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Character file · Beyblade Burst

Laban Vanot

Raban Vano · ラバン・ヴァノ

Supporting Turbo 4 Beyblade Burst TurboBeyblade Burst QuadStrike
First seen
Beyblade Burst Turbo, Episode 13 – Lúinor Cup! Final Battle!

2

series

21

episodes on record

1

Beyblade

1

special move

Biography

Laban Vanot is a member of the African "Turbo 4" team in Beyblade Burst Turbo, battling with the wildcat-styled Vice Leopard. Short, tan-skinned, and dressed in Egyptian-inspired gold and blue, he shares Aiger Akabane's competitive, easygoing energy and adds his own gift for animal communication and stone-based fortune-telling. His launching style is wild and catlike, matching his personality. Vice Leopard is destroyed by Phi mid-series but later repaired, making Laban one of the few Burst characters whose original bey survives rather than being replaced outright by an upgraded one.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Short in stature with tanned skin, he wears his dark-blue hair wild and unruly, with pale teal-blue markings tracing the skin beneath his lime-green eyes. His look draws on Egyptian styling: a broad gold-and-silver collar banded in cerulean, blue cord wound around his ribs and knotted at the back, a golden armband on each bicep, and a golden belt holding a gold-trimmed blue-and-white kilt over electric-blue trousers. Brown shoes with ankle collars finish the outfit, each one cut open across the top to show the bridge of his foot.

Much like Aiger Akabane, he throws himself at any challenger without hesitation and makes friends with little effort. A gift for reading stones lets him glimpse what is coming, a trick he puts to use during Beyblade Burst Turbo, and he can hold something like a conversation with animals, shown when he communicates with a leopard and a lizard. Even the way he launches carries that same wild, feline energy.

Blader Profile

Laban Vanot, rated

  • Attack 8/10
  • Defense 5/10
  • Stamina 6/10
  • Technique 6/10
  • Spirit 8/10

beybladewiki.com editorial rating — based on on-screen performance, not official stats.

A wild, catlike launcher who wins two battle royales outright, loses to Xavier, and stands by Vice Leopard after Phi breaks it.

On file

The record

Team
Turbo 4
Beyblades
Vice Leopard 12Lift Destroy
Voice (Japanese)
Mutsumi Tamura
Voice (English)
Jeannie Tirado
First appearance
Beyblade Burst Turbo, Episode 13 – Lúinor Cup! Final Battle!
Japanese name
ラバン・ヴァノ
Romaji
Raban Vano
Also known as
The Beast King
Occupation
Blader / Member of The Turbo 4 / Battleship Cruise Competitor
Gender
Male
First anime appearance
Lúinor Cup! Final Battle!

Beyblades

Laban Vanot's Beyblades

  1. Vice Leopard 12Lift Destroy

Special moves

Called shots

Howling Bite

Briefing

What to know

  • Fights with Vice Leopard 12Lift Destroy, a Beyblade destroyed by Phi and later repaired rather than replaced.
  • Can predict the future using stones and communicate with animals, including a leopard and a lizard.
  • Member of the Turbo 4, an African team that dominated regional tournaments before the main story began.
  • Close friends with Aiger Akabane, who supports him after Vice Leopard is destroyed.
  • One of only three Burst characters, with Shu and Ranjiro, to get a destroyed bey repaired instead of replaced — and the first to do so.
  • His name "Laban" means "fight" in Tagalog, the native language of the Philippines.
  • Shares his Japanese voice actor, Mutsumi Tamura, with King from Beyblade: Metal Fury.

Notable battles

  • vs Aiger Akabane & Suoh Genji (Battle Royale) in Episode 16 — Win (2-0-0)
  • vs Xavier Bogard in Episode 17 — Lose (0-2)
  • vs Aiger Akabane, Ranjiro Kiyama, Fubuki Sumiye, Hae-jin Oh, Suoh Genji, Phi, Xavier Bogard & Kyle Hakim (Battle Royale) in Episode 20 — Lose
  • vs Aiger Akabane & Fubuki Sumiye (with Hae-jin Oh) in Episode 21 — Lose (0-4)
  • vs Fubuki Sumiye & Xavier Bogard (Battle Royale) in Episode 22 — Win (4-0-0)
  • vs Aiger Akabane in Episode 23 — Lose (1-2)
  • vs Phi in Episode 24 — Lose (0-2)
  • vs Aiger Akabane in Episode 45 — Lose (1-2)

Quotes

In Their Own Words

  • It's best to stay on guard another, fiction will make itself known from the shadows.

Sightings

Episodes they appear in

From our own episode records — the cast, Beyblade and debut lists we compiled show the name here.

Also on record

Where they first appear

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Also on record

Named elsewhere on this site

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Cross-references

Teams, places and more

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Teams 1

Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • He is the second blader after Ozuma to use a Leopard-based Beyblade.
  • Like Ren Wu Sun, his feline-themed bey came from a random booster pack rather than a starter set.
  • His initials match his bey's name, Vice Leopard, a trait shared with three other Turbo characters.
  • His zodiac sign is Leo, fitting his big-cat theme.

The Blader Profile is our own reading of how the character performs on screen or on the page, not a figure from the makers.