All Pals by Max IV Stats: Highest HP, Attack, Defense

Every Pal rolls hidden individual values — IVs — on its HP, Attack and Defense, and a perfect roll is worth up to +30% on that stat's scaling. This page ranks the highest max-IV HP, Attack and Defense lines in the game with their exact level 80 numbers, shows what a perfect roll is actually worth in raw points, and covers how to read IVs and top them up.

Max IV Stats at a Glance

IVs are the reason two Pals of the same species at the same level hit for different numbers. The game calls the hidden roll Potential and grades it 0 to 100 per stat line, and only three lines carry one: HP, Attack and Defense. Work speed, movement speed and capture rate are fixed by species, so no amount of IV hunting changes how fast a Pal runs a workbench. The one number worth memorising is the ceiling — a 100 roll multiplies the level-scaled half of the stat by 1.3, which works out to roughly +23% to +27% of the final number at level 80, with the bigger base stats getting the bigger share.

Pocketpair has never published the stat growth curve, so treat the level 80 columns below as very close estimates — the base stats they are built from are exact, and the rankings themselves do not move. If you want a different level, the Palworld Pal Stats Calculator runs the same numbers for any Pal from level 1 to 100 with both ends of the IV range shown.

Pals with the Highest Max IV HP

HP is the stat with the widest gap between the top of the board and the middle of it. The Paldeck average base HP is 95, and Panthalus nearly doubles that at 180 — a maxed one carries 10,260 HP at level 80, about 1,560 more than anything else you can raise. Below that the list bunches up hard: seven Pals tie at 140 base HP, so the tiebreak is entirely about how easy each one is to farm. Mammorest is the practical answer for most players, since 968 wild spawn pins means you can catch a dozen and keep the best roll instead of praying over a single legendary.

Pal	Base HP	Max IV HP (Lv 80)	Zero IV HP (Lv 80)	Where to find it
Panthalus	180	10,260	8,100	No wild spawn
Mammorest	150	8,700	6,900	968 wild pins · alpha Lv 38
Mammorest Cryst	150	8,700	6,900	168 wild pins
Bastigor	140	8,180	6,500	138 wild pins
Frostallion	140	8,180	6,500	Fixed alpha, Lv 60
Frostallion Noct	140	8,180	6,500	Fixed alpha, Lv 65
Shaolong	140	8,180	6,500	126 wild pins
Silvance	140	8,180	6,500	No wild spawn
Wumpo	140	8,180	6,500	106 wild pins
Wumpo Botan	140	8,180	6,500	166 wild pins · alpha Lv 38
Hartalis	135	7,920	6,300	Raid summon
Azurmane	130	7,660	6,100	224 wild pins · alpha Lv 66

Note how much of the HP bar is species-independent: every Pal in the game gets the same flat floor before its base stat is applied, which is why even a maxed Azurmane lands within 2,600 of the top spot. HP is also the stat where a bad roll hurts least, since the raw point gap between a zero-IV and max-IV Panthalus is 2,160 — huge in isolation, but a single defensive passive can be worth more.

Pals with the Highest Max IV Attack

Attack is the stat worth chasing rolls on, because it multiplies against every skill in the loadout. Bellanoir and Bellanoir Libero share the top slot at 150 base, reaching 1,270 attack at level 80 with a perfect roll, but both are raid summons rather than something you stumble into. Necromus and Neptilius follow at 145, and Jetragon is the most familiar name on the list at 140 — the level 70 alpha that doubles as the fastest mount in the game. Shaolong is the only Pal in the top eight with an ordinary wild spawn, which makes it the realistic pick if you want to farm rolls rather than fight for a single copy.

Pal	Base Attack	Max IV Attack (Lv 80)	Zero IV Attack (Lv 80)	Where to find it
Bellanoir	150	1,270	1,000	Raid summon
Bellanoir Libero	150	1,270	1,000	Raid summon
Necromus	145	1,231	970	No wild spawn
Neptilius	145	1,231	970	Fixed alpha, Lv 60
Frostallion	140	1,192	940	Fixed alpha, Lv 60
Frostallion Noct	140	1,192	940	Fixed alpha, Lv 65
Jetragon	140	1,192	940	Fixed alpha, Lv 70
Dandilord	135	1,153	910	No wild spawn
Shaolong	135	1,153	910	126 wild pins
Anubis	130	1,114	880	70 wild pins · alpha Lv 55
Bastigor	130	1,114	880	138 wild pins
Blazamut Ryu	130	1,114	880	Raid summon

One catch worth knowing before you rank a bruiser too low: the Attack figures above are the shot-attack line, which is what every attack ranking uses. Six Pals carry a separate 150 melee attack value — Incineram, Incineram Noct, Jormuntide, Jormuntide Ignis, Blazamut and Blazamut Ryu — and that number only applies to their close-range moves. Melee numbers compare against other melee users and nothing else, so build those six with melee skills or you throw away the stat you picked them for.

