Taion

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"There's no escape! When my Mondo have you... They'll follow you to the ends of the world!"

— Taion

Taion (Japanese: タイオン, Taion) is a playable character in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. He was designed by Masatsugu Saito, the lead character designer of the game.

Overview

Taion is an Agnian soldier along with Mio and Sena. He is an Agnian human with Blade Eater traits.

Story

Taion was taken under Isurd's wing and was trained up as a tactician in Colony Lambda, a company unit of the army of Agnus. He was transferred to Colony Gamma's special forces unit after Lambda suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Colony 13. After awakening as an Ouroboros following a top secret mission, Isurd and the nation of Agnus now greet their former ally as an enemy.^[1] He is a Tactician who can analyze the terrain using the communication function projected in his eyes, granting a great help in finding the way to the "land where the great sword stands", Swordmarch.^[2]

Personality

Taion is a tactician of surpassing skill who supports his allies. Taion works alongside Mio and Sena, who trust his high level of insight and tactical judgment. On one hand, he has a cheeky personality, but on the other, he is sometimes too cautious, getting easily annoyed and impatient when he does not understand something.^[3] Though quick to point out his strategic acumen, it is one of the few things about himself that he has any confidence in.

When his mentor Nimue died protecting him in a failed attack on Keves forces, he blamed his recklessness for her death and developed a preference for more careful and cautious plans in the hope that he would not allow any of his companions to die again. However, this has also occasionally led him to be indecisive and excessively timid when a more daring strategy would be more effective. Despite his aloof demeanor, he has been noted by others to be surprisingly kind and sensitive if somewhat prone to melancholy.

Gameplay

His initial Class is Tactician, a Healer class. Taion specializes in supporting his allies by reducing damage with moves that make evasion for his companions easier while debuffing enemies. He also masters tricks to lure enemies like putting them to sleep.^[4] He uses a mysterious paper-like Blade known as "Katashiro", to which he has taken a liking, and calls them "Mondo".

In a Chain Attack, Taion starts with 35 TP by default. His Chain Art is Art of Subjugation, which reduces the enemy's physical defense by 30-50 percentage points (depending on his level) upon completing his order.

Taion starts at Rank 8 in his initial Tactician class, and has a common Circlet of Intellect equipped when in the player's party for the first time.

Base Stats

These are Taion's raw stats prior to modifications by class. They serve as a baseline for calculating Taion's stats in a class. Intermediate values are linearly interpolated between these base stats.

General Stats

These stats assume Taion is at level 99, at rank 20 in each of these respective classes, and is not equipping any Master Skills, Gems or Accessories. Boosts from skills innate to a class are indicated with round brackets, whereas boosts from having an upgraded Blade are indicated with square brackets.

Ouroboros

After becoming Ouroboros, Taion is able to Interlink with Eunie. When Taion is in control, he is able to use arts that can inflict debuffs onto enemies.

Base Stats

These are Taion's Ouroboros's raw stats. The experience level of the Ouroboros which determines its stats (contrary to any displayed level in menus) is the average of Eunie and Taion's experience levels (fractions are rounded up).

Arts

• Eightfold Divide (Talent Art) - AOE/Blowdown/0 charge
• Spirit Raven - AOE/Area heal on hit
• Lurking Spider - Interlink Lv. 3: Burst all
• Atomize - AOE/Blowdown/Blaze/Evade
• Fleeting Form - Regenerate to all
• Grand Priest - Interlink Lv. 3: Topple all
• Body Double - AOE / 1 random debuff

Taion's Ouroboros Chain Art is Grand Design, which greatly increases damage ratio and fully heals all allies.

Skills

• Eclipse, Decreases all enemies' debuff resistance by 30/50 percentage points.
• Unceasing Curse, Makes duration timers of debuffs on all enemies tick down 50% slower/Pauses the timer on all debuffs inflicted on all enemies.
• Shared Curse, Grants a small/large increase to damage dealt for each debuff active on all enemies (up to a maximum of 500%).
• Strength Sapper, Adds 5-10% chance to reset enemy recharge when Art hits.

