Kiko is gonna be a rare blade when they remaster this game in 10 years

The real plot twist is that Enel is, in fact, the Architect.

To be fair, Kiko had a really good skill tree. 90% of the common blades I pull have stuff like more damage to machines, decreased damage from earth, and increases gold drop rate. And then when I do pull one with decent skills it ends up being a shield hammer or it only has one aux core slot.

When Pyra and Gramps reassured Rex that you could have more than one blade, I don't think this is what they expected him to do exactly.

(Gasp!) I made the A-team! *Scooore!*

The Kiko run proves that she isn't a common blade, the other common blades just copied her design because she was such a badass.

Kiko is the 3rd Aegis confirmed.

The most important thing I took away from this video: Why the hell can we never unlock Lila as a playable blade?

imagine being able to pull decent commons

I'd be absolutely thrilled if Xenoblade had the same joke runs and challenge runs that are so prevalent for other games like BotW, so thanks for your fantastic work!

So this is the *Common Blade's* power

Kiko will be a legend passed on for generations. Even beyond whenever this game gets remade in 7+ years.

Damn never knew you could shove malos off the cliff in chapter 4. The more you know.

17:48 Missed opportunity to play "An obstacle in our path."

You forgot to add in 20 red arrows and your face going like: 😱😱😱, and also the red circle and a free gift card giveaway

No cap I really wanna see where Kiko would rank on your tierlist

In my first run Zeke didn't had a third rare blade so I used an electic common axe blade called Izumo, Izumo was Zeke blade from his recruitment for around 2 to 3 chapters, after that he got replaced by Veil. to this day Izumo is the only blade with S affinity :/

10:32 Did... did you just make Malos Zeke himself? This is the best thing I've seen in a long time.

Mythra is Overrated My best girl is *Kiko*

Where's the kiko swimsuit outfit 😤

the reason nobody uses commons in casual runs is they're boring visually and the voicelines suck (atleast imo) and the rare blades have fancy animations and additional questlines also they're better skills are super uncommon

you still never watched the spa cutscene, could've been a way better run smh

The main thing I've noticed that makes common blades useful is their shorter cooldown time making it possible to use more arts. There are also some good abilities unique to commons, but they can be really hard to get (especially orb master).

Xc2's version of Ceave

i like how he was just spawning rare blades casually

I just wanted to share my own common blades are good story here. I was doing a semi fast, and semi casual no DLC run. I had only pulled a SINGLE decent rare blade before chapter seven, being Adenine on Rex. I was just using Mythra and a bit of Wulfric all game before losing Mythra in chapter 7. I was sure I would get stuck on the first Malos fight, trying so many different strategies with the rare blades that I had, which were all worse than the default blades that the drivers get. I decided to then look at my common blades, as I had used a couple this run before, and I found this random Dark Ether Cannon blade on Nia that had Blade Combo damage up 60%. In a last ditch effort, I decided to use that blade in combination with Adenine and Tora, and absolutely smashed Malos' face into the dirt on my second try (losing the first one to getting art spammed on like a clown). COMMON BLADES ARE GOOD!

Kiko emote when

Based Enel making accurate and descriptive titles and thumbnails.

all your XBC2 content really gave me so much respect for this game. It’s easily one of my favorites now. Thanks enel

Please man, you gotta do more challenge runs like this detailing your whole playthrough as you go, videos like this are great

Enel Thumbnails!? Impossible

Which fossil did you pick? Oh wait wrong channel.

I started watching you're videos just some days ago, and I think that you're one of the best content creator that I now, you're game play si amazing, you're comentatin is just perfect and overall you're videos are a 10/10. I wish xenoblade had a bigger reputation so that you could get more viewers, cus it's a shame that someone like you isn't that big in the KZfaq community. ❤️

fun fact: if this glitch were to be done in NG+, the glitch during the boss fight which is most commonly known for bringing pneuma out of the boss fight can also be used to unequip pneuma therefore the legend of Kiko can continue

Not familiar with elemental bomb? You didnt give them a chance even from your first playthroughs then. We mortals are very familiar with that bs art.

Great video! The concept is really cool and I love what you do with this game in general but this different type of content was very fun to watch.

