Stop Wasting Resources! (Upgrade Guide)

Game Storyline / Context

This video is an upgrade/build guide for Animo (collectible units), focused on maximizing their stats and combat effectiveness in combat parties—especially for roles that depend on elemental counters and breaking enemy shields during break windows (referenced modes include Hollow Battle Sim / Hollow Battle Interlink).

Core Gameplay / Progression Systems

Choosing Animo Ratings

When you catch an Animo, it “rolls” how many potential stats it can gain, then assigns them to its two core stats.

Rarity determines how many core-stat rolls can land:

• Common: up to 3 core stats
• Good: up to 5 core stats
• Elite: up to 7 core stats

Innate vs. Acquired Potential

You can view:

• Innate potential: what the unit was “born with”
• Acquired potential: what it upgrades into

Because potential multiplies stats at every level, starting from higher innate potential generally makes future upgrades cheaper and stronger.

Leveling Up

Level increases provide large stat jumps (the video demonstrates a big attack gain when going from level 40 → 60).

Stat growth is tied to innate/acquired potential, so high-potential units scale better.

Capability Awakening (Core-Stat Focused Upgrading)

Capability Awakening lets you target upgrades more specifically toward the core stats you care about.

• Costs increase as you progress
• Upgrading fully is expensive
• The guide stresses targeting the right unit(s) rather than over-investing broadly

Starring Up / Ascending

Used to enhance attributes with materials (e.g., Night Stones).

• Provides large multipliers and additional effects
• Example mentioned: counter boost via Stellaris
• No refunds are mentioned, unlike Capability Awakening → the guide advises upgrading stars/ascensions only when you’re committed to using the Animo long-term

Held Items (Major Damage Scaling)

Held items grant:

• Large always-on multipliers
• Tier bonuses as they level up

The guide describes “thumbs up” items as generally safe choices.

Damage Amplification Example

Removing the held item reduces amplification (example given: 25% without it → 65% with it).

Wrong Way to Upgrade Held Items

If you upgrade an inferior version first and then feed those materials into a better/legendary version, you lose material effectiveness (20%).

Guidance: get the legendary version first (or avoid prematurely upgrading the wrong tier).

Copper Fruits, Sunglasses, and “Perfect” Requirements

Copper Fruit Purpose

• Adds +1 to every core stat
• You can only use one copper fruit per relevant unit

Best use: save copper for a unit that’s already very high, so you reach maximum core stats efficiently.

What “Perfect” Means Here

The video uses a “crowned/perfect” concept:

• Use a copper fruit to push core stats to 10
• When both primary stats are at 10/10, the unit gains a “perfect” visual state (described as sunglasses)

Strategies / Key Optimization Tips

• Aim for “Perfect” whenever possible (unless the unit is difficult to obtain for your needs)
• Prioritize potential first
  • Choose the Animo with the best innate potential to reduce leveling/maxing cost and pressure
• Plan resources
  • Save currencies/materials for the upgrades that matter to that unit’s role
• Avoid unnecessary rerolls
  • Personality changes require psyche fruits
  • Personality is random across 4 slots, so rerolling blindly wastes resources

Animo Personality System (Psyche Fruit Rerolls)

Personality Slots

Personality has 4 slots, each with two possible traits:

• Slot 1
  • Energetic: +2 attack or +2 break
  • Instinctive: +4% regen
• Slot 2
  • Practical: +4% damage
  • Nimble: +5% crit rate
• Slot 3
  • Tenacious: physical defense
  • Faithful: magic defense
• Slot 4
  • Judicious: +4% health
  • Playful: 4% damage reduction

Psyche Fruit Usage

• Changes all personality slots at once
• No locking
• Use psyche fruits only when you know what stats you need

Which Stats to Build by Role (and Why)

1) DPS (Damage Dealers)

• Most important stat: Attack
• Second most important: Regen
  • Reason: DPS must keep dealing damage during the break window, and regen supports EP/ability uptime.
• Break on DPS: generally not worth it (treated as resource waste unless fully maxing later)

Personality reroll priorities for DPS:

• Best for top slots:
  • Energetic (attack + break bonus)
  • Practical (+4% damage)

Crit vs Practical for DPS

• Most DPS should prefer Practical (+4% damage) over Nimble (+crit rate)
• Exception: some Animo (example: Fantis) may benefit from crit differently due to kit scaling
• Stellaris is specifically noted as preferring +damage, since her kit doesn’t benefit from crit rate in the same way

2) Break Units

• Most important stat: Break
• Second most important stat: Regen (not attack)

Why not attack for break units (per the video):

• Attack upgrades reportedly improve break shield damage only minimally compared to investing in break
• Crit rate affects break shield damage, so crit can still matter for breaking

Personality approach:

• Prioritize Break bonuses
• Add Crit rate where relevant

3) Regen Units

• Most important stat: Regen
• Skills are described as scaling off regen and can grant regen to the party (off-field support value).

4) Healers

• Most important stat: HP
• Healer skills are generally described as scaling with HP.

5) Supports

Varies by support type:

• Some scale off HP (example: Turbo; shield based on max HP)
• Others scale off Attack (example: Jasmine)

Advice: read ability descriptions before upgrading.

Held-Item Contract / “Signature Skill Enhancement”

After obtaining a suitable held item, you can form a contract:

• Requires 10 of an indicated material/marks (example shown: “alpha sigils” / marks of the strong)
• Enhances the Animo’s core skill only while the held item is equipped/contracted

If you swap held items, the enhanced core-skill state is removed—you must swap back to restore the enhancement.

End / Recommended Next Steps

• The video emphasizes further damage multiplication through additional mechanics and conditional multipliers (not fully detailed in subtitles).
• It also suggests watching another linked video and interacting with the channel (subscribe/comment).

Gamers / Sources Featured (As Mentioned)

• Celestus (Animo example)
• Stellaris (Animo example; main example target)
• Solaris (Animo example)
• Helon
• Lunar
• Somni Wing
• Turbo
• Jasmine
• Fantis
• Blazing
• Bolt
• Pan pan
• Hollow Battle Sim
• Hollow Battle Interlink