Pierre and Rascal-Bot cageable

In a recent hotfix Blizzard changed the vanity pets Pierre and Rascal-Bot from requiring a character on your account to have engineering. Now the two vanity pets can be caged and sold on the auction house.

Before patch 5.4 I was leveling engineering on one of my characters solely to get access to these two pets and to be able to more easily have a chance of Lil' Bling. When I saw the hotfixed I stopped my leveling. I have very limited playtime and I figured it would be faster short term to just farm gold and buy the two pets.

At first I was a bit sad that they changed it, as it is kinda nice that somethings are unique to each profession, but after thinking it through I actually like the change. I think it is neat for engineers to be able to earn a bit of money on their profession and for myself, it makes things so much easier as I don't have to farm all the materials to level yet another profession.

Now I am just waiting, checking the auction house from time to time to see if one of these pets will pop up. I've already seen multiple Lil' Blings on the AH for about 10k gold, but I think they will fall in price pretty quickly so currently I am saving my money for Pierre or Rascal Bot.

Also to those who are worried about the rarity of the engineering pets. With the required materials, I am pretty certain that these pets will stay rare for a long time. What are your thoughts on Blizzard making these two pets cageable?

Recommended pet list for Celestial Tournament stage 2

Following up on my list of pets you should farm for the first stage of the Celestial Tournament, here is a list of battle pets to collect for stage 2.
(Please note that this will be completed once I have refined strategies for all 4 Celestials)

You can also check out the fights on my Youtube channel MestMistel


Chi-Chi, Hatchling of Chi-Ji
Unborn Val'Kyr (or any pet with Curse of Doom)
Pandarian Water Spirit
Alpine Fox Kit

Yu'la, Broodling of Yu'lon
Unborn Val'Kyr
Chrominus
Lil' Deathwing

If you want to use the Val'Kyr for both fights then start with Chi-Chi as it will be undamaged afther that fight.

Zao, Calfling of Niuzao
Wild Jade Hatchling (use Lightning Storm)
Zandalari Footslasher
Clockwork Gnome
Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen
Wild Jade Hatchling
Chicken (or any other high speed flying pet with Flock)
Darkmoon Zeppelin

Chen Stormstout Pet Battle Strategy

Chen Stormstout challenges us to pet battles in the Celestial Tournament. His team is not the hardest of the new opponents and with the right team you should get him down every time.

Here I will give you a quick guide to the fight as well as an idea of how to kill him as easily as possible.

Please keep in mind that the pets suggested here can often be swapped with other pets of the same family or with the same type of attacks so if you do not have the exact pets available to you, do not despair.

Opponents Team

Brewly
Brew Bolt- strong vs Elementals, weak vs Magic- Damage Ability
Barrel Toss - strong vs Critter, weak vs Flying- Reduces hit chance by 100% for 1 round
Inebriate - strong vs Mechanical weak vs Critter- Damage Ability that continues for 3 rounds

Chirps
Flank - strong vs Undead weak vs Humanoid - Damage Ability, hits 1-3 times
Lullaby - strong vs Undead weak vs Humanoid - Makes the target fall asleep for 2 rounds
Locust Swarm - strong vs Undead weak vs Humanoid - Damage Ability

Tonsa
Bite - strong vs Critter weak vs Flying - Damage Ability
Headbutt - strong vs Critter weak vs Flying - Damage Ability and 25% chance of stun
Chew  - strong vs Undead weak vs Humanoid - Deals damage the turn after used.

Your Team 

Clockwork Gnome 
Metal Fist, Repair, Turret 
Silkbead Snail
Absorb, Acidic Goo, Dive

Zandalari Anklerender

Hunting Party, Primal Cry, Devour

Strategy

Tonsa is Chens starting pet. Start out with Clockworm Gnome and pop his turret, depending on your health hit Metal fist or Repair. Proceed until you kill Tonsa.  Next up is Chirps. He will likely put your Gnome to sleep in the first round so go ahead and swap in the Anklerender. Use Primal Cry and then hunting party to finish off Chirps.
For Brewly you will use the Silkbead snail use Acidic Goo and follow by Dive. Spam Absorb until Brewly is dead.

To counter Inebriate you can also use a pet with Laser or With a buff to hit instead of the Silkbead Snail. Give it a try as one strategy might feel better than the other to you.
Good luck! :)

Below you can check out the whole fight and strategy in action.

Little Tommy Newcomer (Lil' Oondasta) Pet Battle FAQ and Strategy

In patch 5.4 you will find Little Tommy Newcomer on the Timeless Isle. He is located at The Celestial Court right next to Master Li. He offers a daily quest where you have to beat his Lil' Oondasta in pet battles in exchange for 500 Timeless Coins.
The pet hits crazy hard, however the fight is relatively simple with the right team.

Opponent Team

Lil' Oondasta 
Spiritfire Beam - strong vs Flying weak vs Mechanical - Damage ability, hits backline pets as well.

