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Comment by Corehoundhunter

Like no one ever was!

Comment by Ravenfall7

Isn't this the same as What We've Been Training For just with 5 pets instead of 10?

Comment by tbone844

who gives said quest?

Comment by LSavage

As with most Pet Battle related quests this can only be completed once on your account per event.

Comment by Zapph

Edit: This quest is now deprecated and no longer available, the new Legion version is The Very Best.

This quest is only available to be picked up and completed during the weekend Pet battle bonus event from Seer Kazal next to your Garrison town hall or from your Adventurer Journal, and can be completed once per weekend bonus event per account, as it not completable on multiple characters.

A buff Sign of the Critter granting triple xp from all pet battles will be visible on your character when the event is active and the quest will be removed from your quest log once the event is finished so make sure you finish it before 11pm on Monday.

You can queue for pvp pet battles by clicking the "find battle" button in the bottom right of the pet collection interface. Make sure you have 3 decent level 25 pets as you do have to win 5 battles.

Some tips for the quest:

You can pick up the quest What We've Been Training For at the same time as doing this quest, you'll get half the progress for this quest doing this one, it also gives a guaranteed Pet Treat to help with your pet levelling that's also available this week. Bustaalakir's comment also gives a few good, workable strategies if you're having trouble devising your own winning strategies.
You also get some credit for Deadly Pet Brawler whilst doing this quest... which is nice.
Since you can get this quest on a character that isn't level 100 and pvp pet battles give a fair amount of xp, it might be worth doing this quest on a lower level alt for the extra xp.

Rewards an Ultimate Battle-Training Stone which can be used once to boost any of your pets to level 25 on use, a useful tool for instantly levelling new low level pets you want to use.

Comment by Karadine

Pair this quest with What We've Been Training For (from pet trainers in Stormwind, Orgrimmar, and faction city in Pandaria) to earn credit for both while doing PVP pet battles.

The quest reward from What We've Been Training For is especially nice during the Pet Battle event because you'll find a Pet Treat inside which stacks with the Sign of the Critter, your Safari Hat, and Lesser Pet Treat.

Comment by Cupcakee

So if you have attempted this then chances are you have had a lot of difficulty and been struggling with it. At least I have. Then I ran across a player that worked my pets over like punching bags and decided to run it with a substitution. It has been extremely successful for me. Here are a few variations:

Original Team:

Unborn Val'kyr 2/2/1
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling 1/2/2
Darkmoon Zeppelin 1/1/2

The player basically came at me with Curse of Doom, then Haunt. That gave them a free switch to the Dragonling for Thunderbolt to do excellent aoe to my back-line pets. It's extremely fast too so they simply used Decoy and then Breath to finish off another pet. By this time CoD went off with Haunt and it killed my other pet. It's a nasty hit. Same goes for Zeppelin. It isn't as fast as the Dragonling but it has the bombing run, plus the block from Decoy. Interesting to note, the Dragonling is actually a great counter for the Zeppelin if you come up against it because Thunderbolt does extra damage against the Zepp.

My Team: (I have yet to lose with this team. Had a couple scary situations but play smart and you'll be fine)

Unborn Val'kyr 2/2/1
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling 1/2/2
Clockwork Gnome 1/1/1

My beginning is usually the same with the CoD and Haunt. Obviously if their first pet counters undead, don't start with her. Then depending on what they bring out I'll go for the Gnome or Dragonling. The Gnome's turrets are strong and if you're up against a tanky pet that puts out weaker damage you may actually have time to heal up. I was able to get off a full repair against a Son of Sethe. The Gnome is also surprisingly fast. Same strat of using the Dragonling to spread the aoe and Decoy.

Third Variation:

Unborn Val'kyr 2/2/1
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling 1/2/2
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling 1/2/2

I have not tested this one myself but thought of it as I was writing this up and thought it might be a possibility. It would provide excellent aoe damage and give the blocking abilities. Even though Decoy has a long cd, Breath is a very heavy hitter and both Dragonlings would provide a lot of speed.

