Aniimo Team Building Guide: Best Team Comps and How to Cover Weaknesses

A team in Aniimo holds up to four Aniimo, and every one of them has one of five roles and one or two of nine elements. Building a good team comes down to two jobs: cover the roles so the party can deal damage, crack shields and stay alive, and mix the elements so no single attacker hits most of your party for extra damage. This guide covers both, using the role and type-chart data from the game files and the same rules our team builder runs on.

The five roles and what each one does

Every Aniimo form has exactly one role, and the role shapes its base stats. Our role rankings score each role on different inputs, and the leader of each role on the current tier list is shown on the right. The tier list is calculated from the game files, not play-tested.

The roster is lopsided. Counting each creature's default form in the game files, there are 35 DPS, 28 Breakers, 19 Supports, 8 Regen and only 5 Healers, so the Healer slot is the hardest to fill well. All five Healers are Water or Wind: Skippy, Pranky, Glacy, Flutternym and Gracewing.

Aniimo type chart

Aniimo has nine elements and only three damage multipliers: 1.6× when you hit a weakness, 1× neutral and 0.625× when the defender resists. There are no immunities. Every element resists itself except Dark, and Light and Dark hit each other for 1.6×. The chart is read from the retail game files; each element page lists the full matchups.

Dual-element Aniimo multiply both cells. Magmarex is Fire/Earth, so Water hits it for 1.6 × 1.6 = 2.56×, while Fire and Ice only deal 0.625 × 0.625 ≈ 0.39×. Grass ends up neutral: 0.625 × 1.6 = 1×. A second element can cancel a weakness or double it, so always check the combined number.

How to read party coverage: holes and walls

For every attacking element, the team builder counts how many of your Aniimo it hits super-effectively and how many resist it. A hole (weak spot) is an element more of your party is weak to than resists. A wall is an element at least one member resists and none is weak to. One weak member is fine if a teammate resists the same element; three weak members and nothing that resists is how a single enemy sweeps your party.

How to build an Aniimo team, step by step

1. 1
   Pick your anchor DPS

   Start with the damage dealer you'll use most; its element decides what you hit hard. The S-tier DPS on our tier list are Pawney, Scorchhowl, Thornblade, Ignitis (Forest Form) and Waleetle.

2. 2
   Add a Breaker

   A Breaker Aniimo is what rates Break as high. Magmarex is the #1 Breaker on our tier list; for the game's own pick in your element, see the recommended teams below.

3. 3
   Add sustain

   Take one Healer or Regen. Gracewing is the #1 Healer and easy to get (wild in Sea of Flowers, Lv 19–28); Erlath is the #1 Regen (wild in Tideblossom Coast, Lv 53–60).

4. 4
   Check the holes

   Put those three into the team builder. The live check marks every element that hits more of them super-effectively than resists it.

5. 5
   Fill the last slot to plug the worst hole

   Pick a fourth Aniimo that resists your worst hole, ideally one that also fills a missing role (Support is the usual gap) or adds a new super-effective element. The builder's fix suggestions score candidates on exactly these things.

6. 6
   Swap for the fight

   Before a boss, check its element in the boss guide and bring attackers that hit it for 1.6× and resist it back.

Game-recommended teams

The game files list recommended Aniimo per element and role for eight elements; there is no Light list. The teams page turns each list into one party with one pick per role. Some elements have fewer than four picks, so those parties are short.

Mono-element teams are easy to understand but rarely balanced, because sharing an element means sharing its weaknesses. In the recommended Fire team every member is weak to Water, and nobody resists Water or Earth.

Best team for each element

If you want to stay in one element, the teams page also picks the strongest party per element straight off the meta tier list: the element's top DPS, its top Breaker, its best sustain pick, then the next strongest. The best Fire team is one of only two rated High for damage (it runs two DPS; the Dark team is the other), but Water hits all four members for 1.6× or more.

Example team comps that work

These four parties come from the live teams page. The weak spots column uses the live builder's hole rule (more members weak than resisting), which we worked out from the type chart above.