Nine Palworld skill fruits arranged on a dark board, each glowing in its element color

The Skill Fruit Meta Board

Palworld 1.0 ships 92 skill fruits and most of them are gold traps. We graded every element's fruit pool with real game data, three ranked picks and a flex slot each, the Ivy combo that rescues fire, and the two 1,500 gold nukes you should buy on sight.

PalMods TeamUpdated July 18, 2026 10 min read

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Updated July 18, 20269 elements · 34 picksPalMods Team

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Palworld 1.0 ships 92 skill fruits, and most of them are gold traps. This board keeps the 34 worth slotting: three ranked picks per element, a flex slot for the situational monsters, and the tech that rescues fire. Stats come straight from the 1.0 game data; every skill links to its full breakdown in the skills Palpedia.

Electricfruit pool

The deepest bench in the game

Every electric fruit on this board is a clean, dependable hit with no gimmick attached. Run any mix of the three and fill the gaps with TriSpark when you want damage flowing between the big cooldowns.

pool gradeA

Lightning Bolt

Best power for its cooldown in the whole electric pool. The default pick.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 450
CT: 20s

Thunderstorm

The nuke slot. Long animation, huge payoff, worth it on bosses.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Lightning Streak

Eight-second filler that keeps shock pressure up between the heavy hits.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 160
CT: 8s

FLEX

TriSpark

High sustained output with almost no animation commitment.

Run it when: Long fights where you would rather cast every 12 seconds than stand through the Thunderstorm animation.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 250
CT: 12s

Waterfruit pool

A full damage curve, start to endgame

Water covers every stage of the game: Splash carries the early levels, Hydro Slicer bridges the midgame and Hydro Laser finishes as a top-tier single-target beam. Geyser Gush turns boss fights into a math problem the boss loses.

pool gradeA-

Hydro Laser

The endgame beam. Tied for the best sustained output in the water pool.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 450
CT: 20s

Hydro Slicer

Fast, accurate and nearly as efficient as the beam. The reliable core pick.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 350
CT: 16s

Splash

Cheap tier 2 fruit that outworks its price for the whole early game.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 160
CT: 8s

FLEX

Geyser Gush

Shreds raid-scale bodies, whiffs most of its damage on small targets.

Run it when: Big hitbox bosses only. At 1,500 gold it is the cheapest 600-power skill in the game.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 1,500g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Grassfruit pool

Boss shredder plus the best AoE bargain

Circle Vine is quietly one of the best boss skills in 1.0: the roots hit big targets over and over for far more than the listed 300 power. Behind it sit two honest beams and a 1,500 gold screen-clearer.

pool gradeA-

Circle Vine

Sprouts roots across the whole hitbox. The bigger the target, the harder it hits.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 300
CT: 16s

Solar Blast

Straightforward heavy beam with the best clean numbers in the pool.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 450
CT: 20s

Crosswind

Converging wind blades that reward aim with the second-biggest grass hit.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 500
CT: 24s

FLEX

Wind Burst

A 600-power vortex around your Pal that clears everything standing near it.

Run it when: Packs and multi-target fights. The other 1,500 gold bargain nuke; buy it on sight.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 1,500g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Icefruit pool

Strong numbers with strings attached

Ice hits as hard as any element on paper. In practice two of its heavy hitters only pay out when every part of the attack connects, so build around Diamond Rain and let the conditional skills earn their slot.

pool gradeB+

Diamond Rain

Excellent single-target damage that only gets better as the target grows.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Icicle Bullet

No conditions, no misses. The dependable core of any ice kit.

Tier 2 fruitMerchant · 3,000g

PWR: 250
CT: 12s

Blizzard Spike

Needs both the spike and the cloud to land. Swap it out if you see single hits.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 450
CT: 20s

FLEX

Absolute Frost

One of only two 700-power fruits in the game. Wasted on small targets.

