Palworld Breeding Guide: How Combos Actually Work
How Palworld's hidden breeding power system determines offspring, including the standard averaging formula and special fixed combinations.
Every Pal has a hidden numeric value called breeding power ( CombiRank in the game files) that's never shown in-game, and it's the single value that decides what two parents produce.
The standard formula
- Target power = floor((parent 1 power + parent 2 power + 1) ÷ 2)
- The offspring is the standard Pal whose breeding power is closest to that target value.
Because breeding power runs backward from what you'd expect — lower numbers mean rarer, stronger Pals — breeding two common early-game Pals tends to produce another common Pal near the middle of the scale, while pairing a rare Pal with almost anything pulls the result toward that rare end.
Special combinations
Same-species pairs always produce that same species, and roughly 160 pairs are hard-coded "special combos" that produce a fixed result outside the normal averaging formula — this is how unique variant Pals are bred.
Why guessing doesn't work
Because many Pals cluster close together in breeding power, a small change in one parent can produce a surprisingly different offspring — which is exactly why a calculator using the game's actual extracted breeding table beats estimating from general rules of thumb.
The Palworld Breeding Calculator uses the full extracted breeding table — all 44,850 parent pairs — to give an exact offspring result, or work backward from a target Pal to every valid parent pair.