Alpha Aniimo: Finding, Fighting and Catching World Bosses

An Alpha Aniimo is an oversized version of a standard Aniimo. It is physically larger and stronger, and it is usually evolved. The size comes from the Alpha mutation, so you can spot an Alpha in the wild because it towers over the rest of its species. It stays that big after you untwine it, too.

The catch is that bigger does not mean better on paper. Being an Alpha does not raise base stats and does not guarantee high Potential. Potential is rolled when you catch the Aniimo, so an Alpha's stats can come in higher or lower than the standard for its species. Every Alpha you catch rolls its own quality, which is why players farm them for better stats.

What Alphas do get for free is a stronger Core Skill. An Alpha caught in the overworld comes with the enhanced version by default. You don't need a pact with its Held Item to unlock that.

Some Alpha Aniimo are fought as bosses in Alpha challenges. They drop materials specific to that boss, which you need for Aniimo progression and evolution, evolution stones among them. The first time you defeat an Alpha boss, you get a guaranteed set of evolution stones.

Your first win against each Alpha, Alpha Minespine included, also gives you an Irisalis petal, and that first win uses no energy. So every Alpha you haven't beaten yet is a free reward waiting for you.

Some Aniimo evolutions need more than materials. They require you to defeat a specific Alpha variant of that species, so for those lines the Alpha fight is required.

Alpha bosses respawn after you beat them, so you can fight them again to farm held items and Irisalis petals. You can repeat Alpha Rookie challenges as often as you like. It is not settled whether Alpha boss fights in general are unlimited or capped by daily energy.

Alpha Minespine is level 60, and it takes some effort just to reach it. It lives in a hidden cave in the mountains west of the Beast Fang Ridge teleport, and the entrance is at the edge of a cliff. To get in, use Gravity Pull to move explosive barrels onto the dense dark rock, then blow the rock up.

Alpha Stellarys is much easier. It is a level 18 Dark-type Alpha that appears on the map, in a field south of the Forest of Falling Stars. Beat it for Night Stones, or catch it to get Stellarys early.

Alpha Tubster spawns in the Argent Strait, below Omega Tukin, and has no access requirements.

Alpha Luminelle only shows up at night in the far south. It arrives after a shooting star lands.

Alpha Sparkling Prismana is one of the rarest combinations, and you won't find it as a natural encounter. You build it in stages.

Bosses can be caught, Stellarys included, and an area boss you capture keeps its Alpha size. Your first catch is set up for you. Early in the story, at the start of the Alpha Turbo fight, you get an Annipod Ultra that guarantees the capture.

Catching an Alpha is a shortcut that saves resources. The usual route is to catch an early evolution, evolve it, then link an item with shards. An Alpha skips evolving the species, and if you caught it in the overworld its Core Skill is already enhanced.

You can also convert an Alpha into its Prismana form later with a Prismana Orb. Because Alphas vary in quality, you can keep farming the same boss until you catch one with stats worth keeping.

05Where to start

Beat every Alpha you can reach once: the first win costs no energy and gives evolution stones and an Irisalis petal. Catch the ones whose evolution line you want, since an Alpha skips evolving and arrives with its Core Skill already enhanced. Don't keep a catch just because it's an Alpha. Check its rolled stats, and farm the boss again if the roll is poor.