Xu-Fu Strategy vs. Small Beginnings

Before		After	Experience Gain
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2	➜	4	254
3	➜	4	267
4	➜	5	279
5	➜	6	289
6	➜	6	297
7	➜	7	304
8	➜	8	309
9	➜	9	312
10	➜	10	314
11	➜	11	314
12	➜	12	312
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14	➜	14	304
15	➜	15	297
16	➜	16	289
17	➜	17	279
18	➜	18	267
19	➜	19	254
20	➜	20	239
21	➜	21	223
22	➜	22	205
23	➜	23	185
24	➜	24	163

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DragonsAfterDark	For slot 1 you need a Rabbit/Hare with more than 330 speed Script thanks to Fr0z3night	Breed Script	2	4.9	100%	40	140 2:20	24
Shenk		Breed	2	4.8	N/A	9	120 2:00	20+
Hogri	If you're lucky you may hardly need the 3rd pet and can use any Critter. Other Critters with strong abilities against Zujai's 3rd pet Stickers are Darkmoon Hatchling, Imperial Silkworm, Lovebird Hatchling. For this strategy to work optimally you have to watch turn-numbers in the pet-battle-log or have an addon that shows you your enemy's abilities and CDs to avoid Breaker's Headbutt. TD Script courtesy of Begija in the comments.	Script	2	4.8	100%	5	135 2:15	21-22
Kalagren		Script	2	5.0	100%	2	105 1:45	15-16
Jagûar	Things are rarely as easy or as small as it seems. Strategy tested and passed January 26th 2019	Script	2	3.6	56%	4	103 1:43	17-18
Shoni#2265		Breed	2	0.0	N/A	0	140 2:20	23-24

Breed	Health	Power	Speed
HP	1627	305	227

Breed	Health	Power	Speed
HH	1725	260	260

Breed	Health	Power	Speed
SS	1481	227	341
HH	1806	227	276
HP	1627	257	276
HS	1627	227	305

Breed	Health	Power	Speed
SS	1400	260	325

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DragonsAfterDark

For slot 1 you need a Rabbit/Hare with more than 330 speed

Script thanks to Fr0z3night

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2 4.9 100% 40 140
2:20
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Shenk

Breed
2 4.8 N/A 9 120
2:00
20+

Hogri

If you're lucky you may hardly need the 3rd pet and can use any Critter.
Other Critters with strong abilities against Zujai's 3rd pet Stickers are Darkmoon Hatchling, Imperial Silkworm, Lovebird Hatchling.

For this strategy to work optimally you have to watch turn-numbers in the pet-battle-log or have an addon that shows you your enemy's abilities and CDs to avoid Breaker's Headbutt.

TD Script courtesy of Begija in the comments.

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2 4.8 100% 5 135
2:15
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Kalagren

Script
2 5.0 100% 2 105
1:45
15-16

Jagûar

Things are rarely as easy or as small as it seems.

Strategy tested and passed January 26th 2019

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2 3.6 56% 4 103
1:43
17-18

Shoni#2265

Breed
2 0.0 N/A 0 140
2:20
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ability(Trample:377) [ enemy.ability(Blinding Poison:1049).duration < 2 ]
ability(Trample:377) [ self.aura(Blinding Poison:1048).exists ]
ability(Hiss:155) [ ! enemy.aura(Shattered Defenses:542).exists & self.speed > 325 ]
ability(Nether Blast:608) [enemy.aura(Shattered Defenses:542).exists]
ability(#3) [ self.aura(Attack Reduction:494).duration < 3 ]
ability(Trumpet Strike:375)
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Small Beginnings 142234

Critter

Special or not:0Special or not:2211166247531660

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Skills: 2 1 1
Breed: Any
Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm
This pet can have the following breeds:

Breed Health Power Speed

HP 1627 305 227

Critter

211159232661590

Peanut

Skills: 2 1 1
Breed: Any
Peanut
This pet can have the following breeds:

Breed Health Power Speed

HH 1725 260 260

Critter

Special or not:0Special or not:1211638626256380

Nether Roach

Skills: 2 1 1
Breed: Any
Nether Roach
This pet can have the following breeds:

Breed Health Power Speed

SS 1481 227 341

HH 1806 227 276

HP 1627 257 276

HS 1627 227 305

Critter

Special or not:0Special or not:122215118571015110

Lovebird Hatchling

Skills: 2 2 2
Breed: Any
Lovebird Hatchling
This pet can have the following breeds:

Breed Health Power Speed

SS 1400 260 325

Substitutes:

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The strategy might fail if you use it with this pet instead of the one the strategy creator intended.

