Ginzo

* Ginzo
* Old Gusoku
* Shizumasa Shiroyasha
* Karuta of Imprecation
* Asurendran Might
* Kriegstahl Omega

Ginzo is an unlockable character in Otherworld Legends. He is found in the upper side of the table in the Living Room where Akaisha and Gérard Quentin also sit, although he always stays still, unlike the other characters. To unlock him, you must buy him at the Living Room Shop at the cost of 328 Soul Stones.

## Overall

Ginzo has low health and armor, meaning it's easy to die to a few powerful hits without you even noticing. Thus, Ginzo attacks with quick and fatal combos to get rid of the enemy before they can do the same to him. He has the highest crit rate in the game and low cooldown on all his skills, as well as versatile mobility options, making him quite powerful. However, because of his low stats and skills, that lack proper safety, careful gameplay is advised, since, otherwise, you might be dead before you know it.

## Skills

***Note that all used damage numbers are the default values (damage stat=10) and scale with the damage stat.***

* **Default attack:** Tapping the attack button causes Ginzo to perform sword strikes in front of him, dealing damage. He will loop over three strikes before starting the chain again.
* **Roll:** Ginzo is noted for having very good rolls: the animation of his forward roll is fast, making him less vulnerable and making it easier to time a dodge with the roll's invincibility frames. His backwards roll is fast and performs a weak slash, allowing Ginzo to hit enemies next to his starting point. Rolling is also useful as this character because this move cancels the re-sheathing animation of all Ginzo's skills, which is when he is most vulnerable, and can move him to a better position. The back roll slash does not deal a lot of damage, but it can disable enemies thanks to stun-lock, so it can be used to both avoid and halt deadly enemies and set up some combos.
* **Hiken - Shooting Stars:** After pressing the skill button, a very short windup will occur and then Ginzo will move instantly to a position relatively far from his starting point in a straight line with his sword out, dealing 55 damage to all the enemies caught in the slash and stun-locking them for a long time. The slash goes straight through all objects even if Ginzo cannot move through them himself. Ginzo must sheath his sword after the attack happens, although this animation can be cancelled by rolling. **Cooldown: 6 seconds**. Skill Styles:
	+ **Second Hit:** A second slash will happen after the first in the same spot. Due to the first slash stun-locking enemies, enemies hit by the first slash will always get hit by the second. However, dashing right after the first slash will cancel the second slash, rendering this skill style useless. Ginzo remains unflinching during the sheathing animation.
	+ **One Slash:** If Ginzo manages to kill an enemy with the skill's slash, the skill's cooldown ends immediately and he does not have to sheath his sword. This makes the move more useful for finishing off low-health enemies.
	+ **Samurai:** Ginzo first dashes forward accompanied by three slash trails behind him. These are very wide and do not deal damage(unless you have the Monocle equipped which will make them deal 1 critical damage), instead disabling enemies within the marks. After a second, a much thinner slash will go through the previous two, and all enemies within a very large area will take 60 damage. This style deals a bit more damage than the skill usually would. Using a dodge to chancel the sheathing animation does not cancel the second, damaging slash.
* **Hiken - Tsubame Gaeshi:** Ginzo enters a defensive pose for 0.75 seconds. If his front side is hit while in this pose, he will take no damage, ignore any control effects that were to be applied and counterattack with a powerful overhead smack dealing 50 damage, after which the pose will end instantly. If the attack that triggered the counter is melee, the attacker will be stun-locked. Ginzo is invincible during the counter slash animation. Note that this skill does not work well against ranged enemies, since despite the attack is countered, chances are the counter won't reach its target. **Cooldown:** **1 second**. Skill Styles:
	+ **Iaijutsu:** Extends the duration of the defensive pose to slightly over 1 second, which makes blocking and countering enemy attacks easier. The duration of the invinciblity granted by the counter slash is extended. The counter pose now lasts longer than the duration of the cooldown, so you can repeatedly tap the skill button to stay in the counter state forever. Getting attacked, however, will use up the counter pose, so you may still get hurt during the cooldown.
	+ **Rikigo:** You can now cancel the defensive pose with a second press of the skill button and instead unleash a weaker attack that deals 35 damage and does not have invincibility. The skill can still be used as a counter. This cancel action allows this skill to be used offensively, regardless of whether an enemy hits you in the defensive pose or not.
	+ **Yojimbo:** The defensive pose now blocks attacks from behind, and the counter slash will turn around if Ginzo's back is hit, making it impossible for enemies to get to you while the skill is active.
* **Hiken - Heirloom Katana:** Ginzo performs a quick flurry of 3 slashes which deal 7 damage each in front of him. You can hold the skill button down to make the attack last longer, increasing the number of slashes up to 9. After the burst of slashes, a last slash is performed that deals 10 damage instead and is slightly larger. If the player holds backwards when the combo ends, the last slash will happen behind them. These slashes combined can amount to a lot of damage, making this one of Ginzo's most damaging moves. However, he cannot move while the attack is taking place. Once the move finishes, he will sheath his sword. Cancelling the skill's animation with a second use of *the same skill* (cancelling a primary Heirloom Katana with a secondary or vice versa does not count) will cause the second skill use to only do the first 3 slashes, regardless of how long the button is held. **Cooldown: 5 seconds**. Skill Styles:
	+ **Ultimate:** The final hit of the combo is four times more powerful, now dealing 40 damage, and also fires a projectile that moves through all objects and deals 4 damage repeatedly to enemies that it collides with, dragging them along in the process and dealing large amounts of damage and hits.
	+ **Yatagarasu:** Every strike of the blade but the last fires bird-shaped projectiles with limited range in random angles in a cone in front of Ginzo, increasing the skill's total damage and hit count. Birds deal 5 damage each. The birds will pierce enemies, allowing for some good crowd control potential.
	+ **Century:** Reduces the damage of every slash down to 5 (except the last slash, which still deals 10) and erases the cooldown time of this skill, but Ginzo still needs to sheath the sword between bursts of slashes. This skill completely replaces Ginzo's default attack with the skill, and the skill button can still be used to perform this attack. This, however, means Ginzo loses his default attack dash, hindering his mobility.