Run it when: Raid bosses and alphas with hitboxes big enough to eat the whole storm.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 700
CT: 30s

Darkfruit pool

Heavy hitters that arrive fashionably late

Every ranked dark fruit is a tier 3 heavyweight, and Dark Whisp is the rare 600-power skill you can simply buy from a merchant. The pool has no filler tier, so dark Pals leaning on fruits stay quiet until the gold shows up.

pool gradeB+

Dark Laser

The efficiency king of the dark pool. Slot it and never think about it again.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 450
CT: 20s

Dark Whisp

A 600-power nuke you can buy the moment you have 5,000 gold.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Apocalypse

Slightly behind Dark Laser on raw numbers, still a clean heavy hit.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 400
CT: 20s

Groundfruit pool

Honest rocks, one conditional twister

Ground is the meat-and-potatoes pool: two renamed classics that just hit things, and Sand Twister sitting on top when its orbiting storms connect. Rockburst survives the melee nerfs only as a close-range flex.

pool gradeB

Sand Twister

Solid single-target core with bonus damage when the outer tornadoes hit.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 500
CT: 24s

Rocky Impact

Stone Beat from the beta, renamed and rebalanced into the ground nuke.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Rock Lance

A no-frills single-target spike. Does exactly what the card says.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 400
CT: 20s

FLEX

Rockburst

Still strong point-blank, but not enough to carry a full melee build.

Run it when: Aggressive close-range Pals that were already going to stand in melee.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 300
CT: 16s

Dragonfruit pool

Great numbers taxed by animations

Dragon Meteor finally hits like its name after the 1.0 fixes, but the cast still locks your Pal in place. Beam Slicer is the pool MVP: nearly nuke efficiency with none of the standing around.

pool gradeB-

Beam Slicer

The best uptime in the dragon pool. Quick cast, clean sweep.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 350
CT: 16s

Dragon Meteor

The fixed 1.0 version hits hard, but budget for the long animation.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Blast Cannon

Affordable tier 2 filler that keeps dragon pressure rolling.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 200
CT: 12s

FLEX

Comet Strike

Eight-second cooldown with splash damage attached to every impact.

Run it when: You want Meteor damage spread across a pack instead of parked on one target.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 180
CT: 8s

Neutralfruit pool

Never resisted, never rewarded

Neutral skills are never super effective, so every fruit here starts the fight at a discount. Pal Blast is genuinely good; the rest only make sense on a deliberate fight-anything flex build.

pool gradeC

Pal Blast

A real heavy beam. The one neutral fruit that earns its slot on numbers.

Tier 3 fruitTree loot

PWR: 450
CT: 20s

Air Blade

Very solid filler, held back only by having no matchup it wins.

Tier 2 fruitMerchant · 3,000g

PWR: 160
CT: 8s

Power Bomb

A budget opener for fresh catches until a real element comes online.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 120
CT: 8s

FLEX

Holy Burst

The other 700-power fruit, nerfed hard: it needs a huge hitbox to compete.

Run it when: Giant targets only. Against anything smaller, Circle Vine and Sand Twister deal more.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 700
CT: 30s

Firefruit pool

Every nuke splits its own damage

Fire is the weakest fruit pool in 1.0. Fireball needs all four ticks after the explosion, Flame Funnel needs every funnel to connect and Flame Wall wants the target to stand still. The real fire tech is bringing a vine.

pool gradeD

Flame Wall

The most honest fire fruit, with bonus damage on targets that hold still.

Tier 2 fruitTree loot

PWR: 250
CT: 12s

Fire Ball

The 600 power is split across four ticks; miss one and the nuke fizzles.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 600
CT: 30s

Flame Funnel

Full power only when every funnel connects, and funnels love to miss.

Tier 3 fruitMerchant · 5,000g

PWR: 300
CT: 16s

Restocking the fruit bowl

Every ranked pick above comes from one of two supply lines. Neither is gated behind a boss, so the only real currency is knowing where to look.

35 wild fruit trees

The 1.0 map data places 35 skill fruit trees across the islands, each dropping a random fruit on a respawn timer.

Open the tree layer on the map →

Wandering merchants

Merchants stock a rotating shelf: tier 2 fruits at 3,000 gold and tier 3 heavyweights at 5,000. Restock by hopping between settlements.

Browse every skill's full page →

The 1,500 gold nukes

Geyser Gush and Wind Burst are mispriced at 1,500 gold, less than half the price of every other 600-power fruit. Buy both on sight, every time.

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