Aniimo Catching Guide

Choose your approach before throwing

1. Identify the target and its current state. A capture restriction is different from a low chance: repeatedly throwing stronger pods does not remove the restriction.
2. For an eligible target outside combat, approach from behind and aim your Aniipod. A server-recognized back attack with a standard Aniipod receives a 1.5× multiplier. Tumblers do not receive this bonus.
3. If you enter combat, work with the target’s HP and status instead. The combat formula uses the HP multiplier, not the outside-combat back-attack multiplier.
4. Select the pod for this encounter, then make the capture attempt. Check the result before spending another item or switching targets.
5. For a common Alpha, finish the fight before trying to capture it. Use the defeated-target rules rather than treating it as an ordinary low-HP catch.

Which Aniipod should you use?

Pod multipliers modify an eligible target’s chance. The initial catchability check and story-specific outcomes still matter. A capture guarantee also does not mean every pod grants the same potential or appearance.

Why does the catch chance stay at 0%?

A low chance caused by a level gap is a different problem. At 15 or more levels above your character, the level multiplier is 0.1×; that factor alone is not a universal 0% rule.

How the level gap changes your chance

Being higher level than the target provides no additional level bonus. Returning after gaining levels can remove a penalty, but overlevelling does not keep increasing this multiplier.

Do not multiply every status bonus together

When any active special-status multiplier is below 1, the lowest one is used. If all are at least 1, only the highest is used. For example, Sleep at 2× combined with Alerted at 0.9× produces a special-status factor of 0.9×, not 1.8×.

Ordinary Break has a 1.5× status multiplier; the separate active Break catch bonus uses 3×. Normal Sleep, Stun, Eating, Woozy and Lured use 2×. These are alternatives under the status selection rule, not a list of bonuses to multiply together.

Back attacks and reduced HP also belong to different encounter formulas. Moving behind a target during combat does not add the outside-combat 1.5× factor to its low-HP bonus.

Use the right formula after a fight starts

In combat, the HP factor is 0.8× at full HP, 1× at 80%, 1.1× at 50%, 1.26× at 10% and 1.65× at 5%. Lower HP can improve the combat attempt, but defeated targets use a separate base-chance formula without the level and HP factors.

Do not assume every defeated creature receives the ordinary living-target base chance. The common Alpha’s 6% defeated base is the clearest example of why the encounter type matters.

The standard single-target Aniipod uses two checks whose probabilities are each the square root of the final chance. Both must pass, but their combined probability remains the final chance; it is not that chance squared.

Decide what you want from the catch

A new companion, a specific rare appearance and a training candidate are different goals. After a successful catch, inspect the Aniimo’s potential and abilities before investing materials. For Prismana hunting, continue with the area’s nurturing and Prismatic Energy loop.