Every character in Elsword has their own unique features that set them apart from other characters.
Basic Information
Power System is a system exclusive to Ain which allows him to switch between "Cycle Magic" and "Creation Magic". When in default state, attacking enemies will increase the green bar. After the green bar is maxed out, it will turn blue and you will shift into Creation Mode. During this time, you will be able to switch between Cycle and Creation magic with the V key (default key).
Ain only has 1 bead for awakening. He however can awaken during his awakening and ascend to the next phase.
Power (Disparate Force)
The bar below the MP bar is known as the Power Gauge. The bar will fill up when Ain is attacking or being attacked. When the gauge is full, his special system, Power, will activate.
Power has two modes: 
Power: Cycle Magic and 
Power: Creation Magic. When gaining Power, the default mode is known as El's Power: Circulating Magic. By default, Creation Magic will be activated when the Power Gauge becomes full, but after learning Noble Pledge: Eid, Awakened Will: Apostasia, or Wave, Cycle Magic will be activated instead. While Cycle Magic or Creation Magic is active, they can be switched by pressing the special action key ([V] by default).
After the gauge is consumed, Power will no longer be active and you will switch back to 
Power: Circulating Magic. There is a cooldown of 3 seconds after switching.
Power: Cycle Magic
- Reduces the MP cost for skills by 10% and their cooldown by 10% (Marriage/Hyperactive Excluded).
- Ain stats (except HP, Attack, Defense) are increased by a certain percentage.
- Critical, Maximize, Additional Damage, Damage Reduction +15% This effect is multiplicative
to your current stats.M - Action Speed, Movement Speed, Jump Speed +15% This effect is unnormalized.U
- MP Gain on Attack, MP Gain on Hit, Awakening Charge +20% This effect is normalized
to your current stats.N - Awakening Time: 16% This effect is normalized
to your current stats.N
- Critical, Maximize, Additional Damage, Damage Reduction +15%
- Power gauge is consumed every second
- Can consume Power Gauge for an additional dash in mid-air.
Power: Creation Magic
- When you use Command / Active attacks, additional hits will occur that do not inflict hitstun.
- Melee attacks will cause one of the following afterimages to appear:
- Piercing Slash : 213% Physical Damage
- Upper Slash : 192% Physical Damage
- Stab : 78% Physical Damage x3 (Always lands a critical hit)
- Ranged attacks will cause one of the following projectiles to appear:
- El's Bow : 90% Physical Damage x3
- El's Spirit : 292% Physical
- El's Spear : 119% Physical Damage x3 (Always lands a critical hit)
- Melee attacks will cause one of the following afterimages to appear:
- On the final hit of a Special Active, causes 3 homing bullets to appear that inflict hitstun
- Homing Bullet : 256% Magical Damage x3
- Cooldown : 5 seconds
- Every time one of the above attacks land a hit, they will drain a portion of the Power Gauge.
- All Creation Mode additional hits have their damage reduced by 40% in PvP.
- All Creation Mode additional hits are affected by All Skill Damage Increase effects.
Spiritualism
The default awakening system is changed to Spiritualism. Spiritualism features:
- Only have 1 awakening bead.
- Able to re-awaken during awakening duration to ascend to next stage of spiritualism (3 stages). Stats gain during awakening depend on Spiritualism stage.
- Re-awakening will reset the default value (30 secs). Various passives and [Awakening Duration] stat increases the default time. Receiving an Awakening potion will increase the timer.
When your next Awakening Bead would activate Phase 3, either by being in the 2nd or 3rd phase of Awakening or when under an effect that grants Phase 3 upon Awakening, the Awakening Bead will blink. The only exception to this is when you would skip to Phase 3 through the Wavering Faith Passive Skill, likely due to the Skill's reliance on the Seed of Chaos.
| Awakening Stage | All Damage Increase This effect is multiplicative to your current stats. (All Damage effect is additive to the Received Damage multiplier.) M |
All Speed Increase This effect is multiplicative to your current stats. M |
Critical Increase This effect is multiplicative to your current stats. M |
Maximize Increase This effect is multiplicative to your current stats. M | |
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| Before Transcendence | After Transcendence | ||||
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30% | 34.5% | N/A | ||
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+11.5% | N/A | |||
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+11.5% | +11.5% | +11.5% | ||
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Appearance
Even when not wearing the promo avatar, upon awakening you will gain the appearance of the awakened mode. However if you are wearing back accessories (Ex. Wings, capes), they will be displayed during the first and second stage of awakening.
- This is reversed as Bluhen, giving an incomplete version of his Spiritualism wings in his first stage and an incomplete version of his crown in the second stage, replacing the back and head accessories respectively, while the third stage will give the promotional costume's appearance and complete his wings and crown.
- You can disable this look completely by enabling "Remove Awakening Appearance" in the Game Options.
Related Skills
Arme Thaumaturgy |
Erbluhen Emotion |
Herrscher |
Schatz Reprise |
Specialization (Not available anymore)
| Character |  Specialization A
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 Specialization B
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Power Gauge Usage -x% during Power: Cycle Magic (Max: 50%) | Special Add. Damage +x% during Power: Creation Magic (Max: 30%) |
Tips and Details
- Unlike a Reckless Fist with Subliminal Rage, Cor Guardian, Laby, and Noah, the duration of Ain's Awakening is always fixed upon activation as opposed to stacking on the pre-existing duration.
- While awakened, Ain does not receive the 20% damage bonus to his skills like most characters.
- While all other melee attacks (including Abschluss) trigger Creation Mode's afterimage attacks, Ain's getup Z/X attack will trigger the projectiles instead.
- If the Ring of Fury is equipped, Ain will automatically enter Awakening Stage 3 upon the first awakening. This also applies to Fever.
Gallery
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Old Icon of Power: Circulating Magic.
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Old Icon of Power: Cycle Magic.
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Old Icon of Power: Creation Magic.
Trivia
- Richter is the only class path that does not change the default Power mode from Creation Magic to Cycle Magic.
- Additionally, Herrscher is the only class path to delay this change instead of having it occur immediately upon achieving 1st Job.
Updates
| Date | Changes | ||
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| KR | NA | PvE | PvP |
| 12/15/2016 | 12/21/2016 |
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| 06/30/2016 | 07/13/2016 |
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| 11/02/2017 | 11/15/2017 |
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| 05/17/2018 | 06/14/2018 |
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| 06/28/2018 | 07/11/2018 |
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| 12/19/2019 | 01/14/2020 |
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| 08/19/2021 | 09/15/2021 |
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| 02/02/2023 | 03/02/2023 |
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| 08/03/2023 | - |
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