Beginner Tips and Costly Mistakes to Avoid

Progression, game data and characters are tied to the server you create them on. They do not transfer between regional servers. What does carry over is accounts linked on the same server, which is a much narrower thing than it sounds like at first reading.

So if you start on one regional server and later move to another, you start from the beginning. Not reduced, not partially credited. From the beginning.

The practical version: before you make a character, find out where the people you actually intend to play with are. Every hour of catching and levelling described below lives on the server you pick now, and it stays there.

Catching Aniimo awards player experience, and species you have not caught before award it particularly well. That single detail changes how you should treat the opening quest and the journey to the first city.

The recommendation is simple and worth following literally: catch at least one of every Aniimo you encounter along the way. Not the ones that look strong. Not the ones you plan to use. Every species you run into, once.

The reason it matters more at the start than later is that early on, almost everything you meet is a species you have not caught. That window closes as your collection fills out. Walking past a common creature because it looks unimpressive is skipping experience you will not be offered again on the same terms, and you cannot go back for the version of it that was new to you.

Aniipods are where your capture power actually comes from. Higher-tier Aniipods carry higher base capture success rates, which is why a difficult catch wants a stronger Aniipod rather than whatever is at the top of your bag. Some specialised models are a different trade entirely: Aniipod Track and Aniipod Tumbler give up raw catch power in exchange for utility effects. We cover how that plays out in practice in the stealth capture and traps guide.

Backpacks are the trap. They are assigned rarity tiers, Epic among them, and rarity tiers are how the game signals power almost everywhere else. Here they do not. Backpacks are cosmetic accessories. An Epic backpack is an Epic-looking backpack.

That is worth knowing before you make a decision based on the colour of the label. If you are weighing a cosmetic against a better Aniipod, the Aniipod is the one that changes an outcome.

Fights happen in real time. You dodge incoming attacks yourself, and positioning, stamina and skill cooldowns are all live concerns while the fight is running.

That means the failure state for a new player is usually not a bad team. It is standing still. Stamina spent on nothing leaves you without a dodge when a dodge is the answer, and a skill fired the moment it comes off cooldown is a skill you do not have when it matters.

Treat the early fights as practice rather than obstacles. They are the cheapest place to learn when to move, and you are going to be doing a lot of it.

05Where to start

Choose your server with the people you want to play with, catch everything you meet on the way to the first city, and treat rarity on a backpack as decoration rather than power. Combat will teach you the rest.