Which Pal Covers the Most Ground: The Twenty-Six Types, and the Four That Carry Three
This site has ranked the arcade eleven different ways and palz twice, and never once by the axis a second adoption actually turns on: type coverage. So here is the roster counted properly, and the first finding rearranges the question. There is no such thing as a one-type pal in NuPalz. Not one. Every single species carries at least two, which means “which pal covers the most ground” has a much more interesting answer than anybody expects.
The Shape of the Roster
Counted from the species catalogue the morning this published, across every species that carries a type at all:
That zero is the headline. In a lot of creature-collecting games the single-type species are the early, simple ones and duals are the reward for going deeper. NuPalz does not work that way. Your very first pal already covers two types, and so does every pal you will ever adopt after it.
Why this changes the second-adoption question
If every pal covers two, then a roster of three palz covers up to six types out of twenty-six, and you cannot fix that by finding a rarer species. What you are choosing is not how much ground a pal covers — it is which ground. That makes the second adoption a gap-filling decision, not a power decision.
Almost Every Pairing Is Unique
Here is the finding that surprised us most. Among the sixty-eight dual-type species there are fifty-nine distinct pairings. Only nine combinations appear on more than one species, and none appears more than twice: Flying and Light, AI and Tech, Dark and Ghost, Fairy and Ice, Beast and Nature, Beast and Dark, Dark and Nature, Cosmic and Dragon, and Fire and Light.
Practically, that means the pairing you want almost certainly belongs to exactly one species. There is no “budget version” of a type combination and no common alternative that covers the same two. Whichever two types you decide you are short of, the roster has a specific answer, and usually only one.
The Four That Carry Three
Four species break the pattern and carry three types at once. If the question is literally “which pal covers the most ground,” these are the entire answer:
Three of the four include Cosmic, which makes Cosmic the connective type of the high-coverage set. Beyond that they pull in genuinely different directions: Celestia and Primordi share Fairy and nothing else; Omnix and Loopi share AI and Cosmic and diverge on the third. Adopting two of these four does not give you six types — it gives you four or five, depending which pair, because of the overlap. Worth checking before you assume two triples stack.
The Four Types Almost Nobody Has
At the other end of the roster, four types are carried by two species or fewer. If you have never seen one of these in a battle, this is why:
Speed exists on exactly one species in the entire game. Flicko is the only way anyone has ever had it. And note Chaosling appearing twice on that list: it is the single species carrying both Glitch and Chaos, which makes it the only pal that covers two of the four rarest types simultaneously.
Rare on the roster is not the same as rare to adopt
These four are rare in the sense that few species carry them, which is a fact about the catalogue rather than about drop rates or adoption costs. A type carried by one species is not automatically hard to get, and a type carried by ten is not automatically easy. Those are different questions with different answers, and this article is only about the first one.
How to Actually Use This
The practical version is short. Look at the palz you already have and write down the types they cover — two each, so it is a quick list. Then pick your next adoption to add two types you do not have yet, rather than to add power you already have. Because pairings are nearly all unique, that decision usually resolves to a single species rather than a shortlist.
If you want maximum breadth from the fewest palz, start with one of the four triples and build outward from whatever it does not cover. If you want a specific rare type, the tables above tell you exactly which species to look for — and in Speed's case, exactly one.
What coverage is not
This is about which types you can field, not about who beats whom. How types interact in battle is the type chart's business, and how a pal actually performs comes down to stats, skills and evolution — covered in the turn-order and crit guide and the care and evolution guide. A broad roster is about having an answer available. It is not a promise that the answer wins.
The Bottom Line
Twenty-six types, seventy-two species, and not a single one-type pal among them. Sixty-eight duals, fifty-nine of which carry a pairing no other species has. Four palz — Celestia, Omnix, Primordi and Loopi — carry three types at once, three of them anchored on Cosmic. And four types sit on two species or fewer, with Speed on exactly one. Your roster's breadth is decided by which pairings you collect, not by how many palz you own, which is a much cheaper thing to get right.