Active Skills

Pals can use Active Skills in battle to fight against their foes.

Using Active Skills

Pals naturally learn their own set of Active Skills as they level up.
Skills can also be learned by feeding Pals Skill Fruit found hanging from trees in the world. You may use a Skill Fruit to teach any Pal the skill it contains. There is no limit to how many Active Skills a Pal may learn, except that they may only learn each one once.

Each Pal can have up to 3 Active Skills enabled at a time. You can swap a Pal's learned Active Skills by viewing them via the Party menu or the Palbox.

When riding a Pal, a player can use the Pal's Active Skills manually.
Each skill has a cooldown time (CT) before it may be used again.

List of Active Skills

Name	Element	CT	Power	Description	Skill Fruit
Acid Rain	Water	18	80	Creates acidic clouds that pour down acid rain on enemies	Water Skill Fruit: Acid Rain
Air Blade	Neutral	20	85	Sends out sharp blades of air in a fan shape.	Skill Fruit: Air Blade
Air Cannon	Neutral	2	25	Quickly fires a burst of highly pressurized air.	Skill Fruit: Air Cannon
Apocalypse	Dark	55	110	Generates several dark vortexes in the surrounding area.	Dark Skill Fruit: Apocalypse
Aqua Burst	Water	30	100	Creates a giant ball of water and hurls it at an enemy.	Water Skill Fruit: Aqua Burst
Aqua Gun	Water	4	40	Hurls a ball of water straight at an enemy.	Water Skill Fruit: Aqua Gun
Beam Slicer	Dragon	45	130	Mows down the frontal area with a beam imbued with dragon power. The area touched by the beam will also explode after a few moments.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Beam Slicer
Blast Cannon	Dragon	30	100	Fires an energy bullet imbued with dragon power at the enemy's location. Upon impact, the bullet shatters and creates a frontal long-range explosion.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Blast Cannon
Blizzard Spike	Ice	45	130	Creates a giant lump of ice and hurls it at any enemy. It deals damage to those in the surrounding area upon impact.	Ice Skill Fruit: Blizzard Spike
Bog Blast	Ground	4	40	Hurls sticky mud at an enemy.	Earth Skill Fruit: Bog Blast
Bubble Blast	Water	13	65	Fires numerous bubbles that slowly pursue an enemy.	Water Skill Fruit: Bubble Blast
Circle Vine	Grass	40	120	Sprots sharp roots in and around the enemy's location.	Grass Skill Fruit: Circle Vine
Comet Strike	Dragon	35	110	Drops a meteorite straight down, generating a shock wave around the impact area.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Comet
Cryst Breath	Ice	22	90	Enshrouds an enemy in a frigid blast of air, dealing continuous damage.	Ice Skill Fruit: Cryst Breath
Curtain Splash	Water	40	120	Continously creates walls made from water columns at the enemy's location.	Water Skill Fruit: Wall Splash
Dark Arrow	Dark	10	65	Fires off dark energy that homes in on an enemy.	Dark Skill Fruit: Dark Arrow
Dark Ball	Dark	4	40	Unleases a sphere of darkness that slowly tracks down the enemy.	Breeding only
Dark Cannon	Dark	2	50	Fires off dark energy that homes in on an enemy.	Dark Skill Fruit: Dark Cannon
Dark Laser	Dark	55	150	Charges dark energy before blasting enemies with a powerful beam.	Dark Skill Fruit: Dark Laser
Diamond Rain	Ice	60	160	Creates numerous lumps of ice that are consecutively dropped on a foe's head.	Ice Skill Fruit: Diamond Rain
Draconic Breath	Dragon	15	70	Exhales breath imbued with draconic energy, dealing continuous damage to those in front of it.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Draconic Breath
Dragon Burst	Dragon	10	55	Quickly discharges draconic energy, damaging those around it.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Dragon Burst
