock

Missile Explode Decoy

less than 296

Open with Wild Jade Hatchling

Bring out Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling

Continue to use Flock until Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling is dead
Bring out Darkmoon Zeppelin

Xu-Fu should be dead at this point

Note:

The key to successfully using this strategy is changing the weather from Moonlight to Lightning immediately after Xu-Fu casts Moonfire.
In Moonlight, Xu-Fu receives 25% additional healing with Feed, does 10% additional damage with Moonfire, and also gains a 100% hit chance with Spirit Claws.
It is necessary for the Call Lightning pet to be alive after the Darkmoon Zeppelin uses Explode.

Yu'la, Broodling of Yu'lon

Jade BreathBreathes jade fire on to the enemy, dealing 545 Dragonkin damage.

Emerald PresenceReduces up to 136 damage from each attack against you.Lasts 5 rounds.

Lift-OffFly up high, becoming unattackable for one round.On the next round, you attack, dealing 953 Flying damage.

Counter With:

Ghostly Skull

BonkersS/S, P/S, H/S

Pandaren MonkBack-up pet

Shadow Slash Ghostly Bite Unholy Ascension

Jab Dodge Tornado Punch

Takedown Focus Chi Blackout Kick

Open with Ghostly Skull

Bring out Bonkers

Yu'la should die rather quickly. Backup pet will not have much to deal with if Bonkers dies for any reason.

Notes:

Bonkers (or whatever main Humanoid pet you use) must have a Speed stat of 288+ in order to easily Dodge Yu'la's Fly ability.
Any pet with Ascendance can substitute for the Ghostly Skull. Level and quality do not matter.
The Pandaren Monk can be substituted by many other pets. Very rarely will you ever have to use this third pet. However, it's a good idea to have a strong backup just in case. I generally use my Anubisath Idol (Crush, Sandstorm, and Deflection) if he is not already dead or otherwise needed. Kun'Lai Runt, Curious Wolvar Pup, Hoplings, Flayer Youngling, Qiraji Guardling, or any other pet with strong Humanoid attacks (any Dodge-like ability is a great bonus) will suffice.

Counter With:

Mr. Bigglesworth

BonkersS/S, P/S, H/S

Claw Ice Barrier Ice Tomb

Jab Dodge Tornado Punch

Open with Mr. Bigglesworth

Notes:

If Mr. Bigglesworth dies for any reason, use Bonkers (Tornado Punch > Jab > Dodge for Lift-Off) until Yu'la is dead.
Bonkers can be substituted by many other pets. Very rarely will you ever have to use this backup pet. However, it's a good idea to have a strong backup just in case. I generally use my Anubisath Idol (Crush, Sandstorm, and Deflection) if he is not already dead or otherwise needed. Kun'Lai Runt, Curious Wolvar Pup, Hoplings, Flayer Youngling or any other pet with strong Humanoid attacks (any Dodge-like ability is a great bonus) will suffice.
Mr. Bigglesworth rotation submitted by user, valepu to Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=72291#comments

Counter With:

Clock'em

BonkersS/S, P/S, H/S

Jab Counterstrike Dodge

Jab Dodge Tornado Punch

Open with Clock'em

Notes:

If Clock'em dies for any reason, use Bonkers (Tornado Punch > Jab > Dodge for Lift-Off) until Yu'la is dead.
Bonkers can be substituted by many other pets. Very rarely will you ever have to use this backup pet. However, it's a good idea to have a strong backup just in case. I generally use my Anubisath Idol (Crush, Sandstorm, and Deflection) if he is not already dead or otherwise needed. Kun'Lai Runt, Curious Wolvar Pup, Hoplings, Flayer Youngling or any other pet with strong Humanoid attacks (any Dodge-like ability is a great bonus) will suffice.
Clock'em suggestion submitted by user, skorpek to Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=72291#comments

Counter With:

Gregarious Grell

BonkersS/S, P/S, H/S

Punch Cauterize Phase Shift

Jab Dodge Tornado Punch

Open with Gregarious Grell

Notes:

If Gregarious Grell dies for any reason, use Bonkers (Tornado Punch > Jab > Dodge for Lift-Off) until Yu'la is dead.
Bonkers can be substituted by many other pets. Very rarely will you ever have to use this backup pet. However, it's a good idea to have a strong backup just in case. I generally use my Anubisath Idol (Crush, Sandstorm, and Deflection) if he is not already dead or otherwise needed. Kun'Lai Runt, Curious Wolvar Pup, Hoplings, Flayer Youngling, Qiraji Guardling, or any other pet with strong Humanoid attacks (any Dodge-like ability is a great bonus) will suffice.

Zao, Calfling of Niuzao

TrampleTramples the target, dealing 258 Beast damage plus an additional 10% of the target's health.

Niuzao's ChargeBuilds up power during the first round.The next round the user charges the enemy with unstoppable force, dealing 1290 Beast damage.

WishNext round, your active pet will be healed for 50% of its maximum health.

Counter With:

Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Zandalari Anklerender

Zandalari Kneebiter

Fel Immolate Call Lightning

Hunting Party Black Claw

Open with Sunreaver Micro-Sentry

Swap to Zandalari Anklerender

Zao should be dead at this point

Notes:
The Zandalari Anklerender and the Zandalari Kneebiter are interchangeable. It does not matter which one you use or whether you use two of the same; I've never actually needed the second one for this fight, I only bring it in case something goes wrong.

Counter With:

Wild Jade Hatchling

Wildhammer Gryphon HatchlingSpeed Stat 305-325

Darkmoon Zeppelin

Call Lightning

Flock

Missile Explode Decoy

less than 296

Open with Wild Jade Hatchling

Bring out Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling

Continue to use Flock until Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling is dead
Bring out Darkmoon Zeppelin

Xu-Fu should be dead at this point

Note:

The key to successfully using this strategy is changing the weather from Moonlight to Lightning immediately after Xu-Fu casts Moonfire.
In Moonlight, Xu-Fu receives 25% additional healing with Feed, does 10% additional damage with Moonfire, and also gains a 100% hit chance with Spirit Claws.
It is necessary for the Call Lightning pet to be alive after the Darkmoon Zeppelin uses Explode.

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Comments

Comment by 1144892

Tommy Newcomer's strat works like a charm and is malleable enough to allow for some lower level pets. I did it with a level 22 Sentry instead of a level 25 pet and it still worked.

Great guide!

Comment by wallix

Excellent guide! I'm still holding off for a month for my return to the CT for refinements, but your guide is the most comprehensive by far. I will be checking back here frequently for refinements and additions!

Comment by pixietrixie

Excellent guide! Made week 2 a piece of cake :) I'm bookmarking this for future weeks.

Might want to mention the Grell strat for Yu'la since he can solo her. One of your suggested humanoids makes a great backup if something goes wrong, but the Grell stays pretty healthy with cauterize/dodge. Even though the Grell is a tcg pet, seems to be fairly cheap on the ah on most realms.

Comment by Manaprincess

Thank you so much for this guide! Its so helpful... I have 44 max level pets and thought this tourney would be a breeze... i stepped in and got my a** handed to me for over two hours, got extrememly frustrated and rage quit... I'm now leveling all the pets you suggest before stepping in again :) I feel it will be much easier following the strat... this is the most comprehensive guide I've found TY TY

Comment by wallix

In your Shademaster Kiryn strat you use four pets.

Comment by Lancecaster

Great guide! I have another 8 or so pets to level up and then I plan to use the guide to assist.

Do you have a recommendation for the reward celestial pet? Will any of them be overly useful as a battle pet for the tourney in future weeks?

Comment by timmune

Great guide. Thank you for this/ your time.

Comment by Geneari

Under Beast Pets, should all those foxes and spiders have that speed requirement? I was little confused on that part. Thanks!

Comment by kitten23kate

Awesome guide Taluka :) But now I am going to be super busy the next few days leveling up more pets! I like that you have used pets that are relatively painless to get and not TCG items and stuff like that. -Girlrage

Edit: All right! I spent 3 weeks getting most (I thought "all" but found out tonight I'm still missing a few) of the pets on the list here to level 25. Here are some notes I'm taking while doing this, because as it turns out I forgot a couple of pets and had to use different ones!

Lorewalker Cho: Instead of using a spider on Patience (the dragon?) I used a scourged whelpling (uncommon). By the time my spider had died, Patience was already around 60% health, and all I had to do with the whelpling was Call Darkness + 1 round of Dreadful Breath. Also note that Patience's tail sweep is weak against undead, so it didn't do too much damage to my whelp.

Dr. Goldbloom: I had to get a little creative here as I did not have ANY of the pets you recommended (how the heck did I miss all those!). I used Menagerie Custodian (zap, shock and awe, lock on), Emerald Proto Whelp P/P (emerald bite, ancient blessing, emerald dream), and Celestial Dragon (flamethrower, ancient blessing, starfall). Used EPW on the flyer, generally using the healing spells on CD which makes for a long fight but oh well. Eventually the flyer feigns death and the stupid triceratops comes out. At this point I will heal up my Whelp if need be and maybe get a couple hits in on the trike, then get frustrated by being stunned and switch to the mechanical (I'm sure any mechanical would work). Custodian kills the trike, flyer comes out only to feign death and disappear again, and then Chaos comes out. I can get 1-2 hits in on Chaos before Custodian dies, and out comes Celestial Dragon. Even though Starfall is strong vs. Chaos, I chose not to actually use it because it buffs his "Logic" ability, which is already strong vs. my dragon. Instead I just use flamethrower til Chaos dies. Screamer can then be finished off with either Celestial Dragon or Emerald Proto Whelp- one hit should suffice.

