How to Increase Movement Speed: Effigies, Mounts, Passives

Movement speed in Palworld is not one number. Your speed on foot, your mount's sprint, and your rates in water, on a cliff face and under a glider are four separate values, and each one is raised by something different. This guide covers the Statue of Power track that permanently speeds you up on foot, the fastest ride available at every technology level, the terrain partner skills that outrun everything on the right ground, and the passives worth implanting into a mount.

Every Way to Move Faster

Nine things in the game raise a movement number, and they do not compete with each other — an effigy track, a better saddle and a passive on the Pal you are riding all apply at once. What separates them is price. The four traversal tracks below max out for twenty effigies each, while the on-foot track wants 287, which is why almost nobody finishes it and almost everybody finishes the others without noticing.

Upgrade	Where it applies	Maximum gain	What it costs
Mimog Effigy track	On foot, permanently	+50%	287 effigies over 92 ranks
Pengullet Effigy track	Swimming	+100%	20 effigies over 20 ranks
Tanzee Effigy track	Climbing	+100%	20 effigies over 20 ranks
Herbil Effigy track	Gliding	+30%	20 effigies over 20 ranks
Rooby Effigy track	Jump height	+50%	20 effigies over 20 ranks
Cattiva Effigy track	Stamina drain, so sprint lasts longer	50% less drain	20 effigies over 20 ranks
A better mount	Mounted	800 to 3,300 sprint	Saddle technology levels
Move speed passives on the mount	Mounted	+30% from the best single passive	Breeding or implants
Terrain partner skills	Mounted on one surface	+240%	Catching and condensing the Pal

Read that bottom row twice. Terrain skills are the largest movement numbers in the game by a wide margin, but they only pay on grass, sand, snow or after dark — the two rows above them are what you get everywhere else. If you are picking one thing to do today, it is the swim, climb and glide tracks: sixty effigies total buys +100% in water, +100% on cliffs and +30% under a glider, and those are the three places where being slow actually gets you killed.

Sprinting, Stamina and the Overweight Trap

Sprinting is the free speed increase you already have, and it costs stamina — hold it down and the bar drains until you drop back to a jog. That makes stamina a movement stat in disguise. You start at 100 and every status point adds 10, up to a rank cap of 50 and a ceiling of 600, but the Cattiva Effigy track is usually the better buy: twenty effigies cuts drain by half and costs you no status points at all. Our stamina guide has the full elixir and lotus picture, and the status point priority order covers where stamina sits against the other four stats.

The other half of this is the penalty nobody plans for. Cross 100% of your carrying capacity and your movement speed starts dropping, and it keeps dropping the further over you go until the slowdown bottoms out around 50 weight past your limit. No effigy track, mount or passive cancels that — you have to drop something. If you spend a lot of time walking home slowly, the weight stat guide and the Pals in best Pals for carrying more items fix more of your travel time than any speed upgrade on this page.

The Statue of Power Movement Speed Track

This is the only permanent boost to your own on-foot speed, and it runs on Mimog Effigies offered at a Statue of Power. It is by far the longest ladder in the game at 92 ranks, paying a flat +0.5% per rank until the final step, which jumps from +46% straight to the +50% cap. Rank 1 costs a single effigy, ranks 2 through 79 cost 3 each, and everything from rank 80 up costs 4 — 287 in total.

The good news is that you do not farm these. Unlike the twelve effigy species scattered across the islands, Mimog Effigies arrive on their own as you capture Pals — the track quietly funds itself out of ordinary play, which is one more reason the catch-everything habit pays off. The curve is generous early, too: the first 58 effigies buy +10%, and half the total bonus is already yours by rank 46. Getting the last 20 percentage points is what costs 169 more. Misallocated something? Every track on the statue resets for one gold coin, so there is no wrong order to do them in.

The Cheap Tracks: Swim, Climb, Glide and Jump

These five tracks are the opposite deal — 20 ranks apiece at exactly one effigy per rank, so each maxes out for 20 collectibles. Swim and climb pay +5% every single rank up to a doubled rate, which is the best return on any collectible in the game. Glide is the weakest at +1.5% per rank, and jump power and stamina reduction both run +2.5%. The effigies live in the world, and our map carries 360 effigy pins across Palpagos plus another 47 in the World Tree.

Track	Effigy	Ranks	Effigies for max	Max bonus
Swim Speed	Pengullet Effigy	20	20	+100%
Climb Speed	Tanzee Effigy	20	20	+100%
Jump Power	Rooby Effigy	20	20	+50%
Stamina Reduction	Cattiva Effigy	20	20	50% less drain
Glider Speed	Herbil Effigy	20	20	+30%

Do swim first. Water is the medium with no mount for most of the early game and no way to sprint out of trouble, and doubling your speed in it turns a river crossing from a stamina gamble into a non-event. Climbing second, for the same reason — the full effigy upgrade guide lists the other eight tracks, including the tiny four-rank ones that pay +50% EXP. Open the effigy layer on the interactive map and clear whichever region you are already based in rather than hunting them one at a time.

