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 melee weapon that attaches to the feet as well as the hands.

Characteristics
This is a Blunt weapon.

Advantages:
 * High fire rate
 * High Critical chance
 * Regular attacks ignore armor
 * Regular attacks have momentum
 * Charge attack knocks down enemies
 * Sliding attack launches enemies into air
 * Further range than the Furax and Ankyros
 * Medium jump attack AoE that knocks down enemies (also affects Ospreys)
 * Ground Finisher can hit multiple enemies at once and has very high damage
 * Staggers Grineers on every hit
 * Kicks can send targets flying
 * Sneak attacks (snaps necks)

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

Acquisition
Kogake can be bought for 125 or 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
 * Installing North Wind has a dramatic effect on the jump attack AoE

Trivia

 * The Kogake is possibly named after the Japanese kōgake, a type of armoured tabi.
 * It is the first melee weapon that allows kicks.