Comment by Haxan

I thank you so much for this guide! This will be my bible! You are a God! =D

Now I'm gonna start levelling up some pets.

Comment by Pinkiepieisfly

Thank you so much for posting this♥

Unlike other people, I actually did not step into the tournament because the people I spoke to had over ninety 25 pets, and they were barely able to complete it, so I thought that I had absolutely no chance of doing it until I leveled a bunch of more pets.

I was looking for something to determine what I should level, what seems to work for this and what strats other people are using - So thanks for all 3! :)

Comment by Haxan

Is there any alternative pet instead of Bonkers? That pet is really hard to get and you cant buy it from AH.

Comment by mel9525

Hey Haxan,
Although Bonkers is ideal for Yu'la, he can be replaced by any of the following:

Pandaren Monk: Takedown, Staggered Steps, Blackout Kick.
Use Staggered Steps to counter Lift Off.

Anubisath Idol: Crush, Stoneskin, Deflection.
Keep up Stoneskin, use Deflection to counter Lift Off.

Kun-Lai Runt: Takedown, Frost Shock, Deep Freeze.
Just the usual Frost Shock > Deep Freeze > Takedown.

Of course, if you use Anuibsath Idol, this means that it can't be used on Chen. No matter though, replace Anubisath on Chen with either:

Flayer Youngling: Triple Snap, Deflection, Rampage.
Use Deflection to block Locust Swarm if needed, otherwise, Rampage > Snap.

Kun-Lai Runt: Thrash, Mangle, Rampage.
Just the usual Mangle > Rampage > Thrash.

Or use any Rabbit with Dodge and Burrow to avoid Locust strikes.
Or any Spider, use Brittle Web and Spiderling Swarm.

Best Wishes!

Comment by Sheiabah

The best guide ever, thank you so much for taking the time to compile this it is so useful :)

Comment by Sheiabah

Thank you again for this wonderful guide which really did help me defeat this tournament, just want to point out one thing, the wild crimson hatchling doesnt have call lightening in its spells, both wild golden and wild jade do have it so work instead

Comment by Lynkeus

Very useful guide. I won the tournament with the help of this guide. Thanks.

Comment by timmune

Minor little edit: Under section for Lorewalker Cho, for the last pet he brings out, your guide says Wisdom, when it should be Knowledge.

LOVE your guide, btw. I use it every week, lol. Thanks so much and cheers!

Comment by timmune

So... remember that one time when you suddenly read this comment and have an epiphany... that you need to make a guide for OP PvP pet battle teams? 0;^)

Comment by gummiebear007

I agree with many here, with this being a fantastic guide! I am really looking forward to seeing your alternates, as I am starting to discover a few of my own. Moon Moon works great for the foxes :D

Comment by Echylod

As of 11/4/2013 this strategy does not work, not even close to working. The Nordrassil wisps do so little damage that it is totally impossible to get a kill. By the time both of the wisps died Chi Chi was at full health. I tried this strategy six time for the same result each time. RNG was kind and there were no misses. Just not enough damage to hurt the boss.

Comment by creatorslave

an alternative for chi-chi

it involves landro lichling but anything with Curse of Doom will do(use this on since it had highest power i could find atm)

Crimson geode used a P/P breed but then UNCOMMEN is fine we need Elementium Bolt from this one

and Chrominius for Surge of power.

t1 lichling use Curse of Doom
t2 swap to Geode
t3 Elementium Bolt
t4 swamp to Chrominius
t5 Howl after howl is applied curse and bold land for full power and granting stunn so doggy survives
t6 Surge of power

all of these move have hitrate of 100% so no randomness.

Edit: Cheap alternatives for Landro Lichling are Lost of Lordaeron and Lofty Libram.

Chromagnus has a alternative Lil Tarecgosa(can be hard to get). all other alternatives with this skill dont have the hp to take a 6quill hit

Comment by trumpdl

This is a great guide. Thank you! I struggled with the tournament until I found this.

Comment by YoshimaraMuse

I stumbled upon this guide when it was mentioned on the forums and I have a couple questions for you.

#1: When you suggest collecting 2 Rare Nordassil Wisps above 310 speed, are you meaning to just catch them both or use the same pet twice?

#2: Ghost Skull is automatically an Uncommon pet, should I try to find a Battle-Stone for this one or is there some kind of substitute for it?

And #3: Is there any way you can add the alternative pets to the original list (like you have for the Searing Scorching)? Because I found a decent pet alternative for a couple that have the exact same abilities and might be a bit easier to farm for. Such as any snail pet would be a good alternative to the Rapana Whelk, a Mirror Strider would be easier to obtain than the Aqua Strider, etc.

I eagerly await your reply! This guide has been most helpful in helping me determine what pets would be best to use. Looks like I have some level grinding to do! :D Awesome job!

Comment by T0mate

I think you should mention that Bonkers should be with a breed with 288+ speed. If it's not, it is really hard to dodge lift off.

Comment by Bobaloo

Hello! I recently got into battle pets and I was reading through your guide while accumulating my collection and stones to upgrade them with and I was wondering:

For pets such as the Brown Marmot, the Blighthawk, or the second Fox, is there a specific breed that should be used? For example, my second fox is a p/p Fjord Worg Pup, my Blighthawk is p/s, and my Marmot is s/s.

I'd like to know before I use ~~or waste~~ any more stones. And thanks again for your guide!

Comment by perculia

Just saw your comment about the formatting--we are working on a solution to preserve the old width. Thanks for your patience!

Comment by theheap

Just another compilation with guaranteed success (if played correctly). Especially the legendary pets rarely need the third pet.
Ability selection is straightforward (I edited it in some cases for clarity)

chen stormstout
- personal world destroy (buff -> attack)
- grove viper (burrow on swarm)
- yellow-bellied (rain, then shoot )

taran zhu
- Crawling Claw
- Nether Ray Fry
- Hopling

Wrathion
- mr wiggles
- restless shadeling (dodge on heal of alex)
- scourged whelpling

Wise Mari
- crow (2nd round call darkness)
- dark whelpling(tail -> lift-off)
- yellow bellied bullfrog

Blingtro 4000
- strider / water skimmer (pump it up!)
- electrified razortooth
- sinister squashling

Shademaste kyrin
- amethyst spiderling (double dots + life leech)
- water waveling (ice lance/frost nova/tidal wave)
- gilded moth (wolf cast sequence is dodge,prowl, bias)

Lorewalker Cho
- nexus whelpling (breath + mana storm/arcane winds)
- amethyst spiderling (brittle net)
- spirit crab (or any other random pet...)

Sully "The Pickle" McLeary
- effervescent glow fly (swarm -> scratch)
- netherr ray (bite)
- random moth (e.g. amber moth)

dr. ion goldbloom
- chrominus/azure whelplig (X, Surge insta kill)
- voodoo figurine
- son of animus

Yu"la
- Mr Bigglesworth
- Claw
- Ice tomb
- Ice Barrier
- PASS TURN
- Claw
- Claw
- Repeat (including the first claw)

chi-chi
- Uses Tranq /Quil / Ethereal… then Eth asap
- Rapana Whelk (dot + Dive )
- silkbeadl snail
- emerald whelpling

Xu-Fu
- wild jade (call lightning, then tornado)
- cog blade (vulnerable, then dmg)
- clockwork gnome (turret, then dmg)

Zao
- Sunreaver microsentry
- Zandalari Anklerender
- zandalari toenibbler

Comment by Echylod

They Seriously buffed Xu-Fu since this guide. The two fox strategy has worked flawlessly until this week. The damage done by Xu-Fu has been increased so neither fox can get enough attacks in to kill. The damage done was not critical nor was it a hard hit but it rocked them both. First fox never got in the bite, second fox managed only a single hit. Not enough health removed for the bot to kill

Comment by usermaat

A very helpful guide. Many thanks!

Comment by Farsigt

Wow.. This guide is insane! Thanks a lot!

Comment by Toepick

Great guide...thank you for your time, it's much appreciated! :)

Comment by NECROPLASM

Amazing guide... Thanks a lot!

Comment by 654118

hi, can you recommend a substitute for unborn valkyr?

Comment by strahd69

hello all,
nice surprise to join u all and find this awesome guide.
do need to lvl some pets to try match the pet list for tournament.
mel can u recommend a replace for pandaren monk?
ty

Comment by NFalcon

I found this to be an excellent guide, except for Chi-Chi. I could not defeat Chi-Chi until I tried the three snail strategy found on Chi-Chi's Wowhead page; the first snail almost soloed Chi-Chi by themselves.

Comment by Galaxas

Is there another pet I could substitute for Warbot? I don't see how I could get that pet since it's unavailable nowadays. Unless there's a way to get him that I don't know about...

