Attack on Titan – Every Titan and Their Powers Explained
In the world of AOT, the main power system is about the powers of Titans. From the enormous Colossal Titan to the durable War Hammer Titan, everyone has their own unique and amazing way of fighting.
Although the anime & manga have ended, AOT still resides in our hearts as one of the best ani-manga of this decade. So, without wasting any more time, let’s explore the mysteries of The 9 Titans.
Founding Titan
Main Ability – Control Over All Titans & Ymir’s Descendants
Known Inheritors – Ymir Fritz, Karl Fritz, Uri Reiss, Freida Reiss, Grisha Yeager & Eren Yeager
As the name suggests Founding Titan was the first titan of all the 9 titans and it’s also said to be the strongest among all of them. Its shape is gigantic and the shifter resides inside its mouth. Ymir Fritz was the first person to inherit its powers.
Founding Titan can alter Ymir’s descendants‘ memories and biological properties. It has absolute control over all other Titans and Ymir’s descendants. But only the Royal Fritz blood can use its powers. Although Eren is not of the Royal Blood he used its powers with the help of Zeke Yeager. Eren also convinced Ymir to use the powers of previous Titan shifters.
Attack Titan
Main Ability – Close Combat Expertise, Foresight
Known Inheritors – Eren Kruger (The Owl), Grisha Yeager & Eren Yeager
Among all the Titans it’s the most fan-favorite Titan after all it’s the first Titan that Eren used. Attack Titan has enhanced physical attributes, agility, and expertise in close combat. It even managed to defeat the Armored Titan in a 1v1. He is one of the strongest AOT characters for a reason.
But the most important ability of the Attack Titan is its ability to see the future. As we know all the Titan shifters inherit the previous users’ memories only Attack Titan is an exception as it not only inherits the previous memories but also gives access to the next users’ memories.
Colossal Titan
Main Ability – Explosion
Known Inheritors – Bertolt Hoover & Armin Arlert
Colossal Titan is a walking nuke. Because when the shifter transforms into the Titan it generates heat streams and explodes. The explosion is strong enough to evaporate a large portion of the sea. It’s 60 meters tall and powerful enough to destroy Wall Maria.
Because of the heat streams, people need help to approach it carelessly it has absolute defense and offense. But it’s not almighty because of its huge size it’s too slow and consumes a lot of energy. So the shifter can’t maintain the Titan form for a long time.
Armored Titan
Main Ability – Hardened Defense
Known Inheritors – Reiner Braun
Armored Titan can harden its skin as it wants. It has an absolute defense against small guns and canons. It can always shred the armored skin to increase its speed. It can also use its armor around its fist to increase the damage output.
As shown in the series Armored Titan is best to infiltrate enemy bases because of its high defense the user can easily fight and unleash high damage on the enemies without any worries.
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Female Titan
Main Ability – Adaptivity & Flexible
Known Inheritors – Annie Leonhart
Female Titan is the most agile and flexible titan in the whole series. Climbing walls or using any form of martial art was no difficult task for the Female Titan. Annie Leonhart was an exceptionally good fighter her hand-to-hand combats were second to only Mikasa. So it can be said that she was the perfect user to draw out the Female Titan’s abilities.
Other than that it could also call the other Pure Titans with its scream. It has the best regeneration speed among all the titans. But the best ability of the Female Titan is its ability to adapt to others. According to Annie if she consumes even a little of other Titan’s body parts it can use their abilities to a certain extent.
Cart Titan
Main Ability – Endurance & Low Energy Consumption
Known Inheritos – Pieck Finger
Cart Titan has high endurance and it consumes a minimal amount of energy. So it’s the best fit for carrying weapons and stuff for long missions. According to Pieck, she can stay in the Titan for as long as 2 months.
Not only that the user can transform into the titan multiple times consecutively. It also has high mobility and can talk in the titan form. But as mentioned earlier every titan has their own downsides the main problem of the Cart Titan is its slow regeneration.
Jaw Titan
Main Ability – Agile & Sharp Jaw
Known Inheritos – Marcel Galliard, Ymir, Porco Galliard & Falco Grice
The Jaw Titan is small and extremely agile. Making it the best for surprise assaults. It also has sharp nails & jaw to tear its enemies apart. It can easily penetrate the titan-hardened skins. Although it’s weak in close combat against the other titans like Female, Attack, Colossal, etc but in areas like the jungle it’s deadly. Also during the inheritance of Falco the Jaw Titan was able to fly.
Beast Titan
Main Ability – Certain Animal Abilities
Known Inheritors – Zeke Yeager & Tom Ksaver
The users of the Beast Titan always obtain a particular type of animal power upon their inheritance. In the case of Zeke, he inherited the powers of Ape his titan form was like a giant ape with long arms. He used his arms to throw stones at long distances.
Zeke Beast Titan was also able to talk and because of his royal blood, he could turn other Ymir’s descendants into titans with his scream. Zeke’s blood acted as a drug if any of Ymir’s descendants drank that blood and heard him screaming then they would turn into a Pure Titan.
War Hammer Titan
Main Ability – Weapons Creation & Remotely Controlling
Known Inheritors – Lara Tybur & Eren Yeager
War Hammer Titan was the last introduced Titan among the 9 Titans. Just like other Titans it was in the hands of the Marley too. But surprisingly the inheritors of the War Hammer Titans were known as Heroes among the Marleys so they were kept protected and never used in battles.
During the fight against Eren’s Attack Titan, we found out the outstanding abilities of War Hammer Titan. Not only it can create any weapon of the Titan-hardened skin it can also control the ground to an extent. So it can strike its enemies with spears from the ground. Other than that it can also create bow arrows from the hardened skin. The most amazing ability of the War Hammer Titan is that the user does not have to stay in the nape of the Titan. They can control it remotely.
Conclusion –
With this, our list for today is done. But as mentioned earlier every Titan has their own weakness and expertise. Depending on the situation and user even the most useless Cart Titan can also be a deadly foe. This list was not made for comparison among the Titans as they are all great in their field. I shared this knowledge with my fellow weebs to explore the world of AOT to know more about our favorite characters and Titans.
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