World Champion

**World Champion** (ワールドチャンピオン) is a special title and job class bestowed upon a selected few players in YGGDRASIL. There are only nine World Champions in total, one for each world (*Asgard*, *Álfheim*, *Vanaheim*, *Niðavellir*, *Midgard*, *Jötunheim*, *Niflheim*, *Helheim*, and *Múspellsheim*).

## Background

World Champion is a type of job class that one needs to clear various special conditions to use. For instance, this meant that any individual player out there who have managed to clear a tournament held in each respective world could then become a World Champion. Once a player is awarded the World Champion class, one can even go as far as reaching the highest level of that strongest warrior class to learn the supreme, ultimate skill called [World Break]. In other words, only the victor of the developer-sanctioned tournament could possess the class of World Champion. Moreover, the company will thereafter gift a special piece of equipment to the nine champions befitting their new class as their prize on winning it.

In the Web Novel, at some point in the history of YGGDRASIL, there once existed a World Champion of Múspellsheim who managed to turn himself into a World Enemy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Thus, his power grew into tremendous might to the point that he could fight evenly against thirty players by himself alone. He would later be chased by players until destruction, and then failed during the moment of his character deletion. With the character being deleted by the developers, a new tournament was held to select a new candidate for the World Champion class. During the Múspellsheim festival, the second World Champion of Múspellsheim was crowned the first female (appearance-wise) World Champion.

## Chronology

### The Bloody Valkyrie Arc

Main articles: Overlord Volume 03 and The Bloody Valkyrie Arc
To combat Shalltear Bloodfallen, Ainz donned Compliance with Law. While the armor was only meant to be worn by those of the World Champion class, Ainz was able to bypass this restriction by using the Perfect Warrior spell.

### The Craftsman of Dwarf Arc

Main articles: Overlord Volume 11 and The Craftsman of Dwarf Arc
Ainz noted that the only thing he feared for the safety of Nazarick was a group of players, not just one player alone. While he believed that players with World Items are already fearsome enough, but so were players with very powerful job classes, such as World Champion. However, if this potent player were on their own, they would still not stand a chance in defeating Nazarick unless that person is in possession of one of the 'Twenty' World Items.

## Known World Champions

* Touch Me - World Champion of Álfheim.
* Unnamed Former World Champion of Múspellsheim who became a World Enemy *(Web Novel)*
	+ Unknown Successor World Champion of Múspellsheim

## Abilities and Powers

World Champion is a special job class that had the feature to be slightly stronger when one is situated in the world they represent respectively. It is the kind of class that also possesses an extremely high fighting ability. Those with the class could defend themselves absolutely with Dimensional Gap while dealing massive damage with Dimensional Slash.

Moreover, if a World Champion uses a World Item that turned oneself into one of the Seven Deadly Sins via a curse, one would end up being in an unparalleled state comparable to a World Enemy. Such unimaginable power from that type of World Champion was believed as being already strong enough to even take on thirty players single-handedly.

According to the author Maruyama, all players who have managed to acquire the World Champion class are known to be heavily optimized or min-maxed in a way that they cannot be easily defeated by level 100 players. However, unless it was a match between a Level 95 World Champion and an optimized/min-maxed Level 100, then the latter would win.

### Active

* **World Break**: A world champion skill that is said to be a more powerful version of the 10th tier spell 'Reality Slash'.
* **Dimensional Gap** (*Web Novel Only*)
* **Dimensional Slash**: Consume all of "Justice" stamps and inflict physical damage on a single enemy. Damage increases according to the number of consumed "Justice" stamps. (*Web Novel Only & Mass for the Dead*)

## Trivia

* In the Web Novel, World Champion or World Guardian is viewed as the strongest warrior class in YGGDRASIL, it is also considered to be balance breaker and official cheat in and of itself.
* In the Web Novel, an opinion formed where there should be a guild composed of World Champions entirely. Unfortunately, three refused and so it was at an impasse.
* According to Maruyama, there are some World Champions who were said to specialize in the killing of mages.
* In the Mass for the Dead, Touch Me's summon has a passive ability called "World Champion" that increases physical attack power and critical rate.
* In the Web Novel, the author Maruyama noted how a World Champion could have the ability to fight at least six guild members of Ainz Ooal Gown alone.
* According to the Web Novel version, if a World Champion fought against the upper high tier players, they can take on three at most. Whereas with the upper-middle tier players, a World Champion can take on four of them. Whenever a World Champion is up against an upper low tier player, they're capable of handling five players on their own.
	+ However, it is unclear who would actually win if they are up against someone with a trump card or a World Item. In order to avoid character deletion by the World Item, Longinus, players must efficiently use their World Champion’s defensive skill with good timing to counter its powerful effect.
	+ On the other hand, from the Web Novel, in a PvP battle between World Champions, the winner of the overall tournament happens to be the Jotunheim's World Champion. After the victor, the second was Álfheim's World Champion and third was Helheim's World Champion. If it was simply just a battle between the second and third, the third would emerge victoriously.

## References

1. ↑ *Overlord Volume 03 Chapter 4: Before the Death Match*
2. ↑ *Overlord Volume 03 Chapter 5: PVN*
3. ↑ *Overlord Volume 11 Chapter 1: Preparing for the Unknown Land*
4. ↑ *Overlord First Half Chapter 78: Gaiden Pandora's Actor*
5. ↑ *ARCADIA 2.31: ARCADIA 2877 8-28-2011*
6. ↑ *(Sterling Silver Holy Knight) Touch Me Intimacy Release!*
7. ↑ *Overlord First Half Chapter 32: Preparations Part 1*
8. ↑ *Syosetsu Blog Post: July 30th 2012*
9. ↑ *ARCADIA 2.42: ARCADIA 1502 2-06-2011*
10. ↑ *ARCADIA 2.36: ARCADIA 3239 10-06-2011*
11. ↑ *Overlord First Half Chapter 60: Settings*