Kakusei Ky (which means "Awakened Ky" in Japanese) is an awakened EX version of Ky Kiske that only appears in Guilty Gear Isuka. He is one of two bosses in its GG Boost Mode, the other being Kakusei Sol.
Abilities
Kakusei Ky uses a blue awakening power coupled with a permanent Dragon Install-like effect (which however, has to periodically refresh, making him enter a pseudo-stunned state at times), fast-regenerating Tension and impressive lightning elemental techniques. Defeating Kakusei/Bousou Sol and Kakusei Ky on the last stage of GG Boost mode unlocks Zako 1, 2, and 3.
In order to unlock him, the following conditions must be fulfilled in any order:
- Ky's EX version must be already unlocked by beating any Survival Level in Arcade Mode.
- Defeat the surprise giant gray Robo-Ky II ("Robo-Ky II Substance") that appears as a bonus final boss in the GG Boost Mode (Scramble Mode) as Robo-Ky II via the RKII Factory Mode. Doing so unlocks Kakusei Ky and/or Kakusei/Bousou Sol (if you have EX Sol as well).
However, to reach the Robo-Ky II Substance boss:
- 1. Play GG Boost Mode/Scramble Mode again, as Robo-Ky II via the RKII Factory Mode, on at least Normal difficulty.
- 2. Defeat the 2 final bosses Kakusei/Bousou Sol and Kakusei Ky in the "Last Dance" portion of Stage 5 with 1,400,000 points or more and without having used any warp point bonus pick-ups (which are used to unlock the bonus Overdrive Attacks for Robo-Ky II to customize). The points total is what matters and not the EXP gain.
- 3. One must then choose not to return to the factory after stage results screen, and it will trigger the surprise boss battle. You'll know it's seen coming when the screen zooms out during the normal Stage 5 stage clear results.
To play as Kakusei Ky, the player must simply highlight Ky Kiske on the Character Select Screen and press Start twice for a white-and-pink emblem to appear.
Compared to Normal Ky, he normally has a moveset of mirroring EX Ky's moveset. But it comes with these specific differences:
- Stun Edge Charge Attack now is fired like its normal counterpart, albeit with the 3-hit projectile version coming out instead of a plain Stun Edge, coming out slightly faster than the original SECA and mapped to
+ 
. - Robo-Ky's old Ray Divider (also known as Stun Edge Production in this case) replaces the original Stun Edge Charge input ( +
), and starts up faster. Instead of an electric tall vertical barrier, a brief lightning sphere is unleashed instead. Via the in-game moveset, this move is somehow unlisted. - Midair Stun Edges now fire off 2 at once, with both of the projectiles flying along the original and version angles. The fires them both at a slow speed while fires them at a fast speed.
- version of Vapor Thrust now automatically follows up with a midair Crescent Slash into a Greed Sever at its peak, which plummets the foe.
- However, Kiriharai can no longer be performed on either version of Vapor Thrust (nor the midair version), and only on Grand Vapor Thrust.
- Both versions of and Vapor Thrust function relatively the same in midair.
- The EX version of Ride the Lightning, unlike with EX Ky, can only be performed in midair as the grounded version is a new move.
- Sacred Edge while having the same EX version input (
+ 
), now instead has Ky perform a Ray Divider animation just after his circling-hand-motion (the startup flash animation), which also instead unleashes a row of lightning bolts that travel forward and past-full-screen. - Via paralleling Kakusei/Bousou Sol's unlisted midair Overdrive, the grounded input for EX Ride the Lightning ( + ) is now an unlisted move, but in actuality is the original Robo-Ky's Aces High attack, albeit modified and referred to as Ride the Lightning (Reverse).
- First off, the startup flash now involves the Grand Vapor Thrust/Impala Hunt slashing animation like with Robo-Ky's KY-Shin no Ichigeki.
- Second, while it behaves like the original version if it whiffs (though it has a shorter maximum peak), it radically changes upon the upward rise connecting at any point, where Ky rises a bit higher while the lightning sphere coating him does more than one hit, and he performs a 3-attack combo at the near-peak of his rise in this order:
- A midair Vapor Thrust animation.
- Kiriharai, which is the same as done during the classic Aces High.
- A midair Greed Sever, which unlike the Vapor Thrust, inflicts a wallbounce and leaves behind a spark that's the same as the one left behind by his jumping
.
Even then, Kakusei Ky still possesses the same defensive modifiers as his base and EX versions, meaning he still takes average amounts of damage in spite of his immense power.
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