Active Skills

Every active skill in Palworld with its power, cooldown, damage-per-second and the status ailment it builds up — plus which Pals learn each one and at what level. Tap any skill to see what it does in the field, which fruit teaches it and where that fruit is sold, and its Learned by roster. Sort by any column to find the hardest-hitting or fastest skills for each element, or filter by ailment to build a Freeze, Burn or Stun lock team.

Skill	Element	Type	Power	Cooldown	DPS ▼	Range	Ailment	Teach it	Learned by
Paldium RainSignature	—	Shot	500	5s	100	9999	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Paldium ShotSignature	—	Shot	400	5s	80	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Paldium CannonSignature	—	Shot	700	20s	35	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Royal StepSignature	Neutral	Melee	800	30s	26.7	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Spore BurstSignature	Grass	Shot	800	30s	26.7	2000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Toxic DanceSignature	Dark	Shot	800	30s	26.7	2000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Sacred RainSignature	Neutral	Shot	800	30s	26.7	7500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Aqua Gun	Water	Shot	50	2s	25	5000	Soak 50	Fruit	29 ▾
Spark Blast	Electric	Shot	50	2s	25	5000	Electrify 100	Fruit	210 ▾
Fierce Fang (Ground)	Ground	Melee	50	2s	25	250	Muddy 50	Pal only	2 ▾
Dark Ball	Dark	Shot	50	2s	25	1000	Blind 50	Pal only	28 ▾
Fluffy TackleSignature	Neutral	Melee	50	2s	25	1500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Fierce Fang	Neutral	Melee	50	2s	25	900	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Fierce Fang (Electric)	Electric	Melee	50	2s	25	250	Electrify 50	Pal only	2 ▾
Fierce Fang (Ice)Signature	Ice	Melee	50	2s	25	900	Freeze 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Fierce Fang (Fire)Signature	Fire	Melee	50	2s	25	900	Burn 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Fierce Fang (Dark)	Dark	Melee	50	2s	25	900	Blind 50	Pal only	3 ▾
Holy Burst	Neutral	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	—	Fruit — in shops	162 ▾
Absolute Frost	Ice	Shot	700	30s	23.3	3000	Freeze 100	Fruit — in shops	7 ▾
Magma LaserSignature	Fire	Shot	700	30s	23.3	4000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Ice LaserSignature	Ice	Shot	700	30s	23.3	4000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Silver SteedSignature	Neutral	Melee	700	30s	23.3	2500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Magna CrushSignature	Dragon	Melee	700	30s	23.3	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Meteorain	Dragon	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	8 ▾
Root CannonSignature	Grass	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Dark RootSignature	Dark	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Holy PressSignature	Neutral	Shot	700	30s	23.3	4000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Holy NovaSignature	Neutral	Shot	700	30s	23.3	2000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Radiant Barrage	Neutral	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	—	Pal only	3 ▾
Dark NovaSignature	Dark	Shot	700	30s	23.3	2000	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Flame CutterSignature	Fire	Shot	700	30s	23.3	3500	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Blazing Beam	Dragon	Shot	700	30s	23.3	2500	Burn 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Lotus BloomSignature	Grass	Melee	700	30s	23.3	3000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Trickster ShowSignature	Fire	Shot	700	30s	23.3	4000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Missile BurstSignature	Ground	Shot	700	30s	23.3	4000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Seigetsu FlashSignature	Neutral	Shot	700	30s	23.3	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Double Blizzard Spike	Ice	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	Freeze 100	Pal only	3 ▾
Celestial VortexSignature	Water	Shot	700	30s	23.3	1000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Giant SporeSignature	Grass	Shot	700	30s	23.3	4000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Poison PromenadeSignature	Dark	Melee	700	30s	23.3	2000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Omega LaserSignature	Dragon	Shot	700	30s	23.3	3500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Divine WingSignature	Neutral	Melee	700	30s	23.3	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Spear ThrustSignature	Neutral	Melee	700	30s	23.3	2500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Twin SpearsSignature	Dark	Melee	700	30s	23.3	1000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Crystal Wing	Ice	Melee	700	30s	23.3	2500	Freeze 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Dark WingSignature	Dark	Melee	700	30s	23.3	2500	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Thalassonic LaserSignature	Water	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Beam CometSignature	Dragon	Shot	700	30s	23.3	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Grand BreachSignature	Water	Melee	700	30s	23.3	6000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lethal StepSignature	Dark	Melee	550	24s	22.9	3000	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Sumo StompSignature	Ground	Melee	550	24s	22.9	700	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Tail Slash	Dragon	Melee	550	24s	22.9	3000	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Flower StompSignature	Grass	Shot	550	24s	22.9	2000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Heavy Thunder TankSignature	Electric	Shot	550	24s	22.9	3000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Pal Blast	Neutral	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1800	—	Fruit	224 ▾
Solar Blast	Grass	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1800	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit	222 ▾
Hydro Laser	Water	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1800	Soak 100	Fruit	157 ▾
Volcanic Rain	Fire	Shot	450	20s	22.5	2000	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	135 ▾
Lightning Bolt	Electric	Shot	450	20s	22.5	3000	Electrify 100	Fruit	213 ▾
Dark Laser	Dark	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1800	Blind 100	Fruit	220 ▾
Persistent SlashSignature	Ground	Melee	90	4s	22.5	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Blizzard Spike	Ice	Shot	450	20s	22.5	5000	Freeze 100	Fruit	39 ▾
Antler Uppercut	Neutral	Melee	90	4s	22.5	2000	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Chaotic SpraySignature	Ice	Shot	180	8s	22.5	2000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lightning DiveSignature	Electric	Melee	180	8s	22.5	1500	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lantern SweepSignature	Water	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Scorching Lantern SweepSignature	Fire	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Blast PunchSignature	Electric	Melee	180	8s	22.5	700	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Comet Strike	Dragon	Shot	180	8s	22.5	5000	Burn 100	Fruit	134 ▾
Spectral SteedSignature	Dark	Melee	450	20s	22.5	2500	Blind 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Wholehearted StanceSignature	Neutral	Melee	450	20s	22.5	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Firefist BreathstormSignature	Dragon	Shot	450	20s	22.5	1000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Ground CutterSignature	Ground	Shot	450	20s	22.5	3500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Comet Barrage	Dragon	Shot	450	20s	22.5	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Flame WaltzSignature	Dark	Shot	450	20s	22.5	3000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Beam SlashSignature	Dragon	Shot	450	20s	22.5	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Hydro Slicer	Water	Shot	350	16s	21.9	4000	Soak 100	Fruit — in shops	90 ▾
Jumping Stinger	Ground	Melee	350	16s	21.9	3000	Poison 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Beam Slicer	Dragon	Shot	350	16s	21.9	4000	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	135 ▾
Upper SmashSignature	Dark	Melee	350	16s	21.9	3000	Poison 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Evil SlashSignature	Dark	Shot	350	16s	21.9	3000	Blind 30	Pal only	1 ▾
Seigetsu BladeSignature	Neutral	Shot	350	16s	21.9	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Raging Bull RushSignature	Grass	Melee	650	30s	21.7	2000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Raging Snow RushSignature	Ice	Melee	650	30s	21.7	2000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lantern FlameSignature	Dark	Shot	650	30s	21.7	4000	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Raging Flame WaveSignature	Fire	Shot	650	30s	21.7	3000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Glacial ImpactSignature	Ice	Melee	650	30s	21.7	3000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Spine Vine	Grass	Shot	250	12s	20.8	5000	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit	19 ▾
Flame Wall	Fire	Shot	250	12s	20.8	5000	Burn 100	Fruit	136 ▾
Torrential Blast	Water	Shot	250	12s	20.8	3000	Soak 100	Fruit	91 ▾
Konoha FlipSignature	Grass	Shot	250	12s	20.8	1000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Crosswind	Grass	Shot	500	24s	20.8	5000	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit — in shops	91 ▾
Sand Twister	Ground	Shot	500	24s	20.8	5000	Muddy 100	Fruit — in shops	136 ▾
TriSpark	Electric	Shot	250	12s	20.8	3000	Electrify 100	Fruit	136 ▾
Aqua Surge	Water	Shot	500	24s	20.8	5000	Soak 100	Fruit — in shops	89 ▾
Ignis Rage	Fire	Shot	500	24s	20.8	1000	Burn 100	Fruit	214 ▾
Icicle Bullet	Ice	Shot	250	12s	20.8	3000	Freeze 100	Fruit — in shops	7 ▾
All Range Thunder	Electric	Shot	500	24s	20.8	2000	Electrify 100	Fruit — in shops	5 ▾
Webstrike ImpactSignature	Dark	Melee	250	12s	20.8	1500	Poison 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Bull RushSignature	Grass	Melee	250	12s	20.8	2000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Snow RushSignature	Ice	Melee	250	12s	20.8	2000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Rapid KickSignature	Grass	Melee	250	12s	20.8	800	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Splash TackleSignature	Water	Melee	250	12s	20.8	300	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Daring ShadowstormSignature	Dark	Melee	250	12s	20.8	3500	Blind 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Giga Horn	Ground	Melee	250	12s	20.8	2500	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Mummy RushSignature	Dark	Melee	500	24s	20.8	1000	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Earth DashSignature	Ground	Melee	250	12s	20.8	3500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Ground SmashSignature	Ground	Melee	500	24s	20.8	5000	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Leaping RoundhouseSignature	Grass	Melee	250	12s	20.8	1200	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Grudge BarrageSignature	Dark	Melee	500	24s	20.8	4000	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Crash DashSignature	Ground	Melee	500	24s	20.8	3000	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Flash ChargeSignature	Electric	Melee	500	24s	20.8	2500	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Shell Charge	Electric	Melee	500	24s	20.8	500	Electrify 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Black Quilled BalletSignature	Dark	Shot	500	24s	20.8	1500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
KeraunoSignature	Electric	Shot	250	12s	20.8	5000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Hydra ChargeSignature	Water	Melee	500	24s	20.8	2500	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Astral RaySignature	Dark	Shot	500	24s	20.8	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
MaelstromSignature	Water	Shot	500	24s	20.8	6000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Roly PolySignature	Neutral	Melee	40	2s	20	1000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Air Cannon	Neutral	Shot	40	2s	20	4000	—	Fruit	47 ▾
Power Shot	Neutral	Shot	80	4s	20	3000	—	Fruit	58 ▾
Punch FlurrySignature	Neutral	Melee	40	2s	20	500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Bog Blast	Ground	Shot	40	2s	20	5000	Muddy 50	Fruit	56 ▾
Wind Cutter	Grass	Shot	40	2s	20	5000	Ivy-Covered 35	Fruit	37 ▾
Seed Machine Gun	Grass	Shot	80	4s	20	300	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit	28 ▾
Wind Burst	Grass	Shot	600	30s	20	1200	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit — in shops	96 ▾
Hydro Jet	Water	Shot	40	2s	20	5000	Soak 35	Fruit	19 ▾
Ice Missile	Ice	Shot	40	2s	20	3000	Freeze 102	Fruit	34 ▾
Bubble Blast	Water	Shot	80	4s	20	3500	Soak 100	Fruit	32 ▾
Geyser Gush	Water	Melee	600	30s	20	5000	Soak 100	Fruit — in shops	36 ▾
Ignis Blast	Fire	Shot	40	2s	20	5000	Burn 50	Fruit	35 ▾
Spirit Fire	Fire	Shot	80	4s	20	3000	Burn 100	Fruit	32 ▾
Ignis Breath	Fire	Shot	160	8s	20	1500	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	279 ▾
Fire Ball	Fire	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	41 ▾
Thunder Spear	Electric	Shot	40	2s	20	4000	Electrify 35	Fruit	4 ▾
Shockwave	Electric	Shot	80	4s	20	300	Electrify 103	Fruit	23 ▾
Lightning Streak	Electric	Shot	160	8s	20	2000	Electrify 100	Fruit	17 ▾
Splash	Water	Shot	160	8s	20	2500	Soak 100	Fruit	138 ▾
Thunderstorm	Electric	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	—	Fruit — in shops	145 ▾
Dark Shot	Dark	Shot	40	2s	20	4000	Blind 20	Fruit	3 ▾
Dark Whisp	Dark	Shot	600	30s	20	1500	Blind 100	Fruit — in shops	63 ▾
Air Blade	Neutral	Shot	160	8s	20	5000	—	Fruit — in shops	139 ▾
Reflect Leaf	Grass	Shot	400	20s	20	4000	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit — in shops	90 ▾
Stone Blast	Ground	Shot	80	4s	20	4000	Muddy 100	Fruit	40 ▾
Double Fang (Ground)	Ground	Melee	40	2s	20	150	Muddy 50	Pal only	2 ▾
Rock Lance	Ground	Shot	400	20s	20	5000	Muddy 100	Fruit	31 ▾
Rocky Impact	Ground	Melee	600	30s	20	5000	Muddy 100	Fruit — in shops	131 ▾
Thunder Rail	Electric	Shot	600	30s	20	3000	Electrify 100	Pal only	12 ▾
Icicle Cutter	Ice	Shot	80	4s	20	4000	Freeze 50	Fruit	34 ▾
Crystal Breath	Ice	Shot	160	8s	20	1500	Freeze 100	Fruit	33 ▾
Diamond Rain	Ice	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	Freeze 100	Fruit	153 ▾
Shadow Burst	Dark	Shot	80	4s	20	300	Blind 50	Fruit	35 ▾
ThunderslideSignature	Electric	Shot	400	20s	20	3000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Frozen PressSignature	Ice	Melee	400	20s	20	1000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Dragon Meteor	Dragon	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	Burn 45	Fruit — in shops	210 ▾
Double Fang	Neutral	Melee	40	2s	20	180	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Multicutter	Grass	Shot	160	8s	20	5000	Ivy-Covered 35	Fruit	73 ▾
Poison Shower	Dark	Shot	160	8s	20	1000	Poison 100	Fruit — in shops	9 ▾
Hydro Spin	Water	Shot	160	8s	20	2000	Soak 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Dragon Cannon	Dragon	Shot	40	2s	20	4000	Burn 35	Fruit	211 ▾
Dragon Burst	Dragon	Shot	80	4s	20	200	Burn 50	Fruit	16 ▾
Dragon Breath	Dragon	Shot	160	8s	20	1500	Burn 100	Fruit	278 ▾
Charge Cannon	Dragon	Shot	400	20s	20	4000	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	110 ▾
Gale ClawSignature	Neutral	Melee	80	4s	20	1000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Apocalypse	Dark	Shot	400	20s	20	5000	Blind 100	Fruit — in shops	139 ▾
Tornado AttackSignature	Neutral	Melee	80	4s	20	2500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Megaton ImplodeSignature	Neutral	Shot	1200	60s	20	1000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Ice Gale StrikeSignature	Ice	Melee	600	30s	20	1200	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Jumping ClawSignature	Dark	Melee	80	4s	20	500	Blind 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Snow ClawSignature	Ice	Melee	160	8s	20	500	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Blazing HornSignature	Fire	Melee	80	4s	20	2500	Burn 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Double Fang (Electric)	Electric	Melee	40	2s	20	100	Electrify 50	Pal only	2 ▾
Spinning StaffSignature	Grass	Shot	160	8s	20	600	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Thunder Rain	Electric	Shot	400	20s	20	2000	Electrify 100	Fruit — in shops	135 ▾
Botanical Smash	Grass	Shot	80	4s	20	1500	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Iaigiri	Fire	Melee	160	8s	20	5000	Burn 50	Pal only	2 ▾
Raid CutterSignature	Grass	Shot	400	20s	20	5000	Ivy-Covered 35	Pal only	1 ▾
Nightmare ClawSignature	Dark	Melee	400	20s	20	1200	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Glacial PlungeSignature	Ice	Melee	600	30s	20	1500	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Double Fang (Ice)Signature	Ice	Melee	40	2s	20	180	Freeze 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Rocket Slam	Dragon	Melee	80	4s	20	1500	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Magma SpitSignature	Fire	Shot	600	30s	20	2500	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Ice SpitSignature	Ice	Shot	600	30s	20	2500	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Deep BreathSignature	Grass	Shot	400	20s	20	3000	Ivy-Covered 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Double Fang (Fire)Signature	Fire	Melee	40	2s	20	250	Burn 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Double Fang (Dark)	Dark	Melee	40	2s	20	250	Blind 50	Pal only	3 ▾
Volcanic Fang	Fire	Melee	400	20s	20	5000	Burn 50	Pal only	2 ▾
Slither SlamSignature	Water	Melee	400	20s	20	2000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Magma SerpentSignature	Fire	Melee	400	20s	20	2000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Frost BurstSignature	Ice	Shot	400	20s	20	5000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Horn BurstSignature	Ground	Shot	600	30s	20	1500	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Ice BurstSignature	Ice	Shot	600	30s	20	1500	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Snow BowlingSignature	Ice	Melee	400	20s	20	3000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lawn BowlingSignature	Grass	Melee	400	20s	20	3000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Brawn Impact	Fire	Melee	600	30s	20	600	Burn 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Rocket Arm	Ground	Shot	600	30s	20	1500	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Forceful ChargeSignature	Ground	Melee	400	20s	20	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Rolling ScratchSignature	Ground	Melee	400	20s	20	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Thunder UppercutSignature	Electric	Melee	600	30s	20	3000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lethal Laser	Electric	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	Electrify 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Cube PressSignature	Ground	Shot	600	30s	20	4000	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Soul DrainSignature	Dark	Melee	400	20s	20	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
High Breach	Ice	Shot	600	30s	20	4000	Freeze 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Aegis ChargeSignature	Dragon	Melee	600	30s	20	4000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Bolt BlinkSignature	Electric	Melee	600	30s	20	5000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Poison ScatterSignature	Dark	Shot	600	30s	20	3000	Poison 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Star Mine	Neutral	Shot	400	20s	20	5000	—	Pal only	4 ▾
PolykeraunosSignature	Electric	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Phoenix FlareSignature	Fire	Melee	320	16s	20	3000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Phoenix TideSignature	Water	Melee	320	16s	20	3000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Divine DisasterSignature	Dark	Shot	400	20s	20	2500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Divine Disaster IISignature	Dark	Shot	600	30s	20	2500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Moonlight BeamSignature	Neutral	Shot	600	30s	20	3000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Azure DracoflareSignature	Dragon	Shot	600	30s	20	3500	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Nightmare RaySignature	Dark	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Nightmare BloomSignature	Dark	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Satellite BitSignature	Dragon	Shot	400	20s	20	5000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Cosmic MeteorSignature	Dragon	Shot	600	30s	20	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Tidal ChargeSignature	Water	Melee	400	20s	20	5000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Aqua TornadoSignature	Water	Shot	800	40s	20	6000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Implode	Neutral	Shot	300	16s	18.8	1000	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	4 ▾
Curtain Splash	Water	Shot	300	16s	18.8	5000	Soak 100	Fruit	136 ▾
Nightmare Ball	Dark	Shot	300	16s	18.8	5000	Blind 65	Fruit	214 ▾
Lightning Strike	Electric	Shot	300	16s	18.8	500	Electrify 100	Fruit	12 ▾
Flame Funnel	Fire	Shot	300	16s	18.8	5000	Burn 100	Fruit — in shops	136 ▾
Circle Vine	Grass	Shot	300	16s	18.8	5000	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit	137 ▾
Rockburst	Ground	Shot	300	16s	18.8	1200	Muddy 100	Fruit — in shops	134 ▾
Icicle Line	Ice	Shot	300	16s	18.8	2500	Freeze 100	Fruit	12 ▾
Mystic Whirlwind	Dragon	Shot	150	8s	18.8	3000	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Bee QuietSignature	Grass	Shot	300	16s	18.8	1000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Rumble ComboSignature	Ground	Melee	300	16s	18.8	500	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Thunder TempestSignature	Electric	Melee	300	16s	18.8	2000	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Lightning SmashSignature	Electric	Shot	300	16s	18.8	1500	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Earth Impact	Ground	Shot	300	16s	18.8	1500	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Trigger Happy	Water	Shot	300	16s	18.8	4000	Soak 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Ignis ChargeSignature	Fire	Melee	300	16s	18.8	2500	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Dark ChargeSignature	Dark	Melee	300	16s	18.8	2500	Blind 50	Pal only	1 ▾
FrostcallSignature	Ice	Melee	300	16s	18.8	1200	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Dash KickSignature	Grass	Melee	300	16s	18.8	3000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Spirit DashSignature	Dark	Melee	300	16s	18.8	2500	Blind 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Volcanic BurstSignature	Fire	Shot	300	16s	18.8	5000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Blizzard ClawSignature	Ice	Melee	300	16s	18.8	300	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Stone ClawSignature	Ground	Melee	300	16s	18.8	300	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Spinning RoundhouseSignature	Ground	Melee	300	16s	18.8	300	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Somersault ScratchSignature	Ground	Melee	300	16s	18.8	100	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Lightning ClawSignature	Electric	Melee	150	8s	18.8	700	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Frost TalonSignature	Ice	Melee	300	16s	18.8	1200	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Aqua BladeSignature	Water	Shot	300	16s	18.8	6000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Emperor SlideSignature	Ice	Shot	140	8s	17.5	3000	Freeze 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Lock-on Laser	Electric	Shot	140	8s	17.5	5000	Electrify 100	Fruit — in shops	280 ▾
Phantom PeckSignature	Dark	Melee	70	4s	17.5	5000	Blind 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Dark Cannon	Dark	Shot	70	4s	17.5	5000	Blind 20	Fruit	20 ▾
Grass Tornado	Grass	Shot	200	12s	16.7	3000	Ivy-Covered 65	Fruit	32 ▾
Sand Tornado	Ground	Shot	200	12s	16.7	3000	Muddy 65	Fruit — in shops	110 ▾
Flare Storm	Fire	Shot	200	12s	16.7	3000	Burn 65	Fruit — in shops	16 ▾
Aqua Burst	Water	Shot	200	12s	16.7	5000	Soak 100	Fruit — in shops	280 ▾
Tri-Lightning	Electric	Shot	200	12s	16.7	5000	Electrify 103	Fruit	214 ▾
Spirit Flame	Dark	Shot	200	12s	16.7	5000	Burn 102	Fruit	99 ▾
Kingly Slam	Neutral	Melee	200	12s	16.7	1000	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Wind Edge	Grass	Shot	200	12s	16.7	5000	Ivy-Covered 35	Pal only	6 ▾
Freeze Wall	Ice	Shot	200	12s	16.7	5000	Freeze 100	Fruit — in shops	89 ▾
Flame BreathSignature	Fire	Shot	200	12s	16.7	1000	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Tempest BlizzardSignature	Ice	Shot	200	12s	16.7	1000	Freeze 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Hellfire Claw	Fire	Melee	200	12s	16.7	1200	Burn 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Rush BeakSignature	Fire	Melee	200	12s	16.7	550	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Daring FlamesSignature	Fire	Melee	200	12s	16.7	3500	Burn 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Blast Cannon	Dragon	Shot	200	12s	16.7	3000	Burn 100	Fruit	4 ▾
Bubble RainSignature	Water	Shot	200	12s	16.7	6000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Creeping BubblesSignature	Water	Shot	200	12s	16.7	5000	Soak 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Power Bomb	Neutral	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	—	Fruit	278 ▾
Chicken RushSignature	Neutral	Melee	30	2s	15	500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Acid Rain	Water	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Soak 100	Fruit — in shops	15 ▾
Poison Blast	Dark	Shot	30	2s	15	5000	Poison 100	Fruit	26 ▾
Dark Arrow	Dark	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Blind 102	Fruit	17 ▾
Seed Mine	Grass	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Ivy-Covered 100	Fruit — in shops	26 ▾
Stone Cannon	Ground	Shot	120	8s	15	2500	Muddy 35Stun 20	Fruit — in shops	30 ▾
Iceberg	Ice	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Freeze 100	Fruit	283 ▾
Plasma Funnel	Electric	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Electrify 100	Fruit	4 ▾
Flare Arrow	Fire	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Burn 102	Fruit	27 ▾
Reckless ChargeSignature	Ground	Melee	60	4s	15	2500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Fuddler TunnelerSignature	Ground	Melee	60	4s	15	3000	Muddy 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Mud HornSignature	Ground	Melee	120	8s	15	2000	Muddy 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Umbral Surge	Dark	Shot	60	4s	15	5000	Blind 35	Fruit	14 ▾
Smoke Jet	Water	Shot	120	8s	15	4000	Soak 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Lightning GaleSignature	Electric	Melee	120	8s	15	1200	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Needle SpearSignature	Grass	Melee	120	8s	15	2000	Poison 55	Pal only	1 ▾
Cat PressSignature	Neutral	Melee	120	8s	15	1500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Ground Pound	Neutral	Melee	120	8s	15	500	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Focus Shot	Grass	Shot	120	8s	15	5000	Ivy-Covered 100	Pal only	2 ▾
Cloud TempestSignature	Neutral	Melee	120	8s	15	2000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Freezing ChargeSignature	Ice	Melee	120	8s	15	2000	Freeze 50	Pal only	1 ▾
Crushing PunchSignature	Grass	Melee	120	8s	15	700	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Shell SpinSignature	Ground	Melee	120	8s	15	1500	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Muscle Slam	Grass	Melee	120	8s	15	300	—	Pal only	2 ▾
Paldium ExplosionSignature	—	Shot	800	60s	13.3	9999	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Electric Ball	Electric	Shot	100	8s	12.5	2500	Electrify 50	Fruit	7 ▾
Beckon LightningSignature	Electric	Melee	100	8s	12.5	1200	Electrify 100	Pal only	1 ▾
Purifying LightSignature	Neutral	Shot	250	100s	2.5	3000	—	Pal only	1 ▾
Poison Fog	Dark	Shot	—	30s	—	400	Poison 9999	Pal only	9 ▾
Bountiful ProtectionSignature	Grass	Shot	—	240s	—	9999	—	Pal only	1 ▾

