Skutlass, a Water-type pal in Palworld, Paldex number 128

How to breed Skutlass.

Rarity 5 · 50% ♂ · wild Lv 30-66 496 parent pairs

The easiest pair that hatches Skutlass

Helzephyr and Tarantriss is the cheapest pair that hatches Skutlass in Palworld 1.0, out of 496 pairs that work. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 24.

both catchable in the wild · found from about level 24. Parents must be opposite genders.

The lineageread left to right
Pairs that make Skutlass
Helzephyr × Tarantriss both catchable in the wild · found from about level 24
Broncherry × Vaelet both catchable in the wild · found from about level 23
Skutlass Skutlass

Easiest pair first · rarest child first. Every parent pair is in the list below.

Gender odds on the Helzephyr and Tarantriss pair

Both Helzephyr and Tarantriss hatch 50/50 male, so every one you catch is a coin flip and two of each covers it. Skutlass comes out 50/50 too. Two of the same gender produces nothing at all, however right the pair is.

Weak to

Electric

Deals double to

Fire

Paldex entry

“A bizarre species which temporarily separates its body and uses its bones to slice through enemies, at the risk of perishing itself upon taking too long. While unconfirmed, older individuals are said to deliberately stay separated in order to trigger their survival instincts and prolong their lifespans.”

Skutlass is a Water-type pal with 496 parent pairs in Palworld 1.0, and not one of them is a special one-off recipe. Wild ones sit at level 30-66. Shortest chain from a starter box: 4 steps. Best jobs: Watering 4, Lumbering 4.

Breed rank1420
Rarity5/20
SizeM
Activeday
Wild level30-66
Passive slots4/4
Gender 50% ♂ · 50% ♀

Partner skill

Fish Fillet. When activated, Skutlass becomes the player's katana (Attack: 2600). If it does not revert to its normal form quickly, Skutlass will become incapacitated. It will also become incapacitated if Iaigiri is used.

Rank 1 → 5: 2600 · 2700 · 3000 · 3400 · 3900

Work suitability

Stats

HP 70 weak
Attack 100 average
Defense 80 weak
Stamina 100 weak
Run speed 500 average
Ride speed 800 average
Transport 300 average

Scaled across all 299 pals. A longer bar is a higher place in the roster.

Trust scaling

HP+5.5
Attack+2.5
Defense+3.3

Stat gain per trust rank, straight from the game's own parameter table. Read it as what Skutlass is worth after you have actually used it.

Drops

Per kill or capture. Each item links to every pal that drops it.

The 120 easiest of 496 parent pairs for Skutlass

Every pair that produces Skutlass averages to its breed rank of 1420, and 496 pairs in the Palworld 1.0 table hit that number. Opposite genders, cake in the breeding farm, then the egg goes in an egg incubator. Some are two wild catches. The rest need a breed first.

The list stops at 120. Open the planner to filter the other 376 against the pals you already own.

Why an older Skutlass combo list won't work

Pre-1.0 guides name a recipe. The 1.0 table works on averages: a pair produces Skutlass when the two parents' breed ranks average to its 1420. 496 different pairs hit that average, which is why a page showing five or six rows is quoting a sample rather than an answer.

Ours is the game's real 44,849-pair table, shipped verbatim rather than approximated from the rank formula. The 19,044 figure still in circulation is 138 squared, the pre-1.0 roster of base forms counted as ordered pairs, so it measures something else. One pair shows the difference. Every calculator downstream of palcalc ships Panthalus and Panthalus as breeding true, and the game's own tables prove it cannot, because that pair yields Aegidron.

The shortest breeding path to Skutlass

4 breeding steps from a starter box reach Skutlass, beginning with Arsox and Chillet. Every egg after that becomes a parent in the next step.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4

Measured from an early-game box. Anything you already own further along cuts steps off, so load your save and it routes from there.

Skutlass passive skill odds per egg

A clean four-passive pool across both parents gives 10.0% per Skutlass egg, which is about 22 eggs for a 90% shot at all four. Every extra passive skill on either parent lowers it.

