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 with a certain pet family only, but you cannot repeat the fight with the same character!.
This means you will have to wait for every tamer to be up 10 times! And on top of it all, some of the tamers are extremely hard - if not impossible - to beat with certain families. Looking at you there, Flummox!

Unless you go at it with multiple characters, it will most likely take several months before you can finish this particular achievement.
But once you do, 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.

	Name	Families	Occurrences	Required Level
#
1.			1	20
2.	Abyssius	Magic	3	25
3.	Albino River Calf	Beast	1	25
4.	Amber Moth	Flying	1	25
5.	Anubisath Idol	Humanoid	12	25
6.	Any Aquatic	Aquatic	4	25
7.	Any Beast	Beast	3	25
8.	Any Critter	Critter	3	25
9.	Any Critter	Critter	1	15
10.	Any Dragon	Dragonkin	10	1
11.	Any Dragon	Dragonkin	1	1
12.	Any Elemental	Elemental	2	20
13.	Any Elemental	Elemental	2	25
14.	Any Flyer	Flying	2	25
15.	Any Humanoid	Humanoid	3	25
16.	Any Humanoid	Humanoid	7	1
17.	Any Magic	Magic	4	25
18.	Any Mech	Mechanical	3	20
19.	Any Mech	Mechanical	4	1
20.	Any Mech	Mechanical	3	25
21.	Any Undead	Undead	4	25
22.	Any Undead	Undead	4	1
23.	Any Undead	Undead	1	25
24.	Ash Spiderling	Beast	1	25
25.	Blighthawk	Undead	3	25
26.	Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot	Mechanical	1	25
27.	Bone Serpent	Undead	2	25
28.	Cerulean Moth	Flying	1	25
29.	Chrominius	Dragonkin	11	25
30.	Cinder Pup	Beast	3	25
31.	Clockwork Gnome	Mechanical	1	25
32.	Cogblade Raptor	Mechanical	1	25
33.	Coilfang Stalker	Magic	2	25
34.	Core Hound Pup	Elemental	1	25
35.	Crazy Carrot	Elemental	2	25
36.	Crimson Moth	Flying	1	25
37.	Crimson Shale Hatchling	Elemental	1	25
38.	Darkmoon Tonk	Mechanical	5	25
39.	Darkmoon Zeppelin	Mechanical	2	25
40.	Draenei Micro Defender	Mechanical	1	25
41.	Electrified Razortooth	Elemental	9	25
42.	Elementium Geode	Elemental	2	25
43.	Elfin Rabbit	Critter	2	25
44.	Emerald Proto-Whelp	Dragonkin	7	25
45.	Emmigosa	Dragonkin	1	25
46.	Emperor Crab	Aquatic	8	25
47.	Enchanted Broom	Magic	9	25
48.	Enchanted Lantern	Magic	2	25
49.	Fawn	Critter	1	25
50.	Fel Flame	Elemental	5	25
51.	Fel Pup	Beast	6	25
52.	Feline Familiar	Beast	9	25
53.	Festival Lantern	Magic	3	25
54.	Fetid Waveling	Elemental	1	25
55.	Flayer Youngling	Humanoid	3	25
56.	Forest Spiderling	Beast	1	25
57.	Fossilized Hatchling	Undead	5	25
58.	Frog	Aquatic	1	25
59.	Frostfur Rat	Critter	1	25
60.	Gahz'rooki	Aquatic	1	25
61.	Garden Frog	Aquatic	1	25
62.	Ghastly Kid	Undead	3	25
63.	Ghostly Skull	Undead	3	25
64.	Ghostshell Crab	Aquatic	3	25
65.	Gilnean Raven	Flying	2	25
66.	Gulp Froglet	Aquatic	1	25
67.	Harpy Youngling	Humanoid	3	25
68.	Hopling	Humanoid	1	25
69.	Hydraling	Aquatic	27	25
70.	Ikky	Flying	2	25
71.	Imperial Silkworm	Critter	1	25
72.	Infected Squirrel	Undead	1	25
73.	Iron Starlette	Mechanical	7	25
74.	Jade Owl	Magic	5	25
75.	Kun-Lai Runt	Humanoid	10	25
76.	Lesser Voidcaller	Magic	3	25
77.	Lil' Bling	Mechanical	3	25
78.	Lost Netherpup	Beast	2	25
79.	Lunar Lantern	Magic	3	25
80.	Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling	Mechanical	10	25
81.	Minfernal	Magic	1	25
82.	Mini Mindslayer	Magic	3	25
83.	Mirror Strider	Aquatic	2	25
84.	Moonshell Crab	Aquatic	1	25
85.	Mud Jumper	Aquatic	3	25
86.	Nether Faerie Dragon	Dragonkin	7	25
87.	Netherspawn, Spawn of Netherspawn	Magic	3	25
88.	Nexus Whelpling	Dragonkin	8	25
89.	Oily Slimeling	Magic	1	25
90.	Pandaren Air Spirit	Elemental	1	25
91.	Pandaren Water Spirit	Elemental	8	25
92.	Personal World Destroyer	Mechanical	1	25
93.	Puddle Terror	Aquatic	1	25
94.	Rabbit	Critter	4	25
95.	Rapana Whelk	Critter	2	25
96.	Red Cricket	Critter	1	25
97.	Roach	Critter	3	25
98.	Rotten Little Helper	Humanoid	1	25
99.	Scourged Whelpling	Undead	5	25
100.	Searing Scorchling	Elemental	1	25
101.	Shimmershell Snail	Critter	4	25
102.	Silkbead Snail	Critter	7	25
103.	Singing Sunflower	Elemental	1	25
104.	Sister of Temptation	Humanoid	2	25
105.	Spawn of G'nathus	Aquatic	9	25
106.	Spring Rabbit	Critter	1	25
107.	Squirrel	Critter	1	25
108.	Strand Crab	Aquatic	1	25
109.	Summit Kid	Beast	7	25
110.	Terky	Humanoid	2	25
111.	Teroclaw Hatchling	Flying	5	25
112.	Terrible Turnip	Elemental	1	25
113.	Tiny Snowman	Elemental	5	25
114.	Tiny Twister	Elemental	1	25
115.	Tolai Hare	Critter	8	25
116.	Tranquil Mechanical Yeti	Mechanical	2	25
117.	Twilight Fiendling	Magic	1	25
118.	Unborn Val'kyr	Undead	4	25
119.	Voodoo Figurine	Undead	1	25
120.	Zandalari Anklerender	Beast	6	25
121.	Zandalari Kneebiter	Beast	2	25
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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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Lordy wrote on 07/04/2017

