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Comment by DragonsAfterDark

Coordinates: /way #2133 65.36, 49.61 Delver Mardei

Xu-Fu's Link Team One: https://www.wow-petguide.com/Strategy/18910/Delver_Mardai
Xu-Fu's Link Team Two: https://www.wow-petguide.com/Strategy/18911/Delver_Mardai

~~ Team One ~~

Rematch String

Delver Mardei:683U:122030S:12206L:22102AV:

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change(#2)
change(#1)
ability(Time Bomb:602)
ability(Flame Breath:501)
ability(Armageddon:1025)
ability(Wind-Up:459)
ability(Sweep:457)
ability(Sweep:457)
ability(Bubble:934)
ability(Dive:564)
ability(#1)
change(next)

Steps

Turn 1: Time Bomb
Turn 2: Swap to your Broom
Turn 3: Wind-Up
Turn 4: Sweep
Turn 5: Swap to your TMD
Turn 6: Flame Breath
Turn 7: Time Bomb
Turn 8: Armageddon
Bring in your Broom
Turn 9: Wind-Up
Tempe comes in
Turn 10: Broom
Turn 11: Sweep
Tempe comes in
Turn 12: Broom
Turn 13: Broom
Clean up with the Hermit Crab as needed

~~ Team Two ~~

Rematch String

Delver Mardei::11102KG:121038K:2110A0:

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change(#3)
change(#2)
ability(Geyser:418)
ability(Whirlpool:513)
ability(Wind Buffet:1963)
ability(Sandstorm:453)
ability(Surge of Power:593)
ability(Arcane Storm:589)
ability(#1)
standby
change(next)

Steps

Turn 1: Geyser
Turn 2: Whirlpool
Turn 3: Swap to your Primal Stormling
Turn 4: Wind Buffet
Turn 5: Wild Winds
Swoggy comes in
Turn 6: Sandstorm
Turn 7: Wild Winds
Dustie comes in
Turn 8+: Wild Winds until either Dustie uses Moth Dust or the Primal Stormling dies
Bring in / Swap to your Lil' Tarecgosa
Turn 1: Arcane Storm
Prio 1: Surge of Power when it will kill Dustie
Prio 2: Arcane Blast

Comment by Buuloki

Delver Mardei - Delver Mardei

World Quest: Delver Mardei
Location: /way #2133 65.36, 49.61 Delver Mardei
Pet: Delver Mardei - Swoggy, Tempe, Dustie

Easy Strategy: Use 3 level 1's. One with Flying type abilities, one with Aquatic abilities and one with Magic abilities.

Pet	Abilities	Breed Used
Ikky	Any, Black Claw, Flock	P/S
Snarly	Rip, Surge, Blood in the Water	H/P
Nexus Whelpling	Tail Sweep, Mana Surge, Arcane Storm	P/P

Rematch String

Delver Mardei:683U:11181FS:11275D:222414D:N:Black Claw\n Flock\n Rip\n Blood in the Water\n Surge until you die\n Arcane Storm\n Mana Surge

Black Claw
Flock
Rip
Blood in the Water
Surge until you die
Arcane Storm
Mana Surge

Notes: This trainer performs its abilities in random order. The above ability order may change because of this.

Replacements

Ikky	Snarly	Nexus Whelpling
Foulfeather	Chuck, Muckbreath, Toothy	Stormborne Whelpling

Looking for more strategies, or information on the pets of Embers of Neltharion? Check out our guides - Dragonflight: Embers of Neltharion - Pet Battle Collection Overview & Dragonflight: Zaralek Cavern - Pet Battle World Quest Strategies!

Comment by stevethepotato

i really dont like this trainer and the pets she has. ive come up with some strategies that barely work, but perhaps these will be of help to someone or at least an inspiration ha

dragonkin

phoenix hawk hatchling 2 2 2
chrominius x 1 2
nether faerie dragon 2 2 1

idea was to kill swoggy with flyby and quills asap and then do a flyby on tempe, switch to chrominius and then howl surge combo. afterwards try either to get a howl on dustie and then either moonfire on howl or life exchange and then finish off with nether faerie dragon. very rng dependent

elemental

ashstone core x x 1
broot 2 2 2
singing sunflower 1 1 2

its a long and slow strategy with ashstone core opening with a stun in order to get tempe to the front and afterwards switching between broot and sunflower to keep up their photosynthesis and slowly whittling the enemy team down with sunlight

magic

enchanted pen 1 1 1
legs 2 1 2
blood boil or similar 2 2 1

quills to down swoggy within three turns, then whirlpool pump and if possible, try to save legs to get a surge on dustie. drain blood on blood boil and then magic abilities

beast

silithid hatchling 1 1 2 (thanks to draikoginger, sandstorm was the only strategy that worked for me here)
pygmy camel 2 1 1
flawless amethyst baubleworm 1 1 2 or xu-fu 1 2 2 (any beast that hits hard against flying should work here)

sandstorm and then whittling away with scratch (my first hit missed, didnt need to restart), sandstorm tempe too and then whirlpool and water jet with camel, food coma to make switching to last pet slightly easier

undead

drowned hatchling 1 2 1
sharpclaw 1 1 2
fragment of anger 1 2 1

i restarted if quills didnt down swoggy within three turns. i used haunting song and quills till hatchling died and cleaned up with sharpclaw, and fragment took care of dustie with soulrush

Comment by DraikoGinger

These are the teams I used for Family Brawler (Not a step-by-step guide, just info for what I used to get it it done in the first week of release. If you're seeking a "press X button on round 1" guide, look at other comments and GL).
Sandstorm makes this fight extremely do-able due to the damage reduction, however the 10% miss chance can cause some RNG. Make sure not to let Swoggy or Tempe aoe your team for too long. If you can finish Swoggy before a second Tidal Wave, it helps a ton.

