Palworld Tier List

Most Palworld tier lists are one person's opinion after a weekend of play. This one is computed. Attack, defense, HP and all twelve work suitabilities are read straight out of the game's own data files, so the ranking reflects what Palworld actually gives each Pal rather than launch-week hype.

Tiers are shares of the field, not fixed score thresholds: S is the top 5%, A the next 15%, B the next 30%, C the next 30%, and D the bottom 20%. That keeps S tier meaningfully small no matter which ranking you switch to, and it means a tier always answers the same question — how does this Pal compare to every other Pal.

Every entry links to that Pal's breeding page, so the tier list doubles as an index. Find something you want, tap it, and you land on the full list of parent pairs that produce it.

The Overall ranking weights combat at 60% and base work at 40%, after normalizing both to the same 0-100 scale so neither swamps the other. That weighting is the one judgement call on this page, and it is stated here so you can discount it: if you only care about fighting, read the Combat ranking directly rather than trusting the blend.

Combat stats and work suitability are extracted from the Palworld 1.0 game files via PalCalc (MIT) and cross-checked against paldb.cc. CombiRank comes from the revised 1.0 breeding table. Data verified 2026-07-31

On raw combat, the top of the list is Astralym, Panthalus, Frostallion Noct, Frostallion and Necromus, followed closely by Shaolong, Bellanoir, Bastigor, Neptilius and Jetragon. These are the endgame legendaries, and the gap between them and everything else is real — Panthalus carries 200 defense and 180 HP where a mid-game Pal sits near 90 of each.

For base work the answer is completely different. Dandilord, Silvance, Renjishi, Lyleen and Dualith top the worker ranking, because work output has almost nothing to do with combat stats. Dandilord alone covers planting at level 8, handiwork at 6, medicine production at 6, gathering at 5 and transporting at 3.

That split is the reason this page has four rankings instead of one. “Best” depends entirely on what you need the Pal for, and a single list that averages fighting and farming into one number tells you very little. Use Overall as a starting point, then switch to the ranking that matches the job.

Combat rating is attack weighted at half, with defense and HP splitting the other half as survivability. It is deliberately simple: you can recompute any Pal's rating by hand from the three stats shown on its card, which is not something an opinion-based tier list lets you do.

What the rating does not model is element matchups, partner skills or active skill kits — a Pal with a strong element advantage will beat a higher-rated Pal it counters. Treat the combat tier as the baseline, then check the matchup before a tower boss.

The Workers ranking sums a Pal's levels across all twelve work suitabilities — kindling, watering, planting, generating electricity, handiwork, gathering, lumbering, mining, medicine production, cooling, transporting and farming. A Pal that does five jobs at a middling level outranks one that does a single job well, which is what you want when base slots are limited.

If you need one specific job filled instead, read the work tags on each card rather than the tier: the best miner and the best planter are rarely the same Pal, and a C-tier worker with level 4 in the one job you need will beat an S-tier generalist at that task.

CombiRank is the hidden number behind Palworld's breeding formula. When two Pals breed, the game averages both parents' CombiRanks and hatches the species whose own rank sits closest to that average. Legendaries carry single- or double-digit ranks; starter-area Pals sit near 3000.

Because the result is an average, you cannot leap from two common Pals straight to a top-tier egg. You climb the ladder instead, each generation pulling the average lower. The Breeding rarity ranking sorts by that value, so it doubles as a difficulty ranking: the higher a Pal sits, the longer the chain needed to hatch it.

The element tabs narrow every tier row to a single element: Neutral, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Ground, Dark or Dragon. Dual-element Pals appear under both of their elements, which is why the per-element counts add up to more than 299.

Combine the element filter with the Combat ranking and you get the practical answer to most team-building questions — the strongest Ice Pal you can realistically get, for instance, before walking into a boss that punishes the wrong element.

Pick a target in S or A tier and open its breeding page. You'll see every parent pair that produces it, and the pairs drawn from the tier just below are almost always the cheapest realistic route.

Variant forms such as Ignis, Cryst, Noct and Lux rank far below their base species on CombiRank, which is why they cluster at the top of the breeding ranking and why they're among the most valuable targets in the game.

If you'd rather not read a chain backwards yourself, the breeding planner takes the Pals you already own and returns the shortest path to any target on this list.