Chained Echoes features a system that lets one of your party members, Tomke, eat enemies to learn their skills. If this sounds familiar to you, it's because Chained Echoes loves to pay homage to old-school JRPGs from the SNES era.
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Updated November 7, 2023, by Sean Murray: Looking to upgrade Tomke's skills? We've got you covered with this guide to all the Canned enemies in Chained Echoes. We've also updated this guide with improved formatting, more breakout tips, and links to other helpfuled Chained Echoes topics.
What Are Cannable Enemies?
As you play through Chained Echoes you will surely notice some enemies in battle have a status next to them that reads 'Cannable' with a tick or a cross in the box next to it. If you're just starting, this won't mean anything to you. Cannable enemies are related to an optional party member you recruit later in the game called Tomke.
Tomke will Can enemies in Chained Echoes, which means he will eat them. If you're a genius, you might've figured out that the whole system is a clever play on words. Cannable, cannibal, get it? Either way, Cannable enemies are how you learn battle skills for Tomke.
Until you eat an enemy, he won't have any offensive skills save for whatever Class Emblem you put on him and his Uncanny Encounter ability.
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Tomke can be unlocked at the start of Act Two in Chained Echoes. You'll know when you're at this point in the game because there will be a three-month time skip, and you will unlock the Airship and Sky Armor to explore the world more.
When you have your Airship, fly from Hermit's Isle to the Arkant Archipelago. Once you land, you can trigger a side quest called The Food, The Chap, And The Hungry. You can't miss it, just look for a goat-looking person in a yellow coat standing by the town you first land in. Completing this side quest will unlock an area called The Hooge, as well as Tomke as a party member.
Now let the feast begin as you hunt down Cannable enemies.
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There are 15 enemy skills you can learn as Tomke, all of which are tied to a single enemy. You can see which enemies you've encountered are Cannable and their location using your Bestiary.
If you haven't encountered a specific enemy before, you should keep an eye on their Cannable status icon in the battle menu when fighting. Bear in mind that after eating an enemy, Tomke still needs a Grimoire Shard to learn and use the memorized skill. Here's a list of all the enemies, learnable skills, and their locations.
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Enemy |
Skill Learned |
Location |
|---|---|---|
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Boxfly |
Hard Swing - Attack |
Rohland Fields. You can find them west of Farnsport, heading towards the Termina Caves. One also spawns northwest of the Rohland Fields teleport crystal. |
|
Saliva |
Freak Wave - Magical attack |
Rohland Fields. These are little plant monsters you find in the top-right section of the Rohland Fields map. |
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Sewerdiver |
Sacrifice - Healing |
Narslene Sewers dungeon. These enemies look like green things with large golden helmets on. |
|
Alphoarn |
Run Around - Magical attack |
Kortara Mountain Range. Outside of Flandern to the east, there is a mob that spawns three of them. They are holding big yellow horns. |
|
Titan Elemental |
Spinach Power - Buff |
Kortara Mountain Range. Found in the woodland area in the bottom right square of the map, usually found with Waterflies. |
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Adamant Crab |
Convert - HP and TP switch |
Arkant Archipelago. These crabs are found throughout the area. They are small and purple. |
|
Ancient Turtle |
Sharing is Caring - TP restore |
Flying Continent Shambala. Ancient Turtles are encountered in Shambala, |
|
Seahorse Knight |
Broken Accordion - HP-based Attack |
Leviathan's Trench. You can find the Seahorse Knight in the Leviathan's Trench, which is the area that connects the Flower Fields of Perpetua to the Kindreld Monastery. |
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Ice Devil |
Sailor's Song - Raises Ultra Move bar |
Mount Rydell. You can find these little devils inside the caves, usually chilling along with some Ice Elementals. |
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Terror Terrier |
Cigarette's Light - Magical attack |
Phyon Oasis. These dogs are dotted around each area of this place. |
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Golem |
Spinning Swirl - Attack |
Empyrean Ruins. The Golems are found alongside the Blue and Red Clock Spider enemies all over the Empyrean Ruins. |
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Vin |
Know Your Limits - No TP cost |
Fiorwoods. The boar-looking enemies in the Fiorwoods can be found outside of Iden and on the path toward Tormund. |
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Blemmyae |
Clap on the Back - TP and HP regen |
Magic Academy Nhysa. You'll immediately recognise these enemies since they're big headless beasts lugging around a sled shaped like a skull. |
|
Phantom |
Treasure Mark - Overdrive reset |
Magic Academy Nhysa. These spooky ghosts are found all over Nysa, an area you can enter after completing Maddeline's Quest in the Ograne Grottos. |
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Croapier |
Rushing Anchor - Attack |
Narslene Sewers, east. This is an area you reach towards the end of the game and you will almost certainly encounter them as you travel through. As you might expect, this enemy looks like a big frog. |