Nados

**Nados** are spinning top toys inspired by Beyblade. They are launched via a launcher powered by a cord and have 4 types; *Attack*, *Endurance*, *Defense*, and *Balance*. There are 5 generations of Nados in total. In the show, they have a powerful energy called Spiritual power which allows Nado users to summon spirits in Nado battles.

This power is strong enough to shatter great boulders, and powerful beings such as War Gods have used them for murder, executions, and genocide. There are technologies such as car engines developed in season 3 that utilizes spiritual energy as a power source and various locked doors that use the spiritual power inside certain Nados as keys. Ancient Hunter Gods also uses the power to bring forth calamities such as petrification, tsunamis, hurricanes while Split Clan uses the power bring forth the energy to destroy and recreate the world.

## Generations

### Generation 1

These are the original Nados the series started with. There are different 40 Nados in generation 1. They are made with customization in mind and are considered the best-designed generation in reality by fans.

#### Structure:

1. Spirit Cap
2. Warrior Crystal
3. Attack Ring
4. Central Axis
5. Tip (Some Balanced mode nados and all S Nados have a setting to expose the metal tip)

#### Standard Nados

These Battle Nados are used by humans such as the 4 main characters and Nado Tournament contestants. They are invented by Arthur Corporation and were inspired by Dashing Fist’s design. They are seen as inferior copies by many of the War Gods, particularly Destiny.

##### Nado List:

* Whisker - Jin
* Golden Flame - Dawn
* Aspis - Davis
* Cyan Sprout - Cecilia
* Jester - Chester
* Scourge - Viper Yang
* Explosive Fighter - Gao Yen
* Blast Tomahawks - Tyre
* Flaming Wand - Sandy
* Ethereal Dancer - Engle
* Glacial Drums - Markus
* Blazing Dancer - Li Can
* Pockerman - Mountain Bob
* Burrowing Wheel - Yi Hui

#### War God Nados

There are more powerful Nados used by the War Gods. They served as inspiration for the regular Nados used by Humans on Earth. A human cannot physically launch a War God Nado unless they have been imbued with War God powers somehow or via the power of friendship.

These Nados have gimmicks such as double-layered attack rings that can be flipped to switch modes or have rubber layered between to absorb impact, whilst not lowering weight too drastically.

##### Nado List:

1. **Dashing Fists** - Justice War God
2. **Twin Shadow Scythe** - Death War God
3. **Thunder Cannons** - First Chariot War God - Arthur (Formerly)
4. **Chaos Star Shield** - Sun War God
5. **Dragon Claymore** - Moon War God (Very wide, flat metal tip)
6. **Hanging Plumage** - Hanged Man War God(Count Earl)
7. **Thunder Grimoire** - Judgement War God
8. **Sky Shatter Hammer** - Tower War God
9. **Hellfire Wings** - Devil War God
10. **Glacial Blades** - Stardust War God
11. **Astroid Shield** - Hermit War God
12. **Flying Staff** - Magician War God
13. **Soul Bow** - High Priestess and Wheel of Fortune (temporary)
14. **Shadow Wing** - World War God
15. **Maelstrom Wheel** - Wheel of Fortune
16. **Seismic Drill**- Temperance (Formerly)
17. **Holy Battle Armor** - Emperor War God (Formerly)
18. **Inferno Serpents** - Empress War God (Formerly)
19. **Scorching Axe** - Strength War God (Tyre) (Formerly)
20. **Demented Demon** - Fool War God (Yi Hui) (Formerly)
21. **Earthquake Armor** - Lover War God
22. **Firmament Hammer** - Hierophant War God

#### Super Nados

These are the main 4 Characters’ Nados combined with a War God Nado to become more powerful. These upgraded versions have the same name as their regular counterparts, but with an “S” at the end, meaning Super. They all have an exposable metal tip and double-layer attack ring to switch modes.

