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What an Aniimo keeps and loses when it evolves
Potential grade, quality tier and Sparkling status all survive evolution. The Umbral trait does not, and the game warns you before you give it up.
The short version
- An Aniimo's potential carries through evolution, so a perfect or good-tier creature becomes a perfect or good-tier evolved form.
- The evolved form keeps the quality tier of the base form you used, so check quality before you evolve, not after.
- A Sparkling Aniimo stays Sparkling when it evolves.
- Evolving an Umbral Aniimo removes the Umbral trait and its appearance, though its perfect potential grading is kept; the game asks you to confirm first.
- Evolved Aniimo make better homeland workers: taking a regular Aniimo from Lumin to Nova stage raises its home abilities to level 3.
Yes, Aniimo evolve. The useful question is what comes with them when they do, because evolution is not a fresh roll. Most of what makes a particular creature good is locked in at the base form and carried forward.
That shapes how you should play. The quality of the evolved Aniimo you end up with is decided by the base form you pick, so the work happens before you press the button. Here is what survives, what is lost, and what you gain.
Potential and quality carry over
An Aniimo's potential carries over through evolution. A perfect or good-tier creature evolves into a perfect or good-tier form. The same holds when you change an Aniimo's form rather than evolve it: perfect potential grading is preserved either way.
Quality tier works the same way. The evolved Aniimo keeps the quality tier of the base form you used. Nothing about evolving improves a weak base form, which means the check belongs before you evolve. Once it is done, the result is whatever you fed in.
Perfect stats carry over too. That gives you a straightforward route to a perfect evolved form: catch plenty of the base form, find a perfect one among them, and evolve that one. How to get guaranteed potential in the first place has its own guide on this site.
Sparkling stays, Umbral goes
A Sparkling Aniimo stays Sparkling when it evolves. You do not have to choose between a Sparkling creature and its evolved form.
Umbral is the exception. The Umbral trait and its appearance are lost on evolution. The game shows a confirmation warning before it lets the evolution go ahead, so you cannot lose an Umbral by accident, but you can lose one by clicking through without reading.
One thing does survive on an Umbral: its perfect potential grading is preserved through evolution like any other Aniimo's. What you give up is the trait and the look, not the grade. If you want to keep an Umbral as an Umbral, leave it unevolved. Finding them is covered in this site's Umbral guide.
Why evolve at all: homeland work
Evolved Aniimo make better homeland workers. Taking a regular Aniimo from Lumin to Nova stage raises its home abilities to level 3.
Put that together with what carries over and the trade is usually simple. A regular Aniimo loses nothing it had and gets better at homeland work. The only creature where evolving costs you something is an Umbral, and the game stops to tell you so.
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Home ability level at Nova stage
Where to start
Pick the base form carefully, because its potential, quality tier and Sparkling status are what the evolved form inherits. Evolve regular Aniimo freely for the homeland boost. Read the warning on an Umbral and only confirm if you are willing to lose the trait and its look.
Parts of this page were re-checked against the released game on 2 October 2026. The rest has not been re-confirmed since release.
