Best Partner Skills Tier List (October 2024)

In Palworld, every Pal has a specific Partner Skill exclusive to them which further sets them apart from each other. Keep on reading this article to see which Partner Skill is the best when it comes to combat, work efficiency, and exploration!

Best Partner Skills Tier List for Combat

Best Partner Skills for Combat

Best Partner Skills for Battling Tier List
Tier	Pal & Partner Skills
Tier	Element Boost and Elemental Infusion Ride Pals with Weapons
Tier	Weapon Element Infusion Element Boost Trainer Buffing Partner Skills Pal Buffing Partner Skills
Tier	Healing Partner Skills Unison Attackers Lifesteal Pals That Require Specific Teams
Tier	Weapon Pals Pals With Unique Attacks Shield Pals Pals That Buff Themselves

SS Tier Partner Skills for Combat

Palworld Combat Partner Skill Tier List

Element Boost and Elemental Infusion

Partner Skills with Element Boost and Infusion
Ice Steed Black Steed

Frostallion and Frostallion Noct have the best Partner Skill where they can both imbue the Player's weapon with their respective element on top of buffing both the Player and its own damage of the same type.

Ride Pals with Weapons

Pals With Partner Skills with Weapons

These Pals can be mounted and also equip explosives which essentially gives them a fourth attack that you can use to deal extra damage!

S Tier Partner Skills for Combat

Palworld Combat Partner Skill Tier List

Weapon Element Infusion

Pals That Infuse Your Damage

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can overwrite the elemental affinity of your attack to another type which can stack with other buffs from other party members. Using these Pals with 4 Gobfins can be a viable attack strategy.
Best Gobfin Team

Element Boost

Pals That Boosts Damage of a Certain Type

These Pals have amazing Partner Skills where they can buff both the Player and its own damage of the same type when mounted.

Trainer Buffing Partner Skills

Pals That Buffs the Player

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can provide the Player buffs to either deal or take more damage from enemies.

Pal Buffing Partner Skills

Pals That Buffs Certain Elements

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can provide the buffs to a certain element when other party members of the same element are present in your party.

A Tier Partner Skills for Combat

Palworld Combat Partner Skill Tier List

Healing Partner Skills

Partner Skills that Can Heal
Soothing Shower Blessing of the Flower Spirit Harvest Goddess Goddess of the Tranquil Light

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can heal the Player when activated.
How to Heal Pals and Player HP

Unison Attackers

Pals That Can Attack Without Being Active
Dream Chaser Lady of Lightning

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can shoot coordinated attacks letting you have more than one Pal out at a time.
Best Hoocrates + 4 Daedream Team

Lifesteal

Pals With That Can Heal When Attacking
Heart Drain Life Steal

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can heal themselves and the player when they attack.

Pals That Require Specific Teams

Pals With That Require Specific Party Comps
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Sweepa and Elizabee have Partner Skills where they can obtain a huge boost in stats when put in a party with Swee and Beegarde respectively.

B Tier Partner Skills for Combat

Palworld Combat Partner Skill Tier List

Weapon Pals

Pals With That Can Turn into Weapons

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can turn into weapons that you can use to attack. Lifmunk and Tanzee are different where they use their own weapons and will attack when you put up your reticle.

Pals With Unique Attacks

Pals With Partner Skills Used as an Attack

These Pals have Partner Skills where they perform special attacks when activated.

Shield Pals

Pals That Can Turn into a Shield
Fluffy Shield

Lamball has a special Partner Skill where you can use it as a meat shield to protect yourself from damage.

Pals That Buff Themselves

Partner Skills That Gives a Huge Boost in Stats
Full-power Gorilla Mode Caffeine Inoculation

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can get a huge boost in a certain stat when activated.

Criteria for Tier Placings

The following are the criteria to be met when ranking Partner Skills for Combat.

Tier	Criteria
	SS Tier Partner Skills are the best in the game when it comes to dealing raw damage. Pals with these Partner Skills usually rare and reserved for end-game content.
	Partner Skills in this tier are great for combat but care lacking in the same damage as the SS Tier ones.
	Partner Skills in A Tier are great but are usually situational when you need it.
	B Tier Partner Skills can deal decent damage but are harder to recommend due to it being easier to just let your Pal attack on their own.

Best Partner Skills Tier List for Work Suitabilities

Best Partner Skills for Increased Work Efficiency

Best Partner Skills for Mining

Best Partner Skills for Mining Tier List
Tier	Pal & Partner Skills
Tier	Drill Crusher
Tier	Black Ankylosaur
Tier	Ore-loving Beast Ice-loving Beast
Tier	Gaia Crusher Ice Crusher Hard Head

Digtoise has the best Partner Skill when it comes to mining as you don't have to be mounted in order to deal extra damage to ore.

Best Mining Pals Tier List

Best Partner Skills for Lumbering

Best Partner Skills for Lumbering Tier List
Tier	Pal & Partner Skills
Tier	Gaia Crusher Ice Crusher
Tier	Guardian of the Forest Guardian of the Golden Forest
Tier	Logging Assistance

Both Mammorest and its other variant makes for one of the best loggers as long as you're mounted. Its Partner Skill also handy as it can also deal extra damage to Ore if you need both.

List of Best Pals for Lumbering

Best Partner Skills for Transport

Best Partner Skills for Transport Tier List
Tier	Pal & Partner Skills
Tier	Guardian of the Snowy Mountain Guardian of the Grassy Fields
Tier	Overaffectionate Overaffectionate King of Muscles King of Muscles
Tier	Antigravity Cat Helper

Both Wumpo and its other variant have the best boost in your Inventory Weight as long as they're in your party.

