*Who are you using in your team?*

The best blade, hands down, is the wind-fist blade you get on Rex in Gormott. That blade definitely can do auto-attacks, has driver arts, and can presumably do other things as well.

"He is currently the only way to give rex the ability to smash" Me: wtf 😂

I feel like Boreas should rank above Floren, if only for the fact that filling out his affinity chart is as simple as “buy food, use food”. You can have it maxed out with an hour of running around Argentum

"Roc gives Rex the ability to smash." Lemme smash. Hey. Mythra. Lemme smash.

3:06 Considering he frienzoned best girl, I would strongly agree on this.

I got Kos Mos immediately after getting Brighid and left her on Brighid for a while without really using her. My brothers were horrified.

Top 10 Strongest Blades: Rank 1-10: Corvin

Adenine was my first rare blade, so she has a special place in my heart. That being said, she kicks ass on my dps rex, and throws potions damn near constantly.

I had a healer on Morag and a Tank on Nia. Gonna fix that thanks to this.

"I actually HATE roc" *Roc dies inside*

The lack of cancelling killed me

Agate gives amazing utility when combined with the special healing blade and mythra. Being able to start all elemental combos and also topple and launch is extemely practical, plus she has good attack stats and the ability to loop her arts infinitely.

Am i the only one that feels Percival was made more for an attacker than a tank? Even if he's a chrome katana user, his skills practicly scream damage.

What I hate..hate.. HATE about this game is the random element to getting blades. When my preferred tank gets a Unique Heal blade? When my preferred Heals gets a unique Attack blade? ugggghhhhhhhh.

I have a really weird party, to be honest. I just threw whatever I got at the start onto my characters and based my team off of always having all 8 elements. Rex: Mythra, Roc, Azami Nia (My main): Dromarch, Boreas, Nim Tora: Poppi alpha (Electric), Poppi QT (Fire), Poppi QTpi (Ice) Morag: Godfrey, Vess, Brighid Zeke: Pandoria, KOS-MOS, Vale Basically, I have it set up so that I can switch out Rex for Zeke and Tora for Morag so that I'll always have all elements. I paid no attention to any of their skills or anything like that.

Man, this is making me wanna play this game again.

This is a spoiler but we call it Rex’s personal Blade. The downside of losing a party member- Me: Facepalm.

It’s funny how instead of getting the normal anime girls out of drops in this game all I got were standard male characters, furries, or complete abominations.

It’s interesting coming back to these older guide videos when the DLC didn’t exist and we didn’t know much about the game

i never really focused on "you are a good blade" "you are a bad one". my goal has more been to max every blade's tree, and only after completing that would i really start considering moving blades and getting the best setup. With that said, though, i did start to notice some blades being far more useful than others. zenobia requires fighting powerful enemies, but that just shows you in every harder fight just how useful she is as a boss(and uniquie, which i usually end up calling bosses, anyway) dps character. Herald quickly stands out for her healing powers that rival end game items with the same effects, and due to the unique nature to obtain her, you will likely have an unnoticeable bias towards using her as your ether cannon (unlike sheeba who has the opposite effect as her entire "thing" is treating certain characters badly and wanting you to go bankrupt to make her happy and complete). Finch stood out for his mythra-like cooldown powers, but you cant help but feel she has a weaker version. It becomes too easy to repeat mythra's tier 3 special by end game, which is probably due in part to how few blades can help her pull off the 3 same element blade combo, and the others that can are the rarest blades in the game. On a different note, after learning about the secret powers of 2 of the party members, i stopped focusing on giving them blades, and overdrived most of them onto the other 2 (that can take them). Both of the secret powers are story spoilers, though, even if both are hinted at before unlocking it. You arnt the only one who hates Roc. I also hate urusla, but that is mainly because of how annoying and time consuming she is to max out. it doesnt help that i forgot to finish her before starting new game+...

Good to see Electra's one of the best Tank blades, because I'm doing her Affinity sidequest right now and it's a major PITA.

