Anima Overview, Trait? Aspect? - Honkai: Nexus Anima

Honkai: Nexus Anima is a new game work for Honkai IP. From the newly revealed game promotional images, it can be seen that the game breaks genre boundaries with "creature collection + auto chess + open world." Today, miHoYo's has created an official website for Nexus Anima. Let's dive firstly into Nexus Anima World to analyze what the trait and aspect are!

Anima Overview

Trait: Striker
Puddlipup Aspect: Satiation Energy: 33 Joules	Bunmareen Aspect: Light Energy: 30 Joules	Mushgloomini Aspect: Dark Energy: 25 Joules
Eggluvs Aspect: Weakness Energy: 29 Joules
Trait: Explorer
Taileep Aspect: Hate Energy: 26 Joules	Pupanoo Aspect: Satiation Energy: 53 Joules	Chimaura Aspect: Light Energy: 78 Joules
Foalhardy Aspect: Pride Energy: 61 Joules
Trait: Gladiator
Inkifoal Aspect: Memory Energy: 49 Joules	Scorscythe Aspect: War Energy: 288 Joules	Magisdrake Aspect: Right Energy: 55 Joules
Marshalbird Aspect: Competition Energy: 86 Joules	Mimoo Aspect: Instatiability Energy: 31 Joules	Chocllamour Aspect: Love Energy: 88 Joules
Trait: Protector
Apollinis Aspect: Light Energy: 66 Joules	Felinoxie Aspect: Dark Energy: 60 Joules	Nomnom Aspect: Satiation Energy: 58 Joules
Trait: Blaster
Heartcease Aspect: Love Energy: 74 Joules	Bobabirb Aspect: Instatiability Energy: 45 Joules	Donnatallow Aspect: Dark Energy: 37 Joules
Trait: Mastermind
Vulberry Aspect: Satiation Energy: 58 Joules	Faeflux Aspect: Change Energy: 40 Joules	Donubi Aspect: Hate Energy: 43 Joules
Eggnok Aspect: Competition Energy: 55 Joules
Trait: Hothead
Vixemourne Aspect: Dark Energy: 61 Joules	Cublade Aspect: Regret Energy: 52 Joules	Lepinamel Aspect: Beauty Energy: 66 Joules
Frigull Aspect: Satiation Energy: 76.5 Joules
Trait: Cherubim
Plumelune Aspect: Beauty Energy: 94 Joules	Olivesper Aspect: Peace Energy: 30 Joules	C'locked Aspect: Memory Energy: 40 Joules
Trait: Mascot
Damasque Aspect: Change Energy: 113 Joules

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Trait

According to different traits between these animas, we know that there are 9 types of trait:

Strike = 4	Explorer = 4	Gladiator = 6
Protector = 3	Blaster = 3	Mastermind = 4
Hothead = 4	Cherubim = 3	Mascot = 1

These different traits are likely the roles in Anima.

• Strike: Likely refers to single-target physical damage dealers, responsible for eliminating key targets.
• Blaster: Leans more towards AoE or explosive damage, with large-scale skills, DoT effects, knockback, or stun capabilities.
• Gladiator: Possesses strong 1v1 combat abilities, with healing, immunity to crowd control, or requires significant resources to reach full potential.
• Hothead: Specializes in forced displacement (charge, pull), large-scale crowd control (group taunt, knock-up), and mechanisms that trade defense for offense.
• Protector: As the name suggests, typically serves as a tank role, protecting the backline damage dealers.
• Mastermind: Excels at placing traps or turrets, summoning units, providing global vision, enhancing allies, or altering terrain.
• Explorer: High mobility, with increased speed for capturing objectives.
• Cherubim: Named after angels, likely a pure healer/buff support focused on sustaining team health and providing enhancements.
• Mascot: Offers powerful team-wide passive bonuses.

 

Aspect

Currently, there are a total of 16 Aspects. Based on the existing information, there doesn't seem to be a specific connection between Aspects and Traits.

Satiation	Hate	Light	Memory
Dark	Love	War	Change
Beauty	Peace	Right	Insatiability
Competition	Regret	Weakness	Pride

Considering that this is primarily an auto-chess game, Aspect might refer to synergy traits or possibly that each Aspect corresponds to a mutually countering Aspect. According to leaks, battles in Anima are controlled by AI, so the level of Anima, bonus attributes, and counterpoints might be the key to winning the board.

 

Pull or Free?

On August 29th, the PV for Honkai: Nexus Anima was officially released, along with the official gameplay reveal. It can be seen that Anima features both a mount mode and a combat mode. Currently, the method of obtaining Anima remains unknown, but LDShop has a speculation:

A portion of basic Animas will be retained, while subsequent rare Animas will be released in the form of banners. Considering previous leaks suggesting that Animas have a constellation-like system, it is possible that Animas may also be upgraded through gacha mechanics. Of course, the above is speculative, and the official release will provide the definitive details.

That concludes all the content regarding the Anima aspect of Honkai: Nexus Anima. For more information on Animator, gameplay, and other HNA-related details, please check out LDShop Honkai: Nexus Anima Hub for the latest updates!