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Lavos

From The Codex
An extraterrestrial life-form that is thought to have fallen from the heavens 65 million years ago. On the time line that existed before history was changed, Lavos was assumed to have slept deep below the planet's surface… Sleeping and consuming the planet's energy up until the day of destruction known as the '"Apocalypse."' There are those who believe that, 12 thousand years ago, the legendary ancient magical civilization known as Zeal came into contact with Lavos. That fateful encounter is said to have resulted in Zeal disappearing from the surface of the planet within the space of a single night. However, the very existence of the ancient civilization of Zeal has never been proven, so up till this day this theory cannot be confirmed. On some time lines, Lavos appeared on the surface of the planet in the year 1999 and brought the world to ruins. However, a group of young time travelers saw where their planet's history was heading and, through their actions, rewrote time. This very research facility exists on that new time line… In a world where, thanks to the defeat of Lavos by the young adventurers, the Apocalypse never happened… On a temporal vector where human civilization continued to evolve unhampered. All the data on Lavos that was obtained from tracing different parallel world possibilities has proven to be volatile, with fluctuating discrepencies. Perhaps, at this point in time, it is nearly impossible to obtain any true information about Lavos.
~ Supercomputer’s analysis of Lavos
Now I understand. It lives on a planet for as long as possible, selecting the most desirable life forms, allowing them to advance and then harvesting their DNA. The young it gave birth to on Death Peak must have all of that DNA. Evenrtually they'll migrate to other planets, and repeat the cycle. It's a parasite! Sleeping within the earth all this time, stealing all our progress!
~ Lucca after witnessing Lavos' core and learning the truth
Let all that was once fade into oblivion! I welcome the end of existence. Embrace your destruction! It is inevitable!
~ Schala corrupted talking through Dream Devourer Lavos
It is no doubt but a matter of time before Lavos consumes the whole of my awareness. It was I, after all, who wished it—wished from the depths of my sadness and despair that all that was would be erased. The strength you wield now cannot free me. No, perhaps it is better said that no strength can. So as long as you lean upon the crutch of power, this world's sorrow can know no true end. Return to your own time now. Dwell not on this. Janus… thank you. But I am the girl I was no more. Live, and be strong. Farewell....
~ Schala fused with Lavos to Magus
In order to survive, all living things in this world, fight desperately and devour those they defeat... Must one kill other living things in order to survive? Must one destroy another world in order to allow one's own world to continue? The wounded in turn wound and torment those weaker than they themselves are. There are only the killers and the killed... The sinners who are judged, and the victims that do the judging... What meaning is there to such a world?
~ Lavos speaking through the Frozen Flame and Dragon God

Background

Lavos is the final boss of Chrono Trigger, an alien parasite which crash-landed in the year 65,000,000 BC It was named "Lavos" by Ayla, a word she made up from the root words "La" meaning "fire" and "Vos" "big" in the Iokan language.

Lavos came to Earth with the intention of draining its energy so that it could produce genetically enhanced spawn, which would then continue the cycle on other planets. In the North American version of the game, it is claimed once in the series that Lavos directly influenced all technology and life on the planet, evolving the planet's life forms to cultivate it, and make itself stronger. However, the line is absent in the Japanese version. Despite it originally just being in translation, in Chrono Cross it appears this actually is the case as a large portion of the game involves many layers of timeline events being controlled which all end at Lavos. In the original timeline, Lavos slept for millions of years, gaining power until 1999 AD. He was summoned in 12000 BC by Queen Zeal and the Mammon Machine. He emerged from the Earth in 1999 AD and put the world into an apocalyptic state. However, because of the interference of many of the characters, he was summoned at two other points in time of 12000 BC and 600 AD. While traveling in the year of 2300 AD, Crono, Marle, and Lucca see a video of the Day of Lavos which occurred in 1999 AD and decide to prevent it somehow. Magus is also after Lavos for destroying his home era in the year 12000 BC.

Lavos has three different forms. The first form is the outer shell, which resembles the Peluda, a mythical beast in French mythology. The second form consists of a large humanoid form with two arms. The third and final form is Lavos Core, consisting of three parts: a humanoid center, and two floating 'bits'. Apparently, the absolute core of Lavos is one of these bits, since it can revive its other parts and destroying it defeats Lavos.

While the natural dreamstone is a substance responsible for the first evolution of human beings from animal apes to sentient creatures, it is revealed in Chrono Cross that Lavos is responsible for the creation and advancement of the actual modern human species. Upon impact, a splinter of Lavos's shell broke off. This becomes the focal point of Chrono Cross, the Frozen Flame. Lavos is also the final boss in Chrono Cross, except in the form of the Time Devourer, the result of the defeated Lavos assimilating Schala in the darkness beyond time. Using the eponymous Chrono Cross, Serge successfully separated Schala from Lavos and destroyed the parasite once and for all.

