Monado Eater

Monado Eater
User	Shulk
Type	Talent art
Colour	Black
Target	Cone of enemies
Effect(s)	Bleed, removes enemy buffs
Description	The Monado's power consumes enemies, including any buffs.
First available	After obtaining the 'Eater' Records inside a Giant's Treasure Chest found during Mystery of Makna Ruins 4

Monado Eater (モナドイーター, Monado Eater), often shortened to just Eater (イーター, Eater), is one of Shulk's Monado Arts in Xenoblade Chronicles and Future Connected. It involves Shulk using the Monado to fire a wave of dark ether at enemies in front of him, removing any and all buffs they have at the time and inflicting Bleed.

The character used in the Art is 喰 (くい), which means "devour" in Japanese.

Overview

Monado Eater is easy to underestimate, but if used correctly it can be quite powerful. Its main strengths are that it can hit even more enemies than Monado Buster (due to having 50% longer range and hitting in a cone instead of a line) while costing less of Shulk's talent gauge, that it generates considerably less aggro than Buster because the majority of its damage is dealt over time via Bleed, and that it can remove the powerful buffs some enemies have. On the other hand, Eater's main drawbacks are that it deals ether damage (Shulk is usually better at dealing physical damage) and that Bleed is the weakest of the damage over time debuffs, both of which restrict its damage potential unless the player equips gems like Ether Up on Shulk to compensate. Shulk also shouldn't be using Eater too soon after he just did, as it will reset the bleeding rather than adding onto it. It is also Shulk's slowest art, taking over three seconds to hit and almost six seconds to fully execute.

Data

Art

Damage type	Ether
Category	Talent
Talent Gauge used	75%
Cooldown	—
Accuracy	+5%
Obtained	Event

Power

Power	1.50
Hits	1
Element	Slash

Timing

	Frames	Seconds
Hit	100	3.333
Duration	174	5.8

Range

Target	Opponent
Area	Cone
Range	15.00m long, 120° angle

Status

Effect	Bleed 20%
Bonus effect	Buff clear (all)
Duration	20.0s (2.0s/tick)

Miscellaneous

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

Battle text

Original	Removes all enemy buffs and inflicts Bleed.
DE	Removes all enemy buffs and inflicts Bleed ().

Levelling

	Basic				Intermediate			Advanced
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
AP cost	0	400	800	1,600	3,200	4,800	7,200	10,400	14,400	19,200
Power	1.50	1.67	1.84	2.01	2.18	2.35	2.52	2.69	2.86	3.03
Accuracy	+5%	+10%	+15%	+20%	+25%	+25%	+25%	+25%	+25%	+25%
Accuracy (DE)	+5%	+10%	+15%	+20%	+25%	+30%	+35%	+40%	+45%	+50%

Records book

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In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Eater	—
Japanese	イーター	Eater
French	Ruine	Ruin
German	Fresser	Devourer
Spanish	Devorador	Devourer
Italian	Privazione
Chinese (simplified)	吞噬	Swallow
Chinese (traditional)	吞噬	Swallow
Korean	이터	Eater

Gallery

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  Shulk using Monado Eater