Aniimo: How to Get Dreaple (Complete Capture and Evolution Guide)

30-second quick start (TL;DR)

• Dreaple is a Nova-stage (final evolution) Aniimo, No. 019 in the Aniilog. It is Dark element, plays as a Support, and evolves from Nimbi, a Wind Aniimo that floats over the grass in Nimbus Fields.
• There are two ways to get it: catch the hidden wild Dreaple in Nimbus Fields, or evolve a Nimbi you’ve caught.
• For the wild one, do the Sleeping Flock event first: in daytime, Twine into a Nimbi and nap with the Nimbi flock by their tree.
• Then catch 30 Emberpup-family Aniimo (Emberpup, Flameruff, Scorchhowl or Inferlupa). A sleeping Dreaple appears at the collapsed ruins in Nimbus Fields, in front of a caved-in entrance.
• Sleeping Aniimo are a guaranteed catch, so a basic Aniipod works. Save a Sparkling Cube for this moment if you want a Sparkling Dreaple with Perfect Potential.
• To evolve instead, level Nimbi to 21, rest with it in your party from night to day, learn the passive talent [Dreamsong], keep Night Stones in your bag, and evolve it from the Aniimo menu.
• Defeating the Alpha Turbo sends Nimbi down the other branch, into Turbo. If you want Dreaple, follow the night-rest route.
• Build it with Capafruit, Star Dust, Star Sand and Star Essence, then Resonance Star-Up and a carried item that suits a support.

What this guide helps you do

This guide walks you through the complete process of getting and building Dreaple, a strong Dark support and Nova-stage final form in Aniimo, from finding it through endgame stat building. You’ll learn exactly where Dreaple spawns and how to unlock that hidden spawn, how to evolve Nimbi into Dreaple instead, what each evolution condition means, and how to put your resources into the right copy so you end up with a battle-ready Dreaple.

It answers the questions people search for most: the Dreaple location, how to make it spawn, how to evolve it, and whether Sparkling and Prismana versions exist. Both routes work early. Nimbus Fields is the starting region, so you can have a Dreaple long before the late game.

Dreaple location and spawn

Dreaple doesn’t roam the map. Its Aniilog page shows no habitat until you unlock its one spawn in Nimbus Fields.

How to trigger the Sleeping Flock event

Go to Nimbus Fields in daytime and find the flock of Nimbi napping around an unusual leafy tree near the First Spark Sanctum. Players describe the spot a little differently (some put it just west of the Sanctum, others toward the southeast coast near the Sanctum’s shrine), so look around the Sanctum for a group of sleeping Nimbi. Twine into a Nimbi, walk up to the tree and interact with it to nap with the flock. The event completes when you wake.

How to catch the 30 Emberpups fast

Emberpup spawns in Nimbus Fields, and the First Spark Sanctum has a statue that brings them in too. Its evolutions Flameruff, Scorchhowl and Inferlupa all count toward the 30. Players farming them in bulk use the Beast Fang Ridge Bloom in west Breezy Plains and place a Fire Shard in the Bloom’s nurture offering to attract more Emberpups. At least one guide says the 30 must be caught in a row, with no other Aniimo in between. Nobody else confirms that, but catching them back to back costs nothing, so do it to be safe.

Where to find the sleeping Dreaple

Once you’ve caught your 30th, fast travel to the Nimbus Fields Bloom and head southwest to the collapsed ruins near the middle of the region. Look for the broken stone arch and the caved-in entrances. Dreaple floats in front of one of them, asleep, beside a large hole in front of a ruined building. Walk up and throw: a sleeping Aniimo can’t dodge, so even a basic Aniipod is enough.

Requirements and prep

You don’t need to be far into Aniimo to get Dreaple. Nimbus Fields is the starting region (its wild Aniimo sit around levels 5 to 15), and both routes happen there. For the wild Dreaple, you need to be able to Twine into a Nimbi, which means having caught one, and you need room in your team to catch 30 Emberpups. For the evolution route, you need a Nimbi you can get to level 21 and the passive talent [Dreamsong].

Gather your evolution items before you start leveling. Dreaple’s evolution uses Night Stones, the material for evolving Dark-type Aniimo. Sources disagree on how many: older guides say 1, newer ones say 3. Have 3 ready and you’re covered either way. Night Stones come from the Black Truffle Shop, Alpha drops and chests, and several player level-up rewards include one. Check the evolution tab on Nimbi’s Aniilog page before you commit.

