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Shaper Select: Kahgen the Raider

Time to break the seal with Kahgen the Raider in this week's Shaper Select. #Dawngate

[av_dropcap1]K[/av_dropcap1]ahgen is a grapple-wielding tank who excels at controlling the enemy. With a massive slow and a long range hook, his enemies are unable to get away from his onslaught.

Kahgen is a bandit of the Great Abeyance Desert in the south. He was the boss of his band of bandits when he was imbued with the Spirit of Avarice, which made his hook lighter and able to shoot further.

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“Surrender and I’ll treat you proper. Fight and I’ll gut you.”

The bandits of the Great Abeyance desert prey on caravans of giant hathi that wind between the cities of the south. Kahgen’s band uses tar sand-fuelled grapples to haul themselves aboard the massive beasts. The coming of their boss’ Spirit of Avarice allows them to seek more ambitious targets.

Kahgen is a Melee, physical damage Tank that combines ramping damage with exceptional engage and counterengage abilities. Kahgen excels at the Hunter role, his ramping damage allowing him to clear at a faster rate than all other Tanks and crowd control that lends to effective ganks. Kahgen’s core kit revolves around management and upkeep of his debuff, Spirit Sands – Kahgen ramps his consistent damage, burst damage and crowd control through Spirit Sands, but must be mindful when to generate stacks and when to consume them to be most effective. Kahgen makes an extremely formidable scrapper, both in the early game and in the late game, but leans heavily on his ultimate to make teamfights happen by his rules. Hitting or missing Kahgen’s ultimate can often win or lose a game.

Passive – Focus Shaper – Double-Edge – Kahgen uses Focus to cast his abilities. Every other Basic Attack deals additional damage and generates bonus Focus.

Q – Dust Devil – Kahgen blasts sand in an area around him, dealing physical damage and applying one stack of Spirit Sands to all enemies hit. Dust Devil deals additional physical damage per stack of Spirit Sands.

W – Quicksand – Kahgen creates a large area of quicksand at target location, greatly slowly all enemies in the area. Enemies in the center of the area are slowed more than those near the edge. Quicksand applies stacks of Spirit Sands to all enemies who remain within it.

E – Heat Wave – Kahgen creates a gout of fire in a cone in target direction, dealing physical damage and stunning all enemies hit. Heat Wave deals additional physical damage and has additional stun duration per stack of Spirit Sands. Heat Wave consumes all stacks of Spirit Sands on targets hit.

R – The Big Haul – Kahgen fires his massive hook in target direction, dealing physical damage and slowing all targets hit. Upon reaching max distance Kahgen reels his hook back in, dragging all targets hit back to him. Kahgen may move while casting The Big Haul, but cannot use abilities or spells.

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