

In chess, pawn can promote to any other chess piece except King and get all
the corresponding abilities and power. Similarly, in High School DxD, when
Pawn promotes, their power level increases and they get other abilities also.
For example, when **Issei** got a direct hit from **Yubelluna** 's attack, he
was protected by the **Queen Protection** abilities.

Let's take Issei's promotion to Queen ( **Akeno** ) as an example.

Are the abilities and the increase in power level the same for all the Pawns
regardless of the power and abilities of the actual Queen (Akeno), or do they
depend on that of the Queen?

And if Issei is King of his pieces and promotes himself to Queen, gaining
abilities and power from both King and Queen pieces, will he be more powerful
than Akeno?


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What are the relations between the level of power and abilities and the promotion of Pawn?


I can't be certain because I haven't read the source material nor am I sure
that the author took this into consideration, but if I were to theorise I'd
say power was more related to the sacred gear and number of peices consumed in
the creation. By this I mean since Issei consumed 8 pawns his promotion to
queen should be, hypothetically 8 times as strong as the promotion of a single
pawn. I don't think the strength of his queen would impact this, but I cant
tell for sure how powerful shed be in comparison. The other thing to consider
is the sacred gear. Issei's Welsh dragon is inconsistent with its power, and
thus he may be weaker than a normal queen on no stacks but stronger after
some. I'm not sure what you mean by the king of peices thing.


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**No, the ability doesn't depend on the Queen of the group**. I forgot whether
it was Rias herself, or Azazel-sensei that said that the stronger Issei is,
the longer he can stay in promotion as the promotion takes its toll on his
body. **If the promotion depends on the power of the team's Queen, then there
won't be any need for Issei to improve his physical strength.**

In the light novel, it was explained that each piece has a value. Queen worth
9 pawn, Rook worth 5, Bishop and Knight 2. So, rather than the strength of the
Queen, the promotion increases the strength according to those numbers, I
think. Of course the improvement depends on which piece he's going to promote
into.

For example, Knight is worth 2 Pawns, so the ability improvement is more or
less 2x of his ability as Pawn. However, it is not distributed evenly. Most of
it will be distributed to the Speed. Queen, being all-round piece, will get an
even increment to all abilities.


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