Frill Blast - strong vs Flying weak vs Mechanical - Damage ability, swaps in highest HP pet.
Crush - strong vs Dragonkin weak vs Beasts - Damage ability

Your Team

Wild Jade Hatchling
Tail Sweep, Call Lightning, Lift-Off
Clockwork Gnome 
Metal Fist, Repair, Turret
Clockwork Rocket Bot 
Batter, Toxic Smoke, Launch Rocket

Strategy 

Start with the Wild Jade Hatchling and use Call Lightning to change the weather into Lightning Storm. Lil' Oondasta will likely use Frill Blast here and your Rocket Bot will be swapped in. Use Batter until your bot dies. If your Wild Jade Hatchling survived the Frill Blast it has likely gotten killed by the Spiritfire Beam so use your Clockwork Gnome to finish off Oondasta. Start off with a Turret and then spam Metal Fist until you win. 

If you are unlucky you may have to redo the fight, but so far I have found that this strategy is a fairly easy way to beat Little Tommy Newcomer. 
A video will be up soon showing the fight (I accidentally handed it in today before recording. Duh! ;) )

Recommended pet list for Celestial Tournament stage 1

I was asked to provide a full list of all battle pets used to beat the Celestial Tournament. Hopefully this list will come in handy for people farming vanity pets for the tough fights in the tournament.

Before going on to the list I want to stress that if possible you should have 2 or even 3 of all the battle pets listed here as even with the best strategies you are bound to lose a fight in the CT once in a while and you want to make certain that loosing a fight doesn't mean you have to start over completely.

You can see all the strategies and fights on my Youtube channel MestMistel, but now on to the list. 

Also find a list of the pets for stage 2 here.

Taran Zhu

Creepy Crate
Maggot
Stitched Pup

Chen Stormstout

Clockwork Gnome
Silkbead Snail
Zandalari Anklerender

Wise Mari

Westfall Chicken
Mountain Panda
Hyjal Bear Cub

Wrathion

Brown Marmot
Porcupette
Little Fawn

Dr Ion Goldbloom

Fledgling Buzzard
Azure Drake
Lesser Voidcaller

Lorewalker Cho

Clockwork Gnome
Stitched Pub
Netherspace Abyssal

Sully McLeary

Frog
Fledgling Buzzard x2

Shademaster Kyrin

Giant Bone Spider
Clockwork Gnome
Crimson Lasher

Blingtron 4000

Pygmy Direhorn
Corehound Pup
Fridgid Frostling

Hopefully this list will come in handy when preparing for the tournament. Good Luck! :)

Taran Zhu Pet Battle FAQ and Strategy

Taran Zhu is probably the hardest fight in the first stage of the Celestial Tournament. The two other opponents for the week is Chen Stormstout and Wrathion, the black prince


Taran Zhu is Shado-Pan and has sworn to protect Pandaria and now he is doing that in Pet Battles as well with his team of deadly Mini Pandarian Monks. 
This is a team full of ninja moves and karate kicks.

Team

Bolo
Punch - strong vs Dragonkin, weak vs Beast - Damage Ability
Blinding Powder - strong vs Dragonkin, weak vs Beast - Reduces hit chance by 100% for 1 round
Rampage - strong vs Critter weak vs Flying - Damage Ability that continues for 3 rounds

Li
Triple Snap - strong vs Critter weak vs Flying - Damage Ability, hits 1-3 times
Bandage - strong vs Dragonkin, weak vs Beast - Healing Ability
Spin Kick - strong vs Dragonkin, weak vs Beast - Damage Ability that interrupts if user goes first

Yen
Comeback - strong vs Undead weak vs Humanoids - Damage Ability, deals more damage if user has lower health than target
Blackout Kick - strong vs Dragonkin, weak vs Beast- Stuns for 1 round
Feign Death - strong vs Critter weak vs Flying - Avoid enemy attack, then swap out with highest health pet

Strategy

Taran Zhu will start the fight with Yen. The key is to avoid taking too much damage from his comeback ability. 
Because the team has so many abilities that will prevent you from doing damage and due to the healing abilities (both from XXX bandage and from all 3 pets being humanoids) it is important to get a lot of damage in, preferably without Taran Zhu being able to retaliate.
That is why the best team for beating him looks like this:

Creepy Crate
Using Agony, Curse of Doom and Bonestorm.
All these are strong against humanoids and Bonestorm will be able to hurt the backline pets without them having the option to retaliate or more importantly heal up.
You should get at least 2 x Bonestorm in and COD + Agony will finish up Yen leaving you to deal with the 2 others.
The benefits of using Curse of Doom is that the ability deals a lot of damage in one go, meaning Yen will probably not benefit from his Comeback ability before it is too late. 
If you do not have the Creepy Crate then Fozziled Hatchling can also be used for the Bonestorm ability.

Maggot x2
The important ability here is Consume as it is an undead ability it will deal a lot of damage to Taran Zhus humanoid panda monks and because the Maggot is a beast, their attacks will not be strong against your pet.
Consume combined with burrow should get you through this fight. For the 3 ability I would take Acidic Goo. Even though it is week against humanoids, it still adds more damage to your following attacks.
If you do not have a Maggot you can use Larva, Mr. Grubbs, Jungle Grub, Imperial Silkworm, Festering Maggot, Devouring Maggot or Wild Silkworm instead.