Humanoid:
Ranishu Runt 2/2/1, Gurgl 2/2/1, Void-Scarred Anubisath 2/2/X

Dragonkin:
Bronze Prot-Whelp 2/1/1, Moon-Touched Netherwhelp 2/2/1, Nexus Whelp 2/2/2

Flying: (Awkward order because Butterfly solo'ed first two, and Etherwyrm mostly handled last pet)
Shore Butterfly 2/2/1, Wild Etherwyrm X/1/2, Azure Crane Chick 2/1/2

Undead: (Decent RNG, Was able to setup Unholy Ascension for Dustie, along with Enrage+Soulrush to kill on Frag's death turn to win)
The Quackcestor 2/1/X, Sharpclaw 1/1/2, Fragment of Anger X/2/1

Critter:
Aqir Tunneler 1/2/2, Grubby 1/1/X, Floofa 1/X/X

Magical:
Enchanted Broom 1/1/1, Legs 2/1/2. Empowered Manafiend X/2/1

Elemental: (Wind Buffet'ed as soon as Tempe came out so Rav had enough HP to use Blast then Surge, Dancer 1v1 Tempe after.)
Primal Stormling 2/2/1, Ravenous Prideling 2/X/1, Jademist Dancer 1/2/X

Beast:
Silithid Hatchling 1/1/2, Flat-Tooth Calf 2/X/2, Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen 1/2/X

Aquatic: (Due to requests: https://youtu.be/rf2vo95glC8) (Look for BettySwollocks comment for a friendlier team)
Sandyback Crawler 1/X/2, Bloodseeker 2/2/2, Crimson Octopode 2/2/2

Mechanical: (This one was tough initially. Peck Swoggy down, Food Coma Tempe and swap to Rascal. Rascal should kill Dustie, I did get 1 miss from Lens Flare. Rascal Arma's into Tempe to get Mechafrog out for the pump+charge+pump 1 shot. It killed my Mechafrog but I had chicken in backline still alive.)
Vengeful Chicken 1/X/2, Rascal-Bot 1/1/1, Gilded Mechafrog 2/1/X

Comment by indurdaan

Been sweating on Delver Mardei for aquatic until I came up with this setup. Bit RNG sometimes but 1/5 tries should work.

Chitterspine Skitterling 1/2/2
Magical Crawdad 2/1/2
Slimy Octopode 1/x/2

Use Black Claw then Swarm , Swoggy he dead , your Chitterspine Skitterling is not :)
Use Pinch 3 times. if your Chitterspine Skitterling dies after only 2 hits from Pinch , then forfait and start over.
Bring your Magical Crawdad into play and use Renewing Mists then Surge , if all goes well Tempe he dead.
Use Wish and switch to your Slimy Octopode use Expunge then Ooze Touch
If you had some good rolls damage wise, Dustie shoul be almost dead, but so is your Slimy Octopode :)
No matter, Magical Crawdad to the resqueue, any spell from Dustie will kill your Magical Crawdad, but since Surge always goes first, you can claim total victory.

I know, these pets are not very easy to get, especially Magical Crawdad, but doable, good pets for other battles to come and only setup I could make this work.

Comment by Adriyel

For critter, I had success with Darkmoon Hatchling (1,2,2) / Grubby (x,1,x) / Pistachio (x,2,x)

Comment by Neelaa

For the Undead Battler of Zaralek Caverm part, I decided to take in team:

1st pet: Drowned Hatchling 1/1/1 S/S
2nd pet : Spinebug 2/1/2 S/S
3rd pet: Fragment of Anger 1/1/2 H/P

Starting with the hatchling: 2>3>1, the enemy mascot #1 should die.
Switch with your spinebug: 3>1>1 Both mascots should die.
Switch with the fragment of anger: 3>1>1, the 3rd enemy mascot should die.

Good luck!

Comment by Amberlee

I've been really struggling with flying.

Shore Butterfly is for sure the best start. The problem is the ending...

Try a combo of ALL the etherwyrms for the last two pets. Best abilities against flying.

Wild Etherwyrm
Copperback Etherwyrm
Infused Etherwyrm

And hope you get lucky with RNG...

If you can save surge of power for the last guy, and then use 'Arcane Dash'... that's how I finally got it!

Comment by Amberlee

As a random note, I am SO annoyed by this Praying Stingray that keeps respawning by the pet trainer. Almost every time I zone out of a pet fight I'm in instant combat. Can't AFK and research pet strats without coming back to my ghost. I just want to figure this out without the interruption! /endQQ

Comment by AmadiaHS

Undead -- have tested 5 times and it worked 4 out of 5, so not perfect.

Ziggy 11x Severs 12x Fragment of Anger 121

Shadowmeld
Savage Talon
Savage Talon
(Savage Talon) if you need a third to kill Swoggy, this is where you're at risk of the strat failing, but you could still win.
Savage Talon until dead -- if you can fit in a second Shadowmeld out of luck, do it.
Squeeze
Grasp until dead
Enrage
Soulrush

There is some RNG involved with Dustie and how many times she hits with her Slicing Wind.

Comment by Eumy

I didn't have Squibbles for Xu-Fu's strat, but this worked for me with some more easily obtained pets for MECHANICAL:

Mechanical Cockroach 1, 1, 2
Mechanical Scorpid 2, 1, 1
Copper Hopper S>297 (mine is 299) 1, 1, X

Start with Mechanical Cockroach - Apocalypse
Swap to Mechanical Scorpid - Wind-Up, Blinding Poison, Black Claw, Wind-Up, Black Claw (mechanical scorpid dies)
Bring in Copper Hopper - Water Jet until Copper Hopper dies
Mechanical Cockroach - Warning!, then pass until Apocalypse kills Dustie

Edit: If Tempe does not die when Copper Hopper dies, you will need to Stampede with Mechanical Cockroach and then Warning!. I did this strat several times and there was one instance where Tempe changed its spell rotation which caused the mechanical cockroach to die before Apocalypse hit Dustie, but the majority of the time, the strat wins. You will not be doing the fight forever.