Dragon Cannon	Dragon	2	30	Hurls an energy ball imbued with draconic energy at an enemy.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Dragon Cannon
Dragon Meteor	Dragon	55	150	Calls down numerous small meteorites and launches them at an enemy.	Dragon Skill Fruit: Dragon Meteor
Electric Ball	Electric	9	50	Fires an electric ball that slowly pursues an enemy.	Electric Skill Fruit: Electric Ball
Fire Ball	Fire	55	150	Creates a giant ball of flames and hurls it at an enemy. The ball explodes over a wide area upon impact.	Fire Skill Fruit: Fire Ball
Flame Funnel	Fire	40	120	Creates multiple spheres of fiery energy, from which countless fireballs shoot towards the enemy.	Breeding only
Flame Wall	Fire	30	100	Creates a wall of flames at the enemy's location. The wall of flame will remain for a while, and deal damage to the enemies it touches.	Fire Skill Fruit: Flame Wall
Flare Arrow	Fire	10	55	Fires three flaming arrows in succession that home in on an enemy.	Fire Skill Fruit: Flare Arrow
Flare Storm	Fire	18	80	Generates two flaming tornadoes on either side before launching them at an enemy.	Fire Skill Fruit: Flare Storm
Grass Tornado	Grass	18	80	Generates two tornadoes on either side before launching them at an enemy.	Grass Skill Fruit: Grass Tornado
Holy Burst	Neutral	30	120	Creates a wide explosion of light at the enemy's location and around it.	Breeding only
Hydro Jet	Water	2	30	Hurls a high speed ball of water at an enemy.	Water Skill Fruit: Hydro Jet
Hydro Laser	Water	55	150	Shoots pressurized water at extreme velocities, sweeping over a wide area in front of it.	Water Skill Fruit: Hydro Laser
Ice Missile	Ice	3	30	Creates ice lances in the air that fly towards enemies.	Ice Skill Fruit: Ice Missile
Iceberg	Ice	15	70	Summons a sharp ice lance under an enemy.	Ice Skill Fruit: Iceberg
Icicle Cutter	Ice	10	55	Creates a crescent blade of ice and hurls it forward.	Ice Skill Fruit: Icicle Cutter
Icicle Line	Ice	40	120	Generates a pillar of ice that moves in a straight line.	Ice Skill Fruit: Icicle Line
Ignis Blast	Fire	2	30	Hurls a ball of fire straight at an enemy.	Fire Skill Fruit: Ignis Blast
Ignis Breath	Fire	15	70	Shoots flames at an enemy, dealing continuous damage.	Fire Skill Fruit: Ignis Breath
Ignis Rage	Fire	40	120	Energizes the surrounding ground, causing it to explode after a set amount of time.	Fire Skill Fruit: Ignis Rage
Implode	Neutral	55	230	Risks its life to cause a violent explosion. Becomes incapacitated afterwards.	Skill Fruit: Implode
Lightning Bolt	Electric	55	150	Charges electric energy before blasting enemies with a powerful shock.	Electric Skill Fruit: Lightning Bolt
Lightning Streak	Electric	16	75	Generates a lightning bolt that moves forward in a line.	Electric Skill Fruit: Lightning Streak
Lightning Strike	Electric	40	120	Acts as a lightning rod, calling down thunderbolts that electrocute the surrounding area.	Electric Skill Fruit: Lightning Strike
Lock-on Laser	Electric	15	70	Takes aim at an enemy before firing a super high speed laser.	Electric Skill Fruit: Lock-on Laser
Megaton Implode	Neutral	55	500	Risks life to cause a massive explosion. Those who perish for their duty become glistening stars in the night sky.	Breeding only
Multicutter	Grass	12	60	The user fires three high-speed blades of wind in quick succession that fly straight at enemies.	Grass Skill Fruit: Multicutter
Nightmare Ball	Dark	30	100	Creates a giant ball of darkness and hurls it at an enemy.	Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball
