Core damage
Choose one main carry and fund it first. A focused damage dealer is more useful than several half-built attackers.
Anime Expeditions Beginner Guide
Build a useful first team, clear Story efficiently, and spend early resources on upgrades that keep your account moving.
First Session
Your fastest route into progression
Use this order as a decision path. You can explore the lobby later without delaying the upgrades that matter now.
Claim the free rewards
Open the three-dot menu, redeem every active code, and collect the Beginner Path and other free lobby rewards before spending anything.
Open the codes listSummon a usable core
Check which banner is active, then aim for one dependable damage dealer first. Keep support, control, and economy units instead of judging the roster by rarity alone.
Review unit rolesPush Story with a small team
Invest in the few units that are clearing stages for you. Story progress opens more useful activities, while spreading resources across the full roster slows the first clear.
Improve the team in order
Raise unit levels first, add suitable equipment, and save expensive trait rerolls or evolution materials for units you expect to keep using.
Move into repeatable modes
After the early Story route, use quests, events, Raids, and Expeditions to target the currencies and materials your next upgrade actually needs.
Team Building
Build around jobs, not rarity
A stable starter team needs enough damage to clear waves and enough utility to keep that damage working.
Control or support
Slow, stagger, buffs, and other utility can create more time for the carry to work. Keep these units even when their personal damage looks lower.
Economy
An economy unit can improve deployment tempo when the stage gives it time to pay back. Skip it on short or difficult waves if immediate combat power matters more.
Choosing Units
Use the roster and tier list together
The roster explains each unit’s role and utility. The tier list is a starting point for investment, not a replacement for a balanced squad.
Resource Plan
Upgrade in this order
Early progression is mostly a resource-allocation problem. Finish a useful upgrade before starting several expensive ones.
- 1
Levels
Use experience on the team that is actively clearing Story.
- 2
Equipment
Match equipment to the unit’s job instead of equipping only by rarity.
- 3
Traits
Reroll selectively; temporary starter units do not need perfect traits.
- 4
Evolution
Commit materials after confirming the evolved unit fits your long-term team.
During Story
Read the mission objective
Story stars and quests can add useful rewards to progress you are already making. Check the objective before replaying a stage.
After Story
Farm with a purpose
Choose Raids, Expeditions, events, or quests based on the material or currency blocking your next upgrade.
Watch The Route
Beginner walkthroughs
Use the first video for a complete lobby orientation and the second for a closer look at progression decisions.
LapisMudkip
The ULTIMATE Beginner's Guide to Anime Expeditions!
A full lobby tour covering Beginner Path, summons, upgrades, shops, quests, guilds, and the Play area.
MimoBlox
Anime Expeditions COMPLETE BEGINNER GUIDE!
A progression-focused walkthrough covering early units, banners, Story objectives, equipment, Raids, and Expeditions.
Protect Your Resources
Common beginner mistakes
- Spending all gems before checking the active banner and your missing team role.
- Upgrading every new unit instead of maintaining one reliable Story squad.
- Discarding support or economy units because their damage number is lower.
- Using premium reroll resources on a unit you plan to replace immediately.
- Following a tier list without accounting for role, stage layout, or team synergy.