Breed IDs will not be important to a casual pet collector but is something you need to consider for the optimal success rate.
The Basics
Every battle pet has three stats – Health, Power and Speed which increase each time your pets level. These numbers are determined by three factors:
- Base Stats
- Rarity
- Breed
Base Stats
These can vary from pet to pet with some having more Speed or Power than others so if you’re looking to maximise a certain stat (H/H, P/P, S/S), this should be the decider. To determine what stat you should focus on, it really depends on the role it plays in your team. Turtles tend to have more Health fulfilling more of a tank role, while my (S/S) Mongoose is great for getting that first hit in or defensive ability. If you want your pet to hit hard, look for a double dose of Power (P/P) or (S/S) for a very fast pet. Combinations like H/P can also work if that’s what you need.
Rarity
A higher quality pet will receive a larger allocation of stats each time it levels so consider a poor quality pet as the baseline, and rarity as the multiplier:
- Poor pets will have all stats multiplied by 1
- Common pets will have all stats multiplied by 1.1
- Uncommon pets will have all stats multiplied by 1.2
- Rare pets will have all stats multiplied by 1.3
It will not matter if you upgrade your pet at level 1 or 25, it will still end up with the same stats at max level.
Breed
There are two ways to look at breeds, either through a letter system or a number system. The former is an easy way to look at breeds because you won’t need to remember any formulas.
Letter System
- H = Health
- P = Power
- S = Speed
- B = Balance
Each breed is made up of three numbers which make up the Health, Power and Speed values respectively. The Flayer Youngling on the right is a P/B breed, meaning its health at level 25 will be 1465, with 289 Power and a Speed of 273 (when upgraded to rare). B refers to Balance meaning the stat weights are split between the three (but in this case two as a P/B breed).
Number system
A breed of 3/13 will gain 0.5 to all stats each time it levels (in addition to the values from Base Stats and Rarity). As such, each breed is made up of these two numbers – 3 and 13 where 3 refers to a male pet and 13 a female pet. As a rule, any breed between 3-12 is male, while 13-22 are female. A pet’s sex has no significance so just collect the breed you prefer.
The following table displays the list of BreedIDs and their corresponding values.
| Breed | Health | Power | Speed | Points | |
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| 3 = 13 | B / B | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 4 = 14 | P / P | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 |
| 5 = 15 | S / S | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 6 = 16 | H / H | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 |
| 7 = 17 | H / P | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0 | 1.8 |
| 8 = 18 | P / S | 0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
| 9 = 19 | H / S | 0.9 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
| 10 = 20 | P / B | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.7 |
| 11 = 21 | S / B | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.7 |
| 12 = 22 | H /B | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.7 |
The more specialised a breed, the more points it will get overall so the ultra-specialised 4/14, 5/15, and 6/16 breeds get a full 2 points per level, while the ultra-balanced 3/13 breed gets only 1.5 points total making it the weakest in stat allocation.
A pet with H/H refers to a double dose of Health or 2/0/0 but if you see H/B, that’s Health mixed with Balance or .9/.4/.4. There’s also B/B for double Balance or .5/.5/.5. as well as P/S for Power mixed with Speed or 0/.9/.9.
Things to Note
- Pets don’t always have multiple breeds. A lot of quest reward, classic raid drops and certain wild pets have one breed.
- Vendor bought pets like the Dragonhawk Hatchlings have multiple breeds so you may need to buy a few to get the breed you want.
- Don’t be afraid to capture a poor quality pet if it’s the breed you’re after – you can always upgrade it later. This is especially true for a low spawn pet like the Minfernal. In this case, you should capture one and call it a great day.
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Flawless Battle-Stones have a chance to be collected from successful wild battles and a number of reward bags.
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Marked Flawless Battle-Stones are available from Varzok in Orgrimmar (52.5, 59.3) or Audrey Burnhep in Stormwind (69.4, 25.1) once you trade in 3x family-specific Flawless Battle-Stones. They can also be purchased from your Battle Pet Master (Serr’ah or Lio) who are located in your Garrison’s Pet Menagerie in Draenor.
Resources & Addons
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Pet Battle Guide – For beginners getting into pet battling
- Rematch – If you plan on battling a lot of tamers each day, this addon makes team changing a breeze. You can even add pets to a levelling queue and sort teams into groups.
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- Battle Pet BreedIDs – see all the BreedIDs in-game. Good to know for any serious pet battler and those who follow my YouTube strategies.
- Family Familiar Helper – helps track your Family Familiar progress and more recent Family style meta achievements
For many, BreedIDs will only be important for the ones you choose to power-level through tamer battles since you’re aiming for the highest success rate. At the end of the day, do what feels right to you – whether you just want a full collection of rares, maximum level pets or the most powerful, the choice is up to you.
That pet search is great, I spend way too much time there studying all my pets, lol.
Yup, after reading that I am definitively a pet collector.
That website is awesome. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks Cym :)
Great info. And that link to the pet search: awesome! Thanks Cym. :)
My friend has been trying to get me to use this add-on, but admittedly I’ve been lazy and just link pets to him when I want to know. As usual, I’m all grey scale, and can’t choose black or white! Must be a little bit of both pet collector and battler, and then wonder why I get my ass handed to me.
I’ve seen a lot of talk about “this breed is optimal for species X”, but I have seen almost no analysis to back it up – just some “common sense” handwaving. For attacks that, say, do extra damage if you go first, I can see the advantage to pursuing a particular breed such as 5/5. But in general I suspect that impact of breed on the percentage of pvp victories is greatly exaggerated.
That said, this post does an excellent job of explaining what people are talking about, which is very helpful.
I agree. In PVP, it will be hard to create a Win-Win team since you never know who you’ll be up against as opposed to the Pet tamers who only change their start-up order on occasion.