Pals with the Highest Max IV Defense

Defense has the single most lopsided leader on the board. Panthalus is the only Pal in the game with a 200 base defense, and at level 80 with a perfect roll it sits at 1,610 — a full 36% clear of Paladius in second. After that the drop is gentle, and the interesting rows are the common ones. Mimog has 10,624 wild spawn pins, more than any other Pal on this page by an order of magnitude, so it is the one high-defense line you can realistically roll-hunt in an afternoon rather than farm a single fixed alpha for.

Pal	Base Defense	Max IV Defense (Lv 80)	Zero IV Defense (Lv 80)	Where to find it
Panthalus	200	1,610	1,250	No wild spawn
Paladius	145	1,181	920	Fixed alpha, Lv 60
Aegidron	140	1,142	890	Fixed alpha, Lv 79
Shadowbeak	140	1,142	890	22 wild pins
Tetroise Primo	140	1,142	890	80 wild pins · alpha Lv 60
Frostallion Noct	135	1,103	860	Fixed alpha, Lv 65
Knocklem	135	1,103	860	66 wild pins · alpha Lv 55
Knocklem Ignis	135	1,103	860	116 wild pins
Tetroise	135	1,103	860	650 wild pins · alpha Lv 55
Menasting	130	1,064	830	1,090 wild pins · alpha Lv 44
Menasting Terra	130	1,064	830	22 wild pins · alpha Lv 55
Mimog	130	1,064	830	10,624 wild pins

Defense scales off the smallest flat floor of the three stats, which is why the max-IV gain looks tiny in raw points — 360 for Panthalus, 234 for Mimog. Percentage-wise it is identical to Attack, and it is applied against every hit you take, so a maxed defense roll on a tank you actually field is worth more than the number suggests. Tetroise at 650 pins and Menasting at 1,090 are the other two you can farm in volume.

Best All-Round Max IV Stat Lines

Adding the three base stats together is the cleanest way to compare whole Pals, and it separates the specialists from the ones worth pouring 30 fruits into. Panthalus wins on raw total at 500, but that total is built from HP and defense with an unremarkable 120 attack, so it is a wall rather than a damage dealer. Frostallion Noct is the one to beat for a combat Pal: 415 total, and it is the only Pal in the game that appears in all three top-twelve tables above. If your box is short on legendaries, Bastigor at 390 is the best line you can walk out and catch.

Pal	HP	Attack	Defense	Total	Why it's worth the fruits
Panthalus	180	120	200	500	Highest HP and defense in the game; a wall, not a nuke
Frostallion Noct	140	140	135	415	Only Pal in the top twelve of all three stats
Frostallion	140	140	120	400	Same attack and HP, 15 less defense
Shaolong	140	135	120	395	The only top-tier line with a normal wild spawn
Necromus	130	145	120	395	Highest attack of any non-raid Pal
Paladius	130	120	145	395	Defensive half of the Necromus pair
Bastigor	140	130	120	390	Best catchable all-rounder, 138 pins
Shadowbeak	120	120	140	380	140 defense plus a 130 melee stat
Hartalis	135	130	110	375	Raid summon with the third-highest HP
Neptilius	105	145	125	375	145 attack on a fixed Lv 60 alpha
Jetragon	115	140	120	375	140 attack on the fastest mount in the game

Astralym: the 200/200/200 Line You Can't Keep

Astralym holds the highest stat line in the Paldeck by a mile — 200 HP, 200 attack and 200 defense, which at level 80 with maxed IVs would be 11,300 HP, 1,660 attack and 1,610 defense. It is also the only entry on this page with no partner skill, no work suitability and no ride speed, because it is the World Tree boss you fight alongside Zenara rather than a Pal you add to your party. Treat its numbers as the yardstick the rest of the board is measured against, and read how to beat Zenara and Astralym if you want to see that stat line pointed at you instead.

