Catching
Pods, stealth, breaks and traps — and which of your catches are worth keeping.
All 30 guides on this stage, written pieces first.
- Catch Completion rewards and Outpost reporting
Covers turning in creature catch reports at Outpost terminals, earning Vein Essences, and filling the AniLog.
- How Aniipod Ultras and guaranteed captures work
Details guaranteed capture mechanics, Aniipod Ultra potential floors, and Alpha boss catching rules.
- How Lucky Strikes Work in Aniimo
Lucky and Super Lucky catch odds, rewards and prismatic energy.
- How to Catch Legendary Aniimo
Legendary tokens, crafted pods and the one-time encounter.
- Irisalis: How to Get the Legendary Aniimo
Crafting the Legendary Aniipod from petals, the rift encounter and guaranteed capture.
- Alpha Aniimo: Finding, Fighting and Catching World Bosses
What Alphas are, how to fight them and catch rules.
- Alpha, Legendary and event catches: rules and rewards
The special capture rules for Alphas, Legendaries, Cubbo, surges and event catch quests, plus what a catch gives you afterwards: Lucky results, XP and registration.
- Aniimo Catching Guide: Aniipods and Alpha Hunting
A practical guide explaining stealth catching, break status advantages, pod tiers, and securing guaranteed Alpha Aniimo captures.
- Aniipod tiers and crafting guide
For players stocking pods: Aniipod tiers, catch rates, prices and crafting them with the Homeland Aniipod Maker.
- Aniipod Ultra: how to get it and catch guarantees
What the Ultra guarantees and where to get it.
- Aniipod variants, tracking pods and catch items in Aniimo
Pod tiers, Track, Tumbler and Ultra, base rates and where to get each.
- Boss and rare encounter captures: Alphas and Umbrals
How post battle Alphas, Umbral variants and bosses are caught.
- Can you catch every Aniimo? Uncatchables and one-shot rules
Which Aniimo cannot be caught in the wild, which allow only one attempt or a daily retry, and which need a special pod.
- Capture rewards: Lucky Strike loot, XP and catch quality
Everything a capture pays out, from Lucky and Super Lucky Strike credits and Sparkling Crystals to XP, region progress and catch quality.
- How Aniipod catch rates and throw mechanics work
Pod tiers, base catch rates, displayed odds and missed throws.
- How stealth capture and traps work in Aniimo
Explains how to sneak up on Aniimo, use traps, and catch sleeping targets outside combat.
- How to catch wild Aniimo
Capture odds: weakening, breaks, sleeping and backstab bonuses, traps and stealth.
- How to earn and spend Credits in Aniimo
Where Credits come from (catching, reporting, Alphas, codes, Lucky Strikes) and what they buy, from Anipods to inheritance and vendor deals.
- How to register and appraise captured Aniimo
For new catchers: using the research console, revealing potential and earning Report Cards.
- How Tumbler Pods and wild surges work
Group capture multipliers and using Tumblers on surges.
- Where to catch Turbo, best held item and team role
Where to find and catch Turbo and Prismana Turbo, what to invest in it, which held item to give it and which teams it supports.
4 min read
- Best early game Aniimo to catch first
Which creatures you meet first and which are worth using early, such as Celestis, Flutternym and Skippy, why Emberpup falls off, and which Aniipods to save.
- Catch Stance and Combat Role Strategy in Aniimo
Covers switching to catch stance, team role synergies, and weakening wild Aniimo.
- Do missed Aniipod throws use up the pod?
Explains how aiming and throwing works, when a pod is consumed, what happens on a miss or a cancelled throw, and where to throw from.
- How to craft Legendary Aniipods in Aniimo
Details how to earn Legendary Tokens and craft the Legendary Aniipods needed for scripted encounters.
- How to raise catch chance: stuns, sleep and Tubster
Situational ways to push a catch rate above a pod's base: stun windows, sleeping targets, Branch upgrades, Tubster farming and Tumbler multipliers.
3 min read
- Stealth captures, backstab bonuses and sleeping Aniimo
Backstab multipliers, sleeping targets and traps.
- Where to catch Hummin, Jawling, Helgon and Wisptis
Spawn spots for these hard-to-find species.
3 min read
- Companion Modes: Offensive, Defensive and Catch
What each command-mode setting makes your companion do.
- How to Choose Which Aniimo to Keep
How to evaluate wild catches, starter stats, Alpha status, and cultivation odds before releasing or registering creatures at camp.
