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Ino (Japanese: イノ) is a character in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Ino was designed by PALOW, the character designer of The Relative Worlds net animation.
Overview
Ino can be recruited as a Hero as part of the Expansion Pass by completing the Hero Quest Champion of the Nopon. Ino is an Artificial Blade who speaks like a Nopon, and seems to have a slightly unnatural personality. She was created by the "Great Nopon" Oosoo as a champion for the Nopon of Aionios. After meeting the party, she declares Noah as her Driver and calls him "Masterpon", thoroughly confusing them, as they know nothing of the Alrestian Blades, only their own weapons. While outside of the party, Ino can be found with Sunny's caravan at the Namba Mound Camp in Dannagh Desert.
Appearance
Ino is a female Artificial Blade. Her hair and eyes are green. Her hair style consists of a bob cut with two long strands on the sides of her head. On the back of her hair she has black diamond-shaped braids. She wears a headband that is black, and has a bracket on the back of her head. The center of this headband is a hollowed triangle. At the ends of the headband there are hollowed red triangular pieces. Physically, Ino is inhumanly thin. Her torso is primarily black with various red, green, and yellow details. A yellow Core Crystal is present below her neck. Ino's limbs are red with black mechanical details. Ino's feet are styled like high heeled shoes. She wears a cape that is blue on the front and black at the back, and is v shaped.
Ino's Blades are the Inosabers, red swords with black membrane like details on the back and a set of three spikes at the front. The handles of the swords are black and end in a red triangular shape. They possess an elongated hand guard. The bottom of the blade is circular, and at the center there is a black circle with a green upside-down triangle emblem. Similar triangles are present at various spots of the handle. Overall, the weapons invoke the designs of the Monado, Aegis Sword, and Noah's Veiled Sword. When not in use, the Inosabers attach to her rear and fold up at the handle. Unlike the other Blades Ouroboros can use, the Ouroboros emblem does not appear when they make use of this weapon.
Gameplay
Ino uses the Noponic Champion class, an Agnian Defender class and wields the Inosabers. She is an evasion defender who becomes faster and stronger each time she is knocked out in battle. Her Class Rank can be raised to 20 by completing her Ascension Quest The Hope of Noponkind. She can use Inoswap, which allows her to upgrade her arts, Skills, and abilities using HD Ether Cylinders+.
Arts
- Shining Refrain (Talent Art), Evade / Self KO↑
- Starry Beat, Break
- Afterglow, Self KO↑
- Photon Storm, Evade / High aggro
- Dual Flash, High Aggro
- Dazzling Illusion, Eva. up / Faster aggro
In a Chain Attack, Ino starts with 25 TP by default, although this can be increased by 5 TP through an Inoswap upgrade. Ino's Chain Art is Ino Unlimited, which increases the damage ratio by 150 - 300 percentage points, which increases with level. Her Heroic Chain effect adds 30 to TP of the character with the least TP, and reactivates them when she completes an order.
Class Skills
- Tit For Tat, Whenever an ally in a fixed radius is attacked, boosts recharge of one Art at random by 10-20%.
- Nanomachine Repair, Adds 25% chance to restore HP by 6-10% when evading.
- Velocity Gear, All Arts except Talent Art gain 6-10% recharge when evading.
- Overclock, Boosts recharge rate by 10-20% each time the character is incapacitated (to a maximum of 25%).
Base Stats
These are Ino's raw stats prior to modifications by class. They serve as a baseline for calculating her stats in the Noponic Champion class (where the corresponding multipliers which adjust these stats can be seen). Intermediate values are linearly interpolated between these base stats.
| Level | HP | Attack | Healing Power | Dexterity | Agility |
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| 1 | 434 | 23 | 19 | 31 | 23 |
| 99 | 7,228 | 384 | 320 | 311 | 233 |
General Stats
These stats assume Ino is at rank 20 in her class. Stat increases from gems are shown separately from the base stat, and may not fully apply if Ino has not unlocked the corresponding gem slots. Additionally, the Inoswap feature allows Ino to further increase her total Attack, Agility, Physical Defense, and Ether Defense, which is shown on its dedicated page.
| Level | HP | Attack | Healing Power | Dexterity | Agility | Critical Rate | Block Rate | Physical Defense | Ether Defense |
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| 1, base | 520 | 21 (+17) | 0 | 37 | 29 | 10% | 25% | 45% | 40% |
| 99, base | 8,673 | 364 (+519) | 0 | 373 | 302 | 15% | 35% | 45% | 40% |
| 99, with default accessories | 8,673 | 364 (+519) | 0 | 373 | 302 (+60) | 15% | 35% | 45% | 40% |
Ino equips the following gems:
- Doublestrike
- Steelcleaver, at level 20 onwards
- Tailwind, at level 40 onwards
Ino equips the following accessories as her default accessories, which can be changed in post-game or New Game+. All equipped accessories assume their Common variant.
- Gear Support
- Engineer Gloves, at level 30 onwards
- Champion Ring, at level 50 onwards
Inoswap
- Main article: Inoswap
Affinity Links
 
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| Ino | Bacon-saver | Cheerio |
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| Ino | Bacon-saver | Sunny |
Trivia
- Ino's Inoswap mechanic is similar in name to Poppiswap in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. In terms of gameplay, it is closer to the Ouroboros Soul Tree, or the Affinity Growth mechanic from Future Redeemed.
- Ino shares some similarities with Poppi, such as the fact that both are Artificial Blades, are mechanical in makeup except for their heads, have a yellow/orange Core Crystal instead of the blue of natural Blades. They also both refer to their Drivers as "Masterpon". Ino also shares a skill name with Poppi QT and shares two with Poppi QTπ. Ino also dances in a similar way as Poppi in one of her idle animations.
- Ino's color scheme is similar to Emeralda from Xenogears.
- During battles, Ino will occasionally glow the same way as a Driver and Blade at Max Affinity in battle in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Ino shares her Japanese voice actress, Aoi Koga, with Tessa.[1]
- Due to being DLC Heroes, Ino, Masha, Shulk, and Rex are the only Heroes that cannot be summoned by Nia and Melia during the fights against X∞ and Y∞. However the player's party can utilize their classes for that.
Gallery
Official Artwork
In-Game Renders
Screenshots
References
| Characters in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 | |
|---|---|
| Ouroboros | Noah · Mio · Lanz · Eunie · Sena · Taion |
| Heroes | Ethel · Valdi · Zeon · Teach · Riku & Manana · Gray · Isurd · Juniper · Ashera · Alexandria · Monica · Fiona · Triton · Ghondor · Miyabi · Cammuravi · Segiri · Nia · Melia · Ino · Masha · Shulk · Rex |
| Keves | Mwamba · Joran · Garvel · Hoope · Layla · Kite · Ethel · Bolearis · Crys · Queen of Keves · Melia |
| Agnus | Hackt · Cammuravi · Isurd · Nimue · Queen of Agnus · Nia |
| Lost Numbers | Guernica Vandham · Monica · Travis · Ghondor · Samon · Shania · Aggy · Oggy · Jansen · Kryto · Olive · Cyma · Nissick · Kisame · Masha |
| Consuls | B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z |