Ultimate Anime Rising Guide, Best Tips & Tricks!

Starting out in Anime Rising can be overwhelming, especially with its hybrid blend of simulator mechanics, strategy-based unit building, and real-time RPG combat. Whether you’re coming from games like Anime Champions Simulator or totally new to this genre, this beginner’s guide will walk you through everything you need to know — from summoning your first unit to optimizing your squad for dungeons and progression. Check out our Anime Rising Quirks Explained!

What Is Anime Rising?

Anime Rising is a strategy-based collector simulator where players fight enemies, resurrect them as summons, and build powerful squads. Your goal is to progress through increasingly difficult worlds, complete quests, defeat bosses, and optimize your units for various types of gameplay — including farming, leaderboard chasing, and dungeon clearing. You don’t just fight in Anime Rising — you think. Class synergies, quirks, elements, and faction bonuses all play into who performs best in your team setup.

Getting Started: Follow the Main Quest

When you load into the game for the first time, follow the main questline on the right-hand side of your screen. The game uses arrows to guide you toward objectives. This will quickly unlock key mechanics and teach you how the basic gameplay loop works: defeat enemies → arise units → upgrade your strength → unlock new zones.

Understanding Unit Rarities & Classes

Unit Rarities

Each enemy you fight can potentially become a summonable ally. Here’s how to identify them:

• Common: White circle
• Rare: Blue circle
• Epic: Purple circle
• Legendary: Yellow circle
• Mythic: Rainbow circle

Higher rarity = better stats, more quirk slots, and increased scaling.

Classes & Their Roles

Units also have classes that define their function in your team:

• Berserker – Becomes stronger the longer they fight.
• Assassin – Burst damage, great for short encounters.
• Mage – Burst damage via abilities.
• Tactician – Team buffers; every squad should have at least one.
• Brawler – Durable fighters with strong cooldown reduction.

Each class has access to unique “class quirks” when slotted into the 4th quirk spot — available only to Mythical units.

Combat Elements & Faction Bonuses

Every unit has an element type (e.g. fire, water, dark, light) that affects combat performance. Elements follow a weakness/resistance chart similar to Pokémon:

• Advantages: +30% damage output
• Disadvantages: -30% damage output

Elements and faction bonuses stack. Building teams with matching factions provides extra DPS boosts. Light and Dark types act as wild cards, helping you fill in faction synergies.

Leveling and Upgrading Units

Units don’t level individually — slots do. You upgrade your unit slots, and the power of the unit occupying the slot scales accordingly.

Every 5 levels requires a Break Orb, and you can get orbs from farming, events, or specific potions.

To ascend a unit manually (instead of waiting to find a better rarity version of them), you’ll need:

• Their soul (from arising the unit)
• Coins
• Rare essence

The Quirk System Explained

Quirks are stat modifiers attached to units:

• Common units: 0 quirks
• Rare: 1
• Epic: 2
• Legendary: 3
• Mythic: 4 (including 1 class quirk)

Quirks affect everything from crit rate, skill damage, and attack speed to special class-based effects. You can re-roll quirks using tokens or earn better quirks through summons.

Dungeons, Infinite Castle & Events

Dungeons spawn every 10 minutes and have unique rewards like Dungeon Crystals and Revive Scrolls. Bosses can attack you, so prepare your team carefully.

The Infinite Castle offers some of the best gem rewards and has daily and weekly rotation formats.

These endgame features will be your source of advanced materials and higher-tier units, so prepare your team’s DPS and elemental counters carefully.

AFK Farming & Friend Bonuses

The game features a robust AFK farming system with graphic reduction for performance. You earn income over time, which increases with more friends in the same server. This also boosts friendship hearts, a currency used in the Friendship Shop for important items like:

• Quirk tokens
• Revive scrolls
• Potions and currency boosts

Summons, Shops & Monetization

You can summon new units using gems. There are rarity pity systems for Legendary and Mythic units. The summon machine also has Classified units — the rarest tier currently.

There are no game passes, but there are monthly subscriptions:

• VIP Pack: Increased arise radius, income, and gem bonuses
• Dungeon Pack: Dungeon-specific bonuses and revive scrolls
• Season Pass: Unlocks premium tiers and levels

This structure makes the game heavily pay-to-win, especially since gem earn rates aren’t high and gamepass equivalents are locked behind real money.

Final Tips for New Players

• Always have at least one Tactician in your squad.
• Don’t focus only on one zone — strong units can come from early areas.
• Save your gems for targeted summons during events or meta shifts.
• Learn how quirks, elements, and factions synergize for best results.
• Use AFK mode to grind passively while managing resources.
• Check the Trello or community Discord for tier lists, code updates, and events.

Anime Rising is deep, grind-heavy, and highly strategic — but it offers a lot for players who enjoy building strong squads, optimizing team setups, and progressing through tough content. Just be aware of its monetization, and focus on smart team building, elemental counters, and farming efficiently. With the right strategy, you’ll rise quickly through the ranks — even without spending. Stay tuned for more guides, meta breakdowns, and tier lists in future updates.