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Cut 80% of shield damage, then stack 90% weak-point damage across five species.
This is the full solo package: one pal that soaks the incoming damage, three that turn accurate shots into the highest player damage in the game, and a fifth that pays 80% attack for the simple discipline of never running two of the same species. Silvegis cuts shield damage by up to 80% and shortens shield-regeneration delay by up to 60%, so the shield is usually back before the next hit lands. Vanwyrm Cryst and Vanwyrm both raise weak-point damage and, because they are different species, their bonuses add rather than overwrite. Cryolinx Terra then makes each weak-point hit boost the next one. The name is the reputation, not a promise: this is layered mitigation plus a large damage multiplier, and it still asks for two things in return, fully condensed pals and hitting the head.
SilvegisDifficulty slider
SolenneParty-wide attack
Vanwyrm CrystWeak point core
VanwyrmSecond weak point stack
Cryolinx TerraWeak point payoffEvery slot has a job. The cards below show the exact synergy, its rank range, who it affects, and a mapped route to recruiting that pal.
Cuts shield damage by 65% to 80% and shield-regeneration delay by 30% to 60%. Your shield absorbs more and returns sooner, which is what makes the build forgiving.
Start with the mapped field-boss encounter. The lowest mapped encounter is level 62.
Pays 30% to 80% attack, but only while no two pals in the party share a species. This lineup already satisfies that, so it is free damage.
Catch it in the wild. Only spawns on the World Tree region.
Raises weak-point damage by 30% to 50%, the larger of the two Vanwyrm forms. Both forms can be carried at once.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 23 to 67 across 266 points on the main island.
Adds another 20% to 40% weak-point damage. It is a separate species from Vanwyrm Cryst, so the two totals add instead of the higher one winning.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 20 to 63 across 546 points on the main island.
After you hit a weak point, the next weak-point hit lands 30% to 60% harder. It rewards a sustained string of accurate shots rather than one opener.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 62 to 64 across 156 points on the main island.
Condense all five to rank 5, implant Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist on every slot, eat a Mozzarina Cheeseburger before the fight, and aim for weak points. Bow for hard-mode towers, plasma rifle for raids, drone launcher out whenever you are close enough for it to connect.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SilvegisDifficulty slider | Shield Regeneration Delay ReductionUnique | You | 30% | 60% |
| SilvegisDifficulty slider | Shield Damage ReductionUnique | You | 65% | 80% |
 SolenneParty-wide attack | Attack (all species unique)Unique | You | 30% | 80% |
 Vanwyrm CrystWeak point core | Weak Point Damage | You | 30% | 50% |
 VanwyrmSecond weak point stack | Weak Point Damage | You | 20% | 40% |
 Cryolinx TerraWeak point payoff | Weak-Point Hit Damage UpUnique | You | 30% | 60% |
Passives are the half of this build that has nothing to do with which pals you own. Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist stack per pal, so five copies of each is 50% player attack and 50% player defense from party slots you were filling anyway. Implant them on all five.
10% increase in Player Attack.
The single highest-value passive in the build. It buffs you, not the pal carrying it, so it works from a party slot with the pal never leaving the sphere.
50% player attack across five carriers
The video buys the implant from a bounty officer at Fisherman Point or the small settlement for bounty tokens, then reuses it on any pal for 50,000 gold a time. Bounty tokens come from the purple wanted markers on your map, and higher-level targets pay more.
10% increase in Player Defense.
The defensive twin of Vanguard, and the reason the build survives hard-mode tower bosses without playing carefully.
50% player defense across five carriers
Same bounty officer, same one-time purchase, same 50,000 gold per application. Buy both on the first trip.
Player Reload Speed +4%
Worth 4% reload speed per copy. Real, but small, and it does nothing for the bow. Fill it in after the two core passives are on every slot.
20% reload speed across five carriers
Sold by the arena vendor for battle tickets, which you farm by running arena challenges at whatever tier you can clear.
Pal and Player Auto Health Regeneration Rate +50% Defense +25% Immune to Poison Damage Immune to Burn Damage
The upgrade that eventually frees Silvegis from the party. Poison and burn immunity removes two of the nastier damage-over-time sources, and the defense is flat upside. Getting it on all five pals is a long project.
Defense and regeneration on every carrier, immunities do not need stacking
Mutation-pool only, so it never rolls on an ordinary wild catch. Breed for it across several breeding bases, or pull the implant from the ancient relic recycler.
