Fighting
Roles, elements, skills and the break system. How a fight is actually won.
All 90 guides on this stage, written pieces first.
- Aniimo combat roles: shared energy, presets and rules
The five fixed roles, the shared EP pool and party presets, for team builders.
- Assist slot, Alt swap and core skills in Aniimo teams
How assist Aniimo cast only core skills via the Alt swap shortcut in Egg Heist and Interlink.
- Best buff supports: Fragrancier, Luminelle and Tromba
Supports that raise team damage, crit or break efficiency or add shields and cleanses, from Fragrancier's mark to Melobloom's crit circle.
5 min read
- Building a Team for Bosses and Late-Game Content
For mid-game players building a balanced DPS, break and healer team and timing buffs around break windows.
- Carried items: equipping, upgrading and what they give
Held item slot, upgrade cores, contracts and core-skill enhancement.
- DPS rotation mechanics, burst stacks and combos in Aniimo
Analyzes DPS skill rotations, clone mechanics, burst stacks, and critical triggers.
- Elemental combat matchups and status ailments in Aniimo
Breaks down nine element matchups, damage modifiers, and status ailment stacks.
- Elemental damage multipliers and skill typing
1.6x, 0.625x and dual-type multipliers and why skill element drives offense.
- Holy and Light Element Combat Guide
Covers Holy and Light element damage dealers, starter abilities, resistance debuffs, and lightning synergies.
- How shields and defensive skills work in Aniimo
Covers shield mechanics, damage reduction stances, and terrain obstacles.
- How to burn vines and reach hidden nests in Aniimo
Explains burning thorny vines, melting ice, and reaching elevated nests using Aniimo mobility abilities.
- Irisalis combat kit: skills, clones and revival
Irisalis players: Dance Power, clone mechanics, Floral Descent bugs, dash and self-revival.
- Aniimo creature abilities: passive traits and synergies
Details signature skills, passives, and combat interactions for Cornet, Ignitis, and others.
- Aniimo Elemental Skill Scaling and Matchup Trait Guide
Explains how specific Aniimo traits, starters, and move elements enhance elemental damage.
- Aniimo role list: DPS, Break and Support creatures
Explains the five fixed combat roles and which Aniimo fill each one.
- Aniimo skill loadouts: slots, ultimates and skill effects
How many skills an Aniimo can equip, what energy, cooldowns and ultimate points gate them, and what specific skills like Fire Kick and Hypnotic Spores actually do.
- Aniimo skill numbers: EP, cooldowns, crit and debuffs
The hard numbers behind combat: shared EP pool and costs, skill cooldowns, base crit rate, debuff and silence durations, break and level gap multipliers, and specific skill values.
- Best Aniimo team comps for Fire, Wind and Dark teams
Recommended DPS/break/support/healer lineups by element.
- Best EP regen supports: Besauce, Somniwing and Leafy
Which energy battery Aniimo keep an EP hungry team topped up, and how much EP each one restores.
4 min read
- Best healers and support Aniimo
For players filling the heal and support slots: Flutternym, Gracewing, Glacy, Turbo, Besauce and others.
- Best held items: Fission Needle, Ferocious Fang and more
Which held items suit which Aniimo, contracts that enhance core skills, and upgrade cores.
- Best Regen Aniimo: EP batteries for your team
Which Aniimo restore the shared EP pool, how much they give back, and which teams each one suits.
- Break skill values: Nimbi, Luminelle, Pomawk and more
A skill by skill reference of break numbers: which named Aniimo skills deal heavy break, raise team break efficiency or add break damage taken, and by how much.
4 min read
- Dark Element Combat: Demonic State, Ignitis and Curses
Dark DPS and debuff kits and their typing.
4 min read
- Dealing damage in Aniimo: breaks, elements, crit and burst
Where combat damage actually comes from: break windows, elemental advantage, base crit, burst swaps and skill effects that raise output or keep the active Aniimo alive.
- Dual Element Typing and Form Variants in Aniimo
Covers how Prismana and regional variants add or alter dual typing and vulnerabilities.
- Early party building and companion roles in Aniimo
Explains how to build an early four Aniimo team around your starter using early companions and distinct combat roles.
- Earth and Grass Combat: Waleetle Overload and Burrowing
Waleetle's Overloaded Engine, Bouldus rock piles and burrowing earth units.
