Soul Voice

Soul Voices are the character voices in Xenoblade Chronicles X that act as an important game mechanic while working with other party members.

Throughout the fight, party members will occasionally give encouragements and commands to their teammates in battle. For example, Elma may say " Nice! Move in and do some damage!" When this happens, this is a cue for another player to use a melee art to do 50% more damage (or 100% more from behind the enemy).

These commands can be obeyed by using the Battle Art indicated in the Soul Voice message box approximately 1.5s after the voice is called, granting extra effects to the Art used. Anyone except for the fighter that called out the Soul Voice is able to respond to the Soul Voice and activate its effects.

Non-player party members have a chance to automatically use Soul Voices when they do actions that trigger the Soul Voices. Surge Augments like Underdog Surge will increase the chance of the corresponding Soul Voice triggering.

When the player does actions that trigger Soul Voices, they will have to succeed at a Soul Challenge (except with the Binder voice). If they succeed, they will call out their Soul Voice. Otherwise, the voice will not activate.

Soul Challenge

When certain conditions are met during battle (dependent on the fighter), the player will have a chance to see a Soul Challenge appear on screen, showing a shrinking orange circle with a "B" button prompt within. This will happen even if no other party members are active.

When the player presses B while the hollow orange circle is within the white circle, the challenge will succeed with a Good rating, and when they press B while the orange circle overlaps the white circle, the challenge will succed with a Perfect rating. Otherwise, the Soul Challenge fails. The rate at which the orange circle shrinks is not consistent, so careful observation is required to ensure the challenge succeeds.

• Perfect: The Soul Voice activates, HP and TP is recovered, Affinity between party members is increased, and the party's Morale Level increases, allowing Soul Voices to activate more often and for certain Arts to have extra effects.
• Good: The Soul Voice activates, HP is recovered, and the party's Morale Level increases.
• Failed: No Soul Voice activates.

The amount of health recovered depends on the Potential of the fighter, and the amount of TP gained depends on the Morale Level of the party.

A Soul Challenge prompt also appears when a Skell is wrecked. This prompt has different effects and does not activate a Soul Voice:

• Perfect: The Skell is evacuated safely, and the Skell is repaired for free. Party members will automatically evacuate their Skell perfectly.
• Good: The Skell is evacuated safely, but the Skell will lose 1 count of insurance. If the Skell has no insurance, repairs will cost Credits or a Salvage Ticket.
• Failed: The Skell is evacuated, but the player's HP is reduced to 1 and the Skell will lose 1 count of insurance. If the Skell has no insurance, repairs will cost Credits or a Salvage Ticket.

There also exists a Soul Challenge when the player Binds an enemy: succeeding continues the bind (with Perfect ratings granting extra GP), and failing immediately ends the Bind.

Responding to Soul Voices

Each Soul Voice can be answered in one of six different ways to activate the effect. When a Soul Voice is answered, the caller and the responder will both recover HP and gain some affinity.

Soul Voice Responses

Soul Voice Icon	Expected Response
	Orange Melee art
	Yellow Ranged art
	Purple Debuff art
	Green Buff art
	Blue Aura art
	Activate Overdrive

There is also an unused Heal icon in the game's files, but it is not used.

Soul Voice Triggers and Effects

Each party member has sixteen Soul Voices, each with their own effects. The first twelve Soul Voice triggers are the same, but each character will use a different effect from this table: A, B, or C. Cross is able to customize the Soul Voice effects for all of their Soul Voices, and can use any four of the custom Soul Voices as well.

