Dark Shot
Dark Shot is a Dark-element shot skill in Palworld with power 40 and a 2-second cooldown. 3 Pals learn it on their own, and the Dark Skill Fruit: Dark Shot teaches it to any Pal. Effective range: 500–4000.
Fires a dark energy projectile that accelerates over time.
- Long-range
- Spammable
- Effect-bearing
How to get Dark Shot
Teachable via Dark Skill Fruit: Dark Shot. Feed the fruit to any Pal — see all Skill Fruit Tree locations for where it spawns. 3 Pals also learn it natively (see list below).
Dark Shot can be inherited through breeding. Breeding gives a 50% chance to pass down one active skill from either parent, and it can be any skill they know — not just the four they have equipped. Plan a pair in the breeding calculator.
How Dark Shot stacks up
- Power: #27 of 29 in Dark Shot
- DPS: #187 of 308 across skills with this stat
- Cooldown: #29 of 308 across skills with this stat
- Range: #96 of 308 across skills with this stat
Pals that learn Dark Shot (3)
Effects
- Blind20 / 100
On hit, Dark Shot applies Blind (20 of the 100 needed to trigger it).
Closest comparable skills
| Skill | Power | CD | DPS | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toxic Dance | 800 | 30s | 26.7 | 2000 |
| Psycho Gravity | 700 | 30s | 23.3 | 5000 |
| Dark Root | 700 | 30s | 23.3 | 5000 |
| Dark Nova | 700 | 30s | 23.3 | 2000 |
| Lantern Flame | 650 | 30s | 21.7 | 4000 |
When to use Dark Shot
Dark Shot is spammable filler — 40 power but only a 2-second cooldown, so it stacks well with longer-cooldown burst skills and chips down low-HP mobs while bigger hitters recharge. It also applies darkness, so leading the rotation with it locks the target before your bigger hitters land.