Thanks ever so much Aranesh your awesome guide just snagged me the Nightmare Treant for my collection and I am very happy =)

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Aranesh

wrote on 07/06/2017

Gratulations! Happy to hear that! :D

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Squeeze wrote on 06/16/2017

Finally got my very own adorable Treant :-).
Thankyou to your Website and the effort you guy have put into it.
Thankyou, Thankyou.

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Mistredo wrote on 05/21/2017

Would be possible to have a pet-ready checker for this as there is for Legion?

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Aranesh

wrote on 05/22/2017

Yes :D I'm working on it, but it's a huge undertaking and will take more time before I can release it.

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Aerna-Eonar wrote on 05/09/2017

Can you please update this guide to NOT use Minfernal? It is simply unreasonable to expect someone to have this pet, unless you have been extremely lucky. I have spent months at the location, logging in from time to time, and all I see are other players mindlessly flying around. And I have a LOW population server group, so I can't imagine the high population servers.

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Aerna-Eonar wrote on 05/09/2017

By the way - great site! :)

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Aranesh

wrote on 05/09/2017

Thanks! :) Minfernal is only used against Flummox. You can easily do this achievement without that particular fight.

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aelfraed wrote on 06/01/2017

I camped that for weeks a few of years back. Recently started playing wow again, still had an alt logged there. Logged in and bam, several mins waiting to be caught. No other players there at all.

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Liarliar wrote on 03/17/2017

This site have been such a valuable asset to my pet battling i dont have words :) And the option to import rematch teams is just brilliant. Thanks for making such a resource for pet battlers :)

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Anonymous wrote on 04/02/2017

Seconded. Thank you, Xu-Fu! :D

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