Those who enjoy collecting pets in World of Warcraft may want to get involved in Pet Battles, a feature that introduces Pokémon-style battles to the long-running MMORPG. Battle Pets has been around since WoW: Cataclysm and only increased with each expansion launch. With so many pets, it can be difficult to build a composition or find an animal you love. This guide will help you choose the best fighting animals for your type of play.
Idol of Anubisath
Image via Blizzard EntertainmentPerhaps the best combat pet in PvE counters, and one of the easiest to use for beginners, Idol is fairly easy to farm as it drops from Ahn'Qiraj (AQ) and is relatively inexpensive. in the auction room. When you get the Anubisath Idol it helps a lot with the tanky options for your team. It has reliable damage, removes damaging weather effects with Sandstorm, and counteracts powerful attacks with Deflection, and it's also a great pet to easily upgrade your other battle pets in the open world. The only downside is that the Anubisath is a bit too easy and boring. If you want a more fun and engaging pet, take a look at the Emerald Proto-Drake below.
Tonk by Sombrelune
Darkmoon Tonk is a familiar for players who often line up for PvP. It's not an incredibly exciting fighting animal, but it's a great counter for beast comps. Using the Shock and Awe combo followed by the Ion Cannon is enough to take out any beast, meaning it's a great against the likes of the Zandalari Anklerender.
Emerald Proto-Whelp
The Emerald Prototype Whelp is one of the most tank combat animals available and is useful for battle pet trainers, battle pet dungeons, and Battle Pet World quests. The Emerald Proto-Whelp has tons of healing or damage reduction abilities available to choose from in the second and third ability slots. The first slot also offers reliable, strong, and weak damage options against different types of combat pets. Owners of the Emerald Proto-Whelp have the choice of selecting the best ability before embarking on PvE encounters.
Gilnean raven
The Gilnean Raven is a flying-type combat familiar that is at the heart of any PvP dark composition. Darkness is a type of weather that makes spells harder to land. Some spells work well with darkness as they are guaranteed to land when darkness is activated. The Gilnean Raven has both the Dark Call and Night Strike abilities.
The Raven will start the fight with Darkness followed by Nocturnal Strike for a guaranteed big hit. He has a faster speed than most other pets, as long as he stays above 50% health. The speed advantage comes from the passive of all flying combat pets and means it should remove the above combo with no damage reduction or weather canceling effect. You can fill the list with any other familiar you want, as long as they have abilities that benefit from the darkness.
Iron Starlette
The Iron Starlettte is a mechanical combat pet that is all about damage boosting, making it a great choice for PvE and PvP battles. The starting ability is Wind-Up, which spends one turn increasing damage by 10%, the next launching a powerful attack. Alternatively, the player can skip an extra turn using Supercharge, which increases your attack damage on the next turn by 125%.
The Iron Starlet is a perfect pet for staging a huge flurry against some of the game's most tanking animals. It's also interesting that mechanical animals come back to life after death, which means they can help block a game. The Iron Starlet is even better when paired with the Unborn Val'kyr for even more damage.
Unborn Val'kyr
This undead animal is one of the best fighting animals in the game. The animal can maintain itself if necessary with the Siphon Life or become a facilitator for other animals on the team. It's great for taking on PvP opponents or fighting bosses in PvE.
The unborn Val'kyr's mission is to use Shadow Shock until the player can read that their Val'kyr is about to faint. Having Curse of Doom on the board is crucial if you haven't used it already. Indeed, the Val'kyr can deactivate any spell when it dies. After the death of an undead combat pet, it is revived and cannot be killed until the end of the next turn. From there, Unholy Ascension of Val'kyr is the last spell to use. Unholy Ascension provides a 25% damage bonus to the cost of the Val'kyr's life for the next nine turns, allowing the rest of your team to have a massive damage bonus. Since the Val'kyr only has one life turn left after being resurrected, it makes sense to use it here.
Xu-Fu, petit de Xuen
When you step out into the open world in search of rare breed combat pets, Xu-Fu is the right choice. Xu-Fu's power makes him self-sufficient, dealing damage and healing for 100% of the damage dealt. Using Prowl beforehand only increases the damage and healing that Feed does.
Xu-Fu can work for PvP battle pet matches. If the opponent doesn't have a marker for beasts or a lethal wounds ability, then they'll have a hard time coping with the burst damage and healing combo.
Zandalari ankle
The little dinosaur is an extremely powerful creature due to the combination of Hunting Party and Black Claw. Hunting Party Sends a wave of raptors that deals a small amount of damage, though the first wave applies a debuff that doubles the damage of the next wave of Hunting Party. If the player uses Black Claw before the hunting party, both waves in the hunting party are enhanced, making both very deadly.
Note that obtaining one of the Isle of Giants Zandalari battle pets is pretty much the same battle animal; they just have different names. However, all of the combat familiars on Giant Zandalari Island are incredibly rare. It might be worth finding an alternative, like the Lil'Tika or Zuldazar's Baby Zandalar Raptor. Both of these alternatives have the Black Claw ability and a healing ability like Bloodfang or Devour. These are solid options as the pets of the giant Zandalari Island are very rare and highly contested among gold producers and collectors.
