Predator Pals — Palworld Locations Guide
33 mapped9 regions33 speciesDominant: Dark, Fire
Predator Pals are extremely strong Pals with unique active skills, found at fixed spawn anchors across the islands. In addition to the species' regular drops, every Predator Pal drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls when defeated — making them prime farming targets.
Names follow the “Rampaging Species” pattern — a Rampaging Vanwyrm fights like a normal Vanwyrm but with elevated stats and a personal spawn point.
Source: palworld.wiki.gg/wiki/Predator_Pals.
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All 33 predator pals on the map →
Filter by region, search by name, mark progress as you find each one.
Distribution by region
- Astral Mountains8 · 24%
- Twilight Dunes7 · 21%
- Sakurajima (DLC)6 · 18%
- Feybreak (DLC)4 · 12%
- Mt. Obsidian3 · 9%
- Bamboo Grove2 · 6%
- Forgotten Island1 · 3%
- Windswept Hills1 · 3%
- Verdant Brook1 · 3%
Element distribution
Bring these Pals to fight
Predator Pals are dominated by Dark + Fire. These 6 high-combat-score Pals come from elements strong against those types — capture or breed them before clearing this list.
Locations by Region
Astral Mountains
Region info → (8)
Predator Pal — Rampaging DogenPredator-tier Dogen with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging MossandaPredator-tier Mossanda with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging TarantrissPredator-tier Tarantriss with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging OmasculPredator-tier Omascul with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging DinossomPredator-tier Dinossom with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging StarryonPredator-tier Starryon with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging MaraithPredator-tier Maraith with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Faleris AquaPredator-tier Faleris Aqua with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Twilight Dunes
Region info → (7)
Predator Pal — Rampaging VanwyrmPredator-tier Vanwyrm with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging RayhoundPredator-tier Rayhound with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging RagnahawkPredator-tier Ragnahawk with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Reptyro CrystPredator-tier Reptyro Cryst with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging PrixterPredator-tier Prixter with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging DazemuPredator-tier Dazemu with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Cryolinx TerraPredator-tier Cryolinx Terra with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Sakurajima (DLC)
Region info → (6)
Predator Pal — Rampaging Loupmoon CrystPredator-tier Loupmoon Cryst with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging WumpoPredator-tier Wumpo with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Blazehowl NoctPredator-tier Blazehowl Noct with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging ElphidranPredator-tier Elphidran with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging ShroomerPredator-tier Shroomer with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging SplatterinaPredator-tier Splatterina with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Feybreak (DLC)
Region info → (4)
Predator Pal — Rampaging Helzephyr LuxPredator-tier Helzephyr Lux with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Bushi NoctPredator-tier Bushi Noct with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging SootseerPredator-tier Sootseer with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Incineram NoctPredator-tier Incineram Noct with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Mt. Obsidian
Region info → (3)
Predator Pal — Rampaging DigtoisePredator-tier Digtoise with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging Jormuntide IgnisPredator-tier Jormuntide Ignis with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging GildanePredator-tier Gildane with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Bamboo Grove
Region info → (2)
Predator Pal — Rampaging LovanderPredator-tier Lovander with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Predator Pal — Rampaging GoriratPredator-tier Gorirat with red aura and Rampaging prefix. Drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls. Cannot be captured. 30% spawn chance per render-distance entry.
Forgotten Island
Region info → (1)Windswept Hills
Region info → (1)All 33 Predator species
Every Rampaging variant in our seed data, parsed from the marker names. Click any species to open its detail page (regular drops, partner skill, related Pals).
- Blazehowl Noct
- Bushi Noct
- Cryolinx Terra
- Dazemu
- Digtoise
- Dinossom
Direhowl- Dogen
- Elphidran
- Faleris Aqua
- Gildane
- Gorirat
- Helzephyr Lux
- Incineram Noct
- Jormuntide Ignis
Kitsun- Loupmoon Cryst
- Lovander
- Maraith
- Mossanda
- Omascul
- Prixter
- Ragnahawk
- Rayhound
Relaxaurus- Reptyro Cryst
- Shroomer
- Sootseer
- Splatterina
- Starryon
- Tarantriss
- Vanwyrm
- Wumpo
How Predator fights work
- •Each Predator is pinned to a fixed open-world anchor point — they don't roam, so once mapped a Predator stays at that spot until killed.
- •Beyond the species' normal drops, every Predator drops Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls — both endgame crafting materials per wiki.gg. Neither item lives in our items.json yet, so we don't link a detail page for them.
- •Predators can be captured (slim odds) — players typically farm them via repeated kills since the drops are the prize, not the species capture.
- •Counter-element picks are in the section above — derived from the canonical type chart against the Predators' dominant elements in our data.
Frequently asked
Is a Predator the same as an Alpha?
No — Alphas are scaled-up regular spawns; their drop table is just the species' normal drops at higher counts. Predators add Predator Cores and Giant Pal Souls on top of the regular drop table, which is why they're the bigger material farm.
Can I capture a Predator?
Yes, but the capture rate is brutal — most players kill instead and reroll for the rare drops. A captured Predator still goes into the Paldeck under its species, not as a separate “Predator” entry.
Do Predators respawn?
Yes, after a server day cycle — same caveat as alphas: the exact timer has changed across patches and isn't in our marker data.
Sources for this guide
- Predator locations + species: our marker seed (paldb.cc extraction), 33 markers representing 33 unique species.
- Drop info (Predator Cores, Giant Pal Souls): palworld.wiki.gg/wiki/Predator_Pals. These items aren't in our items.json yet — when they land we'll link the per-item pages here.