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Fastest Swimming Mount Pals Tier List (July 2025)

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Palword's main island is surrounded and contains vast bodies of water, but certain Pals have Pal Skills that lets you ride them in order to run around and make sea travelling a breeze! Check out this page to see which Pals can move the fastest on water and other effects they have while mounted on.

The Best Pals Overall
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Flying Mounts
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Water Mounts
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Best Glider Pals Tier List

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Fastest Water Mounts in Palworld

Swimming Pals Speed Tier List

SS TierTier Palworld - Neptilius Neptilius
S TierTier Palworld - Azurobe Azurobe
A TierTier Palworld - Jormuntide Jormuntide
B TierTier Palworld - Surfent Surfent

This is the list of Pals than can be ridden as Water mounts! Neptilius is currently the best pal you can use to traverse the waters of Palworld!

Criteria for Tier Placings

The following are the criteria to be met when ranking Pals for Water.

Tier Criteria
SS Tier Provides exceptional aquatic mobility, while also proving to be extremely useful in other aspects such as combat and overall usability.
S Tier These Pals are some of the fastest Pals you can get in game in their respective category and are the cream of the crop compared to other mounts.
A Tier Pals in A Tier are often the best to use in the later part of the game but are usually outclassed by Pals in the SS and S Tier.
B Tier B Tier Pals are great for early game, but are severely overclassed compared to the ones in higher tiers.

Palworld Water Mounts With Additional Effects

Increased Stats

No Stamina Consumption

List of Swimming Pals that Remove Stamina Consumption
Palworld - Jormuntide Palworld - Azurobe Palworld - Surfent

All three swimming Pals, Surfent, Azurobe, and Jormuntide can let you swim and sprint without the need for using up stamina! This makes them great for longer trips.

How to Increase Stamina

Player Attack Infusion

List of Terrestrial Pals that Infuse Elements to Weapons
Palworld - Azurobe

Azurobe stands out from the other swimming Pals by its ability to give the player a Water Infusion when attacking with their weapon!

Palworld Type Chart Strengths and Weaknesses

How to Ride Mounts in Palworld

Craft Their Specific Pal Gear using a Pal Gear Workbench

Item Materials
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In order to ride a specific Pal, you need to craft their specific Pal Gear at a Pal Gear Workbench. Both of these can be unlocked in the Technology Tab of the Menu.

Note that each Pal Gear has its own recipe so make sure you get the materials needed beforehand to craft the Pal Gear you need for your Mount.

Best Technology to Unlock First

Pal IV Stat Checker

Use Game8's IV Stat Calculator to Find Pals With Perfect Talent Values!

Palworld IV Stat Calculator - Game8

Use our Palworld IV Calculator to calculate the IVs of your Pals Attack, Defense and HP Stats in Palworld!

Our IV Checker will allow you to check the individual value of each of your Pal's Stats with both Passive Skills applied or just the base values to see which of your Pals are the strongest of their species!

Palworld IV Stat Calculator

Best Passive Skills for Mounts

Passive Skill Effect
Palworld - Rainbow Tier Swift 30% increase to movement speed
Palworld - Rainbow Tier Legend Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%
Palworld - Positive Tier Two Runner 20% increase to movement speed
Palworld - Positive Tier One Nimble 10% increase to movement speed

Best Passive Skills and How to Get

Palworld Related Guides

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Best Pals Tier List

Tier Lists by Role

Best Pals Tier Lists
Best Pals for Combat Best Base Pals Best Pals for Mounting

Pal Mount Speed Tier Lists

List of All Mount Pals Tier Lists
Palworld - Fastest Flying Pals Top Banner Flying Mounts Tier List Palworld - Fastest Ground Pals Top BannerGround Mounts Tier List
Palworld - Fastest Swimming Pals Top BannerSwimming Mounts Tier List Palworld - Best Glider Pals BannerGlider Pals Tier List

Work Suitability Tier Lists

All Pal Work Suitabilities
Palworld - Kindling Diamond Icon.pngKindling Palworld - Watering Diamond Icon.pngWatering Palworld - Planting Diamond Icon.pngPlanting
Palworld - Handiwork Diamond Icon.pngHandiwork Palworld - Gathering Diamond Icon.pngGathering Palworld - Cooling Diamond Icon.pngCooling
Palworld - Lumbering Diamond Icon.pngLumbering Palworld - Mining Diamond Icon.pngMining Palworld - Transporting Diamond Icon.pngTransporting
Palworld - Generating Electricity Diamond Icon.pngGenerating Electricity Palworld - Medicine Production Diamond Icon.pngMedicine Production Palworld - Farming Diamond Icon.pngFarming

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2 Anonymous Anonymous 26 days

Surfent is faster than Azurobe in water. Test the pals before listing shit.

1 Anonymous Anonymous 4 months

Swift, Legend, Runner, Nimble ----> DO NOT AFFECT SWIM SPEED! For swim speed you need: King of the Waves, Ace Swimmer, Sleek Stroke, and any other passives that affect swim speed specifically.

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