Palworld Skills Ranked by Damage Per Second

Ranked by damage per second

Sorted by power divided by cooldown, ties broken by name. The last column is the rank by raw power alone; the wider the gap between the two, the more cooldown changed the picture.

Same power, different outcome

Two skills with identical listed power, 800 each. Royal Step on a 30s cooldown — 26.7 per second, #12 overall. Aqua Tornado on 40s — 20.0 per second, #132. In the game the two read the same.

Royal StepAqua Tornado

Strong skills that raw power hides

Inside the top 30 by damage per second, yet far down the raw-power list. These are the easiest to skip past when reading the crafting screen.

• Slime Press (Dark)#282 by power → #5 per second
• Slime Press (Fire)#282 by power → #5 per second
• Slime Press (Grass)#282 by power → #5 per second
• Slime Press (Neutral)#282 by power → #5 per second
• Slime Press (Water)#282 by power → #5 per second
• Aqua Gun#282 by power → #16 per second

Skills the cooldown sinks

Inside the top 30 by raw power, yet they collapse once cooldown is counted. Picked from the skills you would actually shortlist. Unless you specifically need one big hit, do not read the raw-power rank at face value.

• Aqua Tornado#2 by power → #132 per second
• Megaton Implode#1 by power → #132 per second
• Absolute Frost#7 by power → #30 per second
• Beam Comet#7 by power → #30 per second
• Blazing Beam#7 by power → #30 per second
• Celestial Vortex#7 by power → #30 per second

Top damage per second by element

The highest damage-per-second skill in each element. The count is how many skills of that element have both a power and a cooldown to compute from.

Melee versus ranged

Median damage per second is 20.0 for melee and 20.0 for ranged. Melee holds more short-cooldown skills, which lifts that median. Read it alongside the limits below — the time it takes to close the distance is not in this calculation.

What this number does not say

Damage per second here is simply power divided by cooldown. Animation time, projectile travel, missed shots, range, element matchups and your Pal's attack stat are all outside the calculation. So this table does not say a skill is strictly stronger — it says raw power alone hides an axis. Range and status effects are on each skill's own page.