##### Nado List:

* **Whisker S** - Jin
	+ **Features**: Double layered attack ring which allows the wings on the ring to be rotated. It is held together by a blue metal top ring.
* **Golden Flame S** - Dawn
	+ **Features**: Uneven attack ring with 2 large notches taken from even two sides.
* **Aspis S** - Davis
	+ **Features**: 4 small metal plates between the top and bottom layers of the attack ring, allowing for many different modes.
* **Cyan Sprout S** - Cecilia

### Generation 2

These Nados are a new generation of Nados created for season 2. They have a new structure that allows for more customization options like double and reversed attack rings. However, the attack rings in this generation are much thinner and lighter due to decorative plastic fillings inside of them.

Most Nados from this generation is considered bad by fans such as Crystal Whisker and its suicide knives and Glory Sword’s irregular tip causing balance issues. Only Atlantis Hunter’s Furious Shark Thorns (short and lacking gimmicks), Anātman’s Dual Shadow Pistols and Chao’s Soaring Chaos (With a bonus weight part) are respected. In total, Generation 2 has 20 different Nados.

#### Structure

1. Spirit Cap
2. Warrior Lock (New part to secure launcher)
3. Attack Ring (Now fully exposed and dome-shaped with decorative plastic fillings, allowing for a reversed mode)
4. Gimmick Ring (Can be replaced with another attack ring to add extra weight gen 2 desperately needs)
5. Central Axis
	1. Most are too tall and have more gimmicks like swinging blades (Crystal Whisker)
	2. Tall spring (Glory Sword God)
	3. Tube with metal balls (Inferno Battle Axe)
	4. Separate spin axis (Fire Wheel)
	5. Floating ring (Hellforged Steelclaw)
		1. However, most of these are detrimental to the tops’ actual performance in reality, such as the swinging knives and tall springs.
6. Tip (Same as gen 1 but No switching features).

#### Standard Nados

These Nados are created by the awakening of Pandora, which turned every gen 1 Nado with spiritual power into one with the same structure as Glory Sword God and the Hunter God Nados. The Main Character’s Nados are the only spirit-imbued rd gen 2 Nado to appear on screen, possibly due to the Alpha bot wanting to bring back season 1 side characters as they would all need new Nado designs.

##### Nado List:

* **Crystal Whisker** - Jin
	+ **Features**: 3 small swinging blades on the central axis meant for an extra attack, but gets caught easily and results in a larger surface for attacks, resulting in quick defeats.
* **Furious Blade** - Dawn
	+ **Features**: Rubber points of the central axis to absorb impacts.
* **Heavenly Aspis** - Davis
	+ **Features**: Tip cause it to move quickly like an attack type.
* **Glittering Gun** - Cecilia
	+ **Features**: Metal ring around the central axis to shift weight away from the center for better endurance.
* **Glorious Sword God** - Pandora (Formerly)
	+ **Features:** Uneven attack ring with 6 points, tall spring in the central axis that lets it bounce and “absorb” impacts, and rounded tip with ringed grooves with 1 bump at the side for erratic movement. All this combines into a mess of a spinning top that has 10-second endurance and balance so horrible that it falls over and breakdances.

#### Hunter God Nados

Hunter God Nados are Nados that are used by the League of Ancient Hunter Gods. They use the same structure as the gen 2 standard Nados, but their attack rings are flatter than the main character’s Nados, resulting in incompatibilities in double attack ring arrangements. The only way to solve this issue is to have the standard ring in reverse mode.

##### Nado List:

* **Scorching Axe** - Egypt Hunter God
	+ **Features:** Tube with metal balls around the central axis.
* **Skyshatter Arrow** - Greek Hunter God
	+ **Features: W**ide disc-shaped central axis and metal tip.
* **Furious Shark Thorns** - Atlantis Hunter God
	+ **Features: S**hort, featureless central axis and a plastic tip with 3 holes exposing metal base inside. Short height and Lack of gimmicks make it the best of gen 2.
* **Shadow Pistols** - Anātman
* **Features:** Uneven attack ring with a sword on one side and pistol on the other, making attacks sporadic and powerful.
* **Hellforged Talons** - Imprisonment
	+ **Features:** Floating ring held up by rubber bands around the center axis which can swing and move freely.
* **Fire Wheel** - Chinese Hunter God
	+ **Features:** Spinning central axis that allows the top half to spin in a separate direction from the bottom half.
* **Mammoth Warrior** - Indian Hunter God
* **Labyrinth Serpent** - Maya Hunter God
* **Pulverizer Mecha** - Eden Hunter God

