Super Effective and Resistance Explained: Type Chart

Every fight in Palworld runs through one nine-element chart, and picking the right element off it swings damage harder than a couple of gear tiers do. This guide covers what a super-effective hit is actually worth, how resistance cuts damage in the other direction, the dual-element Pals that stack the bonus or cancel it outright, and every ring that reduces incoming elemental damage.

How Super Effective Damage Actually Works

One rule drives all of it: the element of the move is compared against the element of the target. If your move's element counters the target's, the hit lands super effective and does about half again as much damage. It works identically when it's pointed at you, which is why bringing the wrong squad to a boss doesn't make the fight slow, it makes it a different fight. Pocketpair has never published the exact multipliers, so treat the numbers below as close estimates — the relationships themselves are solid, and the game tells you when they fire by greying out damage numbers that got resisted.

The middle row is the one most players never notice. Sending Fire at a Fire Pal, or Dark at a Dark Pal, is the worst thing you can do short of standing still — you get the greyed numbers and no bonus, and it happens constantly because players default to their strongest Pal instead of their correct one. Neutral is the single exception: Neutral attacks land for full damage on Neutral Pals, which is one of the few things the Neutral skill fruits have going for them.

Palworld Type Chart: Every Weakness in One Table

Nine elements, and the chart is almost a clean loop of one-for-one trades with three wrinkles worth memorising. Fire and Grass each punish two elements, which makes them the two most flexible things to keep benched. Water is the only element with two counters hanging over it, so it's the easiest typing to prepare for. And Neutral sits at the dead end — it beats nothing at all, and Dark eats it. The counters below are the highest-attack carrier of each element you can realistically own; run any specific target through the Palworld type chart and counter finder if it's dual-element.

Target element	Hit it with	Go-to attacker	It punishes	Pals with it
Neutral	Dark	Necromus	nothing	36
Fire	Water	Neptilius	Ice, Grass	43
Water	Electric or Grass	Orserk	Fire	47
Electric	Ground	Anubis	Water	25
Grass	Fire	Blazamut	Ground, Water	46
Ice	Fire	Blazamut Ryu	Dragon	38
Ground	Grass	Lyleen	Electric	44
Dark	Dragon	Jetragon	Neutral	70
Dragon	Ice	Frostallion	Dark	25

The last column is why Dragon matters far more than its roster size suggests. Dark is the biggest element in the game at 70 Pals, it's where the hardest fights live — Bellanoir, Bellanoir Libero and Xenolord are all Dark — and only 25 Pals can answer it with Dragon damage. At the other end, Neutral's 36 Pals never get a bonus of their own and get punished by the game's most common attacking element, which is the real reason a Neutral bruiser feels worse than its stat line reads.

Dual-Element Pals: When the Bonus Stacks and When It Cancels

87 of the game's 288 Pals carry two elements, and both halves are checked separately against your move. That produces two situations worth planning around: a handful of Pals that eat a doubled weakness bonus, and a much larger group where a weakness on one half is cancelled by the matching element on the other. Both are invisible in-game — nothing on the Paldeck page tells you a matchup is going to fizzle.

Three Pals Take Grass Damage Twice

Grass counters both Ground and Water, so any Pal that carries both halves is weak to Grass twice over — roughly 2.25× damage on every hit. Exactly three Pals in the game qualify, and all three are slow, high-HP targets that would otherwise be a chore to grind down. Dumud is the one you'll meet most, and its gilded variant is a farming target in its own right, so keeping one Grass attacker benched pays for itself. Lyleen is the cleanest carrier for it at 120 attack.

Pal	Elements	Grass damage	Where to find it
Dumud	Ground / Water	~2.25×	Dumud spawn map
Dumud Gild	Ground / Water	~2.25×	Dumud Gild spawn map
Turtacle Terra	Water / Ground	~2.25×	Turtacle Terra spawn map

27 Pals That Cancel Your Weakness Bonus

The reverse case is far more common and costs far more runs. When a dual-element Pal is weak to your move on one half but shares that element on the other, the bonus and the resistance trade off and you're back to plain damage — the classic trap is firing Water at a Water/Fire Ignis variant because you saw the Fire half. The last column is the fix: every one of these Pals still has a live weakness somewhere, it just isn't the obvious one. Grass is the worst offender with eight Pals shrugging it off, and Xenolord sitting on the Dragon row matters most of all, since Dragon is the element you'd normally bring to a Dark raid boss.