Comment by wallix

Just got all the pets today thanks to your guide. I read a million guides and yours was the only one that considered teams based on RNG (*cough* Elfuego *cough*) and actually refined strats as time went on. Your hard work is noted and appreciated.

Comment by 1198048

The Celestials can be easily defeated by Darkmoon Zeppelin, Water Spirit and Chrominius...
Just use water spirit, Geyser, Whirlpool, switch to Chrom and Howl. Then Surge of Power can easily finish them...
Use Zeppelin first to cast the Decoy when challenging Xu-Fu, then switch to water spirit and do the same....

And leave Yu-la to be the last one, so you can use something like Inspiring Song to heal your team to full.

Really easy

Comment by Redisia

I have made a list with in my opinion hard to get minions in this setup.
Please make note that some of the pets listed here are Acquirable without having the actually same named pets Rapana Whelk can be replaced by Shimmershell Snail or several others. Might be worth seeing if your pets that look like the one you need to find actually have the same skills. Or are on another place with more numbers in the world so that farming them becomes easy.

The addon used by Taluka is called Pet-tracker and can be found on addon websites such as curse. This will give you an accurate location of the pets you are looking for. Something that comes close to wowheads battle-pets map, but then ingame.

The pets listed bellow are the harder to obtain pets.
~~And if anyone during their travels have good replacement for these pets feel free to tell us in a respond~~.

.

HUMANIOD:
Curious Wolvar Pup
*note: This pet has NO replacement with a similar needed skill-set

Pandaren Monk
*note: This pet has NO replacement with a similar needed skill-set

UNDEAD:
Unborn Val'kyr
*note: This pet is very rarely spawned and spawn places are spread over an entire continent. Also has NO replacement.

ELEMENTAL:
Core Hound Pup
*note: This pet has NO replacement with a similar needed skill-set

Pandaren Water Spirit
*note: This pet has NO replacement with a similar needed skill-set

Comment by efbee

I am eternally grateful for this guide, so much that I downloaded it to my hard drive in case it disappeared. But I am still kind of panicking that the celestials are missing now. will they be back soon?

I dont mean to sound like I am complaining. I just thought it might have been an error in formatting and thought I would bring it to your attention.

love the guide, cant say it enough. :)

Comment by Zarasz

Yula is easily done with one pet. Mr bigglesworth.

- Claw
- Ice tomb
- Ice Barrier
- PASS TURN
- Claw
- Claw
- Repeat (including the first claw)

Comment by Jaladar

First, your guide is awesome. I am still working on building up all of my pets in order to try out the strategies but I love the layout and the specifics you provide. Thank you for putting so much time into it.

Second, my question: You have the Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling listed under flying pets but I don't see where he is used in the individual battles...did I miss him somewhere or can you fill me in? I just got him to 25 but not sure where he fits in overall.

Again, thanks for all your efforts!

**Edit** I just re-read your newest comments and that may be why I can't find him but that's ok--the list gives me motivation to get my pets leveled ;)

Comment by 1069803

Great guide thanks.

Xu Fu with wolves however seldom works for me.
Easy team i've experienced has been
skywisp moth
clockwork gnome
any other ( i used anodize robot cub)

killed xu-fu with everyone alive and didnt need last pet. going from memory so bare with me

1. Skywisp
use cocoon
call lightning
slicing wind

2. switch to clockwork gnome
turrent
metal fist

3. back to skywisp
cocoon
call lightning

4. clockwork gnome
turrent

xu-fu did miss once on gnome so your mileage may vary but a strong last pet should make this pretty easy even with bad luck

Comment by 1198952

Hi, haven't looked at the guide to the trainers, but couple things on the celestials themselves...

Yula, as noted in other comments, Mr. Bigglesworth
1. Claw
2. Ice Tomb
3. Ice barrier
4. pass
5. Claw
6. Claw
repeat. Only user error causes screw ups, take a humanoid with you to fill the team

Zufu AND! Zao
Sunreaver Micro-sentry
Lil' bling
Zandalari Anklerender (then Zandalari kneebiter)
Zu-fu
Sunreaver casts call lightning, trade for zandalari
Zandalari casts black claw (dies)
lil bling casts Inflation
Zao
Sunreaver casts call lightning
Sunreaver casts laser, trade for zandalari
Zandalari casts black claw
Zandalari casts hunting party, trade for bling
lil bling casts inflation

Chi-Chi
Pandaren Water Spirit
1. Cast Geyser
2. Cast Whirlpool
you might be tempted to keep going DO NOT, trade for Chrominius
3. Cast howl
4. Cast Surge of Power.

--

Can't say it's RNG-proof, but I've won 7 times without even close to losing (still lose a lot of trainer fights though :P )

Comment by Smadronia

The faster option I've found for Lil' Oondasta came from a friend: Clockwork Gnome and Zandalari Kneebiter.

Round 1: Build turret
Round 2: Oon should pull the Zandalari out. Use Hunting Party
Round 3: Hunting Party continues
Round 4: Black Claw
Round 5: wWatever you want, if your Zandalari dies, usually the turret will take Oon out.

Comment by thatmikeguy

Did they change something?

Chi-Chi is showing 465 speed in game.

Comment by Koviko

An addition to the strategy for Taran Zhu:

If your Moth's Moth Dust puts your opponent to sleep, then you'll have a bit of a situation on your hands. When you put the enemy to sleep, the tamer swaps in a different pet, and for me, he always chose to swap in Yen. If your Moth is still above 50% health, you will have a speed advantage and you have an opportunity to dispose of Yen by quickly using Alpha Strike before Yen does his Feign Death. However, if you are below 50%, you will not be able to attack fast enough and will end up falling out of the plan on this page.

I personally am not sure how to recover in that situation and end up just forfeiting the fight. Any idea how one should proceed if Moth Dust puts your opponent to sleep when you are under 50% health?

Comment by 301140

Great Little Tommy Newcomer walk through! I was leveling my team for the fight and figured why not try it now with a level 20 Darkmoon Zeppelin and level 24 Sunreaver Micro-Sentry & Clockwork Gnome. Only the Zeppelin survived but I got the xp and daily complete.
Thank you!

Comment by 373649

An easier Xu-Fu strat if you're a hardcore pet collector(have access to high end TCG pets)is a 2 pet team, Dragon Kite and Lil' Bling.

Start with Volcano(you're faster than him even without the Flying buff, and since his first cast is always moonfire,. you want to lead in with Volcano)

He casts moonfire, you cast Lightning storm, after Lightning storm he should finish off your kite.

With Lil Bling Start with Make it rain and watch him melt. I've only had to use Inflation maybe once, and if he's managed to get a feed off, with Inflation on him taking 100% more dmg in addition to the make it rain his hp literally disappears(he looks like he bugs out and his hp goes from 50% to dead)

Also for Yu'la you can solo with Bonkers P/S breed(thanks to the commentor on the Yu'la NPC section), don't take Tornado Punch take Haymaker and reset if it doesn't connect. Only use Evasion like you said during Lift-Off and just jab spam.

Comment by darkdoug19

Fantastic guide and extremely helpful. I basically started from nothing a few weeks back and used your guide as a shopping list of sorts before I even zoned into the tournament. I now have most of the pets on your list, with a couple others mixed in that I like.

I have only 31 level 25 pets, and because of this guide I was able to beat the Tournament on my first try.

Taran Zhu was a little sketchy, I don't have my blighthawk leveled up yet, so I used a fungal abomination, probably not a great move, and I barely won.

Chi-chi was also pretty tense, I tried a dragon/magic damage group, Lil'Tarecgosa and I forget the others, but I got crushed. I ended up beating it by just bombing him with the Water Spirit and Corehound Pup (my Chrominius was already dead). The geyser/whirlpool/howl/burrow combo was enough to kill it, even with reduced damaged from burrow.

Comment by wilosoft

Thanks to you I was able to beat the celestial tournament yesterday :) I didn't have all the pets required at level 25 but it worked out well with other comps! Well deserved 5 stars!

Comment by Rockatansky

There's some very serious inadequacies in the pets you've chosen I'm afraid. In particular with Wrathion and Xu-fu. In a 'perfect' match scenario they will win, however, so far I've had to leave the instance three times, start over, and repair my pets either because of 1-2 misses or the pets just not doing hard enough damage to the enemy pet.

I would leave those two battles off the table until a more reliable team can be assembled to handle the job. Otherwise, people are just going to be wasting their time like I have now for an hour and half.

Beyond those two hiccups, good guide.

Comment by benedice

hello!

just wanted to ask that there's smolderweb hatchling in your list. can we change that with any other spiders? because smolderweb comes as a "green" level 1, needs to be leveled up to 25 and a battlestone.

Twilight Spider has the same skillset, level25, and can be caught as rare. can we use those instead?

thanks!

Comment by Fizzlerocket

Is there any alternative to Amber Moth? I've been farming for days, no luck on a rare one.

Comment by BlackRobe1

Wow ! Mel what can I say..........................

I have been an avid wow player for over 6 years now, and in that time have read lots of guides and useful posts to assist me on the way.

