Aniimo Ice Builds: Best Build for Every Ice Aniimo (Update 1.1)

Ice at a glance

Ice is a small element with one big selling point: it hard-counters Water and Lightning. It hits both for 1.6× and takes only 0.625× back from both, so an Ice team is the safest answer to Water and Lightning shields.

Grass, Wind, Dark and Light take neutral damage from Ice. The weak spot is Fire and Earth: they resist your hits and hit you for 1.6×, so swap teams against them instead of forcing it.

Every Ice Aniimo, ranked

Only two released lines are primary Ice: Glynsera (Bonesky line) and Geoclaw. The table adds the Ice-typed forms and the two Aniimo that complete Game8's Ice team. Ranked by Game8's overall tier (Oct 6), with GameWith (Oct 14) where it has one.

Game8	Aniimo	Type	Role	GameWith	Note
S	Prismana Glacy	Water / Light	Heal	SS	Ice team support, not Ice-typed
S	Somniwing	Wind / Grass	Regen	n/a	Ice team Regen
A	Prismana Stellarys	Dark / Ice	DPS	n/a	Plays as a Dark DPS
B	Glynsera	Ice	DPS	S	A in Game8's Ice ranking
B	Prismana Glynsera	Light / Ice	DPS	n/a	Same build as Glynsera
B	Nighttime Glynsera	Dark / Ice	DPS	n/a	Same build as Glynsera
B	Geoclaw	Ice	Break	S	A in Game8's Break and Ice rankings
B	Glacy	Water / Ice	Heal	S	Learns Glimmer Shot once you own a Prismana Glacy

Ice DPS: Glynsera and its forms

Every Glynsera form shares the same stats, trait, skills and build. Pick the one you have. The forms differ in their second element and in the one skill they unlock for the species.

Glynsera

ICE · DPS · NOVA

Glynsera

IceDPSBeast Fang Ridge

B

A stack-and-cash-in melee DPS. Ice Strikes lays 5 Ice Debuff stacks at once, its trait Biting Wind adds +15% crit rate against targets above 5 stacks, and Frost Tail Strike spends stacks for +85% damage. Keep the stack count high and every hit crits more often.

Held itemHeartseeker Pendant (pairs with the trait's crit; GameWith agrees)

ContractYes, on Frost Tail Strike: it spends 5 stacks instead of 10 (Game8 recommends it on the Prismana and Nighttime pages; the contract covers the whole species)

PersonalityENTP for base Glynsera, ENFP on the Nighttime and Prismana pages (E attack, N crit either way)

Equip skillsIce Strikes + Frost Tail Strike

Potential priorityAttack ★★★★★ › Regen ★★★★ › Break ★★★ › HP ★★

Ultimate / traitIce Tornado (spinning icy tornado) · Biting Wind

Rotation: Geoclaw breaks and stacks Ice Debuff, Prismana Glacy casts Glimmer Shot, then Glynsera ults before Frost Tail Strike so the ult lands while stacks are still high. Top up with Ice Strikes when EP allows. Best team: Geoclaw, Prismana Glacy, Somniwing. Evolves from: Bonesky (Lv 24) → Fenrier (Lv 34, 3 Freeze Stones). Evolving is cheaper than spending an Aniipod Ultra on Alpha Glynsera.

Night

DARK / ICE · DPS · REGIONAL FORM

Nighttime Glynsera

DarkIceDPSRosetower Woods, night

B

Identical build to Glynsera. What changes: the Dark half adds weaknesses to Wind and Light (Earth becomes neutral, Fire stays), and catching one unlocks Night Slash (Silence for 4s) for the species.

How to getCatch 8 Nighttime Bonesky in a row at night in Rosetower Woods, or evolve Nighttime Bonesky/Fenrier at night

Skip in PvENight Slash is a Dark skill. Game8 keeps it for PvP and Pathfinder fights, where Silence matters

Prismana

LIGHT / ICE · DPS · PRISMANA

Prismana Glynsera

LightIceDPSVein Abundance event

B

Same build again. Catching it unlocks Prismana Slash for every Glynsera, whose text matches Ice Strikes minus the 5 debuff stacks, so keep Ice Strikes equipped. Game8 says don't put it on a Light team: its damage engine is Ice Debuff stacks, and only Ice teammates feed those.