Pal Blast	Neutral	55	150	Charges destructive energy before firing a high-powered beam forward across a wide area.	Skill Fruit: Pal Blast
Plasma Tornado	Electric	13	65	Creates two balls of electric energy that fire numerous bolts of lightning at enemies.	Electric Skill Fruit: Plasma Tornado
Poison Blast	Dark	2	30	Hurls poison sludge at an enemy.	Dark Skill Fruit: Poison Blast
Poison Fog	Dark	30	0	Generates a fog of poison in front, causing the opponent to become poisoned.	Breeding only
Power Bomb	Neutral	15	70	Charges a massive amount of energy before firing a large destructive ball.	Skill Fruit: Power Bomb
Power Shot	Neutral	4	35	Charges energy into a focused blast.	Skill Fruit: Power Shot
Rockburst	Ground	35	130	Causes the ground to shake before hurling a massive stone mass at its surroundings.	Earth Skill Fruit: Rockburst
Rock Lance	Ground	55	150	Generates a sharp rock spear under an enemy.	Earth Skill Fruit: Rock Lance
Sand Tornado	Ground	18	80	Generates two sand tornadoes on either side before launching them at an enemy.	Earth Skill Fruit: Sand Tornado
Sand Twister	Ground	60	160	Creates multiple sand tornadoes. The tornadoes continuously spin in circles.	Earth Skill Fruit: Sand Twister
Seed Machine Gun	Grass	9	50	Fires a volley of hard seeds at enemies in front of it.	Grass Skill Fruit: Seed Machine Gun
Seed Mine	Grass	13	65	Launches a deadly seed. If it hits an enemy, the seed explodes.	Grass Skill Fruit: Seed Mine
Shadow Burst	Dark	10	55	Quickly discharges dark energy, damaging those around it.	Dark Skill Fruit: Shadow Burst
Shockwave	Electric	4	40	Quickly discharges electricity, shacking those around it.	Electric Skill Fruit: Shockwave
Solar Blast	Grass	55	150	Charges solar energy before blasting enemies with a powerful beam.	Grass Skill Fruit: Solar Blast
Spark Blast	Electric	2	30	The user releases a lightning ball that expands outward in a forward, circular pattern.	Electric Skill Fruit: Spark Blast
Spine Vine	Grass	25	95	Generates spiny thorns that chase an enemy along the ground, piercing them from below.	Grass Skill Fruit: Spine Vine
Spirit Fire	Fire	7	45	Shoots fireballs towards an enemy. The fireballs explode after a short distance, generating smaller fireballs that spread forward.	Fire Skill Fruit: Spirit Fire
Spirit Flame	Dark	16	75	Fires three balls of malice that relentlessly pursue an enemy.	Dark Skill Fruit: Spirit Flame
Splash	Water	22	90	Generates a column of water that travels in a straight line.	Water Skill Fruit: Splash
Stone Blast	Ground	10	55	Fires a barrage of stones forward.	Earth Skill Fruit: Stone Blast
Stone Cannon	Ground	15	70	Digs up a boulder and hurls it at an enemy.	Earth Skill Fruit: Stone Cannon
Thunder Rain	Electric	45	135	Calls lightning that strikes an enemy after a set amount of time has passed.	Electric Skill Fruit: Thunder Rain
Thunderstorm	Electric	60	160	Generates a huge tornado of lightning that moves slowly towards the enemy.	Electric Skill Fruit: Thunderstorm
Tri-Lightning	Electric	22	90	Generates lightning that strikes an enemy three times from above.	Electric Skill Fruit: Tri-Lightning
TriSpark	Electric	35	110	A high-speed lightning ball that flies in a straight line. Simultaneously fires slow lightning balls that track the enemy.	Electric Skill Fruit: TriSpark
Umbral Surge	Dark	2	40	Fires a high speed ball of dark energy that spreads forward in a radial shape.	Dark Skill Fruit: Umbral Surge
Volcanic Rain	Fire	45	130	Fires countless volcanic bombs into the sky. After a while, the bombs rain down around their originator.	Fire Skill Fruit: Volcanic Rain
Wind Cutter	Grass	2	30	Fires a high speed blade of wind that flies straight at an enemy.	Grass Skill Fruit: Wind Cutter

