Dark
Dragon
DarkLv 70
Dark Whisp
- Power
- 600
- Cooldown
- 30s
- Range
- 0–15m
- Pwr/sec
- 20
Power #52 / 328
Fires a menacing ball of dark energy that pursues enemies.
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Katress
Katress is a Dark Pal in Palworld with 90 base HP, 105 Attack and 90 Defence. Its strongest base skill is Handiwork Lv3, ranking 41 of the 109 Pals with Handiwork suitability.
With the power of shadows, it produces arcane phenomena. It prefers to eat food raw and is particularly hostile towards Wixen.
Nocturnal
HP90
#168 / 288Top 58%
Attack105
#110 / 288Top 38%
Defence90
#147 / 288Top 51%
Work speed100
#110 / 288Top 38%
paldb // pal-079
Game data
Exact values extracted from Palworld's game files.
- Source
- DT_PalMonsterParameter
- Build
- 4570874460
- Confidence
- exact
Katress at a glance
- Attack
- 105#110 / 288
- Weak to
- Dragon
What is Katress good for?
counted, not rated- Best use
- Handiwork at a base(top 38% of Pals in that role · PalDB calculation)
- Combat rank
- #159 of 288 — around average(formula)
- Strongest job
- Handiwork Lv3 — #41 of 109
- Where it lives
- Forest, SnowfieldLv 20–46
- Breeding
- 193 parent pairs
- Weak to
- Dragon· hits Neutral hard
Where to find Katress
Katress appears in Forest and Snowfield at levels 20–46. Some of its spawns are night-only. It can appear in groups of up to 2.
- Found as
- Roams the world, Dungeon boss
- Level range
- 20–46
- Spawner definitions
- 13
Spawn areas, levels and times come from the game’s own spawner tables. The level range here covers every spawner that lists Katress; the map below draws the ones the game places on the main island, so its range can be narrower.
- Mapped spawn points
- 735
- Level at those points
- 20–46
- Alpha points
- 60
Where Katress spawns
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Base stats
Game data
Exact values extracted from Palworld's game files.
- Source
- DT_PalMonsterParameter
- Build
- 4570874460
- Confidence
- exact
| Stat | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Paldex number | #079 | — |
| Element | Dark | — |
| HP | 90 | #168 of 288 |
| Attack | 105 | #110 of 288 |
| Defence | 90 | #147 of 288 |
| Handiwork | Lv 3 | #41 of 109 |
| Medicine Production | Lv 3 | #23 of 43 |
| Transporting | Lv 2 | #64 of 140 |
| Rarity | 6 | Rare |
| Price | 1,356 | — |
Katress’s HP is below average for a Pal (168 of 288) and its attack is above average (110 of 288). Ranks count every Pal in the Paldex, and describe position in a sorted list rather than how good a Pal is to play.
HP90
Melee attack100
Shot attack105
Defence90
Support100
Craft speed100
Stamina100
Movement
- Walk
- 145
- Run
- 440
- Ride sprint
- —
- Transport
- 292
- Swim
- 440
- Swim dash
- 620
Work suitability
Ranks count only the Pals that hold each job, so #1 of 109 means best in the game at it.
Skills
Partner skill
Mystical Black Magic
Every Pal has one partner skill, active while it fights alongside you.
Katress active skills
Its hardest-hitting move is Dark Whisp at 600 power on a 30s cooldown, learned at level 70. It also learns Ignis Blast (1), Dark Ball (7), Flare Arrow (15), Shadow Burst (22), Spirit Flame (30), Nightmare Ball (40) and Dark Laser (50).
DarkLv 50
Dark Laser
- Power
- 450
- Cooldown
- 20s
- Range
- 5–18m
- Pwr/sec
- 22.5
Power #101 / 328
Charges dark energy before blasting enemies with a powerful beam.
DarkLv 40
Nightmare Ball
- Power
- 300
- Cooldown
- 16s
- Range
- 3–50m
- Pwr/sec
- 18.8
Power #164 / 328
Creates a giant ball of darkness and hurls it at an enemy.
