Updated: September 22, 2026, for the version of the game live at launch.
An Aniimo tier list ranks creatures by how well they perform in their role in the current version of the game. There are five roles – DPS, BREAK, HEAL, REGEN and SUPPORT – and only four slots in a team. No specific creature name and its tier placement is backed by two independent sources in what’s currently available, so instead of an unverified ranking, this piece shows you how to build your own tier list from roles and stats.
- Ratings only make sense within a role: the best DPS and the best REGEN aren’t comparable.
- The three big tier lists disagree on scale and role count with each other – and almost nobody flags it.
- Early game and endgame priorities differ.
- A low tier doesn’t mean unusable, just a worse investment-to-payoff ratio.
How tier lists are usually read
A tier list groups creatures by strength, typically from best to weakest. The rule that gets lost most often: a rating only makes sense within the same role. Comparing a DPS creature to a REGEN creature by “tier” is comparing apples to oranges – each role does a different job and gets judged by different criteria.
Criteria that usually feed into a rating include how strong a creature is in its role, how much investment it takes (materials, time), how easy it is to get, and how well it holds up without an ideal build. Ratings should reflect a creature’s final, evolved form – not its base shape right after catching.
None of these criteria is enough on its own. A creature with the raw highest attack number can still fall flat in practice if it’s extremely costly to develop or needs a supporting cast your team doesn’t have. Conversely, a creature with average numbers but low requirements often turns out the better pick for most players – which is exactly why purely numeric rankings without context can mislead.
A tier list also isn’t something you build once and forget. Two weeks after launch, Aniimo is still very much in motion – balance shifts with every patch, and what looks like a clear pick today can look different a month from now. That’s exactly why it’s worth knowing how to build your own ranking, rather than relying on someone else’s, possibly outdated, one.
An outdated tier list isn’t neutral, either – it’s actively worse than none at all. It’ll send you to build around a creature the last patch weakened, or steer you away from one that got stronger since. Whenever you run into a ranking with no visible last-checked date, treat it as suspect, not as a neutral source.
Why Aniimo tier lists disagree with each other
Three major tier lists for Aniimo already exist, and if you lined up their ratings of the same creature side by side, it would look like a contradiction. Usually it isn’t – each site uses a different scale and a different number of roles.
| Source | Scale | Number of roles |
|---|---|---|
| Mobalytics | SS–D | 5 (DPS, Heal, Regen, Break, Support) |
| Game8 | S–D | doesn’t distinguish roles, ranks by raw power |
| aniimoguide.com | T0–T3 | 3 (DPS, Break, Support) |
The upshot: an “A tier” on one site doesn’t match an “A tier” on another. Two different ratings of the same creature don’t have to be a genuine disagreement – it’s just a different methodology. Before you follow anyone’s list, check how many roles and what scale it actually uses.
The practical takeaway is simple: if you run into two rankings that contradict each other on the same creature, check both tables’ headers before you draw any conclusion about the creature’s actual strength. In most cases, you’ll find one ignores roles entirely while the other rates strictly within them – and the contradiction disappears.
There’s also a fair amount of video content and discussion threads floating around the topic that don’t name a scale at all – just “this one’s strong.” Without a stated scale and a date, recommendations like that can’t be compared against anything else, so it’s best to treat them as one voice among many, not a decisive source.
How to build your own tier list
A four-tier scale – S, A, B, C – is the recommended starting point for a game that’s two weeks old. Six tiers are harder to keep up to date, and an SS tier for a title this fresh is usually a conclusion the data can’t back up yet.
By role
First, sort a creature into one of the five roles – DPS, BREAK, HEAL, REGEN, SUPPORT – and only then compare it against others in that same role. For the full picture of what each role does and why one always misses the cut, see our piece on team building.
By investment cost
A creature that’s only strong after a huge investment of materials and time belongs a tier lower, in practice, than one with comparable output for a fraction of the cost. For what to actually spend materials on, see builds and skills.
By availability
A creature you run into regularly in the open world has different practical value than a rarer catch, even if both perform similarly – the easier one gets your roster running sooner instead of waiting on hunting luck. Rarity also shifts with the environment, weather and time of day you happen to be playing through.
This point tends to get lost in foreign tier lists, since for an author with hundreds of hours logged, a “rare” creature is long since a non-issue. For a reader in their first few days, though, the gap between “common” and “rare” decides whether a roster comes together this week or a month from now.
Early game vs. endgame
A creature that’s good for your first twenty hours isn’t automatically the same creature that’s good in the endgame – almost nobody covers that distinction in text yet, it’s mostly a handful of YouTube videos. Whenever you rate a creature yourself, note which phase of the game the rating applies to.
In practice, that means keeping two separate notes on one creature, not one. “Strong right now, with what I’ve leveled” and “still strong dozens of hours from now, once I’ve got a better build” are two different questions, and the answer can easily differ between them.
The starters as a starting point
The only two names we’re confident enough to mention here in connection with tiering are the starters, Helion and Lunara – you get one of them at the start of the game. According to Mobalytics, both remain viable into the endgame, with Lunara rated a tier above Helion, while Game8 simply advises leveling whichever one you picked. Both are claims from a specific source, not our own rating – but by the available data, your first pick isn’t a wrong one.
If you’re just starting out and torn between the two, don’t treat the choice as a bet on the whole game. Both starters have, by the available sources, enough strength to carry you through the early and mid game, and the difference between them shows up more in the details than in whether either one works at all.
To boil the choice down to one line: a starter is the creature you learn the game’s fundamentals with, not necessarily the one you finish your endgame roster with. Before then, you’ll be filling out other roles the starter alone can’t cover.
What a tier list doesn’t tell you
A low tier doesn’t mean unusable. What holds an Aniimo team together is its role composition and shared energy, not a simple sum of individual ratings – one strong solo name in a team missing the rest of the roles won’t get you far.
In other words: a tier list helps you choose between two creatures in the same role, but it won’t decide for you whether you need to fill that role right now at all. That’s a question about your whole team’s composition, not about one individual rating.
Before you even use a tier list, it’s worth knowing how to build a working foursome out of five roles and four slots – that’s a question of composition, not of rating individuals, and it’s covered in our piece on the creature list and the roles article that follows it.
What’s changed since the last update
- September 22, 2026 – first publication, for the version of the game live at launch.
Updated: September 22, 2026, for the version of the game live at launch.
FAQ
It depends on the role and the game phase – ratings only make sense within a role, not across the whole game. The best DPS and the best REGEN aren’t comparable to each other. This article shows you how to build your own ranking from roles and stats instead of following a single list of names.
September 22, 2026, for the version of the game live at launch. The update date and patch info always appear at both the top and the bottom of the article, along with a changelog of what changed since the last revision.
Because no creature’s tier placement is backed by two independent sources in what’s currently available. Rather than an unverified list that could point readers to a worse pick, we show you the method for building your own ranking – one that still works after future patches.
Because every site uses a different scale and a different number of roles – Mobalytics runs SS–D with five roles, Game8 S–D with none, aniimoguide.com T0–T3 with three. A different rating is often just a different methodology, not a real disagreement, and it’s worth checking that before drawing conclusions about a creature’s strength.
By the available ratings, yes – both Helion and Lunara stay viable into the endgame according to Mobalytics, with Lunara rated a tier higher. That’s a claim from a specific source, not our own verified rating, and Game8 simply advises leveling whichever one you picked.
Yes. A team holds together through role composition and shared energy, not a sum of individual ratings, so a lower tier means a worse investment-to-payoff ratio, not unusable. Our roles and team building piece covers full composition.