Powers and Stats

Tier: Varies on the target he mimics, High 6-B, likely 6-A, possibly far higher with his own powers | At least 2-C, likely 1-C | 1-C | High 1-C

Name: Lavos

Origin: Chrono (Verse)

Gender: Male

Age: Over 65 Million Years Old (Landed on the planet back in 65,000,000 BC) | Immeasurable (Resides in the border beyond time’s eclipse otherwise known as the Darkness Beyond Time, a higher dimension beyond the regular multiverse where there is no beginning or end) | Immeasurable

Classification: Cosmic Parasite, Dream Devourer, Time Devourer, Dragon God

Attack Potency: Varies on the target he mimics (Copies the powers of targets throughout all of infinite history and beyond, this could put him at the lower tiered bosses as he does in the game or potentially reaching the higher tiered beings in Chrono), Large Country level (His awakening caused destruction to the entire planet, making a bleak future, which did this much damage), likely Continent level (Caused Zeal to fall destroying the continent in the process), possibly far higher with his own powers (Prior feats were done through him waking up, stated to have limitless power. Stated to have been absorbing the energy of the earth of aeons growing ever-stronger) | At least Complex Universe level (His mere entrance overloaded the timeline, noted that his offensive power was incalculable by Robo, devours dreams from a distant dimension which are alternate universes), likely Complex Multiverse level+ (Schala remarks that all of existence would be destroyed which has a cosmology of this size) | Complex Multiverse level+ (Exists in the darkness beyond time and was going to destroy everything from there, with the cosmology reaching this size) | High Complex Multiverse level (If Serge loses to Lavos, he would’ve absorbed Serge along with the Chrono Cross, which merged all the universes into a higher dimension, to where the real world was merged where even the developers show up, with the cosmology reaching this size)

Dimensionality: 3-D | 9-D (Resides in the border beyond time’s eclipse otherwise known as the Darkness Beyond Time, a higher dimension beyond the regular multiverse where there is no beginning or end) | 9-D | 10-D

Travel Speed: Varies on the target he mimics, Unknown with his own powers, Massively FTL+ flight speed (Flew from a distant solar system in around 20 seconds) | Unknown, Massively FTL+ flight speed | Unknown, Massively FTL+ flight speed | Unknown, Massively FTL+ flight speed

Combat Speed: Varies on the target he mimics, Extra-Temporal with his own powers (Can tag Crono and co.) | Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Reaction Speed: Varies on the target he mimics, Extra-Temporal with his own powers (Exists in the black omen which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”) | Extra-Temporal (Exists and moves in the darkness beyond time, a higher dimension beyond the regular multiverse where there is no beginning or end) | Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Lifting Strength: Varies on the target he mimics, Class G with his own powers (Lavos is the mammon machine and the core energy of Zeal, which keeps the continent floating in the sky) | At least Class G | At least Class G

Striking Strength: Varies on the target he mimics (Copies the targets of whoever throughout all of infinite history and beyond, this could put him at the lower tiered bosses as he does in the game or potentially reaching the higher tiered beings in Chrono), Large Country Class, likely Continent Class, possibly far higher with his own powers | At least Complex Universal, possibly Complex Multiversal+ | Complex Multiversal+ | High Complex Multiversal

Durability: Varies on the target he mimics, Large Country level, likely Continent level (Can take multiple hits from Crono and co. Can survive his own rains of destruction), possibly far higher with his own powers | At least Complex Universe level, possibly Complex Multiverse level+ | Complex Multiverse level+ | High Complex Multiverse level

Stamina: Varies on the target he mimics, At least Superhuman+ (Lavos’ very energy is what causes Zeal to float and has been keeping it floating for years, constantly feeds off the energy of the earth and the DNA of the people), Limitless with Vigora (Temporarily stops Lavos’ stamina from decreasing)

Range:Varies on the target he mimics, Planetary with Rains of Destruction (His rains of destruction could extend across the entire planet), High Multiversal+ with abilities (Ripped dimensions apart and hurled back future cities such as Chronopolis ten thousand years back in time, along with hurling cities from alternate dimensions back into the past thousands of years ago. Through harnessing the Frozen Flame's energy, even the scientists of the El Nido Archipelago would be able to have complete control over space-time across the timelines, said artifact being a fragment of Lavos)), Complex Multiversal+ with BFR (Can send one to the Darkness Beyond Time, which resides here in the multiverse) | Complex Multiversal+ (Scahala wished to destroy all of existence which would encompass this size) | Complex Multiversal+ | High Complex Multiversal+ (The Chrono Cross merged all universes into a higher dimension, to where the real world was merged where even the developers show up)

