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1.	The Triumphant Return The Triumphant Return
2.	Battle Pet Tamers: Pandaria Battle Pet Tamers: Pandaria
3.	Grand Master Aki

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Battle Pet Tamers Julia, The Pet Tamer Old MacDonald Lindsay Eric Davidson Steven Lisbane Bill Buckler Battle Pet Tamers: Eastern Kingdoms Grand Master Lydia Accoste Battle Pet Tamers: Outland Grand Master Antari Battle Pet Tamers: Northrend Grand Master Payne Battle Pet Tamers: Cataclysm Grand Master Obalis Battle Pet Tamers: Pandaria Grand Master Aki Beasts of Fable Pandaren Spirit Tamer Battle Pet Tamers Zunta, The Pet Tamer Dagra the Fierce Analynn Zonya the Sadist Merda Stronghoof Cassandra Kaboom Battle Pet Tamers: Kalimdor Grand Master Trixxy Battle Pet Tamers: Outland Grand Master Antari Battle Pet Tamers: Northrend Grand Master Payne Battle Pet Tamers: Cataclysm Grand Master Obalis Battle Pet Tamers: Pandaria Grand Master Aki Beasts of Fable Pandaren Spirit Tamer

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Comment by 1039913

Just eeked out a win and am now Azeroth's premier trainer. Let me share the team that worked for me.

My team:

Flayer handled the cricket, Crabby stalled out and chipped down the dragon, and Nether Ray Fry swept the beaver.

As for general notes on this fight: if you've come this far and didn't struggle too much against the Pandaria masters you have nothing to fear. The big threat on her team is the dragon since its Thunder weather effect seems to apply to both the initial damage and the bonus damage it gets from Tail Sweep if it goes last. Her beaver you can sustain through and her cricket, well, you've been smushing critters like a pro for a while now.

Comment by Kattiara17

Aki the Chosen is the final Grand Master Pet Tamer you need to defeat for Taming Pandaria. You must have already completed Battle Pet Tamers: Pandaria / Battle Pet Tamers: Pandaria.

Her pets are:

Chirrup - a level 25 Red Cricket (1600 Health / 300 Power / 375 Speed), with the abilities Inspiring Song, Nature's Touch, and Swarm
Stormlash - a level 25 Wild Crimson Hatchling (1769 Health / 334 Power / 300 Speed), with the abilities Call Lightning, Roar, and Tail Sweep
Whiskers - a level 25 Golden Civet (1600 Health / 334 Power / 334 Speed), with the abilities Dive, Surge, and Survival

Counter her Critter / Dragonkin / Aquatic team with Beast / Humanoid / Flying abilities.

Defeating Aki will also unlock the Panderia Pet Battle Daily Quests.

Comment by Aalyy

I one shot her with the following match ups:

Pterodaxx Hatchling against her Golden Civit. Make sure to use Lift off when the Civit dives to avoid that powerful attack that follows. Thank goodness it didn't miss once for me! The other two were the heal and Slicing Wind.

Pandaren Monk against the Wild Crimson Hatchling with his damage reduction rather than increased damage skill. The other two spells were both the damage dealers.

Nightsaber cub was used against the Cricket. I chose Prowl for the extra damage, Rake for the damage reduction, and Claw because the Cricket was faster for most turns against even this very fast cub. This was my only pet who died as she was faster than the Crimson Hatchling I used her to whittle off a few hundred health after the cricket died and before sending in the Monk.

I was surprised how easy it was. I expected many wipes and some frustration! Good luck to everyone. :)

Comment by cathistlechaser

Oddly, I won on the first try with one pet left at 100% health.

Clockwork Gnome (metal fist, repair, build turret)
Sea Gull (thrash, cyclone, lift-off)
Toxic Wasteling (absorb, corrosion, expunge)

The wasteling was the survivor.

Edit: Easily repeatable, too. I did the daily after beating her, and ended with the wasteling at 100% (never used him) and the gull with a quarter life left.

Good luck all!

Comment by CircleofHealing

This took a few turns to work out as I haven't all the classes maxed out. I opted for Beast/Dragonkin/Elemental option. If you don't get the cricket first turn, pass and try again.

I opted for a rare beast that was quite fast to deal with the cricket. It would then be sacrificed on Stormlash's first turn.

