Palmon Survival Best Teams

Built aroundWater×3

Palmon Survival runs a small team of a few Palmon, and one composition covers most of the game. A DPS carry, a frontliner, and a support — the day-one meta core handles all PvE event content and early PvP.

• Match your team to one element where you can — same-element Palmon share formation buffs, and the element you build decides your damage type against the wave.
• Every UR Palmon evolves into a stronger form (Ninjump → Shadowkaeru, Mantleray → Mystiray). Focus your evolution material on ONE carry rather than spreading it.
• A Ninjump with the wrong S-rank stats and no blueprint breeding underperforms badly — the build matters as much as the Palmon.
• Frontliner / Backliner is the positioning axis — frontliners tank and brawl, backliners deal ranged damage and support from safety.

Flex / subs: Mantleray as a second damage dealer (Electric), with Mystiray as its Mega ceiling · Hoofrit / Barkplug — the other S-tier picks for Fire / Electric teams · Baboom, Regalion, Gnashley, Statchew — A-tier damage / frontline options

Built aroundWater×3

For single-target boss damage and PvP, you shift the core toward a hyper-carry plus the tank and enabler that let it survive and land its full rotation.

• Bosses have an element — bring the element that beats it for the damage multiplier, and avoid the element it beats.
• In PvP the meta is currently the same top Palmon as PvE plus their Mega evolutions — a Mega Mantleray stalled at pre-Mega is a mid-tier unit at a whale price, so only chase the Mega if you can finish it.
• Ghillant is the PvP anchor — her HP ceiling makes her very hard to burst, buying your carry the turns it needs.
• PvP shifts season to season (Conquest / Season 2). Treat this as a starting point and adapt to the current mode's rules.

Flex / subs: Mantleray → Mystiray as the Electric hyper-carry alternative · Statchew / Baboom as an Earth boss-damage pick · Any A-tier tank if you don't have Ghillant yet

Built aroundElectric×5

Electric beats Water on the element wheel, so this is the answer to the Ninjump/Fingenue Water cores that dominate PvP defenses. Barkplug provides the single-target nuke, Mantleray the multi-hit spread, and the rest bring paralysis and Attack denial.

• This is a documented synthesis, not a sourced creator comp — it reasons from the confirmed element wheel (Electric beats Water, +10% damage dealt and -10% taken) plus each unit's own printed skill text, since no Palmon Survival creator publishes a named mono-Electric anti-Water team. Treat it as a reasoned build, not a measured meta.
• Field this specifically against Water defenses in Conquest/Arena — the element edge is doing as much work as the kits are.
• Concentrate all evolution and S-rank stat investment on Barkplug first; Mantleray only becomes the second carry once you can actually finish its Mega.
• Weak into Earth, which beats Electric back — do not bring this comp into an Earth matchup.

Flex / subs: Limudroid or Salamantis-style AoE swap into the fifth slot for wave clear over the counter-shield · Thunderclawd or Voltbolt (SSR) as budget Electric fillers for the formation count · Rotorlotor (SSR) as a budget paralysis option if you need more control and want to stay on-element

Built aroundEarth×5

Earth's kits are built around denying the enemy damage rather than racing it — Ghillant redirects hits off the team, Statchew and Woozard cut enemy Attack, and Baboom locks a threat down with a guaranteed stun. Earth also beats Electric on the wheel.

• This is a documented synthesis, not a sourced creator comp — no Palmon Survival creator publishes a named mono-Earth attrition team, so it is assembled from the game's own printed skill text (Ghillant's damage-redirect, Statchew's -30% damage-dealt, Woozard's -35% Attack, Baboom's 100% stun) plus the element wheel where Earth beats Electric. Treat it as a reasoned build, not a measured meta.
• This comp wins by surviving longer than the enemy can keep up damage — expect slow clears, not fast ones.
• Bring it into Electric matchups and into long survival modes where a burst team runs out of runway; avoid it into Fire, which beats Earth.
• Stack Baboom's stun on whichever enemy your carry can't afford to let act — a boss's telegraphed heavy hit, or an enemy Ninjump in PvP.

Flex / subs: Surveilynx in place of Salamantis for fan-shaped AoE instead of scattered darts · Herculeaf / Spinchilla (SR) as budget Earth fillers for the formation count · A second Earth Backliner damage dealer over Baboom if the content has no single threat worth stunning

Built aroundWater×5

A Water line-up built for locking the enemy team out of its turn instead of racing it: Snowkami freezes, Dolphriend stuns, and Lucidina pulls a target out of the fight entirely before detonating it. The two frontliners buy the seconds the control needs to land.

