Skutlass
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WaterAn odd species that comes apart on purpose in a fight, slashing with its own bones, and dies if it stays divided too long. Unconfirmed accounts say older ones hold the split deliberately, using the survival instinct it triggers to stretch out their lifespans.
Type Effectiveness
Fire
Electric
GrassBase Stats
Work Suitabilities
Wateringbest
Lumbering
GatheringSkutlass Food & Hunger
5/10Higher food need means Skutlass eats more often while working at your base.
Skutlass Movement Speed
Behavior & Traits
Trust Bonuses (Partner Level)
How strongly Skutlass's stats scale as its Trust level rises.
Skutlass Stats by Level
What Skutlass actually reads at each level, from a worst-case individual (IV 0) to a perfect one (IV 100). These are the base numbers — condensing, souls and Trust raise them further.
| Level | HP | Attack | Defense |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lv 1 | 540–550 | 107–109 | 56–57 |
| Lv 10 | 900–1005 | 175–197 | 110–128 |
| Lv 20 | 1300–1510 | 250–295 | 170–206 |
| Lv 30 | 1700–2015 | 325–392 | 230–284 |
| Lv 40 | 2100–2520 | 400–490 | 290–362 |
| Lv 50 | 2500–3025 | 475–587 | 350–440 |
| Lv 60 | 2900–3530 | 550–685 | 410–518 |
How to Get Skutlass
Skutlass can be fished up rather than fought — 2 wild spots of the small kind hold it, at level 65–69. The alpha turns up on the bigger spots, so a rod can hand you one without a fight. Once you have a Fishing Pond at base it shows up there too — 3.7% per catch in the large pool, which is the hands-off way to farm one.
Skutlass is Water, so an Electric or Grass attacker takes it down fastest — and a Pal it resists will drag the fight long enough for it to heal or flee.
Wild Skutlass spawn between level 30 and 66. A level 66 one resists far more than a level 30; catch cheap first, then farm the high spawns for condensing.
Its capture rate is 1.0, which makes it exactly average, so weaken it properly and throw from behind for the back-strike bonus.
ElectricGrassPlaying Skutlass Well
Keep Bushi and Bushi Noct out of the party while Skutlass is your blade. Iaigiri, the draw-cut those two throw from their own partner skill, is written into the Fish Fillet rules as a second way to drop the fish — swing it with the katana already out and Skutlass goes down. Two partner skills that both want a sword in your hands do not stack; field one of them.
Skutlass has no saddle, so its whole combat career is the partner skill: Fish Fillet turns the Pal into a katana you swing yourself, and the blade brings its own attack figure instead of scaling off the weapon you had equipped — 2600 at partner skill rank 1, climbing to 3900 once the Pal is condensed to rank 5. That is a real melee option this early in a run, but it is rented, not owned. The form runs about ten seconds and wants another ten before it can be called again, and leaving it out rather than reverting knocks the Pal unconscious. Open it on a stagger, take the hits you came for, and carry an ordinary melee weapon for the half of every cycle when the fish is unavailable.
The subspecies is a different hire, not a reskin. Skutlass Ignis fills the same Paldeck slot but rebalances the work sheet for heat: Kindling 3 appears, Watering drops from 4 to 2 and Lumbering from 4 to 3. Its blade is the sharper of the two at every rank, so the split is clean — the Ignis is the fighter, and the plain Skutlass is by a wide margin the better base worker. Keep this one on the watering line and the lumber yard and let the variant handle the furnace.
Skutlass Tier List Rankings
| Ranking | Tier |
|---|---|
| Best Overall | D |
| Combat | D |
| Base Workers | C |
Wild Skutlass Level Range
Wild Skutlass roam at level 30–66 out in the world — plan your spheres and party level around that before hunting one on the interactive map.
Where to Find Skutlass
Skutlass spawn locations in the wild — every marked spot is a known spawn area.
Most of them are around Waterlily Gorge (45.7% of known spots), with smaller pockets near Azure Covenant Tower Entrance and Anubis Dunes. They come in groups of up to 3, so plan sphere stock for more than one.
Skutlass in Base Raids
Skutlass shows up in 3 raid groups that attack your base, at level 10–15 around the Sky City. Worth knowing before you settle there — build your defences around what actually turns up.
Best Skutlass Build
Skutlass shines as a base worker. Build toward the passives below and the role does the rest. Catching, breeding and implants all supply them.
Partner skill: Fish Fillet.
Best Skutlass Moveset — Highest DPS
ElectricSpark Blast25DPS · 50 pow
NeutralHoly Burst23.3DPS · 700 powWaterHydro LaserSTAB22.5DPS · 450 powRanked by sustained damage per second. STAB moves share Skutlass's element for extra damage.
