Party Burn Plague

H/S Tiny Twister (Wild Winds, Bash, Call Lightning)
S/S Fiendish Imp (Burn, Immolation, Nether Gate)
H/H Scourged Whelpling (Tail Sweep, Death and Decay, Plagued Blood)

I’m going back to basics. The imp and Scourged Whelpling combo was one of my go-to combos for a long time. I used it frequently in 5.2 and possibly even before then. How did I use the Fiendish Imp before it existed? Well, before the force swapping maniac was around its Wild Magic casting cousin the Corefire Imp did the trick. The trick being having Plagued Blood give the imp an extra heal from its back line Immolation ticks. When the undead dragon gets Death and Decay down it can also get double heals from Plagued Blood. The S/S Fiendish Imp is far better than it’s cousin thanks to its 333 speed and Nether Gate, but I still have a soft spot on my heart for the Corefire Imp.

Where does the Tiny Twister fit in? The ticks from Immolation and Death and Decay work really well when the weather is lightning storm. The Tiny Twister can change the weather with Call Lightning. That’s not even the best part: the thing that has made the Tiny Twister great in the past is Bash. At 289 speed it is on the high end of medium speed, which means it is faster than many pets out there. It can cast Bash then watch while a stunned opponent takes damage from all of the ticks.

Alas, my favorite lightning team of all time seems to be outdated. I tried to revive Party Party Party (with Lil’ Bling and the Macabre Marionette), but it went 10-8-1 in this 6.2 meta. It was after that mediocre experience that I decided I needed the tricky imp to once again bring validity to my stunning twister. I have decided to take this team to one hundred wins, so I introduce to you the first installment of “Journey to 100”. The lowest acceptable win to loss (or draw) ratio is five to two, so I hope that I have less than forty losses when I get to one hundred. I think I can shoot for thirty thanks to the imp’s trickiness. I suppose that will be my goal, 100-30. Wish me luck.

September 7th, 2015
W: MPD, Spawn Of G’Nathus, Stonegrinder (1-0)
Easy win against pets named “Your”, “Gonna” and “Run”. I ran all over their faces with the imp. I actually really like when people name their pets like this, because I have no problem with coming back hard with Owngrinders or Rick Frostly for a revenge stomping. This time I didn’t need revenge since I won.

W: MPD, Fragment Of Anger, Graves (2-0)
Controlled the battle well with Nether Gate.

W: Bonkers, Spring Rabbit, Hydraling (3-0)
The rabbit was slow and I used Bash to stall while Shell Armor was up.

W: Frostfur Rat, Fel Flame, Hydraling (4-0)
This was actually the closest battle so far. My opponent fled towards the end while I thought they still had a chance.

L: Fragment Of Anger, Fel Flame, Jungle Grub (4-1)
A Soulrush crit made it so that I couldn’t back line the imp without dying from Spirit Beam. Stupid crit.

W: Tiny Snowman, Clock Em’, Seagull (5-1)
It’s not very fun to beat up on three pets names Ernie, Joe and Jack.

W: Stitched Pup, Jademist Dancer, Core Hound Pup (6-1)
I only won due to my opponents mistake: instead of using Infected Bite against my imp the Stitched Pup tried to Consume Corpse, but my imp took it to zero, making the heals useless. My lack of avoidance made the Geysers a real PITA. Getting to one hundred may be harder than I thought if such mediocre teams are giving me this much trouble. I better throw in some screenshots or this will be one boring wall of text to look at.

W: Alpine Hare, Zomstrok, Servant Of Demidos (7-1)
The rabbit was somewhat annoying, but not really problematic. When the rabbit came in I would bring in my imp, refresh Immolation when it was not attackable or when it was going underground. I swapped Zomstrok out effectively and made the undead shore creature lose its undead round with bash. This was an easy win, I seem to be having a harder time with “easy” teams but winning handily against what would seem to be tougher teams. That happens to Frosty Cold Rats (link) a lot.

September 5th, 2015
W: Anubisath Idol, Qiraji Guardling, Pandaren Monk (8-1)
Even in the world of undead AoE if this person were to replace the weak link that is the Pandaren Monk this sandstorm team could be good. I’m surprised that I won. It was as colse as it could possible be: the Qiraji Guardling took my Scourged Whelpling to zero and killed the Tiny Twister on the back line right before Plagued Blood and and a lightning tick did exactly 380 damage, which was the amount needed to kill the bug girl.

D: Voodoo Figurine, Ore Eater, Feral Vermling (8-1-1)
There was recently someone on the forums who complained about crits being too prevalent. I’m totally fine with a 5% crit rate, I just think it’s funny how people only rememeber the crits that make them lose, myself included. In all the reports of my wins I don’t think that I’ve mentioned crits at all. When I win I’m an elite battle who is so good that I operate outside the realm of rng. Yet in both my first loss and now this draw I put the blame square on the shoulders of a crit. I thought I played it well enough by leaving my imp to take the Voodoo Figurine to 0 then survive the undead round. My imp can survive two strong hits, right? A crit and a high hit said otherwise.