Hope this works for you!

Comment by skyline33

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Comment by zharshoul

If people are wondering, the completion text is basically ripped right out of the original pokemon anime theme song.

copied and pasted off bulbapedia

I want to be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause

Ooh-ooh-ooh!

I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Teach Pokémon to understand
The power that's inside
(Power inside)

Pokémon... It's you and me
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
Ooh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Pokémon!
A heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Po-ké-mon
(Gotta catch 'em)
Gotta catch 'em
Gotta catch 'em all

Ev'ry challenge along the way
With courage I will face
I will battle ev'ry day
To claim my rightful place

Come with me, the time is right
There's no better team, yeah!
Arm in arm we'll win the fight
It's always been our dream
(It's always been our dream)

Pokémon... It's you and me
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
Ooh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Pokémon... A heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Po-ké-mon
(Gotta catch 'em)
Gotta catch 'em
Pokémon!

Pokémon... It's you and me
I know it's my destiny
Pokémon, ooh you're my best friend
In the world we must defend
Pokémon... A heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Po-ké-mon
(Gotta catch 'em)
Gotta catch 'em
Gotta Catch 'em all!
Pokémon!

I still play pokemon not nearly as much as I did the first 3 gens, I did catch them all.. all i got was a lousy diploma the first time around.

Comment by Aliandrin

If you have an equal win-loss ratio in PvP, with the event buff, you'll be able to get a level 1 to level 25 more quickly by leveling in the wild, assuming 30-second to 1-minute ques.

Comment by Tarika

This time around I was able to complete this quest twice somehow. Not sure whether it's a bug or intended, but I was online when it popped up at midnight (tuesday->wednesday), it was few hours left before weekly reset (en EU realm). I instantly took it and completed within a few minutes before going to sleep. Next day after the reset this quest was up again. Finished it second time on different toon (not even sure whether it was available on the same one), got second 25lvl stone.

Update: confirmed it on next petbattle event. It's possible to complete those quests, as well as any other event "weekly", if you hurry up and do so before weekly server reset. One important thing about petbattle event is that you need to have at least one other char to pick this quest up on the next day (it's not available on the same toon from whom you completed it before reset during the same event). This might get fixed sooner or later.

Comment by D34thsEyEs

My most favorite event quest, as this is now the only way for me to earn the Ultimate Battle-Training Stone. Usually I discover people using Undead pets (even this damn pet Graves!), so I used speedy Critters to bring them down in a huff.

The Iron Starlette somehow proved quite useful thanks to the Wind Up-Supercharge-Wind Up combo, because it may have a guarantee to deal a OHK*!

*The One-Hit-Knockout may not work in certain occasions or may not do so on high health pets (or Elemental and Magic pets for that matter) so don't expect too much OHK's from this combo!

Comment by ender111

Good lord... why is this quest account bound? The L25 training stones are not so powerful the quest should only be completed account bound. I'd be satisfied with it being 10 battles and non-account bound... after all, all the other weekly quests to complete x dungeons or mythics or whatever take longer than the 20 minutes it takes me to complete this quest.

Comment by likwidd

Is there any reason why this one doesn't give valour? Totally did it today expecting to get some, and was disappointed :P

Comment by tobindax

I hope a forfeit "wins" the battle for another because Blizzard's design is abysmal lately. The Graves pet which is only available if you are forced to play another game you may hate, is broken. It's virtually impossible to win against it on a regular team.

Comment by Ghouls

I wanna be the very best!
Like no one ever was!
To catch them is my real test!
To level them is my cause!

I will travel across Azeroth!
Searching far and wide!
Teach Battle Pets to understand!
The power that's inside!

Comment by tooltip

Since Warlords of Draenor has concluded, this quest is no longer available. For the Legion version, see The Very Best.

As of this post, the quest ID has not yet been populated on Wowhead's end. It's still correct, however.

Comment by Dendre

This quest is now given by Archmage Timear in Dalaran, near the Violet Hold.