Don’t Forget -

I would consider Dagas one of the most powerful attack blades in the game since so far he has the highest attack stat of all my blades and does double the damage one of my other attack blades do, strong smash I consider I big help, specially if you are using Rex’s anchor shot to topple and enemy and it does real damage, bull tackle is nice for the recharge and this might be just me but I love his idle animation since he just sits on his throne like he doesn’t care

Rex: Mythra, Spoiler Girl, Theory Tora: The Poppis Morag: Bridgid, Floren, Praxis

I was hoping for Electra because ADORABLE and got her from a common core w/ only one booster in like... chapter 2 (bless - my second rare blade pull lmfao) but was told she was garbage. She's definitely slow and isn't uhh... necessarily super fun to use, but I'm glad she's decent, ahaha. My first rare pull on Nia was Ursula too! I've gotten MASSIVELY lucky with blades so far.

Personally, I think Rex's "story blade" is the best blade. Once you max out the affinity chart, give Rex a Galaxy Cube and he does most of his healing through auto attacks. If someone takes a hit, she has a strong heal. If a strong attack is incoming (like Falak Fall), use her stage 4 blade art. Blocks the attack, fully heals, regens, and puts a DoT on the enemy. It's also worth noting that if you build affinity to max with both Mythra and "story blade", you get to use the only double blade art in the game. When things are okay, switch to Mythra. As long as one of her two hits of double spinning slash crits, or rolling slash crits, you can reuse them again with no wait, meaning you can just spam them until someone takes damage.

I know this came out before DLC, but goddamn, Corvin is insane as a tank. I'm no expert, but I feel like he's one of the best tanks, besides Poppi

[Chapter 8 spoiler] Rex with blade Nia is in my opinion the best healer (I control him), I use him,Tora tank and Morag tank (it doesn't really matter wich blade you use, you just have to resist massive AOE hits). I don't think attackers are needed since enemies hit points are too high, and you don't get anything for killing them faster.

I had such a good draw. Zenobia was my first rare blade, and KOS-MOS was my second.

My blades are: Pyra/Mythra, Dagas and Roc for Rex; Dromarch, Vess and Ursula for Nia; Pandoria, Herald and Praxis for Zeke; Brighid, Perceval and Aegeon for Morag. Idk if this is a good setup, but I never had any big problem through the story with it.

May be a little late to the party buuuuuut.... I used Tora, Rex, and Nia for my main team. Rex with Zenobia, T-elos, and Mythra. Tora with of course all the Poppi’s (including the final form) And with Nia with Boreas, Ursula, and Dromarch

I recently started playing and I managed to get ursula, boreas, and perun from common cores which was surprising. I like using ursula on rex alot since it is easy to time attacks and honestly I lOVE how useful she is.

I actually restarted my file like a madman since I knew I wasn't going to come back and finish it since I left off partway. I never did any of the superbosses, but towards the end of the save file I was playing as Tora using QTπ. I had a critical heal build stacking damage and crit boost, and all of Poppi's specials had bonus damage for enemies targeting Tora. Though when I was still playing, her last skill slot was bugged, it seems that has now been fixed. She was my angel of death.

Godfrey sucks tho. Worthless field skills only required for his merc missions and two passives that cancel each other out: One passive reduces damage when your 30% HP or lower. The other passive gives you passive heal when your HP is 30% or lower which negates his damage reduction. He doesn't even get Ice Mastery which is dumb. Any other tank does tanking better than Godfrey.