Pal-Exclusive Active Skills

The following skills are only available to specific Pals.

Name	Pal	Element	CT	Power	Description
Antler Uppercut	Eikthyrdeer  Eikthyrdeer Terra	Neutral	5	50	Eikthyrdeer's exclusive skill. Charges at foes and uses antlers to launch them into the air. If used while riding, the direction of the charge can be controlled.
Beam Comet	Jetragon	Dragon	50	140	Jetragon's exclusive skill. Flies at enemies on illuminated wings while firing innumerable beams. The beams explode on impact.
Bee Quiet	Beegarde	Grass	55	250	Risks its life to cause a violent explosion, but receives the honor of falling in battle.
Blast Punch	Mossanda Lux	Electric	14	85	Mossanda Lux's exclusive skill. Winds up its fist before pummeling an enemy with a flurry of electrically charged punches.
Blazing Horn	Arsox	Fire	9	50	Arsox's exclusive skill. Takes aim and rushes at an enemy with a mad dash.
Botanical Smash	Dinossom  Dinossom Lux	Grass	8	60	Dinossom's exclusive skill. Uses large tail to smash the ground in front of it, damaging enemies over a wide area.
Bountiful Protection	Lyleen	Neutral	240	0	Lyleen's exclusive skill. Uses her healing power to recover her health. Doesn't heal anyone else.
Brawn Impact	Blazamut  Blazamut Ryu	Fire	38	150	Blazamut's exclusive skill. Waves and pumps up its arms, the slams them together to create a large explosion in the surrounding area.
Cat Press	Grintale	Neutral	9	60	Grintale's exclusive skill. Grins menacingly before leaping into the air and smashing foes with its body.
Chicken Rush	Chikipi	Neutral	1	30	Chikipi's special skill. Flies at enemies in its sight, attacking them with its sharp beak.
Cloud Tempest	Fenglope	Neutral	15	90	Fenglope's exclusive skill. Charges forward while manipulating the atmosphere to create a pressurized wind tunnel around itself.
Crushing Punch	Mossanda	Grass	18	85	Mossanda's exclusive skill. Winds up its fist before striking an enemy with a devastating punch.
Crystal Wing	Frostallion	Ice	24	110	Frostallion's exclusive skill. Dashes forward while creating frigid air around its wings, using them to slash enemies.
Daring Flames	Kitsun	Fire	10	75	Kitsun's exclusive skill. Charges forward with great speed while clad in intense blue flames.
Dark Charge	Pyrin Noct	Dark	14	85	Pyrin Noct's exclusive skill. Charges forward while clad in a veil of dark flames. Flames continue to burn in its trajectory.
Divine Disaster	Shadowbeak	Dark	45	160	Shadowbeak's exclusive skill. Charges forward while generating orbs of light that automatically capture enemies. The orbs automatically capture enemies, before releasing a barrage of lasers.
Divine Disaster II	Shadowbeak	Dark	45	170	Shadowbeak's exclusive skill. As it charges forward, emits countless blue rays that automatically locate and pursue the enemy.
Earth Dash	Dazemu	Ground	21	100	Dazemu's special skill. Accelerates all at once and rushes forward at high speed.
Earth Impact	Mammorest  Mammorest Cryst	Ground	30	100	Mammorest's exclusive skill. Uses massive body to shake the earth, dealing damage over a wide area.
Emperor Slide	Penking	Ice	10	70	Penking's exclusive skill. Lies on its belly while generating frozen air all around it before sliding at enemies at high speed.
Evil Slash	Xenovader	Dark	17	95	Xenovader's exclusive skill. A flash jump followed by a left-hand slash.
Fierce Fang	Direhowl	Neutral	2	45	Direhowl's special skill. Swiftly leaps at an enemy and bites into them.
Flame Waltz	Bellanoir Libero	Dark	45	130	Bellanoir Libero's exclusive skill. Dances gracefully while creating an extending ring of flames. Then, it fires mysterious flames that home in on enemies.
