How to Evolve Every Unit in Anime Expeditions (All 13 Recipes)

Selecting a unit that has an evolution available shows exactly which materials are still missing. Most recipes combine several colors of Sprite (Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Yellow, Pink), often a Rainbow Sprite, a Gold cost and one unique item earned only from that unit's Unit Trial. Sprite colors are capped at 125 in your inventory each, and Rainbow Sprite caps at 50, so hoarding for your entire roster at once isn't realistic.

Colored Sprites craft from plain Grey Sprites at a 5:1 ratio, and a Rainbow Sprite costs one of every colored Sprite (30 Grey Sprites' worth) plus Gold to combine, making Grey Sprite the real bottleneck behind most evolutions rather than the colored Sprites themselves.

Evolving a unit adds extra stat tiers beyond its base form's cap and, on many units, brand-new passive abilities the base form never had. It does not touch a unit's rolled Trait or Stat Potential grade; those carry over unchanged, so a poorly rolled unit stays poorly rolled after evolving unless you separately reroll it.

Secret evolutions are the most expensive tier, each costing 20 of three Sprite colors, 3 Rainbow Sprites and 10,000 Gold on top of their unique Unit Trial item, roughly double the Rainbow Sprite and Gold cost of a Mythic or Exclusive evolution.

Exclusive evolutions mostly follow the standard Mythic-tier pattern, with one notable exception in True Saint's recipe below.

Every Mythic evolution below follows the same base pattern: 20 of two Sprite colors, 1 Rainbow Sprite, 5,000 Gold, plus a unique Unit Trial item.

Beyond the raw tier increase, roughly half of the 13 confirmed evolutions add a brand-new passive the base form never had: 8th Sword, Cursed Student, Elf Mage, Hollow, Lady Giant, Puppet, Reaper and String Demon all gain at least one new passive on evolution. Crimson gains an additional passive alongside its existing one, while Flame Emperor, Shadow and True Saint gain no new passive at all, their evolutions being purely extra tiers and higher stats per tier.

An evolved unit keeps its base rarity's origin banner and its element and archetype unchanged. Some evolutions also unlock cosmetic skins that only apply to the evolved version, so evolving first is a prerequisite for skinning that unit later on units where that applies.

Rainbow Sprite is required in every one of the 13 recipes, usually just 1, except for the two Secret evolutions, which each need 3. Since Rainbow Sprite crafts from one of every colored Sprite plus Gold, it tends to be the material that decides which evolution you can actually finish first, not the 20-count colored Sprites, which build up naturally from regular Daily and Weekly Challenge clears.

Gold scales cleanly with rarity: 5,000 Gold for every Mythic and Exclusive evolution except True Saint, and 10,000 Gold for both Secret evolutions. Budgeting Gold alongside Sprites matters just as much as the Sprite farm itself, especially early on when Gold also competes with equipment crafting costs.

With 13 recipes competing for the same capped Sprite pool, evolving your confirmed main damage carry first is the standard advice, since it's the unit most likely to also be your Trait Crystal reroll target, letting both investments compound on the same slot. A money unit is the other common early pick if you own one, since several evolutions improve Yen income rather than combat stats and effectively pay for themselves across the rest of your progression. See the Evolution Priority guide for the full reasoning behind that ordering.