Powers and Abilities:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 1. Superbly huge, and towers over the Crono cast, it can be seen on the world map which shrinks down buildings and town to tiny size), Body Control & Spatial Manipulation (Can remove his head. The inside of Lavos' body far extends beyond the outside of his body, hosting it's own time gate and the pod warping all of space-time within it), Aura (His presence made Frog comment on what the energy in the air was), Magic (Lavos is the very thing that created magic in the Chrono verse, making the ancient kingdom of zeal flourish in magic through using his energy, characters like Ayla who pre-date Lavos arriving on the planet have no ability to use magic along with Lavos being the very thing that powered the ancient magical Kingdom of Zeal), Elemental Manipulation (As he created magic it would extend to the types of magic: fire, water, light, and shadow. It is further noted that everything is made up of these four elements), Immortality (Types 1, 3, 6, 8, & 9. Has been around far before 65 million BC, and still exists even in the future. Can remove his head destroying the head does nothing to him. Due to Lavos evolving into the Time Devourer all subsequent Lavos’ of each timeline will all return back to the darkness beyond time with the Time Devourer, essentially making them all avatars of the Time Devourer. Can summon itself from parallel timelines to fight with it. Even if one kills Lavos he will just be sent back to the Darkness Beyond Time where there is no beginning nor end and can either be summoned back by another Lavos or evolve into the Dream Devourer. Even if Serge defeats Lavos in the Darkness Beyond Time he will not have defeated Lavos for good with the only way being able to kill him was to remove Schala from him then merge the entirety of the cosmology into one. Type 5 via dying. Lavos' death sends him into the darkness beyond time along with the timeline he was defeated in making him a non-existent entity unbound by life and death), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 3. Lavos is a nonexistent being that was erased after the defeat of him, still able to attack from the Darkness Beyond Time), Acausality (Type 5. Lavos’ energy is what powers the black omen which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”), Regeneration (Mid-High. Regenerates his entire core back after defeating Crono and the party. Likely Mid-Godly. Came back from the non-existent state after being erased along with the future timeline becoming the Dream Devourer, though it's unknown if it's base self regenerated or if it regenerated once becoming Dream Devourer), Acausality Negation (Type 5. Has superior magic to Magus whose magic can harm and kill denizens of the black omen, which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”), Time Paradox Immunity Negation (Types 0, 1, 2, & 4. Can paradox out Crono from all points in time who remembered Marle even after she was erased from time due to her ancestor being killed resulting in her never existing. Was aware that the Black Omen was not always there, unlike everyone else who assumed the Black Omen always existed there. Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts. Changing a future in the Chrono Verse causes said future to be erased from existence though characters like Robo still exist even after defeating Lavos and causing the erasure of the future timeline from ever happening. Is unbound by the causality loop of fate that attempts to force a cycle to continue), Power Mimicry & Cosmic Awareness (Can look through time and copy the powers of all the bosses Crono and co. have faced even if they haven’t faced them yet nor if the enemy exists yet, he can still power mimic them. As the Frozen Flame is a piece of Lavos, he has a complete perspective of the infinite timelines of the multiverse, perceiving every time period and alternate selves there are in a plane beyond space-time), Reactive Evolution (Lavos is an evolved parasite that will continue to evolve and adapt to previous scenarios. Lavos stored and analyzed all the genetic coding of every creature on the planet, aiming to use it to induce self-evolution into the ultimate life form. His mere energy causes others to rapidly abnormally evolve, Absorbed Schala turning him into the Dream Devourer and then eventually evolving into the time devourer. The Time Devourer is even noted to be a species more evolved then the old Lavos), Reality Separation (Type 4. If killed exists completely outside of reality and it's concepts within the Darkness Beyond Time), Biological Manipulation, Information Manipulation & Evolution Manipulation (Even if the being he copies has servants, he will make his own servants as an extension of his body. Is the very reason for all human evolution, along with feeding off of it. Further stated even by scientists abnormal development was due to Lavos’ biological contamination. Stated it possesses the DNA of every organism on the planet. As he manipulated everyone's DNA it's implied he manipulated the information of those who do not even originate from the planet), Passive Space-Time Manipulation & Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Merely awakening and summoning Lavos caused space-time to distort and Crono, Magus, and the rest of the party to be temporally sent to 23 million BC, Lavos causes events to happen all across space-time), Time Manipulation (Lavos landing caused a time gate to appear. The Frozen flame gives the user the ability to bend space-time, allowing them to re-shape history. The immense energy that Lavos radiates alters time creating time gates. Magus can control the time gates to open. Schala’s pendant protected Kid via rewinding time and sending her back to an immediate past where she was safe), Causality Manipulation (Lavos’ death causes all points in time to close altogether and if you do not return to your time period upon his death you will be lost in the flow of time), Portal Creation (The immense energy that Lavos radiates alters time creating time gates which are portals in time), Time Travel (Has a time gate within him. Lavos can travel across all of time with temporal shift, absorbing everyone into the temporal shift, oddly enough, him going to areas like the prehistoric period massively amplify his strength. Masa & Mune through focusing on the time egg can send Serge and his party back in time, though after a while they'll have a limit to how long they can keep Serge in said time period. Due to the power and strength of Lavos' control over