Comment by BettySwollocks

Aquatic:

Chitterspine Skitterling (S/S) X,2,2
Tideskipper 1,X,2
Any Slimy Pet (S,S) 1,X,2

Chitterspine - Black Claw, Swarm
*Swoggy Dies
Black Claw, Swarm
*Chitterspine Dies
Bring in Tideskipper
Geyser, Crush
*Tempe should die here (depends when your chitterspine died)
*Tideskipper dies to one attack
Bring in Slimy Pet
Need to survive one attack - Expunge
Dustie is stunned
Ooze touch and Dustie should die

Comment by Foxpaw0

A Strat for Flying

Shore Butterfly 2/2/1, Wader Chick 1/1/2, Kor'thik Swarmling 2/1/1

Sandstorm
Cocoon Strike
Peck x 2
- Swoggy Dead -

* ( Use Shore Butterfly to bait out Conflagrate, then swap to Wader Chick )

Preen
Pump x 2
- Tempe Dead -

* ( Bait out Moth Dust or Void Nova if able, swap to Swarmling )

Amber Prison
Takedown

( Swarmling usually dies here, but other pets should be high enough HP to finish off Dustie )

* NOTE *
I have had insane RNG with this fight. Sometimes I can solo the whole team with the Shore Butterfly using Sandstorm and Cocoon, if the enemy team misses enough hard-hitting moves. Sometimes they crit on the right moves and wipe out my team before swaps can be made in the correct order. Sometimes Tempe just spams Magma Wave for some reason and does nothing else.

These three had a higher success rate in general than any other flying teams I used. It might also be possible to use a different pet in slot #3 who has a high damage combo or a stun-related combo, but Swarmling worked the best when it wasn't too hurt from backline pet damaging moves.

Good luck. This is an especially tough match.

Comment by Elfella

DOES ANYONE HAVE A VIABLE ELEMENTAL STRAT? I have tried the strats listed here and they epically failed.

Comment by Anistasia

Aquatic:

Thanks for the directions of DraikoGinger and BettySwollocks to get me started on this strategy. There were a couple tricks to my successful win with Aquatic pets, due to the last enemy pet, Dustie, being a flier that hits extremely hard, AND that all the enemy pets doing backline damage to your pets. If you want a chance at winning this fight, finding Aquatic pets that have these characteristics helped me:

1. High Health to survive the backline damage.
2. Your second two pets have Bubble, Dive, and a third attack that isn't (-) to flying enemies.

For this reason, I went with Glimershell Scuttler (1,2,2) in slot 2 because mine had 1627 health and I went with Palamanther (1,2,2) in slot 3 because mine had 1607 health. So, with these thoughts in mind, I was able to win the fight (barely) with this order of attack.

PETS
Sandyback Crawler (1,x,2) (per DraikoGinger's suggestion)
Glimershell Scuttler (1,2,2)
Palamanther (1,2,2)

1. Pinch
2. Pinch
3. Sandstorm
4. Pinch
Swoggy dies and my Sandyback had 911 health at this point.
5. Pinch until Tempe dies. If for some reason, Tempe kills Sandyback, restart the fight.
6. Sandyback dies without casting anything. (But if you can get off another Sandstorm because the RNG gods are in your favor, try.)
7. Bring in Glimmershell. Bubble and Dive, then Pinch as long as possible.
8. Bring in Palamanther. Bubble and Dive, then Water Jet for the win.

There is still a huge amount of RNG to this fight due to Sandstorm (how does a 10% miss chance add up to so much ?), and crits, and that damn Dustie getting 3 hits in instead of 2, but this finally worked for me. Hopefully my description helps you get a win.
Good luck! :)

Comment by Alphasvk

Done it with
Ikky 1,1,1
Emperor Crab 2,1,2
Nexus Whelpling 1,2,2

Comment by Kickbanignore

Mechanical:

I had the biggest problem with the mechanical one and the other strategies didn't work for me, but I finally could do it:
Iron Starlette (H/P), (1, x, 1)
Copper Hopper (B/B), (1, 1, x)
Rascal-Bot (P/B), (1, 1, x)

Swoggy:
With Iron Starlette use 1, 3, 1. Restart if Swoggy is still alive after that.

Tempe:
With Iron Starlette use 1 until Iron Starlette dies.
With Copper Hopper use 2, 1. Tempe should die.

Dustie:
With Copper Hopper use 1 until Copper Hopper dies.
With Rascal-Bot use 2, 1, 1. Dustie should die.

Comment by njpotter90

Critter:

Roggy can solo the first two pets

Roggy 1-2-1
Hungry Burrower 2-1-2 (others will work)
Amethyst Softshell 1-2-1 (others will work)

Crystal Overload > Sandstorm kills Swoggy in 2 rounds
Absorb until you can do it again to Tempe
Apply all 3 DoTs to Dustie and clean up with Ooze Touch

Comment by Sindroome24

Undead:

Drowned Hatchling (1/2/1)
Sharpclaw (1/1/2)
Fragment of Anger (1/x/1)

Comment by SunflowerKat

I used all Level 1's and this was my best strat that worked for me.

Cap'n Crackers - Just spam Alpha Strike and he will take out Swoggy and Tempe
Anomalus - Spam Ooze Touch until it dies. Honestly, 2nd pet can be any Magic pet with any Magical ability
Hateful Eye - Spam Focused Beams then win.

