Aniimo Tier List: Best Aniimo Ranked by Role (S to C)

Is there a community-agreed Aniimo tier list?

No. Aniimo launched on 16 September 2026 for PC and consoles and on 23 September for mobile, and the ranking sites still disagree with each other. Mobalytics lists Helion, Ignitis, Cornet, Turbo, Flamerion, Pomawk, Blazen and Tuckin at the top of its own board. Sportskeeda leads with Besauce and Forest Ignitis. MetaBot argues from raw stats and puts Tuckin at the top of the combat ladder by base numbers, while Game8’s S tier is a fifteen-long list headed by Besauce, Fulmintis, Ignitis and Rookey.

Those boards measure different things, which is why they do not match. A base-stat ranking will always favour a tanky Earth unit; a role-coverage ranking will favour a universal Break or Regen unit that slots into any element. The table on this page is this site’s recommendation, built from kit mechanics and cross-checked against those published role rankings. It is not a community vote and it is not an official ranking. Where our placement disagrees with a major outlet, we say so.

[!note] Read the role before the letter In Aniimo a “best” creature is usually the one that fixes your team’s worst slot. A C tier Break unit in a team with no Break can beat an S tier DPS in a team that already has two.

How did we rank these Aniimo?

Four criteria, in this order.

Role scarcity. How hard is it to replace this creature in its job? Rookey and Somniwing rank high because almost nothing else does their job as cleanly.
Team independence. Does the kit work outside its own element? A universal damage or EP buff travels; a kit that only functions with one family does not.
Setup cost. How much EP, field time and prerequisite stacking does the payoff need? Fast, cheap rotations beat slow, high-ceiling ones for most players.
Acquisition cost. A base-form creature you can catch in the open world is worth more to a new account than a Prismana or paid-pass variant of the same kit.

Elemental coverage is deliberately not a tier criterion, because it is a matchup question rather than a power question. Once you know which element the boss is weak to, the tier question becomes “who in that element is actually good”.

S tier: Aniimo that fit almost any team

Aniimo	Element	Role	Why it is here	Basis
Lunara	Light	DPS	Big base ATK, ranged, self-sustaining HP, and a starter you already own. Deals 100% extra damage and restores 0.5% HP against targets holding Silver Moon Mark stacks	Game8 S tier, IGN and GameSpot starter comparisons
Helion	Light	DPS	Same stat band as Lunara, close-range burst, strong Solar Grace scaling into endgame	Game8 S tier, IGN and GameSpot starter comparisons
Ignitis	Dark	DPS	One of the strongest Dark damage kits, with a form that adds a Grass skill for coverage	Game8 S tier, Mobalytics top list
Fulmintis	Lightning	DPS	Highest overall Attack in the game on the base form, plus a 35% crit-rate skill for 0 EP and EP refunds on crits	Game8 S tier, Mobalytics top list
Rookey	Dark	Break	Raises the Break damage the enemy takes and its Break stat scales with Physical Defense, so it works in any element	Game8 S tier, Mobalytics top list
Somniwing	Light	Regen	Team EP recovery with no downtime, element-agnostic, and its skill can delete incoming projectiles	Game8 S tier
Prismana Glacy	Ice	Heal	Off-field healing plus Glimmer Shot, a universal damage buff at low EP cost and almost no field time	Game8 S tier and best-team lists
Turbo	Wind	Support	Nimbi Burst gives a party damage and break buff for 10 EP, Cloud Shield adds shields, and its ultimate heals	Game8 S tier, Mobalytics top list
Besauce	Lightning	Regen	Charged Geyser plus Power Surge can restore up to 25 EP instantly and around 1.5 EP per second afterwards	Game8 S tier, Sportskeeda top pick
Inferlupa	Fire	Break	Fast Fire break that can also deal Dark damage, and its trait rewards Dark support partners	Game8 S tier
Sparkelf	Fire	Support	The Fire team’s dedicated support: heals, buffs and breaks with its ultimate	Game8 S tier
Stellarys	Dark	DPS	Ranged Dark damage with a clone that copies skills and basic attacks, so it inherits every party buff	Game8 S tier
Pawney	Dark	DPS	Huge Dark burst on broken targets and one of the fastest melee kits, at the cost of being EP-hungry	Game8 S tier

The through-line is that none of these need a specific partner to function. Lunara, Helion, Rookey and Somniwing are the four we would recommend to somebody who owns almost nothing.