W: Stonegrinder, Teroclaw Hatchling, Kirin Tor Familiar (9-1-1)
The Teroclaw Hatchling started out playing well so I thought I was in for a lot of trouble. I think the lightning ticks surprised my opponent when the ticks sent the bird below half, then my twister was able to cast Bash and take the bird out before it could heal then go to the back. This was another close battle. Very fun, but I keep thinking it may be a rough path to one hundred wins.

W: Fiendish Imp, Son Of Sethe, Mechanical Scorpid (10-1-1)
I ended up “no timing” this battle, which is what I call winning with all of my pets surviving. How did I possible do this against such a high powered team? Well, the imp was only 281 speed. Due to this I was able to surprise my opponent with a Bash and a lot of ticks to take the imp out before it could back line heal. Deja-vu. To my opponents credit they stuck around to finish what was then a lost cause.

L: Unborn Val’kyr, Warbot, Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling (10-2-1)
I used to respect this player but lately I’ve been spanking them so bad that they run away. I assumed the worst from them and ended up losing head games because I thought they would make a bad choice. Even though I lost, it will take some time to win back my respect after the number of times I have seen their back side. That puts me at the one hundred to thirty ratio and the competition hasn’t been that stiff.

W: Widget The Departed, Nexus Whelpling, Lil’ Bling (11-2-1)
Oh how a well timed swap can turn things around. I forced out the undead cat to make it waste the immortal round on the backline, then took the slow dragon out with a Burn on the next round. Lil’ Bling made a valiant attempt in a showdown with the imp but all of his flashy gold and jewels proved worthless.

D: Unborn Val’kyr, Nether Fairie Dragon, Xu-Fu (11-2-2)
Whenever Xu-Fu doesn’t lose I know that I’ve failed. Looks like valks are going to give me trouble.

W: MPD, MPD, MPD (12-2-2)
When you run three of the same pet you run the risk of being countered hard. The imp countered hard. See the video at 15:35 here Discodoggy’s PvP Pet Battles #13.

September 7th, 2015
W: Bone Seprent, Nightshade Sproutling, Sentinel’s Companion (13-2-2)
You’re doing it wrong! While I was initially worried about this team as soon I saw the breeds my worry went away. It was a 292 speed Bone Serpent and a 273 speed Nightshade Sproutling. It was like Bizarro breed world, where fast is slow and slow is fast. Change the breeds to an H/H Bone Serpent and an S/S Nightshade Sproutling and I don’t win this one.

W: Unborn Val’kyr, Death Adder Hatchling, Emperor Crab (14-2-2)
Maybe this person is just getting back into battling because they tried to cast Haunt on the immortal round. It was a very close battle and this was probably what allowed me to win.

September 12, 2015
L: Alpine Hare, Trunks, Fragment Of Anger (14-3-2)
A loss from the Ginsu Brothers. When someone uses one of my own teams against me I have a mixed response: I’m glad that something I created is successful, but dammit, I just lost!

September 13, 2015
W: Little Black Ram, Winter’s Little Helper, Spawn Of Onyxia (15-3-2)
This presumably new player was extremely slow with their choices, which combined with lightning made for a very slow battle. Blizzard did a great job by speeding up the turret animation. Hopefully they will do the same with lightning. Give us an inch and we ask for a mile, we ungrateful bastards! This battle was not close at all, the only thing that scared me was Ice Tomb, but the helper wasn’t carrying it. Forcing out the dragon after its charge up round seems like a mean thing to do to a new player, but they have to learn the ropes somehow. A 75% win rate after this battle, I can totally live with that.

W: Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling, Fragment Of Anger, Teroclaw Hatchling (16-3-2)
Did I just do that? Chalk one up for the good guys! The good guys being me, of course. I was able to do some good things with swaps: I forced out the FoA to deny the immotal round, on two occasion I foresaw the Teroclaw Hatchling using Dodge so I swapped in my Scourged Whelpling. I also swapped out the MPD in the beginning to deny both the AoE and decoy. A good win.

W: Unborn Val’kyr, Clockwork Gnome, Kun-Lai Runt (17-3-2)
Another new player, I could tell by the uncommon valk. It’s interesting that new players flock to the gnome and the KLR. I was the same in 5.0; my first mech to level twenty-five was the Clockwork Gnome. This was an easy win since my opponent let me swap the valk out twice.

W: Electrified Razortooth, Blighthawk, Blighthawk (18-3-2)
Paralyzing Shock caught me off guard and I was afraid a Blighthawk was going to come in and pound my imp. It didn’t happen, and any momentum that my opponent had was lost when they cast Consume Corpse without any pets being dead. And you wonder why my win rates are so good. There really needs to be a beginner’s queue or ranks or something like that. I won’t go into detail since I already have numerous times, but I wish pet battles had different sorts of queues like Hearthstone does. Until then new players will have to face players will have to face a trial by fire in the PvP queue.