The beast survives the cricket with strong damage, gets a 300+ hit on Stormlash who then hits for a ridiculous 1200+ with her Call Lightning on first turn ( a flayer with Reflect would be good against this). Hits from Stormlash are then 500+ a round. If you have something that can hit for 500+, is fast and more than 1500 health you should be OK. :)

Civet burrows and hits hard 600+!

Comment by 691913

I used a Flayer Youngling against the dragon (use reflection to avoid the ridiculous first hit).
Amethyst Spiderling against the cricket (brittle webbing + swarm obliterates it)
Effervescent Glowfly against the civet (this one was a close one!)

I just white-flagged until the dragon was her first pet out. It might take a few tries.

Comment by FlawedHero

This was honestly one of the easiest battles I've had out of the Masters in Pandaria.

My team was:
Fast Golden Civet vs Chirrup
High DPS Lil' XT vs Stormlash
High DPS Amber Moth vs Whiskers

Civet using Bite for bonus damage vs Critters.
Lil' XT's damage boosted by 25% by Call Lightning makes taking Stormlash out a piece of cake.
The Moth using Cocoon Strike to avoid the massive damage from Dive and the battle is as good as won.

Comment by 715782

As of 5.1, completing this quest will reward the "I Choose You" achievement, as well as 3000 gold.

Comment by Zythene

Just want to let everyone know that after 5.1, yes, there is a 3,000g reward for this achievement ("I Choose you").

HOWEVER! For those of you that have ALREADY ACHIEVED THIS PRIOR TO THE PATCH, you will receive this money ONCE through the mail on only one character and because this is an account based achievement, only ONE CHARACTER WILL RECEIVE IT. That means that if you decide to log on to a character on a different faction or realm, then characters on other realms and faction will not receive the reward.

Unfortunately I decided to log on to an alt on a different realm (completely forgetting about the reward as well >.< ), was given it in my mail, logged back on my main on a different realm and couldn't receive the money there.
I used the money to buy more battle pets on the AH in the end.

So just a warning, hopefully before anyone else makes this mistake.

Comment by Guanyin

I am quite surprised no one mentioned the painfully obvious typing error yet. Yes, it also says "Defear" in-game.

Comment by polosport02

You gotta be kidding me! I am using all pets with the bonus on at least 2 of their attacks for their respective counterpart. I even have the lift off for the aquatic. Firstly, the little dragon opens with the 1200 hit usually before my pet strikes so I am not getting the last little bit out of the first pet, who kills the critter with over 800 hp left. Then the dragon suddenly stops taking any damage at 244hp. My #2 pet is usually at around 1k then but the dragon proceeds to take no damege for 4-5 rounds and mine of course eventually dies. When the last pet comes out he can kill the dragon quickly but not before taking 300 damage himself leaving it impaired to fight the aquatic. Ending with my pet not lifting off though it is the first thing I hit so he is about 3 shotted by the thing.This sucks.

Comment by Issalice

This was ridiculously easy. I used my Celestial Dragon, Annodized Robo Cub, and Effervescent Glowfly. I used the bear against her dragon and against Chirrup. When the bear went down I used my Celestial. That lasted til the otter had around 75% hp. The flowfly finished her off. Beat her on my first try. The darkmoon trainer was much harder this in.

Comment by Wulfrick

Wow, did 'er in one try, but barely. About soiled myself when I saw her pets were Legendary (I thought Epic was cheating).

Used against her cricket critter, for her otter aquatic, then threw in a for lack of any lvl25 Humanoid or Undead to take on her dragonkin. Down to my Eagle against her Aquatic, 75 health left, knocked her last pet down to 1 health, next round she missed and I missed, next round she missed and I hit. *faint*

Got , , and all at once, followed by a few seconds later when I turned the quest in. BOOYA!

