Aniimo Evolution Guide: Stages, Materials and Evolved Forms

Most Aniimo can evolve. The official store page says it outright: “most Aniimo can evolve.” The official index splits growth into three stages: Lumin, Gamma and Nova. Every entry has an Evolution section. When an Aniimo evolves, its attributes go up, its skills change, and it looks different.

What the three stages mean

Stage	Name in the index filter	In plain terms
Lumin Stage	Lumin Stage	The starting form. The one you meet most often in the wild
Gamma Stage	Gamma Stage	After the first evolution. Attributes and skills both change
Nova Stage	Nova Stage	The final form. Highest attributes, hardest materials

Filter by stage in the index and you can see the whole set at once. To find out how many steps one Aniimo has, open its entry and read the Evolution section.

How to read an evolution line

One evolution line usually runs through consecutive index numbers.

Take Fire. Emberpup (NO.001) → Flameruff (NO.002) → Scorchhowl (NO.003) → Inferlupa (NO.004). That is a four-step line. Inferlupa also carries Fire and Dark, and it is where the line ends.

There is a faster tell as well. If the habitat field says ”—”, it is almost always an evolved form. Those do not spawn in the open world; you can only get them by evolving. If a real place name is listed, you can catch it in the wild.

The numbering has a gap in it (there is no NO.030). That just means the entry is still being filled in. Nothing was cut.

What evolving costs

Evolution does not happen on its own. It consumes evolution materials. The official Collector’s Edition reward list even counts “evolution material” as its own item.

Two things to remember:

Every Aniimo wants different materials. The rarer and later the stage, the harder they usually are to get.
Materials change between patches. The patch on 18 September 2026 said it directly: the item consumed to evolve Squarrel was changed. If you are stockpiling from an older guide, check the game first.

Evolution is not a form change

These two get mixed up constantly, but they run on completely different systems.

	Evolution	Form change
What triggers it	You spend materials and do it yourself	Weather and environment
What happens	Next stage, new attributes and skills	Same Aniimo, different look
Can you undo it	No	It shifts back with the environment

An example. Scorchhowl has a Thunderstorm form and a Prismana form. Both are still Scorchhowl, at the same stage. Its evolution target is still Inferlupa.

To see which region gives which form, read the Idyll map. For how rare forms drop, see rare forms explained.

What to actually do

Pick your main first, then spend materials. Materials are limited. Feed the one Aniimo that stays in your team, instead of spreading them thin.
Check the number before you hunt. Building a full evolution line goes much faster if you catch the earlier stage by number rather than waiting for the finished form to spawn.
Read the skills before you evolve. Some Aniimo change role when they evolve. The index shows you, so look first and regret later.
Do not chase rare forms as evolution targets. Prismana is a rare version of the same Aniimo. It has nothing to do with the evolution line.

Still open

The level threshold for each stage and the full material list per Aniimo. The official index only shows the line itself.
Whether evolution can be undone, or is capped. Check the in-game screen.
If a later patch changes materials again, this page updates its version number.

For the full list by element, role and habitat, see the Aniimo index. For what to do in your first session, see the beginner guide.

Sources

Official store page wording “most Aniimo can evolve” (Steam)
Official Aniimo Wiki index (stage filters and the Evolution section on each entry, wiki.aniimo.com)
Official patch notes Patch Notes-v1.0.3544783.0 (official Steam news, 2026-09-18)
Official Collector’s Edition reward list (Xbox Store, lists “evolution material”)