What do special palico team attacks do

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So all palicos have one of three "team attacks":

  • Purrtuoso – The palicos heal you and increase your maximum health and
    stamina
  • Rath-of-Meow – The palicos jump into a tank and attack the monster with ranged attacks
  • Flying F-Bomb – The palicos launch a rocket that staggers the monster and deals damage

…or at least I thought they could only have one of those three.

As I started to recruit palicos from high rank quests, I've noticed some of them have different abilities:

  • Purrtuoso/Water
  • Rath-of-Mix
  • Rath-of-Fast
  • (etc)

I'm assuming these abilities are variations on the three "base" ones, but what do they do and is there a full list of them? Their ingame descriptions are identical to those of the base abilities.

Best Answer

After some more investigation it looks like the names are affected by another skill the palico has.

  • "Rath-of-Fast" has a "Team Attack Haste" ability (which increases setup time of team attacks)
  • "Purrtuoso/Water" and "Rath-of-Water" have a "Water Synergy" ability (which adds an element to a team attack)
  • "Rath-of-Signal" has a "Team Attack Signal" ability (which lets you manually activate the team attack by signalling to your palicos (Start+X))
  • "Rath-of-Mix" one has both "Team Attack Boost" (adds "new properties" to team attacks) and "Dragon Synergy", so the "Mix" suffix probably just means the team attack is affected by multiple abilities.

So in other words just looking for their abilities that affect team attacks will explain its name!

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