How to Crown Stats in Aniimo

Every Aniimo carries an Attribute Rank: Common, Good, Elite, Perfect. It is an appraised quality grade, tied to the Potential of each stat. The practical effect is simple. Take two Aniimo at the same level with the same personality, and the higher-ranked one has higher stats. Rank is not flavour text.

Rank is not permanent either. An Elite Aniimo can be elevated to Perfect using a Capability Fruit, which grants plus one Initial Potential in its recommended stat. The catch is eligibility: only Elite Aniimo that display a sparkling potential aura can be upgraded to Perfect. An Elite without the aura stays Elite, no matter how much fruit you have. Fruits can also be applied to lower rarity tiers to upgrade them, so the ladder works from further down.

Check the aura before you invest anything in an Elite. It decides whether that creature has a route to a crown at all.

Each of an Aniimo's six attributes is determined by both innate potential and acquired potential. You need both to crown anything.

Innate potential is the fixed starting point an Aniimo has on capture or birth. It behaves like individual values in other creature games, and raising it needs special items such as fruits. Here is the detail that catches people out: 10 is the highest innate potential an Aniimo can have, but 9 is the highest value that can be rolled naturally. So even a creature that rolled as well as the game allows is not sitting at the innate ceiling when you catch it. Items cover the rest.

Acquired potential, sometimes called growth value, is the half you feed. Consuming items such as Astranots raises it, up to a maximum of 10 per stat. On top of both, each stat can be raised only until it reaches that stat's own upgrade limit. Not every stat on every creature has the same room. The item economy behind fruits and Astranots has its own guide on this site; what matters here is that a crown needs both halves pushed to their limit, not one of them.

You do not have to guess which attributes to invest in. Each Aniimo has two attributes the game marks as its recommended stats to raise, presented in priority order as 1st and 2nd. A thumbs up icon on the stat screen signifies a favorable stat.

Those markers are worth following for a mechanical reason, not a stylistic one. Capability Fruits raise innate potential by granting plus one to each of the two recommended innate potentials. The fruit follows the recommendation. Investing against the grain means paying for stats the fruit will not help you with.

The standard potential cap is 20. Stats can surpass it through the Resident Star Up tab, reaching a maximum potential of 24 on favorable stats.

Note the condition. It is favorable stats that reach 24, the ones carrying the thumbs up. That makes the thumbs up more than a hint about where to spend Astranots. It is the difference between a stat that stops at the standard cap and one that keeps climbing.

05Where to start

Check the Attribute Rank and the sparkling aura first, because they decide whether a creature is worth raising at all. Then read the stat screen for the 1st and 2nd recommended stats and the thumbs up icons, and push innate and acquired potential on those. The crown appears when a stat has nothing left. Anything short of that, including a bare Perfect rating, is a creature with room still on the table.