Best Passive Skills in Palworld

Finding the best Palworld Passive Skills can do wonders for your exploration. With the Sakurajima update, more Pals and Passives are available, so you may be wondering which ones are more suited to your gameplay style.

So, here are the best Passive Skills in Palworld including those for combat, crafting, gathering resources, and movement.

What are Passive Skills?

Passive Skills are traits that affect how your Pals work, move, and fight. Some of them can also benefit your Tamer when you have certain Pals on your team, so understanding what they do and the best ones to pick is key to mastering the game.

Passives are randomized and in the early game, you can only know which ones a Pal has by catching or hatching it. But with Sakurajima, a new item called Ability Glasses has been added, which lets you see which Passives a Pal has before you catch it.

All Passive Skill effects stack with each other, and Pals can have up to four of them. Passives can be Positive (boost stats) or Negative (diminish stats), and come in Tiers from 1 to 3. Those that belong to the negative zone are also called Flaws.

There are four main categories of Passive Skills: Gathering, Combat, Movement, and Crafting. Here’s a detailed list of the best for each category of Pal Passives.

Combat

Skill	Effect	Tier
Pal Elemental Passives (Lord of, Emperor of, Divine)*	Boost Elemental Damage by 20%	3
Legend	+20% Attack +20% Defense +15% Movement Speed	3
Stronghold Strategist	+10% player Defense	3
Vanguard	+10% player Attack	3
Ferocious	+20% Attack	3
Musclehead	+30% Attack, -50% Work Speed	2
Calm	Active skill cooldown reduction 30%, +10% Attack	3

It is also worth mentioning that Tier 3 Pal Element Passives (*) come in nine forms, all of which grant +20% boost to the corresponding element. Those skills, like the Emperor of Ice that boosts Ice-type moves by 20%, can be granted to a Pal of the Fire-type element, which will render it entirely useless.

So, if you manage to get one of the following elemental boosts in the correct type of Pal, consider yourself lucky:

• Lord of the Underworld: +20% boost to Darkness attacks
• Lord of the Sea: +20% boost to Water attacks
• Ice Emperor: +20% boost to Ice attacks
• Earth Emperor: +20% boost to Ground attacks
• Divine Dragon: +20% boost to Dragon attacks
• Flame Emperor: +20% boost to Fire attacks
• Spirit Emperor: +20% boost to Grass attacks
• Celestial Emperor: +20% boost to Neutral attacks
• Lord of Lightning: +20% boost to Electric attacks

Crafting

Skill	Effect	Tier
Artisan	+50% Work Speed	3
Lucky	+15% Work Speed +15% Attack	3
Workaholic	SAN drops 15% slower	3
Work Slave	Work Speed +30% Attack -30%	1
Diet Lover	Hunger increases 15% slower	3
Nocturnal	Pal doesn’t need to sleep and keeps working at night	1
Philantropist	Increases breeding speed by 100%	Philanthropist

It is worth mentioning that Work Speed will also increase the building speed and managing speed of your Pals when tasked with, for example, planting, watering, and harvesting berries.

Gathering

Skill	Effect	Tier
Logging Foreman	25% increase in player’s Logging efficiency	3
Mine Foreman	25% increase in player’s Mining efficiency	3
Motivational Leader	25% increase in player’s resource gathering and working speed.	3

Movement

Skill	Effect	Tier
Runner	20% increase to movement speed	1
Swift	30% increase to movement speed	2
Supernatural Speed	50 % increase to movement speed	3
Infinite Stamina	50 % increase to maximum stamina	3
Legend	+20% Attack +20% Defense +15% Movement Speed	3

Passive movement-related Skills only affect Pals that have the “Mount” trait. These Passive Skills also stack, making them great for creating the ultimate flying, swimming, or ground mounts.

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