The new Update 12.5 for Anime Vanguards introduced several strong units, but one character is already standing out as one of the craziest damage dealers in the game. Monarch Might Guy is absolutely insane, and after seeing his passives, damage scaling, and crit mechanics, it honestly feels like the developers went all out with this unit.
At first glance, you might think he is just another high-damage Naruto-themed character, but once you actually read his abilities and see how his mechanics work together, it becomes obvious why players are calling him one of the best units added in Update 12.5.
Here is a full breakdown of everything Monarch Might Guy can do, including his passives, upgrades, effects, and whether he is worth grinding for.
Anime Vanguards 0.1% Monarch Might Guy Guide
Might Guy is tied to the new Spring Event mode introduced in Update 12.5.
To unlock him, players need to survive until Wave 100 in the event mode. Once you reach Wave 100, there is a 20% chance for the Strong Shinobi reward to drop, which gives you Might Guy.
That means getting him is not guaranteed, and since Wave 100 already takes a lot of time and preparation, farming him can become pretty difficult for casual players.
Still, considering how powerful the unit is, the grind honestly feels worth it.
First Impressions and Base Stats
Right away, Might Guy looks incredible visually. His model is based on his final gate transformation from Naruto, and his animations clearly reference his battle against Madara during the Shinobi War arc.
Even at placement level, his damage is already absurd.
Without Monarch, he deals around 6K to 7K damage on placement. Once Monarch is applied, that damage immediately jumps massively, reaching over 30K damage on placement with extremely fast attack speed.
What makes this even crazier is that his SPA stays very low throughout most of his upgrades. He attacks incredibly fast while still dealing huge crit damage.
The only real weakness early on is his small AoE circle, but this improves significantly once upgraded.
Might Guy’s Attacks and Visual Effects
The developers clearly put a lot of effort into his animations.
At lower levels, his attacks recreate the white air pressure punches from the Naruto fight against Madara. Fans of the anime will instantly recognize the references.
Once upgraded further, he unlocks stronger abilities like:
- Declaration of Strength
- Eight Gate Rush
- Night Lad
Night Lad is especially impressive because it summons the massive dragon-shaped attack effect inspired by his final battle scene.
At max upgrade, his attack pattern becomes much larger and more aggressive, turning into cone-shaped AoE attacks with massive visual effects all over the battlefield.
The animations honestly look so flashy that many players are already turning effects off during runs because there is simply too much happening on screen.
Might Guy’s Memoria Passives
One of the biggest reasons this unit feels overpowered is because his Memoria effects are ridiculously strong.
Servants of Hard Work
This passive increases damage whenever the unit loses buffs, stacking up to 40%.
That is already an enormous damage increase by itself, especially since it works consistently during combat.
Burning Youth
This passive is exclusive to Might Guy.
Whenever he applies Burn to enemies, he cleanses all status debuffs from himself. Since he constantly applies Burn on attacks, this basically gives him near-constant self-cleansing during fights.
That makes him extremely reliable in difficult content where debuffs normally ruin strong units.
Teacher of Taijutsu
This is probably one of the most unique passives added in the game.
When Might Guy is sold, the next unit placed gains a 20% damage boost for 30 seconds.
This opens up interesting strategies for speedruns, burst setups, or boss-focused teams where players rotate strong carries for temporary buffs.
His Main Passive Is Completely Broken
Now comes the reason everyone is losing their minds over this unit.
Might Guy’s main passive revolves around critical hits and scaling damage buffs.
Power of Youth
When placed through Ninjutsu, he gains 100% crit rate for 30 seconds.
After triggering this effect five times, the crit chance becomes permanent.
Yes, permanent 100% crit rate.
Once this activates, every single attack becomes a guaranteed crit.
That alone would already make him top tier, but the passive keeps going.
Crits Ignore Shields and Damage Reduction
Whenever his attacks crit:
- Damage reduction gets bypassed
- Shields are ignored completely
- Follow-up crits deal 50% extra damage
This means enemies cannot properly tank his damage using defensive mechanics. Shield-heavy enemies basically become useless against him because he attacks straight through them.
Once the permanent crit rate activates, he constantly ignores shields while dealing boosted crit damage every attack.
That is why his DPS becomes absolutely ridiculous at max level.
Eighth Gate Passive
Another insane mechanic comes from his Eighth Gate passive.
On placement, he immediately gains a 100% damage buff. Every attack slightly reduces this buff, but even after multiple attacks, he still keeps most of the bonus damage active.
At the same time, reducing the buff causes Burn damage to spread to enemies in range.
So even while his placement buff slowly decreases, he continues adding more burn pressure onto enemies.
The balancing here is honestly pretty smart because he starts fights insanely strong but still maintains excellent sustained damage later.
Max Level Damage and DPS
Once fully upgraded, Monarch Might Guy becomes terrifying.
At max level, he reaches:
- Nearly 100K EDPS
- Around 400K total DPS
- Extremely fast SPA
- Large AoE cone attacks
- Permanent crit setups
- Burn damage
- Shield bypass
- Damage reduction ignore
And the craziest part is that his attack speed barely slows down even after maxing him.
With support units like Erza or other buffers increasing range and stats further, he becomes even stronger.
At this point, many players already believe he might actually outperform Shinobi God Madara in certain situations.