Language:

Ain

Normal
Spiritualism

Full Name

Ainchase "Ain" Ishmael

Class

Ain

Weapon

Pendulum, Projection Weapons, Cycle Magic

Age

Unknown (Appears 21 years old)

Race

Angel

Height

182 cm (6 ft)

Weight

73 kg/0 kg (Spiritualism) (161 lb/0 lb)

Class Tree

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Affiliations

El Search Party (Unofficial)
Ishmael (Creator, former boss)
Elria (As of Together, Once More)

Voice Actors

South Korea

김승준 (Kim Seung-jun)
North America & International

Unknown
Japan

武内駿輔 (Takeuchi Shunsuke)
Germany

Oliver Wronka
Spain

Masumi Matsada
France

Slimane Yefsah
Italy

Omar Maestroni
Poland

Kamil Pruban
England

Jay Britton

Release Date

South Korea

15 December 2016
North America & International

21 December 2016
Japan

21 December 2016
China

11 January 2017
Thailand

21 December 2016
Taiwan

12 January 2017
Europe

13 June 2017

Theme Song

li_tutorial_ain01

Statistics

Speed

Average

Range

Medium

Difficulty

Normal

Magical

“

My will is God's desire, and my existence is God's will.

”

Ain

[The Emissary of the Goddess Missioned to Restore the El]

Special Ability

Main Article: Power System

Uses [Spiritualism] awakening system, where Ain has only one awakening bead and his awakening has 3 stages, changing appearance at each stage and gain additional benefits per stage.

He also has a gauge system which is filled by attacking or getting attacked. Once the gauge is filled he will enter Create afterimages and various projection weapon using the power of God. Each attack consumes the power gauge.

Commands and Actives will have additional projection attacks. Special actives has additional homing attacks.Creation Mode or Gain a power of El buff while Cycle mode is active. Power gauge is consumed over time.

Decrease cooldown time and MP consumption. Additional stats increase.Cycle Mode. Each mode can be switched by pressing the default key 'V'.

Background

Main Article: Ruben Forest (Ain)

In-game Version
Nexon Version

A mysterious man who appeared before the El Search Party.

He claims he is a priest serving a goddess, and offers to help them find the stolen El Shard.

However, everything about him still remains a mystery.

First Class Advancement

Ain is required to be Lv.15 to begin his first class advancement. You can decide between the following:

Lofty: Executor

A job class specializing in creation mode, using enhanced projection magic to allow quick, efficient, yet flashy fighting style.

Lofty: Anpassen

A job class that specializes in cycle mode and Eid, leading unconventional fighting style based on different tactics.

Lofty: Wanderer

A job class that enables an even more destructive play style utilizing the growth stages of the Seed of Chaos, using awakening enhancements and special skill effects.

Lofty: Schreier

A class that utilizes the El energy in a new form, Art, to activate additional effects and battle more efficiently.

Skill Tree

Skills

Passives

[Create a bond and use the new skills!]
Changes to

if Married.
Changes to

if Partnered.

Level 1

Level 5

Level 10

Level 15

Level 20

Skill Traits unlocked at Level 20.
Final Enhanced Skill unlocked upon advancing to 1st job class.

