How to register and appraise captured Aniimo

There are two routes, depending on how the Aniimo came to you.

For anything you catch, the answer is an outpost. A newly obtained Aniimo's detailed stats and potential cannot be viewed until it has been scanned or researched there. Until then you are judging it on looks alone.

For anything you hatch, go to the appraisal station near the Hatchinator. That is where a newly hatched Aniimo has its potential and quality grade revealed.

Once that is done, every caught or hatched Aniimo has its own potential value, and you can see it by selecting the Aniimo. Two of the same species are not interchangeable; the number on each one is its own.

The potential grade is appraised from each stat's Potential and sets the Aniimo's stat tier. A higher-graded Aniimo has higher stats than a lower-graded one at the same level and personality, and the top of the scale is Perfect. The grade goes by several names in the game, including potential rating, quality grade, capture rating and Attribute Rank.

The tiers are most commonly given as Common, Good, Elite and Perfect, though the exact tier names are not settled. How Potential Grades Work covers the system in full. For appraisal purposes, all you need is this: the grade is the first thing to read before deciding what to do with a catch.

Registering and releasing are the two decisions appraisal exists to inform, so make them with the full picture. Before you do either, check three things: whether the Aniimo is an Alpha, whether it is in a special or weather form, and its potential grade (Common, Good, Elite or Perfect). The point is simple. You do not want to throw away one with high innate potential because you did not look.

The same caution applies to automation. Check your auto-release settings carefully, because a loose setting can cost you Aniimo you meant to keep. Managing Your Collection: Box, Locking and Releasing goes through those settings in detail.

The in-game Dex is your collection index. It catalogs the Aniimo you have captured along with details on each species, and registering is how a catch gets into it.

Filling it early pays. Catching Aniimo awards player experience, and uncaught species are the best source of it. That is why it is worth catching at least one of every Aniimo you meet during the opening quest and the trip to the first city. Each new species is experience you only get once.

Regional collection may also feed a region's bronze collection badge, but what unlocks that badge is not settled. It is tied both to completing quests in the region and to collecting different Aniimo native to that region until regional collection completion reaches 40%.

Registration also gates things outside the Dex. A consumable Morph Orb or Prismana Orb can transform an eligible owned Aniimo, such as one found in Breezy Plains, into its Prismana variant form, but only if that Prismana form has already been acquired and registered in your collection. The Prismana Pact event works the same way: its final reward, a Sparkling Cube, unlocks when you have registered 10 different Prismana Aniimo in the index.

Every step at the console has a payout attached.

Submitting Aniimo reports awards Voxil coins. Analyzing Aniimo through research awards credits, with extra bonus credits for Sparkling variants. Caught Aniimo can also be recycled by analysis, but do not expect much from the ordinary ones: common through elite rarities return only a few credits. That is another reason to read the grade first, since a few credits is a poor trade for a keeper.

Sparkling Aniimo have their own reward track. Registering one at an outpost or research console awards sparkling marks or fragments. Sparkling Sigils come from obtaining them too, and each Sparkling Aniimo caught and reported in the Aniimo report at the terminal awards one Sparkling Sigil. If you catch a Sparkling, report it.

06Where to start

Run every new catch through an outpost and every hatch through the appraisal station, and read the grade, Alpha status and form before you register or release. Catch one of everything early for the experience, register Prismana forms so your Orbs work, and always report Sparkling Aniimo for the Sigil.