#### Super Nados

Gen 2 “S” Nados has a very different overall structure than any of the other gen 2 nados. They are all shorter with all the gimmicks squeezed inside the attack ring. However, this caused many Generation 2 S tier Nados to be way lighter than their standard counterparts due to the gimmick attack rings being over 50% plastic. This is so big of an issue that there are separate bonus metal weight rings for gen 2 S tier Nados sold separately by Auldey to solve this issue.

Their tips all have gimmicks, from the usual exposable metal tip in the main 4’s S Nados to the mode-changing tips with all 4 Nado types included inside Glory Sword God S and Soaring Chaos.

##### Structure:

1. Spirit Cap
2. Warrior Lock
3. Attack Ring (Thickness of double attack ring, but gimmicks resulted in them being over 50% plastic, reducing their weight drastically. Worse examples are excess Rubber on Thunder Mad Saber S and turning gears in Glory Sword God S.)
4. Weight ring (Sold separately to combat underweight problems)
5. Unified Tip (Combined central axis and tip thus shorter, and has various gimmicks)

##### Nado List:

* **Crystal Whisker S** - Jin
	+ **Features:** 3 adjustable hinged blades on Attack ring, has 2 modes; regular and attack.
* **Furious Blade S** - Dawn
	+ **Features:** Excess rubber on attack ring meant to absorb impacts, which takes the stamina from the opposing Nado. Can only spin for 10 seconds due to 3 bumps on the tip giving it an erratic movement.
* **Holy Aspis S** - Davis
	+ **Features:** Heavier than a Gen 3 Nado. Has 4 long banana-shaped plates that can be flipped around embedded inside to allow the attack ring shape to be changed.
* **Glittering Gun S** - Cecilia
	+ **Features:** Lightweight and impact absorption from Rubber is only beneficial here.
* **Glorious Sword God S** - Pandora
	+ **Features:** Has 3 gears installed in the attack ring that turns to “absorb damage” when attacked. But, its attack ring is only 30% metal all concentrated at the bottom as the base of the ring. Has a 4 mode-switching full metal tip.
* **Soaring Chaos** - Chaos
	+ **Features:** Has a bear-trap-like ring that can bend downwards and upwards allowing different attack modes. Has a six modes Swiss Army knife metal tip. Works best with a bonus weight ring.

### Generation 3

Generation 3 is designed for season 3. Canonically and visually, it is a hybrid of Gen 1 and Gen 2 designs, still allowing a reverse mode but holding up better than Gen 2. This is where the overall structure of Nados gets complicated. The central axis and attack ring gimmicks are completely gone. There are in total 7 different structures and gimmick types in this generation. Generation 3 has 26 unique Nados.

#### Standard Nados

These Nados have a unified tip with metal tips. These metal tips also have a function that a gimmick or support tip can be installed by pushing down and turning the Spirit Cap whilst the extra tip is installed. The locking mechanism is no longer dependent on the Spirit cap, as the unified tip has extendable pegs that hold up the attack ring. The Spirit Cap and bonus Tip are attached separately.

