Top 5 Worst Xenoblade Bosses 

The problem I had with the power lines was that I DIDN’T KNOW THEY WERE THERE

For a game well know for its excessive tutorials, I'm very surprised at how spike damage wasn't explained at all in XC2

me who's died like 10 times on Aeshma's core over 2 playthroughs: there's fucking spike damage in xenoblade 2?

I'm honestly glad I was already aware of the infamy of Lorithia long before i got to her, knowing you had to go in with an Ether team made the fight relatively painless.

Lothria nearly made me rage quit Xenoblade 1 as I had never used Melia throughout the entire game. I finally scrapped through but I was so done at that point. The rest of the final bosses were pushovers

Xenoblade 2 be like: “Remember how much the first few hours of me sucked because you’re stuck playing solo Rex with no tanking or healing? Wanna do that again?” Thank goodness XC3 had the basic kindness to give you a decently-sized party right off the bat (with full access to break-topple-daze, no less!)

I was quite surprised to see morag #1 cuz frankly I breezed through the fight with ease and had much more trouble with lorithea in DE. But now I look back and realize I had wulfric and avant-garde medal on Rex and I kinda took that for granted lmao.

For the xenoblade x final boss I literally left my Wii U running all night to recharge my skell outside the boss arena because I was out of fuel and there was no way in hell I was doing that shit on foot.

AFTER ALMOST 5 YEARS OF XENOBLADE 2, I NOW DISCOVER THAT AESHMA CORE HAS SPIKE DAMAGE

As a Melia main (yes, I played her all the time. I like playing mages) I never had realized that Lorythia was supposed to be HARD. I was pretty shocked when I talked to a friend of mine who had never played her ahah

Not to mention in the fight against Morag the level scales, and when you play as Morag mainly its basically fighting yourself. making it even harder.

I think the #1 was very badly designed because if you can't beat her for any specific reason (no good rare blade, not over leveled), it's much harder to level up and all that so in that situation, you are just stuck forever

#1: Morag Me: "What?" From Chapter 10 Me: "Ohhhhhh."

good vid. Morag 3 does suck. Honestly was in the situation where I thought it was impossible for me. I only got through because you can actually get Morag stuck on the fence in the area and then use a blade with an ether cannon or bitball and just sit there and let auto attacks beat the boss for you. Only downside is it takes forever.

Honestly, I thought that the Mòrag’s boss in Chapter 10 was her anger against me for replacing her with Poppi QTpi. It was my first time actually fighting that boss and for the Phantasm and PowerLine boss, they weren’t too difficult imo. But that one just made me kinda frustrated.

On top of everything you said about Lorithia, one of my biggest gripe with her is how she could confuse your entire party and make them walk into the ether pools. On the first time around, that was brutal. Also, I didn't have trouble against Morag as much as I had trouble against Tora. I think your party members also use whatever equipment is left on them. I may have accidently left a Spike Damage Aux core on Poppi or something because it was absolute hell to play around that. Also around this time, I was getting Joycon drift.

Thanks for the heads up for xenoblade 1 and 2 worst boss battles cause I really did need the heads up

That Morag battle was really tough. I mean at least it taught me how pouch items works xD And once you use them the fight gets way easier^^

Great video! I was surprised Xord's fight wasn't here bc his fight was the only time in the series I rage quit lol but the number 1 slot was really funny to me because crossette carried me hard through it without me knowing how hard it actually is

Well I don’t know if someone already commented this, but you can easily win the fight against Morag if you run behind the railings with a blade that has a cannon (can also be a common one I guess). Then she gets stuck and you can shoot her from the distance until she is defeated. First I was completely frustrated as well, since Morag was on a way higher level than Rex for me. But then fortunately I found this trick in a thread online

Oh my GOD was the final battle in Xenoblade X difficult. I had never really been stuck on a boss in a Xenoblade game before, and then the Vita came along.