W: Unborn Val’kyr, Clockwork Gnome, Kun-Lai Runt (19-3-2)
Very nice, my friend! I’m assuming this was the same team from a few battles ago. It looks like they went out and got a stone for the valk. What was previously a faceroll turned out to be much closer this time. My Tiny Twister was the sole survivor with around 800 health. Keep up the good work, drop the gnome and KLR and you’ll be fine.

September 16th, 2015 (20-3-2)
W: Netherspace Abyssal, Willy, Alpine Foxling
The imp’s speed was too much for this team to handle. I no-timed it.

W: Sunreaver Micro-Sentry, Clockwork Gnome, Mechanical Scorpid (21-3-2)
You would think that I would totally destroy this team thanks to my imp, but it was closer than you might expect. The best thing that I did for myself was to get Immolation and Death and Decay going while my opponent called the lightning for me. At one point the battle hung in the balance as the mech scorp faced my twister. An S/S scorp could have blinded my 289 speed elemental effectively, but it only had 260 speed. Abother good thing that I did for myself was to let the Scourged Whelpling take the enhanced damage hits from Black Claw and lightning. Since those added up fast to take my pet to zero health quick I made the most of the undead racial. I’ve been beaten by triple mech lightning teams plenty of times, I was glad to have my imp.

W: Emerald Proto-Whelp, Stitched Pup, Chrominius (22-3-2)
Easy win against a new player using an uncommon EPW.

September 17th, 2015
W: Darkmoon Rabbit, Alpine Hare, Spring Rabbit (23-3-2)
F-A-I-L… fail.. dance! Boop-boop-beep-beep-boop-boop-boop-beep-boop-beep. That’s my pet battle rendition of Safety Dance. I can only assume that this is the same person who was running triple MPDs, the same person who ran away with triple MPDs during the process of getting spanked by Rick Frostly, the same person who tried to counter triple undead with triple rabbits. It was somewhat of a close battle; I attribute the win to my imp out speeding the 322 speed DMR. If they could have afforded an S/S DMR I probably would have lost. Please bear with the jerk side of me, I’m usually much nicer, but c’mon, triple MPDs!

My guildmate once described the video of Safety Dance as a bunch of hobbits on acid. Unfortunately, this version doesn’t have the boop-boop-beep-beep-boop-boop-boop-beep-boop-beep intro from the 12″ that I refer to above, but who doesn’t love hobbits on acid. Enjoy!

I actually have two different healers named Safetydance, sad.

W: Lil’ Ragnaros, Lava Crab, Crow (24-3-2)
This was a Lava Wave spamming team with a Crow thrown in for good measure. I could see it working occasionally if the trap goes off at the right time, showing off its OPness.

September 20th, 2015
L: Graves, Ghastly Kid, Frostwolf Ghostpup (24-4-2)
Copy-catter dirty-ratter. Make your own damn team instead of using one of mine. I thought the battle was done and started writing this, only to realize it wasn’t over yet. If you’re reading this I assure you my mistake was unintentional, you dirty rat.

September 21st, 2015
L: Fragment Of Anger, MPD, Graves (24-5-2)
This was surprisingly close. If the FoA doesn’t stun then I’ve got a good shot at winning. As soon as this player arrives on my meta I know the fun is over. They generally spam teams with multiple 1st-tier pets like this and force me to run my top teams if I want to win. It’s time for Rick Frostly.

September 22nd, 2015
W: Unborn Val’kyr, Scourged Whelpling, Dread Raven (25-5-2)
I swapped the Tiny Twister in for a chance at Nocturnal Strike missing but it connected anyways. Later the Tiny Twister died on the back line to the Scourged Whelpling’s nasty breath. Somehow I still managed to come out on top. And by somehow, I mean by the imp making some timely swaps. A quarter of the way there!

September 23rd, 2015
W: Chrominius, Dandelion Frolicker, Hyjal Wisp (26-5-2)
The imp was effective against the 325 speed pets. My opponent thought Chrominius was made to spam Arcane Explosion.

October 3rd, 2015
L: Moon Moon, Sky-Bo, Ore Eater (26-6-2)
If there’s one thing I should be happy about on my meta it’s the under representation of the Ore Eater. I would much rather face Graves than an Ore Eater any day. Even against the OP Shell Armor I thought I was in good shape here, until Moon Moon crit for over 900 to end my Tiny Twister way too early. At the end of the battle the Ore Eater was able to take out all 1806 of my full health Scourged Whelpling and then finish off the 700 or so health of my imp. Lame, but I’m grateful this doesn’t happen more often. I feel like running Graves now, but I will refrain and do another battle with this team.

W: Nexus Whelpling, Nexus Whelpling, Nexus Whelpling (27-6-2)
I had to be really smart about my weather since my opponent had three pets that could change it. The problem with the Nexus Whelpling is that Mana Surge locked the dragons into it for three rounds. This allowed to me to change the weather twice at times that were really beneficial to me. It was still a close battle; my Tiny Twister survived with a few hundred health.