I was really entertained throughout the whole video. Keep up the good work man!

Put kiko on the tier list

Well that was quick I didn't expect the video to come out so quick. Brogchamp.

This was fascinating! I love seeing ideas about what's necessary and not refuted like this. Since you had to grind a touch at the end there you could almost say the zombie hovers are unnecessary too - maybe getting more levels earlier when they were more exp-efficient would have ended you up at about the same place? Still, even with an ideal blade, soloing the final boss at level 61 is impressive. Great video!

Enel is my favorite speedrunning and Xenoblade content creator. Broggers

My favorite Xenoblade speedrunner and content creator, indeed

I love these mitten squad esc videos, also for videos like this and your speed runs the post commentary really seems to me to be the way to go especially with the new mic quality

I would just like you mention that one of the things I liked about XC2 was how little grinding I actually had to do. I loved X, but eventually I ended up not finishing everything I wanted to do because it required way to much grinding. 2 was a breath of fresh air in the that respect, especially after the dlc came out. On my initial playthrough, I think I only had to grind for one or maybe two fights in the main story, and it didn't take all that long you get all the rare blades and postgame level equipment. I remember beating Kurodil within a month of buying the game which was less time than it took me to get to the final chapter in X. Now that I think about it, it would be really cool if you made a guide on efficiently grinding in X. It would be really helpful for people like me who still haven't beaten bosses like Telethia, Gradivus or Pharsis

This was a great video and one of your best so far! Make more videos like this, where you come up with a fun way to beat the game or a challenge and document it. Excellent.

Also your videos have gotten so much better! The thumbnails and overall editing has improved so much man. Love to see it. Looking forward to all of your Xenoblade 1 content when it comes out

This is mad, amazing run!! You won a subscriber!

i love challenge videos like this, they're always so entertaining to watch. if you're taking suggestions on future challenges then i think an underwear only run of xenoblade de would be pretty great

0:22 *Glares at Godfrey (more like Godawful lmao)*

awesome video dude been playing alot of xeno 2 lately

I really like your Content man. It's informative, it never slogs, you pace everything so well. Take care man.

Well glad youre back now i can continue playing and by playing i mean doing vales fetch quest

Keep doing challenges, I love this type of content and I really enjoy yours sooooooooo :^)

Element Bomb is actually a standard art for all enemies in that family. While it does do a lot of self-damage, IIRC it isn't guaranteed to kill the user if they have enough HP, and will cause the user to lose their attribute (reminder, this family of enemy has no natural attribute and uses Copy Element to acquire one).

This video was eye-opening in terms of just how important equipment is for this game...hell, any Xenoblade game, really. Having boosts to agility and access to crit heal really does make things easier. Also never realized the final Jin fight gives him an evasion spike. No wonder he's such a wall for most players if you don't focus on having better accuracy at that point.

I am aware of the benefits of common blades but I just find it more interesting to use rare blades that actually have some sort of character to them. I like seeing all of the different interactions.

did this man really pull three rare blades in a row

At this point I expect the next video from Enel to just be him discovering IRL time travel via Xenoblade and beating the game before it starts.

This looks really interesting and shows the amount of knowledge of the game you have.

This is so good, well done!

Man gotta rewatch like 30 times so many facts going so fast

Awesome!I missed the second day stream sadly but damn good job bro

Comman blades suck because they aren't hot waifus. This is fact and can't be disputed

in the video you say you dont know what compelled you to make this video, but you enjoyed it anyway. I dont know what compelled you either, but i bet i enjoyed it as much as you did! great content, this was really cool to watch through. now try and beat some superbosses!

This is really cool. I don't think I would want to play this way, because I really enjoyed using all the different rare blades, leveling them up, doing their quests, etc. but it's neat that this was possible.

10:31 F's in the chat for Poppy

Great content and video Enel.

Really good video! Nice work!

