How To Use Melia in Xenoblade: Definitive Edition
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Melia is one of the weaker characters in the game unless you're smart and make her one of the stronger characters instead.
Character guide made by Nyarlathotep/community: docs.google.com/document/d/17...
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Wait, people are NOT subscribed to Enel, the best content creator for everything Xenoblade related? The current world record holder for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 speedrun with DLC, the man with more knowledge about the game than actual guides, the man who is cultured and KNOWS that Mythra is better than Pyra. It shocks me that these people are not subscribing to him.
He did say that xeno 2 was better than 1, so i'm reticent
Don't fear I have subbed. I was late on the dunban guide because I went to bed early...😐🤣
You almost sold me till you said he thinks mythra is better. 🤨
It's weird, I can swear I subbed like three times now but yet he doesn't show up on my feed aside from recommended vids. I wonder if that's the problem?
Morag best woman.
Can't believe you pulled the "one of the weaker characters" joke on us
Discharging Summon Ice in a crowded room is absolutely hilarious. The game lags so much that even QTE for the chain attack slows down
Literally the only time the game has lagged for me is when Melia uses summon ice. Actually hilarious.
Next level strat
What if you were to use Summon Ice in the area in Satorl Marsh where Reckless Godwin is alongside all those other Ignas... just imagine how laggy that would be o_o
@@xenosonic9x414 Oddly enough, it basically only lags noticeably when summon ice is done in a chain attack, otherwise it's a minor dip into the 21-25FPS zone for a tiny bit. But in the chain attack, that's a different story LOL. On the bright side, it's a free chain link since you basically get a frame perfect button prompt xD
The game freezes, why are you surprised?
Superbosses: exist
Summon earth: i'm about to end this man's whole career
melia is actually hilarious
i was using her and was focusing super hard on trying not to die and then i looked up and realized that half of daedalas health bar was just gone and i was like “oh yeah this character is broken”
Some other things to note about Melia:
-The chance of her exiting Elemental Burst state is actually tied to her tension, meaning higher tension benefits Melia especially, explosion of energy is an amazing skill for her for that reason
-Her Elemental Burst state is actually considered an "aura" so she can benefit from Aura Heal even without Power Effect. Could combo that with Summon Aqua and Healing Gift for a regen heavy Melia but that's more just gimmicky than anything else.
-The stat bonuses from the same summoned elementals DO stack. Having 3 of Summon Wind for example would be a 30% agility buff so long as you're close to your allies, they have to be somewhat near Melia for the stat bonuses to count.
-Most Ether attacks that don't have damage over time are actually considered "electric", such as Mind Blast, so electric plus gems benefit more than just summon bolt.
But I don't WANT my frontloaded damage to be bigger to generate aggro!
Ah, yes, I make her wear glasses for the ether up. N-nothing else!
Summon earth: enemy becomes that one family guy episode where Peter Chris Brian and Stewie are all constantly throwing up.
Summon aqua. That one episode where time is reversed and the vomit goes back into their mouths.
Final fantasy 13 fan? Yoo
I'd like to point out something you didn't mention in the guide. Once Melia enters Elemental Burst mode, each time she discharges an elemental there is a chance of depleting the talent gauge, thus ending burst mode. This chance is highly dependent on Melia's tension, up to only a 10% of losing burst mode while at max tension.
In the end what this implies is that tension is even more crutial for Melia than for most of the other party members, and so having skills that allow her to easily get and maintain max tension should be a top priority. Explosion of Energy is arguably her best skill link because of this and it should be used at any time. It's simply ridiculous and it completely breaks Melia just by itself.
Funnily enough I didn't actually know the specifics for this myself but yeah explosion of energy is always going to be super amazing for her as is glorious future.
Ah HA! I knew burst mode ends due to discharging elements, not ACTUALLY tied to a time limit.
