Anime Vanguards update 5 patch notes

Anime Vanguards implemented the Dragon Ball-themed update 5 on April 14, 2025, bringing a host of new units, gameplay elements, and more. This update introduces 10 new units, a new game mode and story stage, and more, bringing new gameplay avenues to the experience. The patch also brings a host of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements for an improved overall gameplay experience.

This article includes the official patch notes for Anime Vanguards update 5.

Official patch notes for Anime Vanguards update 5

10 New Units

This Anime Vanguards update is coming out with 10 brand-new units! These units will be found in:

Gem Banner: Roku (Angel), Roku (Super 3) + Vogita (Angel) + Super Vogito; Hercool, Hercool and Mr. Boo; Rohan (Adult), Ultimate Rohan
Boo Saga Sages: Boo, Boo (Evil) + Super Boo (Evil) + Bootanks (Evil) _ Boockleo (Evil) + Boohan (Evil) + Kid Boo (Evil)
Leaderboard Rewards: Lethal Bee, Stone Lee
Infinite Leaderboard Rewards: Octopus
Mailbox Reward: LagShooter
Battlepass: Dawntay, Dawntay (Jackpot), Vigil, Vigil (Power)

New Game Mode! Odyssey

Embark on an interdimensional journey in Anime Vanguards where escalating threats await at every turn, searching for your lost units and surviving as you upgrade them to new heights. Along the way, discover 30 unique modifiers—ranging from powerful Rare boosts to game-changing Mythical effects. These are hidden within Violet Chests scattered across the map and are saved as you progress from room to room, alongside your earned Yen.

Upon each victory in your journey, choose carefully between four different rooms—each offering an upgrade and intensity level. These rooms give you a chance to reclaim your lost units, though some come with greater risks than others. Once all units are recovered, you can use your earned upgrades to empower the ones you choose. Every 100 total intensity, you'll unlock a new level featuring fresh stages and maps to explore!

For each level you surpass, you will receive rewards, including Trait Rerolls, Gems, Gold, Corruption Crystals, and more!

New Story Stage: Martial Island

The 25th World Tournament has spiralled into chaos as a mysterious, destructive force appeared mid-tournament, threatening to consume everything in its path. Fight your way through 6 intense Acts in either Normal or Nightmare difficulty and face enemies twisted by a power beyond comprehension, including three brand-new mechanics:

Challenger

Challenger enemies are immune to damage from basic summons (Gazelle, Yomomata, etc), and take only half damage from elite summons (SJW Elite Knights, Berserker, etc).

Energy Drain

Anytime enemies with Energy Drain are attacked, they reduce the attacker’s damage by 5%. (This effect can be cleansed.)

Absorption (all Boos except Kid Boo)

Any non-elite summons that this boss runs into, heals it based on the summon health instead.

Features

New Boo Saga OST
5% chance of the first half of Roku's (Angel) Secret hidden evolution item appearing on the map at the start of the match.

New Legend Stage: Land of the Gods

A dark omen looms over Anime Vanguards' Land of the Gods as Boo’s rampage threatens the balance of the universe–venture across 3 perilous Acts to uncover ancient secrets and clash with enemies empowered by cosmic dread.

Features

New Boo Saga OST
Mythic Pupper familiar Legend Stage drop
Mythic Bobodi familiar Legend Stage drop
2% chance of a Secret Boo Portal from any Land of the Gods act to appear somewhere on the map upon victory.
5% chance of the second half of Roku (Angel)’s Secret hidden evolution item appearing on the map at the start of the match.

New Battle Pass: Scarlet & Silver

Dave and Luce are now unobtainable. In their stead, we have introduced a fresh new Anime Vanguards battle pass with two Exclusive units - Dawntay and Vigil, featuring their own custom-made OSTs! Alongside this, all of the Trait Rerolls, Gems, and other rewards are once again available by progressing through the tiers.

