Anime Adventures Units

UPD 21 arrived on November 1, 2026. UPD 21 and its Summer 2026 Event added new units from three places: the Summer banner, the Special banner and Secret routes known from creator videos. The box above pulls each unit’s tier from our anime adventures tier list. We cannot play these units, so every call here is on paper.

Which units are on the Summer banner?

The Summer banner has three Featured Mythics: Water Goddess, Armored Crusader and Fishi. They share a 0.25% Mythic rate, one third each. Within 400 summons the banner guarantees a Mythic, and it is always one of the Featured three. Any pull has a 1% Shiny chance. Each summon costs 150 SummerPearls, and the banner is marked Limited-Time.

As players report the kits:

• Fishi builds insanity with each hit. At full insanity it deals true damage equal to 35% of the target’s max health and stuns for 3.5 seconds, bosses included.
• Water Goddess is a Hill support with 4 placements. It gives units in range +50% water damage and can hit Soaring enemies, which matters for the Soaring enemy rules.
• Armored Crusader taunts, pulling enemies toward itself for 3 seconds and slowing them by 20%.

The Sunny Evolution quest names all three as units to evolve, along with Phoenix and Explosion Mage. Pearl sources and quests are on our anime adventures summer event page.

Which units are on the Special banner?

This is where fresh units debut, and once a unit lands here, the older Legacy banner stops offering it. Each summon costs 50 Gems. Mythics sit at 0.5%, shown as a 2x Mythic rate up, and the Featured pity is 400 summons. A Secret is listed at 1 in 400,000.

The banner rotates. At capture time on November 3, 2026, Zombie was a featured Special Mythic next to Thunder Maid and Bloodcry, and it took 50% of the Mythic rate. Bloodcry, marked Featured, took 10%. Our screenshots missed the Thunder Maid line, so we cannot give its share. Thunder Maid and Bloodcry are not ranked yet: we have not found three creator lists for either.

Word Mage is also in the Special banner Mythic pool. Several videos show that it strips 10 points of elemental resistance on contact, then another 10 every 3 seconds until the total cut reaches 80. Our read: that is a support for teams built around one element.

Elyssia sits in the same pool. It was not featured on November 3, 2026, and took 0.652% of the Mythic rate. Creators describe it evolving into Elyssia (Abyssal), which every creator who tiered it put at the top.

What are the Secret units?

Both banners list an unnamed Secret slot: 1 in 40,000 on Summer and 1 in 400,000 on Special. Players report three summer Secrets: Phoenix, Sky God and Explosion Mage. The routes and kits below come from those reports, and no route is guaranteed.

• Phoenix: it fills the Summer banner Secret slot, with no pity. It has 3 placements and Phoenix Flames, a mark that raises burn damage taken by 300%.
• Sky God: Sky Portals drop at random from Summer Hunt. A cleared Sky Portal gives a chance at Sky God’s Portal; sources disagree on whether clearing that one always gives Sky God. See our anime adventures sky portal guide.
• Explosion Mage: clearing all 50 waves of Summer Hunt gives a chance at its own Secret Portal. It has 2 placements and an explosion you aim, about every 20 seconds at max upgrade, that cannot hit Soaring enemies.

Which traits suit the new units?

These picks match the home page. Damage units such as Fishi, Phoenix and Explosion Mage want Divine, Celestial or Reaper. Use Unique only on a unit you place once. Supports such as Water Goddess, Armored Crusader and Word Mage do well with Sniper or Range III, since more range spreads the buff, taunt or resistance cut over more of the path. Full trait odds are on our anime adventures traits page.