Two weapons cover the whole game: a cheap bow for anything you can take your time with, and an expensive rifle for anything that moves. Each row names the endgame line and the technology level that unlocks it, and the materials listed are the first craftable tier. Schematics upgrade each line from there without changing what it is for.
Carry both. The bow is for hard-mode tower bosses, where you get clean standing shots; the rifle is for raids, where the boss moves and you need sustained damage per second.
Lower damage per second than the rifles, but its ammo is the cheapest in the endgame: two Soralite Ingots craft ten arrows. Its slow fire rate suits a build that wants every shot to be a weak-point hit anyway.
A bow crafted from Soralite Ingots. With greatly enhanced initial velocity and piercing power, this high-precision weapon excels at ranged combat.
The raid weapon. Higher damage per second and a discharge that chains between enemies, at the cost of the most expensive ammo of the three.
A rifle that releases an electrical discharge from the point of impact, which chains to multiple enemies.
Run this until the plasma rifle unlocks. It gives up damage but its ammo needs only Soralite Ingots and gunpowder, with no bio batteries or paloxite.
An assault rifle made from Soralite Ingots. It has been enhanced to handle powerful ammo while maintaining its versatility.
Deploys up to nine drones that attack on their own, which means free damage while you roll or reload. They stop contributing if you drift out of range, so stay close enough to the boss for them to connect.
A launcher that fires drones which perform autonomous attacks. Capable of deploying up to 9 units, enabling sustained suppression.
Four slots, and the first two are not a choice. Attack accessories come first because Silvegis is already handling survival.
Attack Up Lv. 4, worth 20% attack, and it also gives your active pal 16%. The largest single attack accessory in the game.
An accessory that greatly raises your Attack, and that of the Pal fighting alongside you.
Attack Up Lv. 3, worth another 15% attack. There is no third attack accessory, which is why the last two slots go defensive.
An accessory that raises Attack.
Extends the invincibility window on rolls and sidesteps by 20%. In a build with this much shield mitigation, longer dodge frames are what turns a mistake into a non-event.
An accessory that extends the invincibility period of rolls and sidesteps.
Defense Up Lv. 4 and Health Up Lv. 4, so 25% defense and 25% health from one slot. The best remaining option once attack accessories run out.
An accessory that greatly raises Defense and Health.
Armor is the one place where the answer is a rule rather than a specific item, and the glider is optional in the sense that a difficulty setting is optional.
Rarity beats everything else here. If two pieces are the same rarity, take the one that rolled attack.
Silvegis scales off the shield, so a bigger shield pool multiplies the 80% damage cut rather than adding to it.
You can clear the raid and hard bosses without one. What it buys is repositioning on a double tap of jump, and stamina that regenerates while airborne, which in practice means you stop running out of stamina in boss fights.
Attack food and defense food do not stack: eating one replaces the other. Since this build already solves defense with Silvegis, always eat attack food.
Worth 20% attack. Cheap, craftable all game, and the realistic answer for most players.
Now with cheese, this dish has reached the highest level of fine cuisine. Eating it will increase Attack by +20% and stay full longer for a period of time.
Worth 25% attack. That is 5% over the cheeseburger for a much harder recipe, so it is a nice-to-have and never the reason a boss survives.
A dish made by simmering vegetables and meat with spices. The rich flavor is highlighted by large chunks of tender meat. Eating it will increase your Attack by 25% for a period of time.
Craft one before you commit to a stat spread. It resets your status points, so a wrong allocation costs materials rather than a character.
A potion that allows the player to reset their status points when consumed. It has no effect if consumed by a Pal.
You can eventually max everything, so this is an ordering rather than a budget. It is skewed hard toward attack because Silvegis is already doing the defensive work that health points would otherwise buy.
The build is not combo-dependent, but the order below is what turns it from strong into hard to kill. Steps one and two happen before the fight starts.
Solenne pays nothing if two of your pals share a species. The default lineup already satisfies this, but it is the first thing to check after any swap, including swapping in a second Vanwyrm form you already own.
The two buffs are exclusive, so eating defense food actively removes your attack bonus. Eat the Mozzarina Cheeseburger, watch the attack number go up, and leave it there.
Deploy drones early so they are working through your whole opener. They only deal damage while you are near the target, so treat proximity as a resource: stay close enough that rolling and reloading is still time the drones are spending.
