When capturing Pals, you’ll get them to help you with your base and in fights. They also include Passive Skills that can be a great advantage in combat or provide extra benefits while your Pal works at your base.
Here are the best Passive Skills in Palworld.
How Passive Skills work in Palworld
Every pal you successfully catch will come with their Passive Skill. These Passive Skills range from positive to negative. You want to focus on the positive ones.
There are over 60 Passive Skills in Palworld, so getting lost in all possibilities is easy. Fortunately, a system of Tiers can help you determine easily which ones are better: they can range from Tier -3, which corresponds to very negative Passive Skills, to Tier +3, designating the best you can get in Palworld.
It’s essential to consider a Pal’s Passive Skill because they can impact both combat and building, especially since they can be stacked. You’ll discover them when capturing Pals. The skill is only sometimes positive; passive skills have bonuses and adverse effects.
Best Passive Skills in Palworld for combat and working
Officially, there are 22 Passive Skills categorized as Tier +3. They are the best you can get in the game, as they will significantly help you in combat depending on your strategy of choice and when building your base. We’ve also added a few Skills from other Tiers that are pretty strong.
You can pass down passive skills via breeding, so try to pick pals with useful passive skills. If you find a heavily positive skill, it would be wise to attempt breeding that Pal for positive results.
Best Passive Skills for combat
5) Lucky
Lucky is a strong Tier +3 Passive Skill due to its versatility, strong both for combat and work. Lucky grants a 15 percent increase in work speed and a 15 percent increase in Attack. It’ll best suit the Pals you use for both aspects of the game.
4) Musclehead
On the contrary, Musclehead is very strong, but only for combat. Your Pal won’t be helpful in your base but will deal high damage. Musclehead is a Tier +3 Passive Skill that grants a 30 percent increase to Attack but a 50 percent decrease in work speed.
3) Ferocious and Burly Body
Ferocious grants a 20 percent increase on Attack, while Burly Body grants the same increase on Defense. Both are equally strong, but their impact in combat will depend on how you use them. These Passive Skills are strong even though they’re labeled as Tier +2.
2) Type-based damage increases of 20 percent
This rank is dedicated to several Passive Skills that serve the same purpose: They grant a 20 percent increase to damage for one specific element. They’re very strong but require a bit of strategic planning. Here is the list for all nine kinds of elemental damage:
- Flame Emperor
- Earth Emperor
- Ice Emperor
- Celestial Emperor
- Spirit Emperor
- Lord of the Sea
- Lord of Lightning
- Lord of the Underworld
- Divine Dragon
1) Legend
Legend is the best Passive Skill you can get for combat. The Tier +3 bonus grants 20 percent more Attack, 20 percent more Defense, and 15 percent more Movement Speed. It’s incredibly versatile while keeping high numbers, making it an obvious choice for the best Passive.
Best Passive Skills for work
5) Diet Lover
The adverse effects of Hunger in Palworld shouldn’t be underestimated since your Pals might not be able to work anymore. To prevent this, you’ll have to feed them (and yourself), but the Diet Lover Passive Skills can help you too, with the Hunger decrease becoming 15 percent more likely.
4) Swift
Movement Speed is important in Palworld, which makes the Tier +3 Swift Passive Skill strong, with a 30 percent increase on that stat.
3) Workaholic
Keeping your Pals safe from Hunger is key to productivity, but it’s also the case for Sanity. If it reduces too much, your Pals won’t be willing to work anymore. The Workaholic Tier +3 Passive Skill helps by making Sanity drop 15 percent slower, meaning your Pals can work longer before resting in their Palbox.
2) Logging and Mining Foreman
Logging Foreman and Mining Foreman are strong Passive Skills but have particular uses. The first grants a 25 percent increase in Player Logging Efficiency, while the latter offers the same bonus to Mining Efficiency.
1) Artisan
Artisan is undoubtedly the best Passive Skill you can get for your base in Palworld, as it grants a 50 percent increase in Work Speed. It’s an incredibly high bonus, and if you can combine it with other productivity increases, your Pal will become the ultimate workaholic.
For an increase close to that, you can also get the Work Slave Passive Skill, which grants a 30 percent increase at the cost of the same decrease in Attack.
Palworld is in early access, so the content in the game is subject to change. An update to this article will also come when and if that happens.
So, there you have it. You know everything you need about the best Passive Skills in Palworld. Good luck!
