Activate Monado

Activate Monado
User	Shulk
Type	Talent Art
Colour	Black
Target	Self
Effect(s)	Activates Monado Arts
Description	Unleash the Monado's power to use a Monado Art.
First available	Alongside the Monado

Activate Monado (モナド発動 (はつどう), Activate Monado) is Shulk's Talent Art in Xenoblade Chronicles and Future Connected once he obtains the Monado. It lets him switch his Arts Palette between his normal Arts and the Monado Arts.

Overview

For the most part, Activate Monado is just a button on the interface that lets Shulk toggle the Monado Arts palette, and it can be used to swap back and forth over and over without spending resources or advancing a Chain Attack. However, it does have a subtle gameplay effect: it grants Shulk an aura for as long as the Monado Arts palette is enabled. This is relevant if Shulk is using gems or linked skills that take effect when the user has an aura active, as Shulk otherwise has no access to auras.

Data

Art

Damage type	Status
Category	None
Talent gauge used	0%
Cooldown	—
Accuracy	+0%
Obtained	Level 0

Power

Power	0.00
Hits	0
Element	None

Timing

	Frames	Seconds
Hit	2	0.067
Duration	96	3.2

Range

Target	Self
Area	Single target
Range	0.00m

Status

Effect	Monado aura
Duration	—

Miscellaneous

AI type	Talent
Aggro	0
Knockback	None
Flags	Anti-air: False Single effects: False Monado Art: False

Battle text

Original	Unleashes the power of the Monado.
DE	Unleashes the power of the Monado. ()

This Art cannot be upgraded.

Additional data

Activate Monado is disabled when the party first fights Gold Face in Galahad Fortress, and remains inaccessible afterward until fighting the M83 Predator Unit and M54 Slayer Units on the Fallen Arm. During this time, Shulk can still build his Talent Gauge, but cannot use the ability, and thus cannot grant himself an aura or access the Monado Arts.

Trivia

• When Dunban has the Monado, he also possesses an "Activate Monado" Talent Art. However, it is unselectable, and would not confer any aura.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Activate Monado	—
Japanese	モナド発動 (はつどう)	Activate Monado
French	Activation Monado	Monado Activation
German	Monado aktivieren	Activate Monado
Spanish	Poder de Monado	Power of Monado
Italian	Attivazione Monade	Monado Activation
Chinese (simplified)	蒙纳多发动
Chinese (traditional)	蒙納多發動
Korean	모나드 발동

Gallery

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  Monado Art bar