"Howl Bomb" Team

Recently I did a post on How to Defeat Lil' Oondasta 5.4 and used a team I referred to as the "Howl Bomb" team. Since that post I got a few emails asking to either explain the team or if any other pets could be used in place of the specific pets I used in the video. So a huge thanks to everyone that commented and took the time to write me, this post is for you!

Its a fairy simple team that is comprised of 3 pets. Only 1 of these 3 pets is really required for the team and the other 2 are up to you they only have a few moves that are required to get this combo off.

The purpose of this team is to do a shit ton of burst damage to a single pet, It was first brought up back when the beasts of fable had 4-5k health pools but when they nerfed the health of them in a patch and gave them the obligatory "takes 50% less Damage from all attacks" it was a lot less required. It was still useful and I will use it to make my life easier for any fight where I am fighting a single pet.

With the Celestial Tournament added in Patch 5.4, this team has been brought up on most of the pet battle forums again as an answer to the fights that have a single pet structure.

First let me start with the team set up that I use and afterwards I will give you suggestions on pets you can replace with the one I choose if you don't have access to the exact same team.

Crawling Claw (P/S)
Agony
Death Grip
Curse of Doom

Panderan Water Spirit (H/S)
Water Jet
Whirlpool
Geyser

Lil' Bad Wolf (P/P) or (S/S)
Counter Strike
Dodge
Howl


The Panderan Water Spirit is the pet that is required and the slot 2 and 3 abilities have to be Whirlpool and Geyser. Slot 1 is up to you I use Water Jet because the other option is Tidal Wave and if you are fighting a single pet fight, the ability to do damage to back-line pet is useless.

The Lil' Bad Wolf is my second pet, the pet for this slot has only one requirement, it has to have Howl. If you do a search for the Howl ability you will notice that there are 11 pets with this ability so any of them will do. Keep in mind that you still want a strong pet in this slot so chose the pet with Howl that has the best synergy with your team and also bring other good choices to the table.

If the other pet is faster then your choice for the pet you pick for Howl then you may not get that ability off in time for Curse of Doom, the fix for that is to sub in a Fox Kit. This is the fastest dog with the Howl ability and it will make sure that the round that Curse of Doom is going off you will get Howl up so it also benifits from the 100% increased damage buff.

• Stitched Pup - Cheap on Auction House or a blast to Farm him from Gluth.
• Core Hound Pup - If you have an authenticator you have him in your journal.
• Chrominius - Cheap on Auction House

Last Pet slot is taken by one of my favorite pets, Crawling Claw. The pet in this slot only needs to have Curse of Doom, but by far the Crawling Claw has a lot of utility besides only bringing Curse of Doom. Agony and Death Grip are great abilities and work well with this team. There are 9 pets that have Curse of Doom in their ability choices, most are Undead and the rest are Magic. If I had to replace this pet with another I would say it would have to be with one of the 3 other pets;

• Lesser Voidcaller - Can be bought.
• Lofty Libram - Easy to catch, cant be bought.
• Unborn Val'kyr - A pain in the ass to get but worth the effort.

Regardless of which combination of pets you went with you cant put this set up in play and watch the carnage. It's very simple;

Round 1: Open with Crawling Claw - cast Curse of Doom
Round 2: Swap in Pandaren Water Spirit - Cast Geyser
Round 3: Cast Whirlpool
Round 4: Swap in Little Bad Wolf - Cast Howl

The idea is that Curse of Doom is a 4 round ability so casting it first will have it go off when everything else is going off, Geyser is a 3 round ability and Whirlpool is 2 rounds the last pet it will cast Howl and that will increase the damage taken by the enemy pet by 100% so you should be looking at around 2k -2.5k and if you get lucky and any of them critical strike you are set. If your opponent is not dead the Howl buff is still good for one more round so it will double the attack. Additionally you will get the extra hit against a stunned opponent as long as they aren't a critter, thanks to changes in 5.4 critters are now immune to all stuns and root effects.

One thing to remember is to make sure the pet that you have to apply the Howl ability has to be faster so that when you swap out the Pandaren Water Spirit and bring that pet in you don't lose the turn due to speed. If you don't have a faster pet than your opponent then Curse of Doom will go off before you get to buff it with Howl.

This isn't really practical in PVP or against PVE teams with 3 pets but it is fun as hell against single pet teams. It's quick and over in 4 rounds 90% of the time.


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