Enel becoming a true youtuber now
Enel few months later:
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How to defeat any superboss while laughing:
1.- Use Summon Bolt and Summon Copy
2.- Use Summon Earth and start the chain attack
3.- Use Spear break
4.- Do Red Arts on the other characters
5.- Detonate Earth
6.- Start eating popcorn and wait
I found a 16 spells combo :
You must be 1 hit from the buffed spell mode
1 - bolt
2 - copy
3 - water
4 - attack (now all of your attacks are boosted)
5 - spell that reduces defense
6 - fire, attack
7 - earth, attack
8 - ice, attack
9 - the move that's only useable when in buffed spells mode
10 - electric, and attack 3 times
Congrats you dealt a shit ton of damages
I've waited for this
Melia best girl
I like Poppi but would go Melia over Pneuma any day imo...
Melia best girl? You can't argue with that... at all. It's like... an universal truth
@@Ultimabuster92 Good job they're in separate universes then huh, now Pnemua and Melia can both be best girl.
(And Zeke doesn't have to contend with Alvis)
Riki best girl
Yes
The absolute insanity of combining Melia and Riki's debuffs in a chain attack is just game breaking.
Do their debuffs stack or override each other?
@@xdrkcldx stack
and then using rikis say sorry art
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques sadly it removes all enemy's debuffs but great for a final blow.
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques x5 say sorry on a chain, with this monstrosity of debuffs
Oh gods
and then Melia used Summon Enel and roasted the whole IGN. Afterwards, she walked towards a better future, without incompetent reviewers.
Best girl? Nah, she’s best Bird Lady
Best girl is Heropon Riki
Adam Encinas Heropon Riki tough guy!
CheeseTastesVeryBad Ikr HEROPON RIKI *BESTEST!*
@@tepigninja7198 I think you know how I read BESTEST
Thank you, at long last someone with a true grasp of Melia's strengths and best setups! I get annoyed when people just spam Summon Bolt and proceed to ignore Summon Earth/Ice which are her strongest damage dealing discharges. I love Chuggaaconroy's legendary Xenoblade LP but not even he covered Melia's bonkers DOT damage potential that well.
A note about Healing Gift and Power Effect.
The two arts by themselves are pretty terrible, but both of them combined with aura heal gems allow her to eventually keep up with sharla in terms of HP healing while still having significantly higher damage. Not a build everyone likes to run, but it's a very viable way to build melia once you start getting higher-end gems. HP up gems can boost her Healing Gift healing if you can spare the gem slots for it, but it's not necessary. (Protip, you can get aura heal V crystals from Trava Kromars on Kromar Coast in Eryth Sea, directly south of Soltnar Seal Island)
I actually have that build in the written guide, under Melia’s section.
EspeonScottie I dig your builds a lot.
@@espeonscottie What written guide is this, if you don't mind?
Edit: Nevermind, once I finished watching the video, "text link in the description..." sigh.
Me: puts a bunch of ether up and electric plus and spams bolt.
Enel: Sets things up so he can literally just hit it a couple of times and walk away
Both work
Melia, the only character that can disengage and walk away from an enemy after a single chain attack.
"Can't have a rainbow without reyn, baby"
wait, couldn't Riki do that as well?
@@ryful_z3 why not both?
FINALLY MELIA GUIDE LETS GOOOOO
What i learned from this guide.
I learned, that i did NOT use Melia properly. She was in my party the whole time, and i was controlling her all the time, she was my most powerful character all the time and i STILL didn't use her right.
From THAT i learned, that she is op af
And from THAT i learned that i now love her even more than i already did.
She is just amazing!
Lmao
Wait...your name sounds familiar...
So I just quickly came here to tell:
I haven't watched your other guide videos, but I saved every single one of them for "watch later" playlist, when I buy the game I will definitely watch every video and give a thumbs up and all.
currently I'm busy, which is why I didn't buy the game yet. Even tho I haven't watched them, I definitely know they will help me a lot. thank you for making guides!
Hope you can get some time for the game soon, friend. It’s been a blast.
Hope you got time to play, it's easily in my best 3 JRPGs of all time for me! Chrono Trigger, Tales of Symphonia and Xenoblade (no particular order).
