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Skills provide character's with a passive effects during battles. Here is a list of all Skills available in Xenoblade Chronicles X. Read on for a full list of all Skills and know their effects and how to unlock them!
List of Contents
| Skill | Effect | Characters & Level | Class |
|---|---|---|---|
Steel Flesh
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Increases maximum HP |
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Unwavering Courage
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Boosts melee accuracy |
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Agile Gunslinger
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Boosts evasion while wielding a ranged weapon. |
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Steady Hand
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Boosts ranged accuracy |
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Background Noise
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Boosts damage when using melee Arts from behind. |
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Master Edge
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Boosts critical rate when using a melee weapon |
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Mortal Enemy
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Increases damage against Humanoids |
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Hellhound
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Extends the duration of Overdrive |
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Crisis Catalyst
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Increases critical hit rate when max HP is less than 50%. Double when max HP is less than 25% |
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Phantom Counter
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Adds to the counter upon starting Overdrive |
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Flame Trigger
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Boosts Blaze Damage |
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Mighty Muscle
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Boosts Melee attack |
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Combat Presence
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Extends Taunt Effect |
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Dismantler
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Grants chance of dealing more appendage damage with melee Arts |
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CQC Master
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Boosts crit chance when triggering Melee Combo |
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Auto Melee Boost
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Boosts Melee Auto attack damage |
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Iron Knuckle
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Boosts Physical Damage |
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Healing Aura
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Recovers HP when you use an aura |
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Weapon Guard
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Boosts physical res when wielding melee weapon |
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Blazing Auto
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Grants chance of inflicting Blaze 1 with Melee auto attacks |
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Theroid Slayer
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Boosts Damage to Theroids |
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Yamato Spirit
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Boosts TP when using Melee Arts, bonus doubled if used with active aura |
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Conflagrant Edge
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Boosts Thermal Damage |
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Aggro Boost
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Boosts Damage to Taunted Enemies |
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Fortified Flesh
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Boosts Max HP |
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Grand Procession
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Boosts Party TP when activating Overdrive |
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Thermal Shield
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Boosts Thermal Resist when wielding a melee weapon |
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Topple Topper
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Reduces enemy Topple resist |
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Shield Screen
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Reduces damage when wielding Shield |
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Rising Renewal
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Boosts HP recovery when revived |
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Long Topple
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Extends Topple duration |
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Trauma Tension
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Grants 15% Chance to receive TP when damaged |
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Dirty Fighter
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Boosts melee Arts damage to Toppled enemies |
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Stand Strong
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Boosts Stagger, Topple, Knockback, and Launch resistance when wielding Shield |
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Boosted Bullets
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Boosts ranged attack |
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Combo Gunner
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Boosts damage when triggering ranged combos |
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Third Eye
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Boosts TP when using ranged art; doubles gain with active aura |
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Aura Burst
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Extends aura timer |
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Machine Gunner
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Boosts ranged damage when fighting 2 or more enemies |
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Heatseeker
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Boosts critical chance when attacking enemies with Blaze |
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Double Spike
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Boosts spike damage |
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Double Reflect
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Boosts reflect damage |
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Deep Fang
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Reduces enemy debuff resistance when attacking from the side. |
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Trigger Happy
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Reduces Arts cooldown when triggering ranged combo. |
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Lifeline
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Recovers HP when you use an aura if HP is below 50% |
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Mindscape
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Boosts Max TP |
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Night Vision
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Boosts damage during nighttime |
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Zero Lapse
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Reduces melee auto-attack cooldown |
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Red Zone
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Boosts critical chance during Overdrive |
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Blood Carnival
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Gives chance of converting portion of melee auto-attack damage to HP |
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Killshot
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Boosts crit chance for ranged auto-attacks |
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Electric Guard
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Boosts electric resist when wielding melee weapon |
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Electric Boost
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Boosts electric damage |
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Knock 'n' Shock
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Chance to inflict Shock when using melee Arts |
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Fleet Feet
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Boosts evasion when wielding melee weapon |
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Piscinoid Slayer
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Boosts damage to Piscinoid enemies |
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Long Shot
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Boosts ranged weapon range |
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Unstoppable
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Boosts resistance to Stagger, Knockback, Topple, and Launch while sprinting |
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Quick Reload
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Reduces cooldown for ranged auto-attacks |
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Conductive Strike
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Boosts electric damage to Shocked enemies |
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Electric Flesh
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Grants 30% chance to deal electric spike damage when hit |
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TP Overdrive
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Boosts TP when using Arts while in Overdrive |
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Inner Search
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Boosts potential |
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Beam Boost
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Boosts beam damage |
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Beam Guard
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Boosts beam resist when wielding ranged weapon |
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Buff Heal
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Recovers HP when receiving buffs |
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Healing Touch
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Boosts HP recovery of party members when you revive |
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High Tension
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Boosts maximum TP |
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Beauty Sleep
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Extends sleep effects |
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Brain Wall
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When aura is active boosts Sleep, Control, Slow Arts resistance |
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Gentle Approach
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Chance to prevent waking Sleeping enemies when auto-attacking |
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King's Decree
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Increases Debuff Tier +1 on enemies, reduces Control res |
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Extra Armor
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Boost damage absorption from Barrier |
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Feather Touch
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Chance to prevent waking Sleeping enemies with Arts |
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Unpleasant Dream
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Boost damage to sleeping enemies |
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Core Crusher
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Removes appendage damage from Ether attacks but increases primary damage |
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Ether Guard
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Boosts ether resist when wielding ranged weapon |
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Gravity Boost
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Boosts gravity damage |
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Well-Weathered
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Boosts TP when taking weather damage |
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Appendage Erosion
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Boosts appendage damage for every debuff on enemy |
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Resistant Flesh
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Boosts all debuff resist |
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Tactical Analyst
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Reduces enemy debuff resist when connecting with attack |
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King's Boon
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Grants All Abilities Up to Controlled Enemies |
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Secondary Accelerator
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Reduces secondary cooldown |
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Ether Boost
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Boosts ether damage |
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Mechanoid Slayer
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Boosts damage to Mechanoid enemies |
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Knight's Soul
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Boosts maximum TP |
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Aura Assault
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Boosts melee attack, melee accuracy with active aura |
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Buff Extender
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Extends buff duration |
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Supreme Sword
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Boosts damage when triggering melee combo |
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Gravity Guard
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Boosts gravity resistance when wielding ranged weapon |
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Fast Forward
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Reduce Arts cooldown when triggering melee combo |
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Stellar Entry
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Boosts GP when boarding Skell while in Overdrive |
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Synchrony
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Boosts Skell melee, ranged attack and accuracy, potential, evasion |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles X, Skills can be equipped to any character as long as they have Skill Slots avaiable. Unlike other characters, Cross can learn any skill in the game.
Increasing a character's Class Rank is the main method of unlocking more Skills. Once unlocked, any character can equip their unlocked skill regardless of what class they are.

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