Thinking about Xenoblade bosses made me think about how I had to fight the final boss of 2 4 times not because it was hard, but because my game crashed 3 times while doing it. the first 2 times happened out of nowhere but I thought I knew what it was after the 2nd time 3rd time was on purpose to see if I was right and I was. Up to that point I had never used the pyra/Nia combo with pyra as my main blade only Nia (didn't even know they where different) so I didn't know using pyra version would crash my game so I just didn't use it. X and the power lines where the only ones here that I remember having a hard time with, I used melia quite a bit and for that fight just felt right. Phantoms I think took 3 tries.

What some harsh memories did you just make me remember 😭 If I can add one more boss to this list, Gadolt in XC1 really traumatized me too lmao

I'm truly baffled by the people who just use Shulk/Reyn/Sharla the whole game, not even trying other party members. Once I get Dunban, Sharla is mostly riding the bench for the rest of the game, and I'm constantly shifting around my party using all sorts of different combinations, and those combinations almost never include Sharla.

I didn’t have any issues with a lot of these bosses. I don’t even remember the power lines having spike and I took them out in like 30 seconds after seeing them when I destroyed the turret. Lorithia only took me 2 attempts and I’m pretty sure I used the Shulk/Reyn/Sharla pair up, though it did take a long time and I have a natural instinct to kill mobs that bosses spawn anyway. Morag got really close to killing me but I had Perceval on Rex from start to finish with more attack than most of my offensive units. Just luck I guess, cause I’ve heard a lot of people complain about these

I honestly don’t remember how hard fighting Lorithia was, I can’t remember whether I beat her on my first try or died a couple of times before beating her.

From what I can tell, there aren’t any spikes in XC3; THANK GOODNESS!!!!

"If I played Xenoblade 2 first I would have no idea what killed me the first few times!" I PLAYED XENOBLADE 1 FIRST AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT KILLED ME

Godfrey was honestly my MVP when facing against the party members at Chapter 10. I was pretty indifferent before, but those fight sequences made me like him a bit. Edit: Oh I didnt know that cutscene locks out blades that were equipped on other party members. Now I am feeling very lucky since Godfrey was supposed to be on Zeke's main team, but I somehow unequipped him before that lol

one funny thing about the morag fight is that it can be extremely easy to cheese in new game+. besides the fact that you get access to all your blades in new game+ during this fight, you can also just set your level 1 and she will also be level 1.

I do admit that Shulk/Reyn/Sharla is my comfort team in XC1, because it's the most basic and easy to use. But throughout my playthroughs of 3D and Definitive Edition, whenever I needed a particular boss dead, I'd call in the Anti-Boss Squad: my Dunban/Melia/Riki. Melia may not be the most fun to use, but even my Shulk-loving pea brain realized how much of a linchpin she can be to any party combo.

Two words for the Core and Ch. 10 Morag fights. CRIT HEALS! I always have an Avant Garde Medal or lower rank equivalent equipped because crit healing is the most sustainable method of survival in XC2. It becomes less reliable in endgame content, mind you. But it's an easy cheese strategy to get you through the game. Also, the first fight against Patroka and Mikhail in the Old Factory or against Malos and Jin on the Cliffs of Morytha were far worse.

Shout outs to chapter 1 Malos for basically soft locking you if you go in unprepared on Bringer of Chaos difficulty. Can't open the menu to lower the difficulty, so better hope you can level up enough on the level one krabbles hidden way out of the way before your Narcipear Jelly runs out.

The power line spike damage btw a common strategy I hear used is cycle between hitting the turret and the power lines, the turret has its own damage ofc but you can usually just attack the turret to get time to heal everyone back up, then swap back to the power lines

I also had a really hard time with the Morag fight in chapter 10 at first, but I later equipped a (Tank) blade and easily defeated her in one try. The problem is that she has wayy more health and defense than you, so it's nearly impossible to defeat her with an (Attacker) or (Healer) blade, you need a Tank blade so you can handle her attacks and not die in like two hits lmao

You reminded me of all the boss fights i struggled on severely during my XC2 playthrough (first full xeno game for me too). Aeshma's Core, Phantasms, Memory Morag, also some awful difficulty spikes with Malos both in Uraya and Morytha Cliffs (first fight). Those are probably my bottom 5 from XC2 specifically.

