Anime Vanguards — Where Gems, Rerolls, and Update Codes Go

Rerolls Are the Reward That Matters

Anime Vanguards codes pay gems, memoria shards, and trait rerolls when the studio ships them. The reroll is the one you feel on a unit you are keeping. Gems summon. Shards upgrade. A code spent on a unit you will sell next banner was a free summon for the trash pile.

The four big anniversary codes — Finally, 2ndAnniversary, TrueShadowMonarch, and HappyAnniversary — all needed Level 10. The official wiki marked them expired around 31 October UTC with no replacement batch on 1 November. The seven 2ndAnniDay codes expired 23 October.

If the box rejects you, check level and spelling first. An empty active list means wait for the next developer post, not retry dead strings forever.

Units Worth a Banner

Demon Leader (Control) cuts deployment costs and boosts Demon Hunter allies. God (Above Heaven) is the AoE and time-stop. Song Jinwu and Igros summon without eating a placement slot. Gujo (Infinity) stalls waves with wide stuns. Those are the names that still justify a gem pile.

Update 13.5's Vanguard and Secret — Today's Strongest vs History's Strongest, and Raging Oni vs Wrath God — are banner targets, not beginner crafts. Update 14's Reckless Gambler and Divine General are the raid and rift units. Pull them if that update is the account's goal. Do not pull them because a code gave you 5,000 gems and the button was lit.

Save gems for one banner. Splitting gems across every update leaves you with four half-built units and no trait worth rerolling.

Reroll the Unit You Will Place

Use trait rerolls on the unit that is already in your late-game loadout. A perfect trait on a placeholder is a screenshot. The loadout is the six you place when the wave is mean.

Read the code reward before you redeem. A memoria-shard code and a reroll code are different sessions. Shards go into the unit you are evolving. Rerolls go into the trait screen of that same unit. Redeeming everything in the lobby and logging off wastes the session the reward was for.

Kat and the older meme strings are not the plan. If they are in the expired list, leave them there.

Story, Raids, and Why Level 30 Exists

Clear story until Level 10 so the next code batch works when it drops, then keep going. Raids and rift bosses are where the later units earn their place. Taking a new account into a raid because a code mentioned the boss is how you get carried and learn nothing.

Placement matters more than the rarest name. A cheaper unit that stalls, plus one burst unit, clears waves a single secret cannot if you drop it in the wrong lane.

When a new update code drops, it usually lives a short window. The codes page is the check. Discord is where the studio posts it first. We add it after it redeems.

A Gem Spend You Will Not Regret

When codes return, redeem at Level 10 and spend rerolls on one keeper from the tier list. Do not chase every secret in the patch notes. The next update will have another one. The trait on the unit you already place is the thing the codes were for.