What is the name for each Pal's special utility ability in Palworld?

Each Pal's special utility ability in Palworld is called a Partner Skill.

Partner Skills are the distinctive abilities that let individual Pals contribute beyond ordinary combat or base labor. Depending on the species, a Partner Skill may let a Pal serve as a mount, provide a combat effect, function as equipment, help with traversal, or perform another useful task when the player has it in the party or deploys it under the relevant conditions.

The term is easy to mix up with general abilities, passive skills, or work suitability. Passive skills modify a Pal's traits, while work suitability determines jobs such as mining, planting, cooling, or transporting at a base. A Partner Skill is the named relationship-based ability associated with that Pal and is often activated through a key item, saddle, harness, or similar unlock.

This system helps distinguish Palworld from a simple creature-battling game. Players collect Pals not only to fight but also to travel, gather resources, automate base tasks, and interact with the survival-crafting world in different ways.