Commands

Combo	Description	Damage
	Attacks 3 times with a projected sword and finishes with a multihit blast.	160% Phy. Damage 197% Phy. Damage 245% Phy. Damage 54% Phy. Damage x5 320% Phy. Damage
	Attacks 2 times with a projected sword before stabbing the enemy, shattering the projected sword to infict more damage.	160% Phy. Damage 197% Phy. Damage 374% Phy. Damage 100% Phy. Damage x5
	Attacks 3 times with a projected sword and finishes by firing multiple daggers at enemies while in super armor.	160% Phy. Damage 197% Phy. Damage 245% Phy. Damage 100% Phy. Damage + 43% Phy. Damage x3~24
A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Enhanced El Dain] - Inflict a small Black Hole effect and continuous hits.	Use circular magic to fire 2 El Dain bullets which cause a small explosion upon contact and firing a non-elemental bullet. Each bullet will place an El Dain stack on the enemy. When the enemy has 3 El Dain stacks, the final A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Enhanced El Dain] - Inflict a small Black Hole effect and continuous hits. will cause a special attack that pulls nearby enemies in and must hit the enemy to activate. (Cannot overlap with itself or other elemental effects) If the enemy doesn't have 3 El Dain stacks, it will be blasted away.	286% Mag. Damage 286% Mag. Damage 377% Mag. Damage A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Enhanced El Dain] - Inflict a small Black Hole effect and continuous hits. 470% Mag. Damage Enhanced El Dain : 37% Mag. Damage x10
A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Nature El Dain] - Launch the enemy and apply a [Bleed] effect.	Use circular magic to fire 2 El Dain bullets before causing a small explosion, fires an wind-elemental bullet. Each bullet will place an El Dain stack on the enemy. When the enemy has 3 El Dain stacks, the final A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Nature El Dain] - Launch the enemy and apply a [Bleed] effect. will cause an additional wind blast that inflicts Bleed (Cannot overlap with itself or other elemental effects) and will launch enemies.	286% Mag. Damage 286% Mag. Damage 377% Mag. Damage A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Nature El Dain] - Launch the enemy and apply a [Bleed] effect. 423% Mag. Damage Nature El Dain : 109% Mag. Damage x6
A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Fire El Dain] - Pull in the enemy and apply a [Burn] effect.	Use circular magic to fire 2 El Dain bullets before causing a small explosion, fires an fire-elemental bullet. Each bullet will place an El Dain stack on the enemy. When the enemy has 3 El Dain stacks, the final A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Fire El Dain] - Pull in the enemy and apply a [Burn] effect. will cause an additional fire blast that inflicts Burn (Cannot overlap with itself or other elemental effects) and pushes enemies towards you.	286% Mag. Damage 286% Mag. Damage 377% Mag. Damage A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Fire El Dain] - Pull in the enemy and apply a [Burn] effect. 423% Mag. Damage Fire El Dain : 500% Mag. Damage
A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Water El Dain] - Knockdown the enemy and apply a [Freeze] effect.	Use circular magic to fire 2 El Dain bullets before causing a small explosion, fires an ice-elemental bullet. Each bullet will place an El Dain stack on the enemy. When the enemy has 3 El Dain stacks, the final A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Water El Dain] - Knockdown the enemy and apply a [Freeze] effect. will cause an additional ice blast that inflicts Frozen (Cannot overlap with itself or other elemental effects) and knocks enemies down.	286% Mag. Damage 286% Mag. Damage 377% Mag. Damage A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Water El Dain] - Knockdown the enemy and apply a [Freeze] effect. 423% Mag. Damage Water El Dain : 609% Mag. Damage
	Dash at an enemy with a projected sword, slash through them, then slam the ground to launch them into the air.	179% Phy. Damage 205% Phy. Damage 253% Phy. Damage + 276% Phy. Damage
	Dash behind enemies and fire a spear at their back, knocking enemies down.	340% Phy. Damage
	Stomp downwards.	80% Phy. Damage 165% Phy. Damage
	Use circular magic to fire a charged El Dain bullet at enemies. Each bullet will place an El Dain stack on the enemy.	314%~717% Mag. Damage
	Attack 3 times with a projected sword while in mid-air. First slash launches targets into the air, the next two slashes will hitstun targets.	202% Phy. Damage 232% Phy. Damage 330% Phy. Damage
	Throw projected spears 3 times while in mid-air.	322% Phy. Damage 361% Phy. Damage 400% Phy. Damage
While in mid-air,	Ain is able to levitate by holding the key. You can move while levitating.	No Damage
While levitating,	Launch yourself forward with a jump while floating in midair.	Levitate 220% Phy. Damage
Recovery /	Strikes enemies feet with a projected sword.	/ 277% Phy. Damage

