Anime Vanguards patch notes and changelogs for UPD 0.5

The latest Anime Vanguards patch notes and changelogs can help you make informed decisions for the latest update.

Anime Vanguards UPD 0.5 brought numerous new modes, challenges, units, and currencies on September 23, 2024. Check out what’s new, what’s set to come in the near future, and how your current units might have changed overnight. When it comes to spending gems, investing in new units, and taking on new challenges, it’s an essential read.

Anime Vanguards 0.5 patch notes

• New Raid Gamemode
  • Fight in the Spider Forest for the chance to unlock Rengoku and earn Red Webs to spend in a new raid shop.
• New Raid Shop
  • Exchange Red Webs from the Raid battle for evolution items, trait rerolls, and more
• New Boss Event
  • Face off against Blood-Red Commander with no traits.
• New Boss Shop
  • Spend Commander Tokens earned through the Boss event to purchase rerolls, emotes, and more.
• 6 New Units
  • Rengoku (exclusive)
  • Akazo (mythic)
  • Tengon (mythic)
  • Takarada (legendary)
  • Bean (legendary)
  • Blossom (epic)
• 3 New Evolutions
  • Rengoku Purgatory
  • Akazo Flashiness
  • Tengon Destructive
• Two new achievements categories and a title
  • “Behold, my Arachnid Exterminator”
  • “Battle Against an Elite Knight”
  • “Blood-Red Commander”
• New Stage Info UI
  • Can now view stage details, rewards, and modifiers mid-match
• Auto Ability
  • Allows you to toggle the automatic use of unit abilities.
• Unit Manager UI Revamp
  • Now includes Upgrade and Sell buttons and improved upgrade animations
• Trophy Shop
  • Purchase profile customizations via trophies earned in Boss Events.
• New Emotes
  • California Gurls and Blood-Red Commander
• New Profile options
  • Set any owned unit as a profile avatar and customize it with banners and backgrounds.
  • View and display leaderboard positions.
• Bug Fixes
  • Units can no longer deal damage to shielded enemies.
  • Upgrade UI should now properly display multipliers on passives.
  • Sosuke Storm’s stun has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds.
  • Skills with global cooldowns should now be visible to other players.
  • New ability icons for Alocard and Song Jinwu.
  • Igros (Elite Knight)’s stat and passive changes are now correctly displayed.
  • Obita (Awakened) now gains his final attack through a different upgrade and his stats are no longer incorrect.

When is the next Anime Vanguards update?

The next Anime Vanguards update is expected to be UPD 1. No date has been set, and we don’t know which anime or manga series it’s set to feature.

UPD 0.5 launched around two weeks after the game’s release at around 06:30PM PDT. At the earliest, we expect UPD 1 to launch on Sunday, October 6 at around the same time.

For more Anime Vanguards, check out how the new units stack up in our Anime Vanguards tier list. Get closer to them with the latest Anime Vanguards codes, or learn how to farm gems fast to afford the latest Mythic sooner. Still stuck in the story mode? Here’s how to defeat the God Statue at the end of the final act.