Introduction
Kamen Rider Kiva (Power Up) has access to his final form, Emperor Form, during which he becomes exceedingly difficult to attack safely.
Emperor Form is a strong character taken on normals alone, but also has one of the fastest moves in the game, Dogga Hammer, aka Dogga Fever. Once he's transformed, your opponent has to play scared of him, or else give you a lot of free opportunities to clobber them.
Normal Moves
Special Moves
Bloody Punch
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Catena Release
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Diving Kick
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Zanvat Slash
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Dogga Hammer
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Garulu Saber
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Rider Art and Dash Action
Dash Action (Base Form)
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Dash Action (Emperor Form)
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Rider Art (Base Form)
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Rider Art (Emperor Form)
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Style Action
By pressing Style Action, Kiva transforms into his final form, Emperor Form, at the cost of 3 stocks of the Rider Gauge. Doing so also refreshes damage scaling and the Guard Gauge.
While already in Emperor Form, Style Action transforms back into Kiva's Base Form at no cost. Doing so also refreshes damage scaling and the Guard Gauge.
Combos
Base Form
- 6HH > RC > 2LH > 5S
- 6HH > RC > 2LH > RA Followup
- Standard combo with one RC. It's usually best to save your meter for Emperor Form, but the Rider Art followup deals more damage.
- 2LH > Rider Finale
- Because this string crumples, it's an easy point to link Rider Finale.
Emperor Form
- 5LH > 6S
- 5HH > 6S
- 2LH > 6S
- Strings which link into 6S. It's easy to extend damage by using 5HHH as a combo filler, then RC and do one of these sequences. These strings can also link into Rider Finale if needed.
- 6HHHH > 6S
- 6LL > 6S
- These strings successfully combo into the first hit of 6S, but the second hit is tech-rollable. It's still safe on hit, so it's useful to know you can do this in a pinch.
- 6LL > jS
- 6LL > Rider Art Followup
- 6LL > Rider Finale
- 6LL crumples the opponent, allowing for easy followups. As noted above, 6S doesn't combo its second hit, so jS is the preferred meterless followup.
- 6LL > walk back > 2LH (second hit only) > 6S
- Advanced extension from 6LL's crumple. Requires quite a bit of space to walk backwards and intentionally whiff 2L.
- 5HHH > RC > 5HHH > RC > 5HHH > RC > 5HHH > Style Action (Base Form) > 6HH > RC > 2LLL > RC > 2LH > Climax Time > Rider Finale
- Touch of death combo from full resources. While this full combo might not be practical, it shows an example of how to use un-transform to extend damage.