How To Cheese All Superbosses In Xenoblade: Definitive Edition 

Imagine being some god like titan and getting tripped up by some brits with a lightsaber

I didn't even know that topple durations stack. I thought they just reset the timer on the topple. This is LIFE-CHANGING

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0:30 'Make sure to subscribe it really helps' Reyn: 'I know, I know' Great vid btw

This man’s guides always make me feel like I wasn’t playing the game correctly. Keep up the good work man 🎷🐛

2 even cheesier things: -Using Demon Slayer on a low-level bunit near Arsene will always topple Arsene, even outside chain attacks. -If you time it right, you can use Monado Armor so that Daedalus' Laser vision happens while Shulk is casting it but before the buff kicks in - this lets you both cast armor, break the future, and get a talent gauge refill through glorius future (casting Armor's buff before the vision kicks in results in no vision actually happening since chances are the laser won't hit the vision-causing damage threshold).

Lol i thought when he meant cheese i thought he was just gonna use melia, hide behind terrain so daedalus cant act, then spam elementals for forty minutes til it dies Thanks emile

Aww yes topple locking Also known as curb stomping or "kick them while there down!". This is quite an effective strategy IRL and a Surefire way to continuous score Critical Hits on your opponent.

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00:00 intro 03:00 blizzard belgazas 05:36 final marcus 06:58 ancient daedala 09:49 despotic arsene 11:57 avalanche abaasy

You've got me addicted I need daily videos. Character guides please, stop teasing me.

Enel: "I can turn this into a learning opportunity" ... are you *a parent?* XD

let it be known that i was writing this comment for a while before when i accidentally went back to the previous page. i mean it doesn't really matter i just need someone to share the pain for just a little bit. also it means this comment is a bit shorter than it originally was but whatever anyways while you're right that you can kinda just pick and choose from any combination of seven shulk reyn dunban, the usual "best" party for topple locks is seven (controlled), dunban, and reyn. seven's mostly better than shulk because without the m3, they have better party gauge building in general plus you break with air fang, topple them twice, and if you get a continuation, either reapply speed shift or use final cross, and then whale on it with physical arts, rinse and repeat. with the m3 shulk has much better party gauge filling from his crits being guaranteed, so you can use either one you want. something that's kinda cool is that the 3 out of 4 of the superbosses (daedala, arsene, abassy) have this unique counter to topple where it reduces topple by half, so it lasts for 1.5 seconds instead of the usual 3. for daedala, however, since he's a mechon, he gets toppled for an extra 1.5 seconds, so it evens out. belgazas doesn't have anything fancy like that, just a 2.5k topple spike. so watch out for that. it's worth noting that every superboss is susceptible to force topple, like starlight kick, final cross, even roly-poly if you're using it for some reason, since they're not immune to it, but they're also all immune to daze. the reason why final cross fails is that it only topples if its last hit connects. against superbosses though with their level advantage, your ether hit rate is kinda sucky, especially since you can't link melia's enlightenment because no star slots. if the final hit connects then it'll always topple the enemy, regardless of if they're broken or not (unless they're immune to topple). i don't know if you specifically mentioned it but topple plus gems can be hugely useful for any locking strategy since at max, they'll basically double your effective topple duration for each art. it makes topple locking, especially on arsene and abassy a heckuva lot easier and gives you plenty of room to breathe otherwise. topple up, like you said, is great and i very much recommend it if you're planning to topple lock them, since it'll pretty much double your base damage. use both of them, they're both very good. great video dude, i can't really add much else since you ran through pretty much all of the important stuff. one last piece of advice i have is to focus on toppling and auras first in chain attacks and then damage, since they're going to obviously be a lot more important to keep them locked down. good luck!

Keep up the Xenoblade guides!!!

I don’t even have Xenoblade definitive edition, but your content is so quality that I watch the videos anyways.

Excellent content, as usual, looking forward to future videos. I'm glad people like you exist that manage to get people into Xenoblade!

Funny how in this game it takes like 3-5 mins to take out a lvl 120 superboss where as in xc2 it takes ~10 seconds

This is awesome, dude! I remember doing this to them in the original game. Also, I always loved your Character/Blade guides for XC2, so looking forward to your character guides for this game too!!

No intro. Right to the point. Love it, keep up the great work!

Topple locking is op but so fucking fun it’s unfair

Take a shot every time he says topple

Can’t wait for the character guides, really liking the constant stream of content

Thank Enel. All Of your guides are so helpful.

Awesome, wish I had this video the first time round, I'll definitely becoming back to it again later on. Also the comments section is also informative & highly amusing 😄

Another great guide man. It would be cool to see a guide on the party members arts and which ones are the best to level up first. Your da man bro

Nice guide! Also congrats on 20k subs!

Dude I’ve just arrived in Alcamoth. Chill with the super bosses. Nah seriously awesome content man.

As always thanks for the awesome content!

My pleads from the first guide were heard

Haste from Glory Gauntlets are also pretty handy for auto-attacks which can help with party meter acquisition. Even better if you have Double Attack on the weapon.