Hope this helps! Happy Battling :)

Comment by Xayrien

I tend to have very few of the pets that get listed in the combos, since I only started pet battling this xpac for the extra daily rep with a contract. As such, for my team setup I used the following and it worked out great:

1. Iron Starlette (1/2/1)
2. E'rnee (1/1/2) (I think just about any Aquatic will work well here though)
3. Emerald Proto Whelp (2/2/2)

First died to Starlette with the usual combo.
Second died from E'rnee after Starlette died.
Final couldn't do anything to Emerald with shield and healing when needed.

Comment by Sweetscot

Big Thank you to Xayrien for mentioning Emerald Proto. I was battling this thing for ages trying to get it. Probably the most foolproof team IMO. Only fails if you get REALLY bad quills RNG.

What worked for me was Brilliant Bloodfeather (1,1,2) Legs (2.1.2), Emerald Proto (2,2,2)

Bloodfeather Hawkeye then quills til Swoggy dies. Use Drain Blood on Tempe then swap to Legs.

Legs whirlpool then Pump twice, Tempe dies. Here RNG plays a big part, if Legs is alive you MIGHT get a Surge off on Dustie.

Legs dies bring out Emerald. Shield then heal! KILL!

Bloodfeather sometimes lives as a backup, all the other pets I used before the proto whelp would die and the bloodfeather would try to kill, I kept getting Dustie down to around 100 health and losing until I just outhealed it.

Comment by Knopul

Stop your frustrations... here is the answer:
After many tries, I finally have a reliable strategy that will work for me and all of you:

Roggy -
Crystal Overload/Sandstorm and Swoggy is Dead.

Roggy -
Absorb against Tempe 4x
Crystal overload right before sandstorm is available
Sandstorm - Tempe is Dead

Switch Pets to Nexus Whelpling

Nexus Whelpling -
Mana Surge and Dustie will be dead

Celebrate the win!

Comment by arcaneintellect

For Undead Battler of Zaralek Caverm

Blighthawk (2,2,1)
Soulbroken Whelpling (1,x,2)
Scourged Whelpling (2,1,x)

This strategy only works if you kill Swoggy in 3 rounds. If not, you have to restart because your back pets take too much damage. As it is sporadic, it usually happened for me about 25% of the time.

Rounds 1-3 Slicing wind - Swoggy dies
Round 4-5 Tempe enters, Lift Off
Using Slicing Wind until your undead round then use Ghostly Bite. Tempe should be dead or almost dead.
Soulbroken Whelping enters: Spiritfire Bolt finishes off Tempe
Spiritfire Bolt until you or Dustie die
Bring in Scourged Whelping to finish off with Call Darkness if needed

Comment by Vaniela

For the level 1 pet strategy I finally had success using the following pets:
1. Shadefeather Hatchling (flying with flying attack)
2. Grubby (critter with aquatic attack)
3. Ruby Baubleworm (beast with magic attack)

Comment by Helionpetmaster

Mechanical

Your Team
Mechanical Cockroach x,1,2
Iron Starlette 1,x,1
Copper Hopper 1,1,2

Commence Battle

Apocalypse
Switch to Starlette and wind up
Supercharge
Wind up (Swoggy dies)
wind up x 2 (usually you die here)
Switch to Hopper and Rebuild
Water Jet
Super Charge
Water Jet (Tempe must die here or reset)
Rebuild
( Many outcomes are possible here, such as Hopper dying but Starlette remains or vice versa, either way, fill with anything but swap back to Roach with 2 turns left if miraculously still in)
Warning then pass til won (winning usually after 'failsafe' kicks in)

This battle plain sucks!

Comment by Arissanna

i had given up on this fight and tried again and won it with 2 anubus idols and chromius. the usual crush , sandstorm , deflect .

Comment by Themyscira

First off, that sting ray thing that attacks when you're trying t o pick a team is a PAIN! Somehow it breaks my Druid's stealth. I go for a coffee and come back to a dead toon. Ugh!

Anyways:

Humanoid:

Harpy Youngling 2,1,2 Start with Fly-by and Lift off, that'll make short work of Swoggy
Crusher 1, 2, 1 Spiny Carapace, Acid Touch if needed and finish with Body Slam. Renew Spiny Carapace when/if able
Slimy Darklhunter 2, 1, 1 Moonfire, Phase shift, Netherblast

Comment by Destiny25

I was able to beat her with Ikky, Sea Pony, and Blood Boil. It's a little bit a luck to win but it works.

Ikky- Any, Black Claw, and Flock
Sea Pony- Water Jet, Surge, and Whirlpool
Blood Boil- Ooze Touch, Expunge, and Drain Blood

Black Claw
Flock - Swoggy should be dead by the second run of flock
Finish Flock on Tempe Ikky will die
Whirlpool
Water Jet
Surge until Pony dies- if numbers let you, you'll get at least one hit of surge on Dustie
Drain Blood
Ooze Touch
Ooze Touch
Expunge
depending on cool downs and how much health you have
Ooze Touch should kill it
if not Drain blood one more time
Ooze Touch

Comment by BurnsLikeIce

Elemental family gave me the most trouble. Most of the other listed strategies worked (eventually), but the Elemental team suggestions just weren't cutting it. Eventually found a strategy that worked. There is still an RNG element, but it worked four out of five times I tested it.

Elemental Team:
Primal Stormling (Slicing Wind, Bash, Sandstorm)
Ravenous Prideling (Blast of Hatred, x, Surge of Power)
Hydrath Droplet (Pump, Whirlpool, x)

Open with Sandstorm, then spam Slicing Wind until Swoggy dies.
Bash Tempe, then switch to Prideling. Dustie enters.
Blast of Hatred, Surge of Power (Dustie may or may not die here.)

If Dustie alive, it will kill your Prideling. Bring in Stormling. Spam Slicing Wind until moth dies.
Continue Slicing Wind until Tempe kills your Stormling.
If Dustie dead, Tempe will kill your Prideling.