How to getSpawned in Beast Fang Ridge Prismana Flows during the Sep 21 to 27 Vein Abundance week. Game8 lists all event Prismana returning to their regions Oct 19 to 25

Weak toDark and Earth (1.6× each, from the type chart). Light resists Fire, so Fire is only neutral

Stellarys

DARK / ICE · DPS · PRISMANA

Prismana Stellarys

DarkIceDPSForest of Falling Stars

A

The highest-ranked Ice-typed unit, but it plays as a Dark DPS: Dark basic attacks, Shooting Stars and Shadow Magic. Build it like Stellarys and run it on the Dark team (Rookey, Fragrancier, Hexxin). Its Ice skill, Chill Glide, applies 1 Ice Debuff stack per hit, but Game8 says it adds nothing to the team.

Held itemFission Needles (Game8 unit page; its List of All Builds and GameWith say Ferocious Fang)

ContractYes: Shooting Stars fires 5 stars and stacks to 20

PersonalityISTP (Kairos used Energetic + Practical on his)

PotentialAttack ★★★★★ › Regen ★★★★ › Break ★★★

Kairos's warning: not a safe first Prismana. Its Dark hits do 37.5% less to Water and Wind, its Ice hits do 37.5% less to Fire, Ice and Earth, and it takes +60% from Light, Wind and Fire 1:00. Ice skills taught to a regular Stellarys also lose the +10% same-type bonus 22:30.

Ice Break: Geoclaw

Geoclaw is the only Ice breaker, and it doubles as your main Ice Debuff stacker. Without it, Glynsera's trait and Frost Tail Strike are hard to keep running.

Geoclaw

ICE · BREAK · NOVA

Geoclaw

IceBreakNimbus Fields underground

B

Its trait Frostbite Sunder makes basic attacks apply Ice Debuff and adds 35% BREAK against targets above 5 stacks. Icy Gravel Dance sends a moving ice storm that keeps stacking, and Frost Slam hits hard on the gauge and raises an ice wall for 5s that can pin the target.

Held itemGargantuan Horn (GameWith agrees)

ContractOptional: Icy Gravel Dance stacks faster over a wider area. Contract your DPS first

PersonalityESTP (E for Break; Kairos's breaker rule is E + N for crit)

Equip skillsIcy Gravel Dance + Frost Slam

Potential priorityBreak ★★★★★ › Regen ★★★★ › Attack ★★★

Ultimate / traitFreezing Claws (large-area hit) · Frostbite Sunder

Rotation: open with Glynsera's Ice Strikes to reach 5 stacks, swap to Geoclaw, cast Icy Gravel Dance then Frost Slam, then keep basic-attacking: every swing adds stacks and extra BREAK. Evolves from: Budclaw (Earth / Grass, Lv 21) with a Tenacious personality and 3 Freeze Stones, after you defeat Alpha Geoclaw. Without Tenacious, Budclaw can only become Shrubclaw.

Support, Heal and Regen for Ice

There's no native Ice support, so the Ice team borrows two of the best universal units in the game. Build them once and they slot into almost every other team as well.

Glacy

WATER / LIGHT · HEAL · PRISMANA

Prismana Glacy

WaterLightHealFree Prismana Pact pick

S

Glimmer Shot gives the whole team +15% damage for 20s, and Healing Water plus Spring of Life keep everyone alive. Both heals scale off HP, so it's a pure HP build. Kairos calls it "one of the freest damage boosts in the game" and the safe first Prismana 2:30.

Held itemMiraculous Fleece (GameWith: Marching Flask)

ContractNo: the boosted Healing Water only raises self-heal from 10% to 12%. Kairos notes you can get it free by turning an Alpha Glacy into a Prismana Alpha

PersonalityISTJ (J for HP matters most, then I for Regen)

Equip skillsGlimmer Shot + Healing Water

Potential priorityHP ★★★★★ › Regen ★★★★ › everything else ★

Ultimate / traitSpring of Life (36% max HP over 6s) · Water Spirit (−16% EP cost in water)

How to get: the free Prismana Pact pick at Wayfarer I (level 40), or the Driftwise Meadow Bloom (catch 40% of the area first; Kairos says it's available after level 51). Use: Glimmer Shot right after the break, then refresh it between rotations. Heal only when needed, because Healing Water costs 20 EP your DPS could use.

Somniwing

WIND / GRASS · REGEN · LEGENDARY

Somniwing

WindGrassRegen180 Elite Training objectives

S

+10 max EP for the whole party just by being on the team, a +24% EP recovery wave, and an ultimate that refills 36 EP. Glynsera and Geoclaw both burn EP to keep stacks up, so this matters more for Ice than for most teams. Full build in the Wind builds guide.

