{"id":69958,"date":"2026-07-23T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=69958"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:14:26","slug":"palworlds-latest-additions-have-paved-the-way-for-infinite-gorilla-implosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/palworlds-latest-additions-have-paved-the-way-for-infinite-gorilla-implosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Palworld\u2019s\u00a0latest\u00a0additions\u00a0have paved the\u00a0way for\u00a0infinite\u00a0gorilla\u00a0implosions\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pocketpair&nbsp;officially released&nbsp;<strong>Palworld&nbsp;1.0<\/strong>&nbsp;on July 10. More than a week&nbsp;after leaving Early Access, the game continues to surge in popularity, with concurrent player counts on Steam still climbing. Amid the excitement,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%E9%87%8D%E8%A3%85%E7%94%B2%20%E8%87%AA%E7%88%86&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japanese&nbsp;players&nbsp;have&nbsp;discovered<\/a>&nbsp;an&nbsp;OP&nbsp;new strategy made possible by&nbsp;latest additions to the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Central to the technique is&nbsp;Tocotoco\u2019s&nbsp;Megaton&nbsp;Implode skill, which has been in the game since&nbsp;Early&nbsp;Access. Although the&nbsp;skill&#8217;s&nbsp;cooldown was increased from 55 to 60 seconds in&nbsp;the v1.0&nbsp;update, its power was more than doubled, rising from 500 to 1,200&nbsp;and&nbsp;effectively becoming&nbsp;one of the strongest attacks in the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As its name suggests, however, Megaton&nbsp;Implode&nbsp;comes with&nbsp;the&nbsp;major drawback&nbsp;of your Pal&nbsp;self-destructing&nbsp;in the process. Because&nbsp;you&nbsp;had to revive the Pal after every use&nbsp;previously, the move&nbsp;was&nbsp;quite impractical despite&nbsp;the&nbsp;enormous damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, that&nbsp;has&nbsp;changed with the introduction of the new&nbsp;Heavily Armored&nbsp;passive skill.&nbsp;Heavily&nbsp;Armored&nbsp;nullifies explosive damage, and it&nbsp;appears to protect&nbsp;Pals even from the self-inflicted damage caused by Megaton&nbsp;Implode&nbsp;itself. As a result, Pals can now&nbsp;perform&nbsp;the attack without&nbsp;perishing.&nbsp;While the 60-second cooldown still prevents&nbsp;you&nbsp;from spamming the move, the skill&#8217;s biggest downside has&nbsp;practically&nbsp;been&nbsp;removed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavily Armored&nbsp;can appear randomly on&nbsp;Mutated&nbsp;Pals and can also be granted through the&nbsp;\u201cDisposable Implant: Heavily Armored\u201d consumable,&nbsp;obtained at random&nbsp;via Glistening Ancient Relics.&nbsp;Acquiring&nbsp;the passive is no simple task, however, as&nbsp;you\u2019ll&nbsp;need to breed and hatch Pals or repeatedly farm the World Tree to create a Pal capable of detonating itself indefinitely.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\u9903\u5b50\u3011\u30b4\u30ea\u30ec\u30a4\u30b8\u306f\u3069\u3053\u307e\u3067\u30ef\u30f3\u30d1\u30f3\u3067\u304d\u308b\u306e\u304b\uff79\uff7c\u98db\u3093\u3067\u3082\u3089\u3063\u3066\u307f\u305f\u3010\u30d1\u30eb\u30ef\u30fc\u30eb\u30c9\/PalWorld\u3011\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Q-_VriWgIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even during&nbsp;Palworld\u2019s&nbsp;Early&nbsp;Access,&nbsp;players were&nbsp;enraptured&nbsp;by&nbsp;the destructive&nbsp;potential&nbsp;of Megaton Implode and had been experimenting&nbsp;with passing the skill down to&nbsp;Gorirat&nbsp;in pursuit of maximum damage.&nbsp;Gorirat&nbsp;is particularly well suited to the tactic thanks to its&nbsp;Full-Power Gorilla Mode&nbsp;partner&nbsp;skill,&nbsp;<s>&nbsp;<\/s>which&nbsp;majorly&nbsp;boosts its attack power. Before&nbsp;Heavily Armored&nbsp;existed, players enhanced the skill through Pal&nbsp;Condensation to squeeze as much damage as possible out of&nbsp;the then&nbsp;one-shot&nbsp;attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the full release,&nbsp;however,&nbsp;Full-Power Gorilla Mode received a substantial buff, with its&nbsp;rank five&nbsp;attack bonus increasing from 200% to 300%. Combined with the newfound practicality of Megaton&nbsp;Implode,&nbsp;Gorirat&nbsp;builds equipped with both&nbsp;Heavily Armored&nbsp;and the self-destruct&nbsp;skill&nbsp;have attracted renewed attention&nbsp;for&nbsp;essentially allowing&nbsp;infinite Gorilla implosions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&nbsp;can further increase Megaton&nbsp;Implode\u2019s&nbsp;damage by pairing&nbsp;Gorirat&nbsp;with support Pals such as&nbsp;Ribunny, whose&nbsp;Happy-Go-Lucky&nbsp;partner skill boosts the attack power of Neutral&nbsp;element&nbsp;Pals. Other Pals also&nbsp;possess&nbsp;partner skills that can increase damage output or attack power under specific conditions even while&nbsp;benched, meaning&nbsp;there could be&nbsp;yet&nbsp;more to experiment with in the&nbsp;pursuit&nbsp;maximum damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketpair.jp\/en\/games-en\/palworld-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palworld<\/a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;out now&nbsp;for PC (Steam\/Microsoft Store\/Mac App Store), PS5,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Xbox Series X\/Xbox One. The game is also available via Game Pass for PC and Xbox.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palworld players have figured out a glorious combination of Gorirat&#8217;s Full-Power Gorilla Mode, the Megaton Implode skill, and the new &#8220;Heavily Armored&#8221; passive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":69959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2","date":"2026-07-23T05:14:33+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mrc3eh7ysg2p","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mrc3eh7ysg2p\",\"cid\":\"bafyreic6kjsfntk4ks7j764aijms77dm35g4ru43mdmdkk5mt2rzmmvkgm\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreigcyqxr3acy7lle4wiechwy4nc7vz2uwzo5mfg2cvm7cvwwkr36ie\",\"rev\":\"3mrc3eha6nw2p\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-69958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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