Possession

This page is about temporary possession. To learn about permanent xanafication, check the XANA Faction page.

The Possession
process icon
in towers.

Possession is a powerful state that grant warriors new abilities at the cost of having to listen to their new master.

There are two possession types that act very differently from each other.

Common Features

Some features are global to all types of possession (although some are only available to xanafication specifically):

• Particles: Possessed warriors can be identified through colored particles representing the warrior's new master surrounding them.
• Frontier Loss: If a possessed warrior is sent to the Frontier, they will go back to normal.
• Riding Monsters: Possessed warriors can ride certain monsters such as Tarantulas, Krabs and Mantas if they are part of the same faction (e.g xanafied players can ride XANA's monsters.)
• Tower Takeover: If a warrior is xanafied, they will be able to use Code XANA in any Towers to activate them in exchange for Energy (or for free if the tower is already activated by someone other than XANA)
• Core Attack: Any xanafied warrior is capable of launching attacks on Lyoko's core in Sector Five and help Monsters damage it.
• Skin Change: Xanafied warriors who have set a custom skin for xanafication will automatically swap to it. You can learn more in the Customization page.
• Energy Stealing: All xanafied warriors can steal energy from other warriors by devirtualizing them.

Tower

Tower possession is the more relatively common type of possession.

They can happen at anytime whenever XANA launches a Possession Attack, targeting only warriors currently on Earth, or when a warrior launches a possession process in a tower to jeremify someone (which requires Knowledge.)

While on Earth, the possessed warriors will have unique abilities:

• Lightning Bolt: A laser that will damage any enemies but can also be used to damage objects (e.g Supercomputer circuits or Scanner fuses.) The default key is F (off-hand switch) to attack and right-click to destroy objects (left-click for elevator panels). This attack can be reflected back to the user using items found at Kadic suchs mirrors and food trays.
• Super Jump: As the name suggests, possessed warriors can jump very high to reach safe places or get to their goal faster. This can be used by jumping while crouched.
• Super Speed: Possessed warriors are a lot faster than usual. This is a passive ability and does not need to be triggered.
• Disguising: This ability allows possessed warriors to hide amongst the rest of the group. While disguised, all powers become unavailable. However, their skin will go back to normal and the particles will stop appearing, allowing the warriors to wait and strike at the right time. Disguises can be toggled by pressing F (off-hand switch) while crouching by default.

Once virtualized, all powers will become unavailable aside from the ability to use Code XANA in the case of a xanafication.

Virtual

Virtual possession is rare as the only way to obtain it is by having it implanted by the Scyphozoa.

It does not have any special abilities aside from one: sector destruction. This can be achieved by entering Code XANA in a waytower. However, this possession will be lost once this is done.

This possession will be lost if the warrior is devirtualized.

Trivia

• Technically, any entities capable of activating towers is capable of possessing someone. This means possession by Hopper or Tyron is theoretically possible, although not available in normal gameplay.
• If someone is possessed by Hopper, their chat messages will be reversed, just like Sissi's speech in the original show.
• Jeremification was meant to come with the Elevated Functions update, but was delayed to The Lost Partition.
• Another way to obtain virtual possession was through the Operator Class during the April Fools 2026 event. It was also the only way to get virtual jeremification.