You wantParent poolPer eggEggs for 90%
4 specific passives4 10.0%22
4 specific passives5 2.0%114
4 specific passives6 0.7%345
3 specific passives3 30.0%7
3 specific passives4 15.0%15
3 specific passives5 6.0%38
2 specific passives2 60.0%3
2 specific passives4 25.0%9

One junk passive on a parent can double the eggs you need. The per-egg column is the chance every passive skill you want lands on the egg, with random extras allowed. The roll behind these numbers is worked through in the full Palworld passive inheritance odds table, and the planner ranks the pairs in your own box by them.

Is Skutlass worth breeding, or should you catch one?

Catch one. Skutlass spawns from level 30, well short of the 4-step chain it takes to make one. The shortest chain from a starter box runs 4 steps, and the cheapest pair still needs a level 24 catch. With 496 pairs on the list, one half of one of them is probably in your box already.

Breed it anyway once you own one. A pair is how you roll passive skills; catching is how you get the species.

Where to find Skutlass in the wild

Skutlass spawns in Twilight Dunes and 1 other area, at level 30-34. Another 14 of its spawn points sit outside every named region.

day 110 spawn points
RegionLevelSpawn points
Twilight Dunes30-3494
Deep Bamboo Thicket30-342

Skutlass work suitability and drops

Skutlass has Watering 4 and Lumbering 4 in Palworld 1.0, and drops Ancient Civilization Parts and Aquatic Pal Fluids when killed or caught. Those levels and the drop rows come from our own export of the game's tables.

What Skutlass is actually for once it hatches

Watering 4 is the job to put it on, mid-table out of a ceiling of 8. See best Watering pals for what beats it. Lumbering 4 sits right behind it, so one Skutlass covers two jobs.

Skutlass active skills and partner skill

Skutlass learns 8 active skills as it levels, the last at level 70. Its partner skill is Fish Fillet. That learnset is our own export of the game's level table, cooldowns and all.

What Skutlass breeds into as a parent

Paired with other species, Skutlass produces 91 different children, the rarest of them Menasting and Kingpaca. A parent that wide is worth a farm slot on its own.

Skutlass breeding FAQ

Can you breed Skutlass in Palworld?
Yes. 496 pairs produce Skutlass in the Palworld 1.0 breeding table. Both parents have to be opposite genders, in a breeding farm, with cake in the feed box. The cheapest of those pairs is Helzephyr and Tarantriss, and the egg then needs an egg incubator to hatch.
What two Pals make Skutlass in Palworld?
Helzephyr and Tarantriss, opposite genders. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 24, which makes it the cheapest of the 496 pairs that produce Skutlass. Every other pair is listed on this page. Both parents average to its breed rank of 1420.
Can you catch Skutlass in the wild in Palworld 1.0?
Yes, at level 30-66. Its spawn points fall inside 2 named regions, the densest Twilight Dunes, where they run level 30-34. There is no alpha Skutlass, so field spawns are the only source of one. The map on this page marks 110 spawn points for it in total.
Are these Skutlass breeding combos updated for Palworld 1.0?
Yes. Every pair here comes out of the game's real 44,849-pair table, shipped verbatim rather than approximated. All 496 of Skutlass's pairs are in the list, with the easiest 120 shown. Panthalus and Panthalus is the usual tell of a stale list, and the game's tables rule it out.
Can Skutlass be bred in the early game?
The cheapest pair needs a level 24 catch, so not much before mid-game. From a starter box the chain runs 4 steps, opening with Arsox and Chillet. Anything you already own further along shortens it, which is the part loading your own save changes.
Can Skutlass inherit all four passive skills from one egg?
Only if both parents' combined pool is exactly those four. Skutlass is born with no fixed passive, so all four slots are open, and a pair like Helzephyr and Tarantriss has to carry nothing else. A clean four-passive pool is 10% per egg, about 22 eggs for a 90% shot.

Route this pair from your own save

Pal Hatchery reads your Level.sav in your browser and tells you which half of the Helzephyr and Tarantriss pair you already own. It reads genders, levels and passive skills off the save, then routes from there. Nothing is uploaded.

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