Anime Expeditions Element Effectiveness Chart Explained

Dark deals 3x damage to Light targets, and Light deals 3x damage to Dark targets, a clean, direct mutual counter with no listed weakness on either side beyond the other.

Hydro deals 3x damage to Flame and takes 0.33x damage from Terra.

Flame deals 3x damage to Terra and takes 0.33x damage from Hydro.

Gale deals 3x damage to Hydro and takes 0.33x damage from Flame.

Storm deals 3x damage to Flame and takes 0.33x damage from Terra, the same profile as Hydro.

Terra deals 3x damage to Hydro and takes 0.33x damage from Flame, the same profile as Gale.

Farm and Neutral carry no listed combat bonuses or weaknesses against anything.

Looking closely at the multiplier data, Hydro and Storm follow an identical damage profile to each other, and Gale and Terra follow an identical profile to each other, distinct from Hydro and Storm's. Flame stands on its own with a third profile that neither pair matches. Practically, this means the game currently supports three effectiveness lanes among these five elements rather than five completely unique ones: a Hydro-Storm lane, a Gale-Terra lane, and Flame by itself.

For team building, this is still useful information even though it's not five unique counters: if you know Hydro beats Flame, you also know Storm beats Flame, since they share the exact same multiplier profile. The same logic applies to Gale and Terra both being strong against Hydro.

Dark and Light are the one matchup you can build around with full confidence, since they're the only two elements that name each other directly in the effectiveness data rather than referencing a shared internal category. If you know an enemy wave leans Dark, bringing a Light-element unit is a genuine, data-backed damage swing, and vice versa.

Farm is explicitly flagged as a non-combat element in the client data, used only by money units like Ramen Guy and Stone Alchemist that generate Yen every wave instead of dealing damage. It carries zero effectiveness bonuses or weaknesses since it was never meant to fight.

Neutral is different: it still functions as a normal combat element, unlike Farm, but its multiplier table is empty, meaning it carries no bonus or weakness against anything. Units like 8th Sword, String Demon, Corps Captain, Bounty Hunter and Turret all fight on Neutral's flat baseline rather than leaning on an elemental advantage.

Element coverage isn't evenly distributed across the roster, which matters when deciding how many team slots to dedicate to each. Dark has the largest documented pool at 13 units, including Shadow, Cursed Student, Crimson and Toy Maker. Flame follows with 10 units, including Hollow and Flame Emperor. Light and Neutral each sit at 7 units. Storm has 4. Hydro, Gale and Terra each have just 3 documented units, the smallest combat pools in the game. Farm sits at 2, reflecting its narrow economy-only role.

Because Hydro, Gale and Terra are the shallowest pools, players chasing a specific matchup in those lanes have fewer options to pull toward, which is worth factoring in before committing evolution materials to a niche element pick.

Elemental Weather is a rotating event that features one element at a time and grants roughly a 15% additional weakness against it on top of whatever weakness an enemy already has. It applies to Story, Mastery Stages, Raids and Challenges, but is explicitly disabled in Tournament, Trial, Sandbox, Infinite and the Lobby, so it can't be leaned on for competitive scoring.

The event card in game shows the currently featured element directly along with a countdown timer, so there's no need to guess. If your roster already covers the featured element well, the window is a strong push to clear harder content faster; if it doesn't, community farming advice generally agrees it's not worth swapping in a weaker roster just to chase the bonus, since a lower-stat unit usually loses more than the 15% weakness gains back.

Given that Hydro/Storm and Gale/Terra behave as pairs rather than four unique matchups, a practical roster covers Dark or Light depending on what you're facing, one unit from the Hydro-Storm lane, one from the Gale-Terra lane, and a Flame-element unit, rather than trying to collect all nine elements individually. Neutral and Farm units round out a team for their non-elemental roles (flat baseline damage and Yen income) rather than for matchup coverage.