If you plan to max Dreaple out, set up your Homeland early. Its farm, crafting and production make many of the materials you’ll need later for awakening and star-ups. Dreaple itself can work in your Homeland too: it handles Dark and Leisure jobs.

Route overview

There are two paths to Dreaple, and you can use both.

The wild route is the quickest for most players: do the Sleeping Flock event, catch 30 Emberpup-family Aniimo, then pick up the sleeping Dreaple at the Nimbus Fields ruins with a guaranteed catch. Repeat the 30 catches for more copies, which is useful when you want one with better Potential or a Sparkling.

The evolution route starts with Nimbi: catch several, keep the one with the best Potential, level it to 21, rest with it from night to day, learn [Dreamsong], and evolve it with Night Stones in your bag. This route lets you choose the exact Nimbi you start from, and Nimbi is easy to catch in large numbers.

Whichever way you get it, the final stretch is the same: push your best copy’s Potential, awaken its stats, Resonance Star-Up it and give it a carried item that suits a support. Finding a Perfect Potential Aniimo can take a lot of captures, but inheritance lets you move levels from your practice copies into the one you keep, so little goes to waste.

Dreaple evolution requirements

Nimbi has two evolutions. Here’s what each one needs, side by side.

The line has only two steps: Nimbi is a Lumin-stage Aniimo and jumps straight to Nova, so there’s no Gamma form in between. Dreaple’s element changes from Wind to Dark when it evolves. Basic, Cloudmist and Rainstorm Nimbi can all become Dreaple. Plateau Form Nimbi, from Driftwise Meadow, is reported to evolve only into Turbo, so don’t use one for this.

Resting from night to day: keep Nimbi in your active party, set the time to night with the Sun and Moon option in the main menu, then rest through to morning. A nap during the day doesn’t count; it has to go from night into day.

Learning [Dreamsong]: it’s a Pathfinder passive, not one of Nimbi’s own talents. It unlocks at the Student II rank and is bought with Report Cards, and its in-game description reads “Unlocks Dreaple’s exceptional evolution”.

Dreaple’s exceptional evolution: this is the game’s own name for it. An exceptional evolution is a special branch that a Pathfinder passive unlocks, and Dreamsong is the one for Dreaple (others unlock Tromber, Bouldus and Rookey). Turbo comes from a straightforward boss win, while Dreaple needs Dreamsong plus the night rest. Meet those conditions and the Dreaple option appears in Nimbi’s evolution tab.

Where to catch Nimbi

Nimbi floats in small groups above the grass and is an easy catch, with a 56% base rate on a basic Aniipod. That makes it ideal for catching in bulk while you look for good Potential. Nimbus Fields is the best place to start, since it’s also where the wild Dreaple and the Sleeping Flock are.

Step-by-step walkthrough

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   Step 1: Identify the base creature and its habitat

   Dreaple’s base creature is Nimbi. Open the Aniilog (the game’s creature log) and look up Nimbi to see its evolution chain and where it spawns. Nimbus Fields is the best habitat: Nimbi floats over the grasslands there in Basic and Cloudmist forms, and in Rainstorm form when it rains or thunders. Dreaple’s own Aniilog page shows “No info” for its location until you unlock its hidden spawn. That’s normal, and the location section above covers it.

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   Step 2: Stock up on capture items

   Before heading out, make sure you have a healthy supply of Aniipods. Basic Aniipods aren’t lying on the ground; they come from the Credit Shop, quests, level rewards, chests and your Homeland’s production. You’ll throw a lot of them at Emberpups and Nimbi. If you’re hunting for good Potential, Aniipod Pros (1.5x catch rate) and Aniipod Megas (2x) make each throw count.

   Save the rare ones for the moment they matter. An Aniipod Ultra is a guaranteed catch with at least Elite Potential. A Sparkling Cube is a guaranteed catch that always gives a Sparkling with Perfect Potential. The sleeping Dreaple at the ruins is the perfect target for a Cube, because you know exactly when and where it will be.

