Fish an Anime RNG Fishing Rods Tier List: Best Rods to Buy Next

Quick answer

Buy the highest-tier rod your Rebirth count has unlocked that you can afford without draining the Cash your next Rebirth needs: Steel, Iron, and Ice before your first Rebirth; Amethyst, Gold, Ruby, then Astral through the mid-game; the Void Rod at Rebirth 75 as a sensible stopping point; and Forgotten Rod or Rod of Heaven's as the endgame targets.

• The ranking prioritizes Luck first — it decides whether you can reel in Mythic, Cosmic, and Secret characters. Total Strength comes second as the weight cap that gates high-rarity units, and Speed third, cutting the clicks each catch takes.
• Rebirth count and Cash decide which rods you can buy — they don't change where a rod sits in this performance order.
• Event Luck boosts from Hell's Gate, Party, and Sakura Season temporarily raise rod Luck, so fish with your best rod while an event is active.

Fish an Anime RNG fishing rods tier list

The stats and tiers below reflect base performance in normal, non-event catches on the September 2026 12-rod roster. Rod of Hell and Complexing Rod have no stated Rebirth gate in the table — check their live shop cards.

Comparison

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Two version checks before you plan around this table:

• Roster size: Game versions from late August 2026 stocked only nine rods — Forgotten Rod, Rod of Hell, and Complexing Rod weren't among them. Confirm the live shop roster before committing to the three newest entries.
• Void Rod Luck: This table lists 4,700x; some creator videos report 14,700x for the same rod (with matching Speed and Strength figures). The values are currently inconsistent, so check the shop card in game.

Best early-game rods: Steel, Iron, and Ice before your first Rebirth

You receive the Steel Rod (8x Luck, 1.25x Speed, 15 Total Strength) during the tutorial and can afford the Iron Rod (30x Luck, 2.5x Speed, 75 Total Strength) shortly after. The Ice Rod (80x Luck, 3.75x Speed, 180 Total Strength) is the strongest option before your first Rebirth — it beats both starter-phase rods across the displayed stats — but its value drops once the Amethyst Rod unlocks at Rebirth 1, so don't overspend on it when that gate is near. Treat all three as beginner-phase tools: they exist to earn the Cash for your first real upgrades, and each should be replaced as soon as you can afford the next step rather than built around.

Best mid-game rods: Amethyst, Gold, Ruby, and Astral

From your first Rebirth, the mid-game path runs Amethyst Rod (210x Luck, Rebirth 1) → Gold Rod (410x Luck, Rebirth 5) → Ruby Rod (720x Luck, Rebirth 20) → Astral Rod (1,150x Luck, Rebirth 30). Gold is the first rod at the displayed top Speed breakpoint of 7.5x, so every upgrade after it pays in Luck and Strength rather than faster casting. Ruby and Astral are strong for farming characters and pushing Rebirths, but a large gap remains between them and the top rods.

Keep buying the mid-tier rods as their gates open — their stat jumps often cost less per Luck point than grinding raw shop upgrades alone. Buy whichever tier your current Rebirth rank has unlocked, and alternate Cash between rod upgrades and permanent Luck nodes.

Best late-game rods: Forgotten Rod, Rod of Heaven's, and the Void Rod stopping point

The SSS tier holds the two endgame targets: Forgotten Rod (25,000x Luck, 7.5x Speed, 32,500 Total Strength, unlocked at 225 Rebirths) and Rod of Heaven's (22,500x Luck, 27,500 Total Strength, unlocked at 150 Rebirths), listed at 25 Quadrillion Cash. Which one is "the best rod" currently depends on your game version: with the full 12-rod roster, Forgotten Rod's stats put it on top, while earlier nine-rod versions named Rod of Heaven's the strongest, with the Void Rod second. Both SSS rods are the destination either way — check which rods your live shop actually stocks before parking all your Cash.

The Void Rod (4,700x Luck, Rebirth 75, reported at around 7.5 quadrillion Cash) is a sensible stopping point: it already sits at the upper Speed breakpoint, so the next jump mainly buys rarity access and heavier catches while you keep rebirthing. Expect a long save — one player who reached Rebirth 150 still needed roughly two more days of saving and AFK farming to afford the top rod. Everything below the top two works mainly as a stepping stone toward them.

Only the top-end prices are on record — Rod of Heaven's at 25 Quadrillion Cash and the Void Rod's roughly 7.5 quadrillion — so check each shop card in game before budgeting.

When to buy: matching rod purchases to your Rebirth loop

Rods are bought at the Fishing Rods station in the plaza; most rods stay locked until you've completed a set number of Rebirths, so access — not preference — decides what you can buy next. Apply these rules in order:

Tips

Buy the highest rod you've unlocked

Buy the highest rod whose Rebirth gate you've reached and whose shop price fits your Cash, keeping enough back for base upgrades, potions, and the next Rebirth.

Time big purchases by Rebirth cost

When your Rebirth price reaches roughly the same magnitude as the rod's price, the Rebirth cash multipliers rebuild your balance fast enough to fund the rod within a couple of hours of play.

Never drain your Rebirth Cash

Don't let a rod purchase drain the Cash a pending Rebirth needs — rod upgrades compound, because better pulls become better pedestal earners that fund the rod after them.

Rod first when the gate is one Rebirth away

If the next rod is one Rebirth away, buy the rod first — gates are hard stops — and use Research spending for the gaps between gates.

Beginners: follow your Rebirth rank

Buy whichever rod tier the current Rebirth rank unlocks, then alternate Cash between rod upgrades and permanent Luck nodes.

When a lower-tier rod is still the right purchase

Staying on your current rod is the right call whenever buying would break the loop: if a Rebirth would leave you unable to fund basic upgrades, keep the current rod until your Cash recovers.

This ranking reflects base stats from the August–September 2026 game versions. An update dated 30 August 2026 previewed a new fishing rod and a game recalibration, and more rods are planned — recheck the live shop card and rebuild your purchase plan after any stat, price, gate, or roster change.