The Thanksgiving update in Anime Last Stand centers on a single arena: Stuffing Showdown. Two massive turkey bosses soak up your damage for five minutes while you race a scoreboard, grind out event currency, and unlock limited rewards and units.
How Stuffing Showdown works
Stuffing Showdown is a timed, infinite-style mode. You queue into it from the Thanksgiving Event button on the left side of the main menu, then pick the event gamemode to enter.
Each run plays out the same way:
- Two large turkey bosses spawn and continuously take damage from your units.
- You have a fixed five-minute timer to deal as much damage as possible.
- Your total damage determines how many Turkey Trophies and ingredient drops you walk away with.
There are no story objectives or base health to protect here. The only goal is damage output. Strong single-target and sustained DPS units shine, while economy support ensures you reach high upgrade tiers quickly enough to matter within the short time limit.
Currency, ingredients, and why damage matters
Stuffing Showdown feeds two separate reward tracks:
- Turkey Trophies – the event currency used in the Turkey Shop.
- Ingredients – items like Mashed Potatoes, Pumpkin Pie Slice, and other Thanksgiving foods used in the Turkey Crafting Shop.
Both payouts scale with your final damage. Higher tiers on the damage meter unlock rarer ingredients and more Turkey Trophies per clear. The exact banding is handled by an in-game damage meter shown under the gamemode option, but the pattern is simple: push your damage high enough, and you consistently reach the rarest ingredient brackets.
That’s why most strategies for the event revolve around hitting specific damage milestones—commonly around 10 quadrillion (10 QD) and above—where the best ingredient bundles and trophy counts kick in.
Turkey Shop items and what’s worth buying
The Turkey Shop is accessible from the same Thanksgiving Event section and only accepts Turkey Trophies. Its inventory is small but focused on long-term account power.
| Item | Cost (Turkey Trophies) | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Gobble til You Wobble (Title) | 1,000 | Limited cosmetic title from the event. |
| x25 Technique Shard | 10 | Rolls and rerolls techniques for units. |
| Glitched Pity Potion | 50 | Boosts pity toward glitched rarity on summons. |
| Limit Breaker | 25 | Used for limit breaking units. |
| x5 Mythic Spirit Shard | 10 | High-tier spirit shards for awakening and upgrades. |
| x15 Essence Selector | 5 | Lets you choose specific essences for enchanting. |
| x45 Skin Ticket | 5 | Tickets for the skin banner. |
For raw value, Technique Shards, Limit Breakers, and Mythic Spirit Shards turn Turkey Trophies into long-term account power. The event title and Skin Tickets are more about cosmetics, while the Glitched Pity Potion targets players still chasing top-end rarities.
Turkey Crafting Shop and ingredient use
The Turkey Crafting Shop takes the food items dropped by the turkeys and converts them into event crates and other rewards. It behaves like the standard crafting interface in ALS: pick an item from the list, and if you hold the required ingredients, you can craft it instantly.
Key points:
- Ingredients such as Mashed Potatoes and Pumpkin Pie Slice are tied to higher damage thresholds.
- Craftable outcomes include different grades of Feast Crates (Silver, Diamond, Gold) and similar event items.
- The rarer the crate, the more demanding the recipe is on ingredients.
Because ingredient rarity is damage-gated, the loop is straightforward: increase your one-run damage, unlock higher ingredient brackets, then funnel those into the most expensive crate recipes for a burst of rerolls, pearls, and other progression items.
Daily login, playtime rewards, and Coat Giver
Thanksgiving doesn’t only live in the shop screens. A parallel reward track unlocks simply for logging in and playing Stuffing Showdown consistently during the event’s 29-day window.
- Coat Giver (Ultimate) – drops directly from the Thanksgiving event as a unit reward.
- Daily rewards – log in and play Stuffing Showdown for 10 minutes per day to collect bonuses over 29 days.
Daily rewards skew toward:
- Different types of Feast Crates
- Dusk Pearl
- Reroll crates
- Additional limited Titles
The timing matters: the Thanksgiving event remains live for 29 days, then hands off to the Christmas update. Missing days means leaving some of that guaranteed value on the table, regardless of how much damage you deal in any single run.
New units in the Thanksgiving update
Thanksgiving also arrives with a small roster of new characters that fold into the broader ALS meta.
| Unit | Rarity | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Coat Giver | Ultimate | Drops from the Thanksgiving Event. |
| Strongest Alien | Ultimate | New high-rarity unit for damage builds. |
| Jenos | Celestial | Part of the extreme boost group in this timeframe. |
| Knight King | Ultimate | New frontline/utility Ultimate. |
| Unahono | Ultimate | Also targeted for extreme boosts. |
| Diabolo | Celestial | High-end unit with upcoming extreme boosts. |
| Doggo | Exotic | New exotic-tier character. |
Alongside these, several older units such as Genos, Arthur, Unohana, Diavolo, and Boros are slotted for extreme boosts around the same update window, pushing them back into relevance if you invest the right techniques and passives.
