Palworld: How to Beat Hard Mode Victor & Shadowbeak With a Player Damage Build

Victor & Shadowbeak sit at the PAL Genetic Research Unit Tower in the Astral Mountains, and the Hard Mode rematch pushes their health pool to 570,230 with damage taken cut to a quarter of normal. Shadowbeak is a Dark-type Pal whose single weakness is Dragon, so a player damage build works by riding a tanky Chillet that turns every shot you fire into Dragon damage while doubling your Attack.

Quick answer: Mount a Chillet with Wiggling Weasel Lv. 5 to convert your weapon damage to Dragon and add +100% Attack, then melt the boss with a Plasma Rifle and two Beam Launchers before its clone spawns near half health.

Chillet mount setup (Wiggling Weasel core)

The whole build rests on a Level 60 Chillet carrying Wiggling Weasel Lv. 5, which changes your attack type to Dragon and raises your Attack by 100% while you are mounted. That single partner skill hits Shadowbeak’s Dragon weakness with every weapon shot, so your gun damage matters more than the Chillet’s own moves.

Chillet also has to survive the barrage, so its passive slots are built for tanking rather than damage. Its active skills stay useful for locking the boss in place at the right moment.

Passive skill	Effect
Sanctified Meat Shield	Spawns World Tree resources when approached
Diamond Body	Defense +35%, immune to stun and knockback
Idiosyncratic	+600 HP regen, Defense +15%, immune to poison and burn
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, Move Speed +15%

For active skills, run Diamond Rain (Power 600), Lightning Streak (Power 150) and Icicle Line (Power 100). Lightning Streak and Icicle Line are there for their stun and freeze effects, which you use to pin the boss for the finishing burst rather than for their raw power.

Chillet Build Setup — Chillet's party details screen, where you confirm the four passives and the three active skills before the run. Shown at 00:16 in The Pal Professor’s video. Image: Pocketpair

Party Pals that stack player buffs

The other four party slots do not fight. They exist to pile passive bonuses onto you, and each one runs the same four passives: Stronghold Strategist (+10% Player Defense), Vanguard (+10% Player Attack), Reload Master (+10% Player Reload Speed) and Idiosyncratic for health regeneration.

Blazamut Ryu
World Tree
Xenogard
Cryolinx Terra

Blazamut Ryu also brings Dragon Kaiser, which raises Dragon damage against an enemy’s elemental weakness by 10% while it is in the party. Since your shots are already Dragon-typed by Chillet, that extra multiplier lands on every hit.

Party Pal Build Setup — A buffer Pal's passive loadout in the Party menu, showing the four skills every support slot needs to run. Shown at 02:49 in The Pal Professor’s video. Image: Pocketpair

Weapons, armor, accessories and food

Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor (Defense 840, Health 2400) handles the tower’s cold and gives you the bulk to trade shots. Your weapons cover three jobs: constant fire, passive drones, and a heavy finisher.

Weapon	Attack	Role
Plasma Rifle	1,860	Sustained primary DPS
Beam Launcher (x2)	14,000	High-burst finisher
Drone Launcher	200	Passive automated damage

The accessory set leans into Attack while topping up defense to stay alive under the barrage.

Accessory	Bonus
Warsect Terra’s Belt	Defense Up +4, Health Up +4
Silvegis Emblem	Pal Defense Up +4
Attack Pendant	Attack Up +2
Dogen Emblem	Attack Up +4, Pal Attack Up +4

Cook Mammorest Curry for +20% Attack on your character and Galclaw Nikujaga for +20% Defense on Chillet, and keep Recovery Potions in reserve. Food buffs do not stack, so one attack food and one defense food is the limit.

Player Equipment & Food Setup — The inventory loadout: armor, the four accessories, the weapon set and the buff foods you apply before entering. Shown at 00:41 in The Pal Professor’s video. Image: Pocketpair

Fight execution against Victor & Shadowbeak (Hard)

Outside the tower door, deploy all drones from the Drone Launcher so they trail you into the arena and add free damage from the start.

Reload the Plasma Rifle and inspect both Beam Launchers to confirm neither one is overheated. A hot launcher will not fire when you need the finisher.

Set your Pal command to Peaceful. This stops Chillet from locking into attack animations the moment you enter so you can mount cleanly.

Pre-Fight Preparation — The radial command menu set to Peaceful, which keeps Chillet from acting on its own as you enter the arena. Shown at 01:03 in The Pal Professor’s video. Image: Pocketpair

Apply your attack food, defense food and any potions, then join the Hard boss battle and mount Chillet as the fight loads.

The boss usually opens with Divine Disaster. Break line of sight behind the arena pillars to avoid it, then keep circling those pillars while you fire.

Keep firing the Plasma Rifle at the boss while repositioning. Shadowbeak takes extra damage when hit in the face, so aim for head shots whenever you have a clear angle.

Boss Battle: Victor & Shadowbeak — Circling the arena pillars on Chillet while keeping fire on Victor & Shadowbeak. Shown at 01:51 in The Pal Professor’s video. Image: Pocketpair

As the boss nears half health and the clone threshold (around 250k HP), hit it with Lightning Streak or Icicle Line to stun or freeze it, then swap to the Beam Launchers and unload. The goal is to erase the remaining bar before the clone can join in.

Bursting through the clone threshold in one go is the point of the whole loadout. If the clone appears, the fight gets far messier, so save the Beam Launchers for that stun window rather than firing them early.

How to confirm the clear

The run is done when the screen shows BOSS ELIMINATED and the loot appears. Victor & Shadowbeak drop a Victor Hat x1 and a Training Crystal x1. With this build the health bar falls in under a minute, so a clear that stretches long past that usually means the clone spawned and the burst window was missed.