Melia Build, Best Arts, Skill Trees, and Usage Guide

This is a profile and usage guide for Melia, a character from Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition for the Nintendo Switch. Here you can find Melia's roles, builds, stats at Lv. 99, best Arts, best skill trees, and official artwork.

Melia Basic Information

Melia Profile

Quick Facts
Name	Melia
Age	88
Race	High Entia
Height	156cm
Gender	Female
Weapon Type	Staff
Voice Actor (Eng.)	Jenna Louise Coleman
Voice Actor (Jp.)	Shiori Katsuta

Melia Introduction

Melia is the princess of the High Entia. She is very prideful at first, but soon warms up to the party and becomes a close ally and friend to Shulk's crew. Melia is is a typical mage archetype, so she has high ether attack and defense at the cost of low HP and physical defense. She can use various ether arts to inflict damage on her foes.

Melia Stats at Lv. 99

Melia's Stats at Lv. 99

HP	Strength	Ether	Agility
3752	311	559	101

Stats Explained

Melia Build and How to Use

Melia Strengths and Weaknesses

Physical Attacks	Ether Attacks	Tanking
Buffing	Debuffing	Healing

Note: A C Rank indicates that the character is either very poor in this role or cannot do it at all.

How to Play Melia

Melia is a glass cannon mage archetype, sacrificing HP/Agility for a high ether stat. This means that Melia is very fragile and must hide behind her allies to avoid drawing aggro and getting one-shotted. Melia's main form of attacking is through using Summon Elemental arts to cast a party buff, then using the Talent Gauge to fire them off. If the talent gauge gets high enough, she will use Element Burst, doubling the effects of her elementals. The higher her tension, the higher this state will continue.

Summon Flare and Summon Bolt are her best offensive options, so be sure to level these up right away. You can summon up to three elementals, then discharge them opposite of the order they were summoned. It is important not to spam them too quickly, or Melia may draw the enemy's aggro.

Other than the two physical Arts (Spear Break and Starlight Kick), which are generally not very useful for Melia, most of her other Arts can be useful in cerain situations. We recommend Mind Blast, which removes enemy auras and seals arts, Summon Aqua and Healing Gift, allowing her to heal herself and her allies, plus two of the following: Burst End, Summon Ice, Summon Earth, Power Effect, or Reflection.

Her best skill tree is Passion, because it boosts Ether, but Honesty (Critical Rate) can be used if you have not unlocked Passion. Gems should enhance her arts, so Blaze Plus, Chill Plus, Electric Plus, Recovery Up, and Ether Up are all solid choices. HP Up will also help boost her low defensive stats.

Melia as an AI

Melia will summon an elemental at the start of battle to buff her teammates. She tends to keep her distance from enemies to avoid drawing aggro, and discharges elementals instead of auto-attacking. Once the Party Gauge gets high enough, she will summon an elemental without discharging it, so that it can instead be used to add to the chain multiplier.

Melia Arts

Name	Lv. Learnt	Effect	Power (%)	CD (sec.)
Elemental Discharge (Electric)	1	Ether Art Fires off the element summoned through Summon Bolt and attacks the enemy.	250 ~ 403	-
Elemental Discharge (Fire)	1	Ether Art Fires off the element summoned through Summon Flare at the enemy and attacks the enemies within range with Blaze Damage.	90 ~ 153	-
Elemental Discharge (Ice)	54	Ether Art Fires off the element summoned through Summon Ice in a circle around Melia to inflict Chill Damage to enemies in the area.	120 ~ 201	-
Elemental Discharge (Wind)	38	Ether Art Fires off the element summoned through Summon Wind and attacks enemies within the area.	150 ~ 303	-
Elemental Discharge (Earth)	46	Ether Art Fires off the element summoned through Summon Earth to attack and poison enemies.	60 ~ 114	-
Elemental Discharge (Water)	30	Ether Art Fires off the element summoned through Summon Aqua and attacks the enemy, absorbing their HP.	20 ~ 47	-
Summon Bolt	1	Ether Art Electricity increases ether. Discharge inflicts large damage.	250 ~ 403	15 ~ 12.3
Summon Flare	1	Ether Art Fire increases strength. Discharge inflicts Blaze damage.	90 ~ 153	30 ~ 24.6
Summon Ice	56	Ether Art Ice reduces ether damage. Discharge inflicts Chill damage.	120 ~ 201	45 ~ 16.7
Hypnotise	1	Ether Art Wrap the enemy in warm ether, sending them to sleep.	-	60 ~ 33
Spear Break	26	Physical Art Throw the enemy back. Physical attack.	120 ~ 255	25 ~ 13.8
Shadow Stitch	29	Ether Art Ether from the ground restricts movement of enemies in range.	-	120 ~ 87.6
Summon Copy	38	Ether Art Resummon the last summoned elemental.	-	45 ~ 24.8
Reflection	50	Ether Art A special ether barrier that causes attacks to rebound on the enemy.	-	30 ~ 16.5
Summon Wind	41	Ether Art Wind increases agility. Discharge inflicts area damage.	150 ~ 303	25 ~ 18.2
Summon Earth	47	Ether Art Earth reduces physical damage. Discharge inflicts Poison damage.	60 ~ 114	90 ~ 49.5
Summon Aqua	33	Ether Art Water causes HP regeneration. Discharge drains enemy HP.	20 ~ 47	15 ~ 12.3
Healing Gift	35	Ether Art Sacrifice own HP to restore the HP of a party member.	100 ~ 100	10 ~ 8.2
Starlight Kick	44	Physical Art A devastating kick. Physical close-combat attack.	150 ~ 312	40 ~ 22
Power Effect	53	Ether Art An Aura that excites elementals, boosting the range of their effects.	-	45 ~ 32.8
Burst End	1	Ether Art Release latent power, reducing the defence of enemies in range.	-	60 ~ 33
Mind Blast	-	Ether Art Release internal strength to seal enemy Arts.	300 ~ 453	90 ~ 57.6