My team when I finished the game was: Rex: Praxis, Pandoria, Mythra Nia: Adenine, Kos-Mos, Floren Morag: Kasandra, Theory, Bridgid

I'm in the postgame rn, I like to switch up my team every so often. Rex - Mythra, Pandoria, Roc (Driver Combo Build) Mythra, Zenobia, Sheba (Elemental Orb Stacker) Nia - Floren, Boreas, Vess (Healer) Floren, Vale, KOS MOS (Offensive Healer) Tora - Ice Alpha, Dark QT, Light QTpi Morag - Brighid, Aegeon, Theory Zeke - Pandoria, Praxis, Wulfric (W/ Pandy) Herald, Praxis, Wulfric (W/o Pandy)

Zeke with Zenobia Nia wih Kos Mos Tora with Qt Pi. It can kill a super boss from near full health with 2 orbs (Keep in mind this build has little survivability, they are all pure dps.) I use crit mythra and kos Mos for the light orb. And Poppi Qt and QT PI using an over locking bangle to make the bark orb themselves. The orb making takes around a minute with the chain attack killing after the break of the second orb

I have For the Reunion OST for my ringtone. So once I started watching the video, I immediately paused it thinking my phone is ringing. I was confused for at least a minute. By the way, nice video.

Wow, early on in my game (just entered the Urayan Titan) I managed to get both Ursula and Electra and seeing as how they are ranked pretty high in their respective tiers, im pretty happy.

Rex: Mythra, Zenobia, Perun/Herald Nia: Dromach, Vess, Floren Morag: Brigid, Newt, Theory

one of the blades that i used the most was Gorg with Zeke, Gorg has some pretty nifty ways to tank and he already is good with Zeke to do damage, i also gave him some cores to recover hp and they pretty much never died

I've been a subscriber for years. I want to say 2016/2017. Love all of your content. But as I'm FINALLY getting around to playing this, your video here was more than appreciated. I understood it even with my base level knowledge of the game. Your way of including a spoiler blade but not spoiling it was awesome. Thanks for this video. I got lucky I think because I have Zenobia and I just "met Lilia" in the story. I'm assuming she's a hard to get blade. So far my favorite blade is Wulfric but I feel like Kosmos will take that spot, of I ever get her. Thank you!

Chapter 7 spoilers I think a Rex healer build can be one of the best in the game because once you get ascended pyra/mythra you can just pop of an extreme burst of damage and a full self heal then you can switch back to blade Nia or Ursula

Rex: Mythra, Dagas, Herald/ Roc Nia: Dromarch, Boreas/ Vess, Nim Morag: Brighid, Theory, Kasandra

I use rex as a healer because nia never heals

The team I used for endgame was: Rex: Mythra - Story Blade - Kora Tora: Poppi(water) - PoppiQT(electric) - PoppiQTPi(ice) Morag: Perceval - Brigid - KOS-MOS It's relatively easy to get up to Launch for driver combos, and you can get a lot of blade combos for this. I'm thinking of maybe replacing Kora with Herald for the postgame, since Mythra/story blade are competent enough at healing and KOS-MOS' special can also get you out of some tight spots :]

Currently I've been trying out and liking a non Rex team cause I feel too broken with mythra lol. Zeke: KOS - MOS, Herald, Zenobia Morag: Brighid, Kassandra, Theory Nia: Dromarch, Boreas, Nim

Rex: Pyra/Mythra, Kanehira**, Roc Nia: Dromarch, Adenine, Dahlia Morag: Brighid, Aegaeon, Perceval Zeke: Pandoria, Zenobia, Harold* *Would switch out for KOS-MOS, but that's the only Blade I'm missing. **3 star slim male blade. Wields axe, ice element. With a 21% increase to Strength, Blade Arts of Crit Up and Arts Plus, passives being Challenger, Pierce, and Machine Slayer... he's a very fine substitute for Zenobia!

"GASPS" Someone who thinks Pandoria and best electric loli are good?! INSTANT SUB. For real though since this is a single player game I wanna say you can most likely do well with all of them? I have maxed a few already and they all do just fine. However, I don't have all rare blades yet so I don't know if maybe there are some really bad ones.

Really likes your xenoblade videos, it helps a lot, big thanks to you.