space-time however it is likely he doesn't have this limitation), Absorption (Lavos absorbs the energy of the earth to grow stronger and stronger. The Masamune can absorb energy. Absorbs the lifeforce of the planet while sleeping. Was going to absorb Crono and co. if Schala didn’t teleport them out in time. Zeal makes note that the Mammon Machine would've absorbed the Crono and co. if they lost, intergrating them with Lavos), Power Absorption (Sapped Magus of his powers, can absorb one’s MP. Absorbs the planet while sleeping causing him to grow ever more powerful. Mammon Machine can sap all MP with MP buster), Fusionism (Can unify himself with another to evolve himself into a more powerful and deadly entity. Fused together Masa and Mune can fuse together. Anyone who receives the frozen flame and becomes an arbiter will become one with Lavos causing him to evolve further if their mind is overtaken by the flame), Reality Warping, Pocket Reality Manipulation (Going to fight Lavos sends the opponent into a completely different area front he regular field), Energy Manipulation & Sealing (Lavos energy can open doors sealed with mysterious energy. Can alter energy. Zeal can shoot out energy projectiles. Lavos’ energy is capable of effecting the doors and objects sealed from a mysterious energy. Sealed a Nu), Healing (The left-handed part restores health to the bodies. the frozen flame can heal "all illnesses" even healing wounds beyond the abilities of the doctors of Termina and Guldove), Attack Reflection (Can reflect magic and light. Magus should scale to the other party members who reflected Dalton's magic), Explosion Manipulation & Energy Projection (Fire missiles that deal massive explosions, laser beams causes massive explosions, shadow doom blaze causes a massive fiery explosion across the entire screen. Lavos spawn can create an explosive field around one), Immunity Negation (Can void immunities, even if said immunities are through items), Willpower Manipulation (With Dark Will inflicts status effects on the users), Poison Manipulation (With umbral embrace, deals poison damage), Statistics Amplification (With Evil Emanation, raises Lavos’ attack), Breath Attack & Fragrance Manipulation (Lavos Spawn can induce different status ailments through it's breath attacks, Lavos Breath puts the target to sleep & Miasma inflicts confusion. Attacks such as Lavos Breath likely put the target to sleep due to it's scent), Resurrection (Can resurrect his helpers), Air Manipulation (Can create massive world winds of energy along with small sized air blades that form into massive worldwinds. Can create a massive whirlwind with one of their attacks which induces the confusion status effect. Can casually make whirlwinds), Flight (Before coming on the main planet in Chrono Trigger he is seen flying across space. Magus can naturally fly in his running animation), Life Manipulation (Created his miniature spawns), Madness Manipulation (Type 2. Absorbing Lavos’ energy turns one insane, the frozen flame drove Serge’s father insane turning him into an arbiter of FATE), Soul Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation (Was taking over Queen Zeal’s soul while slumbering within the waves. The power of the Frozen Flame put Kid’s soul to sleep. Lavos spawn can put one to sleep. Wazuki lost his soul coming into contact with the frozen flame), Resurrection Negation (Destruction rains of heavens bypasses the auto revive status), Regeneration Negation & Immortality Negation (Types 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9. Magus is capable of killing skeletons. Lavos' attacks can permanently kill someone to the point where Resurrection or Regeneration spells were not an option to revive Crono. Requiring a higher-dimensional item in order to save Crono. Lavos can permenantly kill other versions of himself successfully cannibalizing them regardless of their survivability, did this in the Darkness Beyond Time to build his strength), Irreversible Damage (Lavos killed Crono to the extent that he was completely gone, being incapable of being brought back through time travel and requiring the higher-dimensional powers of the Chrono Trigger to revive him), BFR (Types 1, 2, and 3. Fighting Lavos sends you into his vortex pocket dimension, Lavos has been having a power effect on the very fabric of space and time sending many to the End of Time, upon merely being summoned he temporally sent the entire party and Magus to 23 million BC, sent Magus as Janus and the Gurus to different time periods, including the end of time, which is infinite. The frozen flame was capable of sending Serge into the dimensional vortex a place that is rare for a physical being to wander in with spatially flat beings, Sprigg notes that returning the real world, it is a world with substance, where even the water and air is different. Sent Princess Schala in a dimensional vortex sending her to the Darkness Beyond Time. Zeal could send someone into the Mammon Machine to absorb them and make them one with Lavos), Telepathy (The Frozen Flame spoke to Wazauki telepathically), Weather Manipulation (Lavos destruction caused the winter to end, Lavos’ initial landing in 65 billion BC caused winter to begin), Spike Manipulation (Lavos spawn can shoot out needles from its body), Mind Manipulation & Chaos Manipulation (Lavos spawn can inflict confusion. With Chaos Zone. Magus in his disguise as Magil could with a glare knockout Kid when she was transformed into a Cyclops), Dimensional Travel (Entered into Gange’s illusion a place that doesn’t exist within reality), Deconstruction (FATE divided the Dragon Gods up into 6 weaker beings their avatars were affected along with their true forms being incapable of merging back until fate’s death. Magus’ magic can vaporize an opponent beyond even their skull), Power Nullification (Denizens of the Black Omen use Lavos power including beings that have omnilock, an ability that disables the ability to use techs and items and bypasses immunities. Magus was suppressing the spell putting Kid under mind control), Darkness Manipulation (His spawn can use dark bomb, along with himself using a darkness type element. Magus can use shadow magic. Zeal can use starburst and gears of darkness), Vibration Manipulation (His spawn can use annihilation zone, completely vibrates the ground causing all debris to be lifted off of it, Status Effect Inducement (Via “Hell Geyser: Sap”, inflicts HP down. Diabolic Whisper can induce a random status effect), Durability Negation (With demon star halves HP regardless of defense. As