@@TwilightWolf032 good news! at this point in time, I got the Definitve Edition finished! And this guide did help me building melia ^^
plus his other videos about this game in general. I'm very happy I bought XCDE to be honest
@@Asakedia And I'm glad you have enjoyed it! I have got and cleared Xenoblade on the Wii since it launched multiple times (lowkey 20 times since then), and now I'm going through the DE for the first time.
The DE fixed the only one big issue I have with this game (Aside From Sharla being mostly useless, I still don't understand why they don't let us use her Talent Art in Chain Attacks), that being the EXP gain. There are so many sidequests and you get rewarded with so much EXP in this game, it's easy to overlevel everything around you. Expert Mode is a godsend and I'm having fun taking my levels up and down depending on how tough I want my fights to be.
Oh my god this guide taught me so much, this is incredible content!
The other 3 guides so far have been extremely helpful, but this is the one I've been wanting the most. Excellent video
Just you wait till sharla.
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After reading all the comments and been using your guides the last couple of days to grind I will subscribe, beside after XC1 I will be going back to XC2 to get 100% after the burnout of blade affinity grinding and will need to use your videos to help me for years of absent.
I also preferred Mythra over Pyra finally found someone to relate to.
I got excited when I saw this pop up in my reccommended and though to myself "wait, why tf am I not just subscribed?" Keep up the good work man, I've fallen in love with this game and your guides play a role in that.
Thank you for these guides. And for your content in general. You encouraged me to dig deeper and deeper in Xenoblade 2 which is probably one of the reasons why it will be my favorite game in the series (and in general) for a long while.
1:06 except in cutscenes
And in cutscene she can use all of them at once
I’m new to XC and these guides are very helpful, thank you!
Its incredible how much you know about the game and how clear you can explain the game mechanics and interactions. In my first playthrough that i just finished, melia was the key part that got me through one of the story endbosses.
its worth mentioning that summon burst is counted as an aura, and does proc everything related to them like aura heal gems or her aura based skills
To all of you out there not subbed to Enel, what are you doing? This man makes the best Xenoblade content out there and has helped me get really good at Xenoblade 1 and 2. Of it were not for his guides then I probably would not have 100% X2 and would not be on track to 100% X1. This man is a legend and his videos are of professional quality. Keep up the good work. Mythra best girl but Melia is 2nd to me.
@@toooydoeur I don't know why I'm saying this because I know my words will fall on deaf ears, but here I go.
Your opinion is, by definition, not a fact, so stop trying to pass it off as such. Your opinion holds no more weight than mine or anyone else's. If you don't like Xenoblade 2, that's fine, you're missing out on a great game, but don't go telling people it's terrible just because you don't like it. All Xenoblade Chronicles games are amazing games in their own right, and just because you don't see it that way doesn't mean one game is better than any of the others.
I'm not going to argue this point, go ahead and respond, but you're not getting anything more from me because it's not worth wasting my time on a pointless argument with a random on the internet.
@@toooydoeur wtf dude opinions are opinions. He probably just prefers the battle system, which I disagree with myself, but I'm civil about it at least.
I have owned Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the expansion since they came out. I didn't want to get sucked in at the time, so I have been waiting to play them. I finally started a couple weeks ago and I have been loving it. I would probably be struggling if I hadn't seen Enel's content. The only thing that I would really love to see is for him to do content for the rest of the series more (Xenogears and Xenosaga). Speaking of those, that would be an amazing collection if remastered on the Switch...
@@toooydoeur i think the first ones the best but the fact that you think it's fact over opinion is naive and childish. Everyone has their own opinion. No need to be an ass
@King_Ashtino yeah cause a comment like that is going to make people stop and change their ways 😂
I love these! Great thumbnails btw for both Xeno and Xeno 2 guides! I'll definitely be hitting these for the next few months :)
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Thanks this will come so in handy. Glad i found this channel and subbed
dont worry im subbed with notis on 😉 and this is the guide i need most, currently in the future connected thing and was just spamming summons and the middle thing
I was waiting for this
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edit: someone already did this joke rip me
- your explanation of elemental discharge and everything is pretty on point, i don't really have anything else to add other than if you're controlling her, make sure to space out your discharges by at least a little since each discharge will charge her gauge by 15%, but if she fires one immediately after another, it'll only fill it up by 10%.
