The Legend Passive in Palworld 1.0.

What Legend actually gives you

Legend gives Attack +20%, Defense +20% and Movement Speed +20% out of a single passive slot. Three combat stats for one of four slots is the reason it anchors most endgame builds, and the reason it is worth chasing on a mount in particular.

Two notes on that Movement Speed figure. The game's passive table puts it at 20%, and the widely cited 15% is a pre-1.0 number that has not been updated where it is published. If you are picking between builds on the strength of that stat, use 20.

Legend is also a quest key. One of the Researcher's requests asks you to "talk to the Researcher while a Pal with the Legend passive skill is summoned", so a carrier in your party has a use beyond its statline. Any Pal carrying Legend satisfies it, bred ones included.

Which Pals have the Legend passive

Seven Pals come with Legend already attached in Palworld 1.0: Panthalus, Jetragon, Frostallion Noct, Frostallion, Neptilius, Paladius and Necromus. Every other Pal in the game has to get it from a parent or from an implant.

Panthalus Water Jetragon Dragon Frostallion Noct Dark Frostallion Ice Neptilius Water Paladius Neutral Necromus Dark

The seven carriers, with breed rank and wild level

Breed rank is what decides where a Pal sits in the breeding table, and low means rare. Six of the seven spawn in the wild and are plain catch targets. Panthalus has no wild level at all.

Jetragon at rank 70 is the rarest carrier you can put in a breeding pen, and the highest-level spawn at Lv 60-70. Frostallion Noct at rank 110 is the least rare, which makes it the cheapest carrier to hatch spares of once you own one. Six of the seven also arrive with a second guaranteed passive alongside Legend, and that second passive lands in your breeding pool whether you want it or not.

Panthalus has Legend, and it is the odd one out

Panthalus carries Legend on the game's boss row for it, which is the only Panthalus you can meet. Its ordinary species row holds no passives, has no wild level, and sits behind a flag that keeps it out of breeding combinations, so no egg produces one.

So palworld.wiki.gg is right to list it among the carriers, and any list stopping at six has left it out. It is still no use to a chain. A Pal you cannot breed cannot be a parent, and the Panthalus plus Panthalus pair most calculators publish returns Aegidron in game, so plan around the six catchable carriers.

Two ways to get Legend onto a Pal

Breeding and surgery. Breeding hands Legend from a parent to an egg and can spread it across a whole lineage, while the Pal Surgery Table implants it into one slot on one already-hatched Pal, once, and then that Pal can never be operated on again.

Which one you want depends on how many passives you are assembling. For a single finished Pal that already holds three passives you like, surgery is dramatically cheaper, because there is no chain to run and no cake to burn. For a four-passive target from scratch, or for putting Legend onto several Pals, breeding is still the only route that scales.

Breeding, and yes it works

Nothing in the game's tables blocks a passive from passing parent to child, Legend included. The inheritable flag that marks Legend sits on the random lottery, which is what wild Pals and random egg bonuses roll from. Parent inheritance is a separate draw and reads the parents' passives directly. Both major wikis agree. Treat it as settled.

Surgery, and its one-shot limit

The Pal Surgery Table arrived with 1.0, and its own description says you can perform surgeries to implant passive skills and switch gender. Implants are items you hold, one per passive, and the game ships 68 of them, 40 reusable and 28 labeled Disposable Implant. Legend is in the second group.

There is no reusable Legend implant. Disposable Implant: Legend exists, Implant: Legend does not, so every Legend you install costs you an item you cannot get back. Lucky is in the same position.

Three limits decide whether this is useful to you.

• One surgery per Pal, ever. Bring an operated Pal back and the table answers "this Pal has already undergone surgery". An implant fills one slot, not four.
• It overwrites. The confirmation warns that if the selected slot already holds a passive, the new one replaces it. On a Pal with four filled slots an implant costs you one of them, and the log line for that is a Pal losing a passive.
• The implant is the scarce part. A disposable implant is consumed, so implanting Legend onto ten Pals means ten of them.

So the honest division of labor: breeding assembles the set, surgery fixes one slot. If your project is a single perfect Pal and Legend is the last thing missing, buy the surgery and stop breeding. If you want Legend on a stable of mounts, or you want it alongside three other specific passives on a species that cannot inherit it conveniently, you are breeding, and the rest of this guide is for you.

The same table also holds the Pal Reverser, a medicine that changes a Pal's gender. That matters more than it sounds for a Legend chain, because a wrong-gender hatch of a carrier is what stalls one.

Catch a carrier first

Start every Legend chain by catching one. The six carriers you can breed from spawn at level 60 or above, several can only be bred from two of themselves, and the one that cannot be bred at all is a boss.

That circularity is the point. To breed a Frostallion you need two Frostallion, so the first one is caught whatever your plan is. Bring legendary spheres and do not try to route to one through the breeding table.

Level is the practical filter. Frostallion, Neptilius, Paladius and Necromus sit at the bottom of the range at Lv 60, and Jetragon at Lv 60-70 is the one to leave until last. Each carrier's own page has its pairings and where it turns up. How to breed Jetragon and Frostallion parent pairs are the two worth reading before you go, and all 299 Pals with their breed ranks puts them in context.

Already deep into a save? Check your box for a Legend carrier before you plan a hunt. People forget what they caught.

The chain, step by step

Run the chain in four steps, catching a carrier, breeding it clean against a blank partner, splitting the passives you want across two parents, then routing toward your target species carrying Legend along. Step two is the one that sets the cost.