YOU'LL PAY FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!!

The xenoblade 2 ones are kind of funny to me. The only fight I remember really struggling on was the final boss. I had been playing on Rex for pretty much the entire game with the blades Pyra/Sheba/Cosmos and kind of just blazed through to the end. Even with bonus xp I was a bit under-leveled and up to that point I still had not understood how to do orb bursting, or how to combine the break combo with the element combo. I literally died on that fight over a dozen times because of this. I guess it was my fault for not paying attention enough to how the combat worked, but it really made that last fight a pain.

The strat I found for aeshma was to grind up party gauge on the core and then use a chain attack on the power lines

I agree with all of these picks. I encountered a glitch during the final boss of Xenoblade X where my skells were destroyed and ran out of power at the same time when I killed the final boss. After that all my party members were just stuck. I could still move the camera but there was no music. And that sucked because it took me hours to beat all 5 phases. As for your number 1… yep I made the mistake of using an Inn to level up all my characters right before this battle and Zeke and Morag were level 78 while Rex was 72 making it way harder. I even tried to grind Rex up by himself but that didn’t work out well. Eventually I got past the fight but I swear it was sheer luck.

For the Morag/Team fight i just equiped 3 healing blades with 2 healing actions each and kept switching between them to just spam attacks for healing potions and I was just strong enough to not get one-shot by one of Morags combos. There wasn't really any other method at that time that would have me beat these 4 bosses back to back without loosing my sanity

I just started mashing buttons during the phantasm dream scene in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Hated that portion and felt so relived after beating it

0:58 Well I can definitely say that there is at least two bosses I can define as these in 3... at least in terms of hero quest consuls. Funnily enough they share a similar problem: status scummers.. Keep in mind, I fought those two on hard mode so the damage and the amount they could cast at once was increased

im replaying xenoblade 2 and i've been avoiding giving rex any rare blades cause u'know. thank god u reminded me of the morag fight.

I loved the Vita fight, it sure was tough but my only problem was losing a skell lmao

I used Electra for the Morag fight, and I know she's generally considered either the worst or second worst blade in the game but in a 1-on-1 like that she makes it trivial with the right core chips. I also had Nim with a specials recharge pouch item and just spammed special one, since it has decent damage and really good healing. Honestly didn't realise the Morag fight was difficult without blades that work for it

In my playthrough of Xenoblade X, I happened to over-prepare for it. I made sure to get everyone in my party to level 60, and I also had the lvl 50 Zweihand-Q superweapon on my skell. I took down Luxxar in one hit in the first two phases. The only thing that stopped me from completely steamrolling through it was the attack that depletes your skell's fuel in the final phase.

I feel like the phantasm fight would be way less annoying if you just had to defeat a certain number of them like 10 or something because it's not like defeating all of them is a narrative thing because even after beating all of them the cutscene just shows more appearing anyway.

ch. 10 morag at no. 1 confused me a bit, i get why you put it at no. 1, i also distinctly getting to lv 99 before getting into the fights because all the superbosses opened up, getting kos mos around chapter 5 because i grinded for it, and just getting relatively good luck with the blades i had equiped on rex, i think i had herald, azami, and roc in the last slot, that party was set up to get through the team especially since i still had the overclocking bangle on rex.

"Morag..." Me: Why?! "...from chapter 10." Me: Oh yeah that makes sense lol.

For the final one, you do get an avant garde medal from a chest pretty much right before this fight, which will heal you for every crit you get… soooo with that form of healing it’s easy to do by yourself long as you use a blade with decent crit rate

Well there is one strategy for the Morag fight that guarantees the win, but it’s not guaranteed that u will have access to the strategy… it’s if you have any ether cannon blade, any at all- you can stand behind one of the fences in the arena and fire at morag at at range where she can’t hit you. Basically put the controller down and wait till she’s dead :)

Tyrea and Solidum Telethia are easily my number one. My god, that was such an absurd spike in difficulty compared to the rest of the game. Haven’t spent so long retrying a boss fight in any of the other games. I actually beat Lorithia on my first try somehow, but I can definitely see how she’s more hated.