Best manual team for hitting max reward thresholds
For players willing to play manually, there is a clear pattern in successful runs: stack one or two hyper-scaling DPS units, support them with buffs, and amp your economy as fast as possible.
A proven manual lineup focuses on a core like:
- Karuto (Will of Fire) – primary DPS; Soul: Jackpot (optional, but helpful).
- Shimon (Supreme Commander) – main infinite DPS scaler; Soul: Super Strength.
- Idol (Pop-Star) – team-wide buff; Soul: Prosperity.
- Bulma – core economy unit; Soul: Riches.
- Ladies Man – strong support damage; Souls like Destruction are preferred but not mandatory.
- Rim & Rom – high-end DPS pair; Soul of Strength or similar damage souls work well, but are not strictly required.
Damage tier 5 is expected for this setup to reach the highest tiers consistently.
Step 1: Enter Stuffing Showdown and immediately set the game speed to 1x. Slowing down the early phase makes unit placement and upgrades more reliable.
Step 2: Place both Bulma and Idol as your first units, close to the spawn, so they can start generating economy and buffs right away.
Step 3: Drop Ladies Man and then Shimon, prioritizing positions where they can continuously hit the turkey bosses. Upgrade them slightly so they clear early waves comfortably.
Step 4: Place Rim & Rom in their designated lane and start upgrading them. Activate Idol’s Concert buff once it’s available to multiply the squad’s damage output.
Step 5: Focus on pushing Bulma to her seven Dragon Balls as fast as possible. When the Wish Dragon is ready, summon it and choose the wealth wish to flood your economy with cash.
Step 6: With the cash spike from Wish for wealth, rapidly max out all your placed units. Prioritize Shimon and your heaviest hitters first, then bring Rim & Rom, Karuto, and Ladies Man to max.
Step 7: Turn all abilities to auto so key actives fire off cooldown. Once everything is upgraded, you can safely switch the game to 3x speed and let the final minutes tick down.
This rotation regularly pushes total damage into the 10 quadrillion range and beyond, which in turn yields the highest ingredient tier and strong Turkey Trophy payouts. The strategy also works without owning the Thanksgiving “turkey” passive units, though those bonuses only make things easier.
AFK macro strategy for consistent 15–16 QD clears
For players who would rather farm passively, Stuffing Showdown also supports AFK grinding using a macro approach. The idea is to record or use a pre-made macro that performs the same placements and upgrades every run, then loops indefinitely.
A widely used AFK team revolves around:
- Shimon with Soul of Super Strength
- Jotro with Soul of Strife
- Rim & Rom with Soul of Conquest
- Ladies Man with Soul of Intimidation
- Bulma with Soul of Riches
- Idol with Soul of Prosperity
Most of these units benefit from critical chance stats and high rarities (Glitched and Mystical, where possible), but the macro still works with lower ceilings; damage numbers simply scale down.
Step 1: Configure your control scheme with camera sensitivity at 0.1 and click-to-move enabled. This stabilizes cursor behavior so the macro can click the same spots every time.
Step 2: Disable auto-start for waves so the macro controls when the run begins. Load the event, select the Custom macro profile labeled for the Thanksgiving event, but do not start it yet.
Step 3: Queue into Stuffing Showdown manually. Once your character has fully loaded into the map, trigger the macro hotkey (commonly bound to F1). The script will handle placement, upgrades, and ability usage.
Step 4: Let the macro place Bulma, Idol, Shimon, Jotro, Rim & Rom, and Ladies Man in sequence, then upgrade them automatically. It also activates critical abilities like Tenintopa and your buffs on cooldown.
Properly configured, this AFK setup averages around 15–16 QD damage per run on an endgame account. Even with slightly weaker gear or rarities, the structure generally clears 10 QD consistently, which is enough to live in the top reward bands for ingredients and trophies.
Time window and difficulty expectations
The Thanksgiving event lives in ALS for 29 days, ending when the Christmas update lands. That window defines how long Turkey Trophies, Turkey Shop purchases, and daily Stuffing Showdown rewards remain available.
Stuffing Showdown itself is not mechanically difficult. Enemies don’t overwhelm a base in the traditional sense; instead, survivability and wave progression are tied to how quickly your units take chunks off the turkey bosses. The main gate is roster strength: weaker accounts will still finish runs, but their total damage will sit in lower brackets, producing fewer trophies and less rare ingredients.
Newer players should still engage daily for the guaranteed login and 10-minute rewards and can dedicate Turkey Trophies to broad account upgrades like Technique Shards and Limit Breakers. Veteran players can focus on squeezing high-QD runs through manual or macro play to maximize crate crafting and event-limited cosmetics before the mode rotates out.