Recently, I came up with the idea of a randomized custom difficulty settings run: randomly choose numbers from 1-10 for each difficulty setting to determine what the settings would be (last two settings that are unlocked later you choose 1-4). At the start of each chapter, you reroll for new settings. It’s a ton of fun because each chapter plays differently, you can get really easy settings, really hard ones, or a crazy combination. In my run, I had a really hard chapter 7 because enemy hp was almost max, high attack frequency, and really low health regen. Jin and Malos were a nightmare. For Aion I had a harder time than I anticipated too because both attack power and frequency were high, while hp was average and both party gauge gains and chain attacks were severely nerfed. I would definitely recommend others to try out this idea. I’m hoping DE has custom settings too so this can been done there, but so far it doesn’t seem like it’s in the game so oh well

I really need to look into common blades, this video has opened my eyes to the possibilities of commons

I used to watch a Twitch streamer ages back (can't remember his name) but he used to do loads of challenges centred around Tora. This is a nice reminder of how many different ways there are to play this masterpiece.

This do be very cool Enel, you are my favorite Xenoblade guy.

Wait, you didn't know about Elemental Bomb? I would have thought that that was the strategy for the Infernal Guldo fight: wait for him to start using it, then chain attack. But hey, that's just something I found interesting. I guess that means you just kill him fast, because that's just who you are.

This is a really good video! I myself am still using rare blades and getting my butt kicked lol, speaking of which will you ever do a video with updated builds of the rare blades in this game? Most of of the rare blade build videos on youtube are 1-2 years old and some of their builds don't compare to the crazy stuff you do in those dlc challenge runs.

I still wait for the day when someone mods Kiko over Pneuma in the final cutscene. To show the true master blade.

25:08 plus, since you deliberately use them as little as possible, their phantasms are weaker. That’s right: the phantasms are always at the same level as their corresponding party member at the time. I wonder if they also have the same cores/accessories.

Still skipped the Hot-spring cutscene smh

This has reignited my love for xenoblade 2

Forgive me but I never played this game before but have watched the speedruns. All I wanna say is, this game has some really nice waifus. Looking forward to playing this but just want to wait until the first one comes out so I can play that one first for continuity sake.

Imagine being a blade that's basically a god but your driver only uses that one basic bitch.

Wow, I'm just left speechless. I must suck playing this game..... Close to 100h of playtime exploring and I'm stuck at defeating infernal guldo yet so close to the ending. I probably will change to easy mode and finish of this masterpiece game, rage quit because I couldn't do it.

Very nice On my first play through my first common blade (after the scripted wind knuckle) was an fire cannon blade named Kokoro. Kokoro had Orb Master, so I used her more than Pyra.

This is the third time I‘m watching this. Really love this

So, I tried this challenge a while ago after seeing your video. And funnily enough, I ended up having not as much trouble with Lila at all, instead struggling with all the three Jin fights. Most other fights were not too hard. I did another challenge recently, where I was only allowed to use Tora and Poppi. And it ended up being pretty interesting because I had to rely on completely different strategies than you'd expect. But god was Amalthus a pain in the neck

love your vids!!!!

RPG challenge runs are awesome! I remember my first. It was Super Mario RPG lvl 3 run!

I just finished the game yesterday for the first time. Just in time to watch this 😆

Loving the xenosaga UMD music lol...remember this as a kid.😊

Love this man and this game do more videos like this

Glad I found your channel :)

Awesome... still not using commons during my next playthrough unless I absolutely have to.

Dope Vid I'll never underestimate a common blade lmao.

10:31 Mythra just shoved Poppi off that cliff.

when I watch videos about can you beat game without doing X, I just skipped right to the end and see them saying “yeah you can do it”

yes. get beast slayer weapons and power level. edit: oh drat heard your final restriction.

This would be a very cool speedrun category, if inconsistent due to the random nature of blade pulls.

Enel: min-maxes everything to solo the game with a common blade Me: beats the game without knowing what agility is

I keep needing to come back to this video since I've started doing an Aegis only run man i don't remember the game being that hard

I just realized you had a twitch channel gonna watch the vod of this before the video :)

This kinda brings back memory of me solo-ing the superbosses in XC1. I only managed to do it with Sharla and Seven (w/ Chain Attack) though, but that was really challenging (it took me an entire in-game day to wear down the last boss using Sharla orz). Say, are you going to do solo runs in the XC1 remake as well?