Fluffy Tackle	Melpaca	Neutral	4	40	Melpaca's exclusive skill. Charges forward while clad in an aura of sublime adorableness.
Focus Shot	Robinquill  Robinquill Terra	Grass	9	65	Robinquill's exclusive skill. Takes aim while drawing its bow before loosing a powerful shot at an enemy.
Forceful Charge	Anubis	Ground	28	120	Anubis's special skill. Pursues its foe with a high speed dash while releasing energy and unleashes a powerful punch.
Freezing Charge	Reindrix	Ice	9	65	Reindrix's exclusive skill. Charges at an enemy with antlers adorned in ice.
Frost Burst	Reptyro Cryst	Ice	45	100	Reptyro Cryst's exclusive skill. Raises its front legs and slams them into the ground causing frozen blasts under its enemies. It simultaneously pounds them with snow balls from above.
Gale Claw	Galeclaw	Neutral	8	60	Galeclaw's exclusive skill. Soars through the air with its talons outstretched forward.
Giga Horn	Warsect	Ground	11	75	Warsect's exclusive skill. Skewers enemies with its four sturdy horns.
Ground Cutter	Knocklem	Ground	35	145	Knocklem's exclusive skill. Takes a big swing and throws the ring on its back. The ring flies in a circular trajectory.
Ground Pound	Gorirat  Gorirat Terra	Neutral	14	85	Gorirat's exclusive skill. Pounds the ground twice before leaping into the air and unleashing a powerful punch.
Ground Smash	Anubis	Ground	35	140	Anubis's special skill. Leaps high into the air before diving to the ground with a punch. The force of the impact deals damage over a wide area.
Heavy Thunder Tank	Grizzbolt	Electric	42	160	Grizzbolt's exclusive skill. Attacks with a minigun pulled out from somewhere. Ends with a single, charged power shot.
Hellfire Claw	Incineram  Incineram Noct	Fire	10	70	Incineram's exclusive skill. Draws near enemies using its left claw to slash them into the air before cutting them down with its right claw.
Iaigiri	Bushi	Fire	9	65	Bushi's exclusive skill. After Holding the sword, he appears in front of the enemy in an instant and unleashes a Ultra-fast sword draw attack.
Ignis Slam	Pyrin	Fire	14	85	Pyrin's exclusive skill. Charges forward while clad in a veil of flames. Flames continue to burn in its wake.
Jumping Claw	Loupmoon	Dark	7	55	Loupmoon's exclusive skill. Leaps forward and attacks twice with vicious claws imbued with dark energy.
Jumping Stinger	Menasting  Menasting Terra	Ground	24	110	Menasting's exclusive skill. Jumps high and stabs its prey with its tail. The poison from the tail is deadly.
Kerauno	Orserk	Electric	30	100	Orserk's exclusive skill. Summons a blade of lightning while leaping into the air before throwing it at an enemy.
Kingly Slam	Kingpaca  Kingpaca Cryst	Neutral	21	100	Kingpaca's exclusive skill. Leaps high into the air before smashing into an enemy with its massive body.
Lightning Claw	Grizzbolt	Electric	22	90	Grizzbolt's special skill. After leaping at an enemy and tearing at it twice with its electrically charged claws, it attacks the ground, sending an electric shock throughout the area.
Magna Crush	Blazamut Ryu	Dragon	42	160	Blazamut's exclusive skill. After making a big jump, while moving at high speed in the air, gathers strength and unleashes a punch with full might.
Moonlight Beam	Selyne	Neutral	40	170	Selyne's exclusive skill. Stores energy in the moon on its back, then fires a crescent-shaped beam forward.
Muscle Slam	Broncherry  Broncherry Aqua	Neutral	12	80	Broncherry's exclusive skill. Turns sideways before tackling enemies in front of it, sending them flying into the air.