List of Best Pals for Transporting

Other Work Suitability Related Partner Skills

Other Partner Skills for Each Work Suitability
Work Suitability	Partner Skill
	Skilled Fingers - Weapons Only

Ribbuny has a special Partner Skill where it can increase work efficiency when deployed to a Weapon Workbench.

Work Suitability List: All Pals by Work Suitability

Best Partner Skills for Working in the Ranch

Farming is a unique Work Suitability in that there is no 'best' Farming Pal. This is because each Pal drops specific resources, making the best Farming Pal whatever Pal that drops the resource you need.

Just make sure that you fix the Pal's assignment to the Ranch so that it doesn't go off doing other tasks.

List of Best Pals for Farming

List of Farming Partner Skills

Partner Skills for Farming List
Item	Partner Skill
Wool	Fluffy Shield Pacapaca Wool
Egg	Egg Layer
Gold Coin	Gold Digger Gold Digger
Milk	Milk Maker
Cotton Candy	Candy Pop
Red Berries	Berry Picker
Flame Organ	Magma Tears
High Quality Cloth	Silk Maker
Gold Coin Pal Sphere Arrow	Dig Here!

Best Partner Skills Tier List for Exploration

Best Partner Skills for Exploration and Looting

Best Partner Skills for Exploration Tier List
Tier	Pal & Partner Skills
Tier	Increased Drops for Defeating Certain Pals
Tier	Increased Movement Speed
Tier	Ignore Extreme Temperatures Gliding Pals
Tier	Locate Nearby Pals Locate Nearby Dungeons Locate Nearby Ore

SS Tier Partner Skills for Exploration

Palworld Exploration Partner Skill Tier List

Partner Skills that Increases Drops from Pals

Partner Skills that Increases Drops from Enemy Pals
Increased Drops	Partner Skill
Neutral	Darkflame Lion Grimoire Collector
Grass	Hellflame Lion
Ice	Scorching Predator
Electric	Steel Scorpion
Ground	Purification of Gaia
Dragon	Dragon Hunter
Dark	Amicable Holy Dragon
Fire	Brave Sailor Amicable Water Dragon
Water	Ferocious Thunder Dragon

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can increase the chances for items to drop against Pals whose types are weak against theirs when they are your Active Pal. These abilities are useful when you're trying to grind for Legendary Schematics.

All Drop Rate Boosting Partner Skills

S Tier Partner Skills for Exploration

Palworld Exploration Partner Skill Tier List

Partner Skills that Increases Movement Speed

Partner Skills that Increase Movement Speed
Partner Skill
[align] Direhowl Rider Travel Companion Warm Body Cool Body Jumping Force Clear Mind Swift Swimmer Sand Swimmer Grassland Speedster Wind and Clouds Stormbringer Sea Dragon Holy Knight of the Firmament Dark Knight of the Abyss

These Pals have Partner Skills where they can increase your movement speed when mounted. Verdash is the sole exception to this, as having it as your Active Pal is the only thing you need to get the Movement Speed boost.

Best Mounts and All Mount Pals

A Tier Partner Skills for Exploration

Palworld Exploration Partner Skill Tier List

Partner Skills that Ignore Extreme Temperatures

Best Partner Skills for Ignoring Temperature
Temperature	Partner Skill
Both Hot and Cold	Clear Mind
Hot	Cool Body
Cold	Warm Body

These Pals have Partner Skills that let the Player ignore extreme temperature when mounted. Kitsun stands out as it can be used to ignore both Hot and Cold temperatures, making it the best Pal to explore areas where you would normally need Tempreature Resistant Armor.

List of Pals That Can be Used as Gliders

Alternatively, instead of using a Glider, some Pals can be used instead as a replacement! Galeclaw is the fastest glider Pal in addition to its ability to enable weapon usage while gliding.

While both Hangyu and Hangyu Cryst suffer from extremely slow gliding speeds, they have the unique ability of lifting the player in the air before gliding down, making them viable options to reach high locations.

Best Glider Pals Tier List

B Tier Partner Skills for Exploration

Palworld Exploration Partner Skill Tier List

Partner Skills that Locate Nearby Pals

Partner Skills that Locate Nearby Pals
Ultrasonic Sensor

Tombat has a unique Partner Skill that, when activated, will help you pinpoint the location of Pals within a certain radius.

Partner Skills that Locate Nearby Dungeons

Partner Skills that Locate Nearby Dungeons
Sixth Sense Sixth Sense

Leezpunk and Leezpunk Ignis have a unique Partner Skill that, when activated, will help you pinpoint the location of nearby Dungeons within a certain radius.

Partner Skills that Locate Nearby Ores

Partner Skills that Locate Nearby Ore
Ore Detector

Fuddler has a unique Partner Skill that, when activated, will help you pinpoint the location of Ore within a certain radius.

Criteria for Tier Placings

The following are the criteria to be met when ranking Partner Skills for Exploration.

Tier	Criteria
	SS Tier Partner Skills are the ones where you can get the most benefit from in terms of exploration and looting.
	Partner Skills in S Tier are great but are usually situational when you need it.
	Partner Skills in this tier are great for exploration but aren't really necessary as you can find better alternatives.
	B Tier Partner Skills can be useful but aren't needed if you already know your way around.

Palworld Related Guides

List of All Skills

All Skill Types

Best Skills per Type

Skill Related Guides

• List of New Skills
• All Exclusive Elite Passive Skills
• All Drop Rate Boosting Partner Skills
• All Player Attack Boosting Partner Skills
• All Pal Attack Boosting Partner Skills
• All Player Defense Boosting Partner Skills
• All Pal Defense Boosting Partner Skills
• All Element Type Changing Partner Skills
• List of Skills Not Available as Skill Fruits
• Best Skill Fruits Tier List