Bring in Hydrath Droplet.
Whirlpool, Pump, Pump, Victory.

Comment by KazzakMonk

Every comment for the BEAST achievement involved Silithid Hatchling so here's an alternative strategy I tried myself (involves RNG, but I tried and won twice within 10min):

A) Lurking Owl Kitten (P/S) 2-2-2
B) Backswimmer Timbertooth (B/B) 2-2-X
C) Feline Familiar

<<Start with Lurking Owl Kitten.
(1) Quills
(1) Quills
(1) Quills
(1) Quills = if Swoggy does not die here - reset. My Lurking Owl Kitten faced Tempe with 748hp (anything above 600hp should work).
>>Tempe enters fight
(2) Screech
(1) Quills = Lurking Owl Kitten dies.
<<Bring your Blackswimmer Timbertooth.
(1) Tail Slap. (in my 2nd win I killed Tempe with a crit, in the 1st attempt he dies next turn).
(1) Tail Slap = Tempe Dies.
>>Dustie enters fight
(2) Dive.
<<Bring your Feline Familiar.
(2) Call Darkness = Dustie dies. Might take one more turn to finish her but shouldn't be a problem if you've come this far.

Good luck!

Comment by Boneafide143

Followed Khuon's guide from the Tiny Terrors in Tanaan achievement and went the OG peel and squeal team comprised of Unborn Val'kyr (2-2-1), Ikky (2-1-1), & Emerald Proto-Whelp (2-2-2).

Unborn Val'kyr - Curse of Doom
Unborn Val'kyr - Haunt

Ikky - Black Claw
Ikky - Flock
Ikky - Quills

Emerald Proto-Whelp - Emerald Dream
Emerald Proto-Whelp - Emerald Presence
Emerald Proto-Whelp - Emerald Bite
Keep Emerald Presence buff up and use Emerald Dream on cooldown.

Killed it first go, had no issues :D Best of luck!

Comment by godnoble

Undead team:

Blighthawk 221
Severs 122
Fragment of Anger 1x2

Blighthawk fights Swoggy with Slicing Wind until it gets the Pump buff. The next round (start of the 4th), use Lift-Off.
Continue with Slicing Wind until KOed. In the undeath round, use Ghostly Bite.

Severs uses Squeeze if the current enemy has more HP than Grasp will deal. Fight mostly with Grasp. In the undeath round, use Bash.

FoA uses Spirit Spikes right away against Dustie. Pray Dustie hits 3 times with Slicing Wind. Finish with Spiritfire Bolt.

Comment by lazypupper

Critter Strat
Roggy (1/2/1)
Floofa (2/2/X0
Archetype of Vigilance (1/X/2)

Crystal Overload
Sandstorm
Absorb x4
Ctystal overload
Sandstorm
Absorb until you die

Moon tears
Spitfire bolt until you die

Spirit Spikes
Ooze touch for the win

RNG Mechanical Strat
Iron Starlett (1/1/1)
Darkmoon Tonk (1/1/2)
Sunreaver Micro-Sentry (1/X/2)

Windup > Supercharge > Windup (swoggy dies)
Switch in Darkmoon tonk
Shock & Awe - If you don't stun Tempe restart :(
Switch in Sunreaver Micro Sentry
Supercharge > laser until Dusty dies
If Dusty kills Sunreaver swap in darkmoon tonk & ion cannon
If Darkmoon tonk survives you can shock and awe again
Wind up > Supercharge > Wind Up

Not gonna lie, this is not pretty, and I used a lot of bandages for this one but maybe if you don't have a Rascal-Bot this or a Mechanical Cockroach this can help (Since I didn't play BFA really & I don't have an engi)

Comment by Vanthalas

Okay... after trying for a few hours to no avail with my huge pet collection a way to complete the aquatic team achievement, I came here to check out if people actually found a way to do this with as little RNG as possible. Tried all the strats here and they didn't even come close to work, so here's what I did:

The way I made this work on my first try was to simply find a way to stop the first pet to spam tidal wave. The only way, which I found to be the best way, was using a frog kiss team. It still relies a bit on RNG but at least its the easiest kind of RNG that I found.

- Fleeting Frog 1 2 1 (above 299 speed)
- BogHopper 2 2 2 (same)
- Violet Abyssal Eel 1 1 2

It's pretty much self explanatory. With a little luck, you should be able to kill 2 pets with the first frog. If not, the 2nd frog should be able to take care of the elemental without taking damage. When you bring the Eel, ideally you should pop Whirlpool before life exchange if the bird's health is still too high.

Let me know what you folks think.

Comment by Azurami

Mechanical battler of Zaralek Cavern

Iron Starlette (1, 1, 2)
Motorized Croaker (1, 1, 2)
Microbot XD (x, 2, 2)

Start with Iron Starlette
1. Wind-up
2. Powerball (important to do it between the 2 wind-up for speed buff)
3. Wind-up
4. Explode
both pet dies, bring in Motorized Croaker
5. Supercharge
6. Water jet (if it crit go to next step, if it didn't crit one more water jet)
7. Explode
both pet dies, bring in Microbot XD
8. Supercharge
9. Ion Cannon

I got lucky and unlucky at the same time, her second pet critted on my Croaker and almost one shot it, but I got a crit too so I won in the end.
I have tried maaaany many different teams and nothing worked, it is still rng but I got it after at 2nd try ^^ Good luck!

Comment by FallenMissiah

For Flying Battler of Zaralek Cavern
I had trouble completing this one, I didn't have/had not leveled all the pets for the other strats on here so combined the pets to come up with my own team.

Please note this is somewhat RNG dependant and was ultimtately successful with zero crits from enemy team and 1 or to crits from mine - even so I have trialled this a handful of times and it seems mostly solid as a strat. Good luck!