However - after I - like many others - got totally depressed with the Celestial Tourney - was then delighted to find and read your guide. Which is really more like a work of art !

Descriptive, informative, detailed and fantastically put together. I can honestly say I think your guide is the best I've read and was happy to rate it 5 star !

Brilliant work - Thank you so much for your time and effort.

Comment by Shoadowolf

I love you so much for this! Thank you! :D

Comment by skhawver

This was awesome! I wish I would have read this guide first before leveling all the 'wrong' pets! In addition to the strategy for Chi-Chi, I was able to beat with Infected Squirrel/Lil Tarecgosa. I used Rabid Strike/Stampede/Rabid Strike/Corpse Explosion followed by Arcane Storm/Surge of Power. Helped me out greatly because i made a few mistakes and got my first Nordrassil Wisp killed =( Hope this helps someone!

Comment by 1206693

An excellent guide that helped me secure my first Celestial Tournament win! Well-written and informative, easily on par with anything I've seen for Heroic raiding :)

Comment by jtrox218

After about a week of grinding the pets up for this guide I have completed the Tournament in one shot! Thank You so much. Such an amazing guide.

Comment by GAFFiO

Many thanks Mel for such a fantastic guide.
In my many years of Warcraft and using all sorts of guides this is probably the best I have ever seen. So very well worded, explained, formatted and layed out perfectly. I'm now busy leveling the pets I need (I have about 2/3 already).

Great work!

Comment by 76829

just wanted to add that the hardest random luck boss in here chi chi is made simple with just 2 spectral porcupettes.

use power ball/spirit spikes/spectral spine.

open with spirit ball twice to get your speed up and on 3rd turn use spirit spikes will be same turn boss does his evade move after that boss pretty much kills him self use spectral spine and than keep using power ball. if boss doesnt kill himself before you kill him with first porcupette bring out second and remember boss always uses the evasion move whenever its up so always time your spirit spikes during that. never even have to worry about second porcupette dieing to need a 3rd pet.

Comment by Nimel

Great guide, really!
About the 4 celestials I would like to share my strategy that works 100% and it's actually the fastest I found.

SHOP LIST:
2x Pandaren Water Spirit
2x Chrominius
1x Darkmoon Tonk
1x Gregarious Grell (or 1x Mr. Bigglesworth)
1x Sen'jin Fetish
1x Disgusting Oozeling (Another ooze is fine)
1x Spectral Porcupette (you won't really need this...)

1) Yu'la
Gregarious Grell (Punch, Phase Shift when Lift off, Cauterize when under 800HP) can solo this one

2) Zao
Pandaren Water Spirit: Geyser, Whirpool (switch to Chrominius)
Chrominius: Howl, Bite, Surge of Power (Zao dies now)
Darkmoon Tonk: (never used)

3) Xu-Fu
1 TURN FASTER THAN ZAO!
(2nd) Pandaren Water Spirit: Geyser, Whirpool (switch to Chrominius)
(2nd) Chrominius: Howl, Surge of Power (Xu-Fu dies now)
Darkmoon Tonk: (never used)
NOTE: If Xu-Fu crits you (rare chance), just forfait ... you will need to heal your Zao Team at Chi-Chi. It won't crit you twice in the same day.

4) Chi-Chi (if something goes wrong, heal your pets here with group heal 1st ability, I use Red Cricket's "Inspiring Song")
Sen'jin Fetish: Wild Magic, Flame Breath until dies, Wild Magic on your immortal turn
Disgusting Oozeling: Acidic goo (first one will be dodged, do it again), Corrosion (there should be enough dots to kill Chi-Chi but your Ooze will be dead as well)
Spectral Porcupette (never used, but prepare Spirit Spikes against Quill in case of need)
I took this strategy from someone who posted it on youtube, kudos to him.

I have more problems with some trainers (RNG gods can be evil sometimes), but the 4 celestials are pushover.

Comment by akaikage

I noticed, for Wise Mari, you have listed a Frog instead of the Strider you are using in your videos. The tactic also mention the use of Pump which frogs does not have. Was that a last hour change or just an oversight?

For the rest, it's an amazing guide, I managed to kill 5/7 in Celestial Tournament until I noticed that I forgot to level the pets for Yu'la :P

By the way, for leveling, you could try using Anubisath Idol + S/S Crow + Lesser Pet Treat and go to the following combats:

For the Burning Spirit I usually bring any acuatic pet as backup, just in case the Crow decides he's not hungry this day :P

I can get to level 24-25 any pet just in those 4 fights. It's once per day, but you have a really good chance to get pet stones. I usually farmed striders in the Vale but I can say I've never got a stone there since 5.2.

Comment by Wyo1

shademaster: ive lost all 3 of three attempts so far, trying exactly what you wrote :(
Edit: Original Strategy, lost another 2 attempts today :(

Comment by Cantralian

Seriously, thank you so much for this incredibly comprehensive and beautifully organised guide. I had a lot of level 25s but not quite the right ones, so I used it as a levelling list (and multi-tasked by levelling alts at the same time, so win-win).

I had dreadful RNG first try on Xu-Fu, so swapped for a howl bomb team after they were dead, but this week it worked a charm. I decided to use my Gilnean raven for Wise Mari's carp instead of the moth and he finished the carp off with over 1K health left. My favourite of your strategies is definitely Zao because of the way he heals to full health and then just melts down to zero. So very satisfying!

Comment by napalmz

Thanks you so much for this guide - it has made everything very painless (subject to crazily bad RNG) :)

Comment by Jaladar

Thanks to your guide I have 1 week left to obtain all the pets from the tournament--then it's just stones after that. Thanks again for taking the time to lay this out in such an awesome and easy to use format!

Comment by undeaddom

I rigorously followed this guide from the minute I started pet battles, and as of now I have completed my first week of the tournament with no hassle whatsoever. Huge well done and thanks for putting in the time and effort to make this guide.

Comment by 1210340

Thank you for this guide - followed it and have no problems beating the Celestial Tournament now.

If anyone is looking for a good place to level pets (you need to max out quite a few from level 1 for this guide) I levelled my team at Mistfall village inn in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms

There is a constant spawn of 5 level 24 or 25 eternal striders immediately behind the inn, plus more in the dried up riverbed nearby.

Advantages :
1. Eternal Striders almost always start with a buff - Healing Wave, Cleansing Rain, Pump. This means you can start with a level 1 pet and if they hit you can swap it out, finish the battle with two other level 25s and go from level 1 to 8 in one fight (Safari Hat + Lesser Pet Treat buff) ! If poor RNG kills your level 1 the stable master is 2 secs away.
2. The mobs are never anything other than Aquatic or Flying making your setup much quicker / easier.
3. Mistfall village inn has an instant logout inn function, mailbox and stable master (no need to use pet bandages) so you can do other stuff in between.
4. Since patch 5.4 Mistfall village is never under attack and there are no hostile mobs anywhere nearby behind the inn, the riverbed (if you outkill the spawn rate behind the inn) has a few crocs.
5. Location is close to either of the Shrine bases.

Might take a bit longer than other strategies but you have no travelling around.

Comment by fritzal

Thanks for putting such a great guide together for all of us.

After some leveling some snails and a few other pets listed in your guide I was able to complete my first tourny.

One thing I did find was my Panda Monk was able to solo Yu'la!

Thanks again!

Comment by Pandamonius

Thanks so much for this guide! Just tried the Celestial Tournament for the first time, and didn't even break a sweat thanks to this!

I had to substitute a few pets due to not having all the right ones, but the only fight that I was worried about was Yu'la, since I didn't have an available pet with Ascension (my Val'kyr having died previously, and my other undeads not having leveled enough to unlock it).

I was saved by the comments though. Looking through, I found suggestions for using Mr. Bigglesworth instead, and following them step by step, I was able to beat Yu'la without taking a single point of damage. The fight took longer, but in the end, she went down, and I got my first Celestial Coin!

Comment by Askania

Great guide, but have you considered replacements for rare and pet shop pets people may not have, like Bonkers and Pandaren Monk. I know a couple people who love doing pet battles, but they don't buy anything from the Blizzard store or AH so their pet list is restricted to wild battle pets. :) For people like me and 541 pets this is great though.

Comment by anekitty

Very nice guide! Your suggestions and tips are making it much easier to beat these guys.

Comment by Val9

Fantastic guide, really grateful for its existence, as it helped me heaps! :) Or should I say, it actually made it possible for me to win this tournament. I'd just like to add 2 things that helped me, which others may find useful

1. against Chen Stormstout: instead of the Anubisath Idol I used Chrominius, mainly because Anubisath tends to miss with its Crush ability, and against Brewly I used Ominous Flame pet and its ability Nimbus to reduce the chance of missing

2. against Chi-Chi i once managed to win once by using the wisps, but then the next time failed and decided to try 2 snails and a Jade Oozeling, which worked quite well

Comment by goldenllama

Very well done guide. When Cho, Goldbloom & McLeary were the trainers I could not defeat Xu-Fu using the guide...not enough firepower and extra pet combos to use. I switched to the all snail tactic vs Chi-Chi and used Unborn Valkyr, Alpine Foxling Kit and Lil Bling on Xu-Fu...worked like a charm and got my first tournament win.

