Best Anime Vanguards Familiars – Obtainments, Abilities, and Rarities

Learn about all of the Anime Vanguards Familiars, including those that are only available for a limited time. Some Familiars are obtainable via rads in Anime Vanguards! We’ve got an Anime Vanguards Raid guide if you’re unfamiliar with how they work in the game.

Anime Vanguards Familiars

Familiars buff your stats and grant you extra powers when equipped to your best units.

Event Familiars

Limited-time familiars!

Summer Ham

• How to Obtain:
  • 10% chance from Iced Box during the Summer Event
• Abilities:
  • Increases Water, Fire, or Holy DMG by 2% to 5%
  • Increases DMG and Damage Over Time (DOT) by 1% to 10%

Familiars From Stages

Complete stages to be in with a chance of getting these Familiars.

Bobodi

• How to Obtain:
  • Land of the Gods Legend Stage Act 3 (5% drop chance)
• Abilities:
  • Increases Holy DMG, Cosmic, and Blast by 2% to 5%
  • Kills equal 0 to 2 kills instead of just 1

Pupper

• How to Obtain:
  • Land of the Gods Legend Stage Act 3 (5% drop chance)
• Abilities:
  • Increases Blast, Nature, or Holy DMG by 2% to 5%
  • Crit Rate increases by 1% to 5%
  • Crit DMG increases by 2.5% to 10%
    • Both of these buffs double when equipped to a Dragon Sphere unit

Ro Jer

• How to Obtain:
  • Shining Castle Legend Stage Act 4 (10% drop chance)
  • Shining Castle Legend Stage Act 3 (5% drop chance)
• Abilities:
  • Unbound, Spark, or Nature by 2% to 5%
  • HP Replenishment for enemies hit by the unit decreases by 1% to 50%

Silly

• How to Obtain:
  • Burning Spirit Tree Legend Stage Act 4 (5% drop chance)
  • Burning Spirit Tree Legend Stage Act 1 to 3 (1% drop chance)
• Abilities:
  • Increases Cosmic, Curse, or Nature DMG by 2% to 5%
  • DMG reduction is ignored by 0% to 5%

Nose

• How to Obtain:
  • Hill of Swords Story Stages Acts 1 to 6 (10% drop chance)
• Abilities:
  • Increases Cosmic, Unbound, or Nature DMG by 2% to 5%
  • The unit is stunned per attack, but this increases DMG by 0% to 35% for 5 seconds

Raid and Shop Familiars

Dungeon Shops, Raids, and Raid Shops.

Chili

• How to Obtain:
  • Dungeon Shop for Frozen Volcano
• Abilities:
  • Increases Spark, Blast, or Unbound DMG by 2% to 5%
  • For each Critical Hit, Crit DMG increases by 0% to 40%

Birb

• How to Obtain:
  • Ruined City Raid Act 1 (1% drop chance)
  • Ruined City Raid Act 2 (3% drop chance)
• Abilities:
  • Increases Spark, Water, or Blast DMG by 2% to 5%
  • Either increases or decreases DMG by 20%
  • Either increases or decreases Crit DMG by 30%
  • Either increases or decreases Crit Range by 20%

Black Spirit

• How to Obtain:
  • Raid Shop for Ruined City Raid
• Abilities:
  • Increases Spark, Blast, or Nature DMG by 2% to 5%
  • The meter generates 0.1% to 100% more

Belu

• How to Obtain:
  • Dungeon Shop
• Abilities:
  • Increases Fire, Curse, or Unknown DMG by 2% to 5%
  • Consumes the summons with the lowest HP and increases the DMG of the attack by 5% to 20%

Rift Shop Familiars

Get these from the Rift Shop!

Gon

• How to Obtain:
  • Rift Shop
• Abilities:
  • Increases Spark, Cosmic, or Nature DMG by 2% to 5%
  • Ignored DMG reduction by 10% to 50%

Pachiru

• How to Obtain:
  • Rift Shop
• Abilities:
  • Increases Fire, Cosmic, or Unbound DMG by 2% to 5%
  • When the unit is stunned, DMG increases by 1% to 10%

Foo

• How to Obtain:
  • Rift Shop
• Abilities:
  • When the unit buffs an ally, it also increases their DMG by 2% to 10%

Vanguard Familiars

Vanguard Familiars can only be equipped by one unit and cannot be changed.

Gujo’s Glasses

• How to Obtain:
  • Event reward
• Abilities:
  • Boosts DMG by 250%
  • Void DMG boost lasts for 30 seconds
  • After an enemy leaves the range of the unit, Void is activated for 2 seconds, firing 3 DMG on the same enemy, with a 20-second cooldown

Sukono’s Finger

• How to Obtain:
  • Event reward
• Abilities:
  • Inflicts enemies with the Cleaved debuff when attacking and increases the power of Curse units by 30%
  • DMG increases by 200%
  • Range increases by 30%
  • The first time an enemy gets the Cleaved debuff, the unit follows up with an attack that deals 2 DMG

Tengon’s Smokebomb

• How to Obtain:
  • Event reward
• Abilities:
  • When attacking an enemy with a debuff, a Critical Hit is guaranteed, increasing Crit DMG by 30% for a total of 40 seconds
  • DMG increases by 275%
  • Unlocks the Fire element for the unit, increasing the power of Blast and Fire units on the team by boosting DMG by 30%. Attacks performed by these units inflict enemies with the Scorched debuff

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