Some Pals massively outperform others. These are the picks worth chasing for combat, for base automation, and for travel — plus how to actually get the standouts.
Best combat Pals
🚀 Jetragon
Dragon · the fastest flyer in the game at roughly 1,500 speed, with 1,200+ base Shot Attack and a homing-missile Partner Skill that can crack 3,500+ damage in one pass — the endgame all-star.
❄️ Frostallion
Ice · around 3,300 HP and 320 attack, with the wide-area Blizzard Partner Skill — melts Dragon-types and buffs your other Ice Pals.
🌑 Necromus / Paladius
Dark / Neutral · tied for the fastest ground mount in the game; Necromus leans on Fire/Dark coverage while Paladius brings heavier AoE pressure.
🐺 Anubis
Ground · fast and aggressive in the field, and rare in that it doubles as one of the best Handiwork workers in the game, behind only Solenne (see below) — a top fighter and a top crafter in one slot.
⚡ Orserk
Dragon/Electric · devastating ranged lightning attacks.
🐲 Blazamut / Shadowbeak
Heavy hitters for raids and the final tower — high HP and burst.
Best work Pals
🛠️ Anubis
Handiwork Lv 6 (up to Lv 8 after four rounds of condensing) plus Mining Lv 6 — one Pal covering two jobs at a level most single-job specialists can't touch.
⛏️ Digtoise
Mining Lv 4 is its only suitability, but it's the best mid-to-late miner until you land Astegon or Knocklem — parks on ore and drills without stopping.
🔥 Jormuntide Ignis
Kindling Lv 7, its only job, makes it the top pick for furnaces and cooking — just expect its huge hitbox to get stuck navigating a cramped base.
🔌 Beakon / Orserk
Beakon posts Generating Electricity Lv 4 and, oddly, an even higher Transporting Lv 5 — worth parking it on both jobs at once.
🧊 Cryolinx
Cooling Lv 4, tied with Lumbering and Transporting at Lv 4 — a genuine all-rounder, not just a fridge Pal.
💧 Penking / Vanwyrm
Penking's own numbers are modest (Watering 2, Mining 3, Transporting 3) but it covers five jobs at once and is catchable early — a stopgap worker, not an endgame one.
Best mounts
🐉 Jetragon
The fastest flyer — endgame travel solved.
🦅 Nitewing
A reliable, easy early-game flying mount.
🐴 Necromus
A blisteringly fast ground mount with a dash.
🐕 Direhowl
A great early ground mount you can tame quickly.
How to get the standouts
- Anubis: it doesn't spawn in the wild — hunt the level 47 Alpha in Twilight Dunes (around -134, -94) or breed for it.
- Jetragon, Frostallion, Paladius/Necromus: catch them as world Legendaries (see the Legendary Pals tracker).
- Condense duplicates and breed for the Legend, Musclehead or Ferocious passives to push damage.
- Digtoise and Jormuntide Ignis transform base output — prioritise them for automation.
A solid all-round team
- Anubis — top Handiwork at base and a strong Ground fighter in the field.
- A flyer (Nitewing early, Jetragon late) for travel and aerial damage.
- Digtoise and Jormuntide Ignis to automate mining and smelting.
- One counter-element bruiser per tower — swap it in for that specific fight.
- Don't park Jetragon, Shadowbeak or Necromus on base chores — their work suitabilities are unremarkable, and a common Pal like Digtoise or Jormuntide Ignis outperforms them at the job while they sit idle instead of fighting.
Sources
Checked on 1 October 2026 against Vandal's tier list, mount and Alpha guides, Eurogamer.es's Alpha Pal list and PalDB's Pal data.