Zeal is a denizen of the Black Omen Lavos should have her abilities which include reducing one’s HP to 1), Transformation (Zeal could transform into a more powerful form with the Black Omen. Masa and Mune appeared before Crono and co. as kids and transformed into their true selves when Crono attempted to grab their blade]), Holy Manipulation (With heavenly gate, unleashes holy light down on the opponent), Information Analysis (Lavos was analyzing the entirety of humanity’s genetic code to feed off of them), Forcefield Creation (Mimic’d Magus, allowing him to gain Magus’ passive barrier that absorbs every element except for the one he’s using), Transmutation (Magus was the one that transformed Glenn into a Frog), Illusion Creation/Precognition (Type 5. Lavos foresaw his defeat by the hands of Crono and co. and made it so no matter what temporal disturbance happened he would always come back. Magus creates illusions for the entire party of people they want to see, this even effects the ones that shouldn’t even temporally exist yet and shows them people that don’t even exist yet in the timeline, the illusions are even aware of events that haven’t even happened yet, even as a kid he foresaw Crono’s death), Afterimage Creation (Magus could move so fast in his battle he formed afterimages, blitzing the cast before they can even react), Fire Manipulation (Magus caused Cyrus to burst into flames, can use Fire II, a red, semi-transparent ring expands starting from him to the boundaries of the battlefield. Then the whole area starts to burst in flames with numerous explosions spread out throughout it and all enemies get hit), Lightning Manipulation (Magus can use lightning II, when cast several beams of yellow light radiate from the caster, between the beams are strands of static discharge), Ice Manipulation (Magus can use Ice II, when cast several sparkles of blue light, resembling snowflakes, orbit her. Following this, the screen turns blue and a blue ring bursts from her as two layers of jagged ice crash down on all opponents on screen), Summoning (Can summon itself from parallel timelines to fight with it. Magus can call upon friends from different time periods to come to their time period), Damage Boost (The Mastermune has a 100% critical hit rate. It also deals extra damage to Demon, Dragon, Floating, Human, Marine, Matter, Soft, and Zombie enemy-types), Dark Matter Manipulation (Magus can use Dark Matter, his strongest attack. When cast a massive triangular prism appears attacking all of the enemies with devastating shadow magic), Memory Manipulation (Magus erased his own memories after learning his journey to save Schala was ultimately pointless), Empathic Manipulation (Magus touched the back of Kid and Serge’s neck and instantly calmed them down), Non-Physical Interaction (Magus and Crono can harm spectors & shadows through the use of magic. Said spectors and shadows can’t be harmed by guns or blades), Telekinesis (Via psychokinesis), Teleportation (Can summon forth a boulder to attack the enemy, Masa and Mune can teleport), Danmaku (His rains of destruction could extend across the entire planet), Technological Manipulation (Can mimic and create technological weapons far before they even existed), Gravity Manipulation (The Black Omen caused a massive shift in gravity allowing it to bend space-time and appear in all 3 eras, with Robo even making note that Lavos has a natural gravitational pull upon his awakening), Statistics Reduction (Has the powers of the Masamune, which can reduce magical defenses and resistances, along with force fields and attack absorptions), Matter Manipulation (Robo states that Lavos would destroy their molecular structure if they’re pulled in his energy field), Conceptual Manipulation (Lavos is the source of the dreamstone, which created concepts beyond human comprehension such as love and hate, the black omen holds destiny in it's "Essential form"), Existence Erasure (Lavos’ defeat caused the entire timeline to cease to exist), Power Bestowal (Touching the frozen flame makes one link with Lavos giving them extraordinary powers, along with bestowing eternal life), Blood Manipulation (Zombor can absorb the blood out of his opponent), Water Manipulation (Can hit with water magic), Radiation Manipulation (Lavos' attack caused massive radiation in the future transforming all of the monsters into powerful mutants that were considered so powerful people of both domes were shocked to see Crono and co. were able to fight them), Fate Manipulation (Lavos can cause the future itself to refuse change no matter what Crono and coc. do, this is likely similar to how Lavos can have fate join it's side and cause Serge to be fated to no longer exist. The Black Omen holds destiny in it's essential form, showing the future of the entire Crono cast if they failed to defeat Zeal and stop the Black Omen), Dream Manipulation & Truth Manipulation (The black omen holds the dreams of all, which concepts such as truth exist within dreams), Wish Granting (The Frozen Flame has the power to grant wishes), Resistance to Information Analysis (A supercomputer that can analyze across timelines cannot truly obtain any true information on Lavos), Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, & Darkness Manipulation (Unaffected by fire elemental spells, his pod absorbs all light, shadow, ice, water, and fire elements), Absorption (The very same knife made from the dreamstone, sunstone of nigh-infinite power which made the mammon machine that can absorb the sunstone and Lavos energy could not stop Lavos’ awakening. Instead it corrupted the Masamune making it a blade of evil until Serge and co. purified it), Darkness Manipulation (Shadow magic heals him), Sealing (Should be able to break through seals through sheer strength like Serge did. His mere energy can negate seals), Reality Warping, Time Manipulation, Void Manipulation (Can move, fight, and act within the Darkness Beyond Time, where there is no beginning or end, a place where all timelines, existent or non-existent go to feed Lavos’ strength. Should be able to move in the Bend of Time), Black Hole Creation (Survives being around Black Holes), Soul Manipulation (Like others in verse, can dodge his soul being taken out of him when the enemy uses hell soul), Fate Manipulation (After Serge killed FATE, Kid makes mention that destiny and fate itself is dead, with all characters having to make their own destiny)
Resistance Manipulation & Transmutation (Can change one’s innate resistances into weaknesses and vice versa via the turn elements)