Soul Tree

Below is an image showing the layout of Taion's Ouroboros Soul Tree.

The below table contains a detailed breakdown of all nodes within the Soul Tree.

Note: Columns are numbered from left to right, i.e. column 1 is the leftmost column, and column 8 is the rightmost column. Nodes are listed in order of increasing column number, from top to bottom, ignoring order of unlocking.

Node	Icon	Name	Description	Prerequisite	Cost
Column 1
1		Raise Ability Attack Plus	Increases Attack by 30.	None	15 SP
Column 2
2		Learn Skill Eclipse	Decreases all enemies' debuff resistance by 30 percentage points.	"Attack Plus" (Node 1)	35 SP
3		Learn Skill Shared Curse	Grants a small increase to damage dealt for each debuff active on all enemies (up to a maximum of 500%).	"Critical Up" (Node 6) or "Heat Control: Time" (Node 8)	55 SP
4		Learn Skill Unceasing Curse	Makes duration timers of debuffs on all enemies tick down 50% slower.	"Attack Plus" (Node 1)	35 SP
Column 3
5		Learn Art Grand Priest	Interlink Lv3: Topple all	"Eclipse" (Node 2) or "Critical Up" (Node 6)	40 SP
6		Raise Ability Critical Up	Boosts Critical Rate by 10%.	"Shared Curse" (Node 3) or "Grand Priest" (Node 5) or "Spirit Raven" (Node 10)	25 SP
7		Raise Ability Critical Plus	Increases Critical Rate by 10 percentage points.	"Eclipse" (Node 2) or "Unceasing Curse" (Node 4)	20 SP
8		Heat Gauge Heat Control: Time	Slows heat gauge buildup over time.	"Shared Curse" (Node 3) or "Strength Sapper" (Node 9) or "Grand Priest" (Node 14)	45 SP
9		Learn Skill Strength Sapper	Adds 5% chance to reset enemy recharge when Art hits.	"Unceasing Curse" (Node 4) or "Heat Control: Time" (Node 8)	40 SP
Column 4
10		Enhance Art Spirit Raven	AOE/Area heal on hit	"Critical Up" (Node 6) or "Eclipse" (Node 16)	130 SP
11		Learn Art Body Double	AOE / 1 random debuff	"Critical Plus" (Node 7)	45 SP
12		Raise Ability Unlock Arts Canceling	Allows you to cancel one Art into another Art, but doing so will fill up the heat gauge slightly.	"Eclipse" (Node 16) or "Attack Up" (Node 18)	200 SP
13		Learn Art Fleeting Form	Regenerate to all	"Critical Plus" (Node 7)	45 SP
14		Enhance Art Grand Priest	Interlink Lv3: Topple all	"Grand Priest" (Node 5) and either "Heat Control: Time" (Node 8) or "Attack Up" (Node 18)	130 SP
Column 5
15		Heat Gauge Heat Control: Arts Canceling	Reduces heat gauge buildup from canceling one Art into another Art in Ouroboros form.	"Body Double" (Node 11)	50 SP
16		Enhance Skill Eclipse	Decreases all enemies' debuff resistance by 50 percentage points.	"Eclipse" (Node 2) and either "Spirit Raven" (Node 10) or "Unlock Arts Canceling" (Node 12) or "Dexterity Plus" (Node 20) or "Unceasing Curse" (Node 22)	150 SP
17		Enhance Talent Art Eightfold Divide	AOE/Blowdown/0 charge	"Heat Control: Arts Canceling" (Node 21) or "Heat Control: Time" (Node 23)	245 SP
18		Raise Ability Attack Up	Boosts Attack by 20%.	"Unlock Arts Canceling" (Node 12) or "Grand Priest" (Node 14) or "Unceasing Curse" (Node 22) or "Critical Plus" (Node 24)	30 SP
19		Heat Gauge Heat Control: Time	Slows heat gauge buildup over time.	"Fleeting Form" (Node 13)	55 SP
Column 6
20		Raise Ability Dexterity Plus	Increases Dexterity by 30.	"Eclipse" (Node 16) or "Attack Plus" (Node 25) or "Lurking Spider" (Node 26)	35 SP
21		Heat Gauge Heat Control: Arts Canceling	Reduces heat gauge buildup from canceling one Art into another Art in Ouroboros form.	"Attack Up" (Node 27)	90 SP
22		Enhance Skill Unceasing Curse	Pauses the timer on all debuffs inflicted on all enemies.	"Unceasing Curse" (Node 4) and either "Eclipse" (Node 16) or "Attack Up" (Node 18)	170 SP
23		Heat Gauge Heat Control: Time	Slows heat gauge buildup over time.	"Attack Up" (Node 27)	90 SP
24		Raise Ability Critical Plus	Increases Critical Rate by 15 percentage points.	"Attack Up" (Node 18) or "Fleeting Form" (Node 28) or "Dexterity Up" (Node 29)	30 SP
Column 7
25		Raise Ability Attack Plus	Increases Attack by 75.	"Dexterity Plus" (Node 20) or "Atomize" (Node 31)	35 SP
26		Enhance Art Lurking Spider	Interlink Lv3: Burst all	"Dexterity Plus" (Node 20) or "Critical Up" (Node 32)	190 SP
27		Raise Ability Attack Up	Boosts Attack by 25%.	"Atomize" (Node 31) or "Shared Curse" (Node 33)	45 SP
28		Enhance Art Fleeting Form	Regenerate to all	"Fleeting Form" (Node 13) and either "Critical Plus" (Node 24) or "Critical Up" (Node 32)	190 SP
29		Raise Ability Dexterity Up	Boosts Dexterity by 15%.	"Critical Plus" (Node 24) or "Shared Curse" (Node 33)	35 SP
Column 8
30		Enhance Art Body Double	AOE / 1 random debuff	"Body Double" (Node 11) and "Lurking Spider" (Node 26)	210 SP
31		Enhance Art Atomize	AOE/Blowdown/Blaze/Evade	"Attack Plus" (Node 25) or "Attack Up" (Node 27)	210 SP
32		Raise Ability Critical Up	Boosts Critical Rate by 15%.	"Lurking Spider" (Node 26) or "Fleeting Form" (Node 28)	40 SP
33		Enhance Skill Shared Curse	Grants a large increase to damage dealt for each debuff active on all enemies (up to a maximum of 500%).	"Shared Curse" (Node 3) and either "Attack Up" (Node 27) or "Dexterity Up" (Node 29)	200 SP
34		Enhance Skill Strength Sapper	Adds 10% chance to reset enemy recharge when Art hits.	"Strength Sapper" (Node 9) and "Fleeting Form" (Node 28)	200 SP

