New player needs help getting started with Breeding

[Wanderlust]

I've seen many tutorials that purport to be "the ultimate breeding guide" and most start off discussing the mechanics of putting two pals together to form an egg, how to make a cake, etc. Ok, I know the mechanics, I have cake. What I don't have is the understanding of why I would want to breed a particular combo, and -- most importantly -- how to manipulate the passive stats to get my desired best combination in the end.

I've researched passives and I know generally which I want for which purpose (base work, combat, mounts, etc.), but what I don't understand is how you manipulate these passives via breeding to come up with a perfect set in the end prior to condensing.

I'm not looking for anyone to answer this fully here, I'm perfectly willing to go read a good thorough guide that doesn't assume knowledge, and gets down to my specific questions. Any ideas?

Thanks for any insights or suggestions. For what it's worth, I'm level 36 and I would say my highest priority first is some quality pals to speed up work around my 3 bases, followed by either mounts or combat.

[Xaelon]

Breeding mostly exists as a way to get pals with a full set of useful gold passives. Catching a wild pal with a full set of min-maxed gold perks would be akin to winning the lottery, so by breeding you can bipass ALOT of that RNG.

There is no RNG in breeding when it comes to what the offspring is. Breeding Chikipi + Cattiva will always produce a Mau for example. But: what perks the child gets are random.

However you can improve the odds of getting specific perks by using parents with the perks you want. So if your goal was to make a speedy mount with the "Swift" and "Runner" perks you'd want to use parents with those two perks. To be clear the parents aren't guaranteed to pass their perks to the kid, but they do have a good chance of doing so.

The tricky thing is: you may not have parents with the perks you want, so you'll have to do a breeding chain to 'move' the desired perks to one of the parents.

This is a relatively simple example, but when I was playing this game I wanted to breed a Ragnahawk with Swift + Runner. Earlier in my playthrough I had already bred a Kitsun with Swift + Runner so to save myself some time I used that as one of the parents.

Except....nothing I had access to would produce a Ragnahawk when paired with my Kitsun.

I would end up breeding [Kitsun x Helzephyr] to make a Swift + Runner Grintail first. Then once I had that, it was just a matter of breeding the Grintail with a Pyrin Noct enough times to produce a Ragnahawk with the two perks I wanted.

Thankfully someone made this tool which saved me a lot of time: https://palworld.kimpton.io/?palSelector=13.1

Without the tool you'll just have to breed pals randomly until you find parents that produce the right kid.

Originally posted by Someone:

Does having the same perk on both parents improve the odds of passing it to the the child?

I dunno. It can't hurt though. I found the odds to be good enough if just one of the parents had whatever I was going for.

Originally posted by Someone:

What happens if the parents have less than 4 unique perks or no perks?

What perks the kid has will be random then, just as if you caught it in the wild.

[Monkey Magic]

I wrote this a while back if you wanna check it out. Saves me having to repeat it:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167888136

[Wanderlust]

Thanks guys, I will go read these through and try to put it all together.