Recommended Addons

Addons for pet battles

There are quite a lot of helpful addons for pet battlers. I want to list some especially useful ones here, sorted by priority:

1. Rematch

For me this is the most important addon for pet battlers! It replaces our pet journal with a much more advanced version.
It provides the option to save your teams and assign them to specific opponents so they are automatically selected whenever you face them. These teams can be arranged in tabs and you can attach notes and scripts to them. Furthermore one or more slots in your teams can be filled with leveling pets (pets you want to level up next), which are drawn from a list you can create yourself. You can even adapt those leveling slots to meet certain conditions of any encounter. All of this happens automatically.

This addon also offers some neat options to filter and search for pets.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/rematch (look in our Using Rematch + Pet Battle Scripts guide for instructions on how to make the addon compatible with MoP Classic)

2. Pet Battle Scripts

Using Pet Battle Scripts lets you use specific scripts that play out a fight in a pre-determined manner, with you only pressing one button for each action. This more or less automates the fight and makes them extremely easy and convenient to follow.
The addon interacts with Rematch so that you can save a script for each fight, making this the most comfortable way to pet battle.

Here is a guide on how to install and use the addon: Using Rematch + Pet Battle Scripts
And you can also find a guide for writing scripts on your own here: Writing Pet Battle Scripts

3. Battle Pet Breed ID

Pets can have different “breeds”, which determine how their stats are being distributed with every level they gain. These differences can be crucial to the success or failure of a pet in some situations. Unfortunately, the base game doesn’t show the breeds of the pets. That’s where the addon Battle Pet Breed ID comes into play: it shows which breed a certain pet has and it also lists all the possible alternative breeds that every single pet can come in.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/battle_pet_breedid

4. Pokemon Trainer NG: The Pet Battle Mod

This is a fork of the original Pokemon Trainer, which is no longer being maintained. Main features (during pet battles):

• Choose between two combat displays

• Displays pet rarity, level difficulties, speed indicators

• Displays both your and enemies’ abilities with cooldowns, bonuses and weaknesses

• Highlights abilities whenever they do more damage for any reason – never again miss a chance to blast your enemy

• Scans enemy abilities during PVP battles and marks them with a green checkmark if scanning was successful

• Displays pet breed IDs as text and/or icon

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pokemon-trainer-ng

5. PetBattleCooldowns

Formerly known as Derangement, the addon has been picked up by FwenTheHunter and is now called PetBattleCooldowns. This addon places both your pets’ and the enemy pets’ cooldowns at the top of the pet battle UI, including the backline pets. This makes it easier to track the abilities and CDs of all pets on the field:

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/petbattlecooldowns

6. BattlePetCount NG

This is a continuation of the BattlePetCount addon, which has been abandoned.

In the battle, cage or npc tooltip, show the quality of battle pets you already own of that species.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/battlepetcount-ng

7. Battle Pet Daily Tamer

This addon shows you tamers and quests (including world quests) on your map.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/battle-pet-daily-tamer (look in the comments for instructions on how to make the addon compatible with MoP Classic)

8. Collecting and trading

Besides actual pet battles, some people like to focus on mainly collecting pets or even use them as trading goods, which can even be sold across realms. There are useful addons for those purposes too that I’d like to highlight here:

8.1 PetTracker

PetTracker has many nice features that may prove handy for pet battlers. It is particularly helpful for completing the own collection. It shows the spawning locations (including vendors and such) of pets on your map. It also offers some other services, like having its own breed display with special icons or showing the selected abilities of your opponent. However there are way better alternative addons for these jobs and that’s why I recommend using PetTracker only as a tool for collecting pets.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pettracker



Should you also be using “broker-addons” (for example, Titan Panel), then the addon PetTracker Broker is a nice addition to improve the overview.
It shows a list of all the available pets in your area (including pets from vendors, quests, loot, dig sites, etc.) and of which quality your own are.

8.2 Battle Pet Completionist

Excellent alternative to PetTracker, with Battle Pet Completionist you can:

• Displays the locations of all pets.

• Filter the list of pets shown (in the options dialog).

• Updates the tooltip for pets in the auction house (and pet cages in general), to show the source of the pet.

• Create TomTom waypoints by shift clicking a map pin.

• Work together with your party to capture pets.

• Broker already integrated.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/battle-pet-completionist

8.3 ALL THE THINGS

ATT is the addon for collectors of all kind; no matter if toys, mounts, pets, transmog, titles… It basically shows everything one can collect. You can have it show you everything or, alternatively, just the things in your current zone.
If you want to use it for pets only, then you can deactivate everything else in the settings so you get a nice display of all the missing pets and their sources.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/all-the-things

8.4 Rarity

Rarity is another addon that is often used by collectors. It keeps tally of how many attempts you’ve had to get a specific item (like a pet) from a certain enemy or from other sources. That way you also get an overview of your chances to get these items the next time you try.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/rarity

8.5 Collectionator

Adds a new Collecting tab in the Auction House to browse uncollected transmogs, pets, toys, mounts and recipes on all your alts.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/collectionator

9. Miscellaneous

9.1 PetBattleLogKeeper (continued)

Record your Pet Battles, keep those logs outside of the chat, record turn count and time spent to submit on XuFu.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/petbattlelogkeeper-continued

9.2 PetBattlePvPTournamentLogger

This addon will log every PvP pet battle you do.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/petbattlepvptournamentlogger

9.3 Battle Pet Binds

This addon lets you change the key bindings for Pet Battles without affecting your normal keybinds.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/battle-pet-binds

9.4 Pet Battle Chat

To keep your chat window visible during pet battles.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pet-battle-chat

9.5 PetPet

PetPet will automatically summon a random favourited pet from your Companions list when you begin moving.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/petpet

9.6 XuFuPetImport

Last but not least, XuFuPetImport allows you to export your entire pet collection and import it in the Classic version of XuFu.

Link to the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/xufupetimport