Comment by J48Johnson

Using this Guide, I was having a very hard time with Taran Zhu using the original pets. I easily beat him with:
Creepy Crate (Agony, Curse of Doom, Bonestorm)
Molten Hatchling (Leech Life, Cauterize<-not used, Brittle Webbing)
Elder Python (Poison Fang, Sting, Burrow.

Used in the above order Open with Bonestorm, and keep using Agony until he is going to switch, (50% health). You need to have Curse of Doom on him when he switches pets.

Keep the crate in until he goes down using Bonestorm when it's ready, same with Curse of Doom.
Bring in the spider using Brittle webbing and Leech Life till he's dead.
Bring in the snake. Poison your target with both Poison Fang, and Sting, then Burrow. Keep the poison flowing until burrow is ready and use it. Rinse & repeat.

This was VERY effective.

Comment by 1095958

Very few, if any, of these strategies work 5.4.2. Zero room for crits/missing on fights like Chen. Blighthawk's attacks are way to high miss chance to be reliable.

Comment by Sillymeria

I just wanted to thank you for this guide, I was able to win the tourney! *cheer* Thanks for your time gathering all this info and putting it up for everyone. :)

Comment by johannhowitzer

For Blingtron 4000, you should replace Searing Scorchling with Harbinger of Flame.

- Less speed, which does not matter since Lil' B is faster than both pets.
- Higher HP and attack.
- Same abilities.
- WAY easier to get!

Comment by Sleepless

I bow to your guide. I have so many pets leveled, but I'm so used to using primarily the same ones time and again. Your guide is really helping me understand my pets better so that I can form some of my own new strategies.

Note: Your original Wise Mari strategy still shows instructions that say, "If somehow kills your Moth, bring Aqua Strider out to finish him off with Pump." I was consternated by this at first since the strategy uses a frog, but I searched the comments and noted that you had addressed this previously. I only bring it up since the instructions have never been edited to match the pet swap.

Again, thank you so very much for your super marvelous guide! I'm a forever fan.

Comment by steve189

thank you so much for making this guide, I been following your guide and passed the tournament with out much problem. I would like to take the time to make a suggestion. for Blingtron 4000, i used a shalespider its shell skill nicely counters make it rain, i was able to kill the element with 80% hp left on shalespider. and again, your guide helped me very much

Comment by Eido

This guide looks great! I just wanted to suggest something for possible improvement of this guide, if you are interested:

It would be helpful at the start to have a table of contents with page anchors, just so the reader knows what to expect. Second, a clear description of what the tournament is, for those who don't know, and what exactly occurs during the entirety of it.

Just a thought :) I hope this is helpful!

Comment by kahlina

Just wanted to drop a note regarding Core Hound Pup seen on Blingtron 4000. For those that don't have this pet (or perhaps even those that do!) Lil' Bad Wolf is a great choice since you don't have to worry about rng of burrow missing. Howl + Claw x2 is usually enough to take him down. Save Dodge for Lil' B's opening, then Howl.

Comment by Zaydene

I noticed that a lot of these guides share the same pet, for example Sunreaver Micro and Zeppelin are in two battles.

Do I need to level up a second one of them to do the celestials? I managed to kill the 3 tamers I got with the above teams, but most if not all the pets were dead.

I thought originally you'd be able to heal after each battle or at least the game would heal you.

Comment by Zaydene

On Wise Mari's original guide, under turn 14 has a mistake

"River should die at this point, or from another couple Alpha Strikes.
If he somehow kills your Moth, bring Aqua Strider out to finish him off with Pump"

The pet in the guide is actually the frog, not an aqua strider :D

Comment by killswitcch

I would like to add my own voice to the many people who have said a BIG thank you for researching, writing and putting this guide together.

after getting all the pets to max level i bet the tournament yesterday for the first time - I am now a proud owner of Xu-Fu :)

Time to grind out for the others :D Gotta "have" them all !

Comment by 1218273

Amazing guide! I beat them on my first try after reading this...after running into brick walls with 15 max level pets the first time and again with 50 max levels, this time I came in with 75 max levels and fully prepared for war.
I made some substitutions to use some easier to obtain pets and I had fantastic results. The first 3 trainers are easy to use trial and error to build teams so I'll just share my subs for the final 4 pets:

For Xu-Fu I used a Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling instead of the Darkmoon Zeppelin. They are much cheaper on the auction house and have the crucial decoy move and more than enough DPS to do the job.

For Yu-La I used a Flayer Youngling(P/S) instead of Bonkers and had a cakewalk stunning with every kick and deflecting every Lift-Off. These guys are plentiful in the mountains between Hellfire Peninsula and Shadowmoon Valley. I'll probably use a Kun-Lai Runt instead of the Pandaren Monk next time just because I feel dirty using my paid-for pets(lol).

For Zao no changes had to be made but I almost came to tears when my Sentry died and Zao healed to nearly full health. I was sure I had messed up somewhere, but sure enough the Zandalari Anklerender DESTROYED him with ease.

Chi-Chi no changes either. Fantastic strategy.

Thanks so much man. Winning the Celestial Tournament feels like just winning the Pokemon League back in 1998 or w/e playing Pokemon Blue, although to be honest I've put way more hours into building my pet team than I ever put into that game I'm afraid.

Comment by 1146855

Sorry to be a bother, but was wondering can Searing Scorchling be substituted with another pet? Curious. Thank you for your time, hope you are having a fantastic new year everyone!

Comment by falcon2099

I must definitely agree with most (if not all of the posters here) and THANK you so much for this guide. It is detailed and most comprehensive! Works like a charm on ALL fights (except for when RNG beats me down)

Comment by Mokal

Shame the new tactics need so good pets :(

Comment by 1034014

As most other people have said, this is a fantastic guide, and I thank you for all the time and effort you put into making it.

I'd just like to add my own tip, and I apologize if it has already been mentioned, but I didn't see it anywhere; While the tournament restricts healing outside of combat, you can still heal in combat, and certain trainers (Lorewalker Cho, for example) ALWAYS start with a non-damaging ability, so using a pet such as my beloved Red Cricket with its Inspiring Song, you can enter combat, use inspiring song to heal your pets, forfeit and repeat until all of your pets are in peak condition. It made be feel a bit dirty using such an exploit, but I did not have a large stable of level 25s to see me through and I couldn't bear waiting any longer to get my hands on that gorgeous black ox, Zao.

Another tip I have is for Little Tommy; I used the Clockwork Gnome and Chrominius -
Start with the Gnome, use turret turn 1.
Ooondasta will then drag out Chrominius if it's your second pet, so use Howl followed by Surge of Power.
Chrominius dies immediately after using Surge, so swap to the Gnome and build a second turret.
If the Gnome is still alive, use Metal Fist till either the Gnome dies or Turret comes off CD.
Now, usually the Gnome will finish off Oondasta, but if by some chance it outlives the Gnome, swap to whatever third pet you have chosen. I go with Lil' XT, but just about any pet, preferably mechanical, will do.

As an aside, might I also suggest adding what each enemy pet does during their turns, if at all possible? I understand that this is a lot of extra work, but for those of us who have had no luck catching a rare of a particular counter-pet (an Unborn Val'kyr of ANY rarity still eludes me), it allows us to better plan on what to bring instead.

Comment by Lunachick

Just wanted to add my 'thank you' to the pile. Words can't express how utterly grateful I am to have found your guide! Tremendous job! :D

Comment by Lunachick

Suggestion: add Darkmoon Hatchling to the list of alts for Wildhammer Griffon Hatchling. It has the Flock ability, and worked like a charm for me.

Comment by kannyou

A big thank you for compiling this. Took some time (and a little gold) toaccumulate all of the pets to build the required battle stable, but I have now managed the clear the tournament by following your strats, and looking forward to getting my hands on all 4 of the celestial pets.

Comment by snoogins187

I just had the Xu-Fu strategy fail me, so I had to find an alternate set of pets to get it done. Fortunately, I found my Fjord Worg Pup has the same moveset as the Alpine Fox. I took a risk using a level 20 Arctic Fox Kit as the 2nd pet and one of my Darkmoon Tonks as the finisher.

Admittedly, I did catch a big break when his Feed missed my fox. I was prepared to use Shock and Awe, followed up by the Ion Cannon after the fox died, but instead, I was able to sub in the Tonk with Howl still up and he was at around 600HP. Shock and Awe finished him in one shot.

Comment by snoogins187

I'd like to recommend for anyone doing the Yu'La fight, instead of using a Bonkers or other Humanoid pet, you can get a Clock 'Em and have an easier time. At level 25, his speed in 289, which does give him that first attack each round. With a Jab>Counter Strike (or Overtune)>Dodge moveset, and Unholy Ascension debuff on Yu'La, you should have no problem winning this fight. Just save the Dodge move for whenever she lifts off

Or if you are feeling really frisky, try using Haymaker instead of Jab... :)

Comment by Briandris

I wanted to let you know that this is my favorite Wowhead Guide. It's accurate, up to date and it's easy to find what I'm looking for. I've never went back to the same info page on any site as I have your guide. Thanks so much for your ongoing effort and time:)

EDIT: I'd like to up vote this guide but I can't find where to do that. Can someone point me in the right direction pls?