January 13, 2016 (27-7-2)
L: Graves, Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling, Blossoming Ancient
Just when you think that every scumbag comp has been created you come across this. A Graves/MPD combo is bad enough, but then you throw in a tree? Gross.

L: Weebomination, Blossoming Ancient, Son Of Sethe (27-8-2)
What a bad night to have insomnia on. Two trees in a row. I knew all of these JTOH teams would be tough to play with.

February 13, 2016
W: MPD, Darkmoon Zeppelin, Clockwork Gnome (28-8-2)
This was a nice welcome back after not using my team for a month: three mechs to terrorize with Immolation.

W: Nexus Whelpling, Crimson Moth, Cinder Pup (29-8-2)
When my team works it works well; both the imp and the Tiny Twister survived with almost full health, I didn’t even need to use the latter. There were no dust procs, so of course that helped my victory. Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking when they create anti-synergy. Neither dust nor the volcano could stun once the Nexus Whelpling put up arcane winds.

W: Singing Sunflower, Teroclaw hatchling, MPD (30-8-2)
I was ready to dig in for long one, but my opponent let the flower die prematurely. Still, a quality win against two 1st-tier pets. That win brings me back up to 75%, seems like a good time to give it a rest.

February 19, 2016
W: Shard of Cyrukh, Frostwolf Ghostpup, Ancient Nest Guardian (31-8-2)
Ok, it’s the pet battle event week, so any win feels sort of cheap.

W: Shard of Cyruhk, Frostwolf Ghostpup, Ancient Nest Guardian (32-8-2)
Why oh why must you let the timer run down every time you are stunned?

W: Graves, Stonegrinder, Fel Flame (33-8-2)
The possibility of getting stunned two (or more) turns in a row is really a horrible mechanic. In the thread about changes in Legion both Frog Kiss and Sleeping Gas are mentioned, but not Screeching Gears. The community has brought this to the attention of the devs so hopefullyScreeching Gears will be addressed, too. Even though I had to deal with back to back stuns on my twister I was able to win. My opponent let me force out Graves in the beginning and also when he was about to go to zero, which meant the immortal round was wasted.

February 20, 2016
W: Deathwing, Corefire Imp, Panther Cub (34-8-2)
Yep, I’m still cashing in on the pet battle event. What a cheater! If only there was a Bon Jovi song that said “ooohhhh, we’re over one third there” I would sing it.

W: Unborn Val’kyr, MPD, Mr. Bigglesworth (35-8-2)
This was shaping up to be a very close battle. It was a low health MPD and full health Mr. B against my full health imp and low health Scourged Whelpling. Mr. Bigglesworth put up Ice Tomb so I swapped in my imp to get Immolation going again and eat the incoming damage. Then Mr. Bigglesworth did that baffling move that I see happen a lot: the Ice Barrier went up! Ok, so now I can attack and let the Ice Tomb hit me or I can pass and let the barrier block the damage. Obviously I passed. My opponent ran away.

L: Onyxian Whelpling, Bronze Whelpling, Nexus Whelpling (35-9-2)
Rage quit! A 1282 damage Breath crit at the end turned the battle around. I’m sort of in shock that I lost to a triple damage team. I guess crit happens.

W: Molten Corgi, Clock Em’, Firewing (36-9-2)
Instead of quitting I took the rage out on a corgi. So satisfying!

W: Firewing, Fel Flame, Strand Crab (37-9-2)
Rare Firewing, uncommon quality crab, poor quality Fel Flame. It must be that weekend!

W: Weebomination, Emerald Whelpling, Molten Corgi (38-9-2)
I almost lost to this team, which enough to make me want to take a break. Of course the Weebomination is going to give me some trouble, but an Emerald Whelpling? It’s time to take a break!

February 21, 2016
L: Graves, Fragment Of Anger, Trunks (38-10-2)
My opponent wasn’t the sharpest pet battler out there, but who cares when you have two out of the seven 1st-tier pets on one team along with a pet that synergizes well with them.

W: Searing Scorchling, Netherspace Abyssal, Hatespark the Tiny (39-10-2)
This battle was quite a bit closer than I expected. Plagued Blood helped out a lot.

W: MPD, Fragment Of Anger, Teroclaw Hatchling (40-10-2)
Yay, quality win. Of course having an imp against the MPD helps, but I still had to be really smart with managing my health against the back line damage. I also had to eat the Soulrush carefully. I earned this one.

January 4, 2017
W: Xu-Fu, Cinder Kitten, Brightpaw (41-10-2)
Almost a year later I decided to continue this team’s journey. This was a fairly simple team to warm up against, although Brightpaw has suprised me in the past a few times with its Prowl to Arcane Dash combo. This time I was able to force swap it after it buffed. I was also able to use Bash after Xu-Fu used Prowl, which meant I avoided a ton of damage.