Blue Elements: Water Manipulation & Ice Manipulation (Via Aquabeam, aquaball, deluge, icelance, iceblast, iceberg), Healing (With cure, curse plus, cureall), Purification (With medicine), Power Nullification (With Anti Red, which nullifies all red element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With nimble, amps up evasion vigora, which stops one’s stamina from decreasing), Statistics Reduction (With numble, lowers evasion), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field to blue)

Red Elements: Fire Manipulation & Magma Manipulation (With fireball, firepillar, magma bomb, magma burst, inferno), Earth Manipulation & Vibration Manipulation (Can generate a volcano to come out), Healing (With tablet), Purification (With ointment), Power Modification (With recharge, restores all previously used elements), Power Nullification (With Anti Blue, which nullifies all blue element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With strengthen, raises one’s attack. With ninety-nine, raises their accuracy to 99%), Statistics Reduction (With weaken, lowers one’s attack), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field to red),

Yellow Elements: Telekinesis (With uplift, lifts a boulder into the air and slams it on the opponent), Electricity Manipulation (With electrojolt, electrobolt), Earth Manipulation (With upheaval), Vibration Manipulation (With Earthquake), Weather Manipulation (With thundastorm), Purification (With Brace), Healing (With Capsule), Power Nullification (With Anti Green, which nullifies all green element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With HiRes, which amplifies one’s defense), Statistics Reduction (With LoRes, which lowers one’s defense. Nullifies physical attacks with physnegate), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field to yellow)

Green Elements: Information Analysis (With info scope, gives the health of an enemy), Air Manipulation (With bushwhacker), aero saucer, aero blaster, tornado), Plant Manipulation (With bushbasher carnivore), Healing (With heal, heal all, healplus), Purification (With antidote), Power Nullification (With Anti Yellow, which nullifies all yellow element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With eagleeye which raises hit%), Statistics Reduction (With bay eye which decreases hit%), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field green)

White Elements: Light Manipulation & Energy Manipulation (With photon ray, photon beam, holy light), Summoning (Can summon meteorites with meteorite, meteor shower), BFR & Explosion Manipulation (With ultranova), Purification (With whiteout, purify, panacea), Healing (With recoverall, holyhealing), Power Nullification (With Anti Black, which nullifies all black element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With magnify, increases elemental damage by 1.5x), Statistics Reduction & Mind Manipulation (With weak minded, lowers magic defense through lowering one’s mind. MagNegate, nullifies all magic), Resurrection (With revive and fullrevival), Resistance to Mind Manipulation (With strong mind, amplifies one's mind to gain magic defense amplifications)