   

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   Step 3: Scout the region and activate Bloom Branches

   Travel to Nimbus Fields and activate its Bloom right away. Blooms are fast travel points, and the Nimbus Fields Bloom is your starting point for the ruins, which lie to its southwest. Blooms also have a nurture offering, which lets you place items to change what spawns nearby. Dreaple doesn’t need any special weather, but nurture offerings help with the Emberpup grind (a Fire Shard brings more Emberpups to the Beast Fang Ridge Bloom), and rain brings out Rainstorm Nimbi in Nimbus Fields.

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   Step 4: Hunt for the base creature using stealth

   Once you know where Nimbi and Emberpups gather, start hunting. How you approach matters. Sneaking up from behind gives a Backstab bonus of 1.5x to your catch rate, so crouch and come in from the rear instead of running straight at a group. If an Aniimo spots you and becomes alerted, your odds drop, so patience pays.

   Sleeping Aniimo are much easier to catch, which is why the wild Dreaple is a sure thing. Weakening a target and breaking its Break meter before you throw raises your odds too. Fighting far above your level helps less than you’d think: badly underleveled throws can drop to 0.4x, so keep your team around the region’s level.

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   Step 5: Capture multiple copies and inspect for rarity

   Catch several Nimbi, or repeat the 30-Emberpup loop for several Dreaple. After each capture, check its Potential in its details. Every Aniimo rolls an Innate Potential rating at capture: Common, Good, Elite or Perfect. That rating is what people usually mean by rarity, and it sets how high its stats can go. Keep anything Elite or better. Keep Sparkling copies too: they’re the shiny colour variant (about 1 in 20,000 for Dreaple), and some come with special Potential.

   Don’t release in bulk without looking. It’s easy to throw away your best copy by accident.

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   Step 6: Gather evolution materials

   While you level Nimbi, collect what Dreaple’s evolution needs: Night Stones, the Dark-type evolution material. Have 3 to be safe, since sources disagree on whether it takes 1 or 3. Look for them in the Black Truffle Shop, in chests and Alpha drops, and in your player level-up rewards. You don’t need to beat any boss for Dreaple. Defeating the Alpha Turbo is the condition for the other branch, Turbo. Check the evolution tab on Nimbi’s page to confirm exactly what your game shows.

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   Step 7: Level the base creature to evolution threshold

   Dreaple’s evolution needs Nimbi at level 21. Put your levels into the copy you plan to keep, ideally your best-Potential Nimbi. If you’ve already leveled a weaker copy, use inheritance to move its levels and training into the one you’re keeping. Open the Aniimo’s details, choose Inherit, and pick the source. It’s reported to cost 20,000 Credits per transfer and normally works within the same family.

   

   Level up through Elite Training, the fastest source of experience, which also hands out materials. Finish the core courses first, since they raise your level cap and give the most experience, then pick up the other Elite Training quests for extra resources.

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   Step 8: Confirm evolution branch requirements

   Before you evolve, make sure you’re on the Dreaple branch. Nimbi splits two ways: Dreaple (Dark) needs the night-to-day rest and the [Dreamsong] talent, and Turbo (Wind) needs a win against the Alpha Turbo. Check that you’re not using a Plateau Form Nimbi, which reportedly can only become Turbo. Then do the rest: put Nimbi in your active party, set the time to night with the Sun and Moon option, and rest through to morning. Learn the Pathfinder passive [Dreamsong] (Student II, bought with Report Cards) if you haven’t. When everything is met, Dreaple shows as an option in the evolution tab.

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   Step 9: Trigger evolution

   Aniimo don’t evolve on their own when they level up. Once Nimbi is level 21, has done the night rest and knows [Dreamsong], with Night Stones in your bag, open the Aniimo menu, select Nimbi and go to its evolution tab. Choose Dreaple and confirm. The game uses up the materials and Nimbi evolves, gaining new stats and a new skill set, and its element changes from Wind to Dark. Afterwards, check the details panel to see Dreaple’s base stats and skills.

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    Step 10: Upgrade your perfect specimen

    If you practised on a weaker copy, repeat the evolution, or the wild catch, with your best-Potential one. Once you have the Dreaple you’ll keep, start raising its stats. Capafruit raises an Aniimo’s Innate Potential, the base it rolled at capture. Capability Awakening with Star Dust (rare), Star Sand (epic) and Star Essence (legendary) raises its Acquired Potential on top of that. Each stat has a cap, and its crowned stats can go higher. This is a big investment, so only commit it to a Dreaple you plan to use long term.