D: Bone Sepent, Unborn Val’kyr, Son Of Sethe (41-10-3)
At first glance I thought there was no way that I would even come close to winning this, but my opponent let me gate at will without trying to juke. The best case of this was when I gated out the Bone Serpent to deny its racial. I ended up facing the valk with my twister to end the battle, and even with Bash the twister didn’t have enough damage to eek out the win. Still, did better than I thought I would.

February 11, 2018
W: Direhorn Runt, Stunted Direhorn, Oasis Moth (42-10-3)
Hey, remember this team? I barely do. I seems like a good time to try an average team in the queue, due to all of the achievement teams around. Also, now that you can queue from Argus the queue times are much better than the last four months of 2017. Queue times were so bad I got farther away from pet battles than ever before, but my interest is once again peaked. So I took this team into the queue and had a very close welcome back battle. This was an rng team I was facing, hoping to interrupt and stun me. I started with the imp to get Immolation going, then brought in the Tiny Twister for the lightning. Rng was neither bad nor good for either player. The deciding factor was my opponent trying to sleep my Scourged Whelpling with the moth while Resilience was up. The battle ended with my 625 health imp coming in faster than the 400ish health moth, a Nether Gate away from sure victory. Now if I can only remember how to take a screenshot.

L: Blightbreath, Blightbreath, Scourged Whelpling (42-11-3)
I crushed this team earlier with a z raptor, but could not replicate that result against this Dreadful Breath team. My imp was doing well on the back line, taking the breaths well thanks to Plagued Blood and back line healing, but on the front line I was doing weak damage with Tail Sweep instead of doing more damage by spamming Plagued Blood. Oops.

February 12, 2018
W: Argi, Alterac Brew-Pup, Mining Monkey (43-11-3)
Two days in a row! This was an easy win against someone’s beast achievement team, the imp swapped out the ABP whenever it put its shield up, Argi didn’t land and stuns.

W: Nexus Whelpling, Electrified Razortooth, Darkmoon Zeppelin (44-11-3)
It seemed close as we headed down the stretch, but the lightning, imp ticks, winds, and decay added up to a lot of damage on the final Electrified Razortooth.

February 17, 2018
W: Lil’ K.T., Clockwork Gnome, Plagued Blood (45-11-3)
This battle was boring to the point that I made a few mistakes due to thinking about what I was going to do later on today. A lot of swaps, a lot of Plagued Blood healing. My opponent tried to get a Repair off, but I gated the gnome out, and we all know that Repair doesn’t work on the back line, intended or not.

W: Anubisath Idol, Sister Of Temptation, Hogger (46-11-3)
Tiny Twister did well against the idol, both stunning it and changing the weather when necessary. Going against three humanoids actually let my Scourged Whelpling do some decent damage instead of just filling a support role.

W: Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling, Clockwork Gnome, Darkmoon Zeppelin (47-11-3)
After doing a bunch of damage, taking down the Decoy and swapping out the gnome before it drop its guns, the imp smiled as this triple mech team ran away.

W: Mechanical Axebeak, Mechanical Axebeak, Axebeak Hatchling (48-11-3)
I was initially worried when I saw the three flyers, but realized that I was decently equipped to handle this flying achievement team. My Immolation ticks, along with the DnD field effect would rip through the decay, my beefy undead could tank a decent amount of the hard hits, the imp could gate out for strong damage when faster. That’s what I thought would happen, and that’s what did happen, it wasn’t even as close as I thought it would be.

W: Iron Starlette, Fluxfire Feline, Pandaren Monk (49-11-3)
If it wasn’t for the Iron Starlette I might feel as if I were in a pet battle time warp. The Pandaren Monk was the original “ermergersh pert bertles er p2w”. Seriously, people thought this thing was OP in the early days of pet battles, leading some of the first p2w –> git gud forum arguments. I can’t remember what side I was on. I was a poor forumer in the early days and probably said some stupid stuff until I learned the ropes. That’s me, being stupid until I learn not to be stupid. Also, the Fluxfire Feline was one of the legitimately most extremely OP pets in the history of pet battles. Wind-Up to Supercharge was more brutal back then when there were less ways to deal with it, plus it was fast, plus it glitched the mechanical and undead racial, killing both of those families before the racial kicked in. Seriously, it was bad. Oh, this battle was an easy win with my imp against two mechs. I’m starting to feel a bit icky at all of the easy wins.

L: Graves, Ghastly Kid, Boneshard (49-12-3)
Well there’s the end of that run. There was just too much undead damage against my superstar imp. Good news though, the Boneshard gave me an idea for my undead achievement team.

March 5, 2018
W: Crusher, Tiny Bog Beast, WInter’s Little Helper (50-12-3)
Ohhhhhhh, we’re halfway there, oh oh, Party Burn Play-ay-aygue. Bon Jovi loves my team, ok. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this team. Crusher is turning into a hated pet, but I love the Tiny Bog Beast. The helpers are just meh. I’m gonna go with meh. The imp was faster than all of the opposing pets so I controlled the battle. My biggest fear was the Ice Tomb, but I was able to eat the damage and stun with my beefy undead so it didn’t seem as significant. Is Crusher giving my Tiny Twister the finger in that pic?