My experience with all these tamers - even if you have all the right classes for the fight, it still comes down to RNG. If you've got the right classes and abilities and still lose, heal up and go again. Eventually you'll get more crits than misses and voila. *shrug*

Comment by Ryawy

What I have finally found works here is an Elemental with Burn (or Flame Breath), Immolate, and Conflagrate against Stormlash. Call Lightning has the potential to take many pets down to around (but maybe not quite) half health but being a Mechanical ability, the Elemental will take reduced damage right at the start. Any Elemental could grant this advantage but one with a DoT and multi-strike attacks can be incredible here. Their racial is "Elementals ignore all weather effects" but during a Lightning Storm, this is not exactly the case. Mechanical damage added to abilities attacking the elemental are nullified by the "Ignoring weather effects" and will deal normal damage, but an elemental will still benefit from the additional attack points. In this case it will add mechanical damage to Stormlash on the use of Burn, Flame Breath, each tick of Flame Breath, Immolate, each tick of Immolate, and both strikes of Conflagrate. That's nice.

For Chirrup, I used a canine (fox, wolf, worg, ect) with Bite, Howl, and Leap. Chirrup is smart enough to not heal itself at full health so unless it has recieved AoE damage, it will start with Swarm. Even if it will be healing itself, the canine can take it down fairly quickly. After howl, one can either use Bite twice for maximum damage outputor Leap followed by Bite to deal back-to-back damage.

Whiskers can prove pretty frustrating. After a Dive, he will Surge until Dive becomes available again. He will really only start using survival when he's at low health. By "low health" I mean "when you are literally this close to killing it." Unless you can time it well, I wouldn't suggest using Lift-Off. In cases such as this, any durable Flying pet or one which can heal itself will work here.

After 5.2, it seems that pet tamers won't randomize their first two pets. I'm not 100% sure on this. The past few days, Aki has always led with Chirrup, followed with Stormlash and ended with Whiskers. It is possible reverse the first two parts of the strategy above by bursting down Chirrup before he can heal and using your Canine pet to soak the Call Lightning, then switch to your elemental.

Edit 1: Added those things about Flame Breath and more on Chirrup and Whiskers
Edit 2: Chopped up the wall of text and added Edit 1

Comment by 1062573

I'm attaching one strategy that works well for beating this trainer. Of course, there are plenty of ways to beat any trainer.

Pets:
1) Half the time begins with a critter. Doesn’t hit hard, but spends almost every turn with an attack that causes your pet to take double damage for the next two turns.
2) Half the time starts with a dragon. Has an extremely hard hitting ability that it will use when it comes out that makes the weather cause all pets to take damage when they attack.
3) Finishes with a water pet with standard abilities

Team makeup to counter this: Fox Kit (from Tol Barad) or a fox with equivalent abilities, Pandaren Monk (other humanoid abilities will work, but this is an exceptionally effective pet), and a pet with flying attacks. Do not use stuns on the first or second pets the enemy uses as this will cause them to simply swap it, messing up your counters.

How to use this:

1) Start with your Fox Kit and keep pulling the trainer until she begins with the critter. If she begins with the dragon, forfeit and try again. Make sure the Fox Kit is equipped with Bite, Furious Howl, and Dazzling Dance. Open with Dazzling Dance and kill the critter with Bite, nothing special. However, when it’s obvious the critter is going to die on the next attack, re-apply Dazzling Dance so your next pets will have it.

2) The dragon will be second. This is arguably, by far, the most dangerous pet as it has an extremely hard-hitting ability and your current pet will have a +100% damage taken buff on it. When the dragon comes out, use your Furious Howl, and the dragon’s opening ability should kill your Fox Kit. Bring out the Pandaren monk. Make sure it is equipped with Jab, Focus Chi, and Fury of a Thousand Fists. Spend your first turn using Focus Chi. Now, at this point, you should have one turn remaining where the enemy dragon still has Furious Howl on it and your Monk has Focus Chi. Use Fury of a Thousand Fists, which hits hard on its own and is strong against dragons, and the dragon should die with massive overkill (you’re looking at about a 2.8k hit), trivializing this pet. If you don’t have a Pandaren Monk, any pet with a hard-hitting humanoid ability should work, though it may not one-shot the dragon. Peddlefeet’s “Shot Me Through the Heart” ability is likely one good option if you can upgrade this to a rare pet.

3) The final enemy pet will be a water pet. There is nothing particularly special here, do whatever damage you can with your humanoid pet until it dies, then finish off this water enemy with a pet with flying abilities.

Comment by 50728

Here's the strategy that works for me every time.

