In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the Medalum is a powerful weapon that Maelle can use to defeat opponents. Getting this weapon requires you to complete a few key steps in the game, including winning the Arena Tournament in Gestral Village. You’ll need to defeat Golgra multiple times, and only after winning the final match against “The Stranger” you will be rewarded with the Medalum. Here’s everything you need to know about how to find and get the Medalum in the game.
Medalum in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Medalum is a weapon you can get in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It’s made specifically for Maelle and becomes available when you win the Arena Tournament in Gestral Village while playing as her. This weapon deals physical elemental damage, and its strength increases based on Maelle’s Defense and Agility stats. At Level 5, it gives 165 Power.
Medalum Stats
Attribute | Value |
| Character | Maelle |
| Element | Physical |
| Max Power | 2906 |
| Vitality | – |
| Might | – |
| Agility | A |
| Defense | S |
| Luck | – |
Weapon Level | Passive Effects |
| Level 4 | During Fight, you will start in a Virtuose Stance. |
| Level 10 | While in Virtuose Stance, Burn effects are applied twice. |
| Level 20 | In Virtuose Stance, Burn damage is doubled. |
How To Get The Medalum
You can get the Medalum weapon for Maelle by winning the Arena Tournament in Gestral Village. You need to use Maelle as your fighter, and she has to defeat the final opponent, “The Stranger,” to win the weapon.
To unlock the tournament, you’ll need to talk to the village chef, Golgra. However, she will not allow you to join the tournament at first. You must first provoke her into a fight four times while playing as Sciel.
Here’s when and where you can fight Golgra:
- First fight: Right after your first visit to Gestral Village, once you’ve completed the Gestral Tournament.
- Second fight: During Monoco’s relationship side quest, which takes place at the Sacred River.
- Third fight: At the Dark Gestral Arena.
- Fourth fight: When you return to Gestral Village later in the story. You’ll get the option to provoke Golgra again, do it to trigger the final fight.
You don’t have to do the second and third fights in any specific order. As long as you’ve fought Golgra at both the Sacred River and the Dark Gestral Arena.
Fight Strategy
Golgra’s combos have a slight delay, so parry and counter them. The hit that goes unblocked can deal between 5,000 to 7,000 damage. Most characters will go down immediately if they miss a block.
- Equip weapons that scale with Vitality or Defense and max out those stats to boost your character’s resilience. Recoats can also help if needed. Recovery Pictos, like Second Chance, are also important for recovery.
- Once you are able to fight Golgra’s combos and can parry them, use Augmented Counter to increase health much faster.
- Characters who can break and Stun can fill up Golgra’s meter multiple times during the battle. Using Burn can also speed up the fight, but to deal with damage, you’ll need to stack it up quickly.
- Second Phase: When Golgra drops below half health, she enters her second phase, changing her form and using longer, more complex combos. Be extra careful when she makes the ground shake. This attack requires a jump counter followed by a gradient counter. Even though Golgra looks like she’s on fire in her second phase, she’s neither immune nor resistant to fire damage.
Once you’ve fought her all four times, speak to her again in Gestral Village to unlock the tournament. Win the final battle with Maelle, and you will get Medalum. If you’ve already got the weapon, you’ll get a free upgrade for it instead.
Medalum Upgrade
Below table shows the Medalum upgrade and the catalyst required to upgrade:
Level | Required Tint Catalyst | Power | Agility | Defense |
| 5 | 1x Polished Chroma Catalyst | 165 | C | B |
| 6 | 2x Polished Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 7 | 2x Polished Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 8 | 3x Polished Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 9 | 3x Polished Chroma Catalyst | 362 | C | B |
| 10 | 1x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | 473 | C | B |
| 11 | 1x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 12 | 2x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 13 | 2x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 14 | 2x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 15 | 3x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 16 | 3x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
Level | Required Tint Catalyst | Power | Agility | Defense |
| 17 | 4x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 18 | 4x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 19 | 5x Resplendent Chroma Catalyst | – | C | B |
| 20 | 1x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 21 | 1x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 22 | 1x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 23 | 2x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 24 | 2x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 25 | 2x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 26 | 3x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | – | B | A |
| 27 | 3x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | 1729 | B | A |
| 28 | 3x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | 1822 | B | A |
| 29 | 4x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | 1915 | B | A |
| 30 | 4x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | 2007 | B | A |
| 31 | 4x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | 2100 | B | A |
| 32 | 5x Grandiose Chroma Catalyst | 2193 | B | A |
| 33 | – | 2906 | A | S |
