Kaneki

Ken Kaneki (金木 研, *Kaneki Ken*), is the main protagonist of the anime/manga series Tokyo Ghoul.

## Abilities

### Slash

* **Ability:** No Target
* **Affects:** Enemy Units
* **Damage Type:** Magical
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** No
* **Dispellable:** Yes
* **Mana Cost:** 50 / 75 / 100 / 125
* **Cooldown:** 16 / 14 / 12 / 10

Kaneki hits all enemies around himself with tentacles, dealing damage based on his strength and stunning them briefly while pushing them back by a distance equal to the skill's radius.

* **Radius:** 225
* **Base Damage: 120 / 150 / 180 / 210**
* **Str Damage Multiplier:** 0.9
	+ ***With Talent:*** 1.9

### Dash

* **Ability:** No Target
* **Affects:** Enemy Units
* **Damage Type:** Magical
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** No
* **Dispellable:** Yes
* **Mana Cost:** 50 / 75 / 100 / 125
* **Cooldown:** 20 / 16 / 12 / 8

Kaneki dashes forward while crunching on nearby enemies, dealing damage based on his strength and rooting them.

* **Range:** 700
	+ ***With Talent:*** 800
* **Base Damage:** 90 / 125 / 160 / 195
* **Root Duration:** 1
	+ ***With Talent:*** 1.5
* **Str Damage Multiplier:** 0.9
	+ ***With Talent:*** 1.9

### Hunger

* **Ability:** Passive
* **Affects:** Enemy Heroes
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** Yes
* **Dispellable:** Yes

Kaneki consumes his dead opponents, gaining permanent bonus strength every time an enemy dies near him.

This ability gains charges even if it isn't skilled yet.

* **Radius:** 350
* **Strength per kill:** 0.8 / 1.0 / 1.2 / 1.4
	+ ***With Talent:*** 1.3 / 1.5 / 1.7 / 1.9
* **Armor per kill:** 0
	+ ***With Talent:*** 0.6

### Hunger Rage

* **Learnable at levels 6 / 12 / 18**
* **Ability:** No Target
* **Affects:** Allied Units
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** Yes
* **Dispellable:** Cannot be dispelled
* **Mana Cost:** 100 / 150 / 200
* **Cooldown:** 80

Kaneki enters a new form with more fearsome tentacles. Gains bonus armor, movespeed, attack range and attack damage.

* **Duration:** 32
* **Bonus Attack Range:** 150
* **Bonus Damage:** 50%
	+ ***With Talent:*** 100%
* **Bonus Armor:** 3 / 7 / 10
	+ ***With Talent:*** 7 / 12 / 15
* **Bonus Movespeed:** 35
	+ ***With Talent:*** 55

### Talents

 +5 Hunger Rage Armor
 +0.6 Armor Per Hunger Stack
 +0.5 Dash Root

## Guides

### Magic Inside build - by Exteva

Max W and Q first

**Talents:** Left>Right>Right>Right

**Item build:** Red Stone>Hamon<>Ethereal>Octarine>Dagon(or situational)

*(You can buy HoT for more survivability)*

**Gameplay:** In early game try to steal more kills / get stacks. When you get Ethereal you can kill weak solo targets. After 25 you have max damage from your cast

**Cast:** Ethereal>W>Q>Chase with Hamon until cd W and Q then repeat

### Arc's Kaneki Guide

Kaneki Build
**Str Burst Kaneki** - Item Path
>Get basic boots into powertread, then get Heart. This is your basic sustain you'll want early game.

>After Heart, get a Bokko fruit for easy mana (you'll have a mana problem), Bloodstone, and then Octarine.

>Once you get your Core 3 items, upgrade Bloodstone into Redstone for the true damage, get Immortal Pills to double your Str, and then Hamon, just a good item for Kaneki's close range spells.

>Final items to get are Five/Four leaf clover (Whatever works better for the situation) and Boots of Travel/NotGaeBolg/Etheralblade. The former is to make you tankier or slightly faster for more power while the latter is a gap closer. Trade Powertread and Immortal pills for these items but switch in and out Immortal Pills into your build.

**Basic Final Build:** Heart, Redstone, Octarine, Hamon, Four-Leaf Clover, Boots of Travel

**Gameplay Goal** Kaneki E grants Str per kill he has but it only grants a stack if you have the E, are near the enemy character when they die, and provided an assist or dealt the killing blow. This means you'll want to use W>Q to kill steal majority of kills to ensure you meet those criteria. You will get strong very quickly, with the apex of your power coming when you obtain Immortal pills. After that point, you will be able to deal 50% of most characters HP or kill them outright. Later on, Hamon will ensure you will get an assist so all you need to do is get get within 400~ radius to the enemy character to get the stack. Stack Average: 30-35~ (Across all map)

**Upgrade Path:** Get Q>W>E, max W, then Q then E.