Passive Skills boost specific aspects of your Pals, like Attack and Work Speed. Read on to learn the Best Passives and how to get them!

Best Passive Skills in Palworld

• Best Early Game Passive Skills
• Best Combat Passive Skills
• Best Work Pal Passive Skills
• Best Mount Pal Movement Speed Passive Skills
• Best Versatile Passive Skills
• Best Elemental Passive Skills

Best Early Game Passive Skills

Best Early Game Resource Gathering Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Positive Effect	Negative Effect	Tier
Logging Foreman	25% increase to Player Logging Efficiency		Tier +3
Mine Foreman	25% increase to Player Mining Efficiency		Tier +3

Consider bringing Pals with either skills in your party to increase the stones and wood you can gather.

Best Early Game Work Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Positive Effect	Negative Effect	Tier
Artisan	Work Speed +50%		Tier +3
Diet Lover	Decrease in Hunger is less likely by +15%		Tier +3
Workaholic	SAN drops +15% slower		Tier +3
Motivational Leader	25% increase to Player Work Speed.		Tier +2

Workaholic and Diet Lover helps your working Pals by lowering hunger and sanity drain, while Artisan increase their work speed.

A Pal with Motivational Leader buffs your Working Speed stat, allowing you to craft and build much faster.

Best Early Game Pal Catching Passive Skill

Passive Skill	Positive Effect	Negative Effect	Tier
Mercy Hit		Pacifist. Will not reduce the target's health below 1.	Tier -1

The Mercy Hit passive is a useful skill for one of your party Pals to have as it gives you a better chance of catching Pals successfully by preventing wild Pals from being knocked out.

Best Combat Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Effect	Ranking
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%	★★★★★
Musclehead	Attack +30% Work Speed -50%	★★★★★
Ferocious	Attack +20%	★★★★☆
Burly Body	Defense +20%	★★★☆☆
Lucky	Work Speed +15% and Attack +15%	★★★☆☆
Hooligan	Attack +15% Work Speed -10%	★★☆☆☆
Brave	Attack +10%	★☆☆☆☆

For Pals assigned for combat, it is recommended to have a Passive skill that increases a Pal's attack and defense.

Best Pals for Combat Tier

Best Passive Skill Combos for Combat Pals

Combat Pal Passive Skill Example
Legend			Earth Emperor
Musclehead			Ferocious
Total Stacked Effects
Attack +70% Elemental Damage +70% Defense +20% Movement Speed +15%
Best Combat Pal Examples
Frostallion		Necromus		Paladius
Astegon			Jetragon

Best Work Pal Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Effect	Ranking
Artisan	Work Speed +50%	★★★★★
Work Slave	Work Speed +30% Attack -30%	★★★★☆
Serious	Work Speed +20%	★★★☆☆
Swift	30% increase to movement speed	★★★☆☆
Lucky	Work Speed +15% and Attack +15%	★★☆☆☆
Conceited	Work Speed +10% Defense -10%	★☆☆☆☆

These passive skills increase your Pals' productivity by increasing work speed, or decreasing work downtime.

Best Passive Skill Combos for Work Pals

Work Pal Passive Skill Example
Artisan			Work Slave
Serious			Swift
Total Stacked Effects
Work Speed +100% Movement Speed +30%
Best Work Pal Examples
Jormuntide Ignis		Jormuntide		Anubis
Astegon			Frostallion Noct

The best Passive Skills to focus on should be boosting work speed and movement speed for Pals assigned to bases.

Best Base Pals

Best Mount Pal Movement Speed Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Effect	Ranking
Swift	30% increase to movement speed	★★★★★
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%	★★★★★
Runner	20% increase to movement speed	★★★★☆
Nimble	10% increase to movement speed	★★★☆☆

Take note that Motivational Leader increases player Work speed, not Movement speed for the Player or Pals.

Passive Skills that increase Pal movement speed are recommended for Pals that can be mounted.

How to Mount and Ride Pals

Best Passive Skill Combo for Mounts

Mount Pal Passive Skill Example
Swift			Legend
Runner			Nimble
Total Stacked Effects
Movement Speed +75% Attack +20% Defense +20%
Best Mount Pal Examples
Suzaku Aqua		Suzaku		Helzephyr
Ragnahawk			Beakon

Best Versatile Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Positive Effect	Negative Effect	Tier
Lucky	Work Speed +15% and Attack +15%		Tier +3
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%		Tier +3

Versatile and Lucky are good passive skills for Pals that you want to be generalists.

Legend provides a healthy balance of stats, and Lucky gives Pals boosts to combat and work.

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Best Elemental Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Effect	Pals
Celestial Emperor	20% increase to Neutral attack damage	Paladius
Divine Dragon	20% increase to Dragon attack damage	Jetragon
Earth Emperor	20% increase to Ground attack damage	Anubis
Eternal Flame	30% increase to Fire attack damage, 30% increase to Lightning attack damage	Blazamut Ryu
Flame Emperor	20% increase to Fire attack damage	Blazamut
Ice Emperor	20% increase to Ice attack damage	Frostallion
Lord of Lightning	20% increase to Electric attack damage	Orserk
Lord of the Sea	20% increase to Water attack damage	Jormuntide
Lord of the Underworld	20% increase to Dark attack damage	Necromus
Siren of the Void	30% increase to Dark attack damage, 30% increase to Ice attack damage	Bellanoir Libero
Spirit Emperor	20% increase to Grass attack damage	Lyleen

Each of the 9 elemental types in Palworld has a passive skill that boosts the damage of that type by 20%. These are exclusive to certain Pals but can be passed on through breeding.

