How Capability Fruits Work in Aniimo

A Capa Fruit permanently raises an Aniimo's innate potential by one. Every Aniimo can eat only one Capability Fruit in its lifetime, and it changes the creature's innate stats. The fruit is not a temporary buff and you do not top it up.

It still pays off on creatures that are already good. A Perfect Aniimo can be pushed further, for example from 8 to 9. Fruit raises the affected stats by +1 each, so an Aniimo sitting at nine and nine on its potential stats goes to ten and ten.

The details beyond that are not settled. The fruit is described as raising all six of an Aniimo's innate potential attributes by one point. It is also described as unlocking an innate potential. A third version says it adds one point to each of the two recommended innate potential stats, up to a maximum of nine. It is also said to upgrade lower rarity tiers when used on them. What "innate potential" means is not settled either. One reading is that it is the number of stat points an Aniimo gains per level, with higher potential giving more. The other is that it is the creature's natural stat foundation: the fixed set of baseline stats it has from capture or birth, much like IVs, which only special items such as fruits can raise.

The practical upshot doesn't change whichever reading turns out right. The fruit improves stats you otherwise can't touch, and you get one shot per Aniimo.

Look for the thumbs-up icons on the Aniimo's stats panel. They mark its favourable, recommended primary stats, which are its two strongest natural attributes. The fruit's Perfect upgrade works through these stats. The Capability Fruit grants plus one Initial Potential in the recommended stat.

Decide what the Aniimo is for before you spend anything on it. Settling its role first stops you pouring development materials into a creature you later bench. That counts double here, because you can't get the fruit back. Irisalis is a good example of a creature with a clear plan: its capability awakening goes Attack first, then Regen, then HP. The full build is covered in the Irisalis guide.

Not every Elite Aniimo can become Perfect quality. Only some can, and you can tell which ones from the icon: an eligible Elite, such as Grizbo, shows an animated, sparkling potential aura. Using a Capa Fruit on one of these Sparkling Elites can raise its primary stats to 16 points and make it a Perfect.

A second route uses fruits more generally. Feed an Elite+ Aniimo fruits until its primary stats reach 10 and it goes up to Perfect rank. You can see this on its golden tag, which gains sunglasses.

If you spot a sparkling aura on a new catch, keep it. That Aniimo is one fruit away from the top quality tier, and an ordinary Elite never will be.

You can get the fruit without spending anything. Twenty Potential Seeds, also called Kappa Seeds, exchange for one Capability Fruit in the exchange shop. You do the trade at Joff's Item Exchange. It worked this way in the closed beta and still does. Seeds come from regular play, so the fruit counts as a free reward.

The paid route is the Glimmer Shop, where a Capability Fruit costs 1,000 Glimmer. Glimmer is the nurturing currency, and it also pays for Psyche fruits, so every Kappa Fruit you buy is Glimmer you can't spend elsewhere. The seed exchange spares that.

Don't confuse it with Growth fruit. The green Growth fruit sells directly in Joff's Shop for 1,000. It is a different item from the Capability Fruit, and buying it does not use up anyone's one Kappa Fruit.

Acquired Potential is what an Aniimo gains after capture, added with items, and it ranges from 10 to 20. Each standard attribute has a cap of 20 on the combined total of Initial Potential and Acquired Potential. The fruit is one of the few ways to move the Initial side.

Two neighbouring systems are still unsettled. Star Essence is described as something you spend to level up an Aniimo. It is also described as a capability awakening material that raises potential and is required to take Awaken Potential past 10 points up to the 20 cap. How a normal, non-Alpha Aniimo's Core Skill gets upgraded is also unclear. One version uses 10 Marks of the Strong. Another needs a contract with a Legendary Held Item. A third uses Prismatic Stones together with capability fruit, upgrading the Core Skill once to raise its damage and add utility. If that third version holds, your one fruit may matter for more than stats.

The last point is good news for breeders. The stat effects from a Capability Fruit pass automatically to another Aniimo through inheritance and carry on across generations. A fruit spent on a good parent keeps paying off in its descendants.

06Where to start

Farm Potential Seeds and trade twenty at Joff's Item Exchange so you aren't spending Glimmer. Before you feed a fruit, check for a sparkling aura and look at the thumbs-up stats. Give it to an Aniimo whose role you've already decided, ideally one you plan to breed from, so the boost carries down the line.