##### Structure

1. Spirit Cap
2. Unified Central Axel (Has a cog inside to that hold up the attack ring via extendable small pins when turned)
3. Warrior Crystal (Dome shaped similar to gen 2 attack ring, allowing for a reverse mode like gen 2)
4. Attack Ring
5. Split Ring (Same shape as battle crystal, no function)
6. Tip (For height extension. Attached by using a pushed-down as a lever to turn the metal tip on the central axel and lock onto the bonus tip)
	1. Stunt Tip (Jumping, Hanging, Tightrope, and Climbing)

##### Nado List:

* **Holy Whisker** - Jin
* **Fiery Blade** - Dawn
* **Glare Aspis** - Davis
* **Glittering Butterfly** - Cecilia
	+ Holy Whisker S (Top) - Jin
	+ Firey Blade S (Top) - Dawn
	+ Glare Aspis S (Top) - Davis
	+ Glittering Butterfly S (Top) - Cecilia

##### Variants

There are some variants of the standard Nado with a slightly different structures. These include Gen 3 Nados that use the traditional tip such as split series Typhoon Thunderbolts Nados and the unique Shadow Streak (Top half).

###### Traditional Tip Structure:

1. Spirit Cap
2. Unified Central Axel (Has a cog inside to that hold up the attack ring via extendable small pins when turned)
3. Warrior Crystal (Dome shaped similar to gen 2 attack ring, allowing for a reverse mode like gen 2)
4. Attack Ring
5. Split Ring (Same shape as battle crystal, no function)
6. Tip Connector (Attached by using a pushed-down as a lever to turn the metal tip on the central axel and lock onto the bonus tip)/Stunt Tips
7. Traditional Tip (Same as Gen 1 and gen 2)

###### Shadow Streak Structure:

Shadow Streak’s top half and middle half look visually similar to a standard Nado without the bonus tip. However, its structure is very different.

1. Spirit Cap
2. Unified Central Axel (Full Metal, top of normal Unified Central Axel combined with normal Battle Crystal and has a metal tip loaded with spring for splitting)
3. Split Ring (Used to lock Attack Ring Together with Battle Crystal)
4. Attack Ring
5. Warrior Crystal (Has bottom of a regular Unified Central Axel combined with regular split ring. Has a Plastic tip that acts as a button to release the very top half when landing with force. Cannot attach a bonus tip, though it doesn’t need to increase height anyways due to the unique structure making the top of Shadow Streak as tall as a Standard Nado. Increased height also means it can attach to a bottom manual split Nado without reverse mode)
6. Shadow Streak Bottom (optional)

###### Nado List:

* **Blast Flame** - Bill (Non-Canon)
* **Delver Mecha** - Keel (Non-Canon)
* **Cold Shadow** - Lynn (Non-Canon)
* Special Edition Holy Whisker - Jin (Non-Canon)
* Special Edition Firey Blade - Dawn (Non-Canon)
* Shadow Streak (Top) - Temperance (Triple split structure cannot allow for reverse mode)

#### Battle series Nado

These Nados are used by side and background characters such as Eli. The only physical ones available are the show-accurate Chinese exclusive variants of the King Family Nados and the plastic series versions of Jin and Dawn’s Nados. Their structure is much more straight forwards and similar to Gen 1 and 2 in a structure where everything is secured by the spirit cap.

##### Structure

1. Spirit Cap
2. Warrior Ring (Same as gen 2, combines with battle crystal and central axis to fill in the hole normally filled by unified tip)
3. Warrior Crystal
4. Attack Ring
5. Central Axis (Similar to gen 1-2 but with taller protrusions to fit gen 3 attack ring)
6. Traditional Tip

##### Nado List:

* Plastic Holy Whisker - Jin (Non-Canon)
* Plastic Firey Blade - Dawn (Non-Canon)
* Plaster Ars Wings - Ye Xinyun (Non-Canon)
* Plastic Firey Dragon - Gu Yen (Non-Canon)
* Blast Flame - Bill (Chinese Version)
* Delver Mecha - Keel (Chinese Version)
* Cold Shadow -Lynn (Chinese Version)

#### Split Nados

Split Nados are Nados that can combine and split from one another in a battle. These Nados are mainly used by the 9 Stars.

##### Top Split Nados

This variant of the split Nado usually sits at the top of a combined Nado. Their unified tip has a spring inside which allows it to compress and allow the 4 hooks split ring to hook onto the split ring of a bottom Nado or a modified standard Nado. Top Nados can also be used as the bottom Nado as well.