All Exclusive Elite Passive Skills

How to Get the Best Passive Skills

• Keep Catching Pals
• Breed 2 Pals of the Opposite Gender
• Obtain from Pal Merchant of Black Marketeer

Keep Catching Pals

Early in the game, you can only 'choose' a particular Pal's passive skill by catching more copies of it.

As passive skills are randomized, you can keep catching until you get a desired passive skill for your Pal.

How to Catch Pals

Pals with Exclusive Elite Passive Skills

Passive Skill	Effect	Pals
Celestial Emperor	20% increase to Neutral attack damage	Paladius
Divine Dragon	20% increase to Dragon attack damage	Jetragon
Earth Emperor	20% increase to Ground attack damage	Anubis
Eternal Flame	30% increase to Fire attack damage, 30% increase to Lightning attack damage	Blazamut Ryu
Flame Emperor	20% increase to Fire attack damage	Blazamut
Ice Emperor	20% increase to Ice attack damage	Frostallion
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%	Frostallion Jetragon Necromus Paladius
Lord of Lightning	20% increase to Electric attack damage	Orserk
Lord of the Sea	20% increase to Water attack damage	Jormuntide
Lord of the Underworld	20% increase to Dark attack damage	Necromus
Siren of the Void	30% increase to Dark attack damage, 30% increase to Ice attack damage	Bellanoir Libero
Spirit Emperor	20% increase to Grass attack damage	Lyleen

Some Pals have exclusive Passive Skills that can't be found on other caught Pals. These skills can be passed on through breeding.

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Breed 2 Pals of the Opposite Gender

Child Pals Can Inherit Passive Skills

Child Pals can inherit passive skills from their parents. You can place two Pals in a Breeding Farm to pass one or more of their passive skills to a child Pal.

However, this is not a surefire way of passing the best skill to another Pal, and can take some time.

Child Pals Can Learn New Passive Skills

Aside from their inherited skills, child Pals can also learn new Passive Skills. Make sure to check what skills a child Pal gets when its newly hatched.

Palworld Breeding Combos Calculator

Chain Breed to Pass Rare Skills

Legend Inheritance Steps
① Catch and prepare a Legendary Pal ② Breed the Legendary Pal Ⓐ with any Parent to make Legendary Pal Ⓑ ③ Breed Legendary Pal Ⓑ with another Parent to make Legendary Pal Ⓒ
①	Parent Ⓐ: Paladius (Legend) Parent Ⓑ: Foxparks ┗ Child Ⓐ: Rayhound
②	Child Ⓐ (as Parent): Rayhound (Legend) Parent Ⓒ: Mossanda ┗ Child Ⓑ: Grizzbolt (Legend)

Above is an example of chain breeding Pals with the Legend Passive Skill.

You can control the pool of what skills get passed on to Pal children via chain breeding. This means selecting the child with the desired skill to be bred until you have obtained a Pal with the desired skills down the chain.

How to Chain Breed Passive Skills

Obtain from Pal Merchant or Black Marketeer

You can examine Passive Skils of the Pals sold at the Pal Merchant or Black Marketeer, making it a convenient way to obtain skills for breeding.

Stocks change on every spawn or world load of the seller, meaning you can reroll its stocks by returning to the main menu or by respawning the caught merchant from the Pal Box.

All Black Marketeer Pals

How to Capture Merchants for the Base

Human Capture Guide
① Capture a Pal Merchant or a Black Marketeer.
② Spawn them at your base via the Pal Box.
③ Check their stocks for available Pals.
④ Determine if there is a Pal with a Passive Skill you want to obtain.
⑤ If not, recall the Pal Merchant or Black Marketeer to the Pal Box and restart from step ②. └ This will refresh their Pal stocks.
⑥ Once you have found your desired Passive Skill, buy the Pal.

You make checking Pal Merchant and Black Marketeer stocks for new Pals easier by catching them and spawning them in your base via the Pal Box. Every respawn of these merchants via the Pal Box will cause their Pal stocks to change.

Take note that humans have a lower catch rate, and this is significantly apparent when trying to catch the Black Marketeer at a lower level (their minimum ioLevel 40)

How ot Catch and Sell Humans

Passive Skills Unavailable at Merchants

Passive Skill	Positive Effect	Negative Effect	Tier
Lucky	Work Speed +15% and Attack +15%		Tier +3
Flame Emperor	20% increase to Fire attack damage		Tier +3
Earth Emperor	20% increase to Ground attack damage		Tier +3
Lord of the Sea	20% increase to Water attack damage		Tier +3
Spirit Emperor	20% increase to Grass attack damage		Tier +3
Lord of Lightning	20% increase to Electric attack damage		Tier +3
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%		Tier +3
Celestial Emperor	20% increase to Neutral attack damage		Tier +3
Ice Emperor	20% increase to Ice attack damage		Tier +3
Divine Dragon	20% increase to Dragon attack damage		Tier +3

The element-boosting Passive Skills listed above can also be passed down to the child via breeding.

Passive Skills exclusive to rare Pals, such as Legend or Lucky, cannot be found at merchants. Fortunately, they are passable via breeding once you have obtained a Pal with those skills.

You will have to look for them carefully out in the world, catch them, and then pair them with another parent Pal to have possibility of passing the rare Passive Skill to a child.

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• All Drop Rate Boosting Partner Skills
• All Player Attack Boosting Partner Skills
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• All Pal Defense Boosting Partner Skills
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