I came from Eric London RPG . It’s nice to discover your channel

Corvin, Shulk, and Brighid on Morag Kosmos, Sheba, and Fiora on Nia Herald, Zenobia, and Poppibuster on Zeke

You can say whatever you want about Perceval's Stats, but hoo boi he cool af

(Keep in mind that I'm halfway through chapter 6 with 51 hours of game time) My current team is: Rex - Pyra/Mythra, KOSMOS, Herald Nia - Dromach, Vess, Percival Morag - Brigid, Aegeon, Wulfric Tora - Poppi A, PoppiQT Zeke - Pandoria, Azami (that manequin gun blade), Kasandra

A very informative video. thanks for your time.

Rex - Pyra/Mythra, Pandoria ( will get replaced when I get electric on a Poppi ) and Wulfric Nia - Dromarch, Boreas and Kasandra ( for 8 elemental orbs. Will get replaced by Ursula when I get her ) Tora - Poppi ( earth. Will get replaced by electric in the future ) Poppi QT ( wind since I don't need another fire because I can switch between mythra and pyra any time ) and Poppi QT PIE ( ice, will be dark in the future )

My team setup is currently this (although Rex especially is subject to change): Rex: Mythra, Herald, Praxis Nia: Dromarch, Ursula, Nim Tora: All three Poppis set to tank, though not fully outfitted yet because I hate Tiger-Tiger Morag: Brigid, Aegeon, Adenine Zeke: Pandy, Newt, Godfrey It's noted that I have a mismatched amount of stuff on Zeke and Morag because I never actually use them... Edit: The only blades I have yet to obtain are KOS-MOS, Finch, Theory, Vale, and Kora

Little late to the party but here's my set up (keep in mind this is in NG+, I don't have every rare blade and I'm missing two of the Torna blades) Morag: Brighid, Theory/Aegaeon (can't decide who I like more) and Kassandra (potentially switching with Aegaeon since I like him and Theory so much) Nia: Nim, Akhos and Obrona Rex: Mythra/Pyra, T-elos and Roc Tora: Poppi a, PoppiQT and QTpi Zeke: KOS-MOS, Pandy and Agate

I just focus on Blades with different elements, try to max out the affinity trees, and try not to die. Its especially hard trying to take on Dino Drama and Elma

I jump around a lot, since pretty much any team can be good if you distribute you items and aux cores correctly, and its fun to put myself outside my comfort zone and try new combinations, but my go to team for hard boss fights is: Rex (Damager/Tank) = Pyra/Mythra, Praxis, Roc (pure damager), or Theory (I find it useful to have Rex as a backup tank for hard hitting bosses, and as you mentioned in the video Theory is fairly attack oriented for a tank). Nia (Healer) = Dromarch, Vess, Ursula, (currently working on getting an Overdrive Protocol to transfer Boreas over from Rex to Nia) Morag (Tank) = Brigid, Kassandra, Aegeon, (optional Herald if I want to give Morag some extra firepower).

Rex: mythra, herald, azami Nia: dromarch (he's the best healer fight me), boreas and ursula Morag: brighid, aegeon, newt

Tora is my main... He can break, topple, launch and smash alone as long as someone is breaking or launching. Not only he is having the best luck, but Poppi boosted is literally the strongest of the game. She is unbeatable. I boosted Poppi Omega to give health after a critical, boost critical, Front Damage, and poppi standard is a wall. I use a Black core on Omega.

Also, there is quite a number of people that refer to that spoiler blade as Catalyst, as the name of the blade weapon is the catalyst scimitar

When i first saw PoppiA's awakening cut seen i imagined Pyra saying "Rex hand me the sword!" Rex" Why?" Pyra" Tora is going to die right here and right now for that disgrace of a blade

I'm at the start of Chapter 8 cause time constraints. But at the moment I'm running: Rex: Vess, Pyra/Mythra, Perceval Nia: Dromarch, Wulfric, Vale Morag: Sheba, Brighid, Kasandra Zekenator: Pandoria, Godfrey and Adeline (cause I never get lucky with Zeke) Tora: Poppi Alpha Earth (Master tank mod), Poppi QT Fire (Ether mod), Poppi QTpi (Master Evasion mod) Edit: Finished, only change was I got KOS-MOS on Morag