Really helpful. Keep up the good work!!!

Great guide as always

Nice topple-lock video. With XC could also easily cheese Superbosses with Melia and ether. What always impressed me as a challenge was the less than lvl 99 character team kills of the XC Superbosses.

These video's helped me understand this game so much more i dont feel like im missing something like with xenoblade 2 where i just didnt understand everything. The only thing i dont quite get is how to optemise chain attack but im also nowere near finished with the game so that isnt a problem yet

Good guide Enel grats on 20k

Man, I remember feeling so badass the first time I beat Avalanche Abaassy, and then people just do him like this...

As an absolute noob at even basic combat strategies, I appreciate your guides, haha. Keep up the great work Enel

I'm glad I'm not the only one who misses those damn slower qt circles. Lol love your vids

Great video! I don’t use this strategy often because I like fighting the harder super bosses legitimately but this is a great guide that can help out with grinding.

You can actually kite despotic arsene very well, as his range is not very big. Melia is able to Solo the fight if you time your running away and doing damage in between. I believe the spot I used was the big Rock, where I walked in circles and he couldn't keep up

If you are up for using a different strategy Melia,Seven and Dunban was my preferred topple locking party. With spear break and starlight kick,Melia can allow you to start topple locking outside of a chain attack. Glorious future linked to melia ensures elemental burst is active for a good chunk of battle.

Nice guide, maybe unlike back in the wii days ill finaly defeat all 5! Your helping us all become good!

I can’t thank you enough for making this. I remember back when I was trying to play xenoblade on the 3ds there was almost nothing out there. It just seemed like everybody already knew and they weren’t going to talk about it.

I beat the level 120 super boss by just playing it slow and safe with sharla (controlled) shulk, and riki. ...it definitely wasn’t as efficient as “cheesing” the boss, but I just made sure to keep everyone’s tension and aura’s up with sharla’s bullets...warned shulk to use monado armour (or sharla’s shield bullet) when there was a vision. ...and just saved the party gauge for revives if anything went wrong. I avoided chain attacks entirely, and a lot of the damage was through Riki’s dots

SO good! ty sir

Avalanche Abaasy: I've fallen! And I can't get up!

Thanks for this vid, I wanna try 100%ing this game but the superbosses were kind of intimidating. And even though I've played this game since it came out 8 years ago or so I'm...not the best at the battle system, so I have no confidence in being able to do superbosses without following a guide veeeeery closely. So this vid hit the spot. Again, thank you.

I just got to Chapter 12 and I'm loving the game so far.

Because of despotic arsene's high agility it took me an hour to beat it for the first time, this was also before I discovered some better strategies than I already had

Can't play this yet but hopefully over the summer my friend will get bored of the game after 100%ing it so I'll get my chance. Still, really happy to see the spike in subs, you really do deserve them

It wasn't until watching this video that I realized what the pink spikes around some enemies names means. It means they have a counter spike of some kind doesn't it. That's a really useful visual

Great guide.

Awesome guide!

Back then I never use this method because because it too OP. I always challenge myself without using Chain Attack or Topple lock against superbosses. It take a lot of time but it really fun.

Enel: "Make sure to subscribe to the channel because it really does help out so much" Reyn: "I know, I know" 0:36 Also thanks for this guide, I have always been interested to see what topple locking was like.

I've been topple-locking through the whole game it's great. I just slap some night vision and agility on my party and farm monsters 10-20 levels higher than me.

tks for confirming to me that topple locking is still in the game

I miss smash and lunch ;P It looks hilarious in XEN2.

I remember beating avalanche abassy without knowing how to topplelock roughly 5 years ago.

I really love this game I'm at level 33 so far and my team are sharla, shulk, and reyn

Great work Enel! But I have a question for you: would you recommend using a set of gems like "Topple Plus + Double Attack" on characters like Shulk, Seven or Reyn instead of something like "Attack Stability + Attack Plus"? I've always cheesed the game due to the topple lock, but maybe it's more fun to overpower superbosses, rather than toppling them endlessly. Considering that the autoattack bug no longer exists, what would you recommend?

Just wondering, are you gonna do the more memey builds like Dejeweled Shirtless Dunban as well?

Are you planning to make another video that shows off high damage with this strat? I think this video does a great job of going over the basics of Topple Locking for each superboss, but it would be cool to showcase the damage potential using Topple Up in conjunction with this, in place of AP Up gems.

I played Xenoblade 2 long before this game, so Fiora being the final party member was the most obvious twist ever, honestly I was more surprised that Reyn wasn't the one who got 'killed' at the beginning of the game, poor guy seemed like a background extra for the entire play-through

For other less essential skill links, would Riki’s “Pretty Stars” and “Amazing Stars” be useful, since they increase strength and reduce cool down by 15% respectively during nighttime, and can work alongside Night Vision Gems?

