10 BEST Eikon Abilities In FF16 [100+ Hours Experience]

The Eikon of Lightning, Ramuh, is passed down to Clive via his dear friend, Cidolfus Telamon. Pile Drive is a unique Area-of-Effect Eikonic ability, whereupon activation; Clive will slam Ramuh’s staff into the ground, electrifying all enemies within a radius of the strike. It is one of the popular ability choices right now for DPS among myself and other players.

The Eikon of Odin is granted to you once you overcome King Barnabas Tharmr during the main quest called The Last King. If you ask me, Rift Slip is an interesting Eikonic ability in Final Fantasy 16, as it essentially allows you to immediately recover from any ability or action. This means that you can cancel the animation to follow up with more attacks or abilities whenever you activate the ability during the combo or even at the end of it.

Upheaval is another one of Titan’s powerful melee-based abilities, but the key difference is that Upheaval dishes out AOE shockwaves. You slam a fist to the ground, damaging all enemies within range. Also, by holding the input button for the ability, you can increase its range.

Furthermore, the ability can also be chained at the end of combos and used in mid-air. Lastly, the upgrade increases the red-colored area in the charge meter so you can have a better chance to power it up timely. I personally loved Titan’s abilities since playing the demo so Upheaval was an easy pickup for me as soon as I got access to the Eikon.

Deadly Embrace is the Eikonic Feat ability of Garuda. It allows you to send a grappling claw out to grab an enemy and pull it toward Clive. Furthermore, grappling heavier enemies will launch Clive into the air.

The ability is one of the essential abilities from the early to mid-game, as using it on a powerful enemy or boss who’s partially staggered (Stagger bar at 50%) will allow you to perform a brief takedown, during which you have a short time window to deal free damage to their HP and Stagger bar.

This is partially the reason why Deadly Embrace didn’t leave my loadout for 80 percent of the game, as the mid-stagger takedown proved to be highly beneficial, especially in NG+ on Final Fantasy mode.

The Raging Fists is another charged Eikon ability of Titan, which I absolutely enjoyed using in the demo of Final Fantasy 16. The ability lets you step forward and deliver a blinding flurry of high-speed punches. Blocking an enemy attack with the step forward increases the potency of the following punches. Upgrading the Raging Fists increases the attack power, allowing you to do more damage when using it.

The Scarlet Cyclone is an ability granted by the Eikon of Phoenix. Like Rising Flames, it is also one of the early-game Eikon abilities you’ll use in FF16. The following ability will allow you to spin quickly, creating a ring of fire that burns all enemies in range. Upgrading the Scarlet Cyclone increases the number of hits it produces. From my experience, I found it to be the best to use during early-game crowd-control combat stages.

Cold Snap is an Eikonic Feat ability belonging to the Eikon of Shiva. You will unlock the powers of Shiva by completing the main story, “Through the Maelstrom.” Cold Snap allows you to slide effortlessly across the ground in any direction. Attacking with your melee attack while sliding can temporarily freeze enemies. It does not offer any attack capabilities but can be used as an evasion technique in combat.

From my experience, I strongly recommend this ability for NG+ Final Fantasy mode because although the freeze timing can be tight, Cold Snap’s freeze to targets allowed me to easily capitalize on them with Odin’s abilities to charge up Zentetsuken in mere seconds.

Lightning Rod, in my personal opinion, is highly underrated as it is one of the best stagger-phase abilities to use for DPS in FF16. How it works is that you create a ball of lightning that, upon being struck, chains lightning damage to other nearby enemies.

The upgrade increases the range of the lightning damage chained to enemies. As a hardcore player, Lightning Rod allowed me to chain extra burst damage on Odin’s Dancing Steel ability, charging up Zentetsuken Level 5 easily and also causing enemies to take bonus damage.

Heaven’s Cloud is one of the best Eikon abilities for Odin; in my personal opinion, though the stats might be low, it makes up for its viability in charging up Zantatsuken quickly. It essentially allows you to surge forward to strike an enemy. It can be executed multiple times in succession if the previous hit lands and each hit landed fills the Zantetsuken gauge. Upgrading it increases the number of times you can chain the ability again.

Lastly, the list wouldn’t be complete without me mentioning one of the best high-damaging Eikon abilities in Final Fantasy 16, Gigaflare. You will unlock the power to wield its Eikon, Bahamut, during the main story quest, “Fire in the Sky.”

The ability description is simple enough as it essentially fires a massive beam of overcharged light that burns any enemy it hits. Furthermore, upgrading will increase the number of hits caused by the laser beam.