Comment by 483422

Only Moth dies strategy i used is:

Crawling Claw 111
Rapana Whelk 221
Amber Moth 212

Taran Zhu begins with Yen
You begin with Crawling Claw
Curse of Doom
switch to Rapana Whelk
Pass or Shell Shield (you will get stunned)
Absorb
Dive (on 2 ticks till Curse of Doom falls so dive hits on the same round (Yen is faster))
Yen dies or so close to dead when he feign dead next round
Switch to Crawling claw
Ancient Blessing
Curse of Doom
Switch to Moth
Moth
Cocoon Strike
Alpha Strike
till moth dies :(((
.....
rest of it u rap up with Crawling Claw curse of doom and Rapana Whelk.
Will try to follow up more net time i fight Taran Zhu.

Comment by denzildk

i just killed Xu-Fu with a Wild Golden Hatchling P/S, a Clockwork gnome S/B and a Chrominius H/H
i used the pets like this:
call lightning
change to gnome
turret
metal fist
metal fist (gnome dead)
howl
Surge of power
Xu-Fu is now dead

as Xu-Fu is faster than my chrominius and he missed his last attack i dont know if my chrominius would have died normaly.

Feel free to add this to you'r amazing guide XD

Comment by perbrethil

The addon used in the youtube movies is
PetTracker (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/pettracker) and with it you can see what attacks your opponent has and wich are on cooldown. never saw it before this but i can't believe i could've gone without it!

Comment by LissaNDaniel

I found another substitute for a Nordrassil Wisp. I have a Festival Lantern that has the exact same move set that might work on the fight for Chi-Chi if needed. I didn't have a second Nordrassil Wisp and used the Lantern and it worked out well.

Good luck to all competing in the Celestial Tournament.

Comment by Alliawai

For those like me who did not know what s/s was

Using Letters to Represent Breed ID

It's not easy to remember which breed IDs stand for which stat allocations. As a result, many websites and pet battle resources are using a two-letter system as a way of expressing each breed ID in a more recognizable format. The most notable of these resources is MMOSimca's Battle Pet BreedID addon, which displays the breed of your pets in-game.

The breed ID letter system uses the following letters to convey a pet's breed:
H = Health
P = Power
S = Speed
B = Balance
Each letter is paired with another to represnt its breed. For example, H/H means the pet has a double dose of Health (0/20/0: breeds 6 and 16). P/B indicates Power mixed with Balance (4/9/4: breeds 10 and 20). B/B represents across-the-board Balance (5/5/5: breeds 3 and 13). See the complete list below.
BREED LETTERS H/P/S
4/14 → P/P = 0/20/0
5/15 → S/S = 0/0/20
6/16 → H/H = 20/0/0
7/17 → H/P = 9/9/0
8/18 → P/S = 0/9/9
9/19 → H/S = 9/0/9
10/20 → P/B = 4/9/4
11/21 → S/B = 4/4/9
12/22 → H/B = 9/4/4
3/13 → B/B = 5/5/5
We've also adopted the letter system to show the breeds when hovering over a pet while browsing a user's pet collection.

From
warcraftpets.com/wow-pet-battles/breeds/

Comment by Mokal

Anyone had luck to get the Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen flock/Swarm tactic to work? my pet just dies after first swarm..

Comment by Lunachick

Have they changed Chi Chi recently? I went out and got two S/S Nordrasil Wisps (speed 357) and Chi Chi is still faster. I have yet to get this strat to work for me. I have had about 50% success with the snail strategy. (I just seem to have bad RNG with battle pets in general, so I suppose I should just keep soldiering on.)

Comment by Volati

I didn't see it on the first page of comments at all, so I just wanted to know what addons do you use for pet battling. I saw you have an addon that shows you the enemy pet's abilities, and their cooldowns. Can you possibly post the ones you use?

Comment by don1010220

I know i'm a noob so please no noob comments or downgrade comments please but what does S/S next to a few pets mean?

Comment by CoolYoshixD

I have a question : Do these pets have to be rare quality or all quality for the fights?

Comment by 1213911

3 Snails works out MUCH better for Chi-Chi than Valk+Wisp. The timing just doesn't work out the way you describe. It might work if you UA 1 round earlier.

Comment by 1094397

Fel Flame has the same move set as Searing Scorchling, so can be used against Wise Mari if you don't feel like doing the Molten Front dailies.

Comment by Teasal

Many, many thanks for your leveling guide & Tournament strategies!

They all worked a treat apart from Bonkers -your notes state he should have a speed stat of at least 288, but mine only has 260. I thought non-wild pets only came in one flavour, or is this wrong?

Additional thanks to Crastox - the Mr Bigglesworth strat worked a charm :)

Comment by Oilfreak

Fantastic guide !

I levelled and tried a lot of pets before finding this guide from which I filled a few gaps in my lineup and presto . . . Tournament Winner !

Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this !

Comment by Minigunner

For shademaster Kiryn I have found that a P/P jade oozeling works exceptionally well with the two dots and the life steal as a replacement for the lofty libram. I manage to get my oozeling to get both dots on the mechanical kitty when he does the storm too and it is rediculous damage.

Comment by Kirielaa

Thanks for this amazing guide, Helped me doing the base for my team during the celestial tournement! I just wanna add my opinion on Sully, i use a Jungle Grub first (Chomp, Acid goo, Burrow). I only use burrow when socks dies and when he brings out Monte he takes alot of damage since he's a critter, I rarely need to use my 3rd pet against him.
And this guide, my God. Truly an amazing job on your side, to the point where you even specify the breeds and everything just to make sure people don't use a lower speed one. I'd raise a beer cheering this guide!

Comment by settlestone

this is the only strat for chi-chi i've found that works well. thanks a ton giggz.

Comment by DaringJedi

Thanks a bunch for the guide! Worked out great; I definitely prefer the snail strategy for Chi-Chi.

Comment by bathazar

Thank you so much! Finally after months of leveling the correct pets, thanks to you and this awesome guide I finally got this achievement!

This is seriously an amazing guide and I can only assume it took you a hefty amount of time to do this. I as well as others really do appreciate your hard work.

Comment by deadlaserman

well, i did started to use this guide, and someone told me its just waste of time, and i asked him why, and he gave me a short way to all this list of pets:
you need: Terrible Turnip, Chrominius, Spirit water, undead pet with curse of doom and haunt spells like unborn val'kyr, thats my team for the 4 celestial pets u fight on the end, so the trainers before are esey to win with allmost any pets u maxed, i prefer to use Anubisath Idol on few fights since he last long time for any fight, and just get some pets that u alredy lvl to max that will counter the trainers pets, simple as that.

for celstial im using all 4 pets above: you start with unborn val'kyr---> curse of doom--->haunt, she die u switch to water spirit--->geyser--->whirlpool, switch to Chrominius---> howl..
at this point the celestial will die or have less hp for one more strike, so just use any of the Chrominius attakes, now your pets are less hp, what you doing ?
you using Terrible Turnip to heal them, taking Terrible Turnip with 2 pets u wanna heal, start fight with any of the celestial, use heal, then forfit, do that again all the times until u heal to max, then change to your third pet to heal him also, and u good to go for next match.

(all pets must be max lvl and rare type to make it work smooth)

sometime the celestial have luck of missing attakes from our side, or kill the pets before u did the instruction above, so its better to have always more of the pets i said above..

i wish you the best of luck, deadlaserman...

Comment by 279942

Have you been removing some of the alternate strats? I'd been working on filling out and levelling up some of my teams based on the alternate strats (because they lined up better with the pets I've got) and now the tabs are showing as Blank? Just curious. hope the computer's gotten better!

Comment by 182693

Having not read or understood enough, I didn't realize it was a two part "adventure". I was very sad when I finally beat the first 3 guys, only to have PART 2 pop up with some REALLY difficult fights (all my own fault for not paying more attention!)! Like someone else said, I'll be going out and leveling all the pets you have suggested before returning!

Here is one helpful tidbit:

On the Doctor Ion Goldblum fight, you may also substitute the Rotten Little Helper (humanoid, not mechanical though he does have some very mech-like attacks) instead of the Warbot (in combination/strategy with the other two suggested pets). Though my Rotten Little Helper was only level 20, the team defeated Ion Goldbloom every time.

Comment by Simonbelmont

I just want to add about the triple snail strat for Chi-Chi, It REALLY works. I just had a battle where EVERY SINGLE dive missed and I still won.

Comment by Pathatlon

I love your guide - except for that fact that I actually have to BUY pets. I think, already paying once a month, this is a fair rip-off.

It's very annoying, as some of the pets are very good, and I wish you'd added an "or this pet" instead.

I don't mind to grind boringly for a pet, but I won't buy it.

Comment by 1229458

Just wanted to add my thanks to the list! Very helpful guide and very well put together.
Just thought I would add though that I did this with a slower than suggested Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling and was still successful.
Cheers!