Mystic Whirlwind	Elphidran	Dragon	10	70	Elphidran's exclusive skill. Generates twin whirlwinds imbued with a mysterious power that pursues enemies.
Nightmare Bloom	Bellanoir Libero	Dark	50	160	Bellanoir Libero's exclusive skill. Disappears suddenly, then reappears while firing a barrage of beams. The beams spread like a beautiful flower in bloom.
Nightmare Ray	Bellanoir	Dark	50	140	Bellanoir's exclusive skill. Disappears suddenly, then reappears while firing a barrage of beams.
Phantom Peck	Cawgnito	Dark	7	55	Cawgnito's exclusive skill. Teleports next to an enemy before attacking with its beak.
Phoenix Flare	Faleris	Fire	28	135	Faleris's special skill. Covers its body in a tornado of flames before charging forward.
Polykeraunos	Orserk	Electric	50	180	Orserk's exclusive skill. Summons numerous thunder spears and hurls them at the enemy. The first spear is imbued with the power of lightning and explodes after a few seconds.
Punch Flurry	Cattiva	Neutral	1	40	Cattiva's special skill. Pursues enemies, repeatedly punching them with both its fists.
Raging Flame Wave	Faleris	Fire	38	145	Faleris's exclusive skill. Generates multiple tornadoes of scorching fire and charges forward. The tornadoes converge in the center and eventually merge into a single massive tornado.
Reckless Charge	Rushoar	Neutral	2	55	Rushoar's special skill. Takes aim at a foe and rushes at them with a mad charge.
Rocket Slam	Chillet  Chillet Ignis	Dragon	6	50	Chillet's exclusive skill. Gathers a bit of strength and it leaps forward. When landing it's always scared so it closes its eyes.
Roly Poly	Lamball	Neutral	1	35	Lamball's special skill. Curls into a ball, rolling after any enemies in its way. Becomes dizzy and unable to move after the attack ends.
Seigetsu Blade	Selyne	Neutral	24	110	Selyne's exclusive skill. Fires two consecutive high-speed blades imbued with the power of moonlight.
Shell Spin	Digtoise	Ground	9	65	Digtoise's exclusive skill. Moves while spinning its whole body at high speeds. Drills through enemies, dealing continuous damage.
Spear Thrust	Paladius	Neutral	40	120	Paladius's exclusive skill. Clads itself in holy power before charging forward with its spear. The shield in its other hand protects from attacks during the charge.
Spinning Lance	Elizabee	Grass	9	70	Elizabee's exclusive skill. Channels power into its staff, and unleashes it in a whirl.
Spinning Roundhouse	Anubis	Ground	21	100	Anubis's special skill. Performs a spin kick with its strong legs, cutting down enemies over a wide area.
Star Mine	Selyne	Neutral	55	110	Generates stars around the enemy that explode on contact. Stars also explode after some time.
Tornado Attack	Nitewing	Neutral	13	65	Nitewing's exclusive skill. Generates a tornado before soaring towards its target.
Twin Spears	Necromus	Dark	40	120	Necromus' exclusive skill. Clads its twin spears with vicious whirlwinds and charges forward, thrusting them one after the other.
Upper Smash	Prixter	Dark	24	110	Prixter's exclusive skill. Closes the distance to the enemy at high speed, then attacks decisively with its pincers.
Volcanic Burst	Reptyro	Fire	45	100	Reptyro's exclusive skill. Raises its front legs before slamming them into the ground, causing volcanic eruptions under its enemies. It simultaneously bombards them with volcanic bombs from above.
Wholehearted Stance	Dogen	Neutral	30	170	Dogen's exclusive skill. Adopts an aiki stance. While in stance, any attack is nullified, then instantly countered with a full-force palm strike.

