Defeat Anime RNG Combat Guide: Fighting Basics With Units

Combat in Defeat Anime RNG is where your collected units are actually sent against enemies. The loop is simple: roll for units, merge them so they grow stronger, then use those units to hold the line through enemy waves and fight bosses as you unlock new zones. On the main-map path, deployed units fight enemy waves while you can attack the same enemies with your own weapon.

Positioning and unit participation

Follow the tutorial's yellow objective arrows to deploy your first units:

1. Use your first roll to obtain Gobu, then place him in an open slot on the red carpet path. Any open slot works for this opening step.
2. Roll again for Veteka and place him in the second slot.

This two-unit setup can defeat the opening waves on its own. Those two placements are a starting setup, not a fixed team-size cap: the Unit Slots upgrade lets you place more units on the path at once. Once you have a developed roster, Equip Best offers an alternative to manual placement by selecting your highest-tier pulls.

Fighting alongside your units

During the opening tutorial, take 50 gold to the Plaza Blacksmith and buy the Katana. It is your own weapon, separate from your units. Approach an enemy and attack from close range while your units continue fighting. Landing five hits completes the tutorial attack objective.

Reading the battle state

In the opening Gobu-and-Veteka setup, enemies dying on the path shows that your units are defeating them. Kills contribute gold, so watch enemy deaths and your gold total for basic combat progress.

The combat upgrades affect different parts of this loop:

Diagnosing slow progress between attempts

Between fights, work out where progress slows instead of changing everything at once:

1. Play several waves and note what you want to improve.
2. Check whether you want more deployed units, faster enemy spawns, or faster personal weapon attacks; these have separate upgrade tracks.
3. Direct your next roll, merge or upgrade at the problem you identified.
4. Change one major variable at a time, then run the same type of content and compare results.

Once you know what kind of fight is giving you trouble, continue to the specific activity: boss encounters have their own requirements, and endless waves follow their own progression — see the dedicated boss and endless-waves guides for those details.