Team
Ikky x, 1, 1
Azure Crane Chick 2, 1, 2
Wild Etherwyrm 2, x, 2

Start with Ikky
Black Claw
Flock
Swoggy dies.
Tempe comes in and Flock continues
Ikky dies (if not keep attacking with Ikky until dead)
Choose Azure Crane Chick
Cleansing rain
Surge 2-3 times until Tempe dies.
Dustie comes in
Continue surging until Azure Crane Chick dies
If Dustie's health is <1K hp (it should be), Surge of Power
If >1K hp Blinkstrike first then Surge of Power.

Comment by minoter

Another mechanical strat. Unless they crit, its a one shot.

Iron starlet (1x1)
motorized croaker (112)
son of animus (112)

iron startlet: wind up, supercharge, wind up - swoggy dead
Motorized croaker: supercharge, water jet, explode - tempe dead and croaker dead
son of animus: siphon anima, interrupting jolt, metal fist - dead
iron starlet: wind up, wind up - win

Some RNG, but not much. managed to do it three time in a row with some minor variation in the moves used by the last 2 pets and still won.

Comment by Sydaris

I might have gotten lucky, but I was successful on the first try with:

Ikky 1,1,1
Mirror Strider 1,2,2
Nether Faerie Dragon 2,2,1

Black claw
Flock (Swoggy dies), one last flock hit Tempe for 300ish
Cleansing rain on CD and pump (critted here once and that killed Tempe)
Life Exchange (this was HUGE with Dustie - negated a lot of the damage taken along the way), moonfire, arcane blast

Hope it works for some of you. ;-) This trainer is TOUGH....

Comment by Cybrosaen

For beast, I didn't have the silithid hatchling available to use or some of the alternate strat pets listed here so I used:

Beast:
1) Craghoof Kid (1/1/2)
2) Moon Moon (1/2/1)
3) Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen (1/2/X)

I started with Craghood kid's Stampede, it ends in time to kick swoggy to stop the 2nd pump cast, and then stampede again to finish off Swoggy and then break Tempe's defenses.
Depending on RNG, you may be able to finish off Tempe with Craghoof kid as well (I did)
I used Moon Moon next and did Moon Tears (made sure to have the weather be moonlight for Xu-Fu)---> Moon Fang until dead)
When Moon Moon died, I used Xu-Fu's Moonfire and then just spirit claws untile Dustie at that point.

This strat did take some RNG but I was able to win 2 times in 15 minutes and it worked for the pets I did have available to me so wanted to share if someone else comes here looking for alternate Beast Battler Strats. :)

Comment by Terrh

Not saying this is the best, or optimal, but worked for me:

Iron starlette, mini mindslayer, chrominus. Beat them first try.

Comment by Cybrosaen

I had none of the elemental pet teams listed here so I messed around and found one (takes a lot of RNG but on the time I won, I didn't even use PWS)

Elemental:
1) Living Sandling (2/2/2)
2) Pandaren Water Spirit (2/2/1)
3) Kirin Tor Familiar (1/1/1)

Same issue for mechanical so I used this team with some of the suggestions here and managed to one shot it the first time (could be RNG but worth a try)
Mechanical:
1) Iron Starlette (1/X/1)
2) Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling (1/2/2)
3) Sunreaver Micro-Sntry (1/1/2)

Comment by mazejaker

Really fun gameplay facing pets that have higher speed, attack and health stats all the time :)

Comment by Apollomantis

IDk why I even tried this, all she does is spams AoE's which hit harder than they should because its completely unbalanced, and I just don't have the time nor care to sit down and grind all the pets to be able to counter all of these dumb pets these trainers have.

Comment by clfish

I used Ikky (1,1,1), Emerald Proto-Drake (2,2,2), X

Come out with Ikky
Black Claw
Flock
Savage Talon
Flock......Ikky DIes

Bring out Whelp
Emerald Presence
Emerald Dream
Emerald Presence
Emerald Bite
Emerald Presence
Emerald Dream
Rinse and Repeat.......

Comment by Cleeve

Humanoid Battler of Zaralek Cavern

Did it with Anubisath Idol (1/1/2), Qiraji Guardling (1/2/1) and Winter's Little Helper (2/1/2). Needs some luck.

Comment by Moin

Aquatic Battler of Zaralek Cavern

The team is stolen from a post above. Thanks and sorry.
I just tweaked the breeds and moves a bit to hopefully raise the chances.

Chitterspine Skitterling (122) P/S (to be slightly faster than Swoggy)
Magical Crawdad (212)
Slimy Otter (122) H/S

Example fight:

Black Claw
Swarm
"
". Kills Swoggy
Pinch
Pinch
Pinch. This is the most tricky point:
Ideally your pet does this attack, Tempe survives with low health and kills your pet
Your pet may have been killed the turn before. Then use Surge and beg for luck
Your pet may survive this turn. Then just pass and let it die. Do not kill Tempe!
Your pet may kill Tempe. Unlucky! Try to go on, but your chances are low
Wish
swap to Slimy Otter. It gets healed.
Sewage Eruption
Ooze Touch kills Tempe
Expunge
Ooze Touch
Otter died
Surge kills Dustie because it is first

You still need a lot of luck.

Comment by Hortenza

I had Roggy, nexus whelpling and mountain skunk.
1) roggy: crystal overload/sandsorm, switch to skunk
2) skunk: bleak/perk up, switch to roggy
3) roggy: crystal overload/sandstorm/ooze touch switch to whelpling
4) whelpling: mana surge.

All enemies dead, all my pets alive, but slightly hurt.

Can use absorb instead of ooze touch, I just had another spell when I started, but it worked on first try, so all good. I'm afraid that my whelpling would have died unless skunk is used for healing and buffing all... Didn't try without skunk.

Comment by LoboMDQ

There is a bug that does not allow your other 2 mechanical pets to activate their passive, at least against this boss.