###### Structure

1. Spirit Cap (Must be removed when used as the bottom)
2. Unified Tip (With spring inside to compress it when combined)
3. Warrior Crystal
4. Attack Ring
5. Split Ring (Now has metal 4 hooks attached. 2 of these rings can hook onto each other to combine into 1 Nado)
6. Bottom Nado/Reverse Mode Top Nado/Modified reverse mode Standard Nado (Optional)

###### Nado List:

* **Air-Breaker Fists** - Nobel (It lacks a Warrior Crystal part due to the larger full metal Attack ring filling up the space, making Air Fists the heaviest individual gen 3 Nado).
* **Shadow Shark** - Matt
* **Holy Warrior** - Jett
* **Night Howler** - Yvette Bumsman
* **Kaleido Fox** - Rachel
* **Hybodus** - Schack
* Plastic Split Holy Whisker - Jin (Non-canon)
* Plastic Split Firey Blade - Dawn (Non Canon)
* Plastic Split Glare Aspis - Davis (Non-canon)
* Plastic Split Glittering Butterfly - Cecilia (Non-canon)

##### Bottom Split Nados

Bottom split Nados are completely different in structure from the standard and top Nados. They are permanently in reverse mode due to the structure of the central axis, which meant an upward-facing ring. They are used by 3 members of the 9 Stars. The Standard versions of the King Family Nados are also used, but they are almost the same as the ones sold separately save for the split ring.

###### Structure:

1. Standard Nado (Bonus Tip removed) (Optional)
2. Spirit Cap (Must be removed to install top Nado)
3. Split Ring (Same as top Nados. Made to hook onto another split ring)
4. Attack Ring
5. Central Axis (Wider in diameter)
6. Warrior Base (Cosmetic cover for the Central axis. Tip is screwed onto the bottom)
7. Tip (Flat, slightly con-caved and has a metal tip. It is completely different from Gen 1 and 2 tips and standard Gen 3 tips. A bottom Nado’s entire structure is held)

###### Nado List:

* **Razor Drochi** - Susan Artisian
* **Knight** - Godson
* **Basaltic Sword** - Karl

##### Manual Split Nados

Manual Split Nados are a variant of the bottom split Nados. They follow the same structure except there is no split ring and the central axis has small levers that can be manually pushed via the top of the T-shaped split. It can only combine with a standard Nado with the metal tip exposed as its top.

###### Structure

1. Reverse mode Standard Nado (Bonus Tip removed) (Optional)
2. Spirit Cap (Must be removed to install top Nado)
3. Central Axis (Has lever that can be pushed by the top of a T-shaped cord to activate a spring to split off top Nado)
4. Attack Ring
5. Warrior Base (Gaps for the lever, not interchangeable with standard bottom Nados.)
6. Tip (Same as standard bottom Nados)

###### List of Nados:

* Holy Whisker S (Bottom)- Jin
* Firey Blade S (Bottom)- Dawn
* Glare Aspis S (Bottom)- Davis
* Glittering Butterfly (Bottom) S - Cecilia
* Shadow Streak (Bottom) - Temperance

#### Electronic Nados

Electronic Nados are a special line of Nados. Their overall structure is based on bottom-split Nados which allows some degree of customization between them. However, Unlike other Nados, it does not require a launcher to be launched and resembles a traditional hand-spun spinning top. Instead, it has a mechanized central axis that can be spun when holding onto the taller handle-shaped top, and then it will accelerate and can be launched.

Electronic Nados are paired with a smartwatch which connects to the motorized central axel that allows for 3 chances to accelerate by quickly swiping a hand over the watch. The faster and more times the hand moves per use, the more the Nado accelerates. However, this mechanism can easily break. The motorized central axel’s charging port is not welded properly and would loosen and break after enough removal of the charger. The Watch will eventually stop working too.

