Emerald Proto-Whelp

Disagree with many of the comments, this pet is not useful in PVP. For one thing, it's too slow. For another, it's completely nullified by Call Darkness. Darkness hits it for huge damage because it's a humanoid type attack, and then the effects of darkness nerf the healing. 

Get 3 of these as P/P breed of any quality, then stone them up. Best investment you'll ever make in a battle pet. Flexible hard hitting moves in slot 1, and then you  have a choice, which is usually going to be Emerald Presence and Emerald Dream. But, you could also opt for a more offensive Onyx Bite/Ancient Blessing/Proto Strike. Both are viable, the the emerald presence and dream is the real nasty one, especially coming off of 341 power. Get these now if you don't have them.

This is a must have pet. His heals and strong attacks are lifesavers in many pve and pvp situations. 

This one is leterally unkillable by many. Love him!

P/P would seem to be better for Emerald Dream, but P/S for Proto-Strike, which leads to a dilemma since they are both strong skills. One of each breed solves the problem. :-)

This pet is great. It can solo most outdoor encounters and help in trainer battles. Must have for all trainers.

Just got this to drop as a rare level 20 yesterday. 

Using Emerald Bite, Emerald Presence and Emerald Dream, Im not sure how this pet could lose very often.

Looks great too.

Couldn't find a single one 2 weeks back, but got a rare P/P on my 3rd try today. :)

After spending countless hours hovering above Sholazar and spotting precisely zero of these, I checked on Sep. 2nd and the place is lousy with them, same the next day. One of the following four scenarios must be true:

1) It was always seasonal-fall and September made them spawn

2) Changed to seasonal-fall in 7.3

3) Changed to normal spawn like all world pets in 7.3

4) Some event makes them spawn en masse

Go grab your three and enjoy!

PS: Minfernal is still impossible.

My first couple circles through the area I came up with nothing.  Around 12:30 server time today I flew through and they were everywhere.  I found a Rare P/S on about the fourth one and also got a common one. I read the comments about what a great battle pet it is so I am excited to level this one.

UPDATE:  Found a second rare (p) around the same time.

This is an excellent pet for one of your backline pets in the 15 daily Tanaan Jungle pet battles. I have found that the P/P breed is best for these fights for two main reasons. One is because Emerald Presence blocks more damage (90 per hit) and two is because Emerald Dream gains more health (1236) than the other breeds. Both "reduced damage" and "health gained" are a function of power ... not health or speed.

I went into this knowing full well, this might be an Epic Camping Experience. 

What I did was instead of camping it, I did flyby's a few times while in the area.

All in all (for once), I think I got very lucky.  I did something like 3 sessions of flyby's, and saw him!  My eye's about popped out of my skull.  o.O

Do NOT use terrible turnip's Sunlight ability when trying to catch this guy. With its heals and its own health pool boost from Ancient Blessing, this thing turns into a terrifying unkillable GOD in Sunlight. 

On the plus side, once you HAVE caught him, the turnip and the proto have fantastic synergy as a pet catching/levelling team. The turnip catches whatever you're hunting, then the proto eats all its friends while they barely dent its vast sunlight and blessing enhanced health.

wished i had of read these comments first.  went to sholazar basin, saw an emerald proto-whelp right away, entered into battle with it.  it was a P/P.  i didn't have my safari hat on and there is a pet battle event running right now and I realized i didn't have my hat on after i had trapped the EPW and I abandoned the battle.  He did not respawn :(  I didn't realize how rare he was to find or i would have finished the battle.

Still appears to be quite a long wait to get the breed that you want (let alone a rare). In 10+ days of checking (spending 30 minutes or more in the spawning zone), I managed to find about 12. Lucky enough, 1 blue P/P, 1 blue P/B and a white P/P (stone it later). Killing off the other nearby pets didn't seem to have any effect on the spawns. It's a ridiculous battler that everyone should own. Just takes some effort. Ridiculous combo of power/toughness, all but unkillable. 

I was having the same problem others were - no hide nor hair of proto whelp to be seen. This was on Rexxar - spent HOURS camped out. Read a comment about Earthen Ring and since I'm an alt-o-holic and just happened to have some high-level alts on said realm, I logged over real quick. Whelps everywhere! Was able to get 1 of each breed and had a "make rare" battle stone ready for the P/P one. Quick trip to the Magical Menagerie and 18 Pet Charms later I had a lvl 25, rare, p/p whelp.

Am I doing something wrong? I've come here for no less than 2 hours a day every day for over a week. I have yet to see a single one. I've flown in a circle, I've sat and camped, I've killed dragon mobs, I've killed other bpets, I've killed critters. Nothing works. I am on Stormrage and have never even seen so much as a whisper of this thing.

It doesn't seem to matter when I log in because I have yet to see one! Even after a server reset I didn't see one. Dalaran server must be cursed... Or I am.

UPDATE! I FINALLY got one on 8/30/16, which was the day Legion dropped. Probably only got it because everyone was in the new content.

I'm not sure if Blizzard changed something but I popped on Earthen Ring and their usual spawning area was full of them of every breed, I didn't even have to go looking.

THE clean-up pet.  There are a number of Legendary battles where you'll face a legendary pet with a pair of less-than-legendary companions.  If that's the scenario, seriously consider bringing this guy along.  With Emerald Dream/Ancient Blessing you can easily heal to more than full and less powerful competition often stands no chance against the Proto-Whelp.