L: Magical Crawdad, Fiendish Imp, Unborn Val’kyr (50-13-3)
This player made a number of mistakes, but in the end it didn’t matter. The crawdad is the ultimate grand daddy of all thing scumbaggery, and it counters my team pretty damn hard.

May 12, 2019
W: Amberglow Stinger, Lil’ Ragnaros, Sneaky Marmot (51-13-3)
Thought I forgot all about this team? You’re right! It’s been over a yerar since I busted this team out, and it may be even better in this meta. The imp is certainly back on top, along with a few old faces (Murkalot and Wyrmy Tunkins) along with some newcomers (TCS and Hermit Crab). Looking forward to making some progress with this team, as well as finding a new JTO team. This battle never felt close, with the imp and the lightning ticks doing what needed to be done. You never can tell whats going to happen with a trap (trappen lol?), but it went off at a really bad time for my opponent.

W: Alarm-O-Bot, Fel Flame, MPD(52-13-3)
I really have no guilt using the tier 1 imp when I face an MPD. May MPD users forever feel the pain they dealt out in WoD.

W: Sister Of Temptation, Albino Chimaeraling, Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling (53-13-3)
This doesn’t seem like a great team at first glance, but it has surprised me a few times. Against a lesser team it may have prevailed, but against the imp it didn’t fare well. I think I’ll call it quits for now, don’t want to spam this team and make people come up with counters. Eventually I’ll have to contend with some of this meta’s heavy hitters (Hermit Crab, TCS, other imps), but today was pretty calm.

W: MPD, Brightpaw, Weebomination (54-13-3)
I hopped back on a few hours later to find an MPD in the queue. Man, do I hold a grudge or what?

May 15, 2019
W: Wyrmy Tunkins, Harbinger Of Flame, Ore Eater (55-13-3)
Both the imp and the wyrmy guy are tier 1, but I’d choose an imp over Wyrmy Tunkins any day. If I was inviting one to a party I’d probably go with Wyrmy Tunkins. He’s well read, he accessorizes well (piercings, candles, bracelets) and just looks like a better time in general. But the imp wins in the pvp pet battle category. I did get a crit in the end to kill the Ore Eater. However, my imp had full health so even with Shell Armor up and having to take a Body Slam I’m confident the imp would have won it.

W: Wyrmy Tunkins, Harbinger Of Flame, Ore Eater(56-13-3)
Same team, same result. This time I benefitted from a much more meaningful crit at the begging of the battle, a crit that prevented the Ore Eater from getting a second Shell Armor up and living to do a lot more damage.

May 17, 2019
W: Wicked Soul, Blossoming Ancient, Lil’ Bling(57-13-3)
I didn’t think I would win this, but after the first turn my opponent stopped playing, and fled by the third turn.

May 19, 2019
W: Moonkin Hatchling, Sprite Darter Hatchling, Hyjal Wisp (58-13-3)
This player made a pretty good juke when I was trying to gate out the wisp so that it didn’t get the heals from Wish. Other than that things went pretty well for my team.

W: Blazehound, Molten Corgi, Core Hound Pup(59-13-3)
The goal was to use the imp to ensure that a trap never went down. No traps went down and I ended up no-timing it.

D: Cinder Pup, Graves, Infected Squirrel (59-13-4)
There was just too much undead damage to shield the imp from, and the lightning helped my opponent. The win streak ends, but at least I eeked out a draw.

May 22, 2019 (60-13-4)
W: Pandaren Air Spirit, Water Waveling, Tiny Snowman
Apparently I’m a really, really bad person and a hypocrite to boot. I did the thing I always reprimand others for: running a tier 1 pet during event week. My excuse? I lost to an MPD, it pissed me off so requeued with an imp. Only as the rage drained from my skull did I realize what a horrible person I was being.

June 8, 2019
L: Anubisath Idol, Hyjal Wisp, Emerald Proto-Whelp (60-14-4)
Damn. In the end I couldn’t take out the dragon with the imp and twister. Damn.

June 26, 2019
W: MPD, Magical Crawdad, Death Adder Hatchling (61-14-4)
I hadn’t used my imp for a while because things were pretty calm, but then a triple mech team with multiple 25% stuns (two Stonegrinders and a mech pig) beat me a few times…BRING OUT THE IMP! I was worried when I saw the crawdad, but it didn’t put its shield up right away, then when it realized its folly I was able to Bash to prevent the shield and then the Wish from happening. The ticks really added up, crawdad dead. The rest was a breeze since it was a slow adder.

W: Macabre Marionette, Boneshard, Spirit Of Competition (62-14-4)
Easy win. The undead damage wasn’t enough for the back line heals. No triple mechs again, I better put away the imp before I piss someone off and ramp things up.