In the universe, these Nados are invented by Temperance disguised as Dr Luis.

##### Structure

1. Spirit Cap (Has hole instead of a peg, incompatible with other Nados and completely unnecessary to the function of the Nado)
2. Warrior Crystal (Taller to be used as a handle to hold onto, and has no hole in the center for a unified central axis. A peg at the top attaches to the Spirit Cap)
3. Motorized Central Axel (Will accelerate when spun. Can be powered up to be accelerated 3 more times per round by the Watch. On its side, it has a charging port to recharge and an on/off switch)
4. Attack Ring (Only part besides the tip to be interchangeable with another Gen 3 Nado)
5. Warrior Base (Different from bottom split Nados and manual split Nados. It has a hole at the side for the charging port and on/off switch)
6. Tip (Same as bottom split Nados)

##### Nado List:

* **Thunder Stallion** - Phantom Thief Dodd
* **Skyshatter Fiend** - Smiling Jack
* **Boxing Bear** - Bill
* **Steel Bear** - Keel
* **Cool Panda** - Lynn

## Trivia

* Generation 1 had the most amount of unique Nados out of the 3. Generation 3 follows second with 26 Nados and Generation 2 has the least at just 20 Nados.
* Nados are typically colour coded by their types.
	+ Attack types are red/orange
	+ Balanced types are blue
	+ Defence types are yellow
	+ Endurance Types are green.
		- However, there are exceptions to this, such as Thunder Stallion, Shadow Streak and Skyshatter Fiend.
* Few characters across the series owned more than one Nados.
	+ The main 4 own their main Nados, formerly the War God Nados
		- Dashing Fists of Justice War God
		- Thunder Cannons of Arthur (temporary)
		- Chaos Star Shield of Sun War God
		- Cold Shadow Bow of High Priestess War God
			* However, Cecilia herself is technically High Priestess War God herself so the nado is her's in the first place.
		- They also owned their Season 3 “S” tier Nados.
	+ Pandora owns Glory Sword God in season 2 and Thunder Stallion in season 3.
	+ Destiny owns Soul Bow and Swirling Wheel.
	+ Temperance owns Seismic Drill in season 1 and Shadow Streak in season 3.
	+ Chester, Yang, Tyre, and Yi Hui owned their standard Nados and formerly the Forbidden War God Nados (Holy Battle Armor, Inferno Serpents, Fire Scale Axe, Crazy Demon).
	+ Greek Hunter God/Anātman owns Curved Bow and Dual Shadow Pistols.
* Generation 1 Nados in the universe are inspired by the War God Nado Dashing Fists.
* However, it is unknown how Pandora, the Ancient Hunter Gods, and the Shattered Clan have their own Nados before the arrival of the War Gods. The show acknowledges this but never explained why. Other people pre-Hurricane tower such as King Dominus (Presumably) who set up the teleporters and his disciples also have Nados, which implies a Nado culture existed pre-Hurricane Tower.
	+ It is possible that World War God is the one who introduced Nado to humanity as he is the one who helped humanity (primitive people) to evolve. The Nado culture exists in a certain period during the ancient time before the arrival of the War Gods.
* Gen 1 and Gen 2 Nados have a points system which is recorded inside a chip hidden inside the Spirit Cap. Gen 3 completely lacks this.
	+ Points are considered worth more than money in Season 2, yet they are absent completely in Season 3.
		- It’s possible that Pandora excluded them from the new world after the world reset due to getting 100,000 points being the catalyst of him remembering his duty to end the world.
* Gen 3 has by far the most variety of gimmicks out of all 3 generations.
* Pandora and Temperance are the people who intentionally and permanently discard a Nado.
	+ Temperance likely abandoned Seismic Drill after found Shadow Streak, leaving the fate of the Nado undetermined.
	+ Pandora left his Glory Sword God at the doorsteps of a museum but later went back to transfer all of its spiritual energy into Thunder Stallion.
* Soul Bow and Thunder Stallion have their Chinese names reused for Infinity Nado V.