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    Step 11: Equip held items and star-up

    Give Dreaple a carried item that suits its role. As a support that heals and boosts Dark damage, it wants items that strengthen its healing and survivability, rather than raw Attack. Carried items can be swapped at the Rune Exchange, which costs Primegy.

    

    Then work through Resonance Star-Up. Fill each stage’s star slots with Resonance Material, then spend Evolution Material (from Alphas) to move up to the next stage for bigger stat bonuses. These upgrades are permanent, so plan ahead.

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    Step 12: Assign skills and optimize loadout

    Dreaple’s kit is built around putting enemies to sleep. Its trait, Counting Sheep, makes its skills stack Drowsiness. At 3 stacks, the target falls into Nightmare: its Dark Resistance drops and it briefly can’t move or use skills until it takes damage. Hypnotic Cloud Shot is an area attack that adds Drowsiness to a group. Nimbi Attack calls in a Nimbi to hit and add a stack. Nightmare Devourer heals Dreaple and nearby allies, and heals more by eating Nightmare stacks. The ultimate, Dream Blast, adds 2 Drowsiness stacks and boosts your team’s Dark damage for 30 seconds.

    Run Hypnotic Cloud Shot and Nightmare Devourer for a support loop: put the group to sleep, then cash the stacks in for healing. Swap in Nimbi Attack against single targets.

Dreaple stats, skills and weaknesses

Dreaple is weak to Light and Wind and resists Earth. Its Attack and Magic Defense are its best stats, and its low Break means it isn’t the Aniimo to break enemy guard. Keep it behind a sturdier front line and let it control and heal. It flies, which helps it get around, and it’s 1 m tall, light enough to carry on any team.

Is Dreaple good? Yes. Players widely rank it among the stronger supports at launch, in the top two tiers of most support lists. Sleep control, team healing and a Dark damage boost in one kit make it a natural partner for Dark attackers, and Nightmare’s Dark Resistance cut helps any Dark damage on your team hit harder.

Builds and loadouts

Dreaple is a support first, so build around keeping enemies asleep and your team healthy. The general frameworks below still apply, tuned for Dreaple:

Support build (recommended): Prioritize Regen and Magic Defense so Dreaple survives and heals well. Run Hypnotic Cloud Shot and Nightmare Devourer, and pair it with Dark attackers that make the most of Dream Blast’s Dark damage boost and Nightmare’s lower Dark Resistance. Give it a carried item that improves healing or survivability.

DPS build: Dreaple’s 110 Attack is respectable, so a damage-leaning build can work in easy content. Prioritize Attack, run Hypnotic Cloud Shot and Nimbi Attack, and pair it with a healer, since you lose Nightmare Devourer’s healing.

Break build: not a good fit. Dreaple’s base Break is only 50. Leave breaking to a dedicated Break Aniimo and use Dreaple’s Nightmare control to give that partner free hits.

Sparkling and Prismana Dreaple

Sparkling Dreaple is Dreaple’s shiny colour variant. In the wild it’s about 1 in 20,000. The reliable way is to throw a Sparkling Cube at the sleeping Dreaple at the Nimbus Fields ruins, which guarantees a Sparkling with Perfect Potential. Sparkling Cubes cost 1,000 Sparkling Crystals at the Outpost vendor and Stamp Rush Shop, and also come from Elite Training and the Companion Handbook. No source yet confirms whether a Sparkling Nimbi stays Sparkling when it evolves, so if you want a guaranteed Sparkling Dreaple, use the Cube on the wild one.

Prismana Dreaple does not exist in the launch game. A Dreaple in Prismana form appeared in the July 2026 beta trailer, but it isn’t among the 25 Prismana forms in version 1.0, and Nimbus Fields’ Prismana is Turbo. Prismana forms come from Prismana Flow weather at a region’s Bloom, the Prismana Pact and Prismana Eggs, so if a Prismana Dreaple arrives in a later update, that’s where to look. We’ll add it here when it does.