Shared between all party members

Trigger		Effect A		Effect B		Effect C		Cooldown	Probability
Draw Melee	Character starts a battle by drawing melee weapon		+100% damage		Inflict Stagger I		+200 TP per hit	60 s	50%
Draw Ranged	Character starts a battle by drawing ranged weapon		+50% damage		+1 tier to Buff Arts		+1 tier to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	60 s	50%
Opening Art	Character starts a battle by performing an Art		+100% damage (+200% from behind)		+100 TP per hit		Reduce cooldown by 50%	60 s	75%
HP Risk	Character's HP falls below 60%		+50% to Soul Heals		+1 tier to Buff Arts		+250 TP to target (rarely: +500 TP)	10 s	50%
HP Peril	Character's HP falls below 30%		+100% to Soul Heals (rarely: +300%)		+25% to Soul Heals / Gain Invincibility I		+500 TP to target (rarely: +1000 TP)	8 s	75%
Last Words	Character becomes incapacitated		+500 TP per hit		+300 TP per hit		Gain Invincibility III	10 s	75%
Heavy Hitter	Character lands a critical hit on an enemy		+50% damage		+25% critical chance / Gain Critical Power I		+1 tier to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	30 s	10%
Dismemberer	Character attacks and destroys an enemy appendage		+150% damage (+400% from behind)		Inflict Topple I		+2 tiers to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	10 s	75%
Underdog	Character halves the HP of a much larger enemy		+25% critical chance / Gain Critical Power II		+1 tier to Buff Arts / Gain Invincibility I		+10 seconds to Overdrive time	10 s	50%
Artful Execution	Character successfully uses an Art's special effect		+50% damage (+100% from behind)		+50% damage (+100% from the side)		+1 tier to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	10 s	50%
Aura Ready	Character activates an aura using an Art		+50% to Soul Heals / Reduce cooldown by 20%		+50% to Soul Heals / Remove debuffs		+250 TP to target (50% chance of +500 TP)	10 s	30%
Activate Overdrive	Character activates Overdrive		+10 seconds to Overdrive time		Remove debuffs / Gain Invincibility II		+1 tier to auras / Reduce cooldown by 50%	10 s	50%

Custom Soul Voices

Trigger		Effect A		Effect B		Effect C		Cooldown	Probability
Untouchable	Character evades three consecutive enemy attacks		Gain Decoy III		Gain Evasion Up III		Inflict Shock I	10 s	100%
Critical Combination	Character lands three consecutive critical hits		+10% critical chance / Gain Critical Power II		+10% critical chance / Gain Critical Power II		+80% critical chance	10 s	100%
Wayward Weather	Character witnesses a change in weather during combat		Gain Weather Immunity I		Gain Weather Immunity II		+3 tiers to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	60 s	100%
Sprinter	Character sprints for three or more seconds		Gain Terrain Immunity III		Gain Invincibility I		Inflict Effect Stasis III	10 s	30%
Medicine Man	Character gets healed/buffed by a male ally		Inflict Fatigue I		Inflict Physical Res Down I		Gain Supercharge II	10 s	30%
Medicine Woman	Character gets healed/buffed by a female ally		Remove debuffs / Rarely: +500 TP		Gain Critical Power IV		Reduce cooldown by 50% (rarely: 75%)	10 s	30%
Daredevil	Character attacks with an Art while HP is below 30%		+25% damage / +100 TP per hit		+25% damage / +50 TP per hit		+100% to Soul Heals	10 s	75%
Higher Ground	Character attacks an enemy from above		+50% damage / +10% critical chance		+50 TP per hit / +10% critical chance		Gain Critical Power I / Rarely: +25% critical chance	10 s	75%
Toppler	Character inflicts Topple on an enemy		+200% damage (+400% from behind)		+200% damage (+300% from the side)		+2 tiers to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	10 s	50%
Stunner	Character inflicts Stun on an enemy		+25% damage / +100 TP per hit		+25% damage / +50 TP per hit		+1 tier to Debuff Arts / Bypass debuff resistances	10 s	50%
Sandman	Character inflicts Sleep on an enemy		+100% damage		+100% damage		Inflict Blaze I	10 s	50%
Binder	Character uses a Skell to Bind an enemy		+150% damage (+200% from behind)		+150% damage (+200% from the side)		+1 second to Bind duration per hit	10 s	30%
Skell Crush	Appendage of character's Skell is destroyed		Restore 30% appendage HP		+400% appendage damage		+200% appendage damage	10 s	50%
Wrecked Skell	Character's Skell is destroyed and removed from combat		+400% to Soul Heals / Gain Invincibility II		+3000 TP		Restore 50% appendage HP / Full Art cooldown	10 s	100%
Running on Empty	Fuel of character's Skell falls below 30% in combat		Restore 15% fuel		Restore 10% fuel / +1,000 GP		Restore 10% fuel / Restore 10% appendage HP	10 s	30%

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Soul Voice	—
Japanese	ソウルボイス	Soul Voice
French	Cri de guerre
German	Kampfruf
Spanish	Voz del alma
Italian	Urlo del guerriero

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Soul Challenge	—
Japanese	ソウルチャレンジ	Soul Challenge
French	Soul Challenge (NoA)/Défi guerrier (NoE)
German	Innere Herausforderung
Spanish	SOUL CHALLENGE (NoA)/Reto del alma (NoE)
Italian	Sfida dell'anima

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