DPS = power ÷ cooldown (sustained damage per second). An active skill whose element matches the Pal using it deals extra damage. “Egg Move” skills are inherited through breeding, not learned by level-up, and a Signature tag means one Pal alone can bring that skill to a fight. Teach it is the other half of that question: a fruit means the skill goes onto any Pal you like regardless of its level or element, in shops means a merchant sells that fruit outright, and Pal only means the Learned by list is the complete supply. The Ailment number is how much status build-up one hit applies — the higher it is, the fewer hits a target needs to take before Freeze, Burn or Stun actually lands, and targets resistant to that status need more.

Which of these can you actually put on a Pal?

The Learned by list on each row is not a suggestion — for most skills it is the complete answer. A Skill Fruit exists for only 92 of the 300 skills above. For the other 208 there is no item that grants them: the Pals named in the row are the only bodies that will ever bring that skill to a fight, and your choices are to raise one of them or to hatch one. The Teach it column answers this one skill at a time — which fruit hands the move over, and whether a merchant actually sells it — so check it before you plan a team around a skill.

Element	Skills	Have a Skill Fruit	No fruit — Pal-only	Teachable share
Electric	33	14	19	42%
Water	29	12	17	41%
Dragon	23	8	15	35%
Fire	30	10	20	33%
Grass	34	11	23	32%
Ice	34	10	24	29%
Dark	45	12	33	27%
Ground	33	8	25	24%
Neutral	35	7	28	20%
Elementless	4	0	4	0%

The coverage is lopsided in a way that quietly decides how flexible each element is. Electric and Water are the two you can shop for — better than four skills in ten have a fruit — so an Electric or Water Pal with good stats and a bad move list is a fixable problem. Neutral is the opposite: it is the largest pool in the game and the worst served, which is why so many Neutral Pals are stuck with whatever they level into. Ground sits nearly as low. The four elementless Paldium skills have no fruit at all, and they sit at the very top of the DPS sort — those are earned by owning the right Pal, never bought.

The fruit list also skews hard toward the top of the power curve, and the bottom is where it leaves you. Of the fifteen skills that every one of their learners picks up at Lv 1, exactly one has a fruit. The bite family is the clean example: all twelve Double Fang and Fierce Fang variants are fruit-less, and each pair lands on the same Pal one level apart. Puffolt and Rayhound open with Double Fang (Electric) at Lv 1 and replace it at Lv 2 with Fierce Fang (Electric) — identical 2-second cooldown, identical Electrify 50 build-up, but 50 power instead of 40 and 250 range instead of 100. That one is a strict upgrade, and the Ground pair on Gildane and Pupperai behaves the same way. Do not carry the Lv 1 bite past level two on those four.

The other four Fierce Fang variants do not replace anything, and the range column is why. Fierce Fang in its Neutral, Ice, Fire and Dark forms only fires from 800 to 900 out — it is a leap across a gap, not a bite in your face — while the matching Double Fang works from zero. So Direhowl, Yakumo, Kitsun, Kitsun Noct, Smokie, Smokie Cryst and Rayhound Cryst want both in the loadout: the Lv 1 move covers point-blank, the Lv 2 move covers the approach. Dropping Double Fang for its Lv 2 sibling on those Pals leaves a dead zone from 0 to 800 where the AI has nothing to select.