4 min read
- Elemental counters: which element to bring to a fight
Practical counter picking: which element beats which, why a strong team of the wrong element stalls, covering two elements with two damage dealers, and when the starters' no advantage passive makes a neutral pick worth it.
- Elemental Skills and Combat Synergy in Aniimo
Details Aniimo skills, elemental debuff stacking, and team elemental buffs.
- Elements and Elemental Advantage
Reference for the element roster, 1.6x/0.625x multipliers, dual-type matchups and skill-element offence.
- Flutternym and Gracewing: The Wind Healers
Flutternym line healing kits, off-field phantom heals and evolution.
4 min read
- Fulmintis skills and crit build: Lightning Blade Storm
Fulmintis's Lightning Blade kit, crit passive and paralysis.
4 min read
- Grass Team Guide: Irisalis, Melobloom and Leafy
Building the Irisalis grass team with Turbo, Leafy, Somniwing, Tuckin and Melobloom.
4 min read
- Grizbo: Skills, Enraged State, and Earth Combat
Grizbo's rage mechanic, Claw Mark skills, Prismana form and Bear Cave location.
4 min read
- Holo Battle Interlink boss modifiers: chains and bombs
The weekly anomaly modifiers in Interlink fights: chain robots, bomb seeds, the Primary Attacker Rune and how to turn chains against the boss.
- How break efficiency and breaker buffs work in Aniimo
How break efficiency buffs, traits, and breaker skills accelerate posture depletion.
- How combat works in Aniimo
Overview of real-time combat: Command vs Twine mode, party switching, dodging, stamina, cooldowns and lock-on.
- How dual element weaknesses work in Aniimo
Shows how dual typings stack weaknesses (2.56x) and resistances, using Prismana forms as examples.
- How healer and support kits work in Aniimo
How heal, regen and buff supports scale and when to apply buffs.
- How party loadouts and shared energy work
The shared EP pool, four-slot team, presets and swap cooldowns.
- How Pathfinder combat works in Aniimo
A guide to fighting directly as a human Pathfinder, using character skills, managing aggro, and battling rival Pathfinders.
- Ice Element Combat: Glynsera Debuffs and Freeze Stacks
Glynsera and Geoclaw ice debuff stacking and consumption.
4 min read
- Lightning Combat Guide: Fulmintis, Fenmane and Luminelle
Lightning team kits, debuff stacking and buffs.
4 min read
- List of Aniimo skills and abilities
Combat effects, damage types, and healing properties of individual Aniimo skills and creature moves.
- Party presets, shared energy and battle modes in Aniimo
How the shared EP pool, four-slot party, presets and swap cooldowns shape skill rotations.
- Scorchhowl Combat Guide: Skills, Builds and Variants
Scorchhowl's Fire Kick, Burn Breaker, Thunderstorm form and build priorities.
4 min read
- The break bar: staggering enemies and why it matters
Explains break gauges, stun windows, the damage multiplier during breaks and which roles drain them.
- The Holo-Battle Simulator
Roguelike solo trials, difficulties, round types and rewards.
- Thornblade grass crit team: Melobloom Thorny Blessing
How a Thornblade led Grass crit team works with Melobloom as buffer, breaker and cleanser, using Thorny Blessing thorns, Rose Mark and Rose Garden's crit damage boost.
4 min read
- Thornblade, Pawney and Scorchhowl: forms and combat kits
For Thornblade users: Sword Dance stacks, Thorny Defense, its Thunderstorm form and its Budsquire origin.
4 min read
- Upgrading core skills and variant move unlocks in Aniimo
Mark of the Strong pacts, Alpha enhanced core skills and moves shared from Prismana and weather forms.
- Aniimo direct battle control: skills, aiming and dodging
Covers real time attacks, active skills, aiming controls, and dodging while fighting in creature form.
- Aniimo elements list and creature typings
The element roster and which types beat which.
- Aniimo Skills, Traits and Ultimates
How skill slots, traits, ultimate points and per-skill elements build an Aniimo's kit.
- Best DPS Aniimo: damage dealers by element
Lists the Aniimo that fill the DPS role, melee and ranged, by element, and the held item that suits them.
- Break Bars and Staggering
Details how poise gauges work, how to trigger the staggered state, and how break windows amplify damage.
- Break Role Aniimo and Poise Breakers
Covers break role Aniimo, poise breaking skills, and stagger efficiency passives.