Vanwyrm and Vanwyrm Cryst raise weak-point damage together, and Cryolinx Terra makes each connected weak-point hit boost the next. Body shots throw away most of the build. This is the reason the slow, precise bow is competitive with a rifle.
With Silvegis condensed, shield-regeneration delay is 60% shorter, so the shield is usually back before the next hit. Roll through the attacks that would break it, and rely on the Phantom Ring's longer invincibility window rather than trying to out-range everything.
Hard-mode tower bosses stand still long enough for the bow, and its ammo costs almost nothing. Raid bosses move more and take more punishment, which is where the plasma rifle earns its ammo bill.
Three comps get suggested constantly as upgrades to this one. Each is genuinely strong, and each gives up the thing that makes this build easy to play.
The case for it
Ophydia makes your attacks inflict Soak, and Jormuntide raises damage to Soaked enemies by 50% to 65% for you and your pals. On paper that is a large multiplier on everything you hit.
It costs two party slots to buy one conditional multiplier, and the multiplier is dead until Soak is applied and stays applied. The weak-point package needs no setup and no uptime management, which is why it wins for solo play.
The case for it
An Electric mount converts your attacks to Electric while you ride it, and Univolt raises Electric damage to weak points by 25% to 40%. Against Water bosses that is a type advantage on top of a weak-point bonus.
The conversion only applies while you are mounted, so the mount has to be out and alive for the build to function. If it goes down mid-fight your damage profile collapses. This build keeps every bonus in the party slot, where nothing can be killed off it.
The case for it
The Vanguard Charm also grants Health Up Lv. 4, the same 25% health, and adds heat and cold resistance on top.
It trades the belt's 25% defense for temperature resistance, which does nothing in a boss fight. An extra 25% health rarely buys you a whole additional hit, so the belt's defense is the better use of the slot. Keep the charm for cold and hot biome travel.
Nothing here needs a rare drop or a lucky roll except Idiosyncratic. The rest is a checklist you can work through in an evening or two.
Keep the build's identity while adapting the lineup to the pals you own or the encounter ahead.
LapironSwap for Silvegis once every pal carries Idiosyncratic and you want Defense while sprinting instead of shield mitigation.
CryolinxThe Ice form makes Dragon pals drop 40% more items. Useful for farming runs, useless in a boss fight.
XenogardSwap in for Equipped Weapon Damage when you commit to the plasma rifle and stop using the bow.
CelesdirSwap in for out-of-combat Health regeneration if you would rather heal between pulls than push damage.Yes. In Palworld 1.0 that warning means a second copy of the same species adds nothing. Two different species carrying the same effect do add together, so Vanwyrm Cryst at 50% and Vanwyrm at 40% give you 90% weak-point damage at full condensation. Running two Vanwyrm Crysts would give you 50%.
No. Relaxaurus's partner skill in 1.0 is Hungry Missile, a mounted missile launcher, and it carries no weak-point effect at any rank. The pal that gives up to 60% is Cryolinx Terra, whose Explosive Strength raises the power of your next weak-point attack after you hit one. Some guides credit this effect to Relaxaurus by mistake.
Yes, if you want the numbers this page quotes. Every headline figure is the rank 5 value: Silvegis goes from 65% to 80% shield damage reduction, Solenne from 30% to 80% attack, Vanwyrm Cryst from 30% to 50% weak point, Vanwyrm from 20% to 40%, and Cryolinx Terra from 30% to 60%. An uncondensed party gives roughly half the build.
Only once Idiosyncratic is on all five pals, and even then it is a downgrade in raw mitigation. Idiosyncratic supplies defense, health regeneration and immunity to poison and burn, which covers enough of the same ground to free the slot. Until then, Silvegis is the difference between a forgiving build and a careful one.
The Mechanical Bow for hard-mode tower bosses and the Plasma Rifle for raids. The bow does less damage per second but its arrows cost two Soralite Ingots for ten, while raid bosses move more and take more punishment than the bow can deliver in the window you get. Below the plasma rifle's tech level, use the Heavy Assault Rifle.
No. They are mutually exclusive: eating defense food replaces your attack buff and vice versa. Because this build already solves survivability through Silvegis and the shield, always take the attack food. The Mozzarina Cheeseburger gives 20% and the Mammorest Curry gives 25%.
Untainted Maiden only pays out while every pal in the party is a different species. This lineup satisfies that by default, but it is the first thing that breaks when you swap in a duplicate, and the buff disappears silently rather than warning you.
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