Boss-Exclusive Active Skills

These skills are exclusive to certain tower and raid bosses.

Name	Pal	Element	CT	Power	Description
Absolute Frost	Selyne	Ice	50	140	Throws icicles in a wide area from under the enemy's feet.
All Range Thunder	Orserk	Electric	40	125	Generates lightning strikes that travel in a straight line in all directions.
Comet Barrage	Selyne  Blazamut Ryu	Dragon	40	120	Drops meteorites one after another, generating shock waves around the impact areas.
Dark Whisp	Shadowbeak  Bellanoir Libero	Dark	45	160	Fires a menacing ball of dark energy that pursues enemies.
Double Blizzard Spike	Shadowbeak  Selyne	Ice	60	200	Creates two huge ice blocks and fires them at the enemy one after another. On impact, it also shocks those close by.
Icicle Bullet	Shadowbeak  Selyne	Ice	35	110	Generates multiple sharp ice blocks in the sky and fires them at the enemy.
Lethal Laser	Grizzbolt  Shadowbeak	Electric	50	170	After aiming at the enemy, fires multiple ultra-fast lightning lasers.
Meteorain	Blazamut Ryu	Dragon	55	160	Drops countless meteorites, generating an array of shock waves.
Raid Cutter	Lyleen	Grass	35	110	Shoots countless wind swords that fly straight towards the enemy.
Seigetsu Flash	Selyne	Neutral	24	110	Selyne's exclusive skill. Launches three high-speed swords imbued with moonlight power in succession.
Thunder Rail	Faleris	Electric	60	200	Charge the power of lightning to the limit and fires multiple simultaneous electric shocks at the enemy.
Wind Edge	Lyleen  Orserk	Grass	22	90	Launches sharp blades of air that fan out.

Strategy

Pals' Active Skills do more damage depending on the Skill's cooldown, but this is not necessarily a linear increase; While a  Jetragon using exclusively Beam Comet will deal large amounts of damage on each hit, Wind Cutter can be used far more frequently, and can entirely out-damage Beam Comet over the course of a given fight. However, these high-damage attacks can be interspersed with lower-CT skills, resulting in a higher DPS, or Damage Per Second, than either strategy alone.

Indeed, Pals will generally attempt to use their highest-CT skills first, and then resort to the next-highest CT move while the highest is on cooldown. Even while not actively riding a Pal, the strategy of mixing high-damage, high-CT skills with low-CT skills is effective in getting the most damage out of your Pals.

Not presently listed in these tables is a usage time, or an amount of time a Pal is standing still, moving with, or otherwise using a Skill and unable to use any other Skills. Some Skills have a long usage time, which mean the more effective low-CT skills can't be mixed in as effectively. It's worth experimenting to see how much wind-up a given Skill has, and whether the extra damage makes up for it compared to other low-CT moves which generally have minimal or no wind-up.

It's also worth ensuring your Pals have a mixture of damage types in their Skills, or have Skills that are more effective against a specific target (such as a raid boss). Optimizing a pal's Skills for damage is worth far less if all three Skills are Electric-element against an Alpha  Anubis.

Recommended Skills

This guide is courtesy of Chapapote.

Quick Skills

With the way active skills are designed in Palworld, in general the lower a moves CD value is, the higher DPS it provides, so its no surprise that the quickest moves with 2 second CD have the highest DPS. So IMO every pal should have one of these moves although they are not all created equal. Here's my evaluation of the currently available quick moves.

