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.

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

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.

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.

Summon earth: enemy becomes that one family guy episode where Peter Chris Brian and Stewie are all constantly throwing up.

Ah, yes, I make her wear glasses for the ether up. N-nothing else!

The absolute insanity of combining Melia and Riki's debuffs in a chain attack is just game breaking.

Enel becoming a true youtuber now

Best girl? Nah, she’s best Bird Lady

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

and then Melia used Summon Enel and roasted the whole IGN. Afterwards, she walked towards a better future, without incompetent reviewers.

Melia, the only character that can disengage and walk away from an enemy after a single chain attack.

I've waited for this Melia best girl

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)

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

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.

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!

FINALLY MELIA GUIDE LETS GOOOOO

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!

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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.

"One of the weaker chara- Ok I'm just kidding" I bet IGN's review would've been much better that way

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

are people watching these incredible, absolutely top tier products of dedication and hard work for FREE and they can't even spent 5 seconds to scroll down, press the like and subscribe button and the bell icon to be notified when a new video comes out??? how selfish...... 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

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

Dang you're pumping out videos everyday, nice!

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.

Enel: "Much much differently" Me: "Metch metch strongah" ***Edited Thanks Matthew Henry

Melia is weak. Enel: I'm about to end other youtubers careers

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.

I’m new to XC and these guides are very helpful, thank you!

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.

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

Summon Enel Buff: kill enemy instantly and every enemy on that titan.

Your guides are so helpful, don’t know why anyone wouldn’t subscribe!?!

"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

Thanks this will come so in handy. Glad i found this channel and subbed

Dang Enel you basically just said my entire strategy of using Melia throughout the game was all bad

I was waiting for this

I love these! Great thumbnails btw for both Xeno and Xeno 2 guides! I'll definitely be hitting these for the next few months :)

Ur guides are helping me a lot Thank u for doing these videos

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.

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.

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.

thank you so much, i was waiting for this :p

Your videos and xenoblade got me through quarantine and with school closing for me again it's kinda comforting to come back 😅

I've been subscribed since I found the XBC2 guides awhile back and saw you were still uploading them. I technically found this channel via watching Nn Li's XBC2 videos. I found Nn Li when looking for Fire Emblem Warriors (3DS at the time) guides for end game builds. Eventually bought a switch and XBC2 as I loved XBC1 on 3DS, saw him uploading those videos, so when I got each blade, I watched his guides. Thanks to KZfaq, I then found yours in the suggestions.

Thanks Enel. Amazing guide as usual.

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!

Love your guides. Not only am I subscribed, but my notifications are turned on.✌️

Finally, the episode I've been waiting for!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thank you, again! I'm having an absolute ball with Melia, Dunban and Reyn!!!

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.

Great video dude, i love that guides, i hope the next will be Riki :D

finally unlocked this cutie! thanks for the great guide

Ah. So i was lied to. I thought she was bad, so i just gave up trying to use her.

Thank you Enel, very useful guide! 🕺🏻🕺🏻

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!

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 love the guides man so helpful.👌

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.

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!

Video guide on how to use Melia? Excellent. Melia wearing glasses? Perfection.

every character guide so far: "just look at that damage"

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

The ign joke is such a power move. Amazing videos as always! :))

Your guides are so good, and Melia is bestest. Thank

I literally found your gem crafting video this morning and then watch the reyn and dunban guides.

I did notice that good guides on how to get the 4th and 5th skill tree on every character don't exist on KZfaq. I hope you do that someday since your guides are really nice.

My favourite character! Good stuff as always. I see her strength is the genuine article!

I had no idea Melia was this good! I will definitely play her more now thanks to this informative video!

thanks, was a noob Melia user but learnt a lot from this!

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.

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! 👍

*After a successful chain attack on Ancient Daedala in which Melia inflicts Earth Poison and Ice Chill, she and everyone pack their weapons away and turn their backs.* Ancient Daedala: "W-What? Where are you going!? COWARDS! Afraid to meet your ends?!" *The mechon starts charging up for Conquista X* Melia: *She shuts her eyes.* "You are already dead..." Ancient Daedala: "What are you--?" *Short circuits and blows up in spectacular fiery fashion.*

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...

ty for delivering Enel

Been playing a dps/healer set w/ bolt and aqua! Super excited to hear your take on her best sets!

>glasses Melia >quick step gem ah I see a fellow man of culture

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 :)

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

I've watched this video like 8 times now and I don't regret it

I don't how it happened but by messing around with the gems and the equipment I transformed Melia into a doudge tank like dunban and it actually works.

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!

Thank you enel, with the power of this guide I will successfully use the Royal summoner class in xenoblade Chronicles 3

amazing video

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

Thanks for these videos so much

good guide dude keep it up