July 6, 2019
L: Bone Serpent, Fossilized Hatchling, Amalgam Of Destruction (62-15-4)
This loss was particularly rage inducing because I recently did a server transfer to Stormrage with my main, which seemed to change my battlegroup. This new battlegroup should be called “all imps all the time”. Seriously, these people got the memo that the imp is currently king. When I’m not facing an imp I’m usually facing a TCS or Hermit Crab. I keep trying to make my interesting teams but of course am not having much success (except with the Muck Slug, but that’s a different topic). So finally I took the low road, decided to get in on the imp action, then missed a key Nether Gate in the Darkness and lost. Rage inducing I tell ya.

September 4, 2019
W: Soul Of The Aspects, Lil’ K.T., Zandalari Toenibbler (63-15-4)
Primal Cry is always tough to deal with for pets that rely on speed like the imp, but after the raptor was dispersed the other two pets were easy enough to take down.

W: Twilight, Happiness, Caverdark Nightmare (64-15-4)
Ugg, a darkness miss made this closer than I would have cared for. I think my opponent could have done better in the end, I didn’t get stunned once, which is a rare thing to see against Twilight.

L: Unborn Val’kyr, Bloodstone Tunneler, Magma Rageling (64-16-4)
I’ve said it 1,000 times before and I’ll keep saying it until they are fixed; traps are brokenly OP. I especially love it when they take your undead to 0 health, stunning the pet for the undead round. Lovely.

W: Celestial Dragon, Anodized Robo-Cub, Proto-Drake Whelp (65-16-4)
I ran my imp this time to get revenge against a triple mech, triple Decoy team. I would have loved to watch that team suffer, but instead I got paired with a person running two uncommon pets. They ended up fleeing.

September 11, 2019
W: Unborn Val’kyr, Molten Corgi, Eldritch Manafiend (66-16-4)
Still feels good beating valks after all of these years.

W: Bloodgazer Hatchling, Direbeak Hatchling, Snowfeather Hatchling (67-16-4)
This triple flyer team can be quite annoying against your average team, but the imp is just too good these days.

September 13, 2019 (68-16-4)
W: Unborn Val’kyr, Restored Revenant, Anubisath Idol
When I saw this team I said “Oh no!” out loud. With the two undead pets is slots 1 and 2 along with the idol I feared my imp would be useless. However, I was able to gate out the valk on turn 1, totally expecting to take a Ghostly Bite to the face on round 2 from the revenant as I put up my Immolation. Thankfully the revenant used Roar of the Dead instead, so I was able to get out unscathed. I ended taking both undead out with my Scourged Whelpling and half of my twister. The idol came and used Sandstorm on its first turn, so I was able to change the weather, then come in with my imp to spam Burn while DnD/lightning ticks helped bring down the idol. I probably shouldn’t have won this one.

W: Stunted Direhorn, Tiny Direhorn, Murgle (69-16-4)
I was afraid of this team, but my opponent ended up fleeing after being stunned then hit with a strong Call Lightning.

September 14, 2019
W: Desert Spider, Clefthoof Runt, Leatherhide Runt (70-16-4)
I spend a lot time complaining about the bad guys, but this time I was the bad guy. There are a lot of good triple beast teams for the achievement; this was not one of them. It was ugly.

May 16, 2020
W: MPD, Nordrassil Wisp, Droplet Of Y’Shaarj (71-16-4)
Hmm, my rematch says I have an extra win, I must’ve played and not documented it, oh well. That’s fine, any time I see an MPD on the other side I’m happy. Easy win.

W: MPD, Kun-Lai Runt, Treasure Goblin (72-16-4)
Have I mentioned that this team eats MPDs for breakfast?

July 2, 2020
W: Anomalus, Murkalot, Graves(73-16-4)
Nice win to get this team going again! The ticks plus lighting really made Graves pay when he swapped in, the stun from the twister helped quite a bit. Graves wasn’t able to get the Consume Corpse off and the imp was able to nullify the undead round with a Nether Gate. The imp took backline damage from RI plus Grave Destruction, but the Plagued Blood helped get some health back. Not sure If I would be able to match the result, but I’m pretty happy with the win.

W: Kun-Lai Runt, Pandaren Water Spirit, Pandaren Fire Spirit (74-16-4)
Well, I’m in it until 100 wins, but battles like this just show how tough the imp is. Sometimes it feels bad man.

W: Boghopper, Corrupted Nest Guardian, Hyjal Wisp (75-16-4)
The often troubling wisp was easy enough to deal with thans to my imp, but the Hermit Crab’s unknown over-statted buddy the Boghopper gave me trouble. I miscalculated my twister being able to get off another hit, then later it came down the last move, Boghopper vs. imp. If the Pump crits then I lose. Luckily it didn’t.

July 11, 2020
W: Frostwolf Ghostpup, Frostwolf Ghostpup, Zandalari Anklerender (76-16-4)
Only a week between battles, maybe there’s hope of actually getting to 100 wins! This was the second time that I battles this player today; they seem to use Ghostly Bite at awkward times. Hey, I’ll take it.

