After going through this thread and trying to figure out where to look for my perfect palico, I decided to just let excel do it for me.

This spreadsheet lets you write in what skills and moves you want your palico to have (light blue boxes) and it extracts which location has the highest chance to find palicos with that particular skill or move.

Rules:

1. Each skill has an associated "cost"
2. Each Palico will be given skills until they reach 8 cost (9 for Charisma cats, as they did not receive a second unique skill)
3. Skills are chosen from one of three separate groups of skills - Group A skills cost 3, Group B skills cost 2, and Group C skills cost 1
4. Palicos cannot exceed 8 cost (9 for Charisma). This means that if they currently have skills totaling 7 cost, the last skill must be a Group C skill as this will put them at 8 cost
5. Palicos cannot have more than one Group A skill
6. Once a skill is rolled from a lower-cost group, you can no longer roll skills from higher cost groups. This means if the first skill rolled is a Group B skill, that Palico cannot roll any Group A skills. Similarly, if the first skill rolled is a Group C skill, that Palico cannot roll any Group A/B skills and thus every single skill will be rolled from Group C.

Edit: Piercing boomerang isn't on here because that skill depends on Palico Class and doesn't have a % chance depending on location. Plus, it doesn't count towards the maximum 8 cost.

Moves Slot 1

Moves Slot 2

*Charisma cat doesn't have a second Move, that's why it gets a maximum 9 cost.

Skills slot 1 & 2