Akai Haato
Akai Haato is one of the playable characters in HoloCure - Save the Fans!. She belongs to the group JP Gen 1 and can be unlocked through the Character Gacha. Her Main Weapon is Red Heart, her Special Attack is
Change of Heart, and she has three other unique skills:
Worldwide Strongest Idol,
Purity And Insanity, and
Coexistence.
Haato, alongside the rest of JP Gen 1 and JP Gen 2, was added to the game in Version 0.5.
Main Weapon
- Main article: Red Heart
- Red Heart changes its attack behavior depending on the character's current form:
- When in Akai Haato form, the hearts are colored red and circle close around the character.
- When in Haachama form, the hearts are colored black and are shot out at range towards the aimed direction.
Special Attack
- Ignores knockback resistance.
- Outside of Eldritch Form and while Eldritch Form is unavailable, activating while in Haato/Haachama form gives only the damage/knockback effect which is visually indicated by a large black/red heart centered around the player.
Skills
- When the Skill triggers in Haachama form, a large spider icon appears. Afterwards, poisoned enemies have a small spider icon above them with a number corresponding to the number of stacks.
- Purity is affected by the heal increase of
Full Meal.
- The stacks of Coexistence don't go over the number displayed in the description.
- When Coexistence has reached maximum stacks, a unique sound plays to indicate it.
- When
Change of Heart is activated while Coexistence has maximum stacks, the screen darkens and menacing eyes look down upon the stage for the duration of the Special.
- Stacks are only consumed if Coexistence has the maximum number of stacks; activating
Change of Heart when Coexistence has not reached its maximum will not consume stacks.
- If the Skill level of Coexistence is increased while it already had maximum stacks in the previous level, the old maximum is reduced to the new one.
Overview and Tips
Akai Haato is a character of two sides: the pure-hearted Haato vs. the dark Haachama, which players can switch between using the Change of Heart Special Attack. Haato is a close-combat character specializing in healing and defense, while Haachama is a ranged damage-dealer who piles on attack buffs along with damage-over-time through her poisons. The ability to switch between these two specialties is her unique feature, allowing her to adapt to most situations. For example using Haato when trying to survive off-map enemy waves or dense projectile attacks vs. using Haachama's damage output against bosses.
This constant switching is made possible due to Change of Heart having the fastest cooldown time of all special attacks in the game, at only 10 seconds, allowing players to constantly spam the ability to make the most use out of its area-of-effect damage burst. The Coexistence skill however adds what can be considered a soft cooldown timer to Change of Heart, since at max level Coexistence requires the special attack to be used after at least 50 seconds to activate its effect of combining both Haato's and Haachama's skills. Players can thus decide whether to wait for Coexistence to be ready before using Change of Heart, or to switch between forms in the meantime either due to wanting a specific form for a situation or using its AoE burst damage for crowd control.
Outfits
The following outfits are available for Haato:
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Original outfit. Unlocked by default. |
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Gothic outfit (Haachama). |
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Casual outfit. |
History
- For the full list of changes, see Changelog.
- Slightly decreased the knockback of Red Heart in Haato form.
- Knockback speed reduced from 6 to 5.
- Knockback duration reduced from 8 (0.13 s) to 5 (0.08 s).
- Initial release
Trivia
Red Heart's name is based on Haato's primary motif, which is a red heart. This is due to "Red Heart" being the literal translation of "Akai Haato": Akai (赤井) is "Red" (赤い in adjective form), while Haato (はあと) is the Japanese transliteration for "Heart".
- The weapon also shares its name with the Haato original song of the same name.[1]
- Her special attack
Change of Heart and the
Coexistence skill both reference a collection of short videos and streams Haato made in 2021, which portray Haato and Haachama as twin sisters who are forced to share the same body through some grisly experiences. Coexistence is a more direct reference to the Twitter Hashtag #COEXIST, which hints to the eventual conclusion of the two personas learning to live with each other.
Purity And Insanity is more of a reference of how these personas are also portrayals of different phases of Haato's career, with Haato being her original, more restrained, and innocent portrayal, while Haachama is the persona used for more unhinged and risque content.
- The name "Haachama" was originally coined by Haato as a less formal name for herself. It is a more childish way of saying "Haato-sama", the nickname used by Haachama's old tsundere personality. The name was popularized by a Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes stream between Haato, Houshou Marine, and Kiryu Coco.[2]
Worldwide Strongest Idol is based on one of Haachama's self-proclaimed titles. "Worldwide" comes from the fact that she has traveled around the world (Japan, Australia, the Philippines) and is the first bilingual member of hololive, whereas "Strongest Idol" is based on her struggles and achievements both as a VTuber and a person.
References
- ↑ Akai Haato (2021/01/11). 1st Single 【 REDHEART 】.
- ↑ Relags / some Translator passing by (2020/10/16). Defusing Brain Cells Part 2 | KTANE ft. Coco, Haato & Marine.
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