Familiar Corruption

Using Corruption Crystals collected from within the Anime Vanguards Odyssey realm, you may tap into forbidden powers by corrupting your Familiars—gaining immense strength at a dangerous cost. You can find the Corruption menu in the Upgrades area, simply interact with the Mandra NPC to bring it up!

Complete Challenge Overhaul

Enter the Challenge chambers to discover a brand new UI! Choose which challenge you want to take on, featuring a brand new Challenge - the Weekly Challenge! This challenge may only be attempted once per week, and rewards participants with:

20 Trait Rerolls
25,000 Gold
30 Green Essence Stones
10 of every Legendary Essence Stone
Three Rainbow Essence Stones
30 Stat Chips
20 Super Stat Chips

Alongside this, we have increased the Daily Challenge rewards, which now include:

Three Trait Rerolls
5,000 Gold
Five Green Essence Stone
Two of every Legendary Essence Stone
1x Rainbow Essence Stone
Three Stat Chips
Two Super Stat Chips

And finally, there are now 4 different half-hourly challenge variants, all of which can be attempted at any time in the new Challenges UI. Additionally, each one of these challenges can be attempted every 30 minutes, and consist of one of the following rewards:

1x Trait Reroll, 1,000 Gold
Three Green Essence Stones, 1000 Gold
1x Rainbow Essence Stone, two of Every Legendary Essence Stone
1x Stat Chip, 1000 Gold

Regardless of how many people participate in a challenge, the difficulty scaling is hard-set to 2 players, so we highly recommend that you team up with as many people as you can!

New Improved Top Bar Style

The majority of the Anime Vanguards lobby and in-match UIs now feature an improved top-bar side, alongside more fun and interactive animations.

New Trait Filters

You may now select any traits that should have a warning popup when attempting to reroll them.

New Familiar Filters

You can now filter your familiars by their elements in the familiars interface!

Refurbished Teams Interface

We have updated the team interface for better visuals and to provide more info about your current Anime Vanguards team, featuring the following stats:

Total Placement Cost
Total Max UPG Cost
Total Group DPS
Total Income
Team Elements

New Summon Auto Fusing

You can now auto-fuse units from the summon menu! Select rarities of your choice to automatically fuse into a unit when summoning.

Profile Units Display

You can now freely choose which units to display on your Anime Vanguards profile instead of always displaying your currently equipped units! You can also hover over your profile units and other players’ profile units to view their stats.

Also read: How to get Shiny and Secret units in Anime Vanguards

Bug Fixes and QoL Changes in Anime Vanguards update 5

Changes and QoL improvements

Upgrades that have an active ability will now show up as purple on the unit’s upgrade bars.
Colors of upgrades that give your unit a new move or active ability are now shown on the unit’s upgrade bars even if you do not have the upgrade unlocked.
Tidy, Griddy, Boogie Down, and Honored One emotes are now able to be purchased for trophies.
Added selectable “Min”, “Half”, and “Max” buttons to purchase sliders.
Added a Divalo (Requiem) player title.
The lobby now features brand-new lighting.
Added a Traitless mode to the Worldlines Leaderboard.
Added Enemy Index unlock chances for normal/boss enemies in the index UI.
Added a new toggle to the in-game Update Logs UI. Upon toggling, the update log will only display once per update rather than whenever you join the lobby.
Slightly revamped the Unit Filters UI and added a search bar.
Certain Enemy Debuff mechanics such as Rupture display extra information when hovered over in the passives UI.
Added Session Statistics in stage info, displaying the following stats for the session: Matches Played, Matches Won, Matches Lost.
Added current upgrade out of max upgrade display in unit manager UI.
Added a Bounties button in the Match-End UI that allows you to quickly select the next bounty instead of having to go back to the lobby.
Five new limited bundles have been added to the store, including Drip Skin for Roku (Angel) + Vogita (Angel) + Super Vogito, Baddie Skin for Vigil, Cavalry Bike Mount, Bundle 5.0, and Bundle 5.0++.
Rewrote enemy netcode, fixing performance issues with passion units, as well as enemy health now taking 2-3x less network data. This change should greatly improve ping during matches.
Tournaments can no longer have 2 negative/positive elements, instead they will all feature 1 negative and 1 positive element.
Increased the rewards and price of the Premium Battle Pass.
Added an interactive leaderboard display in front of the Trophy area upstairs.
Made changes to the lobby colors to help with distinguishing between certain areas, and added text to the new PvP room.
Added Quick Queue to matchmaking, which can be accessed using the find match button in stage selection.
Added Tainted Ribbon and Corrupted Visor to the Legacy Shop.
Slightly improved notification display.
The rarity of Belu, Gon, and Pachiru familiars has been changed from Exclusive to Mythic, as they are always going to be obtainable.
The In-Match UI now features a Summon Limit text in the bottom right of the screen.
The Critical Chance icon has been replaced.
Hercool’s lobby model in the summon area has been updated.
Update 4.5 Units have been added to Sandbox mode.
Max Summons are now displayed on the bottom right corner of your screen when in Anime Vanguards, and more.

