Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Best Gaichu Build

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Your core team of shadowrunners seems to have all the bases covered when it comes to combat in Shadowrun: Hong Kong. You have a gunner in Duncan, a hacker in Is0bel, a summoner in Gobbet, and even a master of Drones in Racter - but what's missing?

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An incredibly powerful melee warrior with the discipline of a samurai and the biological warfare of a ghoul, that's what's missing. Enter Gaichu, an optional character you can pick up extremely early in the game. He's a Red Samurai infected with the Human-Metahuman Vampiric Virus, which turned him into a ghoul - a being that must subsist on metahuman flesh to survive.

You can recruit Gaichu by sparing him at the end of the Outsider mission, which is accessible as soon as you have the ability to choose your own jobs.

As with the other members of your team, you'll get to choose what skills Gaichu acquired whenever he levels up, which will happen after every two shadowruns you complete. Gaichu's upgrades are split between improving the skills he acquired as a Red Samurai and embracing the body he has as a ghoul.

As you can tell from the skill descriptions, Gaichu's Ghoul skills are focused on dealing out pain to enemies, while the Red Samurai skills are generally a bit more defensive in nature. Either way, some of these upgrades make for difficult decisions.

If you have the spare cash, consider heading to Spider Shen's shop and purchasing a new, stronger sword for Gaichu. He'll happily take such a weapon off your hands and this can make him an even better combatant. If you don't want to shell out the cash, however, consider killing the Preternatural Mummy who accosts you at the end of The Dig mission - you'll get the Emperor's