Soo. I'm using agility up gems but am still having trouble hitting Blizzard Belgazas.

thanks to this i now feel very powerful but also very dirty

Thank you for your fine work. It is most helpful. I have a problem with Daedala. I can beat him once in a while but I have trouble keeping him down after I topple him. Then I have to get the party meter up to topple him again. I can usually do that but most times toward the end Shulk can't get his meter up fast enough. Can you tell me what I am mssing?

Great and useful guide like always but I have a question, do you ever plan to speedrun XcX?

I remember accidently topple locking mumkhar during the entire fight

Just a random question i had, auto attack damage is relevant in all types of damage calculation right? Mainly asking about ether arts

This guide is amazing, however I am still struggling to take down Ancient Daedala. I'm playing the classic Wii version, and in it the boss has an ether field around it that quickly damages you even while it's toppled. Also, do you explain the tension mechanic anywhere? Because I'm still struggling to understand it. Thank you for the help!

Man I've played this game wrong for so long. No wonder I died so much. I'm amazed I ever beat the game!

maybe i’m just bad but i feel like (without topple locking) the super bosses in this game are much harder than 2 i’m just talking about the base game btw, not challenge mode or dlc or anything like that. now with topple locking is a different story

Despotic arsene has high agility but it does not matter as much because you can use Dunbans demon slayer to force topple on him by using the weak enemies in the area

Ah yes the classic gg ez no re strat, Good guide as usual. Are you planning on making any vids on future connected at some point?

I find Riki useful in topple locking because he has happy happy which very quickly refills party gauge so you can reset the topple counter. Plus he can force topple with roly poly.

One funny strategy that showcases how absurd topple locking is involves Demon Slayer, Dunban's final art. It forces topple on any enemy in a fight if it finished off an enemy. So what you can do is have Dunban in the lead, max out your party gauge, lure a weaker enemy, weaken it so it is almost dead, attack the big scary enemy you actually want to fight, switch over to the weaker enemy, then start a chain attack. Now you can kill the weaker enemy with Demon slayer, and the stronger enemy is now toppled. This works on any enemy (EDIT: that you can topple), so you can theoretically punch way above your weight with this tactic. This is how I got the Rudra early. You have to kill these lvl 83 Feris in Satorl Marsh and I was around lvl 69. I couldn't hit the Feris even with Night Vision 4 gems on my party, so I cheesed it with this Demon Slayer strategy.

I 100%'d this game on both the Wii and the Dolphin Emulator (forced 1080p this game looks gorgeous on PC). I always used Melia for topple lock. She made it very very easy as she doesn't require a break art. IDK. Never had a problem using her. Maybe it's different for the Switch version.

I've been farming Blizzard Belgazus for AP up gems, but for my past 3 attempts I just haven't gotten any visions. He'll kill Fiora with his opening attack, but I never get a vision for it so I can't raise tension for the chain attacks. Any idea why this is happening?

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but can you Topple Lock, without NG+ and No Skill Links? I'm trying that currently and I only need to kill Belgazas and Abaasy it's quite unfortunate that Spike Def VI isn't 100% though

I HAD to click on the video when I saw the thumbnail. Topple locking is B U S T E D lol

All you need to do is to max out your level to 99, max out all your arts, max out all your gems. Equip just the right arts and then your set. But it sort of surprised me he hasn't sort his arts. Personally I usually sort Dunbans break -> topple chain next to each other etc.

How do auras work in regards to chain attacks. Are their timers still ticking or are you still reaping the rewards of the aura but the timer is stopped/ slow during a chain attack? Also can Melia force topple super bosses with her kick?

About the AP gems, what's the best way to grind AP after you get them? Is it the same spot you used in your SP farming video (the birds in fallen arm)?

I have a question. Why I have lower statistics than yours for all characters, if I have exactly the same equipment and the same gems?

Does having the master art books from time attack make a huge difference or would it be better to just get the advanced ones?

What skill trees and links do you recommend for the shulk dunban reyn combo

6:28 Yes I learned the game by fighting Marcus so many times and now I kill the other superbosses buy doing nothing after 1 chain attack

Ah yes the main strategy I used during future connected

What if topples stacked in Xenoblade 2 though, chain attacks and fusion combos would be insane

I struggle to topple lock still on them damned aura bosses. I know it's my own timing and fault but the 2nd most way I die is doing big ass damage on aura to have it reflect back and one shot me xD the most common way I die is ofc falling...for some reason fall damage is my true personal final boss.

Love your guides Could you make a video for a viable "inner peace" team where nobody has armour but can dodgetank for days?

can you upload some screenshots of the locations of like where the superbosses are and where to go after you finish main game and stuff. thats stuff i know i need but cant find (on discord)

Enel can you post a guide for the best setup with fiora shulk and dunban?

A quick question for those who have finished the game: After beating the game, do you have the choice between starting ng+ or continue playing on your savefile, or are you forced into ng+ ?

Do you think itll ever be possible to get the max dmg cap in DE bc 9million(Or whatever it is) would be a much more diffcult in this game over xc2.

I wish I knew about topple locking 100 hours ago 😂

Please make a riki guide...i know he sounds really basic but I really want to know how to effectively use him. Thanks