How to Beat Xenolord (Ultra): Weakness, Team, and Drops

Xenolord (Ultra) is the Level 80 rematch that the standard Xenolord raid hands you a key to on your very first clear, and it sits at the top of the difficulty pile alongside the other two Level 80 Ultras. This guide covers its exact battle multipliers, why Ice is the only build worth committing to, all eight attacks with power and cooldown, the 62 extra bodies it drops on you across three meteor waves, the gear that survives a x13 hit, and every reward the kill pays — including the one piece of headgear nothing else in the game drops.

Xenolord (Ultra) Raid Stats

The Ultra slab summons the same Pal with the numbers rewritten. It keeps the Dark/Dragon typing and the same eight-move rotation, but its health pool jumps from x280 to x420, everything it lands is multiplied by x13 instead of x5, and its armour cuts your damage down to 9% instead of 35%. Divide the health multiplier by the damage you actually land and you get roughly 4,667 times a normal Pal's health bar — near six times the standard fight, from a boss whose slab you got for free.

	Xenolord (Ultra)
Boss	Xenolord
Elements	Dark / Dragon
Weak to	Ice (beats the Dragon half) and Dragon (beats the Dark half)
Summon level	80 — up from 65 on the standard raid
HP multiplier	x420
Damage it deals	x13 — tied with Hartalis (Ultra) for the hardest-hitting raid in the game
Damage it takes	x0.09 — 91% of your output is absorbed
Cooldown rate	x2 — the same rate every raid runs
Effective toughness	~4,667x a normal health bar
Adds summoned	62, across three meteor waves
Innate passives	Invader (+30% Dark and Dragon damage) and Otherworldly Cells (+10% attack, 15% less Fire and Lightning damage taken)
Summon item	Xenolord (Ultra) Slab
Exclusive reward	Xenolord's head — this fight is the only source
Egg on clear	Huge Dark Egg — 90% normal Xenolord, 10% alpha

Against the other Ultras, Xenolord is the awkward one. Blazamut Ryu carries a bigger health pool and Hartalis is nowhere near as spongy, but Xenolord is the only fight that pairs the maximum damage multiplier with the maximum damage reduction — you are taking the worst hits in the game for the longest stretch of time. That combination, not any single mechanic, is what wipes squads.

Ultra raid	HP	Damage dealt	Damage taken	Effective toughness
Xenolord (Ultra)	x420	x13	x0.09	~4,667x
Bellanoir Libero (Ultra)	x420	x10	x0.09	~4,667x
Blazamut Ryu (Ultra)	x500	x8	x0.09	~5,556x
Hartalis (Ultra)	x320	x13	x0.2	~1,600x

What You Need Before You Summon It

The entry fee is cheaper than people expect, because the standard raid pays the Ultra key on every single clear at 100%. Beat Xenolord once at Level 65 and the Xenolord (Ultra) Slab is in your bag — and since the Ultra also drops another one on its own clear, the fight reseeds itself forever. The four-fragment craft is only there as insurance if you burn a slab on a wipe.

Requirement	How you get it
Summoning Altar	Technology 33 — the same altar every raid uses
Xenolord (Ultra) Slab	Guaranteed drop from the standard Level 65 Xenolord raid, and from the Ultra itself
Xenolord (Ultra) Slab Fragment	4x crafts a spare slab — only needed if you lose one
A maxed Ice attacker	Condensed to four stars and levelled to 60, from the team table below
Ancient-tier armour	Lightweight Ancient Armor at Technology 79, Ancient Helm at 68, Ancient Shield at 71
A deep ammo stack	A x0.09 damage floor means a long fight — bring several times what the standard raid needed
Revives and meds	Revival Potions and Advanced Recovery Meds — a x13 hit removes a Pal, not a chunk of one
No Dark or Neutral Pals	Six of its eight moves are Dragon and the other two are Dark — both typings get punished

Ice Is the Only Build Worth Making

Both of Xenolord's weaknesses still apply at Level 80, but the Ultra breaks the tie decisively in Ice's favour. It is not about raw damage — it is that every Ice move in the game carries a 100% Freeze chance, and a frozen boss is a boss not firing a x13 laser at you. Dragon attackers deal the same bonus damage to the Dark half and bring nothing that stops the rotation, which is a fine trade at x5 and a bad one at x13.