- damage wise for elementals (assuming all ticks go off) the list goes something like ice > earth > flare > bolt > wind >>> aqua. in practice though bolt will do more damage than flare if you discharge it off cooldown consistently, since the tick rate for dots is unchangeable.
- pretty hard disagree with you about summon flare - i almost always prefer to have 5 summons (everything except wind and aqua) on her palette once i get ice. it provides a consistent source of damage and gives a surprising amount of flexibility, even if it's only a one art difference
- keep in mind that melia has three skills (glistening ice, playing with poison, passion of flame..? might be wrong about that last one) that increase the duration of her dots. it adds an extra 15 seconds to poison duration, for example, so you can pretty much infinitely loop it even without any cooldown mods.
- i feel like you could have emphasized the buffs a bit more - earth and ice's in particular are huge, especially with a double from copy. reducing 30% of all incoming damage might not sound like that much compared to something like monado armor, but it does add up very quickly and it helps a lot with surviving big aoe stuff like abaasy's big fire attack or mountain stompy.
- healing gift and summon aqua does have a use in a fairly niche, kinda meme-y build where you just put a bunch of self healing on melia via arts and aura heal and a recovery up, and spam as many healing gifts boosted by an hp up as possible. with the right backdrop, healing gift can actually become a pretty decent art, basically being a close to maxed out light heal with half its cooldown.
power effect i agree is close to useless, but it does have a singular use against belgazas, who's so chunky that your party members are most likely going to be out of buff range a significant amount of the time fighting him.
niche
/nēSH/
neesh
- soft disagree about hypnotize - without shulk, you have to be a little more creative when dealing with powerful talent arts, and one of the main ways to stop them without shield is to sleep them when you have a vision in order to change it, or even sleep them in the middle of their attack animation/charge up if they're a nebula or otherwise have a long wind up time.
- tbh you could have summed up your entire skills section with just "GET ENLIGHTENMENT" and it would still be great - enlightenment is almost a must-have against stuff like superbosses, use it!
- you can use shadow stitch to bind enemies, run away a little, and then hit them while they can't do anything, since they're aggroed on to you and can't do anything. but the strategy falls off a lot as the game continues and tbh it's a lot of work for only a medium amount of payoff.
- wow dude you play melia REALLY fast and loose lol. but chain dots are super op so whatever it doesn't matter
- i think numbers could be a little higher if you did earth at x4 and ice at x5 - but really it doesn't matter at all since either will pretty much just kill everything lol
- i do wish that you talked a little more about strategies with a "standard" kind of ether party that focuses more on sustainability esp with buffs instead of relying on huge chains in order to just one shot them, but straight up dps-wise this is the superior option i'll admit. it's just that this kind of strategy is a bit more difficult to pull off until you have stuff like maxed out gems and affinity. in the lategame you might be able to replicate this kind of strategy somewhat, but definitely not to the extent shown here, which is why i think if you're fighting significantly higher leveled stuff without having everything at your disposal, a more typical melia riki sharla kind of thing is a lot more useful.
with that said though, this is still a fantastic and useful guide. i really admire your ability to take a bunch of info and concise it down so that it can be said easily, it's pretty great. thanks so much for posting as always!
-nyar
"if you're controlling her, make sure to space out your discharges by at least a little since each discharge will charge her gauge by 15%, but if she fires one immediately after another, it'll only fill it up by 10%."
I recall this being the other way around according to the wiki; according to them you gain 10% normally and 15% if an elemental has been discharged in the last 5 seconds. Was this changed in the Definitive Edition?
@@danger9788 you're completely right! my bad, guess i was misremembering it when writing the comment. sorry bout that!
Ur guides are helping me a lot
Thank u for doing these videos
thank you so much, i was waiting for this :p
Finally, the episode I've been waiting for!!!
