Bring your friends
ANKOU plays better with others, and the game rewards it: your recruits earn you Ferryman of Souls rewards, playing with your friends gives a squad bonus, and you can send them gifts. Friends are managed in the Friends panel (Friends and invites).
Sharing ANKOU
- Your recruiting link: Friends panel, Recruit tab, “Share my link” button (or “Copy my link”). Send it to a channel or a friend: it launches ANKOU right inside Discord. A discreet line in the main menu (“Recruit your friends”) also opens this tab. The tab and this line appear at level 11 (see Levels, ranks and prestige).
- The end-of-match card: on the end screen, “Share” builds a picture of your match (round reached, best player, Easter egg completed…) and posts it in Discord with a “Play” button: your friends launch ANKOU in one click. Outside Discord, “Save image” downloads it. A new player who arrives through that message also counts as your recruit.
You need a Discord account to recruit: guests can’t.
The “Ferryman of Souls” referral
Who can be recruited
A recruit is a new player who launches ANKOU for the first time from your link. Their Discord account must be more than 30 days old and must never have played ANKOU (even an account deleted since can’t be referred a second time).
The welcome pack
As soon as they arrive, the recruit sees who brought them, can add you as a friend in one click, and gets a welcome pack: 3 Megas (of Mega rarity, all different) and 10 vials of Moon Nectar.
Confirming a recruit
The recruit is “pending” at first (“Must finish a real match”). They’re confirmed once they finish a real match: started at round 1 (on Easy, Normal or Realistic, not the guided match), at least 8 minutes of play, and round 10 reached or a quest step completed (restoring the Power doesn’t count). The Recruit tab lists your recruits, pending or confirmed.
Ferryman rewards
| Confirmed recruits | Reward |
|---|---|
| 1 | “Ferryman’s Lantern” emblem |
| 3 | Soul Lace camo |
| 5 | “Herald of the Ankou” title |
| 10 | Anaon Knotwork animated camo |
Rewards unlock on their own as soon as the counter reaches the tier; you then pick the emblem and the title in the Barracks.
The squad bonus
Playing with people from your ANKOU friends list pays more: +5% per friend in the match, up to +15% (three friends: a full squad of four).
- The bonus applies to match XP and to the Moon Nectar you earn. On Nectar, the fraction becomes one extra vial with the matching probability.
- It shows up on its own line in the end-of-match summary.
- Some Battle Pass challenges count matches played with at least one friend (Challenges).
Gifts between friends
In the Friends panel, “Send a gift” to a friend:
- Mega gumball: one Mega from your stock; your friend gets it right away.
- Premium pass for the current season: you pay its price in Ankou Coins, your friend unlocks the Premium track with the rewards of the tiers they’ve already reached. Not possible if they already own it.
Rules: 5 gifts per day at most, after 5 matches played, and not while you’re in a match. Your friend sees “Gift received!” and who sent it.
Tips
- Share the end-of-match card after a great round or an Easter egg: it’s your best invitation, and it counts for referrals.
- Help your recruit get past round 10 in their first real match: play with them, that’s what confirms them.
- Add your regular teammates as friends: the squad bonus only counts friends on your list.
- A friend just discovering Megas? An Ultra-Rare gifted from your stock beats any explanation.
Checked against the game on November 6, 2026