Palmon Survival Best Teams

This is the team the opening chapters hand you, and only one member of it matters long term. Ninjump is your lone UR and the only Palmon here that will ever evolve, so its shuriken fan does most of the killing from the first stage on. Treat everyone else as borrowed. Wyvierno's burning sweep helps Ninjump clear waves, Squeezel finishes whatever the fan leaves standing, and Platyputz throws a small shield on whoever is lowest.

Once Ninjump reaches 5 stars, stop feeding it and start on the two URs that push out your weakest SSRs. Dolphriend is the bigger upgrade. Its Rush Wave stuns its target most of the time, so the front line finally hits back, and as a UR it is far sturdier than Platyputz ever gets. Abuzzinian fixes the other early annoyance, enemies left on a sliver of health: Nightstorm always strikes the two lowest-HP targets, so Ninjump softens a wave and the bolts finish it.

Every SSR is gone, and the team now leans hard toward bosses. Fingenue's Waterspout is the biggest single hit you own at this point and Barkplug's Overcharge is close behind, so a boss takes two huge blows every Rage cycle instead of being chipped down. Dolphriend and Barkplug both gain max HP in combat, which keeps the front standing until those hits come round again.

The same five URs, now evolving, and the order you evolve them matters more than the lineup. Bufonobi goes first because its evolution puts more power on the shuriken fan that already does most of your damage. Adolphonis comes next: below half HP it halves the damage it takes, which turns it into a real wall, and the Dolphriend line gets a Mega form later, so that essence keeps paying. Servolt's extra Crit Rate and Finnabelle's heavier Waterspout can wait their turn.

Seven Water Palmon, and the point is that every one of them sits under two team buffs at once. Lionarch makes Water allies hit harder and Gnashfin makes them take less, which is why the team needs only three real damage dealers. Bufonobi clears waves while Finnabelle and Oneirina delete single targets. Oneirina's Torment ignores Evasion and Invincibility, so even a Thundermane mid-barrage can't escape it. Cryovern freezes everything near it and punishes the thaw.

Kungfury is here for what it does before the fight really starts. Shifu's Guidance cuts the Rage Skill damage your back row takes in the opening seconds, which is exactly when enemy nukes land on Bufonobi and your two single-target hitters. It keeps that aura from the bench as well, so this is the team for the stretch before the Water Mythics, when you have a front slot to fill and nothing better to put there.

Prismalith turns the Water core from a team that wins fast into one that wins long fights. Every Avalanche Charge stuns everything in its path and makes Prismalith tougher, and there is a good chance the charge fires a second time. That makes it the right tank for bosses and for arena matches that drag on. It is the one off-element Palmon worth taking here. Six Water keep both Lionarch's and Gnashfin's buffs on almost the whole team, and six out of seven is as far from pure as you should go.

This is the bridge for Water players moving to Electric, the element Water loses to. Thundermane is the reason to switch. It stays Invincible through its 12-strike barrage, and the strikes lean toward the enemy with the highest Attack, so the opposing carry gets hunted first. Ampereina and Keraunosaur give every Electric ally more damage and less damage taken, which is why the one Water Palmon left over is the first thing to replace.

Shockmantis changes how Electric fights. Lightning Leap jumps straight onto the enemy back row and usually paralyzes it, so their Rage Skills stay locked while Thundermane, Sorceray and Wattweiler take their turns. After each Leap it also gives every Electric ally 30% damage reduction for 10 seconds. That is how a team with no healer holds through the enemy's answer. The seventh slot is left for a tank.

Electric at its peak, and it only works because all seven are Electric. Gryphonarch's Crit Rate aura, Ampereina's damage boost and Keraunosaur's damage cut each reach Electric allies only, so one off-element slot switches off part of all three. The fight follows a script. Shockmantis leaps onto the back row and paralyzes it, and Thundermane uses that window to shred the highest-Attack Palmon while Gryphonarch's chain lightning and Sorceray's bombs hit everyone else.

Earth wins by getting stronger the longer the fight runs. Each Rage Skill cast adds a stack of Final Attack to the whole Earth team through Scorphelas, up to three, and Scorphelas itself bursts out under the three highest-Attack enemies. The front row is there to buy time for those stacks. Prismalith stuns and hardens, Chefeuillier soaks damage aimed at its allies, and Anubeast's roar weakens every enemy for a few seconds.

Fire plays as a chain, and the order is everything. Obsidrake opens by burning three enemies, Flaries' volley then stuns any back-row target that is already burning, and Cinderpurr's grab marks four enemies to take more burn damage. Get it right and the enemy back row spends the fight stunned and on fire. Pyronyx and Pyregeist hold the front: Pyronyx comes back at full HP once after it falls, and Pyregeist's shield explodes into a burn on every enemy.

The richest version of Water, and a lineup that has taken first place in Peak Palosseum. Abysphira is its new centre. Her wave hits the whole enemy front row, and whenever a Water ally drops below half HP it starts dealing more damage, so this team grows more dangerous the closer it comes to losing. Dreadmaw adds one huge bite for the enemy's toughest target, and Prismalith at the front buys the long fights Abysphira wants.