Active Team (no healer, all elements): Rex: Mythra (light/fire), Zenobia (wind), Vale (dark)

My team: Rex: Pyra/Mythra, Wulfric (considering swapping to Pandoria), Roc Nia: Dromarch, Nim, Boreas Tora: Poppi alpha (Electric, Tank Mod V), Poppi QT (Dark, Evasion Mod V), Poppi QTpi (Ice, Muscle Mod V)

My blade set up Rex: pyra/mythra, “rex’s story blade”, and tel-os Morag: Bridgid, wulfric, kasandra Zeke: herold(or Pandora), godfree, borers This is absolutely horrible spelling in my part but in my defense I’m high as balzs right now

So from a DPS standpoint my strategy seems to be: Use Herald until you pull aggro, die and wipe threat, build party gauge to get the revive, rinse and repeat :P. Seriously, there isn't a single tank in the game that can keep Herald from pulling aggro. Best Healer is Kos-Mos. Just spam that level 2 special and you can even keep your Herald user alive...most of the time. The massive aoe damage from the level 2 special doesn't hurt either. Most of the time you'll end up healing the whole party for about 15k per use. I don't have a best tank because nothing keeps aggro from Herald, so tanking is pretty much pointless. That said, Aegeon is pretty much invincible while moving, so he makes a great blade to revive your Herald user when they die. The build I use centers around special regen for Kos-Mos, Damage output for Herald, Evasion focus for Aegeon, and party gauge buildup for everyone else. It's lulzy :P

Poppy is the best tank huh. Good job i really love Tiger Tiger.

Roc is the only blade who can give Rex the ability to *SMASH*

In my default setup, unless I am specializing for a specific need, I use Rex Tora and Zeke as my party members with Rex using mythra/pyra, blade!Nia, and Floren. Light, wind, and ice poppis(though I have one of each element mod for mix matching, then I use electra on zeke, along with vale. The last spot on zeke is very much a wildcard as I can't make up my mind

Nim is actually a really good healer too

my usual party is Rex: Mythra, Gorg or Godfrey, Boreas Nia: Dromarch, Adenine, Wulfric or Dahlia Zeke: Pandoria, Herald, and a 4 star, who's name is escaping me right now. during the parts where Mythra is not in the party tho, I went with Gorg and Godfrey with Boreas, and if you boost their swap times, Gorg and Godfrey can chain attacks as a team and deal a surprisingly high amount of damage. the only real advantage Mythra has on them is speed (and doing the job of two other blades on her own).

Hm, legitimately surprised to not see Perun up on the DPS list.

Thank you for this!

My team: Rex: Mythra, Zenobia, Praxis Nia: Dromarch, Herald/KOS-MOS, Ursula Morag: Brighid, Kasandra, Theory I consistently do max damage chain attack on super bosses with a full burst. Although there are more optimal builds that can kill super bosses without a full burst.

Currently I Run a fairly balanced team Rex: Pythra, Herald, Wulfric Nia: Dromarch, Adenine, Dahlia Morag: Brighid, Aegeon, Kassandra Main goal for my team is to build orbs then use Catalyst for massive burst

Got Ursula early in the game from a common, and I mean very early. So early I didn’t even realize that rare blades were any different from those regular random blades. Considered her garbage until, well, I actually learned wtf I was doing

Percival is only a tank in name. Hes excellent if you control him directly and his dps is amazing

It's worth noting that Tiger Tiger is no longer needed at all for Poppi, just skip doing anything with Poppi, dont bother with the 5 tech manuals and DLC quest. Wait to New Game Plus where the tech manuals and quests will reset. Progress again and finish the story which should be quick. Then pick up the 5 tech manuals. In NG+ there are bards which will cash in EXP for stuff, many of which are stuff for Poppi from ether crystals to master parts, Poppi Alphas affinity chart can even be compelted entirely on merc missions (There is truly no need for Tiger Tiger anymore). Literally all I did was take the driver I rarely use and moved him from level 99 to level 30, and from there I got all the ether crystals and poppi parts I needed. Fight several super bosses, and he quickly goes back up to 99 and in exchange you can make all the poppi's perfectly optimized and broken in less than an hour or 2 with no grinding and no tiger tiger.

