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I'm on chapter 57 on _Attack on Titan_ , and a "coordinate ability" keeps
getting mentioned -- here by Hanji, but also earlier by either Bertholdt or
Reiner (who apparently didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands). But what
exactly is this coordinate ability?

I skipped a lot of the chapters up to 34 because they were just rehashings of
the stuff in the anime, and I skimmed over a lot of the Survey Corps action in
the woods, since it was getting too repetitious for me, so it's possible I
might just have missed something.

**Edit (taken from my comment in the answers):** As an explanation to other
readers, I was confused about this since at least in English, "coordinate" is
pretty ambiguous without any further qualification. (It could be something
geographical.) From the way Reiner and Bertholdt were talking about it, it
sounded a bit like it could simply be a piece of crucial information that Eren
might have in his lost memory.

![Reiner and Berthodt's conversation.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0IzRd.jpg)

Moreover, because of how Hanji was describing it merely as a "coordinate
ability", it still wasn't clear to me.


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What's the coordinate ability?


Titans can have different types of abilities, like shifting back to human form
(aka [Titan Shifters](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_Shifter)),
or putting armor on themselves (eg: [Armored
Titan](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Reiner_Braun),
[Annie](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Reiner_Braun) hiding the back
of her neck, ...). The third ability that was shown, was that of the
Coordinate.

The Coordinate ability is basically the ability to control Titans. If the
ability is controlled properly it can command all Titans to do whatever you
want them to do.

> This is how humans were able to built the walls as sturdy and as big as they
> are right now.

As far as the story goes, it does not seem to work on Titan Shifters and there
is supposed to be only one Titan with the Coordinate ability.

> Although the [Beast
> Titan](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Beast_Titan) was shown to have
> a similar ability.


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the coordinate is the ability to control other titans (abnormals) but Eren
never had that power. He only got it when touching the mother of Zeke, his
father's first wife(the smiling titan) who was of the royal family.


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