Celestial Tournament Strategies

[Roughhouse]

Okay so I've finally started this long process and thought I'd post what's working for me.  As I defeat the champions I'll add their information up here.  The strategies for the celestial pets themselves will not change but new champions may show up week to week.  There are a total of 12 champions and you have to battle 3 each week.  First I'll put up my pets for the Celestials themselves since this will be the same.

Xu-Fu:
    Fox or Worg:  Dazzling Dance; Bite; Howl then your pet will die.
    Lil' Bling:  Extra Plating; Make It Rain; Inflation; you might be able to cast Rain again before you die.
    Menagerie Custodian:  Ion Cannon; Xu-Fu should be dead at this point.  It's best to have Shock and Awe up as an alternative but it's doubtful you'll survive long enough to use it after the Ion Cannon cooldown period.

Zao:
    Sunreaver Microsentry:  Fel Immolate; Lightning; spam Fel Immolate until you are dead (which won't take long).
    Zandalarian Anklerender:  Black Claw; Hunting Party; this should kill Zao but if you have bad luck with his healing then go to:
    Infinite Whelpling:  Dark Flame; Weakness; Sleeping Gas.

Chi-Chi: 
    Unborn Val'kyr:  Slash; Curse of Doom; Slash until almost dead; Unholy Ascension.  You want to time this so Curse of Doom goes off while Holy Ascension is active.
    Nexus Whelpling:  Arcane Storm; Mana Surge; if she kills then you can use another Nexus Whelpling to finish her off or:
    Arcane Eye:  Mana Surge; Drain Power; Psychic Blast

Yu'la:
    Glowfly (2): Glowing Toxin (keep renewed); Cocoon Strike when she lifts off; spam Scratch in between.
    Kun'Lai Runt:  Frost Shock; Deep Freeze; she should be dead at this point but if not use Takedown until she is.  It's also possible for her to die during the second glowfly if the rolls are in your favor.

This is not all inclusive there are many, many strategies.  Even though these are excellent sometimes the rolls just don't go in your favor and you may have to start over.

[Roughhouse]

Lorewalker Cho; Dr. Ion Goldbloom; Sully 'The Pickle' McLeary

Lorewalker Cho:
    Nexus Whelpling:  Arcane Storm; Mana Surge; if you can, attack the 2d pet with Tail Sweep.  Your pet dies.
    Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling:  Spam Breath until the 2d pet dies; then use Bombing Run; Decoy; and spam breath until you kill the last pet.  Your Dragonling might die so it's good to have a 3d pet in backup.  I use:
    Feline Familiar:  Darkness; Prowl; Pounce.
   
Dr. Ion Goldbloom:
    Nordrassil Wisp:  Soul Ward; Flash; Light; swap to Garden Moth.
    Garden Moth:  Andrenaline Rush (if you're slower than the active pet otherwise); Moth Dust; Alpha Strike.  If he swaps the pet from the direhorn to the flyer then kill the flyer with your moth and switch to your ray if the moth dies.
    Nether Ray:  Lash (for last pet) when you're faster than it otherwise use Tail Sweep; only use Wisp when it's your last pet and use the same combo.  Soul Ward; Flash; Light.

Sully 'The Pickle' McLeary:
    Mud Jumper:  Bubble; Tounge Lash; Swarm of Flies (renew when you get to 1 round left).  Bubble is merely to extend the fight there are no power moves to block.
    Imperial Eagle:  Andrenaline Rush (if slower than active pet); Hawk Eye; Thrash.
    Petrel:  Andrenaline Rush (if slower than active pet); Hawk Eye; Wind.

[drazzl]

Slight correction, there's only 9 champions in the first round, 3 sets of 3.

I started working on these myself recently as the Garrison Menagerie provided me with an ample stable to attempt it. I'll share a few strats that I've found the most effective and require the fewest pet investments.

Taran Zhu - Ruby Droplet with Bubble, Drain Blood and Absorb. Can all but solo the fight. Any undead pet can run cleanup.

Wrathion - Anubisath Idol with Crush, Sandstorm and Deflection. Can all but solo the fight. Use Sandstorm on cd and use Deflection to block the incoming Ice Tomb and Elementium Bolts. Any humanoid pet can run cleanup.

Blingtron 4000 - You'll want a pet that deals aquatic damage and has the Dive ability to counter the first elemental pet with Dive being your 2nd move in the match. Teroclaw Hatchling can easily handle the remaining 2 pets and with their hot up is basically unkillable.

Yu'la - Mr. Bigglesworth can solo this fight, though it's good to have any humanoid pet as backup in case of bad rng. Claw - Ice Tomb - Ice Barrier - Pass - Claw - Claw -> repeat the entire sequence till the fight ends.


my remaining notes for the other 3 Celestials utilized a lot more pets and revolved around combos and nuking the targets down. I also put more effort into researching to avoid having to worry about collecting pets of a certain breed to make this work. 


Chi-Chi - Pandaren Water Spirit: Geyser - Whirlpool - swap to... Chrominius: Howl - Surge of Power. The first 2 attacks will land on the same round Howl goes off, so they'll do a lot of damage. Chi-Chi should be dead after Surge of Power, but if not, Bite should be sufficient as a filler attack to end it.

Zao & Xu-Fu - Tranquil Mechanical Yeti: Call Lightning - swap to... Clockwork Gnome: Build Turret - swap to... Szechuan Chicken: Flock. Both Flock and the Turret's multi-hits combine with Lightning Storm to inflict bonus damage on each hit. Flock provides the damage buff so your attacks do normal damage as well. There's a lot of other flier options instead of the chicken, the most important thing is to have Flock and a base speed that is faster then Xu-Fu or the 2nd round of Flock won't go off before they die (this requires you to have the proper breed). Alternately, there may be an undead pet with a similar ability and then the speed becomes a non-issue. In my first run, my chicken died because they weren't fast enough but I still won easily by having the Gnome build another Turret. Alternately, you can use Lil' Bad Wolf's Howl to substitute for the Flock debuff and use his base attacks to finish the job. Additionally, I purchased a 2nd Clockwork Gnome to do this strat a 2nd time as the first one gets quite beat up and would not survive to be of use for the 2nd fight. You will only need 1 Yeti as he will take almost no damage in the first round he is in play.