Palworld Best Teams — By Element and By Tower Boss
In Palworld 1.0, a team is 5 Pals, and the type chart decides who to bring. This guide builds a team for each of 9 elements and for 11 of the 12 tower bosses (Astralym, the last, is not a Pal you can own), shows where each team is exposed, and opens it in the team builder.
- Party size5Pals per team
- Element teams9one per element
- Boss teams11tower bosses
- Released Pals298ranked on the tier list
Every name below is chosen by rule, not by taste, and every team links into the team builder so you can swap anyone out.
On this page
Teams by element
Pick the element you want to run. Each card is a 5-Pal team: the first three are the strongest Pals of that element on the combat tier list, the last two cover what the core misses. "Gaps" lists elements none of the five hits hard, and "Shared weakness" lists elements two or more of them fear.
9 teams
Dragon team
Core: Shaolong, Blazamut Ryu, Jormuntide. Cover: Jormuntide Ignis, Frostallion Noct.
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Teams by tower boss
Each tower boss is a Pal (plus a trainer for the first eight). The table gives its element, the elements that hit it hard, and the three Pals to bring: those with the strongest move that hits it hard, skipping any Pal the boss's own attack elements hit hard. "Try it" opens the team builder with the boss selected and the three already in the party.
Reading the table
"Tower Lv / hard" is the boss's level in the normal tower and, where the game has one, in hard mode. "Bring" is a starting three, not a full party: add two Pals for the elements the boss does not use against you.
Watch four hard-mode boss setups
How the teams are chosen
Both rules use the type chart in the table below and the same Pal data as the combat tier list. Neither claims a win rate: the chart has no multipliers in any source we hold, and no source gives kill times.
Partner skills add a second layer. The wiki tags every partner skill Combat, Utility, Farming or Mount, and 160 of 286 are Combat, so when you swap a Pal in the builder, read its partner skill as well as its element.
| Element | Strong against | Weak to |
|---|---|---|
 Neutral | none |  Dark |
 Fire |  Grass,  Ice |  Water |
 Water |  Fire |  Electric |
 Grass |  Ground | Fire |
 Electric | Water | Ground |
 Ice |  Dragon | Fire |
 Ground | Electric | Grass |
 Dark |  Neutral | Dragon |
 Dragon | Dark | Ice |
Common mistakes
Stacking one element (the cards above show the shared weaknesses it creates), bringing a Pal the boss's attack elements hit hard, and treating a ranking position as a team role. A top-ranked Pal still takes extra damage from the element that hits it.
Teams or rankings: which page to use
Use the combat tier list and best combat Pals to compare single Pals. Use this page when the question is who to bring together, and the team builder to check any five you already own. The default party there is the top 5 of the tier list: Panthalus, Frostallion Noct, Frostallion, Necromus, Shaolong.
FAQ
What is the best team in Palworld?
There is no single best team; it depends on what you fight. This guide builds a 5-Pal team for each of 9 elements and for 11 of the 12 tower bosses, and the team builder checks any 5 Pals you own.
How many Pals are in a Palworld team?
5. Every team on this page and in the team builder is 5 Pals.
What is Fire weak to in Palworld?
Water. Fire is strong against Grass, Ice. The full chart is in the table above.
How are the boss teams chosen?
By the team builder's own rule: Pals with a move that hits the boss's element hard, strongest move first, skipping any Pal the boss's attack elements hit hard.
Pages to keep open
Related guides
Sources
Pal, item and skill values come from the game's own data files; map counts from paldb.cc; mechanics from the Palworld Wiki (CC BY-SA 4.0).