Palworld IV calculator: read each hidden talent, and see how sharp the read actually is

Where the two databases disagree

Any Palworld IV calculator is only as good as the species base stat it starts from, including this one. Every Pal in the dropdown was checked on palworld.wiki.gg and on paldb.cc. Seven matched. Two did not, and neither site shows where its numbers came from.

The gap is not cosmetic. Take a level 40 Grizzbolt showing 3241 HP. On the palworld.wiki.gg value that is talent 70 exactly. On the paldb.cc value no talent produces 3241 at all, because the whole HP window shifts up to 3100 through 3820. So that screen reading fits one database and cannot fit the other, which is as far as the arithmetic goes: it does not tell you which database is wrong. Load the Grizzbolt example above and the calculator will show you both answers side by side.

This is the same failure mode we documented for mutation rates, where published figures differ by five to tenfold. Numbers get copied between guides until the disagreement is invisible.

Why an IV calculator hands back a range for Attack and a number for HP

The stat maths rounds down twice, once inside the level-scaling step and once after the soul and condenser multipliers. On an unenhanced Pal the outer floor has nothing left to do, so the ties you see are the inner one. Rounding destroys information, and how much it destroys depends on how far apart two neighbouring talents sit before it happens.

HP multiplies the species value by 0.5 per level. Attack and Defense multiply theirs by 0.075, nearly seven times smaller. One extra point of talent moves an HP figure by more than a whole point long before it moves an Attack figure by that much, so HP escapes the rounding much earlier. Not immediately, though: below about level 8 even HP ties up, and a level 1 Lamball has only 11 distinguishable HP values for its 101 talents.

An Anubis at level 10 has 30 distinguishable Attack values covering all 101 talents, so a read there is roughly a guess with error bars. The same Anubis at level 40 has all 101. A Lamball never gets there at all: at level 60 it still only shows 95, because a small species value keeps the steps small.

Players landed on the same conclusion from the other direction. In the Steam thread Question about IVs (new tab), MewTressym writes that "At low lvl's it is difficult to determine exact IV's, by lvl 50 you can easily determine it's exact IV's. Around 20's you can reasonably pin it down", and later that "The IV Calculators are not an exact science currently so round to nearest likely stat". The table below is that instinct, counted out.

How many talents the screen can tell apart, level by level

This is the number that decides whether a Palworld IV calculator can give you an answer or only a band. Each cell counts how many of the 101 talents produce their own distinct Attack number for that species at that level. 101 means every talent is separable and the read is exact. Anything lower is the number of answers the screen is capable of giving you.

Computed from the formula below rather than measured in game, so you can reproduce any cell with a spreadsheet. Read your own row rather than a general rule: the level at which Attack becomes exact is 40 for most of these Pals, 50 for Grizzbolt, and never for Lamball. The calculator reports the count for whatever level you type in, so you do not have to come back to this table.

The formula this calculator inverts

Transcribed from palworld.wiki.gg Pal Stats (new tab). Potential is the hidden talent expressed as a fraction: talent multiplied by 0.3 and divided by 100, so talent 100 is +30% and talent 50 is +15%. The wiki is explicit that this "only applies to the level-up stat gains for the Pal and does not increase the base stats".

HP      = FLOOR( FLOOR(500 + 5L + Base x 0.5   x L x (1 + P)) x (1 + soul) x (1 + condenser) )
Attack  = FLOOR( FLOOR(100      + Base x 0.075 x L x (1 + P)) x (1 + soul) x (1 + condenser) )
Defense = FLOOR( FLOOR(50       + Base x 0.075 x L x (1 + P)) x (1 + soul) x (1 + condenser) )

P = talent x 0.3 / 100

There is no algebraic way back through two floors that returns one honest answer, so the calculator runs the formula forward 101 times per stat and keeps every talent that lands on your number. That is also why it can tell you when nothing fits: a screen value outside the talent 0 to talent 100 window means something else is going on, such as a stat passive or the wrong level.

What breeding does to a talent

Each of the three potentials is decided on its own, so a child can take its father HP roll, its mother Attack roll and a fresh Defense roll in the same hatch.

Taking the wiki numbers at face value, each potential is copied from one parent or the other 60% of the time, so all three being copied rather than rerolled is 0.6 cubed, about 22%. The other 78% is one or more potentials going to the random roll, which is not the same as losing them: a fresh roll can land on a good value by luck, and if both parents were mediocre it is the only way the child improves. If you are chasing two already-perfect parents, though, that 78% is the number you are fighting. It is the arithmetic behind stocking cake in bulk rather than expecting a lucky third egg, and it is why what one cake actually costs matters more than it looks.

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