Leveling in LumenTale: Memories of Trey is unusual: the fastest EXP source in the game isn’t battling — it’s throwing away your trash. This guide covers every EXP method, how stat growth actually works (it’s manual!), and every way to permanently boost your Animon’s stats.
⚡ Every Way to Earn EXP
1. Trash Can Recycling — the Fastest EXP in the Game
City trash cans award EXP to your entire team when you discard items into them, and sorting correctly is the whole trick: putting a material in the matching bin awards significantly more EXP, while a misplaced item gives a mere 10 EXP.
| Bin Color | Accepts |
|---|---|
| 🟢 Green | Glass |
| 🔵 Blue | Plastic |
| 🔴 Red | Organic |
| 🟡 Yellow | Metals |
Two caveats: trash cans have a region-based EXP cap (so you can’t get overpowered in the starting zone), and you should keep crafting and move-enhancement materials — don’t recycle the Quartz and Anivite EX you’ll need for items like Prismatype. Dump the junk, keep the mats.
2. Cooking: Riso del Bosco (1,000 EXP per Plate)
The recipe Riso del Bosco grants 1,000 EXP per use when fed to an Animon. Buy the recipe at city restaurants, stock ingredients, and you have a repeatable EXP source that works anywhere you can cook.
3. Battling in High-Level Zones
Fighting above your weight yields huge EXP. Save first, then soften wild enemies before combat even starts by aiming preemptive hits in Animon Mode. Bonus: your whole squad benefits — all six team members earn EXP from battles even though only four fight at a time, so nobody rots on the bench.
4. Experience Bilia
Catch with an Experience Bilia and the Animon you catch receives a one-time EXP boost — a nice head start for new recruits that joins them straight to your level range. (More catching tech in How to Catch Animon.)
📈 How Stat Growth Actually Works (It’s Manual)
This trips up almost every new player: stats do not increase automatically when you level up. Instead:
- Each level-up awards 3 Stat Points.
- You assign them yourself among the six main stats: HP, Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, and Agility. Every 3 points invested raises the stat by 1 (occasionally 2).
- An Animon whose points were never allocated will feel weak even at a high level — if your team suddenly feels underpowered, check the Squad menu first.
- Respec is free and unlimited — reassign points anytime from the Squad menu or in Anispace, so experiment without fear.
Note that Luck sits outside the Stat Point system — see below. For what each of the 7 stats does, see the Beginner’s Guide.
💎 IVs: The Hidden Growth Values
Each Animon also has innate values (IVs) shown as Roman numerals from N (none) to X (10) on the stat screen. Higher IVs mean better returns in that stat. IVs can be raised after catching via:
- Mystical Relic inheritance — the rebirth mechanic (below)
- Food — cooked meals and restaurant dishes
- Anispace training equipment — sport furniture (dumbbells, weights, boxing dummy) your Animon interact with at your base
🍝 Stat-Boosting Food
- Cooking at rest spots (the fountains in each area) with the right recipes permanently raises an Animon’s innate stats. Trey is the best cook of the three characters — cook with him for the best success rate.
- Restaurant meals raise the associated stat (or Luck) by roughly 1–2 per meal. Example: Salame Imperiale costs 1,000 and raises Luck by 2.
🍀 Luck: The Odd Stat Out
Luck (1–10) affects critical hits and lucky events, and it doesn’t take Stat Points. It can be raised, though — Luck-boosting restaurant meals like Salame Imperiale do it directly. One important wrinkle for min-maxers: Luck is not inherited through Mystical Relic rebirth, so fix Luck last, after your stat work is done.
🔮 Mystical Relic: Endgame Stat Fusion
The Mystical Relic rebirth lets you sacrifice up to 3 Animon into one. The reborn Animon:
- Resets to its base evolution at level 1
- Keeps the highest value of each base stat among itself and all sacrifices
- Preserves its Hidden Type, affection, and learned moves (ability is rerolled; Luck is not carried)
- Has a 1/100 chance of emerging as a Lost variant if the sacrifices are the same species
⚠️ The game autosaves during this — sacrifices are permanent and irreversible. Combined with the trash-can and Riso del Bosco methods above, re-leveling a reborn Animon is fast.
🛠️ Related Crafted Items
| Item | Effect | Recipe | Best Crafter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prismatype | Activates an Animon’s Hidden Type | 2× Anivite EX, 10× Plastic, 30× Quartz | Nada |
| Appendix Q | Rerolls an Animon’s Quirk (ability) | 2× Anivite EX, 10× Glass, 1× Diamond | Ales |
Pushing craft success over 100% can trigger a “Great Success” and a free duplicate. Full Hidden Type details in our Hidden Types guide.
✅ Quick Leveling Routine
- Explore and hoover up every barrel, box, and pickup in a zone.
- Battle high-level wilds on the way (whole team gets EXP).
- Back in town: sort your junk into the correct trash bins for big team-wide EXP.
- Feed Riso del Bosco to whoever’s lagging.
- Spend the Stat Points immediately — unspent points are wasted power.
Community sources haven’t yet confirmed a hard level cap or exact EXP formulas — we’ll update this guide as the numbers get datamined. Browse the Animon Dex for per-species stats and evolution levels.
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