Black Elements: Gravity Manipulation (With gravityblow, gravitonne), Soul Manipulation (With Hell Soul, removes the soul from the user), BFR (Type 1. With Hellbound, pulls the opponent into hell), Vibration Manipulation (With freefall, causes a massive vibration that causes one to fly into the air), Damage Transferal (With Revenge, shifts status effect onto the opponent), Black Hole Creation (With Black Hole), Purification (With blackout), Healing (With nostrum), Power Nullification (With Anti White, which nullifies all white element attacks. SealAll nullifies all elements), Statistics Amplification (With Genius, increasing a party member’s magic power), Statistics Reduction (With Imbecile, lower one’s intelligence making their magic power weaker. Diminish halves all elements power)

All previous powers and abilities to a far greater extent, Higher-Dimensional Existence (Resides in the border beyond time’s eclipse otherwise known as the Darkness Beyond Time, a higher dimension beyond the regular multiverse where there is no beginning or end), Immortality (Type 5. Is a non-existent entity unbound by life and death), Regeneration (Mid-Godly. Came back from the non-existent state after being erased along with the future timeline becoming the Dream Devourer), Enhanced Time Manipulation (It’s mere entrance into the timeline overloaded the day of lavos causeing time distortions that created dimensional vortexes from alternate universes appear in the main timeline. Can inflict the stop status effect), Enhanced Irreversible Damage (Lavos killed & absorbed the avatar of the Dragon God killing it’s true form in the process. Thus even avatars of facets of oneself can not protect their true form from Lavos), Enhanced Conceptual Manipulation, Truth Manipulation Memory Manipulation & Morality Manipulation (Feasts upon thoughts, dreams, and memories, it is stated by Schala that dreams make up all of existence, with nightmares being beings that make up no form or substance, being completely incapable of being interacted with, even by characters that can interact with incorporeal enemies. Queen Zeal even notes all forms are an extension and are made up of dreams. Along with concepts such as truth existing within dreams. Schala states Lavos will consume the whole of her awareness, to where she wishes for the destruction of all of existence), Dream Manipulation (Devourers dreams from an alternate dimension), Enhanced Power Absorption (It's an insta-Counter to any physical/non-magical/energy attack. Drains all the magical energy from the target. When it changes phase as seen here it passively absorbs all Magic and Energy attacks as well as usable elements in the game, which include Light, Lightning, Dark, Fire and Water - so they heal it instead of damaging. Would've absorbed Serge along with the Chrono Cross if not stopped), Gravity Manipulation (With Gravity Sphere), Law Manipulation & Existence Erasure (Type 4. During the adventure of Chrono Cross Lavos has made it where if Serge at all dies he will be completely erased, not even being allowed to be born within reality, along with having FATE join his side. FATE used it’s powers to erase a nonexistent timeline beyond the dimensions), Sealing (Schala can send someone back in time and seal away the ability to enter back to said time period), Magnetism Manipulation & Weather Manipulation (Schala attempting to cross into another dimension caused a massive magnetic storm that shut off FATE)

All previous powers and abilities to a far greater extent, Enhanced Space-Time Manipulation & BFR (The Dragon God is an extension of Lavos who can send one through different pocket dimensions or timelines during the fight), The Dragon God is innately all elements thus can swap itself to any element, Light Manipulation (Harle is a dragon god and thus an extension of Lavos, giving him her ability to create moon light beams, moon shine uses lunar energy in order to create a shield that defends everyone), Cosmic Energy Manipulation (With Lunairetic, Harle will swing her right arm across her chest once, raising herself up into the air. While floating in mid-air, she swivels round to face a crimson-colored moon, with a shadow slowly passing over it. When the moon is completely obscured by this shadow, a lunar eclipse is formed, which blurs out and disappears. The camera will then shift its focus onto the enemies, whereupon the eclipse is observed to form on the ground they are standing on. As the eclipse fades away, thick swirls of light engulf the foes, forming rainbows as the light is reflected in different directions. As the colorful light fades away, a scaly orb is observed to collect the foes into its middle. Purple-colored rings of light are observed to rush continuously into the middle of the orb, until the orb explodes in a vein of black-colored lines against a white-colored backdrop. The field then reverts back to normal, whereupon the foes are dropped from the sky and sustain damage accordingly, along with inflicting any status types onto its targets), Dimensional Travel & Lower Dimensional Manipulation (Harle is able to enter into the temporal vortex and is the only way for Serge to escape the temporal vortex as she knows how to leave and enter said space), Creation (The Six Dragon Gods in their weakened state created Harle), Resistance to Elemental Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Plant Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Earth Manipulation (Characters naturally resist their own elements, with the Dragon God having all 6 innate elements)