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Melia Skill Trees and Skills

Serenity Skill Tree

Serenity

Honesty

Reliability

Passion

Reticence

Effect		How to Unlock
Agility Up		Default Skill Tree unlocked when Melia becomes playable.
0	1	2	3	4	5
2	5	8	10	12	15

Serenity Skills

Skill	Effect	SP	Coins
Amplified Healing	Increases HP received from Healing Arts (15%).	-	3
Serenity of Water	Increases HP absorbed by water-type Arts (25%).	700	-
Mining Master	Increases chance of finding rare crystals from deposits (5%).	1000	18
Glistening Ice	Extends Chill duration when dealt to an enemy (6).	2000	-
Ultimate Ether	Greatly increases ether (50).	3500	18

Honesty Skill Tree

Serenity

Honesty

Reliability

Passion

Reticence

Effect		How to Unlock
Critical Hit Rate Up		Default Skill Tree unlocked when Melia becomes playable.
0	1	2	3	4	5
2%	4%	6%	8%	10%	15%

Honesty Skills

Skill	Effect	SP	Coins
High Speed	Increases agility (15).	300	20
Whisper of the Wind	Boosts Wind damage (25%).	700	-
Amplified Ether	Grants Ether Up buff at the start of battle (25%, 30 sec).	1000	5
Electric Shock	Boosts electric damage (25%).	2000	-
Enlightenment	Increases accuracy of ether attacks.	3500	25

Reliability Skill Tree

Serenity

Honesty

Reliability

Passion

Reticence

Effect		How to Unlock
Physical Defence Up		Default Skill Tree unlocked when Melia becomes playable.
0	1	2	3	4	5
5	10	20	30	40	50

Reliability Skills

Skill	Effect	SP	Coins
Ether Awareness	Increases ether (25).	300	6
Playing with Poison	Extends Poison duration when dealt to an enemy (15 sec).	700	-
Power of the Moon	Increases strength during the night (15%).	1000	12
Unyielding Heart	Prevents reduction of accuracy when tension falls (50%).	2000	18
Ether Guard	Grants immunity to Ether Down debuff.	3500	20

Passion Skill Tree

Serenity

Honesty

Reliability

Passion

Reticence

Effect		How to Unlock
Ether Up		Acquired through completing the Ancient High Entia Mystery Side Quest.
0	1	2	3	4	5
10	30	40	50	70	100

Passion Skills

Skill	Effect	SP	Coins
Nonchalant Heart	Reduces tension loss when an attack fails (5).	200	7
Awakening Strike	Boosts damage dealt to enemies suffering Sleep (50%).	500	10
Telethia Killer	When an aura is active, increases damage dealt to Telethia (50%)	800	48
Passion of Flame	Extends Blaze duration when dealt to an enemy (20 sec).	1000	-
Rejection of Evil	Greatly reduces the effects of Spike attacks (50%).	1500	50

Reticence Skill Tree

Serenity

Honesty

Reliability

Passion

Reticence

Effect		How to Unlock
Ether Defence Up		Acquired through completing the Trouble at the Lighthouse Side Quest.
0	1	2	3	4	5
5	10	20	30	40	50

Reticence Skills

Skill	Effect	SP	Coins
Palace Guard	Improves block rate (15%).	200	7
Heavyweight Expert	Improves ether defence the more heavy equipment is worn (30 each).	500	45
Unadorned Beauty	Strength, ether, agility and HP up if no gems are equipped (20%).	800	12
Mental Barrier	Reduces damage taken from ether area attacks (25%).	1000	75
Arcane Aura	Reduces aggro drawn while an aura is active (30%).	1500	18

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Best and Worst Gifts For Melia

Best Gifts for Melia

Collectable	Affinity Points	Area
Love Source	100	Other
Dobercorgi	22	Colony 6
Prism Centipede	20	Central Factory
Chimera Rabbit	20	Satorl Marsh
Amethyst Melon	20	Sword Valley
Venom Platypus	18	Satorl Marsh
Mystic Dahlia	18	Alcamoth
Night Lily	18	Eryth Sea
Forget-You-Not	18	Satorl Marsh
Steel Silk	18	Tephra Cave
Purple Lamp	18	Sword Valley

Worst Gifts for Melia

Collectable	Affinity Points	Area
Meaty Potato	-16	Central Factory
Spicy Cabbage	-16	Bionis' Leg
Mossy Panel	-16	Mechonis Field
Rainbow Bug	-14	Frontier Village
Emerald Snow	-14	Valak Mountain
Black Ash	-14	Valak Mountain

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Melia Artwork

The following official artwork for Melia from Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition was released by the official Nintendo Twitter Page and Japanese Xenoblade Twitter Page.

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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Characters

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