Bug Fixes

Pressing Place on mobile no longer affects the position of targetable abilities.
Fixed an issue that would allow players to permanently freeze enemies with Eizan (Aura) and any Stun or Freeze unit.
Fixed an issue that would allow players to infinitely petrify enemies if they were petrified during the duration to Complete Erasure
Fixed Kiskae applying permanent Wounded to enemies
Fixed Legendary Essence Stones not appearing in Challenges preview
Fixed mail in Mailbox UI overlapping with “Claim All” and “Delete Read Mails” buttons
Fixed Friran’s cosmetic not giving the player her staff
Fixed an issue where the profile statistic “Games Played” would only increase after a loss
Fixed an issue where replaying Trait Tournaments would remove your unit’s traits
Fixed enemies on the Thunderstorm Worldlines Weather resisting stun
Fixed the reaction between Blast and Spark units on the Worldlines Weather Thunderstorm being unfunctional
Fixed enemies on the Worldlines Weather Flood not being immune to Intense Burn
Fixed enemies on the Worldlines Weather Flood being immune to Crowd Control
Fixed units on the Love Train Worldlines Weather debuffing units that should be immune
Fixed Yehowach (Almighty) still debuffing/buffing after being sold
Fixed an issue which would cause summons to have the original enemies mechanic applied to them
Fixed an issue where unit summons would be killable by the Lancer and Berserker command seal inside the Saber-Alternate Boss Event
Fixed an issue where Dave (Cyber Psycho) would only deal 40% of his displayed damage during his Full AoE upgrades
Fixed Yehowach (Almighty)’s attack Almighty Blast causing performance issues
Fixed Yehowach (Almighty)’s ability Ashfallen toggling every time a unit is sold/bought
Fixed an issue that would allow parts of the starter quest to be skipped
Fixed an issue where Gilgamesh (King of Heroes) would become invisible on the unit UI in certain parts of the lobby
Fixed an issue where exiting the Bounty or Level Milestone menu before the animation finished would lock the camera to the NPC
Fixed an issue where Shiny Mechamar Cosmetic would cause the player avatar to disappear when equipped
Fixed an issue where mail would not automatically delete after 30 days
Fixed mail displaying “today” on the UI sidebar, regardless of the date sent
Fixed an issue where using the Next button in Worldlines with a mount equipped would cause the player to teleport to the incorrect location
Fixed the wording of Dave (Cyber Psycho)’s Sandy passive
Fixed Song Jinwu and Igros’ attacks changing players' camera angle upon use
Fixed the evolution items VR Headset and Sandy being the incorrect rarity… and many more!

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FAQs

When was update 5 implemented into Anime Vanguards?

Anime Vanguards received update 5 on April 14, 2025.

How many new units did Anime Vanguards update 5 introduce?

Anime Vanguards update 5 introduced 10 new units to the experience.

What is the latest game mode added with Anime Vanguards update 5?

The newest game mode added with Anime Vanguards update 5 is Odyssey.

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