Originally, I leveled a few pets just for looks... then realized they didn't work as a team, and I was getting roflstomped by the last few Northrend tamers. Then I sat down, looked some stuff over, and made a list of ten pets (one of each family) I figured would be able to take down any team, just by pairing "hard counters." I leveled those to 25 (and used stones to make a few of 'em rare)... then slowly started leveling other 25s to have more options. As a plan, it seems to work well.
The four I seem to use the most are Flayer Youngling, Rapana Whelk, Effervescent Glowfly, and Fel Flame. Some of that is their abilities; some of that is what they can hard counter.
Crabs and Frogs have yet to seriously let me down, Emperor crab is my buddy.
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Some of my favorites:
Celestial Dragon. This guy is a real trooper with breath, ancient blessing, and moonfire.
Gilded Moth. Gotta have flying damage!
Pandaren Monk. Hard hitter with humanoid dmg.
Strand Crab. My go-to for aquatic dmg.
Personal World Destroyer. My first 25, still rocks teams backlines with quake and repair.
Cinder Kitten xD
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Once you level it up, of course.
So far I have been using the Cornish rex cat as my main trainer. Has high attack and okay speed, and just steamrolls through all the critters. With the high attack it makes Devour a really good heal. Though Cornish rex cat only comes in 'uncommon' quality (before battle stone) it's still a really good pet to train with.
There are way better options. For example, spiders. They just wreck critters and stay healthy all the time. Wolvar pup and Flayer youngling are also amazing against critters due to the fact that they are of humanoid type (reduced dmg taken from critters), have beast-type abilities (doing extra damage to critters) AND have passive self-heals.
The best combo for powerleveling other pets to 25 is magical Crawdad and fluxfire feline. If the FFF gets low, switch to the Crawdad pop wish, switch back to FFF, continue destroying things. If its a critter or flying pet you are fighting just hit supercharge before using windup.
I've been doing this for a while now in kun lai summit since most packs are beasts with some random critters and flying pets mixed in.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmNLMo4vcI some old school CM fun
"Your lights will go out. The darkness will envelop you. And you will fear the shadows that move within it."
My favorites so far:
Personal World Destroyer
magical Crawdad
Mr. bigglesworth
Spiders are some OP shit
Just got a rare minfernal thanks to a awesome CRZ trick posted on wowhead (minfernal's page comments) and i got to say. Hes isnt very good. The magic type helps him out a bit (it would take at least 3 hits to kill him) and he has an ok move set but nothing to rave about.
I guesss a moonlight based team would work with him, need a decent healer (Magical crawdad) to keep him going.
"Humility defeats pride, Master Yang has preached. Pride defeats man"
I use Fluxfire Feline, Twilight Spiderling, Scourged Whelpling, Dancing Water Skimmer out of my 15 level 25s the most.
Celestial Dragon, Anubisath Idol and Emperor Crab.
Boss combination.
I run triple fluxfire feline in PVP battles. Haters gonna hate.
For leveling I use 1 fluxfire, 1 anubisath and low lvl pet.