Aniimo PvP Tier List

Copying the PvE list into a PvP argument is how you lose the egg. Diamond Egg Heist — the Global CBT showpiece — is a real-time scramble: up to six teams of three Pathfinders drop into one arena, race to Twine with the diamond egg, then flip into a defended escort while everyone else tries to peel the carrier. Operation: Egg Heist in earlier tests was a smaller PvPvE slice on the Lost Isles. The diamond-scale version is louder, meaner, and much less documented.

Uncertainty is the headline. Global CBT ran 9–25 July 2026 as a data-wipe test. Queue windows, egg rules, and even whether a given Aniimo can stay Twined on the prize will move before 16 September 2026 (PC and consoles; mobile on the 23rd). This page is a planning language, not a betting sheet. Read combat for the verbs, the team builder for four-slot math, and the closed beta recap for what testers actually saw. Parent context lives on the tier list hub.

What the mode actually rewards

PvE grades Break bars and Heal uptime. Heist grades first contact, peel, and escort:

1. Speed and pathing — the team that reaches the prize late is already playing defense. Traversal Twine (sprint, swim, short flight) matters before a single Break number does.
2. Crowd control and peel — once someone Twines the egg, five other teams want that body on the floor. Interrupts, slows, and body-block kits beat a greedy glass DPS that dies in the pile.
3. Carrier survivability — the egg Twine is the win condition and the target painter. If your energy hits zero, testers described the Twine dropping so another squad can steal. Support, Heal, and a body that does not fold to the first Dark nuke are the job.
4. Escort, not duel — teammates do not need to win a 1v1 beauty contest. They need to move the carrier toward safety (boats and extract points in CBT language) while the rest of the lobby collapses.

If your party is four Scorchhowls because Scorchhowl is S on the PvE page, you have a meadow team, not a Heist team.

Aniimo Global CBT overview, including Egg Heist

High-uncertainty ranks (treat letters as jobs)

We still use S/A/B/C so the page is scannable. Every letter is a job hypothesis from a short test, not a locked meta.

S-ish jobs for Heist, not species gospel

Speed / first-touch Twine. Wind sprinters and compact bodies that can actually inhabit the prize without eating a wall. Nimbi → Turbo showed up in movement talk. Somniwing’s fly kit is tempting for rotates and terrible if the arena punishes aerial tells — test the map, do not assume the overworld flyer is the egg thief. Eko’s detect kit is S for finding boxes and ambushes, not for winning a brawl.

Crowd control Breakers. Inferlupa (Fire/Dark Break) and Tuckin (Grass Break) are PvE S because they open bars. In Heist they are interesting because Break pressure plus a disruptive kit can stop a carrier. Dual-type Inferlupa is greedy: Dark hits Light, Fire, and Grass, then Earth and Water collect the tax. Do not send it alone into a Water peel squad.

Carrier Heal. Glacy remains the Heal testers trusted when a fight lasted more than a screenshot. A carrier with no Heal is a piñata. Leafy (Grass Regen) is the flex if Glacy is already on the field and the lobby is stretching the escort. Regen is not a second Glacy; it is a different curve.

Disruptive Dark DPS. Stellarys and the Helmut → Pawney → Rookey line punish Light story companions and Fire greed. They also melt if Earth or Water looks at them in a chokepoint. S only if your trio already has peel. Otherwise they are highlight-reel deaths.

We are not printing fake CC durations or egg HP. Those numbers were not published as a live spec, and CBT HUD values should not be copy-pasted as law.

A-tier: the rest of a real trio

A Heist squad is three Pathfinders, each with a four-slot Aniimo field. That is twelve creatures in theory and about six that actually get pressed. A-tier is the glue:

• Scorchhowl for readable Fire burst when a carrier is Ice- or Grass-leaning. Water and Earth still slap it.
• Thornblade for Grass coverage into Earth/Water peels. Fire and mirror Grass are the threat.
• Helion (melee Light) as a close-range bodyguard if you picked the lion. Tight spaces, heavy hits, Ice/Lightning trouble.
• Lunara (ranged Light, self-sustain tools in tests) as a backline escort if you picked the fox. Same Light weaknesses.
• Turbo if you already have damage and need swap-speed Support.
• Earth walls (Budclaw line, Grizbo, Pebbling Nova) to sit on a choke. Water and Wind punish the sit.

B and C: do not bring your Aniilog

B is every honest PvE workhorse that has no Heist sentence: Lumin homework, duplicate Fire, a second Dark mage, a Regen you brought because the icon was pretty. Fine for filling the Aniilog. Fine as a swap if the lobby is all Fire. Not a plan.

C is cinematic exploration kits used as if they were peel. Somniwing is not automatically S because it flies. A detect kit that never finds the egg is a tourist. Sparkling forms do not change the letter; they change how many people screenshot your loss.

Trio shapes that make sense on paper

Until launch patches land, build jobs, not trophies:

• Runner + Peel + Heal — one speed Twine, one Break/CC, one Glacy-class Heal. The classic scramble squad.
• Bully escort — Inferlupa or Tuckin plus a Dark DPS plus Heal, for lobbies that live in chokes instead of open races.
• Coverage flex — Fire DPS + Grass Break + Water Heal + Wind Support split across three players so the lobby cannot pick one element and farm you.

Lock that spine in the team builder before you evolve extras. Dew Drop crystals spent on a fourth Fire DPS are crystals you cannot spend on the Heal that keeps the egg Twined.

Rules of thumb testers repeated

• Call the egg the moment you see it. Silence is how six trios stack on one rock.
• The carrier is not the star DPS. If the person who Twined the prize starts dueling, you are donating.
• Swap with 1–4 instead of dying on a bad element. Heist is a combat exam with extra screaming.
• Co-op voice helps. Aniimo is built for online co-op; Heist is the loud version of that promise, not a solo ladder.
• Do not spend money on a secret PvP creature code. There are no public codes before launch.

What will move at launch

Pawprint can change team counts, extract rules, whether the diamond egg is Twine-only, and which lines even exist. The live roster is advertised as 200+; CBT sat near 94 names. A Wind line that feels S for rotates in July can be average in September if a new dash kit ships. We will rewrite letters independently of PvE so an Alpha buff does not accidentally crown a Heist pick.

Until 16 September, practise the jobs: touch first, peel the carrier, keep the Twine alive, extract. If your only Heist plan is the PvE S column, you are bringing the wrong exam.

Watch the video on this page for CBT context, then read the beta recap so you do not confuse a July queue window with a live ranked ladder. Diamond Egg Heist will still be a stolen escort when Idyll opens — the names on the field are the part that will lie to you first.