Inside that group the Dark pair is the one worth planning around, for a reason the columns above do not spell out: build-up per second. Twenty-six skills stack Blind, and exactly three of them do it at 25 points a second — Double Fang (Dark), Fierce Fang (Dark) and Dark Ball, all carrying 50 build-up on a 2-second timer. Fourth place is Dark Arrow at 12.8, and the rest of the element is slower again. Of the three at the top rate only Double Fang (Dark) fires from zero — Dark Ball opens at 500, Fierce Fang at 800 — which makes the Lv 1 bite the fastest way anything in the game blinds a target already standing on it, at double the rate of the next skill that reaches contact at all. That is Shadow Burst, at 12.5. Treat it as the element's lock tool rather than a starter move you grow out of. Three bodies carry it, all at Lv 1: Smokie, Smokie Cryst and Kitsun Noct.

How long it stays on the bar is different on all three, and the range column decides it every time. Smokie is the only one with a real replacement: Shadow Burst at Lv 22 covers 0 to 300 and posts the identical 20.0, trading 40 power every 2 seconds for 80 every 4 — the damage is a wash, the reach is 50 better, and what you hand back is the rate. Keep the bite anyway if Blind is the reason the Pal is on your team. Smokie Cryst never learns Shadow Burst; despite being half Ice it opens with the Dark pair and its Ice line does not start until Lv 7, after which every move it picks up has a floor at 500 until Icicle Bullet at Lv 22 drops it to 100 and Icicle Line at Lv 30 finally reaches zero. Kitsun Noct is the extreme case: nothing it learns fires inside 500 until Flame Funnel at Lv 40, and the first Dark move that works at contact is Dark Whisp at Lv 50. On that Pal the Lv 1 bite holds the point-blank slot for thirty-nine levels, and the move that eventually relieves it is Fire.

The Lv 2 half of that pair is the one the range column undersells. Fierce Fang (Dark) posts 25.0 DPS, and 25.0 is where the ordinary game stops: exactly seven skills in the whole table beat it, three of them Paldium entries locked to a single Pal and the other four Lv 40-and-up exclusives at 26.7. Ten skills tie at 25.0, and six of those ten are Fierce Fang variants. So the three bodies that pick the Dark one up at Lv 2 — Smokie, Smokie Cryst and Kitsun Noct — are carrying the best sustained figure in the game before they have done anything, and not one of them ever levels into a faster one. Kitsun Noct's next best is Daring Shadowstorm at 20.8, twenty levels later; Smokie and Smokie Cryst both top out at 22.5, and not until Lv 40. The Lv 2 bite stays the hardest-hitting thing on the bar for sixty-eight levels.

What you pay for that is the tightest firing window in the game. It works from 800 to 900 and nowhere else — a hundred units of usable ground. Only five other skills are cut that narrow: the Neutral, Ice and Fire fangs share the identical 800-to-900 sliver, and Jumping Claw and Snow Claw run 400 to 500. Every one of the other 117 skills that has a minimum range gets at least 500 units of room. So read the 25.0 as a rate you collect at one specific distance, not as a damage slot, and do not leave it as the only thing on the bar that reaches past 250 — which for one level it is. Each learner patches that at its next pickup: Dark Cannon on Kitsun Noct and Bog Blast on Smokie, both at Lv 3 and both running 500 to 5,000, then Icicle Cutter on Smokie Cryst at Lv 7, 500 to 4,000. All three blanket the fang's band from much further out, at 17.5, 20.0 and 20.0, which is the point: from there the fang is no longer the reach, it is the spike inside it.

There is no trading up out of that window, either. Dark Ball is the same 25.0 carrying the same Blind 50 every two seconds, on a far kinder 500-to-1,000 band, and 28 Pals learn it — none of them Smokie, Smokie Cryst or Kitsun Noct. No fruit teaches it, since Dark's only three are Dark Laser, Nightmare Ball and Poison Shower, and it appears in none of the three's egg pools. The narrow band is not a phase those Pals grow out of; it is the shape of the best skill they will ever own.

The Fire pair rewards the same reading, and it points at one Pal rather than three. Burn is the widest ailment pool in the game — 53 skills apply it, twice what Blind manages — and four of them run at the ceiling rate of 25 points a second: Spirit Fire, Ignis Blast, and both halves of the Fire bite. Three of those four refuse to fire at contact, and by some distance: Spirit Fire opens at 1000, Fierce Fang (Fire) at 800, Ignis Blast at 500. Double Fang (Fire) works from 0 to 250 — tied with the Dark bite for the longest reach of the six Double Fangs, and more than double the Electric one — and the quickest Burn that reaches zero after it runs at half the rate, 12.5, on Dragon Burst and Comet Strike. Exactly one body learns it, Kitsun, at Lv 1. Its Dark counterpart is the same animal in the other form, which means the two fastest ailment applications in the game sit on the two Kitsun variants and you pick one at the point you pick a form.

Kitsun never gets a second answer at contact. Every Fire move it levels into afterwards is stand-off work — Ignis Blast at Lv 3 wants 500 out, Spirit Fire at Lv 7 wants 1000, Daring Flames at Lv 22 wants 1000 again, Flare Storm at Lv 30 wants 700. The first thing it learns that even starts under 500 is Ignis Rage at Lv 40, and its floor is still 100. The only move on the entire list that reaches zero is Holy Burst at Lv 70, and that one is Neutral, so the Lv 1 bite is also the only Fire skill Kitsun will ever own that can hit something already pressed against it. Sixty-nine levels in one slot. Leave it there, and treat the fangs as the burn engine while the rest of the bar handles range.

The Lv 2 half of the Fire pair is the Pal's ceiling, and it is reached before the tutorial is over. Fierce Fang (Fire) exists on one body in the whole game — Kitsun at Lv 2, no fruit, no egg pool — and its 25.0 DPS is the highest sustained figure that Pal will ever hold. Nothing on the rest of the list gets there: the best Fire number Kitsun levels into is Ignis Rage at Lv 40, at 20.8, and the only thing that beats that is the Neutral Holy Burst at Lv 70, still short at 23.3. Exactly one move ties the fang — Spark Blast, also 25.0 — and it arrives only by breeding and will not fire inside 1,200. From Lv 2 to Lv 70 the bite is the damage slot, and its 800-to-900 sliver is a property of the Pal, not a phase it grows out of.

Carrying both fangs still leaves one seam. Double Fang covers 0 to 250, Fierce Fang covers 800 to 900, and Ignis Blast blankets the fang's band and everything out to 5,000 from Lv 3 — but nothing Kitsun learns fires between 250 and 500 until Ignis Rage at Lv 40 finally drops a floor to 100. That is a step-back range, exactly where something that just ate the Lv 1 bite ends up. Breeding is the fix if you fight on foot beside the Pal: Lock-on Laser and Tri-Lightning both come down as egg moves and both work from zero out to 5,000, which covers the seam and the point-blank slot in one pickup.

The Ice pair is the narrowest of the six, because both halves live on a single body. Rayhound Cryst is the only Pal in the game that learns Double Fang (Ice) at Lv 1 or Fierce Fang (Ice) at Lv 2, neither has a fruit, and neither sits in any egg pool — so there is no second route to either one and no way to move them onto something else. Both stack Freeze 50 on a 2-second timer, which is 25 points a second, and in the whole 34-skill Freeze pool only one thing is faster: Ice Missile, which loads 102 per cast on the same 2-second cycle for 51 a second. Everything else in the element tops out at 12.5. And the Lv 1 half is the one that matters at contact — it works from 0 to 180, while the next-fastest Freeze that fires from literally zero manages 8.33 a second, so the starter bite freezes a target standing on you three times faster than anything else that can reach it.

Read Rayhound Cryst's list top to bottom and the freeze rate runs backwards. Icicle Cutter at Lv 7, Iceberg at Lv 15 and Crystal Breath at Lv 22 all land on 12.5 a second — half the bites. Frostcall at Lv 30 and Icicle Line at Lv 40 drop to 6.25, Blizzard Spike at Lv 50 to 5, and Diamond Rain at Lv 70 to 3.33. Bigger numbers per activation, slower lock. The damage column agrees: the Lv 2 fang's 25.0 is the highest sustained figure this Pal ever holds, and the best it levels into afterwards is Blizzard Spike's 22.5, forty-eight levels later. Keep both bites on the bar for the whole run — they are the freeze engine, and the late moves are the reach.

The reach is where it needs help, and there is a specific window to plan for. Bog Blast at Lv 3 runs 500 to 5,000 and blankets the fang's 800-to-900 sliver from the moment you get it, but it is Ground on a pure-Ice Pal and it leaves a dead band from 180 to 500 that nothing closes until Iceberg at Lv 15 drops a floor to 100. Nothing fires from a true zero again until Icicle Line at Lv 40. Two things patch that early, and both are worth doing: Freeze Wall is on Rayhound Cryst's egg list and covers 0 to 5,000 at 8.33 Freeze a second, and its fruit is 30 Battle Tickets at the Arena Shop, so you can buy the fix outright instead of breeding for it. Do not count on trading up the freeze rate itself: the Ice Missile fruit is the only thing in the game that beats the bite, no merchant carries it and it is not in the relic pool, so it is a chest-and-orchard roll — and its 800 floor would not cover contact anyway.

The one Lv 1 skill that does have a fruit is Thunder Spear, and the reason it lands in that bracket alone is its roster, not its numbers. Every element carries a 40-power, 2-second opener — Air Cannon, Hydro Jet, Ignis Blast, Bog Blast and the rest — and all of them have a fruit, but each of those either picks up learners past Lv 1 or sits in egg pools by the hundred. Thunder Spear reaches exactly four bodies, Celaray Lux, Pengullet Lux, Penking Lux and Slowatt, all of them at Lv 1, and it appears in no Pal's egg-move list at all — where the Dragon twin with the identical stat line, Dragon Cannon, passes down to more than two hundred. Breeding will never move this one. The fruit is the whole supply line off those four, and no merchant stocks it, so it belongs with the orchard-and-chest rolls below rather than the fruits you can go and buy. Its 20.0 DPS is also the same sustained figure Thunderstorm posts at Lv 70 — what the late Electric moves buy is burst per activation and reach, not damage over time.

The range column decides how you use it, exactly as it does for the bites. Thunder Spear runs 500 to 4000, so it is dead weight in a shoving match, and Electric's other Lv 1 opener is worse on that count: Spark Blast hits for 25 DPS but will not fire inside 1200. Celaray Lux and Slowatt patch the hole themselves at Lv 7 with Shockwave, which covers 0 to 300. The two penguins never really do. Pengullet Lux has nothing under 500 until Splash at Lv 22, and no Electric answer at point-blank until Lightning Strike at Lv 50; Penking Lux only closes to 300 with TriSpark at Lv 22 and has nothing at zero range until Aqua Surge at Lv 40. Slot a contact move onto those two from somewhere else, or watch them stand still every time something walks into their face.

A fruit exists. That is not the same as a shop having one.

The column above answers whether a skill can be taught, not whether you can go and get it today. Of the 93 Skill Fruits in the game, a merchant stocks only 35. The other 58 come out of relic recycling, region chests, fishing and the Orchard — routes that hand you a fruit, not the fruit you wanted. So the practical split is not fruit versus no fruit; it is the 35 you can walk in and buy against everything else, which you farm and hope for.

The Arena Shop is the whole ticket economy for skills — 27 fruits, and exactly two price points. Sorted by damage per second bought per ticket spent:

Fruit teaches	Element	Power	Cooldown	DPS	Tickets	DPS per ticket
Volcanic Rain	Fire	450	20s	22.5	30	0.75
Beam Slicer	Dragon	350	16s	21.9	30	0.73
Hydro Slicer	Water	350	16s	21.9	30	0.73
Sand Twister	Ground	500	24s	20.8	30	0.69
All Range Thunder	Electric	500	24s	20.8	30	0.69
Icicle Bullet	Ice	250	12s	20.8	30	0.69
Apocalypse	Dark	400	20s	20	30	0.67
Poison Shower	Dark	160	8s	20	30	0.67
Charge Cannon	Dragon	400	20s	20	30	0.67
Thunder Rain	Electric	400	20s	20	30	0.67
Reflect Leaf	Grass	400	20s	20	30	0.67
Air Blade	Neutral	160	8s	20	30	0.67
Flame Funnel	Fire	300	16s	18.8	30	0.63
Rockburst	Ground	300	16s	18.8	30	0.63
Implode	Neutral	300	16s	18.8	30	0.63
Freeze Wall	Ice	200	12s	16.7	30	0.56
Absolute Frost	Ice	700	30s	23.3	45	0.52
Holy Burst	Neutral	700	30s	23.3	45	0.52
Crosswind	Grass	500	24s	20.8	45	0.46
Aqua Surge	Water	500	24s	20.8	45	0.46
Dark Whisp	Dark	600	30s	20	45	0.44
Dragon Meteor	Dragon	600	30s	20	45	0.44
Thunderstorm	Electric	600	30s	20	45	0.44
Fire Ball	Fire	600	30s	20	45	0.44
Wind Burst	Grass	600	30s	20	45	0.44
Rocky Impact	Ground	600	30s	20	45	0.44
Geyser Gush	Water	600	30s	20	45	0.44

Price does not follow the stat line, and that is where the value is. All Range Thunder and Sand Twister are both 500 power on a 24-second cooldown for 30 tickets; Aqua Surge and Crosswind carry the identical 500 and 24 and cost 45. Same skill, four elements, half again the price on two of them — if you only need a big cooldown filler and do not care which element carries it, the Electric and Ground versions are the ones to buy. The top of the value column is Volcanic Rain, the only 30-ticket fruit clearing 22 DPS. The two best raw skills on the shelf, Absolute Frost and Holy Burst at 23.3, are 45 tickets for under 4% more sustained damage than Volcanic Rain — buy them for the 700-power hit and the range, not for efficiency.

Nine fruits sit outside the ticket economy entirely, at three fixed merchants for gold. This is the route that matters before you have arena ranks worth farming.

Fruit teaches	Element	Power	Cooldown	DPS	Sold at	Gold
Stone Cannon	Ground	120	8s	15	Desert Shop	1,000
Ignis Breath	Fire	160	8s	20	Volcano Shop	3,000
Implode	Neutral	300	16s	18.8	Wander Shop	3,000
Lock-on Laser	Electric	140	8s	17.5	Wander Shop	3,000
Sand Tornado	Ground	200	12s	16.7	Desert Shop	3,000
Flare Storm	Fire	200	12s	16.7	Volcano Shop	3,000
Aqua Burst	Water	200	12s	16.7	Volcano Shop	3,000
Seed Mine	Grass	120	8s	15	Desert Shop	3,000
Acid Rain	Water	120	8s	15	Wander Shop	3,000

Stone Cannon carries the lowest price tag on any fruit anywhere, a third of what the other gold counters charge, and it is still the game's only source of Stun — the one entry on this page where the cheapest thing on the shelf is also the unique one. Implode is the only fruit stocked in two currencies, 30 tickets at the arena or 3,000 Gold from the wandering stock, so buy it with whichever you are not short of. Everything else here is a low-power filler; the gold counters exist to give a fresh save something better than a Lv 1 bite, not to compete with the arena.