- Panda Cub (fairly uncommon pet, but cubs like Baby Blizzard Bear are very similar)
- Fel Flame (in fact it was lvl 19 the first time I defeated Aki)
- Clockwork Gnome

Start with the Panda Cub, restarting the match until she begins with Chirrup. This pet is piece of cake, just Bite and Maul through its swarms, and Hibernate when you're around 50%, since you'll heal more than the cricket and you'll always have a health advantage.

This is very important. When Chirrup dies and Stormlash enters, switch instantly to the Fel Flame, otherwise the dragon's tornado attack will one-shot your cub, while the Fel Flame has a lot of mitigation. Immolate and Conflagrate the dragon, then Burn as base attack. Even if your Fel Flame dies, Stormlash's own weather debuff and your Immolate will quickly drain his health.

Now you should have a 100% Clockwork Gnome, and a Panda Cub with around 80% health to beat Whiskers. This is very easy now, just drop a turret, punch the otter and heal yourself as often as possible (anticipate to the damage he'll do to you while healing) and you should beat him easily, often even with a full pet alive.

Good luck, and enjoy the 3000g! :)

Comment by 1064610

She was little tricky at first. To make sure you win, you need to make sure she brings out the pet you want first. In my case, I wanted her to bring out her Critter pet first. You may have to click on forfeit a few time to get the right pet lined up.

Basically once I learned the combo that was good against her, she was easy. I submitted a screenshot showing the pets I used and which abilities I picked. Kun lai Runt just rips apart the critters with ease. He lasted into the next pet and stayed up long enough to eat Call Lighting, and take a couple pot shots at Stormlash before getting killed.This helped bring down his health some for my Fossilized Hatching, and helped him stay alive long enough to take some pot shots at Whiskers. Then my forest moth took over and killed Whiskers with 82% of it's health left.

The order in which you use your pets, can make or break the battle. This is very important! You want to try and have the first two pets alive going up against the next pet. The attacks may be weak, but every attack takes off little bit of HP from the pets. This will give you some breathing room, but not much.

Comment by luxbot

She is tough because, although the critter dies fairly easily, the dragon casts standstorm and then nukes my beast pet for ~1300 each time, one-shotting him. This situation can make it tough to finish off this trio, as my humanoid pet struggles to finish off the dragon.

Use BEAST - HUMANOID - FLYING team for maximum skill usage. I always start against her critter pet with my beast pet.

My successful battle team:
1. Jungle Grub (beast) (rare quality) has high health.
2. Sporeling Sprout (humanoid) (rare quality) is not ideal for this fight, but crouch and jab worked well enough. He died before the dragon about half the time.
3. Effervescent Glowfly (flying) (rare quality) worked pretty well. I used the cocoon ability to start, then started attacking. I was using a bat before, which hits like a truck, but also gets knocked down faster, so the glowfly has a bit more versatility

Comment by Kitaen

this trainer is pretty easy using Magical Crawdad with wish/shell shield/snap
you might add a good alround pet such as Onyxian Whelpling to be safe

if you want to carry a leveling pet this is the way to go

Comment by hootstwo

My strategy wins about 50% (depending on terrible RNG or not)
1st: Chrominius with howl then ravage against the cricket, if I don't get the cricket I abandon and try again. When you get the cricket, howl first, then ravage, it'll be dead on the second swipe granting your Chrominius much needed extra health. In comes her ridiculous Stormlash, Chrominius should get in one good hit against him.

2nd Fluxfire Feline: Windup then prowl, then Windup and Stormlash is dead. If you're lucky, you get one hit in against Whiskers

3rd Seagull: Slicing wind while Whiskers is on the ground, lift off when it dives.

Again, depends on RNG, but I've got about 50-50 success with this. Probably a better choice out there for each of mine, but that's what I've got that works. Good luck!

Comment by ThePeno

Killed it my first try using Kun-Lai Runt (start with Frost Shock, then Rampage), Fel Flame (Immolate, Flame Breath, Conflagrate), and Shrine Fly. The kill order was Chirrup, Stormlash, Whiskers.

Did the daily right after that and won again with the same combination.