Best Pals for Xenolord (Ultra)

Pick for freeze uptime first and attack second. Moldron Cryst is the standout because both of its exclusive skills are Ice: Ice Laser at 700 power and Ice Spit at 600, each on a 30-second cooldown and each leaving frost pools behind that keep freezing things that walk into them. Frostallion still holds the best raw stat line of any Ice Pal at 140 ranged attack and 140 HP, and it comes with Ice Emperor and Legend built in. Everything below it is a question of what you have already condensed.

Pal	Elements	Ranged / Melee	HP / Def	Why bring it
Moldron Cryst	Ice / Ground	125 / 100	110 / 120	The freeze engine — Ice Laser (700 power, 30s) and Ice Spit (600 power, 30s) are exclusive to it, and both leave frost pools that keep proccing after the cast
Frostallion	Ice	140 / 100	140 / 120	Highest attack and highest health of any Ice Pal, innate Legend and Ice Emperor, Crystal Wing at 700 power. Level 60 alpha
Bastigor	Ice	130 / 100	140 / 120	Matches Frostallion's bulk exactly and spawns wild across 138 points on the map — no boss fight required
Pierdon Cryst	Ice	110 / 100	100 / 120	The move pool pick: Absolute Frost (700), Diamond Rain (600) and Blizzard Spike (450) all on one Pal, all with Freeze attached
Icelyn	Ice	115 / 100	95 / 105	Learns Absolute Frost at level 70 and Ice Missile from level 1 — the cheapest way to hold freeze uptime while your carry is on cooldown
Cryolinx	Ice	100 / 140	100 / 110	Top Ice melee number, catchable across 78 spawn points, but 100 HP in melee range of a x13 rotation is a short career
Panthalus	Water	120 / 100	180 / 200	Not a damage pick — 200 defense and 180 HP is the highest combined bulk you can field, and Aqua Tornado at 800 power still hits for something while it soaks
Orserk	Dragon / Electric	130 / 100	120 / 115	The Dragon-side alternative if your Ice roster is thin — use its Dragon moves only, since Otherworldly Cells eats 15% of the Electric ones
Loupmoon Cryst	Ice	100 / 130	80 / 80	583 spawn points makes it the easy fallback, but 80 defense against x13 means it dies to the first thing that touches it

The passive stack on your carry

At x13 incoming, a pure-offence passive spread stops being correct. The standard raid rewards stacking Ice damage as high as it goes; the Ultra rewards keeping the Pal alive long enough to land the third meteor wave. Diamond Body is the quiet star — 30% defense plus flinch and knockback immunity, which means a glancing hit no longer interrupts a 30-second cooldown skill mid-cast.

Support passives buff you, not the Pal

Passives that target the trainer apply from your active Pal, so the Pal riding shotgun does not need to be an Ice attacker at all. Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist each move your own numbers by 10%, which is worth more than it sounds when you are the one holding the Plasma Rifle and eating the splash from a meteor drop.

Every Attack in the Rotation

The Ultra does not learn anything new — it runs the same eight moves at the same power and cooldown values, with x13 stapled on the end. That is genuinely good news, because it means the standard fight teaches you the whole rotation. Six of the eight are Dragon-element and only two are Dark, and the two lowest-power moves are the ones on short timers, so most of your incoming damage arrives as a steady drip from Dragon Cannon rather than the big telegraphed casts.

The Add Waves Are the Real Fight

This is where the Ultra separates itself from the Level 65 version, and it is the reason under-levelled squads get buried rather than out-damaged. Xenolord calls meteors down at three health thresholds instead of two — 80%, 50% and 20% — and each meteor lands a pack of Xenovader, with Xenogard joining from the second wave on. Add it up and the Ultra puts 62 extra Pals on the field over the course of one fight, against 36 in the standard raid, and the Ultra spawns the upgraded versions of both.