W: Frostwolf Ghostpup, Zandalari Anklerender, Zandalari Anklerender (77-16-4)
My opponent from the previous battle switched out a ghost doggie for another anklerender. It was actually a lot tougher swapping in out to avoid the Black Claw/Huntimg Party combo, but still ended up with the W.

W: Lil’ Bling, Lil’ Bling, Lil’ Bling (78-16-4)
This triple mech team just beat another one of my JTOH teams, so I decided to get revenge. They didn’t stick around long enough to let me do it.

W: Hydraling, Bonebiter, Wild Crimson Hatchling (79-16-4)
Ugg, someone trying to have fun and here I am with the good stuff. Another flee.

July 13, 2020
L: Lil’ Ragnaros, MPD, Emperor Crab (79-17-4)
P/P Emperor Crabs shut this team down pretty well. Funny thing is the crab had Snap rather than Surge, which usually is a good thing, but this time the Scourged Whelpling was faster so its Tail Swipe did less damage. I still had a chance at one point, but the imp hit low and allowed rag to go under and take a lot of health that could’ve been used to survive the crab. This officially renewed my hatred for the Emperor Crab. And MPD. And rag. That’s 100 battles so this team is coming in at 79%, not bad for such an old team.

July 14, 2020
W: Anomalus, Blightbreath, Blightbreath (80-17-4)
Rather than get too clever I decided my only hope was to just go for it. Maybe my high front line damage can match the high AoE damage. Lightning was gonna hurt me, but the reduction of Dreadful Breath damage due to the weather not being rain would help a little bit. Thankfully I was able to swap Anomalus on turn one, then when it came back in it had to face strong damage from my Scourged Whelpling. Even with those things going my way it was a close battle. My imp survived on the back line with 73 health.

W: Anomalus, Voidglower, Oasis Void-Duster (81-17-4)
Phew, another close one. If my imp would have gotten hit by the cyclone that was up along with the lightning tick this would have been a draw. I was trying to get a good screen shot and don’t quite remember what the deciding factor was. Again my opponent let me swap out Anomalus but this time it came back in to face the elemental rather than the whelp. The imp seems eternal at this point, no matter what the meta it can carry your team.

W: Magical Crawdad, Kun-Lai Runt, Flayer Youngling (82-17-4)
Ugg, these last few battle have been intense. My opponent had really good rng, hitting a bunch of triple Triple Snaps with the flayer and stunning with the KLR when I wasn’t chilled. I wouldn’t have won except my opponent let me swap out the crawdad when it was waiting for its wish to come true. I think I’m done for now.

July 14, 2020
W: Nexus Whelpling, Doom Bloom, Personal World Destroyer (83-17-4)
The imp was too much for the whelpling and two non-tier pets. I got complacent at the end and almost allowed a comeback, but it really wasn’t that close.

W: Nexus Whelpling, Doom Bloom, Personal World Destroyer (84-17-4)
Ugg. I’m in a hurry to finally finish this, but beating up new players certainly doesn’t feel good.

July 25, 2020
W: Darkmoon Rabbit, Lil’ Ragnaros, Kun-Lai Runt (85-17-4)
The trap went off at a bad time for me so this player almost had a chance, but the Fiendish Imp’s back line healing allowed it to take damage, get healed, then step in for some more action. Twice.

W: Fiendish Imp, Bone Serpent, Zandalari Toenibbler (86-17-4)
With Bone Barrage taking advantage of the lightning I was concerned about sticking to the plan. The team I was facing is pretty difficult in general so I decided the only way I was going to get through it with a win is if I just went all out and tried to get a lot of mech damage against the beast through lightning ticks. When the raptor came in it took a Tail Sweep crit to the face. With such low health that crit along with the aforementioned lightning ticks sealed its fate. That made what should have been a close battle not really close at all.

July 26, 2020
W: Unborn Val’kyr, Ikky, Emerald Proto-Whelp (87-17-4)
When I saw this player’s comp I thought “cool, PvEer”, then I realized that PvEer or not I would have a lot of trouble with the EPW. That thing can sure tank with it Emerald Presence and Emerald Dream. It could have won, but it went for the kill against my imp too early, while it didn’t have enough help. I was able to bring in the Tiny Twister to Bash, Call Lightning, then do a weak Wild Wilds for the very close win.

July 29, 2020
W: MPD, MPD, MPD (88-17-4)
This triple MPD team beat a non-competitive team I was running, so I decided to get some revenge with an imp. I don’t know how many times I’ve written that at this point. It does seem to be my M.O., get beat by MPD, play imp. This was an obvious massacre, but my victory was bittersweet…

L: Anubisath Idol, Anubisath Idol, Anubisath Idol (88-18-4)
The only thing worse than losing to an MPD is losing to an idol. My historical hatred of this pet means losing makes my blood boil. To make matters worse they didn’t reque, or if they did I couldn’t tell if it was the same player or not. Oh well.