The Fastest Mounts in the Game

Nothing you do on foot competes with a saddle. Jetragon is the fastest mount in Palworld at a sprint speed of 3,300, and the top of the list is dominated by flyers because flight has no terrain to slow it down. Every figure below is base sprint, and it only holds while the mount's own stamina lasts — when that bar empties you drop to its ordinary pace until it refills, which is why the stamina column matters as much as the speed one over a long crossing.

Mount	Rides	Sprint speed	Mount stamina	Saddle tech level
Jetragon	Flying	3,300	110	79
Panthalus	Flying	3,000	100	No saddle
Shaolong	Flying	2,800	100	77
Eidrolon	Flying	2,750	130	68
Eidrolon Ignis	Flying	2,750	130	76
Neptilius	Water	2,000	410	64
Hartalis	Ground	1,900	400	70
Necromus	Ground	1,900	350	61
Frostallion	Flying	1,800	300	62
Jormuntide	Water	1,800	150	40

Two entries here are strange in useful ways. Panthalus has no saddle to unlock at all and its walk, run and sprint are all the same 3,000, meaning it cruises at full speed without ever spending stamina — the only mount in the game that never slows down on you. Neptilius carries 410 stamina, the largest pool of any mount, so it holds its sprint far longer than the flyers above it despite the lower number. Frostallion Noct and Paladius both tie Frostallion at 1,800 and just miss this table. The full ranking of all 115 rides, including the nine whose partner skills scale their sprint off your party's elements, sits on our Palworld mount speed rankings.

The Ground Mount Upgrade Ladder

Flyers are covered in our best flying mounts guide; this is the land version. Each row is the fastest ground mount whose saddle you can actually craft at that technology level, so it is the shortest path from walking to Necromus. The early jump is the one that matters most — Direhowl at technology level 9 is a 31% bump over Melpaca and arrives before most players have a base worth the name, though its 70 stamina is the smallest pool on the ladder and it burns through a sprint fast.

Tech level	Mount	Sprint speed	Mount stamina
6	Rushoar	800	100
7	Melpaca	900	100
9	Direhowl	1,050	70
14	Univolt	1,100	100
28	Dazemu	1,200	100
29	Pyrin	1,300	100
61	Necromus	1,900	350

Notice the gap in the middle. Pyrin takes over at technology level 29 and nothing on land beats it for the next 32 levels — that is most of the mid-game spent on one horse, so it is worth building. Then Necromus arrives at 61 and adds 600 sprint and 250 stamina in a single step, which is the biggest jump on the ladder by far. Every saddle here needs its own technology point, and the full Palworld technology tree shows what else each level is competing with.

Terrain Specialists That Outrun Everything

Seven mounts hold a partner skill that pays raw movement speed, and four of them pay absurdly well on one surface. The ranges below are the skill's ladder as you condense the Pal, so the low number is what an ordinary catch gives you and the high one is a fully-ranked copy. The last column is that ceiling applied to the mount's base sprint — and Palumba is the headline: +240% turns a modest 1,000 into roughly 3,400 on grass, past every ground mount in the game and past Jetragon itself, on the one surface where it works.

Pal	Partner skill	Speed bonus	Condition	Base sprint	Fully ranked, on its surface
Palumba	Samba Step	+155% to +240%	Mounted on grass	1,000	~3,400
Starryon	Night Dancer	+50% to +100%, plus +25% jump	At night	1,250	~2,500
Dazemu	Sand Sprint	+50% to +100%	Mounted on sand	1,200	~2,400
Polapup	Rider of the Snowy Mountain	+80% to +160%	Mounted on snow	375	~975
Direhowl	Direhowl Rider	+10% to +20%	Mounted, anywhere	1,050	~1,260
Fenglope	Wind and Clouds	+10% to +20%	Mounted, anywhere	1,050	~1,260
Nitewing	Travel Companion	+10% to +20%	Mounted, anywhere	750	~900

The big percentages are not all equal, because they multiply different base numbers. Polapup has the second-largest bonus on this list and still ends up slower than an ordinary Univolt, because it starts from a sprint of 375 — the multiplier is doing heroic work on a terrible number. Dazemu is the practical pick of the four specialists: its saddle unlocks at technology level 28, it is already the fastest ground mount available at that point before the skill applies, and the desert is where you will be doing your longest crossings. Every partner skill and its scaling is listed on our Palworld partner skills database.