Electric is the clearest case of the gap between the two lists. All Range Thunder is the strongest Electric skill any merchant will sell you, at 30 tickets. Spark Blast, Lightning Bolt and TriSpark all match or beat its 20.8 and all three have fruits that no shop carries, so the only Electric fruits you can plan around are this one, Thunder Rain at 30, Thunderstorm at 45 and Lock-on Laser for gold. By level it is a late move — Azurmane is the earliest at Lv 30, then Prixter Lux and Snock at 40, Puffolt and Slowatt at 50 — which makes the fruit the only way an Electric Pal carries it through the whole mid-game.

Ice is the opposite case — the arena shelf is deep there, and the cheap fruit is the one to take. Ten Ice fruits exist and the shop stocks three: Freeze Wall and Icicle Bullet at 30 tickets, Absolute Frost at 45. The first two are the same purchase on paper — 12-second cooldown, Freeze 100 on every connect — except Icicle Bullet carries 250 power against 200, so it is a flat quarter more sustained damage for the identical ticket price, 20.8 against 16.7. What Freeze Wall buys back is reach, and only reach: it works from 0 out to 5,000 where Icicle Bullet runs 100 to 3,000. The 100 floor is close enough to contact to ignore. The 3,000 ceiling is not, so buy this one for a Pal that already holds the far band with something else, and leave Freeze Wall on the Pal whose only long option it is.

Absolute Frost is what you are really deciding against, and the range column says the two do not complement each other at all: it fires in the exact same 100-to-3,000 window on flat ground, so a Pal carrying both covers no more of it than a Pal carrying either — the two do separate on height, which the limits below take up. The extra 15 tickets buy 23.3 against 20.8 — twelve percent over time — and change the shape from 250 power every 12 seconds to 700 every 30. Against anything that dies inside one rotation, take the burst. Against a health bar you are grinding, the cheap fruit wins on uptime and puts Freeze on the target two and a half times as often.

By level Icicle Bullet reaches only seven Pals, and four of those are Cryst forms: Beakon Cryst and Smokie Cryst at Lv 22, Loupmoon Cryst, Muffly and Snugloo at Lv 30, Foxparks Cryst and Frostplume at Lv 40. It passes down in no egg pool, so off those seven bodies the fruit is the entire supply — which is exactly the situation Thunder Spear is in, with the one difference that matters: this fruit is stocked. What it is not is a freezing tool. Freeze 100 on a 12-second timer is 8.3 build-up a second, the same rate the 89 Pals with Freeze Wall already produce, while Ice Missile stacks 102 every 2 seconds — 51 a second, six times as fast — and 34 Pals learn it without any purchase at all. Chase Ice Missile if you want the lock; Icicle Bullet is a damage pick that happens to freeze.

Water is the third element with a shelf worth planning around, and it repeats the Ice lesson with the gap widened. Three Water fruits sit at the arena: Hydro Slicer at 30 tickets, Aqua Surge and Geyser Gush at 45. The cheap one is the strongest — 350 power on a 16-second cooldown, 21.9 DPS with Soak 100, against 20.8 and 20.0 on the two dearer ones. What the extra fifteen tickets buy is a thousand units of ceiling and nothing else: the slicer covers 0 to 4,000, both 45-ticket fruits cover 0 to 5,000, and all three fire from contact. Only three fruits on the whole shelf post a higher figure — Volcanic Rain at 30 tickets, Absolute Frost and Holy Burst at 45 — and Volcanic Rain stops at 2,000, which leaves this one and its Dragon twin Beam Slicer as the most sustained damage 30 tickets will buy that still reaches past that mark.

On the Pal side it is the best Water skill nobody has to be born with. Everything above 21.9 in the element either refuses to fire at contact — Aqua Gun and Hydro Laser both open at 500 — or belongs to exactly one body, which is the case for Celestial Vortex, Thalassonic Laser, Grand Breach and Lantern Sweep alike. Hydro Slicer reaches 90 Pals, twelve by level and 78 through egg pools, making it the highest-DPS Water skill with a zero floor that more than one Pal can ever hold. The twelve arrive in three waves: Amione, Skutlass, Skutlass Ignis, Solmora and Gloopie Primo at Lv 30; Turtacle, Jelliette, Jellroy, Lapure, Fuack Ignis and Croajiro Noct at Lv 40; Gloopie last, at Lv 50.

What comes next on the list is a trap on eight of those twelve. Six of them are handed Hydro Laser in the very next slot, Croajiro Noct gets Dark Laser there and Lapure gets Pal Blast — one 450-power, 20-second template in three colours, all of it 22.5 DPS and all of it cut to 500 to 1,800. Six tenths of a point in exchange for everything inside 500 and everything past 1,800 is not an upgrade; slot the laser second and leave the slicer in the damage seat. On the pure Water bodies the levels after that are worse again — Aqua Surge at Lv 50 and Geyser Gush at Lv 70 both post less than the earlier pickup — so for Amione, Skutlass, Solmora, Turtacle and Jelliette this is the hardest-hitting thing they will ever own that works at point-blank, and it holds that slot through Lv 70. On Jellroy and Gloopie it is the ceiling outright: nothing either of them learns beats 21.9 at any distance.

Three learners do eventually get a real answer, and each is a different shape. Lapure and Gloopie Primo both close with Holy Burst at Lv 70 — 23.3 from zero out to 5,000, better in every column — so on those two the slicer is a thirty-level tenant rather than a fixture. Fuack Ignis is a split instead of a swap: Volcanic Rain at Lv 50 carries 22.5 and fires from contact but stops at 2,000, so run both and let the Water move own the band from there to 4,000. Croajiro Noct is the one where the off-element pickup carries the Pal — the only other thing it owns anywhere near contact is Acid Rain at 15.0, so the Lv 40 slot is nearly half again the damage over the same ground, and its Dark line offers nothing at zero range until Lv 70. What none of them should treat it as is a Soak engine: 100 build-up on a 16-second timer is 6.3 a second, while Aqua Gun and Bubble Blast both stack theirs at 25 a second, and 29 and 32 Pals respectively learn those for free. Buy this fruit for damage and reach; the status is already handled by moves the Pal picked up before Lv 15.

Three at the arena is not the whole Water shelf, and what sits off it is stronger than what sits on it. Twelve Water fruits are printed and merchants carry five: the slicer at 30 tickets, Aqua Surge and Geyser Gush at 45, plus Aqua Burst at the volcano counter and Acid Rain from the wandering stock, 3,000 Gold each and both under 17 DPS. The other seven are on nobody's shelf at any price — Aqua Gun, Bubble Blast, Splash, Hydro Jet, Curtain Splash, Torrential Blast and Hydro Laser — and only the last of those changes anything, because it is the one Water fruit above 21.9 that any route will put on a Pal that cannot learn it. 450 power on a 20-second cooldown, 22.5 with Soak 100 across 500 to 1,800: more damage over time than the fruit the arena does stock, paid for with the floor and the ceiling, which is the same trade the level learners walk into above.

Whether that is worth burning relics for turns on how few bodies need it. 157 Pals reach Hydro Laser without spending a thing — 25 by level and 132 through egg pools — so the fruit is the entire supply for the remaining 131, and on most of them the 500 floor makes it the second move rather than the damage seat regardless. It is at least a fruit the recycler can produce: Hydro Laser, Torrential Blast and Curtain Splash are the three unstocked Water fruits sitting in the relic pool, at the rate below. Aqua Gun, Bubble Blast, Splash and Hydro Jet are in neither the pool nor a shop, so for those four the trees, the world chests and the Orchard are the whole list — which bites hardest on Aqua Gun, the only Water fruit in the game whose skill clears 22.5, and the only one you cannot farm for on purpose.

Fire is the fourth shelf worth planning around, and it is the one where the cheap fruit is the weak one. Ten Fire fruits exist and merchants stock five: Volcanic Rain and Flame Funnel at 30 tickets, Fire Ball at 45, and Flare Storm and Ignis Breath for 3,000 Gold apiece at the volcano counter. Ignis Rage, Flame Wall, Ignis Blast, Spirit Fire and Flare Arrow are on nobody's shelf at any price. Against Volcanic Rain at the identical 30 tickets, Flame Funnel is a straight trade of rate for reach — 18.8 DPS against 22.5, over 0 to 5,000 against 0 to 2,000 — and Fire Ball buys that same 5,000 ceiling for fifteen more tickets but will not fire inside 500. Flame Funnel is the only Fire fruit any merchant sells that covers contact and the far band in one slot. That, not the damage column, is what you are paying for.

What the shelf hides is that it is not the best skill of its own shape. Flame Wall is 250 power on a 12-second cooldown against 300 on 16, which is 20.8 against 18.8, across the identical 0-to-5,000 band, carrying the same Burn 100 every twelve seconds instead of every sixteen — 8.3 points of build-up a second against 6.3. Every column ties or wins. And the two learnsets are not merely similar, they are the same 136 Pals down to the last body: anything in the game that can hold one can hold the other, by level or by egg. All Flame Funnel owns is the size of a single activation, 300 in one hit against 250, and one column this table does not print — see the height limits below, where this pair reverses. Flame Wall's fruit is stocked by no merchant at all, so here the buyable half of a matched pair is the worse half — the reverse of how the Ice and Water shelves read.

Eleven of those 136 reach Flame Funnel by level and the other 125 inherit it through egg pools, and on six of the eleven it is a downgrade the Pal walks straight into, because Flame Wall got there first. Dupin and Knocklem Ignis hold it from Lv 15 and are handed Flame Funnel at Lv 22; Flaracle, Renjishi and Tanzee Ignis from Lv 22 to Lv 30; Katress Ignis from Lv 30 to Lv 40. Keep the earlier move on all six and spend the slot elsewhere. The remaining five — Loomen, Sootseer, Petallia Ignis, Finsider Ignis and Kitsun Noct — only reach Flame Wall by breeding, so on those the Lv 30-or-40 pickup is a real addition rather than a sidegrade, and the fruit is worth its 30 tickets on any body that never levels into either.

One Fire Pal owns the template and appears on neither list. Reptyro's Volcanic Burst at Lv 30 is Flame Funnel copied to the decimal — 300 power, 16 seconds, 0 to 5,000, Burn 100, the same 18.8 — with one learner, no egg pool and no fruit behind it, and Reptyro sits in neither roster of 136. It is also the only move Reptyro levels into that fires at contact: Ignis Blast, Stone Blast, Stone Cannon, Ignis Breath and Fire Ball all open at 500, Ignis Rage and Rock Lance at 100. So on the printed columns the 30-ticket fruit is the one purchase to skip on that body, because Lv 30 already handed the skill over under a different name — though the height limits below undo that. Volcanic Rain is the buy instead — same price, 22.5 from contact out to 2,000, no route to it on the Pal otherwise, and the two divide the field cleanly at that mark.

Ground is the fifth shelf, and it is the only one where two fruits at the same price are not a choice at all. Eight Ground fruits exist and merchants stock five: Rockburst and Sand Twister at 30 tickets, Rocky Impact at 45, and Sand Tornado and Stone Cannon for gold at the desert counter. Rock Lance, Bog Blast and Stone Blast are on nobody's shelf at any price. Put the two 30-ticket entries beside each other and one of them stops making sense: both are Shots, both stack Muddy 100, both fire from contact — and Sand Twister posts 20.8 DPS across 0 to 5,000 where Rockburst posts 18.8 and dies at 1,200. Same element, same price, same slot, four times the ceiling. The learnsets do not rescue it either: 133 of the 134 Pals that can hold Rockburst can hold Sand Twister as well, so there is almost no body in the game for which the weaker fruit is the one on offer.

The 45-ticket Ground fruit does not fix that, it repeats it. Rocky Impact covers the identical 0 to 5,000 with the identical Muddy 100, and 600 power on a 30-second cooldown works out to 20.0 against 20.8 — half again the price for less damage over time and a slower status clock, 3.3 points of mud a second against 4.2. What it buys back is the size of one activation, 600 in a hit against 500, and the Category column: it is filed Melee, so on a Pal whose melee attack outweighs its ranged the swing scales off the better stat. On anything else the cheap fruit wins outright. The same reading holds against the rest of the shelf. Sixteen fruits in the game cover 0 to 5,000 and merchants stock ten of them, and Sand Twister is the only one you can buy for less than 45 tickets that posts above 18.8 — Flame Funnel and Freeze Wall are the other two 30-ticket entries with that band, at 18.8 and 16.7. Only Holy Burst beats it over that ground, at 23.3, and Crosswind and Aqua Surge merely tie it; all three cost 45. Its own template settles the last question: of the four 500-power, 24-second fruits, the other 30-ticket half is All Range Thunder, and that one stops at 2,000. This is the cheapest full-field cooldown filler any merchant sells.

On the Pal side 15 learn it by level and 121 more inherit it through egg pools, and on five of the fifteen it is the ceiling outright. Pierdon and Tetroise at Lv 40, Lapiron, Sekhmet and Woolipop Terra at Lv 50 — all five pure Ground — never level into anything that reaches 20.8. Their next best is 20.0, and on every one of them that move opens at 500, so the Lv 40-or-50 pickup is the damage slot and the point-blank answer in the same slot, and the fruit is worth its 30 tickets on any Ground body that is not on that list. Anubis is the one to skip it on. Its Lv 40 exclusive Ground Smash is this skill copied to the decimal — 500 power, 24 seconds, 0 to 5,000, Muddy 100, the same 20.8 — filed Melee instead of Shot, and Anubis's melee and ranged attack are both 130, so the category is a wash and the Lv 55 pickup adds nothing the table prints — one unprinted column aside, covered under the height limits below. What none of them should buy it as is a mud engine: Muddy 100 on a 24-second timer is 4.2 a second, while Bog Blast and Stone Blast both stack theirs at 25, and neither of those two fruits is stocked anywhere.

Electric is the sixth shelf and the strangest, because the dearest fruit on it is the one skill in the element that does nothing. Fourteen Electric fruits exist — more than any other element manages — and merchants stock four: Thunder Rain and All Range Thunder at 30 tickets, Thunderstorm at 45, and Lock-on Laser for gold. Thunderstorm is 600 power on a 30-second cooldown, 20.0 DPS across 0 to 5,000, and its status column is empty. Thirty-four Electric skills are in the game and the other thirty-three all stack Electrify; this one, alone, applies nothing. So the extra fifteen tickets over All Range Thunder buy 3,000 units of extra ceiling and hand back 0.8 DPS and the entire status — Electrify 100 every 24 seconds, 4.2 a second, down to zero. Thunder Rain at the same 30 tickets stacks it faster still, 5.0 a second, over the same 0-to-2,000. And if what you actually want is the full field with the status, the gold fruit already does it: Lock-on Laser covers the identical 0 to 5,000 at 17.5 and puts Electrify 100 on every 8 seconds — 12.5 a second, three times the rate of anything at the arena counter — for 3,000 Gold from the wandering stock.

