Auto-attack (stat)
- For other articles titled "Auto-attack", see Auto-attack (disambiguation).
- Not to be confused with Auto-attack (XC2).
Auto-attack is a stat of Blades in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Torna ~ The Golden Country. It is the base value used to determine the damage done by auto-attacks. That said, it being called "auto-attack" is reductive and not proportional to its true importance (and also confusing, as seen below), as almost all other damage done by both Driver and Blade is scaled based on it. Broadly speaking, the Blade's Auto-attack is added to the Driver's Strength or Ether to form the base value for damage dealt (as detailed here).
Overview[edit]
Auto-attack is primarily determined by the combination of a Blade's weapon class, Core Chip, and Trust. It is visible in the Core Chip equip menu, alongside the block rate and critical rate.
The weapons with the highest auto-attack stat with any particular Core Chip tend to be those of ATK-type Blades. The highest are the Nodachi, Monado, Big Bang Edge, and Variable Saber; the lowest are the Drill Shield, Crosier, Twin Rings, and Bitball. High auto-attack stats tend to be much greater than high Strength or Ether stats; as such, the auto-attack stat tends to have a much greater proportional effect on base damage than the relevant Driver stats.
Trust has a strong, albeit difficult-to-identify, effect on auto-attack: all else being equal, the highest trust rank (S+) results in an auto-attack stat twice as large as that of the lowest rank (E).
Note that accessories which affect "auto-attack damage", such as the Attack Stone, affect auto-attacks themselves instead of this stat. As such, they generally have a negligible effect on total damage.
Core Chip impact[edit]
Uniquely among Core Chip effects, the auto-attack stat is almost always higher for core chips acquired later in the game. This ensures that the damage dealt by the party generally increases as one progresses through the game (which is important because Driver level only impacts Strength and Ether, which have a comparatively weaker effect on damage). As such, keeping Core Chips up-to-date is necessary specifically because it impacts the auto-attack stat, and thus damage output as a whole.
The following list shows the auto-attack stat values for each Core Chip at C-rank trust, averaged across all weapons:
In other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 English
|
Auto-Attack | — |
 Japanese
|
オートアタック | |
 French
|
Auto-attaque | |
 German
|
Auto-Angriff | Auto-attack |
 Spanish
|
Ataque automático | |
 Italian
|
Autoattacco | |
 Chinese (simplified)
|
自动攻击 | |
 Chinese (traditional)
|
自動攻擊 | |
 Korean
|
오토 어택 |