Updates

Date		Changes
KR	NA	Changes
12/29/2016	01/11/2017	▲ Movement delay after and reduced. Fixed Recovery / not working.
04/27/2017	05/10/2017	▼ Duration of A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Enhanced El Dain] - Inflict a small Black Hole effect and continuous hits. 's Circular Magic Blast reduced. ▲ Hit speed of A successful hit on the target inflicted with 3 stacks of [El Dain] will activate a special attack. [Enhanced El Dain] - Inflict a small Black Hole effect and continuous hits. 's Circular Magic Blast increased.
07/27/2017	08/09/2017	▲ Recovery / no longer knocks down.
06/28/2018	07/11/2018	▼ size decreased by 20%.

Skills

Special Active

Active

Bonding Skill

Videos

Gallery

Full Gallery: Ain/Gallery

Artwork

Ain's Portrait.
Ain's Spiritualism Portrait.
Ain's Portrait without effects.
Ain's Skill Cut-in.
Ain's Spiritualism Skill Cut-in.
Full body Cash Shop cut in.
Pic of Ain in Story mode.
Pic of Ain's Spiritualism Mode in Story mode.
Ain's 10th Anniversary Skill Cut-in.
Ain's Chibi Portrait.
Ain's Spiritualism Mode Chibi Portrait.
El Search Party Collection System Chibi Art.
Ain's Head Portrait.

Miscellaneous

Idle pose and Promo avatar.
Ready animation.
The 3 Phases of Awakening.
Animated Item Mall Custom Skill Cut-in.

Tips and Details

Despite being projectiles, and its class specific variations cannot be absorbed/reflected since they deal Physical damage.
Ain by default has a higher and more suspending jump compared to other characters.
If the Ring of Fury is equipped, Ain will automatically enter Awakening: Phase 3 upon the first awakening. This also applies to Fever.
- If you start a dungeon already Awakened (by awakening previously in a Field, for example) and your awakening buff ends before you are able to re-awaken while it's active, the blinking that will indicate Phase 3 Awakening will disappear. However, this is merely a visual glitch, as you will still enter Phase 3 upon Awakening again.