Held against the rest of its own price band it gets worse. Eleven fruits cost 45 tickets and exactly two attach no status at all: this one and Holy Burst. Holy Burst is 700 power on the same 30-second timer, filed Shot like Thunderstorm, over the identical 0-to-5,000 band, and it posts 23.3. Same price, same shape, same empty status column, seventeen percent more damage over time — and 135 of the 145 Pals that can hold Thunderstorm can hold Holy Burst as well. Only ten cannot: Beakon, Blazehowl, Dazzi, Dinossom Lux, Gobfin Ignis, Jormuntide Ignis, Leezpunk Ignis, Ragnahawk, Rayhound and Quivern Botan by egg. On every other body the only case for the Electric fruit is the element on the tin — what it does to a Water target — and never the numbers. The element does own a better version of the template, three of them in fact: Lethal Laser, Bolt Blink and Polykeraunos are all 600 power, 30 seconds and 0 to 5,000 with Electrify 100, and between them they reach four bodies in the whole game, no fruit and no egg pool behind any of them. The buyable version is the stripped one.

On the Pal side 19 learn it by level and 126 more inherit it through egg pools, and the level list is late and lopsided: fifteen at Lv 70, and four Lux forms — Fenglope Lux, Helzephyr Lux, Penking Lux and Solmora Lux — at Lv 50. Seven of the nineteen carry no Electric at all, so on Blazehowl, Gobfin Ignis, Leezpunk Ignis, Ragnahawk, Jormuntide Ignis, Cryolinx Terra and Neptilius it lands off the body's own element. Four of those should decline it outright, because something earlier already blankets the same ground: Penking Lux and Solmora Lux both hold Aqua Surge from Lv 40 — 20.8 over 0 to 5,000 with Soak 100, better in every column, ten levels sooner; Cryolinx Terra has Rocky Impact at Lv 50, the same 20.0 over the same band plus Muddy 100, and its melee attack of 140 against a shot attack of 105 means that Melee-filed swing scales off the stronger stat too; Neptilius has Thalassonic Laser at Lv 60 at 23.3. Azurmane is the interesting inversion — its Lv 50 exclusive Bolt Blink is this skill plus Electrify 100, but filed Melee, and Azurmane runs 100 melee against 120 shot, so the Lv 70 pickup trades the status for a fifth more scaling. Run both on that one. For the remaining fourteen it is the only thing they ever level into that fires at contact and still reaches 5,000, or near enough: nine have nothing else in that band at all, and Beakon, Dazzi, Dinossom Lux, Dynamoff and Jormuntide Ignis only have Tri-Lightning there, at 16.7. What no one should buy it as is an Electrify engine, since it is not one: Shockwave stacks 103 every 4 seconds — 25.8 a second — on 23 Pals by level, and Spark Blast stacks 100 every 2, 50 a second, on 210.

Dragon is the seventh shelf, and it is the one where the dearest fruit is the one fewest players have any reason to buy. Eight Dragon fruits exist and the arena stocks three: Beam Slicer and Charge Cannon at 30 tickets, Dragon Meteor at 45. Comet Strike, Dragon Cannon, Dragon Breath, Dragon Burst and Blast Cannon are on nobody's shelf at any price. What the extra fifteen tickets buy is 600 power on a 30-second cooldown — 20.0 — over 500 to 5,000 with 5,000 of height, set against Beam Slicer's 350 on 16 for 21.9 over 0 to 4,000. The premium collects a thousand units of ceiling and a thousand of height, and pays for them with rate and with the floor.

The status column is where it stops being a trade at all. Twenty-four of the twenty-seven fruits at the arena counter attach an ailment, and twenty-three of those attach it at 100. This one attaches Burn 45 — the only buildup below 100 anywhere on the ticket shelf. Spread over the cooldown that is 1.5 Burn a second, against 6.25 from Beam Slicer and 5.0 from Charge Cannon, so the fruit that costs half again as much stacks the element's own status at under a quarter of the rate of either cheap one. And the identical line with the burn intact is sitting one element over at the same price: Fire Ball is 600 power on 30 seconds, 20.0, 500 to 5,000, 5,000 of height, filed Shot — every column the same to the decimal, and Burn 100. The 45 tickets buy the same skill twice; only the element and the buildup differ.

On the Pal side there is barely a market for it, because nearly everything already has it. 22 Pals learn Dragon Meteor by level and 188 more inherit it through egg pools — 210 of the game's 288 bodies, wider reach than any other fruit at the arena counter, where the next-widest is Holy Burst at 162. Those 210 get it for nothing, so the 45 tickets can only ever be spent on the other 78, and exactly one of the 78 is a Dragon body: Relaxaurus Lux. Five of the 22 level learners carry no Dragon either — Wistella and Wixen at Lv 50, Foxparks, Kelpsea Ignis and Kitsun Noct at Lv 70 — so they spend a slot on the Dragon column with nothing on the body to match it.

And on the strongest bodies in the element it is a placeholder. Meteorain is 700 power on the same 30 seconds — 23.3 — from contact out to the same 5,000 with the same 5,000 of height and Burn 100: ahead on rate, on the floor and on the status at once, with nothing handed back. No merchant sells it and no fruit teaches it, but eight Pals level into it and every one of them can hold Dragon Meteor too. Jetragon takes the meteor at Lv 50 and the rain at Lv 60; Eidrolon at Lv 40 and Lv 70. Astralym is the extreme case — Dragon Meteor at Lv 8, Meteorain at Lv 9. One level is the entire working life of the slot.

Two naming traps to know before you shop. The Grass fruit is shelved as Wind Blast, but the skill it teaches shows up as Wind Burst in a Pal's move list and in the table at the top of this page — same 600 power, same 30-second cooldown, one item. The Dragon fruit sold as Comet is the same trick: the move it grants is listed as Comet Strike. Searching the table for the name printed on the fruit will find neither of them.

Recycling relics for a fruit: the number nobody puts on the tin

"Farm and hope" is the honest description of the Ancient Relic Recycler, and it is measurable. A relic is not a container that opens into a fruit. Feed one in and the machine walks a fixed list of numbered draws — wood, ore, awakening material, passive-change tonics, a schematic — and each draw carries its own chance of firing at all. Skill Fruits occupy three of those draws, and when one of them does fire it reaches into a single shared table where all 48 fruits sit at one point each out of 374.92 total weight. So a fruit slot that fires is a 12.8% chance of some fruit and a 0.27% chance of the one you came for. The relic grade moves only how often those three slots fire; the pool behind them is identical across all five.

Read the last column before you start hoarding. The best relic in the game averages 4,133 relics per copy of a fruit you actually named, and the worst averages 8,570 — against 30 arena tickets for something like Reflect Leaf off the shelf. Recycling is a way to end up holding fruits, not a way to obtain one. Where it earns its keep is breadth: 22 of the pool's fruits are stocked by no merchant at all, so for those the relic table is a real route and the only alternative is a tree, a chest or the Orchard.

The pool is also not the whole shelf. Of the 93 fruits in the game the recycler can produce 48; the other 45 never come out of a relic no matter how many you burn. Cross that against the shops and every fruit lands in one of four buckets: 26 you can buy or roll, 9 you can only buy, 22 you can only roll, and 36 that neither a merchant nor a relic will ever hand you. That last group — Dark Shot, Hydro Jet, Wind Cutter, Air Cannon and the rest of the low-power openers, plus Multicutter, Iceberg and Crystal Breath — is the one worth knowing by heart, because for those the only routes left are the fruit trees, the world chests and the Orchard, and no amount of relic farming shortens the wait.

Each ailment, and the element you have to play to inflict it

The Ailment filter above looks like a second axis you can plan on top of element. For most of the list it is not — it is the same axis wearing a different name. Here is every status in the game, counted by which elements carry a skill that builds it.

Ailment	Skills	Elements	Carried by	Have a Skill Fruit
Burn	53	5	Fire 30Dragon 16Dark 3Neutral 3Grass 1	20
Freeze	34	1	Ice 34	10
Electrify	32	1	Electric 32	13
Soak	29	1	Water 29	12
Blind	26	1	Dark 26	9
Ivy-Covered	26	1	Grass 26	11
Muddy	19	1	Ground 19	8
Poison	8	3	Dark 6Ground 1Grass 1	2
Stun	1	1	Ground 1	1

Six of the nine statuses never leave their home element. Freeze is Ice and nothing else, all 34 skills of it; Electrify is Electric across all 32; Soak is Water across all 29; Blind is Dark and Ivy-Covered is Grass, 26 apiece; Muddy is Ground across all 19. For those six, picking the status picks the element for you, and your lock team inherits that element's matchups whether you wanted them or not — there is no Water skill that freezes, no Ground skill that blinds. Only Burn, Poison and Stun let you separate the two decisions, and each one does it differently.

Burn is the loose one, and the reason is Dragon: 16 Dragon skills build it, against 30 Fire ones. A Dragon Pal applies exactly the same Burn while swinging an element the target may not resist, which is the single cleanest way to keep status pressure on something that shrugs off Fire. Seven more Burn skills sit outside both elements. Spirit Flame is the one to know — Dark, 200 power on a 12-second cooldown, learned by Astegon and Gildra at Lv 7 and by four more at Lv 15, and it is one of the 19 Burn skills with a fruit, so it will go onto almost any body you like. The three Neutral entries are stranger: Selyne's Moonlight Beam at Lv 50, and the Implode pair, where plain Implode reaches Tocotoco at Lv 1, Chikipi and Lamball at 22 and Lovander at 40, while Megaton Implode stays Tocotoco-only and carries 1200 power — the largest single number anywhere in the table — on a 60-second timer.

Poison is the tight one. Eight skills build it and six of those are Dark, which makes the status effectively a Dark subspecialty. The exception worth building around is Jumping Stinger: 350 power, 16-second cooldown, and the only Poison outside Dark that applies the full 100 per hit. It is filed as Melee but the AI will select it from anywhere inside 3000, so it opens as a leap across the gap rather than a step into contact. Menasting Terra picks it up at Lv 30 and Menasting at Lv 35, no Skill Fruit grants it, and it does not pass down as an egg move — that one line is the entire supply. It is also the only Ground skill in the game that inflicts anything other than Muddy; the other 32 either stack mud or leave no status at all. The only other non-Dark route to Poison is Needle Spear, and at 55 build-up on Beegarde alone it needs roughly twice the hits.

The two ends of the table are worth reading as design, not trivia. Poison Fog deals zero damage, which is why it never surfaces in a DPS sort, but its build-up is listed at 9999 — far past any threshold, so the status lands on the first hit instead of accumulating. It only reaches 400 out, making it a cloud you stand inside; six Pals open with it at Lv 1 and Beakon and Hangyu Cryst inherit it by breeding. Stun is the opposite extreme: exactly one skill in the game applies it. Stone Cannon is a 120-power shot that stacks Muddy 35 and Stun 20 together, the only skill in the table carrying two statuses at once, and 20 points on an 8-second cooldown makes Stun a grind rather than a lock. It does have a Skill Fruit, which leaves Stun as the one status with complete fruit coverage even though thirty Pals already learn it by level. Menasting Terra is on both lists — Stone Cannon at Lv 15, Jumping Stinger at Lv 30 — so a single Ground body carries the element's only Stun and its only Poison.

The cooldown column is the one number on this page you can hand back

Every DPS figure in the table is power divided by cooldown, and only one of those two inputs answers to you. Put a Pal away and bring it back and its active-skill timers do not come with it — the party menu's Drop Pal option leaves the sphere at your feet, and the Pal that stands up when you collect it has nothing on cooldown. Do that once in the middle of a fight and the rotation restarts from the top. So for anything you can break away from — a boss you can walk backwards from, a tower floor, a raid target that is not glued to you — the sort at the head of this page stops being the ranking that matters and the Power column becomes it.

That re-sort is not a small one, because the two columns disagree hardest at exactly the top of the power list. 78 of the 300 skills run a cooldown of 30 seconds or longer, and every one of the 7 skills built at 800 power or above is in that group. The 118 skills that beat 20.0 DPS are mostly the 95 cheap ones on eight seconds or less, which were never the problem — what a long timer buys is the size of a single activation, and that is the only thing left on the board once the timer stops counting. The catch is supply: 57 of the 78 long-timer skills belong to exactly one Pal and only 10 have a Skill Fruit behind them, so this rewards bodies you raise far more than moves you buy.

Skill	Element	Power	Cooldown	DPS	Rank by hit	Rank by DPS	Range	Pals	Fruit
Megaton Implode	Neutral	1200	60s	20	1	119	1,000	1	—
Paldium Explosion		800	60s	13.3	2	295	9,999	1	—
Aqua Tornado	Water	800	40s	20	2	119	6,000	1	—
Sacred Rain	Neutral	800	30s	26.7	2	4	7,500	1	—
Royal Step	Neutral	800	30s	26.7	2	4	1,200–3,000	1	—
Spore Burst	Grass	800	30s	26.7	2	4	2,000	1	—
Toxic Dance	Dark	800	30s	26.7	2	4	2,000	1	—
Grand Breach	Water	700	30s	23.3	8	18	6,000	1	—
Holy Burst	Neutral	700	30s	23.3	8	18	5,000	162	yes
Magna Crush	Dragon	700	30s	23.3	8	18	5,000	1	—
Meteorain	Dragon	700	30s	23.3	8	18	5,000	8	—
Root Cannon	Grass	700	30s	23.3	8	18	200–5,000	1	—

Two rows carry the whole argument. Aqua Tornado is Panthalus's Lv 60 exclusive — 800 power, out to 6,000, tracking what it lands on — and nothing but the Tocotoco bomb hits harder, yet its 40-second timer files it 119th of 300 on rate. Nothing teaches it and no egg pool carries it, so that one whale is the supply, and the reset is what turns it from a once-a-minute flourish into the thing the fight is built around. Paldium Explosion is the same trade at its limit: 800 power with no range ceiling worth naming, 60 seconds, and a DPS figure that puts it 295th — within touching distance of the bottom of a sort it should be leading. The four 800-power moves on 30-second timers are the practical middle, and every one of them is a single Pal's Lv 40 or Lv 70 capstone.

Three things stop this from being free. The largest number in the table is not one of them to begin with: Megaton Implode's own text has the Pal risking its life to fire it, so there is no second activation waiting to be unlocked — it is one shot from a Tocotoco at Lv 22 and a cleared timer gives it nothing. The drop itself is the second cost: while the sphere is lying there it is an object in the world, another player can walk off with it, and if you go down before you pick it up it stays exactly where you left it. And the trick is active-skill-only — Partner Skill timers were closed off in the 1.0 build and do not come back this way, so Grenadier Panda and Eggbomb Launcher still sit out the full wait no matter how often you re-deploy.

