Anime Vanguards Update 4 Introduces New Units, Rifts, Stages

Anime Vanguards just dropped its massive 4.0 update, introducing a wealth of new features. That includes 12 new units, a brand new Rifts game mode, and new stages for Story Mode and Legend.

While it’s a little late to the party, there’s even space for a Valentine’s event. You have to beat the Love Portal to earn Chocolate Hearts, which you can exchange for items in the Love Shop. That’s a whole lot of love.

Rounding out the update, we’ve got a brand new Battle Pass, revamped cosmetics system, and a whole host of changes and quality of life fixes. We’re going to detail the lot of it in this article, so let’s get stuck in.

Anime Vanguards Update 4.0 Patch Notes

Below, we’ll list all of the new features that have arrived in Anime Vanguard via the new update. Feel free to use our table of contents above to quickly skip to the bit that interests you the most.

New Units

There are 12 new units that you can unlock in Anime Vanguards via the following methods:

Unit	How to Get
Yuruicha	Banner
Ichiga	Banner
Kiskae	Banner
Oryo	Banner
Kempache	Banner
Orehimi	Banner
Eizen	Banner
Gazelle	Event Shop
Yehowach	Rifts
Yomomata	Legend
Dave	Battle Pass
Luce	Battle Pass

Rifts and Rift Shop

Rifts provide you with a challenging new game mode that you can play with up to five friends (six players in total). They spawn when you complete ‘global tasks’, including clearing waves of enemies, spend your gold, or reroll your traits.

Beat Rifts and you can earn Rift Shards, a new currency that you can spend in the Rift Shop on the following items:

Vowstones
Gon (familiar)
Pachiru (familiar)
Trait Rerolls
Stat Chips
Super Stat Chips

Spirit Society Story Mode Stage

The story continues in the Spirit Society stage. This includes six new acts to battle through in normal or nightmare difficulty.

According to the developer, two items are hidden in the stage that you need to evolve a select character.

Kuinshi Palace Legend Stage

Similarly, Legend mode gets a brand new stage, Kuinshi Palace. If you manage to beat this on Nightmare Difficulty, you unlock new Kuinshi Raid Legend stages too.

Plus, you have a chance of getting Yomomata if you beat the Final Act.

Valentine’s Event: Love Portal and Love Shop

Anime Vanguard has dropped a Valentine’s Event a whopping 10 days after the event. It’s called the Love Portal, a duo mode challenge that provides you with Chocolate Hearts when you beat it, alongside the potential to gain Gazelle’s evolution item.

What do you do with those Chocolate Hearts? You spend them in the Love Shop, of course! It’s located in the plaza near the Worldlines and Tournaments. Here you can purchase:

Mythic Gazelle
Eizen Chair Mount
Trait Rerolls
Gold
Stat Chips
Super Stat Chips

Neon and Chrome Battle Pass

There’s a new Battle Pass! That means Dodara and Sosora are no longer available, but Neon and Chrome are. So there you go.

Cosmetics Revamp

Cosmetics are now no longer a one size fits all. You can now turn on and off individual aspects of a cosmetic item, including the model, effects, or animation.

Quality of Life and Bug Fixes

Lastly, let’s take a look at all of the quality of life and bug fixes direct from the source.

Changes & QOL

Added an upgrade bar when viewing units in the lobby, allowing you to check the unit’s stats at a specific upgrade by hovering over that upgrade

Worldline LB rewards have been adjusted, Top 1-12 will now receive a shiny Worldline unit from that season (for example shiny Isdead)

New players can play Act 1 of any story without completing the previous story

Added Gift Box 1 & Gift Box 2 to the Winter Event Shop

Added a Rogita (Super 4) profile banner and Monkey King title

Changed Tournament generation to be Story stages only

Added Underground Church and Spirit Society stages to Tournaments

Removed bosses-only mode from Tournaments

Improved the responsiveness when drag-selling Units

Added Show Enemy Tags on Hover setting

Added preview of stats increasing one rank upon evolution in Evolve UI

Added a Search Bar to the Unit Collection UI

Added Elemental Filters to the Collection UI

Added reset button for Unit Filters in Unit Filters UI

Unit Elements now show in the Unit Hotbar

Added new skin bundles to the Store

Added Stat Chips to the Item Store

Secret/Vanguard units now appear in the background of their respective banner

Added HP scaling to Sandbox waves

Added automatic wave progression to Sandbox

Added UI transitions when switching between certain UIs

Adjusted AOE movement in unit placement preview

Quests now have a lobby background behind the text

… and more!

Bug fixes

Fixed using “Feed all” on units with the Scholar trait using a non-Scholar amount of XP items

Fixed Rogita (Super 4)’s Gotchya! passive not slowing down enemies

Fixed Sukuno applying bleed on each individual hit of his attack

Fixed Berserker summon from despawning when crossing a forked path

Fixed Gilgamesh’s Enuma Elish passive working before upgrade 10

Fixed Emmie & Regnaw not having any SFX

Fixed Worldlines CC restriction carrying over when using Next Floor button

Fixed Winter Portal unit damage multiplier being able to exceed 100%

Fixed repulse interaction with enemies that spawn other enemies upon death

Fixed players being able to join stages/portals while having max inventory

Fixed enemies and units being inversed in Elemental Reactions chart

Fixed purchase sliders on mobile difficult to move

Fixed Worldline reward UI not showing 5-floor increment rewards

Fixed dismantle UI not closing properly on console devices

Fixed previous Tournament standings extending off-screen

Fixed Enemy Index & Collection Index milestone UI not closing properly on console devices

Fixed profile statistics for games played, games won, and top-placed units not updating

Fixed default profile banner showing the old lobby

Fixed Haruka Rin displaying damage

Fixed Haruka Rin not buffing units in Sandbox

Fixed the new unit hotbar hover UI not showing the shiny variant of the unit

Fixed weekend reward text always being shown when in a game

Fixed emote error message showing for everyone, instead of just the user

Fixed Berserker summon being able to be spawned in Sandbox

… and many more!
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