How values work in Anime Vanguards

A value is a reference point, not a price

In Anime Vanguards there's no currency item you hand over — everything is trade, unit-for-unit and item-for-item. A "value" on the community value list is just a shared reference point that tells you roughly how sought-after a unit, skin, or pass is on a relative scale. It's a guide for judging fairness, not a price tag, and it moves as the community trades.

What drives a unit's value

• Unobtainable status: units you can no longer earn from banners, stages, or the battle pass are the ones that carry trades — their supply is frozen, so demand tends to hold or climb.
• Meta strength: units that clear the hardest content and top the damage checks are chased, so they sit higher on the scale.
• Shiny variant: a shiny version of a unit is its own, more sought-after entry on the list — shiny status is baked into the unit itself.
• Overall demand: even a strong unit isn't worth much in a trade if few people want it right now — hype and usage both matter.
• Freshness of the meta: new banners, reworks, and balance changes shift which units the community chases.

Skins and passes have their own values

Skins, gamepasses, bundles, and battle passes are traded as standalone items in AV, not bolted onto a unit — and a unit's equipped skin does NOT travel with it when the unit is traded. So they get their own spot on the community value list. When you value a deal, add each skin and pass on its own rather than assuming it "comes with" a unit.

How Win / Fair / Lose works

• Add the units, skins, passes, and bundles on your side and on their side into the free WFL calculator.
• Win means your side is getting more community value than you give up.
• Fair means both sides are close — a clean, even swap.
• Lose means you'd be giving up more than you get; slow down and rethink it.
• Use WFL as a sanity check against any "value list" a stranger shows you — it reads the shared community scale, not their made-up numbers.

Fair is a good deal

Don't feel you have to "win" every trade. A Fair swap that lands a unit you actually want for your lineup is a good trade. WFL and the community value list exist to keep you off a big Lose and out of a shark's trap — not to make every deal a jackpot.