Three of the entries are here for a single mechanic rather than for raw output. Rookey’s Break stat scales with Physical Defense, so building it tanky makes it hit harder, which is unusual enough that no other Break unit copies it. Somniwing’s EP recovery is not tied to an element and has no real downtime, so it slots into a Lightning or a Grass team with identical value. Besauce’s Charged Geyser can hand back up to 25 EP in one cast and then keep trickling EP for twelve seconds, which turns an EP-starved team into one that can cast continuously.

Prismana Glacy and Prismana Turbo are the two Prismana variants we would actually chase, and both earn it on utility rather than damage. Glimmer Shot is cheap, off-field and buffs the whole party, so it fits rotations that have no room for a dedicated support turn. Prismana Turbo’s Nebula Burst stacks with the base Nimbi Burst for up to a 60% damage buff on Dark attacks, which is the largest single multiplier available in a support slot. Everything else in the Prismana pool is a cosmetic sidegrade or a small utility swap.

A tier: strong specialists worth building around

Aniimo	Element	Role	Why it sits here rather than S	Basis
Blazen	Lightning	Break	Tears down break gauges even off-element, but its value is concentrated in one combo	Game8 A tier, Mobalytics top list
Cornet	Wind	DPS	Best Wind damage dealer, but the Wind plan is a fixed family team	Game8 A tier, Mobalytics top list
Fenmane	Lightning	DPS	Ranged Lightning damage and a fine substitute when Fulmintis is missing, but below it in output	Game8 A tier
Fragrancier	Dark	Support	Heals, buffs and debuffs, but its kit only shines in Dark teams	Game8 A tier
Geoclaw	Ice	Break	Ice team’s main Break unit and a heavy gauge reducer, but element-locked in practice	Game8 A tier
Gracewing	Light	Heal	Can stay off-field and heal continuously, and doubles as EP recovery, but has no damage buff	Game8 A tier
Helgon	Wind	Break	Counter-attack break kit that wants to be hit, which is a playstyle commitment	Game8 A tier
Hexxin	Dark	Regen	EP recovery plus crowd control, but its Prank trait ties it to Dark teams	Game8 A tier
Luminelle	Lightning	Support	Best Lightning support, granting damage and break buffs, but cannot heal off-field allies	Game8 A tier
Sherro	Water	DPS	Strong Water damage that wants a puddle, so it needs terrain support	Game8 A tier
Tromber	Wind	Support	Critical damage buffs plus a Wind resistance debuff, inside the Wind family team	Game8 A tier
Tubster	Wind	Break	Applies Concerto after a break to cut stamina costs, plus Water coverage in Beach form	Game8 A tier
Erlath	Water	Regen	Creates puddles and pays EP back for every Water skill cast, which is narrow but excellent	Game8 B tier, raised here for Water teams
Melloblum	Grass	Support	Empowers Grass critical hits hard, but only next to Thornblade	Game8 B tier, raised here for Grass teams

A tier is where element identity starts to dominate. Blazen, Geoclaw, Luminelle and Fragrancier are all excellent at what they do, and all four want to be inside a team built around their own element. That is not a flaw, but it changes the advice: build them only after you have committed to that element, and do not expect them to travel.

Two of the entries are played as pairs rather than as individuals. Leafy exists to generate Turf beneath Irisal, and Irisal’s damage trait only switches on when that Turf is present, so taking one without the other halves the value of both. Melloblum and Thornblade work the same way around Grass critical hits. Treat paired units as a single two-slot decision, because that is what they cost you.

B tier: usable, usually conditional

These are not bad creatures. They are creatures that need a specific partner, a specific encounter, or a specific form before they pay off.

Aniimo	Element	Role	The catch
Thornblade	Grass	DPS	A crit-based Grass carry whose output stays underwhelming even on a fully optimized team
Glynsera	Ice	DPS	Serious damage potential, but it needs careful Ice Debuff management and heavy EP
Panpanta	Water	Break	Fine Water breaker whose main skill can miss moving targets
Scorchhowl	Fire	DPS	Strong into Fire-weak enemies, average short-range otherwise, and expensive on EP
Grizbo	Earth	DPS	Extremely high damage in its Enraged state behind a long setup
Infergon	Fire	DPS	Needs Fire Debuff stacking and a large EP pool before it functions
Irisal	Grass	DPS	Only reaches its ceiling next to Leafy, which passively generates the Turf it needs
Leafy	Grass	Support	Near-useless without Irisal, because its whole kit exists to feed one trait
Minespine	Earth	Break	Solid break and a Tunnel that doubles as exploration and ranged-attack defense
Flamerion	Fire	Regen	Good EP restoration, but only usable in Fire teams
Dreaple	Dark	Support	Applies Nightmare to lower Dark resistance and stop the target acting, but it is a late unlock
Glacy	Ice	Heal	A fine healer for new accounts that gets replaced once a team-specific healer arrives
Tuckin	Grass	Break	Very durable, and MetaBot ranks it first on raw stats, but its break setup takes about ten seconds to come online
Waleetle	Earth	DPS	Scales through Overloaded Engine, but its main spin costs too much EP
Wisptis	Light	DPS	A Lumin-stage Ignitis with fewer skills than the evolved form
Gracewing and Flutternym forms	Light	Heal	The Mountain Woods and Sea of Flowers forms trade healing for shields or a debuff cleanse