Comment by Kareboo

If you are using level 1 pets, the moth is still super strong but its the last one in the lineup. An Everbloom Peachick can solo the first 2 pets. Use 2 Magic based flying killers for your last 2 slots. You don't want to use one with round cooldowns. Wisps work.

Comment by Anjahpanjah

Delver Mardei is at coordinates: /way 65.36, 49.61
Delver Mardei is, in my opinion, the most troublesome Expert Pet Trainer in Zaralek cavern. There are tons of RNG involed, so prepare a lot of patience and a lot of pet bandages!
Delver Mardeis pets are: Swoggy, Tempe and Dustie.
Bevare of the Praying Stingray that circles the area. I've been killed a dozen of times when I leave the screen to figuere out my next strategy.

For the acheivement Family Battler of Zaralek Cavern, theese were my strats:

HUMANOID
Anubisath Idol 1,1,2
Winters Little Helper 2,1,2
Winters Little Helper 2,1,2
If RNG is willing, Anubisath may solo Swoggy and Tempe. My Winters Little Helpers were of green quality, and still managed to pull off the rest.

DRAGONKIN
Wild Golden Hatchling 1,1,2
Stormborn Whelpling 1,1,1
Chrominius 2,2,2
If RNG is willing, Wild Golden Hatchling will help out a bit on Tempe aswell. Avoid using Stormborne Whelplings Call Lightning more than once, and save Chrominius Surge of Power for the end.

FLYING
Rock Martin 1,1,1
Northern Hawk Owl 1,1,1
Sea Gull 1,1,2
You absolutely need to try the Rock Martin! With the Rock Martin and the Northern Hawk Owl, this was an easy win! I think you can replace the Sea Gull with whatever else.

UNDEAD
Son of Sethe 2,2,2
Risen Saber Kitten 2,2,1
Fragment of Desire 1,2,1
Use Son of Sethes Plagued Blood and Touch of the Animus on Tempe aswell. It helps you to stay alive a little longer.

CRITTER
Lovebird Hatchling 2,1,2
Rapana Whelk 1,1,1
Rapana Whelk 1,1,1
With the Lovebird Hatchling, use Lovestruck, then Predatory Strike. Use this pattern each time you face Swoggy.

MAGIC
Anomalus 2,2,1
Nordrassil Wisp 2,1,2
Lost Quill 2,2,2
Start with Anomalus' Void Nova and use it as often as possible. My Nordrassil Wisp and Lost Quill were both of green quality, They still managed to pull off this fight :)

ELEMENTAL
Echo of the Heights 1,2,1
Raw Emotion 1,2,1
Blazenhound 2,2,1
Use Echo of the Heights as far into Tempe as you can. Push in an extra Sandstorm if possible, and go for Raw Emotions speed reduction spell after. This way, I didn't even get to use Blazehound!

BEAST
Craghoof Kid 1,1,2
Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen 1,2,1
Thaumaturgical Piglet 2,2,2
I needed 4 tries to get this to work. Craghoof Kid needs to take Tempe aaaalmost down. Then Xu-Fu can finish him with Vengeance, and maybe save some Moonfire for Dustie. Piglet cleans up the rest.

AQUATIC
Sandyback Crawler 1,x,2
Garden Frog 1,2,1
Glimmershell Scuttler 1,2,2
RNG! Sandyback Crawler should kill both Swoggy and Tempe. If the Garden Frog gets in a succesfull Frog kiss on Dustie, you should be good! Totally unrealiable, I know, but It can be done :)

MECHANICAL
Iron Starlette 1,1,1
Copper Hopper 1,1,x
Rascal-Bot 1,1,x
I've got this strategy from another writer in this thread. I've yet to find a better team. I was ready to throw it away, but then I managed to get the fight done on my 7th try.
If Iron Starlette can manage to get Tempe down to around 210 HP, using some powerballs, you should be good too.

The best of luck to you all! Hope this was helpfull to some.
Remember, all the fights has a lot of RNG to them. If you don't get it right on first try, please try again.

Comment by Adelline

This Elemental team worked for me on the first try and was consistent through multiple repeats. Only RNG should be from Sandstorm.

Primal Stormling 1 x 1
Pandaren Water Spirit 1 2 1
Ravenous Prideling 2 x 2

1. Sandstorm
2. Wild Winds
3. Wild Winds - Swoggy dies
4. Swap to Pandaren Water Spirit
5. Whirlpool
6. Dive
7. Dive goes off
8. Water Jet - Tempe dies
9. Pass - Pandaren Water Spirit dies
10. Life Exchange
11. Blast of Hatred
12. Blast of Hatred

Drafty/Echo of the Heights should work as substitutes for the Stormling, and other pets with Sandstorm and a relatively hard-hitting attack (ex. Stone Rush) could potentially work as well.

Comment by rlidgiu

Mechanical team:

Feathers (1,x,2)
Rascal-Bot (1,2,1)
Spraybot 0D (1,x,2)

Use Feathered Frenzy then Savage Talon x2. Restart if Swoggy is still alive after this.

Tempe enters. Switch to Rascal-Bot. Use Amber Prison then Phaser. Restart if Tempe sends Rascal-Bot into failsafe.

Phaser until Duster <309 HP then Armageddon. Restart if Duster suffers less than 2 Phaser hits total or if Moth Dust sends you to sleep. Send in Spraybot 0D after Rascal-Bot dies. Flame Jet then spam Water Jet until Spraybot 0D dies. Bring in Feathers if needed and use Feathered Frenzy then spam Savage Talon.

Comment by Moin

Beast Battler of Zaralek Cavern

Sunglow Cobra (222)
Feline Familiar (122)
any level 25 beast

Comment by ColdbringerGN

Yeah, I did the Mechanical challenge of this, and it really, really sucked.