Trivia

Ain's job path in Lore/Story would be the Bluhen path.
Ain's official theme song is Destiny.
Ain actually joins the main cast at the beginning of their adventure, even before Elsword, Aisha, and Rena officially embark as the El Search Party. However, the other characters are unable to retain their memories of Ain.
- It is shown in the Elysion Clear video that Ain has lost his physical form once again, only to be briefly mentioned by Rena in the story quest The End and the Beginning.
- Ain makes his true permanent formal introduction in the Hall of El story quest Together, Once More. After his permanent introduction, Ain now maintains his existence through the Goddess Elria
  with the exception of Herrscher
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Ain joins the El Search Party under the guise of being an El Priest, and keeps up this ruse even until today, with the exception of two playable characters who know he's more than he lets on:
- Add joined when Ain had lost his physical form and could not exert any powers - as such, when he finally rematerialized during the Magmanta's Cave story quest Rod Ross Runs Away, the memories of Ain that everyone else in the ESP gained back didn't exist for Add, who questions him for his sudden appearance that no one else seemed bothered by. As Ain can tell Add is not from this timeline, they both don't bring it up with the rest to keep their own secret safe.
- Upon joining the El Search Party in Save The Blacksmith!, Lu can sense his creation powers, but simultaneously senses the corruption of Henir which throw her off as it makes him appear similar to a human. Her suspicions are later confirmed when she accidentally absorbed some of his creation powers into a Seed of Life while purifying him of Henir energy during the Debrian Laboratory story quest A Little Step, but she still does not go deeper into the matter.
- Naturally, as far as NPCs are concerned, the El Lady is well aware he is an angel, especially after the events of the Master Road story quest Hernia's Memory.
Each of Ain's job paths align themselves with one of the known Gods/Goddesses of the game's world:
- Richter is aligned with Ishmael, following his original mission as closely as possible.
- Bluhen is aligned with Elria, after growing more emotions and regaining his body as a result of it as well as choosing his own mission moving forward.
- Herrscher is aligned with Henir, after the corruption he gained after the El Explosion spreading further across his body until he fully accepts it and abandons his mission.
- Opferung is aligned with Ishmael, but is partially corrupted by demonic energy, which in turn caused his Henir corruption to spread. This prevents him from properly fulfilling his mission, which, along with being unable to contact Ishmael, causes him to begin destroying the world to get her attention.
In his Spiritualism form, there is a dark spot above and in his left eye. This is due to the influence of Henir induced from his time spent in the realm after the El Explosion.
Although Ain's main weapon is his Pendulum, he never uses it for fighting, either using Projection weapons or Cycle magic instead.
- Ain has to break the Pendulum to start interventions and unlock his full power which is why most if not all of his start poses begins with his Pendulum breaking.
- Fessel Heilig, Autosuggestion, Erst der Letzt, and Ende der Welt are the only instances of the Pendulum being used during combat.
- All of Ain's Spiritualism portraits lack the Pendulum.
Ain rarely if ever refers to people other than Elsword by their name. He would instead use a nickname based on their race or background, with Aisha being "Ms. Wizard", Rena being "Ms. Elf", Raven being "Mr. Half-Nasod", Eve being "Ms. Queen", Chung being "Mr. Guardian", Ara being "Ms. Fox", Elesis being "Ms. Knight Captain", Add being "Mr. Ancient", Lu and Ciel being "Demons", Laby being "Ms. Mirror Friend" and Noah being "Mr. Shadow".
- After being saved from Henir corruption by Lu, he starts calling her "Ms. Demon" in a much more affectionate manner and refers to Ciel as "Mr. Half-Demon".
- Additionally, he also does so with some NPCs such as Banthus being "Mr. Bandit", Winster being "Mr. Dog", Haivan being "Mr. Kid", and Nichel being "Ms. Dog".
Many of Ain's skill names are in German and the runic alphabet used in his teasers are used to translate his backstory to German.
- In the North American English dub, he is given a German accent to match this theme.
- In the European servers, his backstory and his skill names are in Latin.
- Despite the skill names being German, a majority of them are grammatically incorrect or translated with the wrong synonym.
When awakened, Ain's voice will sound louder and echoes more.
Wearing a custom face will not change Spiritualism eyes.
Ain is the first character to be released in other servers within the same month of his release in KR, being released in all servers except TW, CN, and EU the following week after KR.
The word 'lofty' in Ain's first job names means extremely proud or high in stature.
Ain's first jobs do not have a Spiritualism portrait or model. When they awaken, their appearance and top left portrait will remain as his base class.
Ain is the first character to receive new Quick Voice lines in each path outside of 3rd Jobs. The other characters gained new Quick Voice lines later on.
Ain's Spiritualism portrait has a script associated with Ishmael surrounding him. The translation of this is "Ainchase Ishmael - Disparate Force - Power of God".
- His appearance in Cycle Magic has a ring in this same script, reading "Ainchase Ishmael", with the larger characters being I, M, and L.
- The magic circle used in many places uses one repeating line, reading a presumably filler nonsense string of random letters. His Creation Magic appearance does the same, with a different string.
When translated to Arabic, Ain means 'eye'. This could be referencing him being an observer for Ishmael or becoming Henir's eye in the 3rd path.
Ain's hair color consists of 2 colors, the light blue highlights reflecting his goddess' power and the grey reflecting his humanity. As he progress in his job paths, the colors will change according to the power he uses or changes to his humanity
Check individual class page for more details
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Phantasmal Geyser only
Generic Clear Lines

Ain: (We must get the El back... There's no time.)
Ain: (El... and my mission... We must hurry.)
Ain: It seems things are somewhat settled here. Let's move to the next location.

