Vainok
When it appears
As a tier-2 Nexomon, it only turns up in the grass after you beat Jin in Magma Grotto Town, in the main quest Tyrant Mulcimer, or from the start in Custom Mode with high-tier encounters allowed.
Capturing
Its favourite foods are Sausage, Grape and Watermelon, Noki's, as every stage of a line shares the first one's. Feeding it one adds 15 to your capture chance, where other food adds 5. Catching a Nexomon explains how the whole chance adds up.
Evolution
Cosmic
Every wild one has a 1 in 4,000 chance to be cosmic at first, and 1 in 3,500 later in the story. What improves the odds is on the Nexomon page.
Normal 
Cosmic
Stats by level
Before cores. How stats grow is on the Nexomon page.
| 1 |  12 |  120 |  8 |  4 |  11 |
| 25 | 76 | 125 | 43 | 28 | 55 |
| 50 | 143 | 131 | 80 | 53 | 101 |
| 75 | 210 | 136 | 117 | 79 | 146 |
| 99 | 274 | 142 | 152 | 103 | 190 |
Damage taken
How hard a skill of each element hits it, going by its element. The full damage formula is on the Skills page.
Skill tree
 Torrent | 2 |  Water | 60 | 5 |
 Scratch | 7 |  Normal | 40 | 5 |
 Frost Bite | 12 | Water | 75 | 15 |
 Explosive Water | 14 | Water | 80 | 10 |
 Smoke Screen | 20 | Normal | — | 15 |
 Toxic Splash | 22 | Water | 35 | 5 |
 Ice Flakes | 25 | Water | 65 | 10 |
 Whirlpool | 30 | Water | 25 | 10 |
 Recover | 36 | Normal | — | 5 |
 Power Up | 40 | Normal | — | 10 |
 Ocean Force | 43 | Water | — | 15 |
 Furious Torrent | 46 | Water | 110 | 15 |
 Bubble Attack | 49 | Water | 25 | 15 |
 Wave | 53 | Water | 15 | 10 |
 Plasma | 59 | Normal | 60 | 5 |
 Tsunami | 64 | Water | 150 | 25 |
Encounter locations
| Beach Wilds 2 Palmaya | 3.4% | 2.4% | |
| Beach Wilds 7 Palmaya | 2.5% | 1.8% | |
| Frozen Tundra Bunker Entrance The Frozen Tundra | 3.7% | 3.7% | |
| Frozen Wild West Road 1 The Frozen Tundra | 5.8% | 5.8% | |
| South Wall The Frozen Tundra | 6.3% | 6.3% | |
| Underwater City East Road 1 The City of Cadium | 2.6% | 2% | |
| Underwater City East Road 2 The City of Cadium | 2.8% | 2.1% | |
| Underwater City Engine Room 1 The City of Cadium | 3.3% | 2.4% | |
| Underwater City Engine Room 2 The City of Cadium | 3.2% | 2.4% | |
| Underwater City Engine Room 3 The City of Cadium | 3% | 2.1% | |
| Underwater City Engine Room 4 The City of Cadium | 2.6% | 2% | |
| Underwater City Huge Crack The City of Cadium | 2.7% | 2% | |
| Underwater City Road 3 The City of Cadium | 2.5% | 1.9% | |
| Underwater City Road 4 The City of Cadium | 2.3% | 1.9% |
- Evolves into
- Evolves from
- Favourite foods
- Other
History
Changes to this nexomon across game updates.
- Other languages +湾诺基
Other languages: VainokВайнокヴァイノック바이녹湾诺基