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Things are rarely as easy or as small as it seems.

Strategy tested and passed January 26th 2019

Breed

RNG

TCG

Shop

Level 25+

Tricky

Script

Unobtainable

Staff Pick

Patch 10.2

Time: 1:43

Rounds: 17-18

Strategy Details

1 Min 43 Sec

17-18

Medium

2018-10-19 12:56:51

16,583

Tamer Details

Scales, Breaker, Stickers

Low XP

Turn 1+2

Trample

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 3

Headbutt

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 4

Trumpet Strike

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 5

Trample - Scales dies

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Breaker comes in

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 6

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm dies

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Bring in Nether Roach

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 7

Hiss

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 8

Nether Blast

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 9-11

Swarm - Nether Roach dies in Turn 11, if it dies before, restart fight.

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Bring in Lovebird Hatchling

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 12

Predatory Strike

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 13

Alpha Strike - Breaker dies

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Stickers comes in

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 14

Hawk Eye

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 15-17

Alpha Strike

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Turn 18

Predatory Strike

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

Stickers dies

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Nether Roach

Lovebird Hatchling

Pass

Bring in your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Bring in your Nether Roach

Bring in your Lovebird Hatchling

Swap to your Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Swap to your Nether Roach

Swap to your Lovebird Hatchling

Scales comes in

Breaker comes in

Stickers comes in

An enemy pet comes in

Any standard attack will finish the fight

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spottsy

wrote on 2020-11-02 23:46:53

This worked for me Shadowlands prepatch with a variation. When roach comes in I hissed, Then just used Nether Blast as enemy takes increased damage. Then when love bird comes in follow strat. Use predatory strike etc etc as post says and won with bird having 68% health left.

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Morgiana#1744

wrote on 2020-10-22 00:23:33

Post SL pre-patch, this strat only works if you change to the suggestion given by Stanley in the comments below: Turn 7-9 Swarm, Turn 10+ Nether Blast until Nether Roach dies, then Breaker will be low enough for Predatory Strike to kill it. (Info: My Nether Roach is HH breed.)

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Prudentius

wrote on 2019-01-21 17:32:02

TD Script

ability(Trample:377) [ enemy.ability(Blinding Poison:1049).duration < 2 ]
ability(Trample:377) [ self.aura(Blinding Poison:1048).exists ]
ability(Hiss:155) [ ! enemy.aura(Shattered Defenses:542).exists & self.speed > 325 ]
ability(Nether Blast:608) [enemy.aura(Shattered Defenses:542).exists]
ability(#3) [ self.aura(Attack Reduction:494).duration < 3 ]
ability(Trumpet Strike:375)
ability(#1)
change(next)

This script has compatibility for all breeds of Nether Roach to work with the original strategy for a S/S breed or the non-S/S variant. Optimal breeds are S/S or H/P, but the other two will work as well.

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Prudentius

wrote on 2019-01-21 17:16:17

I have a H/P Nether Roach that I farmed for a strategy I wrote for a WoD tamer fight. My thoughts then and now is never try to out-speed a flying with anything other than a flying. With that in mind the next option is to make each attack as punishing as possible to remove the Flying aura. To that end I opted to skip to Swarm then Nether Blast with Shattered Defenses. The first Nether Blast after Swarm removes Flying making Breaker slower than any breed of Nether Roach. The second Nether Blast kills Breaker.

I would also point out that Hawk Eye cannot counter Croak as it reduces crit chance by 100%.

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ChipChairman

wrote on 2018-12-22 11:49:21

Used an H/P Nether Roach and Swarm, Nether blast, Nether blast to actually kill Breaker. YMMV

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Inukah

wrote on 2018-12-12 16:26:32

This strat must be either breed-dependent or just heavily RNG because I cannot get it to work at all. If it is the breed that's the problem then I assume it's my S/S cockroach because it is impossible to get Breaker low enough before the roach dies for the Lovebird to finish him off with a predatory strike + a single alpha strike.

