The animation will play wherever the sprite is located as long as the position isn't set to 'Screen'. You can offset the sprite with the Sprite Offset X/Y parameters. If you suspect it's being caused by a plugin incompatibility, then you can try turning off the other plugins to find the erring plugin.
Also, the latest version is v.1.2.
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I redownloaded it to make sure I have the latest version and altered some parameters and its working fine. For some reason this plugin is conflicting and overriding the BattleStatusWindow Plugin. I set the name font in Visuals to 1 to get rid of Player names but its still showing it. It also overrides the InBattleStatus, BuffStatesCore, and StateCategories. The changes I make in that plugin actually stick though.
Just to set things straight, saying it overrides the InBattleStatus, BuffStatesCore and StateCategories is misleading. The only thing the plugin overrides is whatever is drawn on the Window_BattleStatus, so if you have plugins that modify the status window in any way then you can expect a conflict. I see it conflicting with your YEP_BattleStatusWindow, but my plugin doesn't override the functionality of those three other plugins you've mentioned.