The fights against your own party members in Ch 10 were infuriating, but I got insanely lucky. Somehow, Morag got stuck running behind a blockade, and I had Azami equipped. I was able to just barely escape her range and just whittled down her health with basic blast shots. Oh well, got through it lol

As someone who only played Xenoblade Chronicles 2, I agree with ALL Of your Xenoblade 2 Boss Entries on this list.

i'm going to have fun with some of the bosses because i got kos-mos early, like 25-30 pulls, but the funny part is this is like a fresh playthrough and it too me 250 hours to get kos-mos on my first playthough with NG+. but still all of the XC2 bosses you mentioned were such a pain i hated them , but most of them where fun.

I just discovered about the power cables spikes and lorithia defense novas. Better late than never i guess

#1 also does intresting things on NG+ because it uses their gear. I had Poppi alpha use 97% block rate ultimate shield for stuff before I did NG+. When I got to those fights, I had to deal with the 97% blockrate, huge defenses, and 50% chance to deal no damage. On the otherhand though in NG+, you can take all of their equipment away and delevel them to makw it really easy.

I forgot xenoblade 2 has spikes, I only remember them from 1!

I honestly didn't have that much trouble because I kept grinding until I reached the max as I went along.

Great video. You’re right, XC2 NOT EXPLAINING SPIKE DAMAGE. Blew my mind. For a long time I thought the game didn’t even have spike damage until I played the challenge battles

For the phantumps. How do you get that sun poppi Shield?

are you gonna make an updated version that includes xc3?

Mòrag's chapter 10 fight got me too. I took more than 1 day to beat it. I eventually found out about Ursula's blowdown and I got it 2 tries after that

I had to walk my best friend through the Power Wire fight over discord. It was fun watching him conquer that boss!

The phantom fight went on forever for me, because I didn't have access to AOE attacks and frankly it took far too many phantoms to trigger the cutscene. Unironically I hated the Morag fight; I'm so glad that I had that catgirl healer blade with the passive to heal when moving around, so I kited and bugged her into a lamppost while moving back and forth, lol. I played the original XC on the Wii over a decade ago; I don't remember spike damage whatsoever, but the first time I attempted those power lines was annoying af because of said spike damage, with no reason given as to why it happened. I just tried it a second time and this time it worked out, but that's because my tactic was always to chain attack at a certain point (even if I had no idea how it really worked because that tutorial said the opposite to what it needed to and didn't explain the god damn orbs and how to make them...or that the player even could lmfao)

WAIT, IT WAS SPIKE DAMAGE THAT KILLED ME SO OFTEN AGAINST THAT GODDAMN CANON?!

I pretty much agree with this entire list. I didn't have much issues with the power lines personally as I noticed the spike damage in an instant (thanks to their abundance in XC1's endgame) to then equip myself accordingly. But MAN was that final XCX boss frustrating, definitely the number one for me. The 3rd phase especially, as you mentioned, was a nightmare without skells. This whole final boss left a very sour taste in my mouth and made me kinda hate the skell mechanic as a whole. If I had to replace the power lines with something else in my top 5, it'd probably be another XCX boss honestly. This game was brutal towards the later chapters, especially when you refuse to look up anything online like me :p Also, I'm quite happy that XC3 didn't have a single stinker throughout the entire thing, even on hard mode, though a lot of them have way too much hp on hard, especially the moebius. But mechanically speaking, all of them were fair.

I actually beat Lorithia fairly easily, but then again my entire party was level 89 and I was using Melia anyway as it seemed thematically appropriate to have her fight this boss.

When I first fought Morag, I lost so badly I thought that it was meant to be an unwinnable fight with a cutscene after where Rex has to run away. But nope, I was just put at the top of an escalator and had to run down for almost an hour

I think the way I beat Morag in my first playthrough was by going to an inn and leveling up Rex a bunch.

The Morag fight with Electra is a cakewalk. Lorithia is hard but it was hinted many times to switch characters in specific boses, i.e. Dunban against Mumkhar.