## Skins

* **Old Gusoku (unlocked at the Living Room Shop):**

* **Skin Effects:**
	+ The normal attack show no changes.
	+ **The 1st Skill (Hiken - Shooting Stars)**: The slash becomes bright blue and swings around Ginzo after he dashes, and when he sheaths his sword. Japanese maple leaves drop for every hit enemy instead of sakura petals.
		- **1st and 2nd style:** Similar to the default style.
		- **3rd style:** Instead of another swing after Ginzo sheaths his sword, it's replaced with a series of multiple swirling cuts.
	+ **The 2nd Skill (Hiken - Tsubame Gaeshi)**: A full moon appears next to the counter icon. When the counter state is triggered, the moon is cut in half.
		- All of the styles looks similar to the default style, with little to no changes at all.
	+ **The 3rd Skill (Hiken - Heirloom Katana)**: Ginzo's katana is imbued with flames during this skill.
		- **1st and 3rd style:** Same as the default style.
		- **2nd style:** The released birds turn into a flaming orange color.

* **Shizumasa Shiroyasha (unlocked at the Living Room Shop):**

* **Skin Effects:**
	+ All slashes become gold and black.
	+ **The 1st Skill (Hiken - Shooting Stars)**: The dash is orange, the windup flash is more exaggerated with a swirl concentrating on the character before performing the dash and sparks fly from hit enemies.
		- **1st style:** Same as default style, with a quick yellow slash right after the animation ends.
		- **2nd style:** Same as the default style.
		- **3rd style:** After the triple-slash activation, a shadow Ginzo flies by the enemies and performs a circular slash, then crumbles to dust.
	+ **The 2nd Skill (Hiken - Tsubame Genshi)**: When the counter is triggered, it shows a painting in a red-black-white color pallette, that is sliced apart when the counter slash is triggered.
		- **1st style:** A sunset is showed on the painting, similarly to the default style.
		- **2nd style:** The painting shows a crane.
		- **3rd style:** The painting shows a bundle of flowers.
	+ **The 3rd Skill (Hiken - Heirloom Katana)**: The slashes, projectiles and birds from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd style all change color to yellow and black to fit the skin's palette.

* **Karuta of Imprecation (unlocked at the Mirage Supreme Pass):**

* **Skin Effects:**
	+ The normal attack leaves behind a dark and purple fire aura, similar to Medea's 2nd phase dark projectiles.
	+ **The 1st Skill (Hiken - Shooting Stars)**: Leaves behind red silhouettes of the character while dashing forward with purple fire particles, right after the dash, a small purple sparkly trail follows along, similarly to when you are freed from Curses.
		- **1st style:** The first slash only leaves behind red silhouettes, followed with effects similarly to the default style.
		- **2nd style:** Same as default style.
		- **3rd style:** Dashes forward with 2 lines of effects that are similar to the default style instead of one.
	+ **The 2nd Skill (Hiken - Tsubame Genshi)**: Performs an overhead slash with dark and purple fire aura when successfully performed.
		- All of the styles looks similar to the default style, with little to no changes at all.
	+ **The 3rd Skill (Hiken - Heirloom Katana)**: Performs many slashes with effects that looks like the normal attack
		- **1st style:** After performing the slashes, release a floating screaming purple head that looks like Kabuto/Soulfused Kabuto that flies forward.
		- **2nd style:** Instead of orange fire birds projectiles like the default skin, it is replaced with purple fire birds projectiles.
		- **3rd style:** Same as the default style.
	+ When dodging forward, leaves behind a subtle red silhouettes of the character.
* **Asurendran Might (unlocked at the Living Room Shop):**