If the Pal is one you ride, there is a faster version that never opens a menu. The timer an active skill runs while you are in the saddle is kept separate from the one it runs fighting under its own AI, so calling the big move mounted and then stepping off leaves the on-foot copy untouched and ready to go again. Two full-power activations back to back for the price of a dismount. It is worth planning around on any row above whose owner you were going to be riding anyway, and it stacks with the drop: fire it mounted, step off and fire it again, then reach for the menu when both are spent.

When two skills post the same DPS, reach is the tiebreaker

Sorting the table by damage per second sorts a lot of rows into a pile. The 300 skills above resolve to only 20 distinct DPS figures, because power and cooldown are handed out in matched pairs and reused across elements. One of the biggest is 300 power on a 16-second cooldown — 26 separate skills carry it, every one of them at the same 18.8 DPS. Nothing in the sort will ever tell them apart. What separates them is the Range column, and inside this one bracket it runs from 6,000 down to 100 — a factor of 60.

Skill	Element	Range	Status build-up	Pals that learn it	Skill Fruit
Aqua Blade	Water	6,000	Soak 100	1	—
Nightmare Ball	Dark	1,000–5,000	Blind 65	214	yes
Circle Vine	Grass	5,000	Ivy-Covered 100	137	yes
Curtain Splash	Water	5,000	Soak 100	136	yes
Flame Funnel	Fire	5,000	Burn 100	136	yes
Volcanic Burst	Fire	5,000	Burn 100	1	—
Trigger Happy	Water	4,000	Soak 100	2	—
Dash Kick	Grass	3,000	Ivy-Covered 100	1	—
Icicle Line	Ice	2,500	Freeze 100	12	yes
Ignis Charge	Fire	2,500	Burn 100	1	—
Dark Charge	Dark	2,500	Blind 50	1	—
Spirit Dash	Dark	1,000–2,500	Blind 100	1	—
Thunder Tempest	Electric	550–2,000	Electrify 100	1	—
Earth Impact	Ground	1,500	—	2	—
Lightning Smash	Electric	1,500	Electrify 100	1	—
Rockburst	Ground	1,200	Muddy 100	134	yes
Frostcall	Ice	500–1,200	Freeze 100	1	—
Frost Talon	Ice	1,200	Freeze 100	1	—
Implode	Neutral	1,000	Burn 100	4	yes
Bee Quiet	Grass	1,000	Burn 100	1	—
Lightning Strike	Electric	500	Electrify 100	12	yes
Rumble Combo	Ground	500	Muddy 100	1	—
Blizzard Claw	Ice	300	Freeze 100	1	—
Stone Claw	Ground	300	Muddy 100	1	—
Spinning Roundhouse	Ground	300	—	1	—
Somersault Scratch	Ground	100	—	1	—

Read the last two columns together and a pattern falls out that decides a lot of loadouts: the skills almost nobody learns are the short ones. Across the whole table, the 198 skills locked to one or two Pals have a median maximum reach of 2,500, and only 39 of them fire from 5,000 or beyond. The 49 skills that fifty or more Pals learn sit at a median of 5,000, with 26 of them clearing 5,000. A signature move is usually the same numbers as a common one with the distance taken off — it looks special in the description and plays as a close-quarters version. So when a Pal's exclusive skill and a shop-standard skill tie on DPS, assume the exclusive one is the shorter of the two until the range column says otherwise.

Trigger Happy is the clean demonstration. It is Finsider's exclusive skill — twin water pistols, six alternating shots and a combined finisher — learned at Lv 30 by Finsider and Finsider Ignis and by nothing else. No fruit teaches it and it appears in no egg pool, so those two bodies are the entire supply. Its stat line is 300 power, 16 seconds, Soak 100 on every connect, 0 to 4,000. Curtain Splash is that same line with 1,000 more reach and 136 Pals on it — and Finsider itself learns Curtain Splash at Lv 40. Ten levels after the exclusive move unlocks, the generic one replaces it outright with nothing given up. Take the swap.

Finsider Ignis is the exception, and it is worth knowing why. Its Lv 40 slot is Flame Funnel instead — the Fire copy of the identical template, 0 to 5,000 with Burn 100 — so the upgrade lands on the other half of its Water/Fire kit and leaves the Water slot alone. Its own Water line is thin: Splash at Lv 22 reaches 2,500, Trigger Happy at Lv 30 reaches 4,000, and nothing else Water arrives until Geyser Gush at Lv 70. That forty-level stretch is why Trigger Happy stays in the Ignis loadout when it does not stay in the base form's. The fix, if you want it, is breeding rather than leveling — Curtain Splash sits in Finsider Ignis's egg-move pool, and its fruit exists as well, though no merchant stocks it. Base Finsider has neither route; it just waits for Lv 40.

One more trap on this line, and it is the range column again. Finsider's Lv 50 pickup, Hydro Laser, is a genuine damage upgrade at 22.5 DPS — but it only fires between 500 and 1,800. Slotting it over Curtain Splash hands back everything past 1,800 and everything inside 500. Hydro Laser is the second move on that Pal, not the first, and the 300-power template is what keeps the far and point-blank ends covered while it is on cooldown.

That 500-to-1,800 window is not Hydro Laser's alone — it is the shape of the whole template it belongs to. Sixteen skills are built on 450 power and a 20-second cooldown, every one of them at 22.5 DPS, and the four that more than 150 Pals learn — Pal Blast, Dark Laser, Solar Blast and Hydro Laser — are all cut to that same 500-to-1,800 band. They are the reason the template reads as a mid-range bracket. It is not, and the exclusives are where it stops being one.

Ground Cutter is the clearest of those, and it runs the rule above backwards. It belongs to Knocklem alone, learned at Lv 40, with no fruit and no egg pool behind it — one body, one level, the entire supply. Same 450 power and 20 seconds as the four lasers, but it throws the ring off Knocklem's back on a curving arc and covers 0 to 3,500: no minimum, so nothing is lost at contact, and nearly twice the ceiling. The exclusive here is the long one and the mass-learned copies are the short ones. Check the column rather than the label.

On Knocklem itself the decision is unusually simple, because nothing later in its list beats this. Ground Cutter's 22.5 is the highest DPS Knocklem ever reaches — Sand Twister at Lv 50 posts 20.8 and Rocky Impact at Lv 70 posts 20.0, and Rocky Impact is the one Melee entry on a Pal whose ranged attack (110) outweighs its melee (100). Where Trigger Happy gets replaced ten levels after it arrives, this one holds the damage slot for the remaining thirty. Across the whole game only Missile Burst beats it among Ground shots, at 23.3, and that is Aegidron's Lv 70 move — so Ground Cutter is the second-strongest sustained Ground shot in the game and arrives thirty levels earlier than the first.

What it costs is mud. Nineteen of the 33 Ground skills stack Muddy, and Ground Cutter is one of the thirteen that apply nothing at all — a pure damage roll on the element that otherwise defines itself by slowing what it hits. Knocklem's two neighbours in the list both keep it: Rock Lance at Lv 30 runs 100 to 5,000 with Muddy 100, Sand Twister at Lv 50 runs 0 to 5,000 with the same. So do not clear the slate for the exclusive. Pair Ground Cutter with Sand Twister once it unlocks and the two divide the work cleanly — the exclusive takes everything inside 3,500 at the higher rate, Sand Twister owns 3,500 to 5,000 and keeps Muddy on the target while Ground Cutter sits on its twenty seconds. Before Lv 50, Rock Lance is that partner.

The most extreme version of the rule lives one template down, at 200 power on a 12-second cooldown. Tempest Blizzard is Vanwyrm Cryst's exclusive, learned at Lv 26, and it is Freeze Wall's stat line copied out to the decimal — same 200 power, same 12 seconds, same Freeze 100, the same 16.7 DPS. One column differs. Freeze Wall covers 0 to 5,000; Tempest Blizzard stops at 1,000. That is the whole difference between a skill 89 Pals learn and a skill one Pal learns, and inside this template the short band is where the exclusives sit: only three skills of the seventeen built on 200/12 are capped at 1,000, and all three belong to one or two bodies.

Which makes this the cleanest buy on the page. Freeze Wall's fruit is stocked at the arena for 30 tickets, and it hands Vanwyrm Cryst the identical skill with 4,000 more reach and nothing surrendered — no power lost, no build-up lost, no minimum introduced. Vanwyrm Cryst never learns Freeze Wall by level and it is not in its egg pool, so the fruit is the only route, but it is a route you can walk today. Unlike Trigger Happy, you do not wait fourteen levels for the upgrade; unlike Ground Cutter, the exclusive is not worth keeping.

Do not clear the slot without filling it, though, because of what that 0 minimum is covering. Every other move Vanwyrm Cryst picks up opens at 500 or further out — Air Cannon, Icicle Cutter and Dark Laser at 500, Ice Missile at 800, Nightmare Ball and Blizzard Spike at 1,000 — and nothing else with a zero floor arrives until Diamond Rain at Lv 70. For forty-four levels Tempest Blizzard is the only thing on the Pal that fires at contact, and that hole is worse than it looks: the Pal's fast freeze is Ice Missile at 51 build-up a second from Lv 7, and it will not fire inside 800 either. So the swap is Freeze Wall specifically, or one of the other stocked Ice fruits whose 100 floor is close enough to zero to ignore. Leaving the slot empty gives anything that closes the distance a free ride.

The base form is the instructive counter-case. Vanwyrm gets Flame Breath in the exact same Lv 26 slot — same 200 power, same 12 seconds, same 0-to-1,000, Burn 100 in place of Freeze 100 — and its move list has the same contact hole, with nothing under 500 until Dark Whisp at Lv 70. But Fire's copy of the template, Flare Storm, does not fire until 700 out, so there is no drop-in replacement on that side. Same Pal, same level, same skill in a different colour, and the answer flips: on the Cryst form the exclusive is a placeholder for a 30-ticket fruit, and on the base form it stays in the loadout to Lv 70.

One template up from that, at 250 power on a 12-second cooldown, the split stops being about range and starts being about the Category column. Sixteen skills carry that line, all at 20.8 DPS, and nine of them are filed Melee — Webstrike Impact, Bull Rush, Snow Rush, Rapid Kick, Splash Tackle, Daring Shadowstorm, Earth Dash, Leaping Roundhouse and Giga Horn. Not one of those nine reaches more than two Pals, and not one has a Skill Fruit. Every fruit in the bracket sits on a Shot: Flame Wall, TriSpark, Torrential Blast, Spine Vine and Icicle Bullet. At this tier a contact attack is something you own, never something you buy.

Webstrike Impact is the Dark one, and it belongs to Tarantriss alone at Lv 30 — a thread ball to pin the target, then a sprint into three slashes — covering 0 to 1,500 with Poison 100. Dark's other entry in the template shows how narrow that is: Daring Shadowstorm is the same 250 and 12 seconds on Kitsun Noct at Lv 22, but it fires from 1,000 to 3,500 and stacks Blind rather than Poison. Same numbers, opposite halves of the field, and neither Pal can borrow the other's. What makes the spider's version worth planning around is that nothing later on the Pal beats it — Poison Shower at Lv 40, Apocalypse at Lv 50 and Dark Whisp at Lv 70 all post 20.0, so the Lv 30 pickup holds the damage slot for the remaining forty levels. It is also the only Melee roll in a move list that is otherwise eight entries of Shot, on a body whose melee and ranged attack are both 100, so the category costs nothing.

What it fixes is a hole the rest of the list leaves wide open. Tarantriss starts with Poison Fog at Lv 1, which fires from zero and deals no damage whatsoever, and every damaging move it learns before Lv 30 has a floor under it — Poison Blast and Dark Arrow at 500, Umbral Surge at 1,200. Webstrike Impact is the first thing the Pal owns that hurts something already on top of it. If you do not want to wait until Lv 30, the fix is on the arena shelf: only three Dark fruits exist, Dark Laser opens at 500 and Nightmare Ball at 1,000, but the third is Poison Shower at 30 tickets, which runs 0 to 1,000 with the same Poison 100 — the Lv 40 move, bought early, filling the same gap at 20.0.

Do not mistake it for the poison tool, though. Tarantriss learns four of the game's eight Poison skills, matched only by Venusa, and the fast one arrives twenty-three levels earlier: Poison Blast stacks 100 every 2 seconds, fifty a second against Webstrike Impact's 8.3. The two are a pair rather than a choice — Blast will not fire inside 500, the exclusive dies at 1,500, and running both means the Pal poisons at range and finishes in contact. The honest limit is Lv 50. Apocalypse covers 100 to 5,000, which is close enough to contact that the coverage argument mostly dissolves, and what Webstrike Impact keeps after that is 20.8 against 20.0 and a true zero floor. That is still the better number and still the only Melee option on the Pal, but from Lv 50 it is a preference, not the repair it is at Lv 30.

The exclusives that lose to a move the Pal already has

One template up again, at 400 power on a 20-second cooldown, the bracket stops being a mix and becomes the game's exclusives shelf. 23 skills are built on it, all at 20.0 DPS, and 16 of them are held by exactly one Pal — a higher share than any other template on the page. 10 of those 16 are filed Melee, and every entry in the bracket that more than four Pals learn is a Shot: Apocalypse, Charge Cannon, Thunder Rain, Reflect Leaf and Rock Lance. So the mass-market half of this template is ranged and the one-body half is mostly contact work, which is the usual shape. What is not usual is how many of the exclusives here are worse than something their owner already carries.

Thunderslide is the sharpest example in the game. It belongs to Penking Lux alone at Lv 30 — the penguin drops onto its belly, builds a charge and skids into you — and no fruit teaches it, no egg pool carries it, so that one body at that one level is the whole supply. Its line reads 400 power, 20 seconds, 500 to 3,000, Electrify 100. Now put it beside TriSpark, which the same Pal picked up eight levels earlier at Lv 22: 250 power on a 12-second timer is 20.8 against 20.0, it opens at 300 instead of 500, it stops at the same 3,000, and it applies the identical Electrify 100 — at 8.3 points a second against 5.0, because the shorter cooldown lands the same build-up more often. Every column ties or loses. The only thing the exclusive owns is the size of one activation, 400 in a single hit against 250, which matters against something that dies inside one rotation and nothing else.

Nothing later on the Pal fixes it either, and that is worth knowing before you level a Penking Lux for its damage. Aqua Surge at Lv 40 posts the same 20.8 as the Lv 22 move; Thunderstorm at Lv 50 and Geyser Gush at Lv 70 both come in at 20.0. Penking Lux's sustained ceiling is set at Lv 22 and the remaining forty-eight levels buy reach, not rate. The one genuine upgrade is an egg move: Lightning Bolt is 450 power on the same 20-second timer for 22.5, in the exact same 500-to-3,000 window with the same Electrify 100 — strictly better than Thunderslide with nothing surrendered. No merchant stocks its fruit, so breeding is the route, and it is the only route that moves this Pal's numbers. Note also that Thunderslide is not even a distinctive shape: Thunder Rail covers the identical band at the identical 20.0 and twelve Pals learn it.

