Megaton Implode hits hardest in Palworld and ranks 33rd per second

Every skill table you find sorts by power, descending. Build from that list and you end up carrying nothing but 30 second cooldowns.

We divided power by cooldown across our skill data. Megaton Implode, first by power, lands 33rd.

102 skills are actually on the table

Group	Count
Active skills total	312
Carry both power and cooldown	310
Inheritable through breeding	102
Learnable from skill fruit	93

The 208 that cannot be inherited belong to specific Pals or to bosses. Your training decisions come from the 102, so everything below narrows to those.

Sorted by damage per second

Rank	Per sec	Power	CD	Skill	Element	Power rank
1	25	50	2s	Aqua Gun	Water	90th
2	25	50	2s	Spark Blast	Electric	91st
3	25	50	2s	Dark Ball	Dark	92nd
4	23.3	700	30s	Holy Burst	Neutral	2nd
5	23.3	700	30s	Radiant Barrage	Neutral	3rd
6	23.3	700	30s	Double Blizzard Spike	Ice	4th
7	23.3	700	30s	Absolute Frost	Ice	5th
8	23.3	700	30s	Meteorain	Dragon	6th

The top three run 50 power. Any list sorted by power buries them past 90th place, which is why they never come up in build discussions.

The spread is narrow. First place scores 25, fourth scores 23.3, a gap of 7 percent. The 700 power heavy hitters hold up fine per second, which surprised us going in.

Megaton Implode carries 1200 power on a 60 second cooldown for 20 per second. The name tells you the rest of the story.

Best pick by element

Element	Skill	Per sec	Power	CD	Fruit
Neutral	Holy Burst	23.3	700	30s	Yes
Fire	Volcanic Rain	22.5	450	20s	Yes
Water	Aqua Gun	25	50	2s	Yes
Grass	Solar Blast	22.5	450	20s	Yes
Electric	Spark Blast	25	50	2s	Yes
Ice	Double Blizzard Spike	23.3	700	30s	No
Ground	Sand Twister	20.8	500	24s	Yes
Dark	Dark Ball	25	50	2s	No
Dragon	Meteorain	23.3	700	30s	No

Highest damage per second per element, inheritable skills only. Ice, Dragon and Dark top out on skills with no fruit. Breed them down or catch a Pal that already knows them. Passive inheritance follows the same rule, so plan both in one pass.

Matching element against a weakness beats squeezing out another point of damage per second.

Where this number stops working

Power divided by cooldown measures sustained output on paper. Your actual damage comes from somewhere else.

• A miss scores zero. Range, projectile speed and area do not appear in the number at all
• Pals choose their own skills, so you cannot force the fast one to fire every cooldown
• Attack animations do not count toward the cooldown value

GameWith and Kamigame both grade skills on range and hit reliability alongside power and cooldown. Reading either one, you can tell the numbers were never meant to settle it alone.

A 50 power hit every 2 seconds and a 700 power hit every 30 also differ in whether you drop the target in one go. Long boss fights favour the first. Clearing a pack favours the second.

Summary

• 102 skills can be inherited; 310 carry both power and cooldown
• Aqua Gun, Spark Blast and Dark Ball lead at 25 per second, all below 90th by power
• The 700 power, 30 second skills reach 23.3, within 7 percent of the top
• Megaton Implode ranks 33rd at 20 per second
• Ice, Dragon and Dark have no skill fruit for their best option