Finally, I decided to check out the changes for pet battles in Shadowlands and honestly, I agree with all of it, it’s great that abilities such as Black Claw, Flock etc. are being changed however, something is being overlooked.
From what I can see, there isn’t a single attempt to address PvP pet battles and this disgustingly stale meta of 3x anomalus/2x anomalus 1x blightbreath. These 2 teams wipe out 95% of the competition with a static rotation, no need to think about what you’re doing at any point, AoE the entire enemy team down whilst staring at Netflix. I’ve played these comps for 4-5 hours today and it just farms everything, I had a stretch where people were instantly forfeiting.
The usual solution is to move abilities around but I don’t know how much this would help here. Regardless of what you move around, Anomalus will still be able to run 3x AoE/DoT abilities. Alternatively, either cripple the damage of those abilities or remove it from the game. The reason I say remove it from the game is because you can run Anomalus/Blightbreath/Anything and you’ll have the same effect, the 3rd spot being another Anomalus is just extra overkill that everyone seems to love right now.
Please don’t let this meta continue.