Anime Squadron launched a few weeks ago and already has the classic new-gacha problem: the official patch notes list 34 units but say nothing about which ones are actually worth your Gems, Trait Shards, and Primal Cores. Every early tier list on YouTube is either a reaction video ranking units by vibes or a screenshot from someone's personal opinion with no math behind it.
The Value List Isn't the Same as the Tier List
This is the part most guides get wrong. A unit can be S-tier in raw combat power and still be a bad pull if it costs 40 Primal Cores to max when a comparable A-tier unit only needs 12. Primal Cores are the scarcest resource in the game right now (no reliable farming route past floor 20), so cost-efficiency matters more than ceiling power for the first month or two of a fresh account.
I built a value list at animesquadroncodes.com/value-list that scores each of the 34 units on power delivered per resource spent, not just raw strength. You can re-sort it by your current game stage, since the "best" early investment target changes once you clear floor 30 and Primal Cores stop being the bottleneck.
What Changed After the UPD 0.75 Patch
The 0.75 balance patch quietly nerfed two units that were dominating the value rankings (roughly a 15% cut to their skill multiplier) and buffed a mid-tier unit that's now genuinely worth pulling for. Static tier lists posted before the patch are already wrong, and there's no in-game indicator that anything changed unless you go read the patch notes directly.
The value list gets updated within a day or two of balance patches instead of sitting stale for weeks.
The Honest Downside
This only covers PvE progression value, not PvP team comps, and the scoring model assumes average luck on trait rolls. If you're min-maxing for leaderboard PvP, you'll want a squad-builder tool alongside it (still refining the synergy math on that one).
If you're early into Anime Squadron and trying to figure out where to actually spend limited resources instead of guessing from a random Reddit tier list, that's the gap this fills.
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