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Stanley

wrote on 2018-12-14 18:35:35

I was having the same problem, What i got to work was when it came time to hiss, I got rid of it because it didnt help my roach become faster. I just used swarm instead After swarm finished, i spammed nether blast. I didnt get any crits and once my roach died, breaker was low enough to get one hit my lovebird hatchling

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Moenia

wrote on 2018-12-16 17:43:01

Worked a treat, thanks :)

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(OP) Jagûar

wrote on 2018-12-22 01:13:55

Inukah: My Nether Roach is also an S/S breed. Given, most of these Family Battler strats (not just my own strats) were made before Patch 8.1 was released, so it's likely that Blizz have changed a few things or as usual if they haven't, we're just out of luck and have a seriously bad case of rng.
Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm is a fixed H/P breed and Lovebird Hatchling is a fixed S/S breed. You mentioned your Roach being a S/S breed as mine is.. So any chance you might have used Peanut (2nd alternative to pet slot 1) instead of Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm?
In case you have, then know that Peanut is a fixed H/H breed and therefor have less damage than the first alternative... If that's not why.. then it's just bad luck I'm afraid.
I've tested my strategy here at 07:30am server time (EU server) and the strat worked fine for me.

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(OP) Jagûar

wrote on 2018-12-22 01:48:22

Stanley: Hiss on the roach isn't suppose to make your Roach faster. What it does is that it decreases the speed of the enemy pet it is used upon - in this strategy it's meant to be used on Breaker. Breaker is a flyer and so long as it stays above 50% HP it has that passive flying buff.

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(OP) Jagûar

wrote on 2018-12-22 01:49:17

Moenia: You're welcome. And thank you for letting me know that my strategy worked for you.

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		Tags Filter strategies: Strategies to level pets Strategies with a Script No Shop or TCG pets Reset Filters These options reset all other sorting filters.
DragonsAfterDark	For slot 1 you need a Rabbit/Hare with more than 330 speed Script thanks to Fr0z3night	Breed Script	2	4.9	100%	40	140 2:20	24
Shenk		Breed	2	4.8	N/A	9	120 2:00	20+
Hogri	If you're lucky you may hardly need the 3rd pet and can use any Critter. Other Critters with strong abilities against Zujai's 3rd pet Stickers are Darkmoon Hatchling, Imperial Silkworm, Lovebird Hatchling. For this strategy to work optimally you have to watch turn-numbers in the pet-battle-log or have an addon that shows you your enemy's abilities and CDs to avoid Breaker's Headbutt. TD Script courtesy of Begija in the comments.	Script	2	4.8	100%	5	135 2:15	21-22
Kalagren		Script	2	5.0	100%	2	105 1:45	15-16
Jagûar	Things are rarely as easy or as small as it seems. Strategy tested and passed January 26th 2019	Script	2	3.6	56%	4	103 1:43	17-18
Shoni#2265		Breed	2	0.0	N/A	0	140 2:20	23-24

Before		After	Experience Gain
1	➜	3	239
2	➜	4	254
3	➜	4	267
4	➜	5	279
5	➜	6	289
6	➜	6	297
7	➜	7	304
8	➜	8	309
9	➜	9	312
10	➜	10	314
11	➜	11	314
12	➜	12	312
13	➜	13	309
14	➜	14	304
15	➜	15	297
16	➜	16	289
17	➜	17	279
18	➜	18	267
19	➜	19	254
20	➜	20	239
21	➜	21	223
22	➜	22	205
23	➜	23	185
24	➜	24	163

	=	Pet levels to 25 with minimal XP lost
		Pet levels to 25 with minimal XP lost

	=	Additional XP above level 25 is lost
		Additional XP above level 25 is lost

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm	HP
Nether Roach	SS
Lovebird Hatchling	SS

Before		After	Experience Gain
1	➜	3	239
2	➜	4	254
3	➜	4	267
4	➜	5	279
5	➜	6	289
6	➜	6	297
7	➜	7	304
8	➜	8	309
9	➜	9	312
10	➜	10	314
11	➜	11	314
12	➜	12	312
13	➜	13	309
14	➜	14	304
15	➜	15	297
16	➜	16	289
17	➜	17	279
18	➜	18	267
19	➜	19	254
20	➜	20	239
21	➜	21	223
22	➜	22	205
23	➜	23	185
24	➜	24	163

Before		After	Experience Gain
1	➜	3	239
2	➜	4	254
3	➜	4	267
4	➜	5	279
5	➜	6	289
6	➜	6	297
7	➜	7	304
8	➜	8	309
9	➜	9	312
10	➜	10	314
11	➜	11	314
12	➜	12	312
13	➜	13	309
14	➜	14	304
15	➜	15	297
16	➜	16	289
17	➜	17	279
18	➜	18	267
19	➜	19	254
20	➜	20	239
21	➜	21	223
22	➜	22	205
23	➜	23	185
24	➜	24	163