Quick buildSpirited Feather · ISTJ · Regen only · Ethereal Light Wave + Energy Orb

Glacy and Snowfield Glacy

Regular Glacy is the actual Water / Ice healer (B in Game8, S in GameWith). It uses the same build as the Prismana (Miraculous Fleece, ISTJ, HP first) and can learn Glimmer Shot for free once you own any Prismana Glacy. It loses the 10% same-type bonus on that skill, which Kairos says barely matters on a healer 22:30. Catching a Snowfield Skippy, Pranky or Glacy unlocks Ice Orb (freezes the target for 2.5s).

Swaps if you're missing a piece

Rookey for Geoclaw Gracewing for Somniwing Besauce for Somniwing Turbo for Prismana Glacy Eklue as a crit support

Eklue is a Wind support, but its Weakness Mark cuts the target's crit resistance by 12%, which Game8 calls a good fit for Glynsera's crit trait.

Snowfield forms: Ice skills for other species

Snowfield regional forms don't have their own build pages. Their value is the skill they unlock: catch one and the skill becomes learnable on every member of that species. Check each form's element in-game, since our sources don't list it.

Catch	Unlocks	Effect
Snowfield Skippy, Pranky, Glacy	Ice Orb	Aimed orb that Freezes the target for 2.5s
Snowfield Pomegg, Pomawk	Frost Strike	Hits everything around the user and Freezes them for 2.5s
Snowfield Helmut, Rookey	Guardbreak Smash	Up to three jumping smashes; the third stuns for 1s
Snowfield Baleetle, Waleetle	Ice Ball Cutting	Rolls a big ice ball forward for heavy damage
Snowfield Bouldus	Ice Sphere	Ball form for 15s; wall bounces deal 15 Might AoE, jump landings 20 Might
Snowfield Pawney	Weakening Smash	Three jumping smashes; the third stuns for 1s

The best Ice teams and rotations

Both Game8 and GameWith run the same core: Glynsera, Geoclaw and Prismana Glacy. They disagree only on the battery.

Break-window rotation

1. Glynsera: Ice Strikes to put 5 Ice Debuff stacks on the target, which switches on Geoclaw's extra BREAK and Glynsera's crit trait.
2. Geoclaw: Icy Gravel Dance, Frost Slam, then basic attacks until the shield is nearly gone. The storm and the swings keep adding stacks.
3. Somniwing: refill EP before you pop the shield. Kairos's rule: never open a break window with an empty bar 1:40.
4. Break it, then Prismana Glacy: Glimmer Shot so the +15% lands inside the window.
5. Glynsera: Ice Tornado first, then Frost Tail Strike. The ult hits harder while stacks are high, and Frost Tail Strike spends them.
6. Somniwing's ultimate if the window is still open; its animation pauses time, then go back to Glynsera.

Budget and F2P versions

How Ice counters Water and Lightning

This is the reason to build Ice at all. Against Water and Lightning you deal 1.6× and take 0.625×, a damage-trade swing of about 2.5× in your favor before any other buff.

• Water bosses and sims: break with Geoclaw, since break damage gets the element bonus too. Kairos measured an advantaged breaker nearly emptying a shield in the casts that took a neutral one halfway 3:03.
• Lightning bosses: Lightning resists Wind, Lightning and Light, so many teams struggle here. Ice and Dark are the only two elements that hit it for 1.6×.
• Rain and standing water put Water debuff stacks on your units. That only matters to Water attackers, and Water already does 0.625× to Ice.
• Keep a Fire or Earth answer ready. Both hit Ice for 1.6× and resist it. Kairos's long-term goal is one DPS per element for the rotating Holo-Battle modes 3:59.

Advanced Ice tips

Managing Ice Debuff stacks

Ice Debuff works like every elemental debuff: each stack lowers the target's Ice resistance by 1%, up to 20 stacks (−20%). Ice skills consume stacks, so the team is a balance between building and spending.

What to invest in first

1. Prismana Glacy, because it carries every team you'll ever build, not just Ice. Level it, then HP.
2. Glynsera's Attack and Regen plus a top-rarity Heartseeker Pendant. Don't max lower-rarity items: feeding them into a better one loses 20% 21:25.
3. Geoclaw's Break with a Gargantuan Horn. Leave Attack alone.
4. The Frost Tail Strike contract when you have the Marks of the Strong. It makes the stack economy far easier. Geoclaw's contract comes last.