Catch Squad

Compare every surfaced partner effect at base rank and full condensation. Effects marked Unique can still scale by rank, but a second carrier of the same species adds nothing. Two different species carrying the same effect do add together.

Pal / role	Partner effect	Affects	Rank 1	Rank 5
WispawBack-bonus route	Back-Bonus Capture LevelUnique	You	Lv 1	Lv 5
MufflyFreeze route	Frozen-Target Capture LevelUnique	You	Lv 1	Lv 5
SoufflineIvy route	Ivy-Covered Capture LevelUnique	You	Lv 1	Lv 5
YakumoPassive targeting	Matching Passive Chance	You	15%	30%
KatressSphere preservation	Sphere Non-Consumption ChanceUnique	You	10%	50%

Values verified against current partner-skill rank curves

Capture has no passive pool at all. Nothing in the catalog raises capture rate, so this section is about surviving the weakening step rather than improving the throw.

The equipment matters far more than the party here, because two of the three capture-level effects need a status your lineup cannot apply on its own.

No stat affects capture rate. This ordering is about surviving a fight you are deliberately prolonging.

1. 1HealthFirst. Capture attempts run long by design, so you absorb more damage than you would from simply killing the target.
2. 2StaminaSecond, for repositioning behind the target to earn the back bonus.
3. 3AttackThird, and genuinely double-edged. It shortens the weakening step and makes accidental kills more likely.
4. 4Weight and work speedWeight matters for carrying a deep sphere stock.

This is a toolbox rather than five additive bonuses. Pick the route your target and your status sources actually support, then commit to it.

1. 1Pick one route, not three

   Wispaw pays on a back bonus, Muffly on a Frozen target and Souffline on an Ivy-Covered one. Each adds 1 to 5 capture levels. Our data proves three separate condition checks but does not prove the bonuses combine on one throw, so treat them as alternatives and compare the in-game targeting percentage.

2. 2Solve the status source before bringing Muffly or Souffline

   Freeze comes from Frostallion, and only while you are mounted on it. Ivy-Covered comes from Needoll Noct, which works from the party slot. Neither is in the default lineup, so those two slots are inert until you add a source or carry the status on a skill bar.

3. 3Weaken without killing

   Use a Mercy Hit or wear the Ring of Mercy so the weakening step cannot finish the target. This is the most common way a capture attempt is wasted, and it costs a sphere every time.

4. 4Throw from behind for the Wispaw route

   The back bonus is the only one of the three conditions you control entirely through positioning rather than through another pal. That makes Wispaw the most reliable of the three slots by default.

5. 5Keep Yakumo fighting, if you want its effect at all

   Its skill is worded as working while fighting together, so it needs to be your active pal rather than a bench slot. Read the caveat below before committing a slot to it.

6. 6Let Katress pay for the attempt

   A 10% to 50% chance that a thrown sphere is not consumed is preservation at throw time, not a refund afterwards. At rank 5 that is effectively every other sphere returned, which is what makes high-tier spheres affordable to use freely.

Two of the five slots in this party depend on something the party does not supply, and one of them carries a description we cannot reconcile with its effect name.

Running Muffly and Souffline without a status source

The case for it
Both add 1 to 5 capture levels, which is the same value Wispaw provides, so all three together should be a large combined bonus.

Both are conditional on a status the default lineup cannot apply. Freeze has exactly one source, Frostallion, and only while you are mounted on it. Ivy-Covered has exactly one source, Needoll Noct. Without one of those in the party, or the status on a skill bar, two of your five slots do nothing at all.

What Yakumo actually does

The case for it
Its effect is named SyncroPassiveWhenCapture, which reads as captured pals inheriting one of Yakumo passive skills, and this guide previously described it that way.

The shipped description says something different: a 15% to 30% increased chance of encountering pals with the same Passive Skill as this Pal, excluding certain passives. Encountering and inheriting-on-capture are not the same mechanic. Our data gives us an effect name that supports one reading and a description that supports the other, so this page states both and asserts neither.

Assuming the three capture-level bonuses stack

The case for it
Different species carrying different effects normally all apply, so a back-bonus throw at a Frozen, Ivy-Covered target should collect all three.

A target cannot be both Frozen and Ivy-Covered: only Poison coexists with other statuses in 1.0, and everything else replaces what was there. So Muffly and Souffline are mutually exclusive by the status rules regardless of what the capture-level effects would do. Wispaw back bonus is the only one that can pair with either.

Reading Katress as a sphere refund

The case for it
A chance to recover a sphere sounds like getting one back after a failed capture.

It is a chance for the thrown sphere not to be consumed in the first place. The distinction matters because it applies to every throw, successful or not, rather than only to failures. Katress also carries an unrelated 40% to 80% bonus to items dropped by defeated Neutral pals, which this guide previously did not mention at all.

All five are ordinary catches and most are available early. The real cost of this build is the sphere supply, not the pals.

1. Catch or breed the five palsEvery recruitment route is on the role cards above. Wispaw, Muffly and Souffline are all accessible well before the endgame.
2. Add a status source if you want Muffly or SoufflineFrostallion is the only Freeze applier and it is a legendary that only applies the status while mounted. Needoll Noct is the only Ivy-Covered applier and it works from the party slot, which makes it much the easier of the two.
3. Condense Katress and Wispaw firstKatress goes from a 10% to a 50% chance of preserving a thrown sphere, which is the steepest curve in the party and directly cuts what a capture session costs. Wispaw goes from 1 to 5 capture levels.
4. Craft a Ring of MercyIt stops your attacks from killing, which removes the only way a capture attempt is genuinely wasted.Ring of Mercy
5. Build a deep sphere stockSphere tier affects capture rate more than any single party effect here. Katress preservation chance is what makes carrying the expensive tiers practical.
6. Skip the passivesNo passive in the 1.0 catalog raises capture rate. The implants listed above help you survive a long fight, not catch anything.

Keep the build's identity while adapting the lineup to the pals you own or the encounter ahead.

FrostallionThe only pal that makes your attacks inflict Freeze, and Muffly bonus is dead without it. Note the effect is mounted-only, so you have to be riding it when you apply the status.Needoll NoctThe only pal that makes your attacks inflict Ivy-Covered, which is what Souffline needs. Unlike Frostallion it works from the party slot.LunarisSpheres home in on Pals and carrying capacity rises by 300 to 600. Homing throws make the back-bonus angle much easier to hit, which indirectly helps Wispaw.Blazehowl NoctCarries the same 40% to 80% Neutral-pal loot bonus as Katress but no sphere preservation. Only relevant if you are farming drops rather than catching.