Comment by 314042

My strat/team for this final battle of legendaries:
Level 25 Desert Spider (Poison Spit/Brittle Webbing/Spiderling Swarm)
Level 25 Moonkin Hatchling (Punch/Clobber/Moonfire)
Level 25 Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling (Peck/Slicing Wind/Lift-Off)

Forfeit battles until you start off with Chirrup. Start off with Brittle Webbing, then Poison Spit, and then Spiderling Swarm. One rotation of each knocked Chirrup right out.

When Stormlash comes out, he immediately does is lightning storm, and kills Desert Spider in one shot. Bring in your Moonkin Hatchling, and immediately cast Clobber. This will force Stormlash to retreat and bring in Whiskers. Switch to your Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling. More than likely Whiskers will start to cast dive. Go right into Lift-Off so it misses you, and then you'll land a pretty good hit.

This battle will be over quickly, and Stormlash will come right back in, but now you have two pets to be able to use with him (or however much health your Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling has). Do what you can until Stormlash kills the bird.

When you bring your Moonkin Hatchling back in, use Clobber again. The stun will give you another turn to just use punch to wear him down.

Hopefully with forcing Stormlash out, and then stunning him, you should get enough space to knock him out and then win.

Comment by nostariel

The quest after this is the Pandaren Spirit Tamer, found in Shrine of Seven Stars. Quest starts with Sara Finkleswitch. She is out on the terrace.

Comment by 1039340

Step-by-Step Guide for Defeating Grand Master Aki On a Budget

No expensive/redemption pets needed! No archaeology pets needed!

I don't have any fancy redemption pets, and I never wasted time doing Archaeology. Thus, I had a pretty hard time with this gal. Here are the pets I now use to consistently defeat her. My pets are lvl 25 rares in this order:

Rock Viper (snake) with Bite, Hiss, Burrow
Fluxfire Feline with Claw, Wind-Up, Supercharge
Sandy Petrel(sea gull) with Thrash, Adrenaline Rush, Lift-Off

1. Reset the fight until you get Chirrup. Attack with Rock Viper's Hiss.
2. Bite the next two rounds as the cricket continues to swarm you.
3. Burrow
4. Cricket dies from the burrow, and in that same round the debuff from Swarm will have faded, which lets you survive Stormlash's first Call Lightning
5. Hiss as many times as you can until your snake dies. This ensures Fluxfire Feline will get first attacks on Stormlash.
6. Switch to Fluxfire Feline
7. Wind-Up
8. Supercharge
9. Cast a 2nd Wind-Up. Stormlash should die.
Depending on RNG, the Fluxfire Feline may or may not last until Whiskers.
10. Whiskers is more of a dynamic fight, so your rotation may vary. Consider Thrashing if Stormlash's Lightning Cloud is still up. I prefer to use Adrenaline Rush to ensure because having the first turn let's me see when Whiskers dives, at which point I'll Lift-Off to avoid Dive's large damage.

With this composition and strat, I'm 4 for 4 against her so far. Good luck!

Comment by Haxan

I finally managed to beat her down. I used a rare Snake, rare Kun-Lai Runt and rare Imperial Eagle Chick. I promise you this set up really works.

Comment by Suej

I just forgot to check, and fought her with the team I had active at that time:

Celestial Dragon, with which I fought the Cricket, using mainly Roar (strong against critters), Moonfire (great damage, no matter it isn't used against Flying pets) and Ancient Blessing for survivability, as the cricket has 2 differente healings.
Against the Dragon, because of its immunity to weather effects, I used my Core Hound Pup, killing it with two Burns after Howl. Sadly, the Civit one-shotted him using Dive
Mechanical Chicken (previously stoned to Rare) against the Civit. It was quite annoying cos it kept using Surge, so my Overtune was almost useless. Luckily Surge is not a strong attack, so I managed to cast two full Wind-Up and it was the end of it.

I repeated the same team during the daily and it worked perfectly again, so it wasn't luck :)

Comment by 78194

Sandstorm causes Chirrup's Swarm to be blocked 100% of the time while it's up.

So I opened with The Anubisath Idol, then sent my beast in to kill at their leisure all the while taking zero damage because Chirrup's only damaging ability is one I'm negating 100% of the time Sandstorm is up.

Edit: This is a great way to get tons of XP for any level 1. Start with the Anubisath then sandstorm. Send in your level 1 to do any ability (the sandstorm will prevent it from taking damage). Finish off Chirrup and Stormlash with the Anubisath, and your golden.