Pal	Elements	Cancels	Hit it with instead
Gumoss	Grass / Ground	Grass	Fire
Mammorest	Grass / Ground	Grass	Fire
Robinquill Terra	Grass / Ground	Grass	Fire
Braloha	Grass / Ground	Grass	Fire
Warsect	Ground / Grass	Grass	Fire
Dualith	Ground / Grass	Grass	Fire
Broncherry Aqua	Grass / Water	Grass	Electric or Fire
Ophydia	Grass / Water	Grass	Electric or Fire
Fuack Ignis	Water / Fire	Water	Electric or Grass
Finsider Ignis	Water / Fire	Water	Electric or Grass
Ghangler Ignis	Fire / Water	Water	Electric or Grass
Skutlass Ignis	Water / Fire	Water	Electric or Grass
Celaray Lux	Water / Electric	Electric	Grass or Ground
Pengullet Lux	Water / Electric	Electric	Grass or Ground
Penking Lux	Water / Electric	Electric	Grass or Ground
Solmora Lux	Water / Electric	Electric	Grass or Ground
Astegon	Dragon / Dark	Dragon	Ice
Eidrolon	Dragon / Dark	Dragon	Ice
Xenolord	Dark / Dragon	Dragon	Ice
Azurobe Cryst	Ice / Dragon	Ice	Fire
Chillet	Ice / Dragon	Ice	Fire
Prixter Lux	Electric / Ground	Ground	Grass
Snock Lux	Electric / Ground	Ground	Grass
Petallia Ignis	Grass / Fire	Fire	Water
Whalaska Ignis	Ice / Fire	Fire	Water
Solenne	Dark / Neutral	Dark	Dragon
Selyne	Dark / Neutral	Dark	Dragon

The Hardest-Hitting Skill in Each Element

Knowing the weakness is only half of it — you need something in that element that actually hurts. These are the highest-power attack skills in each element, and since they're all measured on the same scale you can compare them directly. Spore Burst and Toxic Dance lead the practical field at 800 power on a 30-second cooldown, which is the best power-to-cooldown ratio in the game outside of the Neutral outlier. Megaton Implode hits for 1,200 but sits on a 60-second timer and, being Neutral, never gets a super-effective bonus on top — a big number that beats nothing. Every one of these except Magna Crush is a Shot skill, so it scales off Shot Attack and does nothing for a melee bruiser.

Electric is the odd one out at 600 power, which is worth knowing before you build a whole Water-killing squad around it — Grass covers the same targets and hits harder per cast. The full list with every carrier is on the Palworld active skills database, and the fruit costs are broken down in the strongest attack skills guide.

Rings of Resistance: Cutting Elemental Damage

Resistance isn't only something the chart hands you — there's a ring for all nine elements, and they're cheap enough to keep a full set in a chest. Each one is a technology level 2 accessory built on the same 20 Ingot, 20 Bone and 30 Paldium Fragment base plus one element-specific material, so the only real cost is the organ or drop in the third column. Each ring also comes in +1 and +2 upgrades that step the wording from "slightly reduces" to "greatly reduces" incoming damage of that element. The Dragon and Ground rings are the priciest at 25,080 gold from a merchant, and the Dragon one is the one to build first — it's the mitigation for the Ice and Dragon-heavy endgame fights.

Ring	Cuts damage from	Element material	Merchant price
Ring of Neutral Resistance	Neutral	15× Cement	14,700
Ring of Fire Resistance	Fire	15× Flame Organ	18,480
Ring of Water Resistance	Water	30× Aquatic Pal Fluids	23,880
Ring of Electric Resistance	Electric	10× Electric Organ	16,680
Ring of Grass Resistance	Grass	5× Gumoss Leaf	16,080
Ring of Ice Resistance	Ice	15× Ice Organ	18,480
Ring of Ground Resistance	Ground	10× Meteorite Fragment	25,080
Ring of Dark Resistance	Dark	10× Venom Gland	16,680
Ring of Dragon Resistance	Dragon	20× Pure Quartz	25,080

Pal Rings Build the Whole Counter Package

The nine Pal Rings are the smarter version of the same idea, and they're the clearest proof that the developers built gear straight off the chart. Every one of them boosts its own element's damage for the Pal fighting beside you and cuts the damage of exactly the element that Pal is being sent to fight — Blazehowl's ring pumps Fire and blunts Grass, Cryolinx's pumps Ice and blunts Dragon. They cost 5× Ancient Civilization Parts and 20× Refined Ingot each on top of the listed material, so they're a mid-to-late-game craft rather than something you slap on at level 20. Note the gap: no ring pairs a Grass boost with Water mitigation, so the Grass-into-Water matchup is the one chart line gear doesn't cover.

Pal Ring	Boosts	Cuts damage from	Element material
Blazehowl Ring	Fire	Grass	15× Flame Organ
Faleris Ring	Fire	Ice	15× Ice Organ
Faleris Aqua Ring	Water	Fire	30× Aquatic Pal Fluids
Fenglope Lux Ring	Electric	Water	15× Electric Organ
Vaelet Ring	Grass	Ground	10× Tomato Seeds
Cryolinx Ring	Ice	Dragon	15× Ice Organ
Menasting Terra Ring	Ground	Electric	15× Crude Oil
Katress Ring	Dark	Neutral	10× Katress Hair
Elphidran Ring	Dragon	Dark	20× High Quality Pal Oil

The Short Version

Match the move's element to the target's weakness for about 1.5× damage, never fire an element into a Pal that shares it, and check both halves of a dual-element target before you commit — 27 Pals will quietly cancel your bonus and three will take Grass damage at double weight. On defense, the ring for the boss's element does more for a run than another armour tier does. If you only memorise one line of the chart, make it Dragon beats Dark: that's 70 Pals and most of the game's hardest fights answered by a single typing.

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