How to Unlock Riku and Manana and Ascension Quest Conditions

Riku and Manana are a pair of recruitable heroes in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Read on to learn more about Riku and Manana's stats, Arts, skills, and chain attack bonuses as well as how to unlock Riku and Manana's Hero Quest and Ascension Quest!

How to Unlock Riku and Manana

Unlock During a Hero Quest in Chapter 3

Riku and Manana will join your party during the Hero Quest A Nopon's Counsel and becomes recruitable heroes upon completing the mission. A Nopon's Counsel is part of the main story and starts in the middle of Chapter 3.

A Nopon's Counsel Walkthrough

Riku and Manana Profile and Voice Actor

Riku & Manana	Class	Role
	Yumsmith	Attacker
	Tier Rank	Nation
		Keves
Voice Actors
ENG: Tarin Callender & Grace Saif	JP: Sayaka Senbongi & Aya Suzaki
Description
Riku and Manana are good at exploiting the enemies' weaknesses and help their team by applying debuffs on their enemies. Riku uses a gun as his weapon, while Manana uses a shield.

Though Riku is from Keves and Manana is from Agnus, their class is classified under Keves.

Riku and Manana Hero Rating

Riku and Manana Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Riku and Manana specialize in inflicting various debuffs on enemies, making them ideal support characters to set up linked combos on enemies.

Weaknesses

Keeping Riku and Manana's health up long enough in tough battles can prove to be difficult, and they would need constant healing and defensive support. Their offensive capabilities are also somewhat lacking, so you would still need another Attacker on the squad to deliver the heavy blows.

Riku and Manana Ascension Quest Unlock Conditions

Culinary Repertoire

After recruiting Riku & Manana, they and their class will be capped at Rank 10. To break the class limit and rank them up to Rank 20, you must first complete their Ascension Quest: Culinary Repertoire.

Culinary Repertoire Walkthrough

Riku and Manana Best Arts

Best Combat Arts

Art	Attack Type	AoE	Base Effect
Final Say	Ether Attack	One Target	Boosts damage dealt when attacking from the front by 70%.
Roasty-Toasty	Ether Attack	AOE on target	Field range of effect - medium
Ready-Steady	Stance	Self	Deal 150% more and take 25% less damage while within a field effect.

Ready Steady is very useful for Teams that use Field Arts since it allows Riku and Manana to increase strength, reduce damage and enjoy the benefits of the Field Arts. Roasty-Toasty inflicts Blaze, allowing you to deal continuous damage, while Final Say makes attacking larger enemies much easier.

Riku and Manana Arts And Skills

Arts List

Combat Arts

Base Art Information
Wok-a-Block	Area of Effect	One Target	Power Multiplier	140%
	Buff/ Debuff	-	Reaction	Break
	Recharge Type	Time Recharge	Recharge Gauge	11s
	Effect	Inflicts Break on enemy when attacking from one side.
Final Say	Area of Effect	One Target	Power Multiplier	325%
	Buff/ Debuff	Shackle Blocking	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Time Recharge	Recharge Gauge	23s
	Effect	Boosts damage dealt when attacking from the front by 70%.
Roasty-Toasty	Area of Effect	AOE on target	Power Multiplier	140%
	Buff/ Debuff	Blaze	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Time Recharge	Recharge Gauge	14s
	Effect	Field range of effect - medium
Ready-Steady	Area of Effect	Self	Power Multiplier	0%
	Buff/ Debuff	-	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Time Recharge	Recharge Gauge	44s
	Effect	Deal 150% more and take 25% less damage while within a field effect.
Hot Cuisine	Area of Effect	One Target	Power Multiplier	260%
	Buff/ Debuff	Accuracy Down	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Time Recharge	Recharge Gauge	17s
	Effect	None

Talent Art

Base Art Information
Sharpest Tool	Area of Effect	One target	Power Multiplier	870%
	Buff/ Debuff	Damage Link	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Role Action Recharge	Recharge Gauge	4
	Effect	None

Arts Guide: List of All Arts and Effects

Skills List

Skill	Base Effect
Bangsplosion	Boosts field dissolution damage by 100%.
Sappy-Sappy Drain!	Increase success rate of debuff effects by 15 percentage points.
Slicey-Dicey!	Boosts field damage dealt by 100%.
Preppy-Preppy Link!	Fills Chain Attack gauge slightly on Art execution

List of All Skills

Riku and Manana Default Equipment

Default Accessories

Slot	Accessory	Effect
1	Break Brooch	Lowers attack targets' Break resistance by 20 percentage points.
2	Leather Gloves	Boosts accuracy by 2% each time an enemy evades an attack (up to a maximum of 50%)
3	Lustrous Armring	Boosts damage dealt by 30% when HP is at 90% or higher.

List of Accessories

Default Gems

Slot	Gem	Effect
1	Disperse Bloodlust	Reduces aggro generated when using Arts.
2	Swelling Scourge	Boosts power of debuffs applied to enemies.
3	Refined Incantation	Extends duration timers of debuffs applied to enemies.

All Gems and Their Effects

Riku and Manana Chain Attack Effects

Chain Attack Guide

Xenoblade Chronicle 3 Related Guides

List of All Playable and Recruitable Characters

Main Characters

Main Characters
Noah	Lanz	Eunie
Mio	Taion	Sena

List of Main Characters

Recruitable Heroes

Heroes
Ethel	Valdi	Zeon
Teach	Riku and Manana	Gray
Isurd	Juniper	Ashera
Alexandria	Monica	Fiona
Triton	Ghondor	Miyabi
Cammuravi	Segiri	Nia
Melia	Ino	-

List of Recruitable Heroes