Comment by jd234

Great guide. (nothing like a well timed miss on the last celestial to make you have to restart the whole damn scenario... )

Comment by 954192

W.T.Flock is ridiculously subject to rng. It does NOT work more than 50% of the time so far in practice. Azure Crane Chick is either NOT a suitable replacement to the Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling, or the strat needs an overhaul. If you do not get a luck miss from Xu-Fu somewhere along the line with the Flocker, you will lose.

Comment by Vaeevictiss

Awesome guide! i just got back into pet stuff recently so i just leveled the pets you had here aside from ones that were already max or ones that you listed as comparable alternatives.

Ive only done it two weeks so far but this worked great. Got a bit nervous on Taran when two strong abilities missed; Moth Dust and Lift Off. Still managed to narrowly pull off a kill tho.

Thank you for this guide!

Comment by gumby760

Taran Zhu is totally worthless strat. I fail 80% of the time and Chen Stormstout is almost as bad. Anyone have a strategy that actually works?

Comment by Shnook

Chi-Chi.. I failed doing the original guide and I only had one snail at 25 so had to improvise a little and I managed to do it really easily and quickly.

Using Scooter the Snail I followed the first few steps as written in the new snail guide:

Acidic Goo > Ooze Touch > Dive > Acidic Goo > Ooze Touch

.. at this point my snail died, but bring in a pet that has Surge of Power and you can finish Chi-chi off here. I personally used Legs. But also Azure Whelpling and Chrominius could come in here too.. (that's if you've not used them in the previous rounds of course).

In my first stage I had the Blingtron/Kiryn/Mari lineup, so I managed (luckily) to avoid the use of Scooter and the others I mentioned above.

Edit: Sorry about the tags, not sure why only some work.. but you can see if you scroll over them what they should be.

Comment by falconsight

Your Xu-Fu strat straight up gets me killed late in the tourney about 1/2 of the time. That's with P/P Fox/Moon Moon or S/S. There has got to be a better way.

Comment by Deutherius

For Blingtron 4000 strategy, Core Hound Pup can be substituted by Chrominius with Bite, Howl and Ravage. As a dragonkin, he will take more damage, but that is easily negated by the self heal from ravage.

Comment by gumby760

Yu'la strat is total garbage. Doesn't work for crap.

Comment by averagehero

Your guide keeps getting better and better!
Next week will be the last week I run the tourney to get my last celestial pet. I've used your guide every week so far and I don't think I could have gone this far without it! There were times I thought that you had overlooked some mechanic or detail, but it always ends up playing into your plan perfectly. The work and insight you put in to planning these battles is impressive, and definitely appreciated by many.
Thank you so much for helping us get our celestial pets! Good work and many thanks!

Comment by Caradnaur

Dunno if i'm so unlucky... I have all pets u suggested, all 25 level rare, i do everything exactly as it says in this guide and u know something? I can't even win one damn battle....

Comment by holabola

Must all pets be rare quality, or can some be uncommon? I'm lazy xD

Comment by rlouisw

Pet battling seemed a little overwhelming when it first came out, so I stayed away from it for a while. But the achievements finally called to me loudly enough that I listened and I started doing it. Boring at first, but when I focused on catching rares and getting the Zookeeper title, the leveling becomes less monotonous until I got to level 15 and started fighting three at a time. I saw this guide a while ago, which kind of guided which rares I leveled up in my quest to catch a rare of everything, which I am now one pet shy of doing (freaking Qiraji Guardling...). It didn't take as long as I thought it would either.

I have reviewed your guide and used its suggestions to successfully (and rather easily) complete the Celestial Tournament twice now. A few of these fights can suffer from bad RNG, but I won't say I haven't also won a few from good RNG. So thanks for making this guide and making it easy for us to get our celestial pets.

Comment by mobhunter

This is such an amazing guide. Very complete and the videos are a sure plus. It is always good to see what you are going to be up against!

Your time is appreciated and your knowledge is doubly-so!

Thank you.

Comment by darkstar74

This is one of the best guides on wowhead. After saying that, pretend I am a noob. What are the "P", "S", and so on. I know "S" would be speed, that's a givin. So help a noob out "lol". thz again for all your hard work. Great Job.

Comment by Syio

Excellent guide; I breezed through this tournament the first time after investing effort into leveling the recommended pets. Your alternate pet list is a saviour too!

Comment by Sqqueeky

In your alternates list, Amber Moth should be listed as seen in Original Wise Mari.

I'm compiling a levelling list for myself, and realised that there were several places where you use multiple pets of the same type: Amber Moth, Frog, Fox, several snails if using the snail strat, etc. I know you give a healing strategy, but I think it'll be safer if I just have enough duplicates to cover the strats I've decided to use.

Ahh, just realised that Sully and Wise Mari are in different groups so I shouldn't need duplicate Amber Moths and Frogs, yes? But a spare Fox is needed for Original Xu-Fu and several snails for Snailception + Taran Zhu.

Excellent guide, thanks!

(H = health, P = power, S = speed, B = balance)

Comment by 1239144

I know everyone loves buttkissing comments, but real talk now.

The TARAN ZHU strat DOES NOT WORK EVER.

Why would the author put so much effort into something that is without a doubt complete and totally useless? Recommending a pet which one of the other pets is strong against and gets 2-shot? Really. Reconsider how you spend your time, author.

Comment by 242469

Greetings!

I'd like to add a suggestion to the Snailception strategy for Chi-Chi:

My strategy with 3 snails is to always have the dive available for ethereal countering, so the rotation would be, more or less:

acidic goo
ooze touch
dive

switch to 2nd snail

acidic goo
dive

switch to 3rd snail

acidic goo
dive

switch to 1st snail

acidic goo
dive

..and so on. I found it to be the most reliable.

Comment by blahahahah

Best Guide I have ever seen!
This guide makes this a cake walk!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Comment by Briandris

I like how your alternate strategies are including harder to get pets! We spend hours farming/camping and leveling the rare ones and most guides (understandably) only show strategies for common easy to get pets. It's nice to see where you can use them in a battle and see them be as useful as they are rare:)

Comment by Noritam

Hi!

I'm new to computer gaming in general and WoW in particular. My main is in Outland, one alt did the 90 boost from the WoD pre-order, and she's sitting on the Timeless Isle, literally shakin' in her boots, and there's an all but abandoned gonna-be-an-Alchemist-alt waiting somewhere in Teldrassil for me to get my act together.

So, why am I here? I've just fallen in love with Pet Battles. Serendipity gave me a rare skunk on my very first battle and I've been hunting rares ever since. Which means of course I killed one, in my excitement to finally locate it, I forgot all about the trapping. Never mind I had three level 9 to 11 pets taking on the teams in Terokkar Forest! doh!

I've been reading the internets today looking for something on Timeless Isle to do that won't be too scary, when I found your guide. Of course the first thing I read was no more Snowy Owls 'til next winter and a wait 'til June for the summer Qiraji Guardling. Seasonal Pets! But of course! Are these two the only ones or are there more? Is there a guide or a list somewhere you could point me to?

I've perused this guide, gotta lot of work to do before I start in on the Celestial Tournament but at least now I have a shopping guide of pets to look for as I level my main and my alt. One thing the 90-boosts are good for of course is running around looking for pets and recipes for the "real" toons! Spent four hours lost on Kalimdor looking for a fairy dragon sprite. Never did find them but saw some really cool places and learned a lot. Mainly that my navigation sucks!

So to recap my questions and prise them out of all the babble:

1. How many seasonal pets are there? Is there a list somewhere?

Off now to read your list in detail and see which ones are near where my two real toons are hanging out. Thanks for taking the time to consider my questions. Hope I'm not breaking too many rules with this post.

Nor.

Comment by imbam4g3

Another alternative strategy for Little Tommy Newcomer's Lil' Oondasta:
1st pet: lvl25 Clockwork Gnome with Metal Fist, Repair & Build Turret.
2nd pet: lvl25 Tranquil Mechanical Yeti with Metal Fist, Call Lightning & Ion Cannon.
3rd pet: <lvl25 pet you want to level.

Unless you're really unlucky, your first two pets will be able to take care of Oondasta or at the very least bring him down enough so that your third pet can finish him off. Your third pet must be able to survive the splash damage from Oondasta's Spiritfire Beam, which he will cast multiple times during the fight. Also it helps to have a speed higher than Oondasta (319), so you can finish him off without needing to survive a hit first. Depending on your pet's level and if you have any pet xp buffs, you can get around 1.5k xp this way.

Open with your Clockwork Gnome, build a turret. Gnome gets swapped for Yeti. Change weather to Lightning Storm, then spam Metal Fist until Yeti dies and his failsafe kicks in. Now use Ion Cannon. Oondasta then kills Yeti and you can switch back to your Gnome to build another turret and perhaps cast a Metal Fist if needed. When ready, bring out your sub-25 pet and finish off Oondasta. Keep an eye on Oondasta's spell cooldowns so you know what is coming when. Sometimes it's better to skip a turn with your gnome to let him soak the Frill Blast and bring out your sub-25 pet.

Comment by Jirki88

The Nodrassil Wisp strategy against Chi-Chi seem utterly broken to me. I've tried it twice and they get massacred. Ethereal always goes first and Chi-Chi is faster if at over half life, and his heals are pretty heavy. The Wisps don't stand a snowballs chance in hell.

