How Dark and Light elements work in Aniimo

Dark-type attacks deal super-effective damage against three types: Fire, Grass and Light. That is a wide net. It also means a Dark attacker is a clean answer to the Light element, which is worth remembering when you read the Light section below.

On the other side, Water and Wind resist Dark attacks and take 0.625× damage. That is not a wall, but it is a real tax, and it is the reason a Dark carry wants something else in the roster for those fights rather than grinding through them.

Aniimo has ten unresisted dual-type combinations, and Dark combined with Grass is one of them. Witchin is a dual Dark and Grass type, which puts her squarely on that list.

Dark shows up in other pairings too. The Prismana form of Stellarys is Dark and Ice, and Prismana Grizzbolt is a dual Dark and Earth type. How Prismana forms work is its own subject and has its own guide on this site; the point here is just that Dark is a common second half, so you will meet it attached to several very different kits.

This is where Dark pulls ahead. Three separate Aniimo exist to make dark damage land harder, and they do three different jobs.

Dreaple reduces an enemy's resistance to Dark-element damage. That is the debuff half. Fragrancier is the buff half, and it has two layers: the Secret Fragrance mark causes dark-type basic attacks to deal bonus damage to marked targets for a limited duration, and the Fragrance Bomb ultimate grants a teamwide Dark damage boost. So the mark rewards a single attacker chewing on one target, while the ultimate lifts everyone at once.

Witchin covers the third problem, which is running dry. She uses curse mechanics to restore EP for dark attackers, so a Dark carry can keep spending instead of pausing. Curses and the wider Dark combat system are covered in depth elsewhere on the site. What matters for team building is the shape: shred, buff, and resources, all available in the same element.

Light-type Aniimo have no dedicated Support Aniimo. There is no Light equivalent of Dreaple or Fragrancier waiting to be unlocked, so the buffs and debuffs a Dark team hands out for free have to come from somewhere else.

In practice they come from the damage dealer. Lunara reduces enemy resistance to Holy-element attacks, which is the element the game also calls Light, so the shred is folded into the carry rather than delegated. Lunara is a ranged holy and magical DPS built for large area attacks and long battles, and those two things fit together: a debuff you apply yourself is worth more the longer the fight runs. Helion and Lunara are both categorized as Holy-element Aniimo, and the choice between them has its own guide here.

Light damage also runs into resistances of its own. The Basic form of Blazen has Light-type resistance. Add the fact that Dark attacks are super-effective into Light, and the element is asking more of you than Dark is.

05Where to start

If you want an element with scaffolding already built, take Dark and pick up Dreaple, Fragrancier and Witchin as you go. If you take Light, plan on Lunara supplying her own resistance shred, because nothing else will.