Anime Vanguards — Where Gems, Rerolls, and Update Codes Go

Rerolls Are the Reward That Matters

Anime Vanguards codes pay gems, memoria shards, and trait rerolls. The reroll is the one you feel on a unit you are keeping. Gems summon. Shards upgrade. A code spent on a unit you will sell next banner was a free summon for the trash pile.

The live set is the 2nd anniversary list on the official wiki, and every one of them needs Level 10. Finally is 1,000 shards, 100,000 gold, and 30 Rainbow Essence. 2ndAnniversary is 1,000 Trait Rerolls. TrueShadowMonarch is a Red Key, 50,000 Gems, and 500 Stat Chips. HappyAnniversary is a Memoria Maker piece. 2ndAnniDay1 through 2ndAnniDay7 alternate rerolls and shards. SummerLeaving, Assault, AnniNextHopefully, MiniUpd2, Wrath, and Prepare are archived.

If the box rejects you on this batch, you are under Level 10, not unlucky. Older update codes that wanted Level 30 are already dead.

Units Worth a Banner

Demon Leader (Control) cuts deployment costs and boosts Demon Hunter allies. God (Above Heaven) is the AoE and time-stop. Song Jinwu and Igros summon without eating a placement slot. Gujo (Infinity) stalls waves with wide stuns. Those are the names that still justify a gem pile.

Update 13.5's Vanguard and Secret — Today's Strongest vs History's Strongest, and Raging Oni vs Wrath God — are banner targets, not beginner crafts. Update 14's Reckless Gambler and Divine General are the raid and rift units. Pull them if that update is the account's goal. Do not pull them because a code gave you 5,000 gems and the button was lit.

Save gems for one banner. Splitting gems across every update leaves you with four half-built units and no trait worth rerolling.

Reroll the Unit You Will Place

Use trait rerolls on the unit that is already in your late-game loadout. A perfect trait on a placeholder is a screenshot. The loadout is the six you place when the wave is mean.

Read the code reward before you redeem. A memoria-shard code and a reroll code are different sessions. Shards go into the unit you are evolving. Rerolls go into the trait screen of that same unit. Redeeming everything in the lobby and logging off wastes the session the reward was for.

Kat and the older meme strings are not the plan. If they are in the expired list, leave them there.

Story, Raids, and Why Level 30 Exists

Clear story until Level 10 so the anniversary codes work, then keep going. Raids and rift bosses are where the later units earn their place. Taking a new account into a raid because a code mentioned the boss is how you get carried and learn nothing.

Placement matters more than the rarest name. A cheaper unit that stalls, plus one burst unit, clears waves a single secret cannot if you drop it in the wrong lane.

When a new update code drops, it usually lives a short window. The codes page is the check. Discord is where the studio posts it first. We add it after it redeems.

A Gem Spend You Will Not Regret

Redeem the anniversary codes once you are Level 10. Pick one unit from the top of the tier list that you do not own. Spend the 2ndAnniversary rerolls and the TrueShadowMonarch gems there. Spend shards on that same unit after it is in the loadout.

Do not chase every secret in the patch notes. The next update will have another one. The trait on the unit you already place is the thing the codes were for.