Noriaki Kakyoin (花京院 典明 Kakyōin Noriaki), who is known here as New Kakyoin (恐怖を乗り越えた花京院 lit. "Kakyoin who overcame his fears"), is an alternative version of Kakyoin wearing sunglasses. This is due to an attack from N'Doul's stand Geb which nearly made him blind. The community calls him Nkak or New Kak, alternatively standing for Neutered Kak. He is one of the six hidden characters, released in the latest version of HFTF.
In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage For The Future, New Kakyoin gains a simplified moveset in his Stand Off, while receiving an almost completely new one in his Stand On mode. New Kakyoin difficulty wise is harder to play than normal Kakyoin, due to his more noticeable flaws and higher execution.
While he has worse tools at his disposal in general and his combos become much harder and shorter due to that, in Stand On he receives a unique dash which makes him rise into the air at a roughly 65° angle. This gives him a much faster and more unpredictable offensive ability and footsies, turning him into a generally more unique character.
If you like footsies, hard combos, having a lot of options, uniqueness and medium risk/high reward, then New Kakyoin is the character for you.
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+ Insanely fast mobility, now including his bizarre Stand On dashes + The majority of his Stand Off kit doesn't trigger damage scaling, allowing for ludicrous damage off of a single dashing normal + His Stand On normals have crazy range + Has a fullscreen super + Has great/equal match-ups, even against the top tiers + Great grab that sets up okizeme + Tiny crouching hurtbox in Stand Off can mess up the opponent's combo ability + He's wearing some bangin' shades |
- His new Stand On dash is difficult to get a hang off - His combos are generally much harder to perform - Remote mode is very, very slow - Second lowest defense in the game - The longer optimal combos require a lot of meter - Very long wakeup time - Playstyle relies on switching between spacing, footsies and aggressiveness, which is difficult to master. |