DarkLv 30
Spirit Flame
- Power
- 200
- Cooldown
- 12s
- Range
- 5–50m
- Pwr/sec
- 16.7
Power #205 / 328
Fires three balls of malice that relentlessly pursue an enemy.
FireLv 15
FireFlare Arrow
- Power
- 120
- Cooldown
- 8s
- Range
- 5–50m
- Pwr/sec
- 15
Power #236 / 328
Fires three flaming arrows in succession that home in on an enemy.
DarkLv 22
Shadow Burst
- Power
- 80
- Cooldown
- 4s
- Range
- 0–3m
- Pwr/sec
- 20
Power #268 / 328
Quickly discharges dark energy, damaging those around it.
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DarkLv 7
Dark Ball
- Power
- 50
- Cooldown
- 2s
- Range
- 5–10m
- Pwr/sec
- 25
Power #283 / 328
Unleashes a sphere of darkness that slowly tracks down an enemy.
FireLv 1
Ignis Blast
- Power
- 40
- Cooldown
- 2s
- Range
- 5–50m
- Pwr/sec
- 20
Power #318 / 328
Hurls a ball of fire straight at an enemy.
Levels are when Katress learns each skill naturally. Skills marked Egg are inherited rather than learned, and can be passed on through breeding. Power ranks count every skill with a power value.
Innate passive skills
Katress has no innate passive skill.
Every Pal of this species is born with these, on top of any rolled traits.
Drops
Game data
Exact values extracted from Palworld's game files.
- Source
- DT_PalDropItem
- Build
- 4570874460
- Confidence
- exact
| Item | Chance | Quantity | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|
 LeatherBest farming source | 100% | 1–2 | 1.50 |
 Katress Hair | 50% | 1 | 0.50 |
 Advanced Technical Manual | 1% | 1 | 0.01 |
The drop worth farming Katress for is Leather, at 100% for 1–2 per kill — though other sources of Leather may be quicker. It also drops Katress Hair (50%) and Advanced Technical Manual (1%).
Breeding
- Breed rank
- 2040
- Male chance
- 50%
Breed rank decides which egg a pair produces; every parent pair that produces Katress is listed on its breeding page, and the breeding calculator works any pair the other way round.
Type matchups
NeutralKatress has another form
A variant shares this Paldex number and changes some of the numbers. Everything not listed below is identical.
| What changes | Katress | Katress Ignis |
|---|---|---|
| Elements | Dark | Dark / Fire |
| HP | 90 | 95 |
| Breed rank | 2040 | 1800 |
| Kindling | 0 | 3 |
| Found in | Forest, Snowfield | — |
Pals like Katress
Katress Ignis#079B · Handiwork Lv 3
Wixen#078 · Handiwork Lv 3
Wixen Noct#078B · Handiwork Lv 4
Robinquill#076 · Handiwork Lv 3
Robinquill Terra#076B · Handiwork Lv 3
Lunaris#082 · Handiwork Lv 4
Tarantriss#071 · Handiwork Lv 3
Lovander#069 · Handiwork Lv 3
Petallia#089 · Handiwork Lv 3
Petallia Ignis#089B · Handiwork Lv 3
Elizabee#068 · Handiwork Lv 4
Leafan#090 · Handiwork Lv 3Katress in other languages
- Japanese
- クレメーオ
- Chinese (Simplified)
- 暗巫猫
- Chinese (Traditional)
- 闇巫貓
- Korean
- 캐티메이지
- Russian
- Катресс
9 items are named after Katress — Katress Bounty Token, Katress Cap, Katress Cap Schematic 1, Katress Cap Schematic 2, Katress Cap Schematic 3, Katress Cap Schematic 4, Katress Hair, Katress Ring and Katress Ring Schematic.
From players
Community verifiedThings the game files cannot state — how a spawn behaves, what actually works in a fight. Written by players and checked by a moderator before it appears. Every other number on this page comes out of Palworld’s own data tables; these do not, which is why they sit apart.
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