Iron Starlette (1, 1, 1).
Lifelike Toad (1, x, x).
Runeforged Servitor (1, 2, 2).

Iron Starlette kills Swoggy with one windup/supercharge combo every time. Restart if Swoggy gets a critical strike on you.

Windup/Supercharge again on Tempe. Restart if Tempe opens up with Conflagrate. He must start with Heat Up or Magma Wave for you to have a chance. Use Powerball as needed between windups/supercharges if Tempe doesn't have Heat Up active. Otherwise, skip turns and hit Tempe only wind Windup/Supercharge.

If you get VERY good RNG, you can kill Tempe with the Starlette as well. Otherwise, try to get one windup/supercharge in on Tempe and then finish him off with the Likelike Toad.

Dustie dies to one Supercharge/Call Lightning combo+1 final Jolt from your Runeforged Servitor.

Overall, this encounter sucks and is highly RNG dependent for you to win with Mechanical pets.

Comment by Valkyry123

Dragonkin
This fight is RNG in the sense that sometimes your pets will die at different stages BUT you will always win. it has not failed me. just need to use brain and adapt. sometimes my Dark Whelp would 2 shot Swoggy sometimes it didnt. Sometimes Chromie wasnt even needed. sometimes my Nether Faerie was already really low.

Dark Nether Whelps
Against Swoggy
Fly by
Call Darkness
is dead? yes? x3 shadowflame Tempe. if not add 1x shadowflame to Swoggy

Against Tempe
Shadowflame x 3 ( or 1x shadowflame 1x fly by if you needed 1x shadowflame to finish Swoggy ) should be almost dead, but you die here.

Nether Faerie
2x arcane blast Tempe dies ( or lifeswap earlier if needed depends on RNG )
Life swap and then Moonfire

Chromie
Howl
Surge

Comment by Moin

Critter Battler of Zaralek Cavern

Comment by Nillanu

If you're just after a daily completion, you can use lvl 1 pets.

I chose: Larion Cub, Pilot and Brightpaw. This worked well for me, might be a little RNG/luck with the elemental pet. GL!

Comment by Shenhua

Undead strategy:

-Cursed Birman (2,1,2)
-Ghastly Rat (2,1,2)
-Fragment of Suffering (2,2,2)

Start with Cursed Birman: Prowl > Spirit Claws > Call Darkness ---> Swoggy dies
Switch to Ghastly rat: Ghostly bite
Switch to Cursed Birman: Prowl > Spirit Claws ---> Tempe dies
Switch to Ghastly rat: Ghostly bite
Fragment of Suffering to finish: Soulrush > Spirit Bolt ---> Dustie dies.

There is a bit of RNG due to crit /miss, but I could win the battle several times with this strategy. Hope it helps!

Comment by Rhue

You can get this done with any of this:

pet #1 Ikky 1,2,2 (or foulfeather 2,2,1 - or even crow 2,2,2)
pet #2: nexus whelpling 1,2,2
pet #3: stormborne whelpling 1,2,2 (or another nexus whelpling 1,2,2)

Comment by Moin

Dragonkin Battler of Zaralek Cavern

Yu'la, Broodling of Yu'lon (111)
Dream Whelpling (112)
any level 25 dragonkin pet

You will need some luck

Comment by Moin

Dragonkin Battler of Zaralek Cavern

You will need some luck

Comment by Moin

Elemental Battler of Zaralek Cavern

Sandkeep (121)
Ruby Droplet (112)
Sinheart (121)

You will need some luck.

Comment by Moin

Flying Battler of Zaralek Cavern

Ikky (211)
Wader Chick (112)
Wild Etherwyrm (212)

You will need some luck.

Comment by Eboniitti

For aquatic I had the following team:

Sandyback Crawler (S/S) 1/X/2
Tideskipper 1/X/2
Slimy Hermit 1/1/2

1. Sandyback => pinch x3 => sandstorm => first pet dies
2. Sandyback is still alive => pinch until you can kill Tempe with Sandstorm
3. Sandyback is still alive during third pet => do as much of damage as possible => Tideskipper => Geyser => do as much of damage => Tideskipper dies
4. Bring Slimy Hermit => dodge => expunge => Dustie is stunned => one shot with Ooze Touch => WIN

Comment by Nerkella

Beast Strategy:

Amethyst Spiderling (H/S: 1382 Health) 1, 2, 2
(Against Swoggy)
Brittle Webbing
Spiderling Swarm
Strike
Strike
(Against Tempe)
Brittle Webbing
Spiderling Swarm

Crystalline Broodling (H/H:1562 Health)2, 2, 2
Brittle Webbing
(Against Dustie)
Brittle Webbing
Spiderling Swarm

Leyline Broodling (H/B: 1384 Health) 2, 2, 2
Spiderling Swarm
Skitter

After failing at ALL of the other suggestions for BEAST I randomly started attacking with every pet I had available.
I found spiders with Brittle Webbing and Spiderling Swarm. Of these spiders in my arsenal, I used the three that had the highest health.
I apologize for the messy post. I wanted to share for other desperate people! Good luck everyone!

Comment by Spikedette

For Aquatic pet battler:
Wild Duckling 2/2/2
Emperor Crab 2/2/2
Abyssal Slitherling 2/1/2

It took SO MANY tries to get it. Ideally what you want to have happen is this:
Flock > Surge *Swoggy dies*
Dive > Surge (maybe one more Surge) *Tempe dies same round as Duckling*
Whirlpool > Surge > Surge *Crab dies*
Squeeze > Water jet *YOU WIN WITH 10 HEALTH*

If literally any big time crits happen, this messes up the chance of you having enough health between your crab and slitherling to survive Dustie. The first two pets I took down consistently with JUST the duckling, it's only Dustie that wipes my team. I hope this helps someone else who sat there frustrated and angry.

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