C tier: skip until the roster is deep

Aniimo	Why it is down here
Baleetle	Same function as Waleetle on lower stats and no ultimate
Bouldus	Rolling Ball only works near walls, so it needs a partner and the right room
Budsquire	Thornblade’s skills on lesser stats, so evolve it
Celestis	A fine early creature that loses its niche the moment Stellarys arrives, because it has no clone
Cubbo	Grizbo’s kit on lower stats
Chirpi	The Wind team’s fourth support: health regeneration and an EP drain, but low stats
Most form variants	Highland, Beach, Nighttime and Mountain versions of the same species usually swap one skill, and several are documented downgrades

C tier is mostly a list of pre-evolutions and form variants rather than genuinely bad creatures. Baleetle, Budsquire and Cubbo all share their evolved form’s kit on lower stats, so the correct play is to evolve them rather than judge them. Form variants are murkier: some, like Mountain Woods Gracewing, add a real option such as a shield on Wind of Regeneration, and others are strict downgrades. The rule that holds is to read the swapped skill before you invest, because the form’s rarity tells you nothing about its strength.

One warning about the whole board: the meta on a two-week-old launch is not stable. Balance patches, new Prismana forms and event-only creatures will move entries, and the sources we cross-checked were already updating daily when this page was written on 24 September 2026. Re-read the tier table after a major patch rather than treating a placement as permanent.

[!critical] Do not read this as a collection guide A C tier creature still adds research progress, and research progress raises Pathfinder Rank. Rank gates real modes, so catching a “bad” creature is never wasted.

What should you raise first if you only have a few Aniimo?

Work down this list until your roster runs out. Each step assumes you already finished the one above it.

If you have	Raise	Because
Only your starter	Your starter	Helion and Lunara carry the whole story and both remain endgame-viable
Starter plus anything	Rookey, if you can find one	Universal Break with no element requirement
Starter plus Rookey	Somniwing, or Besauce, or Turbo	You need EP back or you cannot cast, and all three are element-agnostic
Starter, Break, Regen	A healer: Glacy early, then Prismana Glacy	Runs can be won without healing, but not comfortably
Those four	One element DPS per element you fight	Matching the type chart multiplies damage more than any upgrade

If the choice is “one Aniimo from a Prismana egg” and nothing else, take the DPS. A Prismana Break or Regen variant usually adds a defensive or utility skill, while a Prismana DPS keeps the same kit with better stats.

Which Aniimo is best for each job?

Job	Our pick	Runner-up	Reasoning
Raw DPS	Fulmintis	Lunara	Fulmintis holds the highest base Attack and a cheap crit-rate skill, while Lunara is close and free
Break	Rookey	Blazen	Rookey works in every element; Blazen is faster but Lightning-focused
Support buffs	Turbo	Prismana Turbo	Nimbi Burst costs 10 EP and buffs both damage and break for the whole party
EP regen	Somniwing	Besauce	Somniwing has no downtime and no element lock; Besauce spikes higher in Lightning teams
Healing	Prismana Glacy	Gracewing	Prismana Glacy heals off-field and adds a universal damage buff
Explorer	Minespine	Any starter	Tunnel moves through obstacles and blanks ranged attacks
Capture setup	Any stealth or mobility kit	Starter Hustle	Back strikes add 150% capture rate, so reach matters more than power
Egg Heist runs	Helion or Lunara plus a mobile Break unit	Whatever you can afford to lose	Heist forgives nothing on a faint, so bring gear you can replace

The team-shaped version of this table, with three lineups you can copy directly, is on the best team page. If you want to chase the rarest entries on this list, the egg hatching guide explains which eggs actually guarantee a Prismana hatch, and the Prismana guide covers the region grind behind them. Element-by-element boards from other outlets are worth comparing against ours: see Mobalytics, Game8 and MetaBot.

Official source: Aniimo on Steam