Sources & Verification

How this wiki decides what to publish, the source tiers it uses, and the specific claims it refuses to state until someone confirms them.

Most guides about a newly launched game are assembled from other guides. This one is built from primary sources, and it says out loud when it does not have one. That is a slower way to publish, and it is the only way the numbers here mean anything.

Our source tiers

TierWhat it meansHow we phrase it
OfficialThe developer's site, the game's own wiki, an official store page or announcementStated as fact
Multi-sourceThree or more independent outlets agree, with no contradicting sourceStated as fact
Community-reportedCommunity documentation with a visible method, not officially confirmedLabelled as unconfirmed on the page
UnresolvedSources actively contradict each otherPublished as the disagreement, never as a pick
UnverifiedSingle-source with no method, or impossible to dateNot published

What every page carries

  • A “Last verified” date, so you can judge how stale an answer is in a game that patches often.
  • A visible label on anything community-reported rather than official.
  • No creature stats that are not on the developer's own wiki, because a wrong base stat silently corrupts every build advice that follows it.
  • No catch rates other than the ones the game itself publishes.

Claims we currently refuse to make

Each of these is repeated across fan sites. None of them traces to an official statement, and several contradict each other. Publishing them would make this wiki look more complete and less correct.

  • A total creature count — official material says more than 200, the official index numbers creatures individually, and fan databases count forms. They do not agree, so we do not restate any of them as the answer.
  • The number of regions in Idyll — fan sources say both 16 and 17 in the same week.
  • A publishing label other than the one on the store page.
  • Sanctuary, tower and collectible counts.
  • A “Core Courses” progression system, a “Hollow Battle Interlink” mode, or a “Legendary Token” currency — none appears in official material.
  • Published or estimated stats for any creature the official wiki has not listed yet.
  • The Umbral name for anything other than the documented guaranteed-Perfect variant.

A worked example of why this matters

The official site's own homepage carousel labels several Aniimo with numbers that do not match the official wiki's index — the same creature is given a different number in two places, both published by the developer. Where they disagree, this wiki follows the wiki index, because that is the same numbering the in-game Aniilog uses.

That is the whole method in one paragraph: when two primary sources disagree, say so and say which one you followed. Do not average them and do not quietly pick the more convenient one.

Corrections

If you have an official source we have missed — a developer post, a patch note, a screenshot of the in-game panel — send it. Corrections with a citation get applied; corrections without one usually turn out to be the thing we were avoiding.

Unconfirmed is not the same as wrong A community claim can be perfectly accurate and still fail our bar, because we cannot show you where it came from. Where a mechanic is real but undocumented, the page explains the mechanic and labels the detail as community-reported rather than pretending it is settled.