Comment by Mavfox

What is the substitute(s) for a Pandaren Monk supposed to be? I noticed you have a section for it, but it appears to be bugged/blank.

Otherwise awesome guide! I was looking for something exactly like this to get started on catching.

Comment by oddball250

i was wondering what you were supposed to replace the pets that have to be bought or cant be gotten any more. e.g corehound, warbot, pandaren monk thanks for the help if you answer

Comment by Deien

Compliments before problems - Fantastic Guide, THANK YOU!
The first time I did the tournament using this guide, it all went well and I only had problems with one match where I had to adjust the pets.

Last night I did my second attempt and was completely successful up until I got to Xu-Fu. He was my 3rd to the last battle to win the tournament and complete my quest. After unsuccessful tries, I did the other 2 Celestial kiddies so that I would have access to any pets that survived those battles.

Over 80 pet deaths later I was down to no one left alive that was "old" enough and strong enough but Critters. Since 2 of 3 of his attacks are specifically good against Critters it didn't take long to finally convince me to give up - with just the one pet to go - Bummer! Thank Goodness the Stable Master doesn't care how many pets have to be revived!

What changed, you ask, between last week and this week? Xu hit with a Crit on every he threw, allowing him to bring himself back to full or near to full health every time he used it! I finally gave up at 2 AM my time and went to bed. /sigh Going to try again today. I am hopeful it was a bug and he will behave like he did last time, and like he did in the video that I just watched here. I watched his health in the video and I remembered correctly; he did not crit over 1000 hit points with every single . But in my battles last night he did. In one match he killed Swamp Croaker in one shot when he first came out for over 1600 and came back to deal over 1200 to the next pet!

The Swamp Croaker has which is why I put him in. I only see that ability on him. Going to try a team with him. Or a couple of them? lol IDK. Xu did well against all families last night, including Aquatic. But I guess I'll level my other 2 up to 25 and give it a shot.

Xu killed my Jade Dancer immediately, too, before she could cast to help me fight back. Maybe she will get a chance to cast it if gets used: I swear the computer makes us show our next attack so it can counter before it is thrown!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the opportunity to "talk" about this with someone. I am surprised how much it helps to get it out there where you can read it and see it more clearly!

Comment by pyrannor2012

Any strat adjustments or ideas for Taran Zhu when Amber Moth puts Bolo to sleep? This situation alters the dynamic of the fight greatly.

Comment by Syio

The alternative strategies are WIN. Thank you!

Comment by JrJugger

I went though all this ^&*!ing #$%^ to collect all the battle pets and the walk through dont work?(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##Masked profanity that calls anyone a name, especially an inappropriate one, is a great way to get your account privileges revoked. Consider this a warning.

Comment by Splosive

Thanks so much for the guide! It helped me beat the tournament and get Xu-Fu.

Comment by madmurdock

A general question about the Breed/Speed: If there isnt mentioned anything about a required minimum speed can i take any rare pet (of the suggested kind) and do not have to farm forever to get a 300+ or whatever pet? If not, can you please edit the required speed in the "pet list"?

Comment by Kestis

Is there any way you could add the "old" alternate strategies back in. I had the teams down and had it so I could do the tourney without too much trouble then you removed the strategies that I was using for most of the trainers...

Comment by thorackis

I have found that using the sunreaver micro centry on Zao usually has the disadvantage that when it first dies, it comes back to life.
This means it takes longer for the Zandalari to come in, sometimes with only 1 or 2 rounds left on lightning storm, if Zao misses.

When using the Wild Golden Hatchling I use tailslap or whirlwind first, then lightning storm, next round the Hatchling dies and Zandalari finish it in 2 rounds with just 1 Zandalari used.

Comment by hixym

very good guide ty so much did it in 2 tries!

Comment by SiegaPlays

Alternate for Xu-Fu - Trying to avoid starting over I set this team up inspired by the existing strats and desperation.

Alpine Foxling Kit (2, 2, 2 - I used S/B)
Wild Jade Hatchling - or anything with Call Lightning, I used H/P)
Crow (1, 1, 1 - I used S/S

Alpine Foxling
Dance
Howl
Flurry

Wild Jade Hatchling
Call Lightning

Crow
Murder

Comment by JrJugger

Nothing works on Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji.... your method fails every time and I can't figure anything else out, i need help this is getting old!

Comment by 847229

First and Foremost, I wanted to say "Thank you". You saved my sanity. With your guide I have excellent luck with defeating the Tournament. I am now working on my 3rd pet purchase.

On a side note , one thing I've really appreciated about your guide is that I have learned about pet abilities and how they interact with each other. Before I mostly just like a pet because it was cute and had no thought to any other aspect.

Many Thanks!

Comment by Raptra

Thanks for putting this together!
I saw you're having trouble with a cageable Blingtron team, here's a combo I've found works more often than not:

1) (I used Water Strider or Sea Pony, but I think any could work)

2) Electrified Razortooth (I believe I had best results with Rip, Shock, and Devour, since it is strong against the 2nd and 3rd opponents, but different combos have worked for me)

3) Spirit of Summer

Usually most of the team doesn't survive, but maybe you'll have more luck with it, hope this helps.

Comment by moocow

On Yu'la, Flayer Youngling will NOT work - its humanoid attack deals less damage than her shield. So I ended up using Howlbomb with my trusty Menagerie Custodian as last pet. Geyser - Whirlpool - Howl - Bite - Surge of Power - Shock and Awe and she was dead.

Comment by taskenspiller

This is a masterpiece of a guide! Thank you!

Comment by 919365

I think they may have buffed Chi-Chi's speed. I used your original strategy and had no problems with it. Until last week, now Chi-Chi attacks before my wisps do (SS and an HS rare breed).

The Swarming dead approach seems to work well still.

Comment by Sqqueeky

My commiserations for having to rework the guide, that reminds me of writing WoW addons only to have to rewrite them every patch when Blizz "fixes" things.

But stick with it, this is an absolutely awesome guide! 5/5

2 weeks of perfect trouble-free runs, and anticipating many more, all thanks to this guide. Thank you.

Comment by Pinkiepieisfly

I collect pets but I don't pet battle, so with that in mind, I kept this guide tabbed in this entire week, leveling various pets suggested by it. I realized it'd take too long to level everything that I needed, so I checked the tournament to see what trainers were up that week, so that I could level the pets in priority.

After several days of pet battle dailies, I didn't have enough upgrade stones for everything... so I just did what I could and ran into the tourny regardless, hoping for the best.

I admittedly messed up once immediately upon entering (twice if you include the fact that I forgot stones de-level your pets...oops), but on the second 'official' try, I managed to get through everything (mess ups and all) to actually complete it.

While I'm unsure of which pet to get first (boyfriend's persistent about chi-chi but xu-fu looks amazing), none of it would be possible without stumbling upon this guide \o/

I NEVER intended to do this, ever, simply because I knew that I did not have the pets for it, did not have an idea of what I needed, knew it'd be too time consuming to go off of partial tips given by other people or incomplete strats, and so I just wanted to say thanks because this is a rare occasion when a guide has actually inspired me to do something... and properly, at that.

As I said, I don't do pet battles... I am the type of person that rages if RNG dislikes me and something goes wrong on the dailies.
So the fact that I managed to do this, thanks to your help (and users submitting extra info, even), just made me want to try to explain how much I appreciate it!

So... THANK YOU! You have no idea how grateful I am for this ♥ ~~(and sorry for the wall of text)~~

Comment by vyamont

Wow I dont think ive seen anything quite like this. I mean I searched for many sites containing info on pets and I found it difficult to navigate them without becoming increasingly frustrated with terminology I didn't understand.

I've been using wow head for years and never realized that these kind of guides existed. You've really gone above and beyond to provide not only accurate up to date information but information that you adjust as better strategies become available. I expressly love the way you take other people opinions into consideration its a rare quality in the gaming world.

I hope you continue to provide up to date info as it becomes available because your exceptional at relaying it to us simply and effectively. I started from the first pet and worked my way through your guide Step by step and through the course of this learnt more than i knew even existed in the world of pet battles.

I'm not a gamer by any means so the more info I have the more confident I become Thank you for putting the excitement back into my wow I honestly had thrown my hands up at pet battling and was practically going to ignore it existed till my Son insisted I collect for him.....well one thing led to another and I found your guide.... Congrats....Keep it up...A+++

Comment by Snowy6

Love the guide 5 stars

One thing I have changed on Chen Stormstout on the Anubisath Idol Turn 6: Sandstorm I use Stoneskin instead. Gives me the damage reduction without the problems that the extra miss chance and damage reduction on your attacks that sandstorm gives.

Comment by sixthfore

Thanks so very much for all your time and efforts! A great read.

I would just like to point out that the Kiryn Original Strategy fails for me multiple times on Terrible Turnip. Following the steps exactly, the turnip almost always dies before opponent Fluxfire even dies the first time.

Comment by arpanu

Suggestion:
-against Yu'la the best pet is Mr. Bigglesworth. it can win almost alone, with any pet combination:
-ice tomb cast/ barrier when yu'lo goes up+pass for 1 turn
-pounce or claw the rest.