Wait floren’s a guy?!?!?

Mythra seriously is the best blade though, with the crit heal build you can do massive sustained damage and heals, as well as spam blade arts to get those combos started

I'm at level 76, just an FYI. Rex: Mythra, Kora, and Sheb (for attack) or Rex's Story Blade, Mythra, and Kora (for healing) Nia: Dromarch, Wulfric, and Boreas Tora: What else Morag: Brigid, Aegeon, and Agate Zeke: Pandoria, Nim, and Praxis

I got really lucky pulling Kos-Mos and Electra very early on.

Another great video! Love your channel sir!

My team is Rex: pyra, adenine, sheba Nia: dromarch, vess, boraes Tora: poppi alpha, qt, qt pi Morag: brigid, theory, finch Zeke: pandoria, praxis, zenobia

Rex- Mythra, Roc, Godfrey. Nia- Dromarch, Wulfric, Herald. Zeke- Pandoria, Ursula, Perceval. Morag- Brighid, Aegaeon, Perun. Usually run rex, nia, n tora but use Zeke when farming core crystals (gold chips + break/topple/launch/smash)

Half way through chapter 9. I like to use a variety of blades but here's the team I have most success with. Tora: all 3 Poppis are tank type he nvr dies. Rex: (team 1) Pythra, Nia, Roc (team 2) Pythra, Roc, Agate/Zenobia/Ursula Nia: Dromarch, Boreas, vess Norag: Brigid, aegeon, kassandra Zeke: pandoria, herald, wulfric

Personally I think using Nia on Rex is the best option. Set up your DPS for crit heal. So what if you're down a party member. If you set it up right, you won't need a dedicated healer. Then bring in Zeke for two heavy hitters

Rex: Mythra (because why wouldn't I) Story healer (spoiler blade) Zenobia Moràg: Brighid Theory Kasandra/Mikhail Zeke: KOS-MOS Sheba Herald I've found this strategy to work really well for me personally, however I am still working out a few kinks and I also dont have maxed affinity charts with all characters

I use Rex (Attack/Healer) Pyra/Mythra Scimitar (spoiler) Roc Zeke (Off Tank): Godfrey Pandoria Dagas Morag (Evasion Tank): Brighid Aegaeon Perceval I don't care about who is objectively the best. I try to make my favorite blades as good as possible.

I have a lot of different build for rex, however for the rest: Morag: Bridgid/Aegeon/(Finch/Electra, good utility and combos) or Perceval Zeke: Zenobia(you didn't mention that zenobia has Topple on Zeke!)/Theory(High critical/and actual offensive "tank")/Lance user(Vale/Praxis) or hammer user(driver combo) Some notes: I really don't like how the AI use etheir canon, especially kosmos they just love to never switch, so you should be playing those yourself.

No Kosmos. Based and unbiased. I applaud this video

Wow didn't know there were that many rare blades to get in the game! I only have about half of the ones shown in this video. My setup is Rex: Pyra(Mythra), Roc, Godfrey Nia: Drommarch, Floren, Dahlia Zeke: Pandora, Wulfrich, Perceval I built the team completely based on having all the elements covered.

Still surprised that Floren is actually a dude. He sounds like a girl-

my Team Rex: Mythra, Pandoria, N Morag: Brighid, Theory, Aegaeon Zeke: T-Elos, Herald, KosMos

My blade team is: For Rex Pyra/Mythra, Kora and Dagas For Nia Dromarch, Godfrey and Kos-Mos For Tora the three poppis For morag Brighid, perun and Aegeon And for Zeke Pandoria, Theory and Nim

Corvin hands down . With him you are unkillable