Troubleshooting and common mistakes

• Releasing a Perfect-rarity creature by accident: Always check Potential before releasing. A Perfect Potential copy is the one you build. Don’t mass-release without looking.
• Evolving the wrong rarity: Don’t evolve a Common or Good Nimbi into the Dreaple you plan to keep. Its stats will fall behind. Catch a better Nimbi or farm the wild spawn, and move levels across with inheritance.
• Choosing the wrong evolution branch: Beating the Alpha Turbo sends Nimbi to Turbo. Plateau Form Nimbi reportedly only becomes Turbo. Check the evolution tab before you confirm. If you end up with Turbo, you’ll need another Nimbi for Dreaple.
• Running out of evolution materials: Get your Night Stones before Nimbi hits 21. Hold 3, since guides disagree on whether you need 1 or 3.
• Napping at the wrong time: The rest has to go from night into day. A daytime nap doesn’t count. Set the clock to night first.
• Forgetting [Dreamsong]: Level and rest alone won’t unlock Dreaple. Learn the talent too.
• Looking for Dreaple before unlocking it: The wild Dreaple won’t appear until you’ve done the Sleeping Flock event and caught 30 Emberpup-family Aniimo. Its Aniilog page shows “No info” until then.
• Breaking the Emberpup count: Catch the 30 back to back. At least one guide says catching other Aniimo in between resets the count.
• Waiting for a second alert: Only your first Dreaple spawn sends a notification. After later rounds of 30, go to the ruins and check.
• Wasting rare Aniipods on common creatures: Keep Aniipod Ultras and Sparkling Cubes for targets that matter, like the sleeping Dreaple. Basic Aniipods catch it anyway; only the Cube adds Sparkling.
• Neglecting the inheritance system: You can move levels and training between Aniimo, normally within the same family. Funnel progress into your final copy instead of spreading it out.
• Ignoring stat optimization: A Perfect Potential Dreaple pulls well ahead of an Elite one in endgame content, and the gap grows as you awaken and star-up. Sort out Potential first.
• Forgetting to check personality traits: Personality is rolled at capture and gives small passive bonuses. It isn’t critical, but a Psyche Fruit can change it if you want one that suits a support.

Advanced tips and time saves

Use weather manipulation to boost spawn rates: Dreaple doesn’t need weather, but the Aniimo around it do. Rain or thunder in Nimbus Fields brings out Rainstorm Nimbi, and a Fire Shard in a Bloom’s nurture offering pulls in Emberpups for the 30-catch unlock. Set these up at the start of a session and the grind goes much faster.

Hunt during optimal times: Do the Sleeping Flock event in daytime, since the flock naps then. For the evolution, you need a night that turns into day, so plan your rest around the clock. For the wild Dreaple itself, no time window is needed.

Combine stealth with break damage for capture: Approach from behind for the 1.5x Backstab bonus. If you get spotted, weaken the target and break its meter before you throw. For the sleeping Dreaple, none of this matters, because it’s a guaranteed catch.

Farm repeat Dreaple for better copies: Each new round of 30 Emberpup catches spawns another sleeping Dreaple. If your first one has weak Potential, keep looping. It’s a guaranteed catch every time, and the Emberpups you catch along the way are useful too.

Farm Alpha bosses for materials while leveling: Alphas drop evolution materials, Night Stones among them, plus the Evolution Material you’ll need for Resonance Star-Up. Fight them while leveling Nimbi and you’ll gather materials and experience together. Just don’t defeat the Alpha Turbo with your Nimbi expecting a Dreaple; that’s the Turbo route.

Plan your awakening investments: Before spending Star Dust and Star Sand, pick the stats Dreaple needs for its job. As a support, that’s Regen, Magic Defense and HP. Don’t spread awakening across all six stats.

Check for regional forms: Nimbi has regional forms (Basic, Cloudmist, Rainstorm and Plateau). Basic, Cloudmist and Rainstorm can become Dreaple; Plateau goes to Turbo. Dreaple itself has no regional or Prismana form at launch.

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Source and credit

This guide originally drew on the video walkthrough by Legacy Gaming, whose beginner’s guide covers Aniimo’s capture, Potential, inheritance and upgrade systems. Watch it on YouTube for the full visual run-through, and give the creator your view. The Dreaple location, spawn unlock, evolution conditions and kit were added and checked in October 2026 against version 1.0 game data and community testing.