• This is a documented synthesis, not a sourced creator comp — no Palmon Survival creator publishes a named Water control/lockdown team, so it is built from the game's own printed skill text (Snowkami's 70% Freeze, Dolphriend's 70% stun, Lucidina's 3s dream incapacitate) rather than a measured meta.
• Distinct from the Water DPS core: this comp is not trying to out-damage the enemy, it is trying to stop them acting — sequence Snowkami then Dolphriend so the freeze and stun windows overlap as little as possible and cover more real time.
• Save Lucidina's Torment for the enemy's own carry or healer — the 3s removal plus the evasion-ignoring detonation is a clean single-target delete.
• All five are Water, so the same-element formation buff is active; the comp still loses the element matchup into Electric.

Flex / subs: Ninjump in the Lucidina slot if you want fan AoE damage over a single-target removal · Gnashley for a harder single-target Frontliner in place of Regalion · Platyputz (SSR) for a shield if the enemy burst is getting through before the lock lands

Built aroundWater×3

Your starter Palmon and early SSRs clear the opening chapters fine. The goal is to identify your one carry early and funnel all your evolution and upgrade material into it rather than spreading thin.

• Redeem the codes first (Codes page) — Pallite is the premium pull currency.
• Don't reroll hard — the standard pool has strong Palmon and the game is generous. If you target one, Ninjump (carry) or Ghillant (tank) have the biggest impact.
• Pick ONE element and build its team — same-element Palmon share formation buffs, and spreading across four elements leaves all of them weak.
• Assign your BENCH Palmon to base jobs, not your team — see the Base & job guide. Keep your strongest for Combat.
• Focus evolution / blueprint material on your single carry. A half-evolved carry is worse than a fully-built B-tier one.

Flex / subs: Incineraptor, Squeezel, Meowdame, Battereina — the other strong SSRs · Any UR you pull — even at B tier, a UR out-ceilings an SSR once evolved · Herculeaf / Emboa / Kilohopp as SR stopgaps for an empty slot early

Built aroundFire×5

Every Fire Palmon here either applies a burn or gets stronger against a burning target, so the burns from one pile onto the payoffs of the next. Fire also beats Earth on the element wheel, so this is the team to field against an Earth-heavy wave or defense.

• This is a documented synthesis, not a creator-sourced comp — no dedicated Palmon Survival tier-list creator publishes a named mono-Fire burn team, so it is built from the game's own printed skill text (Blazeal's 1.5x-vs-burning line, Hoofrit's stun-vs-burning line, the Magmolin/Revontulet burn DoTs) plus the confirmed element wheel where Fire beats Earth. Treat it as a reasoned build, not a measured meta.
• The order of operations matters: open with Magmolin and Revontulet to spread burn, then let Hoofrit and Blazeal cash it in.
• All five share the Fire element, so the same-element formation buff is active and every hit lands as Fire damage — bring this specifically into Earth matchups, and avoid it into Water.

Flex / subs: Pipistrigoi or Wyvierno as a lower-rarity Fire DoT filler if you are short a UR · Incineraptor (SSR) in a back slot as a budget line-damage option · Blaze the fifth slot with any Fire Palmon of your roster for the formation count if Escarffier is unbuilt

Built aroundWater×5

A full team you can field without ever pulling a UR carry. Every slot is an SSR, every slot is Water for the formation buff, and the roster still covers damage, an amp, a shield and a mitigation ward — enough to clear campaign and event PvE while you wait on a UR.

• This is a documented synthesis, not a sourced creator comp — no Palmon Survival creator publishes a named all-SSR no-UR team, so it is built from which SSR kits carry real damage or utility per the game's own printed skill text, following the project's usual approach to thin-signal games. Treat it as a reasoned build, not a measured meta.
• Distinct from the new-player core, which mixes in a UR carry and is about funnelling material into it — this roster assumes you have no UR to funnel into yet.
• Upgrade path: the Snowkami slot is the first to go when you pull Ninjump (or any UR Water carry); Platyputz and Maximito can stay for a long time.
• All five are Water for the same-element formation buff — swap the whole team's element only if a wave hard-counters Water (Electric).

Flex / subs: Incineraptor (SSR Fire) for line-shaped AoE if you accept breaking mono-Water · Battereina (UR) or any UR into the Snowkami slot the moment you pull one · Maximito swapped for a second SSR damage dealer once your sustain is comfortable