Funny strat my brother used to beat the final boss of X, it was hours in the fight due to how many phases he had and every time he made it to the last phase he'd get wiped by the big aoe the boss has. So the work around he had was that the final starts with your skell getting it's gas sucked to 0 so he fought long enough to have some gas returned and have his skell take the hit from the aoe and win.

Remember for xenoblade chronicles x make sure you do all the side quests first before the final boss

If you put any Knuckle Claws on Rex you can actually dominate the 1v1, including the mandatory tutorial wind common Knuckle Claw Blade you're forced to awaken and can't release at the beginning of the game. The combination of Blowdown and and the healing make it an incredible weapon for the purposes of the 1v1 if you get 1 of the rare knuckle claw blades, ESPECIALLY Kora whose literally created for this fight and has no other reason to exists makes this fight even easier and if you have a common Water Knuckle Claw Morag goes down even faster.

Morag in Chapter 10 was quite easy to beat if you just use a common blade who is a healer. You are literally guaranteed a wind knuckle claw common blade. And by that point in the game, you probably have 99 common cores, so there is no way you won't be able to find a bitball healer to keep yourself alive.

i guess the line "you will pay for your insolence" was actually meant for us, the player, rather than to the characters we played as. and we did got paid hard if we didn't use melia.

Something goofy about the Aeshma’s core boss fight is there’s a hidden chest on the way that has a spike resist level 2 aux core. It’s like they knew you’d prolly need this, but never bothered to explain the spike damage mechanic when you’d need it the most… Xenoblade 2 is a funny ass game.

I know it's a dlc fight but Elma: Redux. You can only use dark specials because you NEED seal reinforcements, and you have to kill 3 reinforcements she summoned first because each reinforcement seals one of your party gauge. 😑

Now you need to add the final boss of 3 here.

Ill predict "you'll pay for insolence" will come on here

The power lines were a nightmare considering I started xenoblade on 2, I was just consistsntly strategizing how to beat the power lines spike dmg and after 20 attempts with really unlucky chain attacks, I finally beat it, worst fight of all time for me Especially considering I didn’t even notice the spike dmg for over half my attempts and the aoes from the turret shredding my party

I agree with you on the last pick because although I never experienced it myself, I know for a fact that if I had no way to even grind core crystals because my party is all GONE until I beat these bosses, I’d just quit the game right there

it doesn't help that its a (literal) nightmare, and the track for the fight is just this eerie, discordant and slowly rising screech, and against one of your own party members. like idk I remember Mörag basically was like "Mor Ardain has been destroyed because I trusted you to find Elysium. We should've known better than to trust you..' and i just felt ;-;

I'm surprised that the final phases weren't mentioned for Number 2, where it literally disables your skell. The first time I beat it I had to do an exploit that allowed me to avoid the disabling of my skell. It was basically impossible for me any other way at the time.

I know this is an outdated list but another good strat with lorithia is using riki, his aoe healing helped me out a lot against the silly nova explosions

I’ve played through XC2 3 times and still didn’t know the power lines had a spike, I just thought ashema’s core was doing a gross amount of damage

Tip for the phantasm fight, max out boreas skill that heals you completely when you kill an enemy