Saw the video, thought " why am I not subbed? " I looked and am subbed, and then you told me to sub. I love it.
Also thanks for doing these friendo, your content is extremely high quality, hope you blow up.
Love your guides. Not only am I subscribed, but my notifications are turned on.✌️
And subscribed. This type of content is excellent. Beat the game twice on the wii but never went hard into the battle mechanics. Now im going for a 100% completition and im going to kick so much ass with Melia.
Wanted to look up how to play this character because she seems fun but difficult to figure out, this was the first result. Just a few minutes in and I'm convinced; here's a sub. Looking forward to checking out your other guides on this fantastic game.
Thank you Enel, very useful guide! 🕺🏻🕺🏻
This is Melia's revenge.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I played XC on the 3DS years ago and just button mashed with Shulk. I think I will have to try this on Melia, though I'm worried this might make the game too easy lol
Shadow stitch is good for getting melia out of a bind or for running from enemies you can't be asked to deal with. It's also very useful in the high entia tomb where you have to play as only her for a few encounters which, despite their low levels, can cause her issues.
Thank you, again! I'm having an absolute ball with Melia, Dunban and Reyn!!!
just straight up subbed, great videos. its my first time playing the game since didnt get a chance in the wii and im loving it. reminds me of FF8 that you can also break it with ingame mechanics and builds.
finally unlocked this cutie! thanks for the great guide
amazing video
you know your guides have opened my eyes to a lot of untapped potential and i'm glad you chose to do this guide on the best girl Melia also i never thought of using back attack plus gems i typically run blaze chill and poison plus gems
Wow, after looking at your guides, I'm glad I can appreciate how good this game is!
This really helped a lot! Always wanted to use her and now I know how to use her in the best way! Thank you so much!
ty for delivering Enel
"One of the weaker chara-
Ok I'm just kidding"
I bet IGN's review would've been much better that way
Yeah with the Homs hero Duncan
Don’t forget rain
Naypon
Enel: "Much much differently"
Me: "Metch metch strongah"
***Edited
Thanks Matthew Henry
**metch, metch strongah
I always thought " mhetch, MHETCH strongah.
Great video dude, i love that guides, i hope the next will be Riki :D
My god man thank you so much! I didn't even realize I could attack with her talent art without it being full. The high entia tomb was a pain last week... wish I watched this back then...
I love the guides man so helpful.👌
Thank you for the tips on how to maximize damage with Melia! I haven’t been using her well at all and have been waiting for this guide!
I had no idea Melia was this good! I will definitely play her more now thanks to this informative video!
good guide dude keep it up
awesome guide as always. Still waiting on a Riki guide, which I'm sure you'll ge to; I've wanted to play as him for my NG+ for some fun. Also, been subbed since xenoblade 2 era from your blade guides for challenge mode. keep it up!
I did notice that good guides on how to get the 4th and 5th skill tree on every character don't exist on CZcams. I hope you do that someday since your guides are really nice.
Your guides are so good, and Melia is bestest. Thank
Melia is weak.
Enel: I'm about to end other youtubers careers
I have enjoyed my current playthrough of limiting my healing. I was using Ryne, Dunban, and Melia, expert mode, without using all the bonus XP, and no healing gems, only recovery up. Juggling Melias buffs and throwing in time to use Aqua and Healing Gift makes for some very intense fights
The ign joke is such a power move.
Amazing videos as always! :))
My favourite character! Good stuff as always. I see her strength is the genuine article!
thanks, was a noob Melia user but learnt a lot from this!
Thanks for these videos so much
This is why I love this game. I first played it on 3DS, and I remember spending train rides trying out all the stuff characters could do. Melia ended up being one of my favorites because she didn't need to worry about running night vision, agility up gems, and spike defense just to deal with Superbosses or during the section of the game where enemies just from being around level 70 to all being 90 and above in the new areas. I knew there were lv 80ish dudes around, but the whole game is build well enough where grinding and quests overlap, so there weren't really any quests for level 80ish dudes, thus I would have to grind so that I'd be prepared to grind. Melia let me bypass all of that.