Battle

Main article: Agnus Healer

In Tetris 99

In Tetris 99, Taion appears in the background during matches as part of the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 theme.

Trivia

• Taion shares his Japanese voice actor, Ryōhei Kimura, with Sunny.^[5]

Gallery

Artwork

Official artwork

Official artwork of Taion's Ouroboros form

Taion as a Tactician

Artwork of Taion by Masatsugu Saito to celebrate the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Monolith Soft recruitment artwork

Xenoblade 3 Original Soundtrack Artwork

Taion Concept Art

Taion's Ouroboros Form Concept Art

Unused image of Taion

In-Game Renders

Class Menu Icon

Taion's Chain Art Icon

Taion's Ouroboros Order Icon

Taion's Level Up Art

Taion's Level Up Art (Military Uniform)

Screenshots

Taion In Battle.

Taion using Katashiro

Taion Gem Crafting with Riku

Taion, Mio, and Sena wearing masks

Young Taion

Taion's Term mark

Taion's Ouroboros Iris

Taion in his Military Uniform

One of Taion's Expansion Pass outfits

Taion's Swimwear A outfit from the Expansion Pass

Taion's Swimwear B outfit from the Expansion Pass

Taion's Throwback A outfit from the Expansion Pass, based on Jin's True Form from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Taion's Throwback B outfit from the Expansion Pass, based on Jin's True Form (with the colors of Akhos' clothes) from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

References