Comment by Icewaterchrist

Magical Crawdad ftw

Comment by 1059928

Solo'd this trainer with only the anubisath idol.

Comment by 249960

So I figured I'd throw in my strategy for defeating her using only 2 Pets

Amethyst Spiderling - Set it with Poison Spit / Brittle Webbing / Spiderling Swarm.

Flayer Youngling - Set it with Blitz / Deflection / Rampage

Start the fight with Spider, using Webbing, then Poison, and finally Swarm to kill off Chirrup real quick. Stormlash will come out and one shot the spider with Call Lightning. Send in Flayer and take down Stormlash with a couple of Blitz attacks. Once Whiskers comes out Pass your next turn just to let it use Dive. Cast Deflection, and then Rampage. By the time that's done, Whiskers will be nearly dead and a Blitz will finish it.

Comment by Daetur

For people looking to carry low-level pets that need experience through the Aki fight, I was able to solo her entire team using a 25 Anubisath Idol with Crush/Stoneskin/Deflection today. I probably could have used Rupture instead of Deflection.

Comment by mewmewface

used flayer youngling with triple snap deflection and kick

the enemy dragonkin uses a mechanical weather so i used a
gnome with turret

and my last pet sandy petrel, leveling, slicing wind, adrenaline rush, liftoff gained 2k ++ xp!:)

Comment by PennyPennyPenny

Corefire Imp ----Rush/FlameThrower/ Cauterize
, Clockwork Gnome----Metal Fist/ / Build Turrets

Start with Corefire Imp and just keep using Rush until the first guy dies. (it is kinda annoying because of the heals the cricket does but just keep using rush)
When she brings out Stormlash to use Rush just once. Then Stormlash will cast his Call Lighting and then use Cauterize to heal up from the hit. Then you can hit him a few times maybe but in about 1-2 more hits the imp will die.

Next bring out the Clockwork Gnome. Use Build Turret when you can,on CD use Metal Fist.
Usually Whiskers will kill Clockwork gnome. But all you really need is a third guy to throw in while the Turrets kill last guy.

Comment by thulsadoom

My team:

25 Rare Amethyst Spiderling
25 Rare Clockwork Gnome
25 Rare Dragonbone Hatchling

Spiderling used brittle webbing, leech life, and poison spit on Chirrup. Enter Stormlash and Clockwork. Build turret and metal fist (x2) Enter Wiskers. Built another turret and sacrifised Clockwork to Wiskers' Dive. Enter Hatchling. Lift-off for the win.

Comment by Felidire

Definitely one of the easiest that I've faced throughout the entire latter half of the chain, practically no planning was done beforehand.

1. Ominous Flame - Scorched Earth
2. Ominous Flame - Forboding Curse
3. Ominous Flame - Spiritfire Bolt (spam until opponent dies).

4. Ominous Flame - Forboding Curse
5. Ominous Flame - Spiritfire Bolt (spam until you or opponent dies).

6. Feline Familiar - Onyx Bite (if opponent has high HP).
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6. Feline Familiar - Call Darkness (700-1000 damage)

7. Feline Familiar - Onyx Bite (Spam until opponent dies).

During the second battle, the Aquatic guy took down my Feline Familiar, surviving on 1HP. if I had an undead or mechanical that I wanted to level, I imagine it would've received a hefty chunk of exp.

Comment by kevinh4

After defeating Grand Master Aki, you get the achievement , which will reward you Heavy Sack of Gold

Comment by Allara

I one-shot her on my first try with Nightsaber Cub (1,1,2), Anubisath Idol (1,2,2), and Brilliant Kaliri (1,2,2), in that order.

Comment by SilverSnake

If you ever abandon this quest, you can pick it back up from Grand Master Aki himself. Maybe seems obvious to some, but I was at a loss for how to find it again and if this can save someone else some sanity it's worth sharing!

Comment by Garlin

You can easily win with anubisath idol

Soled all 3 pets with CRUSH and keep Stoneskin active for whole fight. Take a little time for 1st enemy pet.