1. Get one carrier and ignore what else it holds. Every carrier you can breed from arrives with Legend plus a second guaranteed passive, and at this stage that is fine. You need the Legend in your pool, not a clean Pal.
2. Clean it against a blank partner. Breed the carrier to something with no passives at all and keep only offspring holding Legend and as little else as possible. A cheap common species is the right partner here, because you will hatch several before one comes out clean.
3. Build both sides. Two parents holding, between them, exactly the passives you want and nothing else. Split them across the pair. Stacking everything on one side does not help, because the pool is shared and the parent you ignore sets your ceiling.
4. Route to the species you want. Only with a clean pool do you start moving toward the target, carrying Legend down the chain. Rerolling passives on a rare species costs far more than rerolling them on a common one, so do the cleaning early and the routing late.

Step two decides everything because pool size is the only variable you control. The odds math has the weights and the full table of pool sizes, and how breed rank picks the species explains why the route looks nothing like a family tree.

One shortcut worth knowing. Since parent sex does not affect what gets passed down, put Legend on whichever Pal is cheapest to hatch spares of and leave the impressive one out of it. A Lamball carrying Legend is worth exactly as much to an egg as a Jetragon carrying it.

How long the chain takes

Plan on three sessions. Cleaning the carrier is a handful of eggs, building both parents is another handful, and the final roll from a clean four-passive pool runs to about 22 eggs on its own.

That final number moves violently with pool hygiene, which is the whole argument for step two. A clean pool of four is the 22-egg case. Leave one junk passive on either parent and the same target becomes a multiple of that, and leaving two turns an evening into a week of collecting. The count is not the interesting part. The cleanliness is.

Cake is the real clock. A cake per egg puts the limit on your ranch and not on your luck, and the cake a 22-egg chain burns through puts a shopping list against it. Stock first, then start.

What to put in the other three slots

Spend the other three slots on things Legend does not already cover. Legend handles attack, defense and movement speed, so a second attack passive stacks into a stat you have and leaves the gaps open.

For a mount the gap is stamina, so passives that extend how long you can run beat more damage. A combat partner wants survivability, and flat attack is the wrong buy. On a base worker Legend is a wasted slot entirely, and work speed belongs there instead.

Watch out for passives that read as upgrades and are not. Musclehead gives Attack +30% and Work Speed -50% together, excellent on a mount and ruinous on a base worker. Read the whole description first.

Legend is one of 30 passives that never appear from a random roll, so any slot you fill with one of the other 29 has the same problem. A parent is the only way in. Mixing two of them onto one Pal is the genuinely expensive project.

What to build before you start the chain

Two structures earn their spot on a Legend project. A cooking pot with a Kindling Pal on it, because the chain runs on cake, and the Ancient Hatchery, which breeds and incubates in one building and saves the walking on a long run.

Special Cake is the one feed that touches inheritance, and the game gives its effect a direction and no size. Which cake to feed and what a chain costs to supply has all five with the game's wording against each. Stock before you catch, not after.

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Frequently asked

What does the Legend passive do in Palworld?

Legend gives Attack +20%, Defense +20% and Movement Speed +20% from one passive slot. Three combat stats out of four slots is why it is treated as the strongest single passive in the game, especially on a mount you ride everywhere.

Which Pals have the Legend passive?

Seven of them in Palworld 1.0: Panthalus, Jetragon, Frostallion Noct, Frostallion, Neptilius, Paladius and Necromus. Six of those spawn in the wild and Panthalus is a boss fight. Every other Pal in the game has to inherit Legend from a parent or be given it by surgery.

Can you breed the Legend passive onto other Pals?

Yes. Legend passes from parent to child like any other passive, so a carrier paired with anything can produce a non-legendary child holding it. What Legend cannot do is turn up on a wild Pal or as a random bonus on an egg.

Can you implant the Legend passive in Palworld 1.0?

Yes, at a Pal Surgery Table, using a Disposable Implant: Legend. There is no reusable version, the implant is consumed, it fills only one slot and overwrites whatever was there, and each Pal can be operated on once and never again.

Does Panthalus have the Legend passive?

Yes. The game's boss row for Panthalus carries Legend, so lists counting seven carriers are right. Its ordinary species row holds no passives, has no wild level, and sits behind a flag that keeps it out of breeding combinations, so no egg will ever produce one.

How do you get a Legend Pal in Palworld?

Catch one of the six carriers that spawn in the wild, then breed outward. Jetragon sits highest at wild lv 60-70 and Frostallion Noct spawns at 65, while the other four sit at 60. Panthalus carries Legend too and is a boss, so it cannot start a chain.

How many eggs does a Legend chain take?

About 22 for the final roll from a clean pool of exactly four passives, plus the eggs spent cleaning the carrier first. A pool with junk left in it multiplies that instead of adding to it, so the cleaning is where the time goes.

Should I breed passives before or after routing to the species I want?

Clean the passive pool first, on cheap intermediate species, then carry it along the route. Rerolling passives on a rare target costs far more cake than rerolling them on something common you can hatch spares of all afternoon. Cake is the limiting resource either way.

Keep reading

Breeding pages for all 299 pals carry every parent combo, the shortest route and the passive odds, one page each.

Anubis Jetragon Frostallion Lyleen Blazamut Necromus Paladius Shadowbeak