Anime Origins Tier List for Best Carries, Supports, Farms, and DPS

Anime Origins is a summon-and-place tower defense game where a handful of Mythic and Secret carries decide most runs, but the traits rolled onto them matter just as much as the units themselves. This guide ranks the launch meta after the mid-August balance changes that moved several units up and down. Use these rankings, trait rolls, and builds to get the most from every team slot.

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Top meta carries worth chasing

Madaro (Edo Tensei) is the unit to build around. He is a hybrid carry that hits ground, hill, and air enemies, giving him the coverage needed for Anime Origins’ air and hill lanes that most tower defense games dropped. He deals huge damage from a two-slot placement, and his quest-line route makes him obtainable without relying on a banner. That combination makes him the anchor of the meta.

Cursed Lover (Pure Love) is the ability-copy carry. A single placement deals heavy damage and steals active abilities from teammates. He can hold up to four at once, letting him borrow Starku’s nuke or Goju’s time stop and activate it himself. This makes him both a DPS carry and a flexible support.

Valcrad (Unleashed) is the high-end damage pick and the best boss shredder of the three. He is ground-locked, but his summons reach more of the field, while his abilities burst targets down. Pair him with a bleed unit to push his damage even higher.

Behind the top three, Starku (Primordial) handles burst damage. His base damage sits above the average Mythic, and he is one of the only units with a true nuke, covering any single-target damage spike your team lacks. Igritto (Commander) has the highest raw damage among Mythic units and applies the unique oppress debuff, adding pressure on top of his damage. His tougher, mode-specific unlock is the main obstacle. Tojei (Sorcerer Killer) is a sustained ground boss killer with neutral typing, so he always deals full damage regardless of enemy element. His passive blocks most buff supports, so build him as a self-sufficient carry instead of placing him inside a buff core.

Supports, farms, and control units

Raw damage alone will not complete a strong team. Bon (Purgatory) is the best support in the game and fills two jobs at once. His food buffs increase damage and range while reducing cooldowns for nearby units, and his kill-income bonus helps pay for upgrades. Goju (Honored One) is the premier control unit, applying a strong slow with his regular attacks and stopping time with his active ability. Use him to lock down dangerous waves and pin bosses inside your damage zones.

For area lockdown, Aneko (Queen) is one of the game’s few stun units and stuns everything she hits across an area. Goki (Super 3) combines damage with repositioning utility. He can teleport himself or another unit across his range, allowing you to move a carry into a different lane during a wave. He is also easy to evolve and deals solid damage.

For economy, Bluma (Data Analyst) is the Mythic farm whose passive increases income, while Leorio is the budget Epic farm. Units upgraded inside Leorio’s range can refund part of their upgrade cost. Roxi buffs magic damage, but the shallow pool of meta magic units limits her support value. She still works as a multi-placement hybrid killer. Mykie (Toman) grants the team a 10% damage buff as leader, but it builds one percent at a time and disappears when he is sold or moves out of range, demanding precise placement. Melio (Assault) rotates between petrify, slow, team buffs, and self-damage every ten seconds. Shinoru (Butterfly Dance) fills the poison role with low base damage and steady damage over time.

Trait buffs ranked by role

Traits can change a unit’s output as much as rarity. Immortal has the highest ceiling, stacking +200% damage with cooldown, range, and income bonuses. It is limited to one per team, has a 0.1% roll rate, and reaches pity at 1,300 rolls, making it a long-term goal. Overseer is the practical best-in-slot trait for most carries. It adds damage, cooldown, and range with no downside, plus true damage equal to 30% of the damage dealt, and works without a specialized build.

For boss killers, chase Rupture. Its roughly +30% crit chance and +35% crit damage turn burst units into boss deleters. Hill and hybrid snipers such as Starku and Goju benefit most from the extra reach supplied by Hawkeye or Reach III. Farm units depend on income, making Hustler and its range-plus-income bonuses the right roll. If the premium traits do not appear, Ace, Fury III, and Haste III are dependable budget options that keep units competitive. Trait odds can change with balance patches, so check the current pity values before committing your reroll stockpile.

Efficient builds for every unit

Match each character with the trait and role shown in the table. When a unit’s ideal trait is a rare Secret-tier roll, use the alternative in the same cell until your economy can sustain repeated rerolls. Only chase the top roll after the rest of the team is properly built.

Elements and rounding out a team

Elemental typing can decide a stage. Matching an element against an enemy weakness can produce a huge damage swing — around 150% extra against the wrong-typed enemy — so building one powerful unit while ignoring elemental coverage will stall the run. Bring units from several elements to avoid hitting waves with a weak matchup. Tojei bypasses this problem through neutral typing and always deals 100% damage regardless of the enemy’s nature, keeping him useful even outside a buff core.

A complete team needs more than damage. Build for lane coverage with an answer to hill and air enemies, a hybrid carry such as Madaro, at least one support or control unit such as Bon or Goju, and an economy unit to fund upgrades. Five DPS units without a slow, stun, or farm will stall long before a balanced board.

Build mistakes that waste resources

Players most often stall their progress by pouring resources into low-rarity units for endgame content. Rare and Epic units work as early stopgaps, but Mythic and Secret units carry late stages, so reserve evolution materials for them. Rerolling a strong utility trait is just as costly. Cooldown and range bonuses often contribute more than a small increase to a unit’s damage number.

Several other mistakes repeatedly weaken teams. Stacking economy units without an income trait such as Hustler limits the benefit and slows reroll progress. Ignoring hill and air coverage leaves the board unable to handle those enemies. Forcing Tojei into a buff-based setup wastes a slot because his passive rejects the buffs. Balance patches also change unit rankings, so rebuild around the current values after each update instead of treating the launch tier list as permanent.

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