The fog king was a pain in the arse with that massive topple time

I wanna go :) Future Connected and Torna aren't going to be here because I never actually played them, but Xenoblade 3 bosses outside of the final boss (haven't gotten there yet) are fair game. Optional Boss Fights are allowed, but only really if they're memorable enough to be mentioned. Overall, I'd say that designing bosses for Xenoblade games is an interesting prospect. A lot of good fights get carried by their surrounding story and spectacle more than their gameplay because the game's combat is centered around the player rather than the enemies. What I mean by that is bosses should be varied to make them interesting, but those variations need to be both obvious enough for the player to notice but not override the gameplay to an oppressive level. I'll go over the generals for each combat system per game. Xenoblade 1's combat is the most straight-forward in the series. It has exploitable mechanics that the game tells you about, mainly break > topple > daze during chain attacks, or if you know about the topple exploit, break > topple > topple > topple. Even ignoring that, the game has other easy to access mechanics that are super exploitable. The way agility works in this game is the example that first comes to mind, where it's tied to both accuracy and evasion and the way those percentages are calculated is additive, which means you can realistically get a high enough agility score where enemies will have as low as a 10% chance of hitting you without needing to overlevel by mid game (I discovered how extreme this got during a no-clothing run where I reached a roadblock during the Bionite Order fight where the problem was not that the horde of enemies shredded through my tank, but that Dunban got locked in the dodge animation, preventing him from drawing aggro, this was before getting access to the ability that gives him a 30% boost to agility when naked, which I unlocked during Valak Mountain). The exception to this rule comes in the form of ether arts, which I rarely see from enemies. When I fought the superbosses, I also didn't use a topple build. Instead, I gave Shulk the ability that increases his talent gauge during visions (and also that one gem that builds up talent gauge faster), which resulted in the fights becoming very straight-forwards. Shulk in particular is a very straight-forwards character who the player is incentivized to use for most of the game due to him having the most readily accessible answers to the mechon and telethia enemies, where it's rare not to be dealing with one of two during the main story. The way Xenoblade 1's combat is balanced is that the party each has their character specific roles that they want to accomplish while enemies will try to disrupt those roles through visions. The combat is at it's most fun when you are trying to prevent visions while under a time limit. The best bosses in the game take advantage of visions (the exception is Xord, who I enjoyed fighting due to him challenging the player to break > topple > daze him during chain attacks, so the fight is about building up the chain attack meter and bursting him down while trying not to die). Egil and Zanza come to mind primarily because of Egil's infinity damage attack and Zanza turning visions into quick time events. Personally, I think any boss that requires the player to react to them is at least functional in this game. Xenoblade 1 is also the only game that really plays with its arenas, and that's for a good reason. Dying because the AI is too stupid to avoid stage hazards isn't fun, I also wasn't a fan of how the final Egil fight locks you out of using positional arts, which are a huge part of Shulk's kit. I think 1 had the most creative boss designs out of the series simply because its combat was balanced around reacting to enemies, which afforded the designers the ability to make the story bosses creative. Alongside that, the series's combat system hasn't been refined yet, so this game has the most amount of the devs trying things which they might have decided wouldn't be appropriate for future entries. Xenoblade Chronicles X both has my favorite gameplay and my least favorite combat system in the series. A lot of the fun I have in X is exploring the world and playing around enemies outside of combat. Such as observing the giant dinosaur things or keeping an eye out for the level 60 tyrant in that field in oblivia that only comes out during the daytime. I have several problems with X's combat that go beyond the game just never properly explaining it. The combat is entirely centered on what the player character is doing and how they are built. There's very little playing around enemies or party members in this game, which results in honest combat encounters feeling very samey. I say honest encounters because my most memorable in-combat moments in the game are when overlevelled enemies either do walk in on the fight or very easily could if I'm not being careful. I usually play as Elma, especially during the main story because she's cool, the Cross is the only character who has to deal with the downside of class systems (being that if you want the best stuff, you often have to spend at least a little time playing as classes that aren't fun), and Elma is the only character with Ghost Factory (you can't access it until you complete her post-game mission). The main thing that makes Elma interesting to play as besides that is her more nuanced positional arts compared to other characters. Sliding Slinger in particular is memorable during Chapter 5 because I have to be extra mindful not to just yeet myself off a cliff in the middle of combat. Violent Streak is interesting because the ability is strongest in a horde of enemies but it has the highest risk of accidentally aggroing something. I also like how she's a glass canon who could be played as an evasion tank. The subtle ways characters can be adjusted in playstyle as you get comfortable with them is a fun feature of Xenoblades 1 and X that don't really translate into 2 and 3 due to those games embracing class systems more wholely. Another thing I like in X's combat was how it handled repositioning. You can either reposition slowly and still auto attack or you can reposition quickly, which prevents auto attacks. It feels a lot better than what 2 did. So those are the things in X's combat that I like. Regarding the stuff in X's combat that I dislike, I hate how heavily build-dependent it is. Most of the strategies you can come up with in the game come down to building your character a specific way and executing on that build. There's very little in-the-moment reactions you have to keep track of. I think managing TP was supposed to be part of the game, but it's very easy to just make builds that replenish TP so quickly that you barely have to manage it, and if you don't use stuff like that, TP builds up so slowly that using TP arts just isn't fun. A lot of improving at the game's combat felt like me understanding what specific buffs mean (like decoy in particular, I think barrier is another one but I haven't bothered learning what exactly it is, stasis is another good example) and receiving clarification on mechanics that the game never properly taught me. Most of my reaction to bosses would come down to opening up the wiki, checking what classification of enemy it is and double checking what type of damage it does, then equipping augments (or armor) that specifically either multiply damage against that class and/or give bonus resistances because those stats are the best source of general offense and defense. The resistances are the more offensive ones because there are six different damage types that aren't easily distinguished from each other. Often times you'll have something like an enemy discharges lightning and it's an ether attack rather than an electric attack or they'll fire a laser at you which is a thermal attack rather than a beam attack. On top of that, every attack is distinguished between being melee or ranged, which has their own resistances. In case you're out of the know, the six elements are physical, beam, ether, gravity, electric, and thermal. I personally would get physical and melee attacks confused and I also got the ether and gravity icons mixed up, even years after first playing the game. Improving at X's combat did not feel rewarding because most of it felt like learning stuff that I should have already known from the start. But once I did understand these things, a lot of the game just got torn through, which resulted in uninteresting gameplay. Overall, the game's combat was very complex but not particularly deep.

