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What Palworld updates mean for tier lists and tools

Every balance patch can move a Pal between tiers: capture-rate, work-speed, ride-speed and damage changes all feed the maths behind tier lists, breeding plans and damage calculators.

Updated 2026-08-08

Key takeaways
  • Capture rates
  • Work speed and base output
  • Mounts and ride speed
  • Combat maths

Capture rates

A capture-rate change alters which sphere tier is efficient at which HP threshold, which is exactly what the Pal Stars /capture-rates tool computes.

Work speed and base output

Work-suitability retuning reshuffles which workers are worth a base slot; re-check the base ratings rather than trusting a pre-patch build.

Mounts and ride speed

Ride-speed adjustments change the traversal meta directly. Compare current figures on /mounts after any patch touching movement.

Combat maths

Boss health, defence and element multipliers feed /damage. A single multiplier change can flip which loadout kills a tower boss fastest.

How Pal Stars keeps current

The database is re-audited against official sources on every update cycle, and the /data-integrity page shows what has been verified.