The Six Fishing Pals in Palworld: One Doubles Your Loot, Four Rig the Minigame
Six Palworld Pals have a Partner Skill that changes fishing, and they do not do the same thing. One nearly doubles what you pull out of the water. Four make the minigame easier to win. One changes what you catch. Party slots are limited, so knowing which of the three problems you actually have decides which Pal earns a place.
One Doubles Your Loot, The Rest Rig the Minigame
| Pal | Effect |
|---|---|
| Jelliette #45 | Items obtained from fishing +55~95% |
| Gloopie #48 | Capture gauge falls 12~35% more slowly while the bars are not overlapping |
| Whalaska #151 | Minigame starts 5~14% higher, and progress +5~14% while the bars overlap |
| Whalaska Ignis #151B | The same, at 7~17% |
| Solmora #169 | Makes it easier to fish up talented Pals |
| Solmora Lux #169B | The same, plus an Electric attack-type swap while mounted |
Jelliette is the outlier, and it is not close. +55~95% items from fishing is close to a doubling of everything the water gives you, and it does nothing to help you win the minigame — it changes the payout, not the odds.
Gloopie and the two Whalaska attack the minigame from opposite ends. Gloopie slows the gauge's decay while you are losing — that is, while the bars are not overlapping. The Whalaska pair start you further ahead and speed up progress while you are winning. Gloopie is a safety net; Whalaska is an accelerator.
Whalaska Ignis is strictly better than Whalaska — 7~17% against 5~14% on both halves of its skill, with no trade-off. If you have both, there is no reason to run the base form.
Solmora changes the catch, not the catching. "Makes it easier to fish up talented Pals" affects the quality of what you reel in rather than the quantity or the difficulty, which makes it the only one of the six aimed at Pal hunting rather than resource farming.
Pick by What Is Actually Failing
If you are losing the minigame — the fish escapes before you land it — bring Gloopie or a Whalaska. Gloopie is better when you are struggling with big fish that fight for a long time, because a slower gauge decay compounds over a long contest. Whalaska is better on short contests, because a head start of up to 17% may simply end the fight.
If you are catching fine but want more out of it, bring Jelliette. At +55~95% items it is the single largest multiplier available to any fishing activity in the game, and it applies to everything the spot yields — as our fishing loot guide covers, that includes Pal Souls, keys, spheres and schematics, not just fish.
If you are fishing for Pals rather than materials, bring Solmora. Talented catches are a different goal entirely, and no amount of extra items substitutes for it.
You can run more than one. Every skill here says (Does not stack), which only prevents two of the same skill — Jelliette and Gloopie together is a perfectly valid pair, doubling the loot on fights you are now more likely to win.
And note what Jelliette does at your base. Its skill has a second clause: while Jelliette and Jellroy are both at your base, Jelliette's watering speed increases by 50~120%. That half only applies at the base, not in your party, so you are choosing which half you want.
What Each One Costs
| Pal | Technology | Rideable |
|---|---|---|
| Jelliette | None | No |
| Gloopie | None | No |
| Whalaska | 42 | Yes |
| Whalaska Ignis | 71 | Yes |
| Solmora | 65 | Yes — travels on water |
| Solmora Lux | 66 | Yes — travels on water |
The two best value picks cost no technology at all. Jelliette and Gloopie need nothing unlocked — catch them and put them in your party. Given that Jelliette carries the biggest effect on the list, the strongest fishing setup in the game is available long before the endgame.
The four rideable ones double as water mounts, which changes the calculation on a party slot. Solmora and Solmora Lux travel on water at 1,300 swim dash; Whalaska is rideable from Technology 42. A fishing Pal that also carries you to the fishing spot is paying for its slot twice.
Whalaska Ignis at Technology 71 is the late one, and its improvement over the base Whalaska is a modest 2~3 percentage points. It is not worth waiting for; it is worth swapping to if you happen to have it.
Practical tips
- Six fishing Pals, doing three different jobs.
- Jelliette gives +55~95% items — by far the largest effect, and it costs no technology.
- Gloopie slows the gauge while you are losing; Whalaska speeds it while you are winning.
- Whalaska Ignis (7~17%) is strictly better than Whalaska (5~14%).
- Solmora makes talented Pals easier to fish up — a different goal entirely.
- All say (Does not stack), but different skills combine — Jelliette plus Gloopie works.
- Four of the six are rideable water mounts, paying for their party slot twice.
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Conclusion
Palworld's six fishing Partner Skills answer three separate problems. Jelliette grants +55~95% items obtained from fishing — the largest effect on the list, applying to everything a spot yields, and it requires no technology at all. Gloopie slows the capture gauge's decay by 12~35% while the bars are apart, and the Whalaska pair start the minigame 5~14% (or 7~17%) higher and speed progress while the bars overlap — a safety net and an accelerator respectively, with Whalaska Ignis strictly better than Whalaska. Solmora and Solmora Lux change what you catch rather than how you catch it, making talented Pals easier to fish up. Every skill says (Does not stack), but different skills combine freely — Jelliette plus Gloopie is the strongest pairing in the game and costs no technology. Four of the six double as rideable water mounts, which makes them cheaper in party slots than they look.
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