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Potential Grades and Capability Awakenings
Potential is the stat that decides how every other stat grows. Here is how the four grades work, where a grade comes from, and what you can do to change one after the fact.
The short version
- Potential grades come in four tiers: common, good, elite and perfect. Higher potential means bigger attribute increases every time the Aniimo levels.
- Caught and hatched Aniimo use the same four-tier scale. A hatched Aniimo's grade is fixed at hatching.
- An Aniipod Ultra used on an egg guarantees at least Elite potential. A sparkling egg guarantees the sparkling trait.
- Only elite Aniimo showing a sparkling potential aura can be upgraded to perfect rarity.
- Capability fruits raise innate potential, giving plus one to each of the Aniimo's two recommended innate potentials.
- Pushing attribute potential to higher levels costs progressively rarer materials.
- Potential is one lane among several: Capability Points, Traits, Resonance progression, Carried Items and Runes.
Levels are the visible number. Potential is the one underneath that decides what each level is worth.
Two Aniimo of the same species at the same level can be measurably different, because the potential grade controls how much each attribute goes up on level up. Higher potential, bigger increases. That compounds over the whole life of the creature, which is why the grade is worth checking before you invest anything in a catch or a hatch.
This covers the four tiers, how caught and hatched Aniimo get assigned one, and the two ways you can push potential upward afterward.
The four tiers and what they change
Potential grades, also called potential ratings, run across four tiers: common, good, elite and perfect. That grade is the thing determining how an Aniimo's attributes grow. Higher potential grants larger attribute stat increases when it levels up.
So the practical read is simple. The grade is not a badge, it is a growth rate. Two identical species diverge over time purely on the tier they were assigned.
Alpha Aniimo sit slightly apart from this. An Alpha's stats can be higher or lower than the base species standard, so an Alpha is not automatically the better creature. Check it rather than assuming.
- CommonThe lowest tier on the four tier potential scale.
- GoodHigher potential means larger attribute stat increases on level up.
- EliteHatching an egg with an Aniipod Ultra guarantees at least this grade.
- PerfectOnly elite Aniimo showing a sparkling potential aura can be upgraded here.
Where the grade comes from
Aniimo hatched from eggs receive a fixed Potential grade on the same four-tier scale as caught Aniimo. Same scale, same meaning, no separate hatching system to learn. What matters is the word fixed. Once it hatches, that is the grade it hatched with.
That makes what you put into the egg the lever. Hatching an egg with an Aniipod Ultra guarantees the hatched Aniimo will have a Potential rating of at least Elite, which removes the bottom two tiers from the outcome entirely.
Eggs can also carry a trait guarantee. Sparkling eggs guarantee that the hatched Aniimo will possess the sparkling trait. Worth knowing that these are separate promises. One is about the growth grade, the other about the trait.
Raising potential after the fact
A grade is not always the end of the conversation. Capability fruits raise an Aniimo's innate potential, granting plus one to each of its two recommended innate potentials. Note the shape of that. It targets the two recommended potentials, not everything, so the fruit reinforces what the Aniimo is already built to do.
The cost curve is the thing to plan around. Upgrading an Aniimo's attribute potential to higher levels requires progressively rarer materials. Early upgrades are cheap. Late ones are the reason you hoard.
There is also a hard gate at the top. Only elite Aniimo displaying a sparkling potential aura can be upgraded to perfect rarity. Elite alone is not enough, and neither is the aura alone. You need both, which makes an elite with a sparkling aura the specific thing to look for if perfect is the goal.
20,000
Coins to confirm an inheritance transfer
Potential in the wider progression system
Potential is one lane, not the whole road. Beyond leveling, creature progression includes potential in the form of Capability Points, Traits, Resonance progression, Carried Items and Runes. Each of those is a separate axis you can push on, and a weak grade can be partly offset elsewhere.
One cost worth budgeting for now: confirming an inheritance transfer costs 20,000 coins. That is per confirmation, so it pays to be sure before you press the button rather than treating transfers as something to experiment with.
Where to start
Check the potential grade before you commit resources to a creature, because it sets the growth rate for everything after. If you are hatching, an Aniipod Ultra floors the result at Elite. If you are chasing perfect, look for an elite with a sparkling potential aura and start saving rare materials early. This is pre-launch beta information, so expect some specifics to shift between builds.
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