Comment by Leilameda

The quest is bugged and gets removed from your questlog when I log to a char below level 100. You'll I loose the progress and the quests gets remove from your questlog!

Comment by marblesz

As of the release of the expansion "Legion" things have changed for this quest. I was told it is under a different ID but until that one shows up I might as well post it here.

This quest can be acquired in Dalaran (Broken Isles) outside the Violet Hold or by opening the Dungeon journal and looking for a "Start Quest" button relating to the event.

Unlike WoD's version this can be completed multiple times per account. It appears to be that you accept it on one character and complete it and can turn it in and rinse and repeat. However I have a nice method to make it more "tidy":

Character 1: Accept quest, complete quest, turn it in -> +1 Lvl25 Stone.
Character 2: Accept quest, complete quest, LOG ONTO Character #1, turn it in -> +1 Lvl25 Stone.

Rinse and repeat = all the stones will be on your Character #1 (doesn't stack sadly) and not spread out, unless of course you use them right away!

Comment by antoniop23

I'm sharing a post that I had put up for aid with the 'No Time To Heal' achievement. It's not the most aggressive tactic but it does seem suitable to use when going up against nearly any combination the enemy team may have.

I had a concept that would win this achievement which I've finally got to put into practice and, although it can be time consuming, it works very well.

'Kill 'em with kindness!' This trick is to use a team that can keep up recursion of full health while keeping the environmental effect Sunlight active (as you kinda don't want that to wear off or the double-sized health pool that you've accumulated will be lost.) Sunlight also does a bit of damage to the entire enemy team so (if the opponent doesn't forfeit first) you will start knocking out one, two, or even all three of their pets.

The team that finally won me this achievement was three Singing Sunflowers (2/1/2.) There's no set-in-stone rotation to use as your opponent may change the environment (in which case you'd want to get Sunlight back up right away) or they may throw other curves balls into the mix.

The main thing is keeping up Sunlight anytime before it expires and simply rotating in one Singing Sunflower, casting Photosynthesis, then pet swap in the next Singing Sunflower for it to cast Photosynthesis, and so on.

I suggest not worrying about using Solar Beam - there's a time for a well placed (and quite surprising to your opponent that's only seen you use Sunlight and Photosynthesis up until that point) ~831 damage - assuming Sunlight is active when you work in that Solar Beam blast. The two-rounds that it takes to recover from using Solar Blast shouldn't be a problem if you have your Photosynthesis up and had the full or near-full 2564 health before blasting.

As with any pet battle team, this isn't a guaranteed win. It does take patience but it's always funny to see your opponent finally forfeit in frustration of your impenetrable wall of smiling flowers!

Comment by ender111

Currently, this quest is bugged. If you pick up the quest on one toon, you must play the entire way through. As in, you have to win five battles in a row. If I switched toons, my new toon wouldn't be able to see the quest in their quest log, and when I logged back onto the original toon, the quest wasn't there, despite already having made progress. But I could pick up the quest again from the quest giver, and my progress would be reset as well.

So if you pick up this quest, just get the five wins and turn it in. If anyone has any other experience, or if you're able to "crack the code" and figure out how to get it to not bug, please comment.

Comment by pat33

IDKW this can't be done on alts because I can lvl 0 to 25 in 5 fights in PVE.

Comment by BullDozzer

In Battle for Azeroth, this quest is succeeded by The Very Best and is retrievable in your dungeon journal (Shift+J by default), Chronicler Toopa for Alliance or Chronicler Shoopa for Horde.

Comment by jjanchan

If trying to complete this on a toon that has not completed the introductory quests to Battle for Azeroth, you will be phased and unable to do so until those quests have been completed.

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The Very Best

Defeat 5 players through Find Battle with a team of level 25 pets.

	Win PvP Pet Battles (5)

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This alignment of the stars is truly a strange one, causing the tiniest of creatures to gain unnatural aptitude. None of our sages can explain the phenomenon, but cunning tamers have much to gain, especially by testing their skills against those of their peers.