- Breaker Aniimo list by element
Breakers per element, including Pomawk, Rookey, Pan Panta and Minespine.
- Budclaw and burrowing Aniimo: how to fight and use tunnelers
Budclaw and Minespine tunnelling, immunity and how Tremor or Pound skills unearth them.
3 min read
- Budclaw and Burrowing Aniimo: Tunneling and Tremor Counters
How tunnelers avoid attacks and which skills knock them out.
3 min read
- Can Aniimo learn skills outside their own element?
Examples of skills whose element differs from the user's typing, including Prismana form skills and type changes, and what that means for coverage.
- Carried Items: Equipping and Enhancing Gear
How to equip carried items and upgrade them using cores to grant stat bonuses.
- Combat Energy Management and Support Healing in Aniimo
Explains combat EP recovery, basic attack energy flow, and off field phantom healing.
- Cornet: Wind DPS, Air Superiority and Flight
Cornet's airborne crit trait, Wind Bomb Rush and flight trade-off.
3 min read
- Do team damage buffs stack? Turbo, Nimbi and Spark Elf
How flat team damage buffs from Turbo, Nimbi Burst and Spark Elf combine or fail to stack, and what Turbo's shield adds.
3 min read
- Fire debuff stacks: Infergon, Magmarex and Spark Elf buffs
How fire debuff stacking works, the overflowing state on Alphas, EP refunds from stacks and how Spark Elf multiplies fire damage.
3 min read
- Fire Element Combat and Overworld Guide
Fire debuff stacks, Fire DPS and fire field abilities.
- Flutternym passive: Flutter Heal and off-field healing
How Flutternym's traits heal the team from reserve: the phantom that restores HP on every skill cast and the Flutter Heal bonus on entry.
3 min read
- Holo Battle Interlink unlock and rules: assists and revives
When the mode unlocks and the rules that set it apart from normal combat: one main Aniimo, assist and ultimate limits, one revive, round structure, modifiers and who picks the team buff.
- How crowd control and stun mechanics work in Aniimo
A guide to pulls, grapples, controlled states, topples, and stun mechanics in combat.
- How Dark and Light elements work in Aniimo
Covers Dark and Light element matchups, team support skills, and combat synergies.
- How elemental debuffs and status stacks work
Explains how elemental status effects, debuff stacking, and detonation skills work in battle.
- How elemental team synergies and buffs work
Details element specific damage buffs, terrain interactions, and team synergy kits.
- How healing, support and energy management work
Using healers, support buffs, and shared energy in combat.
- How many Aniimo are in a combat team?
Answers the party size question: how many Aniimo fight at once, which slot you control, the assist slot and fixed roles.
- How stagger damage and ultimate combos work
How to break enemy posture and maximize damage with ultimates.
- Inferlupa combat: break skills, typing and dark team
Inferlupa's ricochet break skills and role in dark teams.
3 min read
- Magmarex: Fire Stacks, Break Kit and Volcano Cave
Magmarex's fire debuff stacks, break role, typing and volcano cave location.
3 min read
- Omega Aniimo: How World Bosses and Raids Work
Uncatchable Omega bosses, weekly attempts and evolution unlocks.
- Runes: Crafting, Capacity and Slotting
What the beta rune system was and its confirmed removal at launch.
- Shelly and Thornblade: Early Water and Grass DPS
Examines early-game DPS kits, Shelly's rolling dash, and Thornblade's counter moves.
3 min read
- Sherro puddle team: Piopiota, Pan Panta and water damage
Water puddle synergies of Sherro, Piopiota, Popota and Pan Panta.
3 min read
- Somniwing: how to get it, regen build and skills
Somniwing's Elite Training unlock, EP regen kit, sleep spores and regen build.
3 min read
- Spark Elf combat: fire damage buffs and team support
Spark Elf's fire damage buffs, healing and stacking for fire teams.
- The Pathfinder Skill Tree and Talents
Player active skills, talent slots and passive upgrades.
- Which Aniimo to bring: party roles and team building
A guide to party composition, creature combat roles, and which Aniimo to select for a balanced team.
- How Dual Elements and Form Typings Work in Aniimo
A guide detailing dual element Aniimo, variant type shifts, and multi element defensive weaknesses.
- How party switching works in Aniimo
Explains real time character swapping, active and support loadouts, and shared energy management.
- Team structure, party swapping and combat roles
How party slots, character switching, and combat roles function.