Godly Tier:

• Dark Cannon - 20 more dmg then other skills with same CD and has a small AoE

Good Tier:

• Wind Cutter - Small AoE
• Air Cannon - Can Pierce through Pals

Average Tier:

• Poison Blast
• Dragon Cannon
• Ignis Blast
• Hydro Jet

Below Average Tier:

• Bog Blast - Ground doesn't get 2-second CD skill, so this is best, at 4 seconds

Ignore Tier:

• Ice Missile - Long cast time and less DPS
• Spark Blast - Long cast time and less DPS

Powerful Skills

Things get a lot more interesting when we look at the other active skills. This list doesn't include exclusive skills other then a few that were already on the Pal's i was testing skills with.

There were 2 main things I was looking for when testing Active Skills:

• Any hidden Power multipliers
• How long it took the cast. I measured how long until I was able to move again while mounted. There's a few Skills where I was able to move before the skill finished casting.

One thing I noticed that hasn't been mentioned when talking about skills is the dmg loss while casting the skill. Most skills take around 3 seconds to cast with some being as high as 7. During that cast time you could be spamming your OP quick move instead. With Serenity + Impatient its just over a second per an attack, so while casting that 55 dmg move with 10CT (or 5.5dps) you may have missed out on casting your quick attack 3 times for 90 dmg. I referred to this as adjusted DPS and used the standard 30 power 2CT moves to adjust an Active Skills DPS value.

SSS - Higher DPS than Quick Skills:

• Curtain Splash - Water
• Holy Burst - Neutral
• Blast Cannon - Dragon
• Lightning Streak - Lightning
• Air Blade - Neutral
• Seed Mine - Grass

SS - Similar DMG Potential to SSS, but more RNG:

• Star Mine - Neutral
• Thunder Rain - Lightning
• Beam Slicer - Dragon
• Rockburst - Ground

A+ - Best of the non-OP skills:

• Multicutter - Grass
• Blizzard Spike - Ice
• Ignis Rage - Fire
• Apocalypse - Dark

A - Good DMG Potential, but more RNG:

• Splash - Water
• Thunderstorm - Lightning

B - Good filler moves

• Acid Rain - Water
• Fire Wall - Fire
• Diamond Rain - Ice
• Icicle Cutter - Ice

C - Better than nothing

• Iceberg - Ice
• Sand Twister - Ground
• Grass Tornado - Grass
• Shadow Burst - Dark
• Dragon Burst - Dragon
• Fire Ball - Fire
• Circle Vine - Grass
• Solar Blast - Grass
• Rock Lance - Ground
• Trispark - Lightning
• Pal Blast - Neutral

D - Anything below this point is either neutral or a loss of DPS in Serenity Builds

• Spirit Flame - Dark
• Electric Ball - Lightning
• Dark Laser - Dark
• Stone Cannon - Ground
• Spirit Fire - Fire
• Dark Arrow - Dark
• Comet Strike - Dragon
• Ice Breath - Ice
• Volcanic Rain - Fire
• Nightmare Ball - Dark
• Aqua Burst - Water
• Power Shot - Neutral

E - Barely Worth Casting

• Flare Storm - Fire
• Flare Arrow - Fire
• Hydro Laser - Water
• Lightning Bolt - Lightning
• Sand Tornado - Ground
• Ignis Breath - Fire
• Lightning Strike - Lightning
• Power Bomb - Neutral
• Dragon Breath - Dragon
• Tri-Lightning - Lightning
• Icicle Line - Ice
• Spine Vine - Grass
• Plasma Funnel - Lightning
• Dark Ball - Dark

F - You're losing DPS by using these

• Dragon Meteor - Dragon
• Umbral Surge - Dark
• Seed Machine Gun - Grass
• Lock-on Laser - Lightning
• Bubble Blast - Water
• Stone Blast - Ground

External Links

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rtJrnVMjErDFtaRJlZXst0xA8DyihM90fYTDi3ZozUw/edit?gid=1555140077#gid=1555140077

References

r/Palworld/comments/1fnerux/move_tier_list/