Both adds are worth knowing by their stat line. Xenovader is the Dark one and it is fragile — 125 ranged attack but only 90 HP and 85 defense, so a single Ice area move deletes several at once. Xenogard is the Dragon one at 130 defense and 110 HP, and it is the one that survives long enough to matter. The 20% wave is where fights are lost: eight meteors landing 29 bodies while the boss is still swinging at x13, right when your revives are already gone.

Add	Elements	Ranged / Melee	HP / Def	How to handle it
Xenovader	Dark	125 / 100	90 / 85	The chaff, and the bulk of all 62 spawns — Blizzard Spike and Diamond Rain clear them in groups
Xenogard	Dragon	120 / 100	110 / 130	Only seven show up all fight, but 130 defense means they linger — focus these down individually

Fight Strategy

There is no trick that shortcuts the health pool. What the fight rewards is uptime — keeping the boss frozen, keeping the arena clear, and keeping every Pal you brought alive to the third wave. Four things decide whether that happens.

Freeze it, then keep it frozen

Every Ice move carries a 100% Freeze chance, which makes freeze uptime the actual win condition rather than a bonus. Chain the heavy casts — Ice Laser, then Ice Spit, then Blizzard Spike from a second Pal — so the 30-second cooldowns never overlap into a gap. Ice Missile is the glue: 40 power on a 2-second timer sounds useless, but it is a Freeze roll every two seconds while your big skills recharge, and Icelyn and Pierdon Cryst both know it from level 1.

Clear each wave before the next one lands

The waves stack if you let them. Xenovaders that survived the 80% meteors are still shooting when the 50% wave arrives, and 21 fresh bodies on top of leftovers is how a stable fight tips over. When a meteor drops, switch targets immediately and sweep the pack with an area Ice move — they die in one — then go straight back to the boss. Damage lost to add clear is cheaper than damage taken from three overlapping waves.

Bank damage above 80% health

The opening stretch is the only part of this fight with no adds in it. Nothing interrupts you, nothing is shooting from a flank, and your cooldowns are all up — burn everything you have before the health bar crosses 80%. Grenades, the full magazine, both heavy Ice casts. From that point on you are splitting attention three ways and your damage per minute never returns to the opening rate.

Dodge on foot and stay close

Mounted movement is fast but it makes you a much larger target, and the dodge roll's invincibility frames are what actually beat Meteorain and Cosmic Meteor. Fighting close also silences Umbral Surge outright — it needs 1,200 units of range to fire, so inside that ring one of its two Dark moves simply stops existing. The trade is Beam Slash, which only reaches 3,000, so watch its 20-second timer.

Bring more ammo and food than you think

At a 9% damage floor this is a long fight, and running dry mid-rotation is a real failure mode rather than a theoretical one. Stock Plasma Rifle Ammo in bulk, and load a feed box before you touch the altar — Galeclaw Nikujaga gives +25% Defense and Mammorest Curry gives +25% Attack for a stretch, and 25% off a x13 hit is worth more here than in any other fight.

Best Gear to Bring

Weapon attack values only mean anything inside their own class — a bow's number and a rifle's number are built on completely different scales, so read down the class column rather than across the table. Within the classes that matter, the Plasma Rifle is the pick for sustained pressure at 46 rounds a magazine, and the Mechanical Bow is the burst option if you can land single shots between meteor drops. All values below are for the fully upgraded schematic.

Class	Weapon	Attack (Legendary)	Magazine	Tech
Bow	Mechanical Bow	24,000	1	67
Rocket Launcher	Beam Launcher	16,800	—	80
Assault Rifle (burst)	Charge Rifle	15,000	10	65
Assault Rifle (sustained)	Plasma Rifle	2,232	46	78
Melee	Laser Sword	2,400	—	73
Support	Megaboost Gun	250	8	63
Support	Drone Launcher	240	—	77
Throwable	Ice Grenade	750 — Ice damage, hits the weakness	—	29

The two support weapons are worth a slot even though their attack numbers look like typos next to the rifles. Megaboost Gun fires at your own Pal to raise its attack and defense, which is a direct multiplier on the only source of damage that matters here, and the Drone Launcher keeps chipping while you are busy dodging. Ice Grenades are the only weapon in your own hands that hits the weakness at all.

