Tainted Caro (normal)

Tainted Caro
Subcategory	Tainted
Category	Theroid
Location	Noctilum

For other articles titled "Tainted Caro", see Tainted Caro (disambiguation).

Tainted Caro are enemies in Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Stats

Stats

	Modifier	Min	Max
Level	—	23	24
HP	×1.3	28,087	29,567
Melee Atk.	×1.265	318	333
Ranged Atk.	×0.99	249	261
Potential	×1.1	277	290
Evasion	×1.075	63	65
Melee Acc.	×1.05	156	158
Ranged Acc.	×0.925	133	135
EXP	×1.05	134	142

Attribute resistances

Attribute	Resistance
Physical	​0%
Beam	​0%
Ether	​-25%
Thermal	​-50%
Electric	​0%
Gravity	​0%

Debuff resistances / immunities

Stagger	Vul.	Control	Imm.	Physical Res Down	Vul.
Flinch	Vul.	Taunt	Vul.	Beam Res Down	Vul.
Topple	Res.	Virus	Vul.	Ether Res Down	Vul.
Launch	Vul.	Blackout	Vul.	Thermal Res Down	Vul.
Pull	Vul.	Fatigue	Vul.	Electric Res Down	Vul.
Knockback	Vul.	Slow Arts	Vul.	Gravity Res Down	Vul.
Stun	Vul.	Time Bomb	Vul.	Debuff Res Down	Vul.
Bind	Vul.	Blaze	Vul.	HP Recovery Down	Vul.
Sleep	Imm.	Shock	Vul.	Max TP Down	Vul.

Shape

Detection

Icon(s)
Sight	None
Sound	Sphere of radius 10m
Kindred group	Group 37
Ground hostility	Hostile
Skell hostility	Hostile
Tainted	True

Appendages

Description	Label	HP	Hardness	Skell-tgt.	Protected by	Break debuff	Enrage rate
Head plate	(Back)	30%	+3	Yes	—	Appendage Lost I	0%
Exposed head	(Body)	50%	-3	No	Head plate	Appendage Lost I	0%
Tail	(Tail)	30%	±0	No	—	Appendage Lost I	100%
Appendage diagram

Properties

Type	Normal enemy
Size	Medium
Passive skills	Increases buff/debuff tiers by 1.
Model scale	100-110%
Music	Black tar
Internal level range	21-30
Time	Anytime
Weather	Any

Arts

Disclaimer: This is the list of arts the enemy can use. The enemy will not necessarily choose to use them.

	Art	Appendages	Cooldown	Type	Attribute	Power	Hits	Range	Debuff	Reaction		Effect
										Foot	Skell
※	Sky Charge	Tail	60.00s	Melee attack	Ether	425	1	Opponent, sphere around user's tail of 15m radius	—	Launch I	Knockback I	Boosts critical chance by 5%.
※	Self-Destruct	Exposed head	60.00s	Self-destruct	Physical	750	1	Opponent, sphere around user's upper body of 20m radius	—	Launch III	Launch I	—
※	Ether Spear	Tail	15.00s	Melee attack	Ether	170	1	Opponent, single target up to 10m away	HP Recovery Down I	—	—	—
※	Bite	—	3.00s	Melee attack	Physical	150	1	Opponent, single target up to 10m away	—	—	—	—
※	Roar	—	20.00s	Ranged attack	Physical	100	1	Opponent, sphere around user's head of 15m radius	Slow Arts I	—	—	—
※	Puke	—	3.00s	Ranged attack	Ether	85	1	Opponent, single target up to 150m away	—	—	—	—

Auras

Enraged III

HP threshold	50%
Duration	60s
Effects	Boosts melee attack. (by 40%)
	Boosts ranged attack. (by 40%)
	Boosts potential. (by 60%)

Drops

Chest drop rates

Rank	Main body		Head plate		Exposed head		Tail
	Wii U	DE	Wii U	DE	Wii U	DE	Wii U	DE
Gold	5.00%		0.00%		0.00%		0.00%
Silver	28.50%		0.00%		0.00%		0.00%
Bronze	19.95%		25.00%	70.00%	25.00%	70.00%	25.00%	70.00%
None	46.55%		75.00%	30.00%	75.00%	30.00%	75.00%	30.00%

Material drops

	Main body	Head plate	Exposed head	Tail		Main body
						Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Pure White Caro Tusk	◯	╳	╳	╳		50.00%	25.00%	5.00%	10.62%
Caro Tail Light	◯	╳	╳	◯		20.00%	10.00%	5.00%	4.85%
Shiny Copper Caro Plate	◯	◯	◯	╳		20.00%	10.00%	5.00%	4.85%
Slimy Tongue	◯	╳	╳	╳		100.00%	50.00%	25.00%	24.24%
Taut Leather	◯	╳	╳	╳		25.00%	75.00%	100.00%	42.58%

Chest explanation

When choosing the items to appear in each chest, the game first rolls to establish the maximum number of items in the chest.

• For silver chests, the odds are 5.00%, 9.50%, 85.50% for 3, 2, and 1 items respectively.
• For gold chests, the odds are 1.00%, 4.95%, 94.05% for 3, 2, and 1 items respectively.
• If the player is playing online in the Definitive Edition and the enemy is a Tyrant with a silver crown, the chest is guaranteed to contain at least 2 items. If the enemy is a Tyrant with a gold crown, the chest is guaranteed to contain 3 items.

Once the maximum number of items N is determined, the game loops through the list of items that can appear in the chest (the "drop table"), adding them to the chest until N items have been added to the chest. Items are added to the chest as follows:

For each item in drop table:
    roll chance equal to that item's rate
    If success:
        Add item to chest
        If number of items in chest = N: Finish, else: Continue
    Else:
        Continue
    If end of drop table is reached: Go back to first item

This process always terminates by the end of the Nth cycle, because there always exists at least one item with rate 100 (guaranteed) that will be added each loop if all other rolls fail.

Silver chest
(Main body)

Item	Rate
Random ground armor (pool 11)	100

Gold chest
(Main body)

Item	Rate
Random ground armor (pool 11)	100

Spawnpoints

Position (DE map coordinates)			Range	Condition	Spawn delay	Level	Prob.	Count	Flags
X	Y	Height
-47.48	86.34	239.26	None	None	None	23-24	100%	1	None
-47.57	86.12	239.67	None	None	None	23-24	100%	1	None
-50.45	86.38	276.41	None	None	None	23-24	100%	1	None
-50.16	86.44	273.4	None	None	None	23-24	100%	1	None
-50.6	86	280.26	Box 10m x 0.1m x 25m	Quest not in progress: Dead Men Tell No Tales	None	23-24	100%	1	None
-50.08	86.65	273.14	Box 10m x 0.1m x 20m	Quest not in progress: Dead Men Tell No Tales	None	23-24	100%	1	None
-49.58	86.72	264.95	Box 5m x 0.1m x 20m	Quest not in progress: Dead Men Tell No Tales	None	23-24	100%	1	None

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Tainted Caro	—
Japanese	プラエド・ノックス
French	Caro infecté
German	Korruptor-Vulpor
Spanish	Caro corrupto
Italian	Saprof infetto