Kaioken

"The higher your Ki when you transform, the greater the power-up! But it will also become a great burden, so watch out!" ― In-Game Description

Kaioken
Notable User(s):	Goku CaC
Stats
Skill Type:	Awoken
Similar Techniques:	Super Saiyan Blue Kaioken, Supersonic Mode
Ki Required:	Kaioken: 100 x3 Kaioken: 300 x20 Kaioken: 500
All Attack Damage Increase:	Kaioken: 2.5% x3 Kaioken: 7.5% x20 Kaioken: 15%
Damage Taken Increased:	Kaioken: 0 x3 Kaioken: 10% x20 Kaioken: 30%
Stamina Costs Reduction	Kaioken: 25% x3 Kaioken: 50% x20 Kaioken: 100%
Stamina Auto-Drain	Kaioken: 6% x3 Kaioken: 12% x20 Kaioken: 46%
Ground Speed Increase:	Kaioken: 5% x3 Kaioken: 10% x20 Kaioken: 15%
Air Speed Increase:	Kaioken: 5% x3 Kaioken: 20% x20 Kaioken: 25%
Dashing Speed Increase:	Kaioken: 5% x3 Kaioken: 10% x20 Kaioken: 25%

Kaioken is an Awoken Skill used by Goku and all CaCs.

In Game Data

• Description: "The higher your Ki when you transform, the greater the power-up! But it'll also become a great burden, so watch out!"
• Ki Used: 100 (x1), 300(x3), 500(x20)
• The Awoken Skill is obtained from clearing Parallel Quest 8: "Invade Earth" with an Ultimate Finish.
• Drain: Stamina
• Drain Rate: 6% (x1), 12% (x3), 46% (x20)

Miscellaneous Properties

Visually, the transformation grants the user a red aura and a red tint.

Upon having all of your stamina drained, the transformation will be deactivated and your guard will be broken.

Unlike other Awoken Skills, Kaioken lacks any sort of knockback hitbox upon activation - the act of transforming does still grant the user Stamina Armor, however.

Kaioken's Stamina Drain stacks when climbing the transformation ladder [e.g. going from Kaioken to x3 Kaioken.] meaning players will have to endure a greater stamina drain if progressively transforming to greater stages, instead of directly transforming into them.

Usage Tips

Kaioken is an Awoken Skill with a pretty severe downside in the form of stamina drain, meaning that to take advantage of it, players are encouraged to maximize the use of the stamina discount or otherwise find ways to stave it off.

The Super Soul "I've been saving this! Kaioken!" is recommended for would-be users of Kaioken, on top of increasing your Stamina Recovery Rate, it has a valuable DEF Up! burst from which you can recover after self-breaking your stamina.

With this transformation, you get a discount on anything that consumes stamina except for evasives, giving it unique synergy with the likes of Assault Vanish, Neo Tri-Beam, Gigantic Rage and Demon Ray.

Kaioken also has some considerable synergy with Female Majins, due to their fast stamina regeneration while broken, which allows them to mitigate the downsides of the transformation. Likewise it has good synergy with fast break-recovery souls such as "I like you better when you are mad!", "GAAAGH!" and "You need to be more careful.", although these souls are still often giving you less mileage on the Kaioken Awoken simply for the fact that you're able to maintain it for shorter periods of time.

Lastly, the form does significantly increase your speed, facilitating playing aggressively, especially with the use of manual vanishes to keep up pressure.

To use Kaioken effectively, stamina regen is a big help allowing you to stay in Kaioken for longer amounts of time. In addition since the stamina drains stacks it is always best to go straight into Kaioken x20 to only have a 46% stamina drain, instead of slowly powering up into the form which would cause a 64% stamina drain.

Synergistic Super Souls

There are two Super Souls that specifically require Kaioken for their effect activations:

• "Body, don't let me down"
• "I've been saving this! Kaioken!" (Recommended)

Cast Availability

• Goku: Turtle Hermit Gi (King Kai) 1 & 2, Turtle Hermit Gi (Go) 1 & 2 and Customize Partner

Trivia

• Krillin and Yamcha had presets in Xenoverse 1 using Kaioken, which did not return in Xenoverse 2, even it's not available in Partner Customization, although their voice lines remain for it.
• Other characters with voice lines for Kaioken include: Goten, Vegito, Goku Black, Goku (GT), and Gogeta (Super Saiyan 4).