Read that as a general warning rather than one Pal's bad luck. Of the 166 skills locked to a single Pal, 33 are beaten outright by something that same Pal learned at a lower level — equal or better DPS, no worse at either end of the range, and no weaker on every status they share. Univolt Cryst waits until Lv 70 for Ice Gale Strike and has been carrying its better twin, Diamond Rain, since Lv 40; Beakon Cryst gets Glacial Plunge at Lv 70 with Diamond Rain already on the bar from Lv 50; Orserk's Lv 55 Polykeraunos is a slower, weaker Kerauno, and Kerauno is its Lv 1 move. A skill being exclusive is a statement about supply, not about quality. When one unlocks, put it next to what is already equipped before you clear a slot for it.

Orserk is the one on that list worth following all the way down, because both ends of its move list are exclusives and the game hands them over in the wrong order. Polykeraunos arrives at Lv 55 — 600 power on a 30-second cooldown, Electric, 0 to 5,000, Electrify 100, and no fruit or egg pool behind it. Kerauno is 250 power on 12 seconds in the same 0-to-5,000 band with the same Electrify 100, and Orserk owns it at Lv 1. That is 20.8 DPS against 20.0 and 8.3 points of build-up a second against 3.3 — two and a half times the Electrify rate, because the twelve-second timer lands the same hundred points far more often. Fifty-four levels of progress buy one thing: 600 damage in a single activation instead of 250. Polykeraunos is also the last Electric skill Orserk ever learns, so the element's slot on that Pal is settled before you leave the starting area.

The shape is not even Orserk's own. Three Electric skills are built on 600 power and 30 seconds across 0 to 5,000 with Electrify 100, identical to the decimal and all of them described as one Pal's alone: Polykeraunos, Bolt Blink on Azurmane at Lv 50, and Lethal Laser on Grizzbolt and Prixter Lux at Lv 70. A fourth is the same line with the status stripped out — Thunderstorm, 600 power, 30 seconds, 0 to 5,000, no ailment at all, learned by 145 Pals and sold as a fruit for 45 tickets. So what the exclusive tag is worth here is Electrify 100 over something anyone can buy off the shelf. On Azurmane that is a real edge, since it levels into Thunderstorm at Lv 70 and should keep Bolt Blink for the status. On Orserk it buys nothing, because the status was already on the bar at a higher rate from the first level.

Which leaves the question of what actually goes in that slot. Orserk's highest sustained figure is set at Lv 15 by Spark Blast at 25.0, but it will not fire inside 1,200; Lightning Bolt at Lv 50 posts 22.5 across 500 to 3,000; and the only thing that beats Kerauno at contact is Meteorain at Lv 70 — 23.3 from zero out to 5,000 — which is Dragon and carries Burn, so it changes what the Pal does rather than sharpening it. Nothing Electric ever relieves the Lv 1 move. If contact-range Electrify is the reason you raised an Orserk, the upgrade comes from breeding rather than leveling: Lock-on Laser sits in its egg pool at 140 power on an 8-second timer, 0 to 5,000, Electrify 100 — 12.5 a second, half again Kerauno's rate — and its fruit is 3,000 Gold from the wandering stock, which makes it the one genuine improvement on the bar and it does not ask you to reach Lv 55 for it.

Thunder Tempest runs the same fault with a much shorter fuse. Fenglope Lux picks it up at Lv 22 and nothing else in the game learns it — no fruit, no egg pool, one body at one level — and the line reads 300 power on a 16-second cooldown, Electric, 550 to 2,000, Electrify 100, filed Melee: the deer lowers its head and charges through you inside a thundercloud. Then look at what has been on the bar since Lv 7. Lightning Streak is 160 power on 8 seconds, which is 20.0 DPS against 18.8; it opens at 500 rather than 550; it dies at the same 2,000; and it lands the identical Electrify 100 twice as often, 12.5 points a second against 6.3. Fifteen levels of progress buy a move that ties or loses on every column but one, and that one is the size of a single activation — 300 in a hit against 160.

Usually the Category column pays some of that back, and on this Pal it does the opposite. Fenglope Lux runs 110 melee attack against 115 shot, so the only contact move it ever levels into is also the only one that scales off its weaker stat; Shockwave, Lightning Streak, Acid Rain, Thunder Rain, Lightning Bolt, Thunderstorm and Thunder Rail are Shots to a one. The floor is the other oddity. 550 is the highest minimum anywhere in that list, and it is a number almost nothing else in the game uses: exactly five skills refuse to fire inside it, and they are one move in five colours — Antler Uppercut on Eikthyrdeer and Eikthyrdeer Terra, Mud Horn on the Terra form, Freezing Charge on Reindrix, Cloud Tempest on base Fenglope, and this. All five are Melee, all five cover 550 to 2,000, all five belong to an antlered mount, and the two Eikthyrdeer entries say outright in their own text that you aim the charge yourself while riding. The floor is runway. What it costs when you are not in the saddle is that the Pal will not throw the move at anything already inside 550 — and Thunder Tempest is the slowest of the five by a wide margin, sixteen seconds where the other four sit at four or eight.

Fenglope Lux is worth reading to the end, because it plays the same trick twice. The Lv 22 exclusive loses to a Lv 7 move, and the Lv 70 pickup loses to the Lv 40 one: Thunder Rail is 600 power on 30 seconds across 500 to 3,000 with Electrify 100, which is 20.0, and Lightning Bolt covers the identical band with the identical status at 22.5 thirty levels sooner. That Lv 40 slot is the Pal's ceiling and nothing after it moves the number — Thunderstorm at Lv 50 posts 20.0 and drops the status altogether. So the contact slot has to come from breeding: TriSpark sits in the egg pool at 250 power on 12 seconds, 300 to 3,000, Electrify 100 — 20.8 DPS and 8.3 points a second, a lower floor and a thousand more ceiling than the exclusive, beating it in every column at once. Its fruit exists and no merchant stocks it, so the farm is the route. The base form's charge is the useful contrast: Cloud Tempest at Lv 15 is the same 550-to-2,000 Melee shape at 120 power on 8 seconds with no status at all, and the Lux rewrite doubles the cooldown to buy two and a half times the hit plus the Electrify. That trade is a real gain, 15.0 up to 18.8 — it just lands on a Pal that already had something better fifteen levels earlier.

The Lv 70 payoff that 11 of its 12 Pals have already beaten

The Fenglope Lux reading is not that Pal's own bad luck, and the test that caught it is too narrow to have shown you why. Everything counted under the downgrade heading is a one-learner skill, so a move a dozen bodies share is invisible to it no matter how badly it loses. Widen the check — for every learner, does that Pal already hold something, earlier by level or sitting in its egg pool, that ties or wins on DPS, on both ends of the range, on height and on every status — and 70 skills in the game fail it on every single body that learns them. Most are early Neutral filler nobody plans around. Exactly three of the 70 are handed over as a Lv 70 capstone, the last thing a Pal ever levels into, and two of those are the single-owner cases already named above. The third is Thunder Rail, and it does this to 11 Pals at once.

The line looks like a reward: Electric, 600 power on a 30-second cooldown, 500 to 3,000, Electrify 100, the Pal charging the storm to its limit and letting go of several bolts together. Twelve bodies learn it, no fruit exists for it and no egg pool carries it, so those twelve are the entire supply — the kind of scarcity this page usually treats as a reason to care. Then put it next to Lightning Bolt. Same 500 floor, same 3,000 reach, same 3,000 of ceiling, same Electrify 100, and 450 power on a 20-second timer instead of 600 on 30 — 22.5 DPS against 20.0, and 5.0 points of build-up a second against 3.3. Not one printed column goes the capstone's way. And every learner can hold it: nine level into it first — Snock at Lv 30, Puffolt, Slowatt and Fenglope Lux at Lv 40, and Jolthog, Sparkit, Univolt, Mossanda Lux and Relaxaurus Lux at Lv 50 — and the other three carry it in their egg pools. No merchant stocks the fruit, but it is in the relic pool, so there is a route to it that does not involve breeding at all.

Five of the twelve have a second answer that is faster still. TriSpark runs 250 power on a 12-second cooldown across 300 to 3,000 at the same 3,000 ceiling with the same Electrify 100 — 20.8 DPS, a lower floor than the capstone, and 8.3 points a second, two and a half times the rate — and it lands on Snock at Lv 15, on Puffolt and Azurmane at Lv 22, on Slowatt and Helzephyr Lux at Lv 30. Azurmane is the case to read closely, because it is the one Pal in the twelve that does not wait for Lv 70 — it takes Thunder Rail at Lv 40, thirty levels ahead of everyone else, which looks like the horse being handed something early. It is not. The Lv 22 pickup already covers the identical band with a lower floor at a better rate, so the Lv 40 slot changes nothing on that bar, and the two moves after it — Flash Charge at 45 and Bolt Blink at 50 — both come in at 20.8 and 20.0 from a zero floor. Getting a dead skill sooner is not getting it early. TriSpark's fruit is unstocked as well and sits in the same relic pool.

The twelfth learner is the odd one and it is worth its own line, because the capstone is not even the right element there. Warsect Terra is pure Ground, and Thunder Rail is the only Electric move it will ever level into — so the one skill at the top of its list is also the one skill on it that collects no element match, on a body running 100 melee against 105 ranged. Nothing earlier beats it on the strict test only because the statuses differ, and in practice that hardly matters: Bog Blast, its Lv 1 move, is Ground at the same 20.0 from the same 500 floor out to 5,000 with no vertical limit at all against the capstone's 3,000, and Rocky Impact at Lv 50 is Ground from a true zero to 5,000 carrying Muddy 100. The beetle's Lv 70 reward reaches two thousand less than its Lv 1 move, loses the element bonus, and swaps a status its whole kit builds for one it never touches again. Take it only if you specifically want Electrify on a Ground body.

So the honest use is narrow and it is worth naming, because 600 power in one activation is not nothing. Against something that dies inside a single rotation, one 600 hit lands more than one 450, and that is the entire argument — the same burst-over-rate trade the late Electric picks keep offering. There is one column where it genuinely wins, too: Thunderstorm, the 600/30 Electric everyone can buy for 45 Battle Tickets, clears 2,000 overhead and applies no status whatsoever, where Thunder Rail clears 3,000 and stacks the full Electrify 100. Against something hovering, on a Pal that has both, the capstone is the one that fires. Everywhere else the instruction is the same as the rest of this heading: when Lv 70 unlocks, do not clear a slot for it. Keep Lightning Bolt on the bar, and let the twelve-second and twenty-second timers do the work the thirty-second one cannot.

The Lv 70 Grass slot 41 Pals are handed, and the fruit on the same shelf that beats it in every column

Thunder Rail was caught because it is scarce enough to read as a reward. Run the same question at the other end of the supply curve and the answer is worse. Wind Burst is Grass, 600 power on a 30-second cooldown for 20.0 DPS, filed Shot, 0 to 1,200 with 2,000 of ceiling and Ivy-Covered 100 — the Pal winds a vortex up around its own body and lets it go. Nothing about it is rare. 96 Pals can hold it: 46 level into it and 50 more carry it in an egg pool. Of those 46, 41 take it at Lv 70, which makes it the second most widely handed capstone in the game behind Dark Whisp's 50 — for 41 bodies this is the last row the learnset ever prints. It is also the shortest thing in its own power tier. Thirty-one skills are built on 600 power, and only Brawn Impact stops sooner at 600 flat, which is a Melee move and meant to. Among the Shots, 1,200 is the floor of the whole tier.

Then put it beside Crosswind, which is the same element, the same category, the same status and the same true-zero floor. 500 power on a 24-second timer is 20.8 against 20.0. It reaches 5,000 against 1,200 and clears 5,000 overhead against 2,000. It lands the identical Ivy-Covered 100 at 4.2 points a second against 3.3 — Wind Burst sits 20th of the 26 skills in the game that tangle anything. Four columns, all four the same way, and the one that goes the other way is the size of a single activation: 600 in a hit against 500. The part that settles it is the price tag. Both fruits are stocked at Arena Shop 1, both cost 45 Battle Tickets, and they sit on the same shelf — the Crosswind fruit under its own name and the Wind Burst fruit under the label Wind Blast. Identical currency, identical amount, and one of the two is beaten on every printed number.

So why does the check above not flag it? Because that test reads a learnset and an egg pool and nothing else, and on this skill the two routes disagree. Exactly 14 of the 41 can reach Crosswind on the body: Needoll Noct and Tropicaw at Lv 40; nine more at Lv 50, among them Carnibora, Leafan and Herbil; and three by egg pool, Braloha, Hartalis and Petallia Ignis. On those fourteen the Lv 70 reward is a straight step down from something owned twenty or thirty levels earlier. The other 27 have no route to Crosswind on the body at all, which is the only reason the skill survives the count — and it is a technicality, because the shop does not care what a Pal can learn. Widen it once more and there is not much left for the slot to do: 39 of the 41 also hold Solar Blast, 450 on 20 for 22.5 with the same Ivy-Covered 100, covering 500 to 1,800. That is faster everywhere the two overlap and it reaches 600 further out, so on 39 bodies the entire remaining job of the Lv 70 pickup is the strip inside 500 — and 45 tickets buys a skill that covers the same strip at a better rate and then keeps going for another 3,800.

Three of the 41 are not Grass at all, so they collect no element match on the one skill they will never level past: Elphidran is Dragon, Hartalis is Neutral, and Rooby is pure Fire. Rooby is the one worth reading to the end, because it is the only Pal of the 41 that learns neither Crosswind nor Solar Blast, and it is also the only one where the short band nearly justifies itself. Every other attack on its list has a floor — Ignis Blast, Flare Arrow and Fire Ball at 500, Power Shot at 600, Flare Storm at 700, Spirit Fire at 1,000, and Ignis Rage at 100, the shallowest of them — so Wind Burst is the only thing the deer ever levels into that will fire at something standing on it, and its egg pool offers exactly one other zero floor, Lock-on Laser at 17.5 with Electrify rather than Ivy. Two things spoil it anyway. Rooby runs 100 melee attack against 70 shot, and this is a Shot, so it resolves against the worse of the two numbers by a wide margin — the tax running backwards. And the fix is the same 45 tickets it is for everyone else. The instruction generalises cleanly across all 41: reaching Lv 70 is not what gets you the skill, and the skill is not what you want. Buy Crosswind once, and leave the capstone slot filled with whatever was already there.