Memory Manipulation & Sleep Manipulation (Awoken Schala from her long sleep and restored both her and Kids memories), Conceptual Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Dimension Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation & Fusionism (Merged all the universes, including dreams, into a higher dimension. Merged Schala and Kid back into one), Sound Manipulation & Healing (The Chrono Cross can combine the sounds of the planet that the six types of elements produce, creating a “song of life” that can heal Schala of her suffering. The ghost of Crono goes on to note that it could cross space and time and unify people's thoughts and feelings; transfer memories; draw on the sounds of the six colored Elements to produce a healing harmony, and combine the sounds of the world into one melody), Dimensional Travel (Can travel into lower dimensional areas outside of reality), Summoning (Serge can summon all of his party members from another dimension with the Chrono Cross), Resurrection Negation, Regeneration Negation & Immortality Negation (Types 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9. Mid-Godly), Reactive Evolution Negation, Nonexistent Physiology Negation (Separated Schala from Lavos and killed him once and for all, negating all of his survival abilities and making him unable to regenerate or resurrect back, nor was it something he could adapt too)

Standard Equipment: Nothing notable. | Schala.

Intelligence: Cosmic (Despite Lavos animalistic tendencies, it is an extremely intelligent parasite, being the very reason for evolution of humanity while also surveying said evolution so it could gain the DNA of all organisms on the planet and evolve into a higher lifeform, all the while it is the creator of elements in Chrono Trigger. As the Frozen Flame is a piece of Lavos, he has a complete perspective of the infinite timelines of the multiverse, perceiving every time period and alternate selves there are. Lavos has shown himself being capable of looking throughout time and perfectly replicating attacks and futuristic technology before it even existed. Knew about Crono and co.’s plan to defeat him and counter acted with a back up plan)

Standard Tactics:

Lavos mere awakening causes people to be temporally BFR’d or to fight it in it’s own pocket dimension. It will also attempt to absorb or unify with the opponent, if it’s incapable of doing this, Lavos will survey through all time points and attempt to mimic bosses that it feel will be a threat to the opponent, if this fails it will proceed with it’s own moveset, spamming rains of destruction along with various status effect moves, if it’s defeated one will need to go within it to fight it’s body, who spams explosion moves, if the body is defeated it must fight the core who will pull one through time attempting to absorb them in it with them and strengthening it’s stats through the different time periods. If defeated it will go to the darkness beyond time where it will either return or fuse with Schala becoming the Dream Devourer

Dream Devourer instantly opens up with devouring dreams from an alternate dimension and will attempt to absorb the opponent. If attacked it passively drains MP or HP. It also wishes to destroy all of existence so it will lead with complete destruction.

The Time Devourer will have the Dragon God fight for it first where the Dragon God will be using all of it’s elements and swapping between different timelines and changing it’s innate element, if it’s defeated then one must journey beyond time and space to face Time Devourer Lavos where he will use the strongest element attacks such as Omega Green. The Time Devourer’s wish is to also erase everything so it will lead with this too.

Weaknesses: The people he mimics he also share their weaknesses. If Schala is removed from Lavos and then all of the multiverse is conceptually merged then Lavos will be defeated once and for all incapable of coming back.

Key: Lavos | Dream Devourer | Time Devourer | Absorbing the Chrono Cross

Note: There has been some questioning on the validity of whether Lavos summoned alternate versions of himself or just revived parts of himself as the official bs Chrono Trigger character library notes the pod on the right as the "true form" of Lavos along with his ability to to revive parts of him being shown during his first phase. However this misses some key points regarding the way he revives the pods back. The way he revives his helpers is them simply coming back from nothing and continuing the fight, however the way Lavos "revives" the pods is opening up a time gate bringing them back, along with this the entire fight is based off the center shifting through time itself, with this what "Lavos true form" moreso likely means is that this is the true Lavos of the timeline and the others are alternative timeline Lavos'.

Note 2: Lavos' rains of destruction feat that reaches across the entire planet isn't considered High 6-A as the feat no only didn't life wipe as there's humans still around but also, 2300 A. D. shows a lot of the planet wasn't destroyed in the conventional sense. A lot of vehicles and technology still work and the overall landscape while very bleak, isn't fully destroyed, thus there's no way to say he significantly affected the overall planet enough to warrant a High 6-A rating.

Note 3: There has also been questioning on Lavos creating the time gates due to a scene where Robo makes note that he thinks them saying Lavos creating the time gates is wrong, this is however contradicted by the scene of Lavos landing and a time gate appearing from where he landed and a time gate existing in him, along with this it's a purely theoretical idea posed by Robo never further expanded upon while Lavos has tangible evidence and has full control over space-time. Thus we have disregarded Robo's statement.

Explanations

Read here for the in-depth cosmology of Chrono.

Battle Records

Notable Victories:

Travis Scott (Fortnite) - Travis' profile (Base Lavos was used)

Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches: