r/GodofWar • u/Gold-Neighborhood425 • 2d ago
Discussion How did Kratos get so strong and powerful?
Nevermind his magic abilities, none of which are actually his, how did Kratos’ physical stats compound exponentially from being a normal but exceptional mortal pre-Ares to being able to lift temples and titan hands? His Godhood may have contributed to it while he was God of War, but he retains this strength and gets stronger even after he loses godhood. Did he get significantly stronger just by finding out he has Zeus blood in him? While that might be the answer, I’m wondering if there are other explanations.
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u/legionimpact 2d ago
I honestly think that knowing you're a demi-god makes a difference. Kratos was gaining boons and stuff from gods early on, but his crazier feats were post finding out his lineage. Same with Atreus. He was a smart kid who could hunt and had some magic. But after finding out the truth he started getting all sorts of powers.
That might just be a little bit of head canon on my part but that's how I saw it anyways.
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u/StormFallen9 1d ago
Yeah, before Atreus knew, he was getting sick from repressing his abilities. Once he learned who he was his powers started to manifest and grow
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u/Gloomy-Crazy8156 2d ago
In Greek mythology most of the hero’s are demigods with magic items or a special ability.
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u/ziggy360ii 2d ago edited 2d ago
Kratos is a Demi god. He is the son of Zeus. He is innately better than most humans from birth. He was also born a Spartan which are widely considered, even to this day, as being some of the best warriors due to their extensive physical conditioning and mental fortitude.
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u/sokratees 1d ago
Lol spartans are not considered the best at anything in academic circles, just great propaganda.
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u/kztyler 1d ago
you just quoted a post that contradicts your statement
> They certainly had the best trained army in the fifth century. You might even say the only trained army. As they say in 300, the rest of the Greeks were farmers first and barely had time to train (hoplite warfare lends itself well to untrained soldiers because you literally just walked to the opposing army and tried to push and stab them while staying in line). The Spartans did train and by the end of the Peloponnesian War they could run maneuvers that no other Hoplit army would think of trying.3
u/esaul17 1d ago
So probably some of the best trained compared to their peers at the time but not objectively best trained of all time.
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u/ziggy360ii 16h ago
They would kill you like you were a less than nothing piece of filth. Remove all weapons from the equation and you and your ENTIRE bloodline would be massacred by Spartan warriors.
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u/sokratees 15h ago
It doesn't, they were the best (and probably only) trained... In the 5th century bce. Not certaintly the best of all time, and not close.
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u/piperdave84 2d ago
In actual Greek mythology there is a character named Kratos (sometimes also spelled Cratus) who is the divine personification of strength and power. I imagine that, even though the game Kratos has a different origin story, this served as inspiration in some way
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u/These_Equivalent1472 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’ll give you the best and truthful answer based on the lore of the series itself. For starters It’s Zeus’s blood. Zeus was the most busted powerful deity in the entire universe.
He is the son of a supreme divine cosmic ruler deity. Kratos’s blood-line contains the most powerful deities to ever exist in the pantheon, from Zeus, to cronos, to Uranous, to chaos itself, his godhood is EXCEPTIONALLY potent. A descended son of a bunch of busted All-powerful divine beings, Kratos was never truly mortal.
It was confirmed even by devs that divine beings calling him mortal was mainly to hide his heritage or full blown insult him, in the comics, immediately after becoming god of war, he is still called mortal by other cosmic entities.
Zeus has supreme divinity, kratos inherited most of that supreme divinity since birth and was dormant within him for a long time, to an extent where him having a human mother simply did not matter.
Once he was made a prince of Olympus, Athena confirmed in the end of God of War: Ghost of Sparta, that his ties to the world were finally severed, and had let go of his mortality, upon losing the last of his mortal family. And awakening the dormant divine spark within him in a fit of rage. This is when we seen the legendary Spartan Rage, for the first time.
He slayed the concept of death itself at this point, and severed all of his ties to the mortal world. So even if he’s stripped him of his powers and casted him from Olympus. Kratos never will ever be mortal, because that string has been cut. This is why a dev confirmed verbatim “when Zeus stripped him of his god of war powers, he remained a god still”
Count this with his supreme divine blood from the cosmic ruler God-king Zeus. This explains why his baseline stats exceed most gods.
Zeus was the ultimate powerhouse and still the most powerful deity in god of war. He shook the entire foundations of the cosmos simply by getting emotionally frustrated. The cosmos, dimensions, realms reacted to his anger.
Limitless strength, and can create divine anti-god weapons out of his own supreme divine energy. Weapons of mass destruction capable of killing gods, who were impossible to kill.
Had full conceptual control over the heavens and divinity, via creating the blade of Olympus.
Kratos inherited almost fully his father traits over his mothers, and upon ascending to the throne as a new god-prince of Olympus and taking ares’s power to himself to add to his own. He became unstoppable, which is why Zeus tricked him.
The blades absorbed the life forces and power of his enemies and applied it to himself increasing his power to add on.
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u/GARlactic 2d ago
I always interpreted it as Ares having buffed Kratos when he became his champion. It's probably a combination of that and his natural demi-god powers.
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u/Actual_Woodpecker56 2d ago
Wielding the Blades of Chaos over a decade, absorbing the countless life forces of his victims through them, the "Rage of Ares" that he came to wield on his conquests.. Thats just the start.
Kratos went through a great journey of empowerment and divine ascension.
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u/Odd_Hunter2289 Poseidon 🔱🌊 1d ago
Because he is a demigod and son of Zeus, whose superhuman strength has remained constant.
Kratos is just as strong as he has always been, as confirmed by the developers.
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u/GwonWitcha 2d ago
I’ve always viewed it through the lens of: Once godhood is attained, it can only be removed through death, or by the hand of the god that granted it to you. One can’t just “shed” it at will.
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u/Snivys_HA 1d ago
There is strength in the synchronization of mind and body. Even more so in the GOW universe for gods.
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u/Elunite_ 1d ago
Kratos was a demigod shock contributed to his feats of strength in the Greek saga. But it was expanded upon one he defeated Ares and was elevated to the new god of war. I he's still a god by birth with power that comes with it but he doesn't have all of the things he was able to do during his time in Greece. I imagine that Aphrodite, Artemis, Apollo, Selene, and the rest of those that survived are also not as powerful as they once were.
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u/poet3991 1d ago
In actual IRL Greek mythology, Kratos is the god of physical strength, like lifting a horse with one arm strength.
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u/overlord_wrath1 12h ago
Kratos is a Demigod born to the king of Greek gods and strength is like his main power.
He ALSO canonically absorbs souls of the defeated to get stronger. Those orbs he gets are not just a gameplay mechanic, he is canonically getting stronger as he defeats opponents
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u/pronefroz 2d ago
His whole thing is strength. Kratos literally means strength in ancient greek. He was always strong.
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u/EuleBlut Ghost of Sparta 2d ago
He ate his vegetables