Palworld Best Player Build [Stats, Pals, Skills, & More]

Like most open-world survival crafting games, Palworld offers a ton of customizations for your build. You can upgrade stats, capture and assign pals, gain different Active and Passive Skills, build weapons, and more. However, if you’re determined to make a top-tier build instead of focusing on personalization, there are a few suggestions and upgrades you should prioritize first.

My Best Player Build In Palworld

Before I continue further, here’s a quick overview of the best in-game build, which covers aspects like pals, stats, and other pieces of gear:

Best Stats

Picking the best stats for your build usually boils down to what you need. Combat and Defense are ideal against boss battles, while Weight and Stamina are generally great for exploring. However, based on what I’ve tested, some stats’ effects are much more noticeable than others.

Out of the six character stats, here are the ones I recommend investing in first:

1. HP: Increases your character’s maximum Hit Points, helping them withstand enemy attacks and other damaging sources.
2. Weight: Increases the maximum capacity of items your character can carry in their inventory. This is generally useful when farming resources and Large Eggs that are scattered across the world.
3. Stamina: Increases the time taken to deplete your Stamina Meter fully. With more stamina, you can cover more distance when running, gliding, and riding your pal. You can also work and dodge more without taking a break.

Best Weapons

As you progress through Palworld, you can start crafting modern weapons like pistols and rifles instead of melee weapons, which you get in the early-game phase. Furthermore, you can only craft higher-tier weapons at high-level workbenches, so it’s important to reserve space for placing your future workbenches.

Rocket Launcher

With 10000 Damage, it’s ten times stronger than a single shot of the Musket, the second-strongest weapon in Palworld. The launcher has incredible AoE damage, range, and versatility. If you can cope with its requirements, this weapon is a must-have and ideal for almost every scenario.

You can unlock the Rocket Launcher at Level 49 and only craft it at a Weapon Assembly Line II using:

• 75x Pal Metal Ingot
• 30x Polymer
• 50x Carbon Fiber

Assault Rifle

The Assault Rifle has the most balanced stats in every category, offering impressive range, fire rate, damage output, and reloading speed. Like the Rocket Launcher, you can use the Assault Rifle against any boss and in any situation. Personally, I prefer using it over the Rocket Launcher sometimes since this weapon isn’t nearly as demanding.

The Assault Rifle and its ammo type unlock at Level 36 with the following crafting requirements:

• 20x Refined Ingot
• 5x Polymer

Sword

With 525 Damage, this melee weapon has the strongest damage output in its category and even beats out the Assault Rifle. Of course, using this means you can’t attack enemies from a safe range. However, I’d say the Sword is arguably the most cost-efficient weapon with great durability.

The crafting requirements for the Sword, unlocked at Level 44, include:

• 30x Refined Ingot
• 20x Wood
• 20x Stone

Best Armor: Pal Metal Helm + Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor

The Pal Metal set is unquestionably the strongest and most durable armor set in Palworld, so these are no-brainer choices. Both the Pal Metal Helm and Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor have roughly 50% more Defense than their Refined Metal counterparts.

However, I picked the Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor over its standard and Hot variant because it offers more Defense and helps against the Cold effect, which occurs much more frequently than Hot.

The Pal Metal Helm unlocks at Level 46 and can be crafted with:

• 20x Pal Metal Ingot
• 20x Paldium Fragment

On the other hand, you can craft the Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor at Level 50 using:

• 30x Pal Metal Ingot
• 30x Leather
• 6x High Quality Cloth
• 16x Ice Organ

Best Work Pals

As you level up your Pal box, you can add more pals to your base for various tasks like gardening, mining, logging, crafting, and more. You can see what type of work a pal can do by looking at its Work Suitability traits at the Paldeck or Pal Box. As you’d guess, my list consists of pals that have several high-level Work Suitability traits for doing tons of work at a great pace.

Verdash

This is an extremely rare Grass-type Pal with Level 2 Planting, Level 3 Handiwork, Level 2 Lumbering, Level 2 Transporting, and Level 3 Gardening. No other pal in Palworld has a better combination of Work Suitability traits, and with Verdash, you can do tons of tasks with it.

Below, I’ve listed the methods for catching a Verdash:

• Fight it in as a Level 35 Boss near the Sealed Realm of the Swift (287,10) in Windswept Hills.
• Catch one on the No.2 Wildlife Sanctuary island on the map’s western edge.
• Hatch Huge Verdant Eggs.

Blazamut

Although rare, this is probably the closest thing to a perfect workpal in Palworld. Blazamut, besides its exceptional breeding power, comes with Level 4 Mining and Level 3 Kindling, making it useful for furnaces, cooking, and mining stone at the Stone Pit. If you do catch a Blazamut, I highly recommend using it for breeding and mining since you won’t come across a pal that can do both tasks at that pace.

Players can find Blazamut via the following methods:

• As a Level 49 Boss in the Scorching Mineshaft (-440, -530) at Mount Obsidian.
• At the No.3 Wildlife Sanctuary island located on the map’s northeastern edge.
• Hatching Huge Scorching Eggs.

Best Combat Pals

Unlike work pals, you can only keep up to 5 pals for your team. The easiest way to find combat-worthy pals is by looking at their level. The rarer the pal, the higher Attack and Defense stats it’ll have at a high level, which is why most boss pals are considered some of the best.

Jetragon

Aside from its aerial speed and expertise, Jetragon has some of the strongest stats out of any pal in Palworld. As a Level 50 Dragon Pal, its Attack and Defense are well above 500, and it often comes with some of the best Active Skills, including Dragon Meteor and Beam Comet.

You can fight Jetragon on the northwestern edge of Mount Obsidian, a Hot Island location of the west side of Palworld’s map.

Astegon

Like Jetragon, this is another Dragon Pal but comes with the Dark element, too. Personally, I found Astegon to be the toughest boss to defeat, but it’s well worth the effort for this build since it has the highest Dark damage out of any pal in Palworld. 

Astegon is a Level 48 boss that you can find in Mount Obsidian, specifically in the Destroyed Mineshaft located at the biome’s center.

Paladius

As my final pick, I must say that Paladius caught me by surprise since I often thought that Neutral-type Pals were the worst. With several exclusive attacks, this is undoubtedly one of the best pals for your long-range encounters. Aside from that, though, Paladius comes with incredible versatility thanks to its defense and mobility.

My Experience Using This Player Build

I’ve grinded through Palworld for just over 100 hours, and I’ve secured every armor, weapon, and pal that the title has to offer. Personally, this was my ideal build for going through areas like the Astral Mountains that are packed with Level 40+ pals. With Jetragon’s mobility, Astegon’s balanced stats, and the Rocket Launcher’s damage, I breezed through most boss fights.

I beat Necromus and Paladius, largely considered the toughest fight in Palworld, in just under 3 minutes. And thanks to my work pals, I built my Assembly Lines from scratch in under a day. 

That wraps up my extensive guide on the best player build in Palworld, where I’ve gone over the weapons, stats, armor, and pals that I found the most useful. I encourage swapping out different high-tier pals to see if any one of them makes more sense to you or just adds more variety. However, if you’re looking for more options to swap in and out, try looking at this YouTube video that covers several useful pal replacements.

Besides your build, focus on expanding and preserving your resources by learning about the best storage items in Palworld. If your pal gets sick with Overfull, I have a brief guide that can help you get rid of that ailment. And while you’re here, visit Rabiya’s review on Palworld which extensively covers the title’s pros and cons.

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