I was hoping to get into pet battles with HB, but didn't know where to start. Can anyone point me to a good pet battle farming/grinding/combat-routining thingymabob? Thanks in advance!
What you want is Pokebuddy. You can run it as a Bot or Plugin. It will automate all of your pet battles. You can run it with any gathering profile or you can use the leveling profiles that are in the plugin post.
There are 2 things I can recommend. The first is to not buy any level 25 pet as you can't use them until you level your pet first to 25 and second use a panther cub, his healing makes the leveling go buy so much faster. At level 25 he can solo all three enemy pets in a normal battle in valley of the four winds and still be at full health. This means that as long as you low level pet can survive 1 hit from a level 23 enemy he can get them to 18 in about 10 minutes. If you do use him skip STV though as the parrots are a nightmare.