The easiest solution for me in the Ch. 10 Morag fight is the guarenteed kuckle claw you get at the beginning of the game. HP potions are your best friend here.

I remember being SUPER lucky during my first playthrough of 2 with what blades i had on rex and i was able to steamroll Ch. 10 Morag and then on a second playthrough i got absolutely obliterated by her for AGES was not a very fun experience.

boss 3 was the reason why I didn't beat xenoblade for 8 years. I eventually replayed the deluxe version and got past her eventually, but man what a fight

When I was first playing through the game, I knew of Lorithia's infamy and how so many people had trouble with her. But when I finally reached her boss battle, I didn't struggle at all. I don't even remember how my fight with her went. I was wondering why she was so infamous for her difficulty, and I thought maybe I just overleveled too much (probably was a large factor, the nametag was brown)... until I watched this video. I never really main any one character, constantly cycling party members. So I just choose whoever is most relevant to the story at the time to play as. Which means, it's guaranteed I was playing Melia at the time.

Flyann footage poggg

The Morag fight wasn't helped by the long walk back down the stairs lol

I love this guy!

Personally I'd replace the power lines fight with the Jin and Malos fight in Morythia, but that's just because I only got a TPK once on the Core/Power Lines while I had to swap my team, blades and cores around multiple times trying to figure out a way to get past how stupidly accurate the two of them are with their debuffs, but I did also go straight from a binge playthrough of 1 to 2, so I recognized spike damage almost immediately, which probably made the power lines fight easier on me As for Mórag... Absolutely one of the hardest fights for me, I had also been maining Mórag for most of the game and now had to adjust to using Rex out of nowhere, that was "fun"

I ran with Zenobia on Rex through the whole game. I was thinking of Overdriving her to Zeke many times but decided to wait a bit longer. Then I drew KOS-MOS (with Zeke) from an uncommon orb and never thought about it again :P

I can't speak for X, but I can absolutely speak for #5, #4, and #1. #5 is actually worse on the Seal Reinforcements: its *impossible*, since the manual for the Dark Core is at the trip through Morythia, and the Stage to get the Dark Core is unlocked in the Chapter RIGHT AFTER the fight, so you have to sit and take those reinforcements no matter what. #4 is accurate to a tee. It is also why the weakest superboss of XC2 is also the hardest: spike damage is stupid. And #1 is 'nuff said. Peak bad design is punishing the player for something that is totally unknown until the moment it hits, and at endgame, no less.