How Lucky Strikes Work in Aniimo

A Lucky Strike is a bonus result on a capture. You throw an Aniipod, the capture ball, at an Aniimo, and the catch can come back as a Lucky Strike or as a Super Lucky Strike (also called an Extra Lucky Strike). Super Lucky is the rarer of the two and the higher tier.

Both are rare. The good news is that they are not tied to one creature or one spot. A Lucky Strike can happen at random when you catch any Aniimo in the open world, so the rule is simple: the more you catch, the more chances you get.

Where you catch does matter for what you get, though. The energy from a strike goes to the region the capture happened in, which is why the rest of this page keeps talking about regions.

A Lucky Strike has a 0.6% chance to occur on a capture. That is low enough that you should treat strikes as something that happens over a session of catching, not something you chase one throw at a time.

Once a strike lands, there is a second roll. Lucky catches and Lucky Strikes carry a 6% chance to instantly fill the region's prismatic energy bar to maximum and trigger Prismana Flow.

What else triggers Prismana Flow is not settled in the current game. It is tied to prismatic vein energy, either building up as that energy accumulates or rolling a fixed chance on every gain in it. It is also given as a flat base chance of about 3% on each nurture attempt, catch attempt or bloom release, regardless of how full the region's energy is, and as a 0.6% chance on a Lucky Strike catch to trigger one on the spot. Read those numbers as a range of how the system might work rather than a single formula you can plan around.

Every catch does some work. A normal capture sends Vein Essence, which is experience, to the Bloom's giant tree vein, and adds prismatic energy toward filling that region's Bloom or Prismana bar.

A Lucky or Super Lucky catch adds more on top. You get bonus items, materials and resources, and extra prismatic energy for the region where the capture happened, which advances that region's bloom progress. The energy also counts toward bloom nurturing, so an Aniimo can bloom without you spending Vein Essences. It builds prismatic energy in the Nurture Bloom even if you have no Prismana Crystals.

That last part is the real value. Because raising the bloom bar through lucky catches costs no Vein Essence, catching becomes a free route to Prismana Aniimo, event Prismana included, as an alternative to nurturing. That route has its own guide on this site, Farming Prismana without Vein Essence via catches.

Prismana Flow is a weather event that lets Prismana Aniimo spawn. When a strike fills an area's Prismatic Energy gauge completely, it sets off a Prismana flow, or explosion, with Prismana weather. That area's designated Prismatic Aniimo, also called Prismana, then spawn immediately. They are guaranteed to appear and their location is marked, so you are not searching blind.

The catch is whether one strike gets you all the way there. A lucky capture fills the Prismana level and energy of the area it happens in, and a Lucky Strike is described as filling the bloom bar to maximum right away so the regional Prismana spawns at once. It is also described as possibly leaving the energy just short of full. Which you get is not settled, so check the bar after a strike rather than assuming.

Super Lucky is the clearer case. A Super Lucky catch can fill the Prismana Flow to maximum from very low, which skips the Prismana grind for that region entirely.

Not all catching is equal. Capturing Aniimo during nurturing triggers Lucky Strikes more often than defeating them, and that lets you skip much of the nurturing process. If you have been knocking creatures out during nurture, switch to throwing pods.

Mass Surge events are the other good spot. Catches there can produce a regular Lucky result or a Super Lucky one, and Lucky and Super Lucky outcomes during Prismana flow nurtures and event catches grant extra prismatic energy progress. How surges themselves work is covered in How Tumbler Pods and wild surges work.

The recommended order is to use your nurturing attempts or bonus first, then farm catches in the Mass Surge. That way the cheaper energy from nurturing is banked before you start fishing for strikes in volume.

06Where to start

Catch rather than defeat, catch in the region whose Prismana you want, and catch a lot, because at 0.6% the volume is what gets you strikes. Spend your nurturing attempts first, then farm the Mass Surge, and check the bar after every strike since a single one may or may not finish it.