GL

Comment by Wowzir

Another "low-budget" approach to defeating Aki the Chosen and completing Grand Master Aki

Since I had a lot of available pets, but not necessarily the RIGHT pets, I put together a workable comp for Aki the Chosen with what I had available. Perhaps others with similar collections may find something in this useful for their battles.

1) Chirrup: 25 Rare S/B Cogblade Raptor Batter Overtune Exposed Wounds

2) Stormlash: 25 Rare P/B Feline Familiar Onyx Bite Stoneskin Prowl

These first two choices are both a bit weak for the task, so you ~~may~~ will probably wind up with the Feline Familiar fighting on one/both sides of her assigned slot... because of this, it may be worth considering Call Darkness instead of Stoneskin depending on what you have in slots 1 and 3.

3) Whiskers: 25 Rare H/H Anubisath Idol Crush Sandstorm Deflection

The Rematch addon {available on curse.com} is a serious timesaver for me in all my pet battles. It has the ability to select only those B-P families I want to make a selection from based on the ABILITIES of each opponent. For each ability I can expect to have used against my pet, I deselect the pet family against which it has the +damage buff. I also (obviously) deselect the family which is a weak defender in general for that opponent's family. Once that is done, I can use the Rematch tabs to inspect for which of my pets in the filtered population are STRONG against the opponent's family and/or TOUGH against the opponent's family.

In doing this, it was not the least bit surprising just how often there were NO possibilities for "TOUGH against" in my stable... which, OFC, is why these tamers can be so hard to beat.

As far as strategy goes, just use the ol' Muhammad Ali Rope-A-Dope... or, as I like to think of it, the

John Travola Defense... uh, uh, uh ,uh, stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

Job 1 is to keep the defenses up and anticipate what may be coming next, then your secondary goal is to DPS that "sombytch".

Comment by Zidane3838

My Team:

Anubisath Idol - Sandstorm, Crush, and Deflection
Forest Moth - Alpha Strike, Cocoon Strike, and Moth Dust
Leveling Pet

Strategy:
Sandstorm at the start to counter Swarm and then Crush until Chirrup dies.
Crush until Anubisath Idol dies.

Switch to your Leveling Pet and get a hit in.

Switch to Forest Moth and use on cooldown Moth Dust. Use Alpha Strike as filler.
When Whiskers uses Dive use Cocoon Strike.

Comment by 1471577

Kun-Lai Runt
Anubisath Idol
Lil Bling

First try, again, thanks to all your advice. Lil Bling might have had one more round of life left but we did it :)

Comment by Angelhearth

Anubisath Idol
Crush
Sandstorm
Deflection

Core Hound Pup
Scratch
Dodge
Burrow

Leveling pet. I used a lvl 22 Nordrasil Wisp
Flash
Light
Soul Ward

Comment by fiercefiona

Anubiseth Idol, then Bloodbeak, then Teroclaw.

Much easier than Wastewater Shu!

Comment by Kaiokenx

So, I'd like to say that I just solo'd this trainer with the Anubisath Idol pet only. 111 for abilities. I lived with like 3 hp before the humanoid heal on the last hit, but it's possible to solo. I had a bit of luck with sandstorm making the last pet miss. Definitely an easy fight.

Comment by Opalcorder

I used :
Anubisath idol: crush, sandstorm, and deflection.
Direhorn runt: trihorn charge, horn attack, and trihorn sheild.
Stunted shardhorn: smash, horn attack, andstampede.
All three level 25 and Rare.

Comment by frigginsweet1

Thanks for all the feedback on this fight. I started with Anubisath Idol (using Crush, Sandstorm and Deflection), downed the first 2 pets, he died during the 3rd and I finished off the last pet with Flamering Moth (using Alpha Strike, Cocoon Strike, and Moth Dust). You could probably drop in the Elekk Plushie or a leveling pet during any of the first pets abilities since they are all heals and the Swarm, of course having Sandstorm up from your Anubisath Idol will block any damage completely.

Comment by Gunslinger

Anubisath Idol 1-1-1 can solo the first two - just make sure that Sandstorm is off cooldown when Stormlash comes up (pass rounds against Chirrup if necessary, even letting it heal), because Stormlash uses Call Lightning on the first round, and you want to immediately use Sandstorm to reverse the weather and stop the extra damage. Stormlash will use Roar in the next round, so use Crush that round, followed by Deflection to block one of the extra damage hits, then Crush it to death.