Stat	Astralym (Lv 80, max IV)	Best you can actually own	Gap
HP	11,300	10,260 · Panthalus	+1,040
Attack	1,660	1,270 · Bellanoir	+390
Defense	1,610	1,610 · Panthalus	Tied

What a Max IV Roll Is Actually Worth

The percentage is fixed but the raw payoff is not — IVs multiply the part of the stat that scales with level and base stat, and both ends of the game feel very different. On Jetragon, a perfect attack roll is worth +63 attack at level 20, +157 at level 50 and +252 at level 80. That is the whole argument for not obsessing over rolls on a low-level catch: an IV advantage you can barely see at level 20 becomes a quarter of the stat by the time the Pal is endgame.

Pal	Stat	Zero IV (Lv 80)	Max IV (Lv 80)	Gain
Panthalus	HP	8,100	10,260	+2,160
Anubis	HP	5,700	7,140	+1,440
Lamball	HP	3,700	4,540	+840
Jetragon	Attack	940	1,192	+252
Anubis	Attack	880	1,114	+234
Panthalus	Defense	1,250	1,610	+360
Lamball	Attack	520	646	+126

The pattern in that table is the useful part: the bigger the base stat, the more a perfect roll pays. Lamball gains 840 HP from a max roll while Panthalus gains 2,160 from the same 100 rating, because IVs scale the species line rather than adding a flat bonus. Spend your fruits on the Pal you intend to finish, not the one currently in your party.

How to Check a Pal's IVs

You cannot see IVs at all without eyewear, which is why so many people grind duplicates blind. The Ability Glasses unlock at Technology level 34 for 4 points on the Ancient side of the tree and put HP, Attack and Defense on the 0-to-100 scale the moment you equip them and look at a Pal. The Pal Tamer's Glasses do the same job and add a damage floor — your attacks will not take a target below 1 HP — so they are the ones to wear while you are still catching, at the cost of an extra kilogram of weight.

Item	What it does	Weight	Materials
Ability Glasses	Shows HP, Attack and Defense potential on a 0-100 scale	1.0	30 Refined Ingot · 20 Paldium Fragment · 10 Ancient Civilization Parts · 5 Ancient Civilization Core
Pal Tamer's Glasses	Same readout, plus your hits never drop a target below 1 HP	2.0	20 Refined Ingot · 30 Paldium Fragment · 10 Ancient Civilization Parts · 15 Ancient Bark

How to Get Max IV Pals

There are exactly three levers: breed for the rolls, catch enough copies that one of them rolls well, or buy the difference in fruit form. Most finished Pals use all three — a bred base, a decent roll, and fruits to close whatever the roll missed.

Breed for the Rolls

Offspring can inherit their parents' IVs, so a pair with strong rolls is a machine that prints more of them. Same-species pairs keep the species fixed while you re-roll the stat lines, which is the standard way to build a legendary worth finishing — and it is the only way to move an exclusive passive onto a different Pal at the same time. The Palworld Breeding Calculator works out which pair produces a given species, and how breeding works covers combi ranks and inheritance in full.

Catch in Volume Instead of Praying

For anything with a real wild population, the fastest route to a good roll is simply more attempts. Mimog leads the whole page with 10,624 spawn pins — open Mimog's spawn locations on the interactive map and you will not walk far between them. Menasting sits at 1,090 pins, Mammorest at 968 and Tetroise at 650, all with fixed alphas as a bonus. Fixed-alpha legendaries like Jetragon and Frostallion are the opposite problem: one copy per respawn, so those get bred rather than farmed. Sphere tiers and capture bonuses are covered in how to catch Pals.

Top Up the Gap with Fruits

Each fruit adds a flat +10 to one line, so a Pal reading 60 Attack needs four Power Fruits to cap it, and taking all three lines from zero costs 30 fruits. All three are sold at three different counters for three different currencies, and the price gap between them is enormous — the Bounty Shop charges a quarter of what the Arena Shop does for the identical item. Work the bounty board first and keep your Battle Tickets for skill fruits instead.

Fruit	Raises	Per use	Bounty Shop	Arena Shop	Medal Shop
Life Fruit	HP	+10	25 Successful Bounty Tokens	100 Battle Tickets	200 Dog Coins
Power Fruit	Attack	+10	25 Successful Bounty Tokens	100 Battle Tickets	200 Dog Coins
Stout Fruit	Defense	+10	25 Successful Bounty Tokens	100 Battle Tickets	200 Dog Coins

All three can also be crafted out of stat lotuses if you would rather spend field time than currency, and they turn up in treasure map digs at every tier. Farming IV fruits and Training Crystals ranks every source by what one clear actually pays.

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