Xu-Fu's Pet Battle Strategies

The achievement Family Familiar is the largest and toughest addition to the pet battling world in a long time. It might even beat the Celestial Tournament in required effort!
To complete it you need to earn 10 individual achievements, each asking you to defeat 12 tamers in the Broken Isles with only pets from one specific pet family.

But how hard can it be? Well, you're in for quite a ride. Every day there is only three active pet quests out of a total of 37 different ones.
So first off, one of the tamers in question has to be active.
Then you need to beat him or her, not once, but several times with teams using each specific pet family.

Once you complete the achievement, you will get your very own tiny, corrupted, adorable Nightmare Treant :-)

As usual, below table will list all pets required to use the main strategies listed here. Due to the nature of the achievement, the list is quite long this time.
Best sort by family to get a better overview over each families difficulty level.

The list of required pets can sadly not be displayed right now due to updates Blizzard is making on the armory.
A new version of the tables will be added as soon as possible.

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JarofFlies

wrote on 09/02/2019

Do you have to wait for the WQ to come before you can fight them? It's been like 3 days now with no trainers from family familiar

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Shenk

wrote on 09/02/2019

unfortunately yes, you need the WQ to be up in order to fight them for the achievement

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Toenail

wrote on 08/15/2019

finished this a few days ago. thanks to everyone who contributed to this!

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Toenail

wrote on 08/05/2019

I was able to do Durian by creating, then deleting 7 trial characters. travel was a bit tedious, but i got 140 bandages and about 100g selling all the gear from each trial before deleting. ;)

I had thought there was some sort of CD or delay making new ones but it worked fine.

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Toenail

wrote on 08/02/2019

ugh not happy about Durian Strongfruit not being repeatable. Have done 8 so far and all are repeatable. only have 3 alts to do this. Been waiting days for a trainer to pop. :(

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Toenail

wrote on 07/15/2019

so far Flummox was far easier than Bredda, for me. The only Flummox first strat that didn't work was for mech. 6 down, 6 to go ;)

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stonetroll1987

wrote on 10/01/2018

Something I didn't see in the notes or comments. If the world quest is up you can actually battle them as many times as you want. Meaning you could knock out all of the family's in one shot for that quest.

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NIteowl1970

wrote on 10/08/2018

I noticed this also, must have been changed.

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Noxical

wrote on 10/21/2018

It seems that Durian Strongfruit is not repeatable however.

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NIteowl1970

wrote on 10/21/2018

Durian is repeatable by different characters though, each time that Durian is up I ran any character that I had above 110 out there and battled him, so I could get all of the families done.

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Gorgemon

wrote on 12/08/2018

Really useful information for those of us who don't log in every day and don't have an army of alts. I may actually get this achievement finished now!

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gingerbeardman

wrote on 09/28/2018

I read in another comment section that Family Familiar should have an export all option if you click the "red skull". I'm probably being ridiculously dense but for the life of me, I can't find the red skull lol

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Aranesh

wrote on 09/28/2018

Hey! That's my bad. I upgraded the rematch strings to be better (including steps now!) and the export-all button broke due to that. So I had to remove it.... it'll come back though, eventually. No idea when though, sorry!

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gingerbeardman

wrote on 09/28/2018

Not a problem, I was just being lazy! I appreciate the effort that goes into the site. The strategies are fantastic.

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Nickolina#2534

wrote on 02/01/2018

Just discovered the legion class hall pets for certain classes! Wow, had no idea there was so many up for grabs, and I'm gutted I dont have a death knight :(

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Doubleminy wrote on 10/04/2017

Thank you so much for having this website. I finished the achievement today and it wouldn't have been possible without this! Now my treant and I are off to Argus~

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Deltethnia wrote on 09/22/2017

Having alts who also have world quests open can make these achievements go much faster. Especially if there's more than one trainer up that week. While the achievements and such are account wide, the world quests are not.

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Tranmere Fan wrote on 09/13/2017

Want to add my thanks to that of others, since returning to the game a few months ago, this has been a very valuable resource. Completed the acheivement today,

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Darri - Lothar wrote on 08/18/2017

Thank you so much for this guide. It has saved my life multiple times going against these dratted family familiar fights. Good Luck

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