When your Idol dies against Whiskers, a Crow 1-2-2 or Gilnean Raven 1-2-1 will make quick work of Whiskers: Call Darkness -> Nocturnal Strike -> Peck for the three-punch knockout.

As others have mentioned, swap in your carry at any time in round 1 against Chirrup.

Comment by SaltyGoldfish

No longer works after the Shadowlands pre-patch!

~~Very fast and absolutely reliable 2-pet strategy:~~

Sharptalon Hatchling (abilities: Falcosaur Swarm!---anything---Predatory Strike)
Fledgling Warden Owl (abilities: anything---Call Darkness---Nocturnal Strike)
Carry Pet level 11+ (it can take up to 637 (956) aquatic damage), safe for level 1 magic or mechanical pets

Round 01: Falcosaur Swarm!
Round 02: Falcosaur Swarm!
Round 03: Predatory Strike---------- Chirrup dies
Round 04: Falcosaur Swarm!--------- if Sharptalon Hatchling dies, choose Fledgling Warden Owl and continue from round 06
Round 05: Falcosaur Swarm!--------- Sharptalon Hatchling dies, choose Fledgling Warden Owl
Round 06: Call Darkness---------- Stormlash dies
Round 07: Nocturnal Strike
Round 08: switch Carry Pet
Round 09: switch Fledgling Warden Owl
Round 10: pass
Round 11: Nocturnal Strike end

If you dont mind a little risk, you can use any level 1 carry pet. In this case pass in round 08, switch carry pet in round 09, when Whiskers uses Survival, switch back Fledgling Warden Owl and finish with Nocturnal Strike. Unless you get high critical hit from Dive, it will work.

Comment by Grindlebell

Easy with Terrorclaw Hatchling (claw+dodge+Hawke Eye) then Clockwork Gnome (Turret+Metal Fist + Turret) Didnt need 3rd pet.

Comment by Athynas

Baby Stonehide (Trample, Chew, Feed) & Anubisath Idol (Crush, Sandstorm, Deflection), Elekk Pluslie.

Baby Stonehide; Chew: Trample, Chew, Trample, Chew, Feed (Chirrup Dead)
Switch pet Elekk Pluslie for Stormlash first attack.
Switch pet Anubisath Idol
Anubisath Idol: Cast Sandstorm, Spam Crush, use Deflection before it cast Call Lightning.(Stormlash Dead)
Swith pet to Baby Stonehide
Baby Stonehide: Chew, Trample, Chew, Feed...

Comment by Metafrey

I can't find this trainer? Doesn't show up on any map and when I go to the map location there's nothing there but burning buildings and enemies? I can't find any info on why this is the case so can anyone help me out?

Nevermind, I found the trainer at Mogu'Shan Palace, not sure why it shows on the map listed as they are not there anymore?

Comment by Ratrepe

This is what worked for me twice in a row

Level 25 Pets:

My team:
1.Zandalari Anklerender - Hunting party, Leap, Black claw
2.Ikky - Savage talon, Black claw, Flock
3.Anubisath Idol - Crush, Sandstorm, Deflection

Strategy:
+Zandalari Anklerender+
1. Black Claw
2. Hunting Party
+Anubisath Idol+
3. Deflection
4. Sandstorm
5. Crush (Until Anubisath Idol die)
+Ikky+
6. Black Claw
7. Flock

Comment by ThyrazOnSpotify

Easiest way to defeat this currently:

Zandalari Anklerender (2,1,2)
Anubisath Idol (1,2,1)

Step 1: Destroy the first pet by using black claw then hunting party

Step 2: Just punch the dragon to death, don't use anything else

Step 3: Use Stoneskin, her pet may go underground then you just click Deflection and keep punching after that.

I did have an Iron Starlette as third pet but I never got to use it.

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Grand Master Aki

Defeat Aki the Chosen in a pet battle.

	Defeat Aki the Chosen (1)

Description

You have fought hard and well against the trainers of Azeroth. Even the grand masters have fallen to your cunning tactics.

I now await you in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, for you have earned the privilege to face me in battle. Come, <name>, and let us see if you have what it takes to defeat me.

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Completion

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You will receive:

	Sack of Pet Supplies

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