Armour and accessories

Ancient-tier armour is not optional at x13 — nothing below it survives a landed hit. The Cryolinx Ring is the highest-value accessory in the game for this specific fight, because it does both halves of the job: it cuts the incoming Dragon damage that makes up six of eight attacks, and it raises your Pal's Ice output at the same time.

Slot	Pick	Stats	Why
Body	Lightweight Ancient Armor	1,092 defense, 3,120 HP, Tech 79	Top of the armour list, and the lightweight version keeps your dodge responsive
Head	Ancient Helm	650 defense, 1,560 HP, Tech 68	The highest-defense helmet in the game
Shield	Ancient Shield	2,200 shield, Tech 71	Self-repairing between waves, and the only thing standing between you and Omega Laser
Partner accessory	Cryolinx Ring	—	Cuts incoming Dragon damage and boosts outgoing Ice on your active Pal — best slot in the fight
Partner accessory (alt)	Frostallion's Talisman	—	Partner defense plus Ice damage when the ring is not unlocked yet
Shared accessory	Dogen Emblem	—	Raises attack for you and your active Pal together
Shared accessory	Silvegis Emblem	—	The defensive twin — raises defense for both of you
Player accessory	Ring of Dragon Resistance +2	—	Blunts six of the eight moves in the rotation
Player accessory	Phantom Ring	—	Longer dodge invincibility — the direct counter to a 5,000-range meteor drop
Player accessory	Warsect Terra's Belt	—	Defense and health together when you keep getting caught by the third wave

Xenolord (Ultra) Rewards

The Ultra flattens the standard raid's ranged rolls into fixed amounts and roughly doubles them — 10 Ancient Civilization Cores and 10 Training Crystals every clear, no variance. It also doubles the work handbook to two copies and adds Xenolord's head, a cosmetic helmet with 30 defense and 80 HP that no other source in the game drops. Everything is 100%.

Reward	Ultra (Lv 80)	Standard (Lv 65)	Chance
Ancient Civilization Core	10, fixed	3–6	100%
Training Crystal	10, fixed	4–5	100%
Xenolord's head	1	—	100%
Xenolord (Ultra) Slab	1	1	100%
Applied Handiwork Handbook I	2	1	Pick one of three
Applied Generating Electricity Handbook I	2	1	Pick one of three
Applied Cooling Handbook I	2	1	Pick one of three
Dragon Skill Fruit: Dragon Meteor	—	1	100% on the standard raid only
Ancient Civilization Parts	4–6	4–6	100% — from its own drop table
Precious Dragon Stone	2–3	2–3	100% — sells high to merchants
Meteorite Fragment	7–15	7–15	100%

One line on that table deserves attention: the Dragon Skill Fruit: Dragon Meteor is not in the Ultra's reward list. If you want the 600-power Dragon move to teach a Pal, you farm the Level 65 fight for it, not this one. That is the clearest split between the two tiers — the standard raid is where you go for the skill fruit, the Ultra is where you go for cores, crystals and the hat.

The egg, and getting your own Xenolord

Xenolord never spawns in the wild, so the only way to own one is the Huge Dark Egg handed over for the clear. The egg rolls 90% ordinary and 10% alpha, and here is the part worth knowing before you grind: those weights are identical on the Level 65 and Level 80 versions. Clearing the harder tier buys you nothing on alpha odds. Farm whichever fight you can finish fastest, and run the Ultra when you actually want the cores and the crystals.

Summary

Bring Ice, keep it frozen, and clear each meteor wave before the next one lands. Moldron Cryst freezes best thanks to two exclusive Ice skills, Frostallion hits hardest, and Panthalus soaks when you need something to survive. Wear ancient armour with the Cryolinx Ring, stock more ammo than feels sensible, and save your reserves for the 20% wave. The payout is 10 Ancient Civilization Cores, 10 Training Crystals, two work handbooks, Xenolord's head and another slab — so the fight funds its own rematch forever.

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