Seven exclusives on one body, and two of them are the same line typed twice

The Pal that takes this furthest is Panthalus. Seven of the 166 single-learner skills counted above belong to it — more than any other Pal in the game, ahead of Xenolord's five and Astralym's four — and the one entry on its list that is not its alone, Holy Burst at Lv 50, is shared with 162 bodies. Two of those seven are the same skill entered twice. Bubble Rain at Lv 1 and Creeping Bubbles at Lv 7 are both Water, both 200 power on a 12-second cooldown for 16.7 DPS, both filed Shot, both fire from contact, both build Soak 100, and both clear 15,000 of height. One printed number separates them: Bubble Rain reaches 6,000 and Creeping Bubbles stops at 5,000. Put every one-learner skill in the game through the same comparison and this is the only pair that lands this way — one owner, two exclusives, identical to the decimal in every column but reach, with the shorter of the two arriving six levels later. There is nothing to weigh at Lv 7, and nothing to weigh at Lv 15 either: Aqua Blade is 300 power on 16 seconds for 18.8 across the same contact-to-6,000 band with the same Soak, which beats both.

Keep one bubble move on the bar anyway, and the reason is the column the range sort does not print. Panthalus is the only Pal in the game whose entire learnset fires from zero range — eight moves, not one floor among them — so nothing it levels into ever fails for being too close, and the ordering has to be settled on height instead. Bubble Rain, Creeping Bubbles and Aqua Tornado are the only three that clear 15,000. Everything between them is capped: Aqua Blade at 5,000, Tidal Charge and Maelstrom at 3,000, Grand Breach at 8,000, and Holy Burst at 1,000, the lowest ceiling anywhere on the Pal. From Lv 15 until the Lv 60 pickup, the Lv 1 move is the only thing equipped that will select against a target sitting well above it.

The rate ceiling is set at Lv 40 and nothing after it moves the number. Grand Breach — 700 power on 30 seconds, 23.3, contact out to 6,000, Soak 100 — is the best sustained figure Panthalus ever reaches. Holy Burst ties that 23.3 ten levels later and is a Shot on a body running 120 ranged against 100 melee, but it is the only move in the list that is not Water and the only one that applies no status at all, so it buys the better attack stat by giving up the element bonus, the Soak, and all but 1,000 of the vertical. The Lv 60 capstone is a straight step down: Aqua Tornado is 800 power on a 40-second cooldown, which is 20.0 — under the 20.8 Maelstrom has been posting since Lv 30. The egg pool is empty, so those eight are the whole supply. The settled bar is Grand Breach for damage, Aqua Tornado or the Lv 1 opener for anything airborne, and the Lv 7 exclusive left exactly where it was found.

The Ice skill nine Pals need for one stretch and every one of them outgrows

Run the same test on something nobody calls exclusive and it still bites. Icicle Line is Ice, 300 power on a 16-second cooldown for 18.8 DPS, 0 to 2,500, Freeze 100 — pillars of ice that travel outward along the floor in three directions at once. Twelve Pals level into it, no egg pool carries it, and its fruit is stocked by no merchant at any price, so those twelve bodies plus a chest roll are the whole supply. Put the twelve learnsets side by side and the skill turns out to hold exactly one job: on nine of them it is the first thing the Pal owns that fires at contact and still reaches past 300. Moldron Cryst at Lv 15; Pierdon Cryst and Tetroise Primo at Lv 22; Beakon Cryst, Smokie Cryst and Xenogard at Lv 30; Muffly, Rayhound Cryst and Snugloo at Lv 40. The other three already hold a zero floor when it lands — Freeze Wall on Elgrove Cryst and Loupmoon Cryst, and on Polapup a Lv 22 Splash that covers the identical 0-to-2,500 at 20.0. On that seal the pickup adds Freeze in place of Soak and nothing else.

Then note that all twelve level straight past it, and the replacement is nearly always the same one. Diamond Rain — 600 power on 30 seconds, 20.0 across 0 to 5,000 with the same Freeze 100 — arrives on ten of the twelve and wins every printed column: better rate, twice the ceiling, double the hit, same status. Pierdon Cryst and Tetroise Primo get it at Lv 40, Beakon Cryst and Elgrove Cryst at Lv 50, and the remaining six wait until Lv 70. The two exceptions replace it just as cleanly: Moldron Cryst takes Ice Spit at Lv 50, which is the identical 0-to-2,500 band at 20.0, and Xenogard takes Comet Strike at Lv 40 at 22.5 from zero out to 5,000 — Dragon on a pure Dragon body, so it collects the element bonus the Ice move never had there. That gives the skill a shelf life you can put a number on before you build around it: ten levels on Xenogard, eighteen on Pierdon Cryst and Tetroise Primo, and a full thirty on the six that wait for Lv 70. Slot it for the stretch, plan the slot back.

One column decides how much that stretch is actually worth, and it is the one the range sort does not print. Icicle Line clears 350 overhead against 2,500 flat — the lowest ceiling of any Ice skill in the game that fires from a zero floor and reaches past 1,200. The next three up are all 400 and all Melee (Crystal Wing, Snow Rush, Raging Snow Rush), and Freeze Wall sits at 600. So the contact argument above is a ground-floor argument only: against anything hovering more than a body-height above you the move is not selected at all, and on these Pals the pillars are literally floor geometry. The answer is already on the bar and it is the move you were about to level past — Ice Missile carries 9,999, no vertical limit whatever, and sits at Lv 1 on Pierdon Cryst, Beakon Cryst, Loupmoon Cryst, Polapup and Snugloo, while Icicle Cutter's 4,000 covers Smokie Cryst, Muffly and Rayhound Cryst from Lv 7. Keep one of those two alongside it. There is no fruit to buy your way out of this one.

The fastest Poison in the game was built twice, and the copies differ in one column

Only eight skills anywhere build Poison, and the ailment table above named the Ground one as the outlier worth planning a body around. It has a sibling. Upper Smash — Prixter's alone at Lv 30 — is Dark, 350 power on a 16-second cooldown for 21.9 DPS, filed Melee, covering 0 to 3,000 with Poison 100. Set it beside Jumping Stinger and the two are not similar, they are the same line to the decimal: same power, same cooldown, same category, same band, same 100 build-up, the same 21.9 that is the highest sustained figure any Poison skill in the game reaches. Two columns separate them. One is the element, Dark against Ground. The other is the one the range sort never prints — Upper Smash clears 1,000 overhead and Jumping Stinger stops at 500, so the Dark copy is the only half of the pair that fires at something standing on a rock above you. Between them the whole supply is three bodies, all of them scorpions: Prixter at Lv 30, Menasting Terra at Lv 30, Menasting at Lv 35. No fruit exists for either one and neither passes down as an egg move.

Two of those three are the same element pair, which turns the twin into the only real choice between them. Prixter and Menasting are both Dark/Ground, and from Lv 40 their lists are identical — Rock Lance at 40, Dark Laser at 50, Dark Whisp at 70, the same three moves at the same three levels. Everything that distinguishes the two as attackers is decided in that one contact slot, and it goes to Prixter twice over: the Dark copy lands five levels earlier and clears twice the height. What Menasting buys back is not on the skill row at all — 130 defense against Prixter's 90, on a body that has to walk into contact to use the thing. Since both are Dark/Ground, both collect the element match whichever colour they were handed; only Menasting Terra, pure Ground, ever needed the Ground version. Read that as the pair being one skill given two coats of paint so three scorpions could each be dealt in, rather than as two designs worth comparing.

On Prixter the pickup is doing a job the rest of the list refuses to touch. Every damaging move it owns before Lv 30 has a floor under it — Poison Blast, Dark Cannon and Stone Blast all open at 500, Sand Tornado at 100 — and nothing else with a true zero floor arrives until Dark Whisp at Lv 70, forty levels later. It is also the only Melee roll in an eight-move list, on a body running 110 ranged against 100 melee, so the one attack that answers something already on top of the Pal is also the one that scales off its weaker stat. Do not clear the slot for the Lv 50 upgrade, either: Dark Laser is Prixter's best rate at 22.5, but it will not fire inside 500 and dies at 1,800, so the two divide the field at those two marks rather than replacing each other. Breeding barely helps — the only zero-floor entry in Prixter's egg pool that beats 21.9 is Holy Burst at 23.3 out to 5,000, and it is Neutral on a Dark/Ground body, paying for the rate with the element match. And the rarer form is not the fix it looks like: Prixter Lux gets the same swing recoloured as Thunder Uppercut twenty levels later, 600 power on 30 seconds over the identical 0-to-3,000 band with the identical 1,000 ceiling, and that works out to 20.0 — under the base form's Lv 30 move, and under its own Lv 40 All Range Thunder at 20.8. The bigger number in the power column is a slower skill.

Two skills named for poison on one Pal, and neither of them poisons anything

Those eight are the entire Poison list, and the two skills in the game that carry the word in their own name are not on it. Both belong to Dandilord. Poison Promenade at Lv 50 is Dark, 700 power on a 30-second cooldown for 23.3 DPS, filed Melee, covering 0 to 2,000, and everything about it reads like a status move — the Pal charges forward sliding along the ground in a spray of corrosive mist, and the cloud hangs in the area after the pass. The status column is empty. So is Toxic Dance's at Lv 70. Read the rest of the learnset and every other entry builds something: Blind 20 on the Lv 1 Dark Cannon, Blind 100 on Dark Laser and Dark Whisp, Ivy-Covered 100 on Seed Mine, Circle Vine and Wind Burst. The two headline attacks are the only moves this Pal owns that inflict nothing at all, and the mist is damage with a name on it. No fruit teaches either one and neither sits in any egg pool, so both are one body at one level.

The Category column then takes the deepest cut it takes anywhere on this page. Poison Promenade is the only Melee entry Dandilord ever levels into — the seven other moves on the list are Shots, and so are 41 of the 42 moves in its egg pool, Rocky Impact being the lone exception. This body runs 135 shot attack against 100 melee. So the printed 23.3, the best rate on the list before Lv 70, is worked out against the Pal's weaker number, and both moves it appears to beat clear it once that 35 percent is applied: Dark Laser at Lv 22 posts 22.5 as a Shot from 500 to 1,800 with Blind 100, and Dark Whisp at Lv 30 posts 20.0 as a Shot from 0 to 1,500 with Blind 100 and 3,000 of height. Per swing it lands the same way — 700 power on the melee stat comes out under Dark Whisp's 600 on the shot stat, twenty levels earlier, with a status attached. The exclusive is the largest number the Pal has yet seen in the power column and the smallest hit on its bar.

Nor does it open a band. Circle Vine has fired from a true zero floor out to 5,000 since Lv 15, and Dark Whisp and Wind Burst both start at zero as well, so there is no contact hole here of the kind the exclusives further up this page exist to fill. Height is the one place it scores: Circle Vine and Seed Mine stop at 300 overhead, which makes the Lv 50 move the widest zero-floor band Dandilord owns with a ceiling worth the name — 1,000, against Dark Whisp's 3,000 over a shorter 1,500 and Wind Burst's 2,000 over 1,200. That is the whole case for the slot, and a purchasable fruit ends it. Holy Burst is the same 700 power on the same 30 seconds for the same 23.3 and the same empty status column, filed Shot so it runs on the 135, over 0 to 5,000 at the identical 1,000 ceiling. It sits in Dandilord's egg pool and the fruit is stocked at 45 Battle Tickets. The only column it hands back is the element — Neutral on a Grass/Dark body, where Poison Promenade collects the match.

Twenty levels is the window either way, because Toxic Dance is the same skill re-filed. Dark, 800 power on the same 30-second timer for 26.7, the identical 0 to 2,000 band, 2,000 of height instead of 1,000, no status either — and filed Shot, so it takes the 135 as well. Every printed column ties or wins and the unprinted one wins twice over. Step back to the bracket and the shape repeats: 32 skills in the game are built on 700 power and a 30-second cooldown, ten of them Melee, and five of those ten inflict nothing — Divine Wing, Silver Steed, Spear Thrust, Twin Spears and this. Twin Spears is the near-copy: also Dark, also Melee, also statusless, also one body at one level, Necromus's at Lv 40, and it dies at 1,000 flat and 400 overhead against Dandilord's 2,000 and 1,000. Of that pair the Lv 50 move is comfortably the better half. It is simply on the Pal that would rather be shooting — how far that goes on Necromus is a section of its own.

Eight skills build Poison and exactly one of them is for sale — here is what the 30 tickets actually buy

Go back through those eight and check the supply column rather than the damage one. Six of them cannot be taught at all: Upper Smash, Jumping Stinger, Webstrike Impact, Poison Scatter, Needle Spear and Poison Fog have no fruit printed anywhere in the item list, so the only way to hold them is to own the Pal. Two do have fruits, and only one of those two is stocked — Poison Shower, on the arena shelf at 30 Battle Tickets, and it is also the single Poison entry sitting in the relic pool the odds table further up measures. Poison Blast's fruit exists and is neither sold nor pooled. So every relic figure on this page applies to this ailment through one item, and if you want Poison on a body that was never dealt it, this is the entire menu. The skill itself is Dark, 160 power on an 8-second cooldown for 20.0 DPS, filed Shot, covering 0 to 1,000 with 600 of height and Poison 100 — the Pal gathers energy into itself and throws toxic orbs outward in every direction at once.

Set it against the other two Poison skills that reach more than one Pal and the three stop competing. Build-up is what applies the ailment, and per second of cooldown Poison Blast lays down 50 to Poison Shower's 12.5 — four times the rate, from 26 Pals, on a band of 500 to 5,000. Poison Fog carries 9,999 build-up on a 30-second timer, which caps the meter the instant it connects, and pays for it with 0 power and a 400 ceiling. The middle entry is the only one of the three that does damage worth the slot and still fires at contact: Poison Blast will not shoot inside 500 and Poison Fog will not shoot past 400, leaving a hole from 400 to 500 that only Poison Shower covers, and above that it is the only one of the three whose damage rate clears 15.0 at all. Read the 12.5 as the price of the 20.0, not as a failure — you are buying a contact attack that happens to poison, not a poison that happens to hurt.

Nine Pals level into it and none of them inherit it as an egg move, so the shop is the only route that skips the roster. What the pickup does on those nine is remarkably consistent. All nine already own Poison Blast by Lv 15 at the latest, so it is never new Poison — it is Poison that works when something is standing on the Pal. On Needoll Noct at Lv 15, Caprity Noct, Jellroy, Mycora and Prunelia at Lv 30 it is the first damaging move the Pal owns with a true zero floor, full stop. On Nyafia, Venusa and Lovander the incumbent is Shadow Burst, which starts at zero and dies at 300, so the pickup is the first thing on the bar that answers contact and still reaches a thousand. Only Tarantriss gets it after something better — Webstrike Impact at Lv 30, ten levels earlier at 20.8 out to 1,500 — which is why its Lv 40 slot is the one place on the roster the skill lands dead.