Hazama is a captain of the Novus Orbis Librarium's Intelligence Department and one of the first antagonists of the series. In reality, he is an artificial human created as a host for Yuuki Terumi, a former member of the Six Heroes and the creator of the Azure Grimoire and, by extension, the Black Beast. At the end of Chrono Phantasma, he and Terumi become seperate, and he gains his own will. During the events of Central Fiction, he puts his manipulation skills he picked up from his time as Terumi's host in order to pursue his own mysterious agenda.
Drive: Ouroboros
Named after a snake that eats its own tail, Hazama's Drive is manifested as a stretching chain in the shape of a snake. He can cover many different angles and distances by shooting a Drive move. What's more is that, at any point during the chain's travel, Hazama can follow up by either retracting the chain (~A) or using the snake head as an anchor point to perform unique maneuvers (~B, ~C, or ~D). Most of the time, if the snake head hits the opponent, you can follow up by zipping in with ~D and linking an air normal to convert into a combo. However, there are certain distances (which differ for each Drive move) where the chain will cause minimal hit or block stun, so you must be careful not to try and hit your opponent with chains up close or in the particular chain's "dead zone".
Overdrive: Jörmungandr
When Hazama enters Overdrive, the limiter on his chains is released, eliminating the aforementioned "dead zone" and changing all D chains to become their far versions. He also gains a life-stealing ring that encompasses a large radius around him, meaning that anybody close to Hazama will have their health slowly leeched away. The life-steal ring does not persist while you are in hitstun (i.e., being combo'd).
Strengths/Weaknesses
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Weaknesses
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- Fast projectile that covers many angles
- Multiple movement options allowing for varied approaches
- Solid mix-up tools: command grabs, standing overheads and lows, safe-on-block normals
- Good, stable damage conversion that can be attained from most any hit
- Benefits immensely from his Overdrive, which steals life, turns one of his supers into a fully invincible reversal, and greatly augments his combo game
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- Most normals have a rather short range
- Needs to be in Overdrive to have access to wakeup reversals
- Gameplan is largely dependent on a resource that can be easy to deplete
- Highly immobile without said resource, having no real dash and rather short airdashes.
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