So this video really just opened my eyes about how to use her. I was one that saw high Bolt damage and focused that as much as I could.
I'm still only in Mechonis Field, but I'm at a point where I can put on some Poison Plus and Chill Plus. The DoT is silly and I love jt
Is curious for me to see this because I always used Melia with lightning build and I never noticed you could do such damage with Earth and Ice.
Thank you for this guide.
Just 5 min. Of this video unlocked the whole game for me. .and thats with me already having put 40+ hours of gameplay. And i did subscribe! 👍
Wow, thank you for this! I had no idea she was so strong!
I've never really known how to use her, and only ever did when forced to for... *that* fight. I didn't understand which elements to use and when to discharge vs keep for the buffs... but now I do! Thanks Enel :)
Summon Enel
Buff: kill enemy instantly and every enemy on that titan.
Damn, I've been holding Melia back hard. Thanks to this I'll be able to use her to her fill potential! Hope to see Riki next tomorrow, I love the nopons so much!
Melia is one of my favourite characters and one that I play the most. She is fragile due to low HP and physical stats. I normally use summon bolt, wind and earth to give other party members buffs. She is a support and mage put into one.
Been playing a dps/healer set w/ bolt and aqua! Super excited to hear your take on her best sets!
I subbed. I love your content.
Oh my god, this is the best character guide on Xenoblade I've ever seen, incredible, congrats for that great work, insta subscribe here!!! I love the franchise since Nintendo 3DS version
I used Melia almost exclusively from the tomb right until the core, I went back to Shulk for some reason after that and I legit lost my muscle memory for the way you play him lol
Now I’m mopping up side quests and stuff and exclusively using Melia again. She really does just work with any party and it’s funny how she just makes a joke of the biggest baddest enemies (honestly toppling things a hundred times her size makes me smirk every time).
ALSO I love the chemistry she has with basically every party member, even her “rival”. Best girl by far.
i like mind blast for the damage and for ether arts chain attacks, it can actually allow an ether team to deal decent chain attack damage since most other ether damage comes from dots
Awesome guide!
Damn this was crazy, I love playing Melia but I’ve never been able to do that much damage. I wish Ultimate Teamwork could’ve linked from Shulk as well but Glorious Future seems really good. Thanks for the guide! I definitely learned a lot.
If you want Ultimate Teamwork on Melia, you could always just remove Chain of Friendship, equip Ultimate Teamwork in its steed, equip Chain of Friendship on your other two party members, and perform the following chain link attack pattern: Spear Break -> red art -> red art -> Elemental discharge. The chain attack would likely end after Melia uses Elemental Discharge, but you're still just as likely to get an additional chain link for Melia's Elemental Discharge.
Thank you enel, with the power of this guide I will successfully use the Royal summoner class in xenoblade Chronicles 3
Nah this explanation was freaking epic! Thanks for clearing up on how to use Melia effectively. (Only lvl 49 atm) I mainly been using Shulk but after using Melia I think I’ll be using her more often.
I thought I understood how to pilot the cast, but these videos have been pretty eye opening as to how ridiculous they can be once optimized. Keep the content coming!
Sleep is really good for engaging enemies. Especially unique monsters with cronies. Have you’re teammates target a weaker enemy and target a strong enemy with sleep. You can basically crowd control the enemies to keep your tanks from being overwhelmed.
Quick note: while not as useful against single superbosses, Summon Flame is very useful against many common enemies, since the AoE is pretty big. You can use it for grinding against the dozens of spiders in Tephra that gangs on you all at once. Flame + Ice will massacre all of them at the same time.
Started learning how to play her in Eryth Sea and shes just so much fun to play with when you get that ether up V gem. I dont like aggro being drawn to me while fighting so its great to see her doing so much damage from a distance. Thanks for the helpful guide!
"high learning curve"
>me as a 14 year old nuking everything in sight because i didn't understand aggro and decided to stack 2 thunder elementals literally whenever i could
Bird lady!
New sub here, loving the guides :)