10 Strongest Anime Characters with Lightning-Based Powers, ranked

Strongest anime characters with lightning-based powers
Strongest anime characters with lightning-based powers (Image Source: Liden Films Studio, Toei Animation, and Studio Madhouse)

The strongest anime characters with lightning-based powers can destroy entire battlefields. Their attacks hit like a raging storm. When crackling electricity assembles razor-sharp combat skills, the upshot is pure havoc that can level mountains to ash and turn enemies into smoldering memories. These electric warriors control voltages that would make Zeus himself flutter with envy.


10. Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Azula hits Zuko with her lightning (Image Source: Nickelodeon Animation Studio)
Azula hits Zuko with her lightning (Image Source: Nickelodeon Animation Studio)

Princess Azula learned and refined a form of Firebending known as Lightning Generation, earning her one of the most feared anime characters with lightning-based powers. Her ability to separate positive and negative energies within her body entitles her to construct and direct lightning bolts.

Azula's blue flames and lightning forays were confirmed as nearly unstoppable throughout the series. Her lightning-bending skills were so advanced that very few characters could match her electrical prowess.


9. Mikoto Misaka (A Certain Scientific Railgun)

Mikoto Misaka Railgun (Image Source: Studio J.C. Staff)
Mikoto Misaka Railgun (Image Source: Studio J.C. Staff)

Mikoto Misaka is Academy City's esper, wielding electro master abilities that make her one of the strongest anime characters with electrical powers. Her signature Railgun technique revs coins to supersonic speeds using electromagnetic fields.

Misaka does more than just her coin attack. She can control electronics, create strong energy shields, and shoot lightning from her body. Her scientific understanding of electricity fused with her esper abilities makes her a versatile anime character with lightning-based powers.


8. Adolf Reinhard (Terra Formars)

Adolf rampages over the battlefield (Image Source: Liden Films Studio)
Adolf rampages over the battlefield (Image Source: Liden Films Studio)

Adolf Reinhard harnesses the electrical abilities of the electric eel via his Mosaic Organ surgery, making him one of the strongest anime characters in the Terra Formars galaxy. His bioengineered lightning powers let him generate robust electrical discharges that can paralyze Terraformars and human challengers.

Reinhard's proficiency over his electric eel-based abilities expands beyond basic shock attacks. He can also incorporate strategic electrical spurts that can sabotage numerous enemies simultaneously.


7. Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)

Sasuke using his lightning attack Chidori (Image Source: Studio Pierrot)
Sasuke using his lightning attack Chidori (Image Source: Studio Pierrot)

Sasuke Uchiha developed his lightning-based abilities via relentless training, learning the Lightning Release nature conversion to deadly effect. His signature technique, Chidori, focuses lightning chakra in his hand to construct a piercing attack.

His lightning powers reached new heights with moves like Kirin. It pulls lightning from real storm clouds to cause huge destruction. Sasuke's knack for electrical jutsu, blended with his Sharingan abilities, designates him as one of the strongest anime characters who can manipulate lightning.


6. Pikachu (Pokémon)

Pikachu's lightning move, strongest anime character with lightning-based power (Image Source: Studio OLM)
Pikachu's lightning move, strongest anime character with lightning-based power (Image Source: Studio OLM)

Despite his small size, Pikachu is still one of the most recognizable and cute anime characters with lightning-based powers in pop culture. This Electric-type pokémon can spawn mighty electrical attacks like Thunderbolt and Thunder.

Pikachu's electrical abilities have evolved stronger throughout his expedition with Ash. His powerful Z-Move, 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt, proves why he ranks among the top electric-powered characters in anime.


5. Laxus Dreyar (Fairy Tail)

Laxus uses Megaton Dark Red Lightning (Image Source: Studio A-1 Pictures)
Laxus uses Megaton Dark Red Lightning (Image Source: Studio A-1 Pictures)

Laxus Dreyar acts as one of Fairy Tail's most powerful mages, specializing in Lightning Dragon Slayer Magic that makes him among the strongest anime characters with electrical abilities. His dragon slayer magic lets him absorb lightning to restore his energy and launch powerful electric attacks.

His signature styles include Lightning Dragon's Roar and Raging Bolt, attacks that can destroy entire buildings and vanquish multiple opponents. He thus ranks among the strongest anime characters with pure lightning abilities.


4. Luck Voltia (Black Clover)

Luck equips himself with lightning (Image Source: Studio Pierrot)
Luck equips himself with lightning (Image Source: Studio Pierrot)

Luck Voltia uses Lightning Magic in battle and is a standout member of the Black Bulls. His mastery extends beyond basic lightning magic to include the ability to generate and control natural lightning through advanced magical techniques.

Using the Heart Kingdom's Mana Method, Luck can create true lightning rather than a magical approximation. He is an expert in hand-to-hand combat, along with his lightning magic.


3. Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Killua's Godspeed Transformation (Image Source: Studio Madhouse)
Killua's Godspeed Transformation (Image Source: Studio Madhouse)

Killua created his electric powers through natural skill and intense training. He uses his Nen to turn his aura into lightning. His Godspeed technique allows him to send electrical signals to his muscles more swiftly than his brain can process.

The mixture of his assassination training and lightning-based Nen abilities makes Killua one of the strongest anime characters in Hunter x Hunter. His electrical powers enrich both his offensive capabilities and movement speed.


2. King Sinbad (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic)

The First-Class Singularity King Sinbad (Image Source: Studio A-1 Pictures)
The First-Class Singularity King Sinbad (Image Source: Studio A-1 Pictures)

Sinbad exerts the power of Baal's lightning magic, which allows him to generate and control electrical energy on a gigantic scale. His lightning-based attacks can level whole armies and produce devastating electrical storms.

As a King Vessel, Sinbad's mastery over Baal's lightning magic makes him one of the strongest anime characters in the Magi universe. He can jumble lighting attacks with other magical abilities.


1. The Lightning God Enel (One Piece)

Enel is seen using lightning volts in the series (Image Source: Toei Animation)
Enel is seen using lightning volts in the series (Image Source: Toei Animation)

Enel is at the apex of anime characters with lightning-based powers. Via his domination over the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, a Logia-type Devil Fruit, he has full control over lightning and thunder. His abilities include recasting his body into lightning, traversing at light speed, and unleashing electrical attacks.

The Rumble-Rumble Fruit's power makes Enel basically untouchable in combat, as most physical attacks pass harmlessly through his lightning-transformed body. His god-like abilities firmly appoint him as the ultimate among the strongest anime characters who wield electrical powers.

As such, these strongest anime characters with electrical mastery show the signature of legends in their own form. Each of these warriors transforms raw voltage into art forms of destruction. When thunder roars across anime battlefields, these anime characters with lightning-based powers stand as eternal proof.

Edited by Debanjana