Movement Speed Passives Worth Implanting

These are Pal passives rather than player buffs, which means they raise the movement of the Pal carrying them — and the Pal carrying them is the one you are sitting on. Swift is the one to chase at +30%, worth more on its own than Runner and Nimble put together. A Pal has four passive slots, so a serious travel mount can hold Swift, Runner, Nimble and Legend at the same time.

Legend is the quiet one. It is innate on exactly six Pals — Paladius, Necromus, Frostallion, Frostallion Noct, Neptilius and Jetragon — and every one of those is a top-ten mount. The game's best rides already ship with a +20% speed passive in a slot before you touch them, which is part of why the gap between them and everything else is wider than the sprint table suggests. Dimensional Leap is the biggest single number here but the hunger cost is real on long flights, and it only exists as a disposable implant, so each one you use is gone. Our passives guide covers the surgery table route and the Ancient Relic Recycler guide covers where the rank 5 implants come from.

Speed in the Water

Water has its own passive family that does nothing on land: Sleek Stroke at +30%, Ace Swimmer at +40% and King of the Waves at +50% movement speed on water. Ace Swimmer is the easy one to guarantee — it sells as an implant for 50 Battle Tickets at the same Arena Shop as Runner, so a stretch of arena runs kits out your sea mount and your travel mount together. Stack that on the Pengullet Effigy track and a proper water mount and open ocean stops being the slow part of the map. The sprint figures below are swim-dash speed; the land column is what these Pals manage beached, which is why nobody rides them ashore.

Water mount	Swim sprint	On land	Mount stamina	Saddle tech level
Neptilius	2,000	1,120	410	64
Jormuntide	1,800	1,000	150	40
Surfent	1,440	800	100	16
Ghangler	1,350	800	320	31
Solmora	1,300	900	220	65

Surfent is the pick nobody expects: its saddle unlocks at technology level 16, decades of progression before the rest of this table, and 1,440 swim sprint is more than enough to cross anything on the map. Get it early and the only reason to upgrade is Neptilius. If you are fighting rather than travelling out there, attacking enemies on water covers which weapons and Pals actually function once you are swimming.

Gliding Faster

Gliders upgrade in four steps plus one outlier, and the game is unusually blunt about the ranking in its own item text — the Normal Parachute is described as cheaply made and not very fast, and the Hyper Glider as improved with increased speed and lift. The Wing Pack at technology level 80 is a different machine altogether: it burns Wing Cells to propel you rather than just slow your fall, and it is priced accordingly. Whatever you are flying, the Herbil Effigy track adds up to +30% on top of it.

Glider	Tech level	Rarity	Materials
Normal Parachute	5	0★	10 Wood, 2 Cloth
Mega Glider	18	0★	5 Wooden Board, 10 Bone, 20 Cloth
Giga Glider	40	1★	20 Refined Ingot, 100 Hardwood, 15 Carbon Fiber, 10 High Quality Cloth
Hyper Glider	52	2★	40 Pal Metal Ingot, 20 High Quality Wooden Board, 25 Carbon Fiber, 20 High Quality Cloth
Wing Pack	80	4★	30 Paldium Fragment, 6 Paloxite Ingot, 20 AI Core, 20 Thermal Core, 10 Ancient Civilization Core

The Mega Glider at technology level 18 is the one worth rushing — 5 Wooden Boards, 10 Bone and 20 Cloth is a trivial bill for the biggest relative jump in the sequence, and you will be on it for the next 22 levels. The Giga Glider is where the cost turns serious with 100 Hardwood and 15 Carbon Fiber, and the Hyper Glider needs Pal Metal Ingots, so both are gated by smelting rather than by the technology point. Every glider with its full recipe is on our Palworld glider list.

The Pals That Change How Your Glider Behaves

Seven Pals grant a pair of gloves that modify whatever glider you have equipped, and they work from your party without being summoned as a mount. Celaray is the standout for traversal: its gloves take fall damage out of the equation entirely at every rank, which changes how you approach a cliff more than any speed number does. Galeclaw, Hangyu and Killamari each change the glide differently, and all the gloves weigh nothing, so there is no cost to carrying a set. Keep one of these in the party permanently — the slot pays for itself the first time you drop off the Astral Mountains.

GaleclawCelarayCelaray LuxHangyuHangyu CrystKillamariKillamari Primo

The Short Answer

On foot, the only permanent increase is the Mimog Effigy track at the Statue of Power — +50% at the top, 287 effigies to get there, and they accumulate from capturing Pals rather than from hunting. In water, on cliffs and under a glider, the Pengullet, Tanzee and Herbil tracks max out for 20 effigies each and are the best value in the game. Everywhere else, speed means a saddle: Pyrin on land from technology level 29, Necromus from 61, Jetragon at 3,300 sprint once you reach 79 — and Swift in a passive slot for another +30% on whichever of them you are riding.

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