Active Skills (8)
| Lv | Move | Element | Power | Cooldown | DPS | Type | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hydro Jet | Water | 40 | 2s | 20 | Shot | 5000 |
| 7 | Bubble Blast | Water | 80 | 4s | 20 | Shot | 3500 |
| 15 | Splash | Water | 160 | 8s | 20 | Shot | 2500 |
| 22 | Torrential Blast | Water | 250 | 12s | 20.8 | Shot | 3000 |
| 30 | Hydro Slicer | Water | 350 | 16s | 21.9 | Shot | 4000 |
| 40 | Hydro Laser | Water | 450 | 20s | 22.5 | Shot | 1800 |
| 50 | Aqua Surge | Water | 500 | 24s | 20.8 | Shot | 5000 |
| 70 | Geyser Gush | Water | 600 | 30s | 20 | Melee | 5000 |
Drops
| Item | Qty | Rate |
|---|---|---|
 Skutlass Sashimi | 1-2 | 100% |
 Aquatic Pal Fluids | 1-2 | 100% |
Alpha & Boss Skutlass Drops
Boss encounters with Skutlass drop these instead — including Ancient Civilization Parts.
Egg Moves (42)
| Move | Element | Power | DPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Blade | Neutral | 160 | 20 |
| Apocalypse |  Dark | 400 | 20 |
| Aqua Burst | Water | 200 | 16.7 |
| Aqua Surge | Water | 500 | 20.8 |
| Beam Slicer |  Dragon | 350 | 21.9 |
| Charge Cannon | Dragon | 400 | 20 |
| Circle Vine | Grass | 300 | 18.8 |
| Comet Strike | Dragon | 180 | 22.5 |
| Crosswind | Grass | 500 | 20.8 |
| Curtain Splash | Water | 300 | 18.8 |
| Dark Laser | Dark | 450 | 22.5 |
| Diamond Rain |  Ice | 600 | 20 |
| Dragon Breath | Dragon | 160 | 20 |
| Dragon Cannon | Dragon | 40 | 20 |
| Dragon Meteor | Dragon | 600 | 20 |
| Flame Funnel | Fire | 300 | 18.8 |
| Flame Wall | Fire | 250 | 20.8 |
| Freeze Wall | Ice | 200 | 16.7 |
| Holy Burst | Neutral | 700 | 23.3 |
| Hydro Slicer | Water | 350 | 21.9 |
| Iceberg | Ice | 120 | 15 |
| Ignis Breath | Fire | 160 | 20 |
| Ignis Rage | Fire | 500 | 20.8 |
| Lightning Bolt | Electric | 450 | 22.5 |
| Lock-on Laser | Electric | 140 | 17.5 |
| Nightmare Ball | Dark | 300 | 18.8 |
| Pal Blast | Neutral | 450 | 22.5 |
| Power Bomb | Neutral | 120 | 15 |
| Reflect Leaf | Grass | 400 | 20 |
| Rockburst |  Ground | 300 | 18.8 |
| Rocky Impact | Ground | 600 | 20 |
| Sand Twister | Ground | 500 | 20.8 |
| Solar Blast | Grass | 450 | 22.5 |
| Spark Blast | Electric | 50 | 25 |
| Splash | Water | 160 | 20 |
| Thunder Rain | Electric | 400 | 20 |
| Thunderstorm | Electric | 600 | 20 |
| Torrential Blast | Water | 250 | 20.8 |
| Tri-Lightning | Electric | 200 | 16.7 |
| TriSpark | Electric | 250 | 20.8 |
| Volcanic Rain | Fire | 450 | 22.5 |
| Wind Burst | Grass | 600 | 20 |
What Skutlass Can Breed Into (133)
Put Skutlass in a Breeding Farm with the right partner and these are the 133 Pals that can come out. The pairings needing the fewest specific partners are listed first — those are the ones worth planning a chain around.
Frostplume
Nitemary Botan
Quivern
Rayhound
Reptyro
Smokie Cryst
Surfent Terra
Verdash
Whalaska
Wispaw
Yakumo
Bakemi
Beakon
Blazehowl
Blazehowl Noct
Broncherry
Broncherry Aqua
Bulldosu
Bushi
Bushi Noct
Caprity Noct
Carnibora
Chillet Ignis
Croajiro Noct
Dazzi Noct
Digtoise
Dinossom
Dinossom Lux
Dogen
Dynamoff
Elgrove
Elphidran Aqua
Felbat
Fenglope
Foxcicle
Ghangler Ignis
Gildane
Gloopie Primo
Gorirat
Gorirat Terra+93 more — work out any pairing in the breeding calculator →
Unique Skutlass Combos (1)
Unique offspring Skutlass helps produce as a parent.
How to Breed Skutlass (251 parent combos)
Full guide: How to breed Skutlass →
