Kogake

"These coverings for the hands and feet allow devastating high flying hand-to-hand combat attacks without risking harm to the user."

- In-Game Description

The Kogake is a short-range hand to hand melee weapon.

Characteristics
This is a Blunt weapon.

Advantages:
 * High fire rate
 * High Critical chance
 * Regular attacks ignore armor
 * Regular attacks have momentum
 * Charge attack launches enemies.
 * Sliding attack launches enemies into air
 * Further range than the Furax and Ankyros
 * Medium jump attack affects Ospreys
 * Ground finisher deals massive amounts of damage to the enemy
 * Jump attack can hit multiple enemies at once and has medium damage
 * Staggers Grineers on every hit
 * Charge attack can even knock down most bosses, giving you a chance to easily headshot them
 * Deals 1000 wall-attack damage
 * Can achieve red critical hits
 * Jump attack deals large amounts of damage to ragdolled enemies (Needs further testing).

Disadvantages:
 * Low charge damage
 * Attacks have very limited range
 * Hits one target at a time
 * No polarities
 * Does not ignore armor on charged attacks
 * No guaranteed staggers for Corpus or Infested

Acquisition
The Kogake can be bought for 125  and its blueprint for  15,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Adding Fury will increase the speed and the chances of the enemy staggering.
 * Adding North Wind has a dramatic effect on the jump attack AoE.
 * Adding Reach is not recommended because of its low initial range; gained range will be minimal.
 * Adding Organ Shatter is useful due to the fairly high chance of critical hits in normal attacks
 * Due to the extremely good characteristics of this melee weapon on regular attacks you should capitalize on that strength and add mods that help regular attacks (Pressure Point, Fury, Elemental Mods, Critical Mods). It is not advised to use mods that provide better charge speed/damage.

Trivia

 * The Kogake is possibly named after the Japanese kōgake, a type of armoured tabi.