How healing, support and energy management work

Energy, written EP, is drawn from a pool shared by your whole team rather than held separately by each Aniimo. Active skills are what spend it. You will find it as blue orbs sitting above the health bar, and that is the number to watch, because it is the only one that matters to every creature you might swap in.

The practical consequence is that spamming active skills starves the rest of the roster. Drain the pool on your opener and the support creature you swap to next has nothing to work with. The efficient approach is to plan skill rotations and creature swaps together, treating EP as a team budget rather than something each Aniimo brings with it.

Cooldowns sit on top of this as a second limit. A skill can be affordable and still unavailable, so the pool and the timers are two separate constraints you are managing at once.

Not everything you do has to cost. Fulmintis has a skill that costs zero EP, which makes it useful filler while the pool rebuilds for something that matters.

Witchin works the other direction and actively feeds the pool. It is a dark-element energy Aniimo whose kit rewards Dark basic attacks against enemies afflicted with [Curse] by restoring additional EP. That means the condition is worth setting up deliberately rather than stumbling into: get [Curse] on the target, keep hitting with Dark basics, and the team's budget grows while you do it.

If your party is running dry before fights end, the answer is usually one of these two rather than more damage.

Aniimo with the Heal role restore HP to the other members of your squad. That is the team-building side of things and another article covers role composition properly, so here is what matters in the fight itself: you need at least one reliable source of healing, and you need the energy left to pay for it.

Glacie is a dedicated healer with healing abilities, the straightforward pick if you want the role filled and no surprises. Gracewing also heals, with multiple attacks that heal the squad, so it keeps contributing while the party tops up rather than stopping to cast. Turbo provides shields alongside its healing, which is a different kind of value: a shield spent before the damage lands costs nothing to overheal.

Leafy is the exception worth knowing. It has healing capabilities despite not carrying a dedicated heal role. So a party without an obvious healer slot is not automatically a party without healing.

Support Aniimo are built around buffing allies and providing utility, along with debuffs and other interference against enemies. They are the other half of the sustain picture: damage you prevent is healing you never have to pay EP for.

What you bring is not fixed. Aniimo can have passive abilities in addition to offensive ones, and the offensive abilities can be configured freely by you. Creatures also possess traits that affect combat performance. The skills and traits systems have their own article; the point here is that your loadout choices decide how expensive your rotation is, and an expensive rotation is a shared cost.

05Where to start

Check your blue orbs before you commit to a rotation, not after. Bring one healer you trust, whether that is Glacie, Gracewing, Turbo or Leafy, and give the pool a way to refill through Fulmintis or Witchin.