影零 · 影Kage-Zero
Kage-Zero is a cyborg shinobi in Ninja Fighters with a speed playstyle, armed with the Shadow Ninjato. He is one of the fastest fighters and one of the lightest (easy to launch).
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Moves and abilities
Special: Shadow Step
Vanishes forward and cuts whoever is standing where he lands. Costs 22 mana. Mana refills when you land hits.
Defense: Utsusemi
Tap to slip through attacks, untouchable for a moment.
Weapon: Shadow Ninjato
Straight blade held in reverse grip. Quick lunging cuts.
Every fighter can swap to any of the 10 weapons in the Fighter Bay. This is Kage-Zero's default.
Stats
- Health96
- Speed2.65
- Jump6.4
- Weight0.95
- Power1.04
- Jumps2
How to play Kage-Zero
- Kage-Zero is the fastest fighter (speed 2.65) with two jumps. Win by moving: hit, dash out, come back from another angle.
- Shadow Step vanishes forward and cuts whoever is standing where he lands. It doubles as a fast way back onto the stage.
- He is light (0.95), so big heavies launch him far. Use Utsusemi to phase through a heavy you see coming.
Matchups and tier
S tier on the Ninja Fighters tier list: Kage-Zero won 69% of 360 simulated one-on-one matches between hard CPUs.
- Best matchups
- Joro (98%), Karasu (92%), Tetsu (88%)
- Hardest matchups
- Tora (40%), Yuki (48%), Kenji (52%)
Win rates come from CPU-versus-CPU simulations, so they show how the kit performs, not how a skilled human plays it.
Story: Ninja · Ghost Unit
A shinobi from a black-ops program that officially never existed. Kage-Zero has no memories older than one year, except a corrupted file on his memory chip that keeps replaying a throne room in the rain.
“I remember the throne room. I do not remember why.”
The open question: Whose eyes recorded that file? Read every suspect's file in Who killed the Shogun Dragon?
Home stage: Zero-G Pagoda
