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A standard feature of the Xenoblade games is to be thrown right into a massive world filled with monsters that are significantly higher level than you. But more than just high level, they are hilariously powerful, InXenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, these terrifying monsters are called Tyrants, owing to their ferocious strength.
While these types of monsters are present in other Xenoblade games as well, they offer a few unique traits in this entry, earning them that unique name. And when you have massive mechs on your side this time, you can bet very few of the Tyrants are going to give in easily.
What Are Tyrants?
In previous Xenoblade games, there were Unique Monsters. Tyrants are, for the most part, the same thing, though with a more menacing name to fit the dramatically different setting. In short, Tyrants are just like regular enemies, but muchlarger, with a lot more HP, and dramatically boosted damage.
They also all have very good names, like ‘Leandro, the Sneering’.
However, they also typically have some extra trait to them, especially as they get to a higher level. This might be them summoning reinforcements, havingthe ability to reflect certain elemental Attributes, or even having a spike aura that deals damage to you or casts a debuff on the party when struck. They require actual tactics to take down.
If you are defeated by a Tyrant, you will be able to check them out in the Enemy Index, though this will still only provide so much information, so you have two options here. The first is to trydeduce their general resistances based on other members of their species. For example, a flying Tyrant is likely to still be weak to Gravity like other flying indigens.
The other is to pay attention to the various damage numbers and status effects at play, and when they occur. It might be that theTyrant is reflecting your damage back at you, or hitting you with a Spike aura. You can’t cancel out an enemy’s Spike, though you can reflect it back on them if you can figure out its elemental Attribute.
What Do The Crowns On Tyrants Mean?
Something you might notice on Tyrants when you battle them is the presence of a crown.This crown will only appear when playing the game onlineas it is based on the number of players that Tyrant has defeated globally. Once a certain threshold has been met, the Tyrant will gain a crown when you target them. This crown changes based on the total number of players they have defeated.
You can check the global wins and losses against a Tyrant by checking their page in the Intel menu, though this is only displayed when playing online. Here arethe various levels at which a Tyrant gains a crown, and when it becomes an even rarer crown:
These numbers will only update when a player dies when online.All defeats offline will not be uploaded, even after reconnecting.
Gold
Approximately 90,000
These numbers are based on the original game, and may not be completely representative of the Definitive Edition. In Definitive Edition, it seemsCrowns are possibly decided based on the proportion of losses to wins, rather than just losses
In the original game,defeating a Tyrant with a crown gave you more Blade Points, with this number changed by both your chosen Division and the level of the crown. However, this has been removed from the Definitive Edition. As such, the crowns on Tyrants count only as a warning for you so you’re able to tell ahead of time just how dangerous a certain Tyrant is.
How Many Tyrants Are There?
There are a whole lot of Tyrants in the game, many of them unmarked. This can make them hard to find, thoughthey also do not always have unique rewards, meaning it is less of an issue if you can’t end up finding them. Many of them have special conditions before they appear as well, such as only being present at night, or only appearing during certain weather conditions.
In total though, there arearound 251 Tyrants in the base game, with about17 more added in the Definitive Edition. These additional Tyrants almost exclusively appear in Chapter 13 in Volitaris, and as such can only be fought during the story mission itself. It’s a pretty hefty number.
Volkampf, the Pursuer is the only Tyrant that has to be fought as part of the story, and as such is exclusive to the mission they appear in.
Do You Have To Defeat Every Tyrant For 100% Survey Rate?
In Xenoblade Chronicles X,100% completion of the game is defined by the Survey Rate. Every region in the game has its own Survey Rate, with NLA having each district split with its own Survey Rate. Each of these contributes to the Survey Rate of Mira as a whole. Every piece of Segment Recon, thusly, must be completed to get 100% completion.
As you may already know,quite a few of the Segment Recons involve defeating a Tyrant, many of whom are quite high-level. As such, that does mean there are certain Tyrants you must defeat if you want to 100% complete the game. However, that also means there are quite a few Tyrants you don’t need to defeat.
In total,there are about 99 Tyrants that must be defeatedin order to complete every piece of Segment Recon, which is just under half of the total Tyrants in the game. If you are struggling through some of these Tyrants, it always helps to gain a few levels and attempt to make a more refined build, thoughthe Ares 90 Skellis basically a push-to-win mech in most scenarios.
Really, theAgashura Cannon Art is almost a one-hit killagainst many of the standard Tyrants in the game.
However, the game doesn’t want that covetous 100% Survey Rate to be easily achieved. While the majority of the Tyrants you must defeat are manageable and can be cheesed with the Ares 90, some are not. There are superbosses in the game, many of which appear after finishing Chapter 12. Andone of these must be defeated before you can fully complete a region. And a base Ares 90 won’t be enough here.
As you may recall in the mission where the Vita was introduced, the party is saved by a Telethia. Well,Telethia, the Endbringerroams Noctilum in the Divine Roost, an area which is only intended to be reached after acquiring the Flight Module.It is level 99, isone of the strongest superbossesin the game, and the sole one that must be defeated to acquire 100% Survey Rate. Good luck with that one.
Every other superboss is exempt from Segment Reconand can be defeated at your own pace, or ignored entirely if you’d like.
