Decay

“A funny one, you are. Let us see how hilarious you find my Elemental Power of... Decay!”

— Kur to Roby, "I Alone Can Save Them"

Decay
Information
Users	Kur (formerly) Thunderfang (consumed)
Abilities	Taphokinesis
First appearance	Face the Music! (visualized)
Latest appearance	"I Alone Can Save Them"
Status	Used

Decay is an element in the Wyldness. It is associated with the colors light red, orange, or rust.

User's abilities

• Taphokinesis - The user can manipulate the process of decay.
  • Decay Inducement - The user can cause other individuals to decay or rot, giving them a pale corpse-like appearance and degrading their health to the point where they could die.
    • Decay Touch - The user can decay anything they touch. Kur used this in "The Missing" on two individuals after lifting them off the ground.

Weaknesses

• Heat - Heat can be used to heal anyone who has been afflicted by Decay.

Notable users

• Kur (formerly)

Creatures

• Thunderfang (consumed)

Appearances

Ninjago: Dragons Rising

Season 3

• 41. "The Missing"
• 45. "I Alone Can Save Them"
• 49. "Chaos Unchained"

Ninjago Magazine

• 126. Face the Music! (visualized)

Trivia

• Decay was first revealed in The Epic Dragon Rescue!.
• Kur's decayed appearance is a result of the power's effects.
  • This makes Decay the second elemental power revealed to passively affect the user's appearance following Light, which makes the user's body invisible.
• This is the only element of the Forbidden Five to have their name mentioned in the series.
• Decay is one of the seventeen elements that are not currently known to be confined to a human host. The other sixteen are Ice, Time, Fusion, Balance, Propulsion, Figment, Plants, Quake, Reflex, Size, Sound, Surface Tension, Brute Force, Misfortune, Fear, and Swarm.
  • Decay is also one of 9 Elemental Powers to have more than two colors associated with them, the other 8 being Heat, Earth, Fire, Lightning, Time, Mind, Gravity, and Fusion.

Gallery

Two decayed individuals

Translations

Language	Name
Chinese (Simplified)	腐朽
Dutch	Verval
Finnish	Rappio
French	Décomposition
German	Zerfall
Italian	Decadenza
Russian	Разложение
Spanish (LA)	Putrefacción
Spanish (ESP)	Podredumbre
Turkish	Çürütme