Alternative Names

Server	Name	Translation
South Korea	아인 아인체이스 이스마엘	Ain Ainchase Ishmael
Japan	アインアインチェイス・イスマエル	Ain Ainchase Ishmael
Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)	亞殷亞殷傑司‧伊斯麥爾	Ain Ainchase Ishmael
China (Simplified Chinese)	艾因艾因蔡斯・以赛玛利	Ain Ainchase Ishmael

Characters

Elsword

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Physical Sword Knight	Magical Magic Knight	Physical Sheath Knight	Magical Root Knight
Lord Knight	Rune Slayer	Infinity Sword	Sacred Templar
Knight Emperor	Rune Master	Immortal	Genesis

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Aisha

{{

Magical High Magician	Magical Dark Magician	Physical Battle Magician	Physical Wiz Magician
Elemental Master	Void Princess	Dimension Witch	Mystic Alchemist
Aether Sage	Oz Sorcerer	Metamorphy	Lord Azoth

}}

Rena

{{

Physical Combat Ranger	Magical Sniping Ranger	Physical Trapping Ranger	Magical Poetic Ranger
Wind Sneaker	Grand Archer	Night Watcher	Tale Spinner
Anemos	Daybreaker	Twilight	Prophetess

}}

Raven

{{

Physical Sword Taker	Magical Over Taker	Magical Weapon Taker	Physical Venom Taker
Blade Master	Reckless Fist	Veteran Commander	Mutant Reaper
Furious Blade	Rage Hearts	Nova Imperator	Revenant

}}

Eve

{{

Magical Code: Exotic	Physical Code: Architecture	Magical Code: Electra	Physical Code: Unknown
Code: Nemesis	Code: Empress	Code: Battle Seraph	Code: Failess
Code: Ultimate	Code: Esencia	Code: Sariel	Code: Antithese

}}

Chung

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Physical Fury Guardian	Magical Shooting Guardian	Magical Shelling Guardian	Physical Cor Guardian
Iron Paladin	Deadly Chaser	Tactical Trooper	Divine Phanes
Comet Crusader	Fatal Phantom	Centurion	Dius Aer

}}

Ara

{{

Physical Little Hsien	Magical Little Devil	Physical Little Specter	Magical Little Helper
Sakra Devanam	Yama Raja	Asura	Marici
Apsara	Devi	Shakti	Surya

}}

Elesis

{{

Physical Saber Knight	Magical Pyro Knight	Physical Dark Knight	Magical Soar Knight
Grand Master	Blazing Heart	Crimson Avenger	Patrona
Empire Sword	Flame Lord	Bloody Queen	Adrestia

}}

Add

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Magical Psychic Tracer	Physical Arc Tracer	Magical Time Tracer	Physical Affect Tracer
Lunatic Psyker	Mastermind	Diabolic Esper	Dissembler
Doom Bringer	Dominator	Mad Paradox	Overmind

}}

Lu/Ciel

{{

Physical Chiliarch	Magical Royal Guard	Physical Diabla	Magical Emptiness
Dreadlord	Noblesse	Demonio	Turbids
Catastrophe	Innocent	Diangelion	Demersio

}}

Rose

{{

Physical Heavy Barrel	Physical Bloodia	Magical Valkyrie	Magical Metal Heart
Storm Trooper	Crimson Rose	Freyja	Optimus
Tempest Burster	Black Massacre	Minerva	Prime Operator

}}

Ain

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Physical Lofty: Executor	Magical Lofty: Anpassen	Magical Lofty: Wanderer	Physical Lofty: Schreier
Arme Thaumaturgy	Erbluhen Emotion	Apostasia	Schatz Reprise
Richter	Bluhen	Herrscher	Opferung

}}

Laby

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Physical Sparky Child	Magical Twinkle Child	Physical Rusty Child	Magical Rough Child
Rumble Pumn	Shining Romantica	Daydreamer	Punky Poppet
Eternity Winner	Radiant Soul	Nisha Labyrinth	Twins Picaro

}}

Noah

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Physical Second Revenger	Magical Second Selection	Physical Second Grief	Magical Second Dejection
Silent Shadow	Stellar Caster	Pale Pilgrim	Hazy Delusion
Liberator	Celestia	Nyx Pieta	Morpheus