Monado Armour

Monado Armour
User	Shulk
Type	Talent art
Colour	Black
Target	Entire party
Effect(s)	Damage reduction
Description	The Monado's protection reduces physical and ether damage.
First available	Reward for completing Stop the Mechon Rampage!

This article is about the Monado Art in Xenoblade Chronicles and Future Connected. For the Battle Art in Future Redeemed, see Monado Armor.

Monado Armour (モナドアーマー, Monado Armour), often shortened to just Armour (アーマー, Armour), is one of Shulk's Monado Arts in Xenoblade Chronicles and Future Connected. It involves Shulk using the Monado to create a barrier of ether energy that surrounds him and his allies, reducing both physical and ether damage from enemy attacks. However, it does not work against enemy Talent Arts.

Overview

Monado Armour is one of the best support Arts in the game, although it starts out somewhat underwhelming. Spending Shulk's entire talent gauge to only reduce the damage taken by 30% isn't usually as appealing as another Monado Art, but once Armour is leveled up a few times it becomes much more attractive—up to 75% damage reduction at its max level for 15 seconds makes it the most efficient way of dealing with many visions, especially of ether attacks or area-of-effect physical attacks, and it also is just good for improving the party's survivability at any time. Its only real drawbacks are that the player will need to spend a good amount of AP for it to reach its true potential and that using it means Shulk is not using a Monado Art that deals damage or helps out in some other specific way. Even the drawback of using 100% of the Talent Gauge, which is a major consideration for Monado Buster, is less of a factor for Armour since the damage reduction makes it easier to safely refill the Talent Gauge before anything bad happens.

Data

Art

Damage type	Status
Category	Talent
Talent gauge used	100%
Cooldown	—
Accuracy	+0%
Obtained	Event

Power

Power	1.00
Hits	0
Element	Earth

Timing

	Frames	Seconds
Hit	50	1.667
Duration	96	3.2

Range

Target	Self
Area	All
Range	500.00m

Status

Effect	Armour 30%
Duration	15.0s

Miscellaneous

AI type	Normal
Aggro	15
Knockback	None
Flags	Anti-air: False Single effects: False Monado art: True

Battle text

Original	Reduces physical damage and ether damage.
DE	Reduces physical damage and ether damage ().

Levelling

	Basic				Intermediate			Advanced
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
AP cost	0	440	880	1,760	3,520	5,280	7,920	11,440	15,840	21,120
Status value	30.0	35.0	40.0	45.0	50.0	55.0	60.0	65.0	70.0	75.0

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In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Armour	—
Japanese	アーマー	Armour
French	Armure	Armour
German	Rüstung	Armour
Spanish	Coraza
Italian	Armatura
Chinese (simplified)	装甲
Chinese (traditional)	裝甲
Korean	아머	Armour