* **Skin Effects:**
	+ The trace of the default attack looks like space, like one of Asurendra's attack during first phase.
	+ **The 1st Skill (Hiken - Shooting Stars)**: Creates a crack of space on the ground with pillars of light passing through, similarly to what was seen on Asurendra's attack during first phase.
		- **1st style:** Creates a small pillars of energy running through the crack shortly after the first dash.
		- **2nd style:** Those pillars passes immediately upon usage, same with default style.
		- **3rd style:** Increases the crack after the slash. Instead of small pillars of energy, a white entity that looks similar to Ginzo passes through the crack, quickly performing multiple cuts and then melts away right after.
	+ **The 2nd Skill (Hiken - Tsubame Genshi)**: Creates rotating chains around the hero, similar to Asurendra when he is summoning enemies during first phase. In addition, a random mirror appears in front of him, in which a character can be depicted: Uliana's Madam Fortuna skin, a Yakuza, and Ukyo Bear.
		- **All styles:** When successfully performed, slashes the mirror in two with a crescent cut. The slash have dark particles that radiates from it.
	+ **The 3rd Skill (Hiken - Heirloom Katana)**: Leaves behind subtle blue afterimage of the character when performing the slashes, the slashes looks similarly to the normal attacks.
		- **1st style:** Creates a dark wave that distorts space and leaves a trace on the ground from where the wave passed through.
		- **2nd style:** Leaves a crack on the ground same as from the first skill. In addition, the attacks themselves are not visible, because the birds projectiles are replaced with laser beam effect, same as Asurendra's laser beam attack during third phase.
		- **3rd style:** Same as the default style.
	+ The somersault backwards has no trace, but the roll in front leaves a blue ghostly silhouette of the hero.
* **Ginzo Kriegstahl Omega (unlocked at the Living Room Shop):**

* **Lobby Appearance:** Periodically wears a helmet of Knight from Soul Knight and enables several holograms of screens with different data for a few seconds, and then disables them and take off the helmet.
* **Skin Effects:**
	+ The normal attack's effects doesn't have much noticeable changes, except for the color theme of the blade which is orange and black.
	+ **The 1st Skill (Hiken - Shooting Stars)**: Dash forward while leaving behind orange-colored afterimages of him, including a trail with orange electricity effect.
		- **1st style:** Performs the same animation as stated above, with an additional trail of electricity slash right after the end of the animation.
		- **2nd style:** The trail's effects are replaced with orange flames, instead of the orange electricity effect like the default and other styles.
		- **3rd style:** After performing the dash, many whip-like blades are shown to be slicing in a sphere-like trajectory at where Ginzo just dashed through.
	+ **The 2nd Skill (Hiken - Tsubame Gaeshi)**: Holds up the sword backward while creating an electricity aura that surrounds the character. When counter-attacking, summon a thunderbolt on the enemies that was hit, similarly to: Katherine's default Thunder Strike...
		- **1st style:** Same as the default style.
		- **2nd style:** Sheathes the blade while emitting an orange and yellow glowing aura. When counter-attacking, performs an upper slash that leaves behind flaming particles.
		- **3rd style:** Puts the blade on his shoulder while preparing for a counter-attack, while emitting a dark and red aura at the same time, when struck, swings down the blade with a whip-like trace.
	+ **The 3rd Skill (Hiken - Heirloom Katana)**: When performed, shows whip-like slashes that's different from the normal attack with more vibrant orange color.
		- **1st style:** Performs many sharp slashes, instead of the whip-like slashes. Releases a spinning fan-shaped shuriken at the end of the attack.
		- **2nd style:** Performs crescent moon slashes, while releasing multiple orange shuriken projectiles.
		- **3rd style:** Same as the default style.
	+ The backward dodge have no effect, but the forward dodge leaves behind orange silhouette of the character.

## Trivia

* Due to him being a samurai, as mentioned in the achievement given by unlocking him, and the type of sword he uses, Ginzo is thought to hail from Japan.
* Most of Ginzo's skins are based off of well known samurais or armors from Japan, one of them is the Old Gusoku skin which is a namesake to the Gusoku armor from the Azuchi-Momoyama period, As for Karuta of Imprecation, it is based off of Sanada Yukimura's gusoku armor of the Sengoku period. Meanwhile the Shizumasa Shiroyasha is a modernized and stylized inspiration of historical samurai armors.