Hayato Class Guide

Banner for maplestory hayato class. male warrior class with red hair and red eyes. samurai style armor with katana.


Overview

Hayato is a warrior class that specializes in using katana weapons to deal fast, powerful attacks.

Hayato’s main focus is on using his katana to perform quick, powerful attacks. He is able to use a variety of different katana skills, including sweeping attacks, and teleportation moves. Hayato can also charge up his katana to unleash powerful attacks that deal massive damage to his

Basics

Race Sengoku

Job Warrior

Class Hayato

Primary STAT – STR

Primary Weapon – Katana

Sub Weapon – Kodachi

Maplestory hayato class, male with samurai armor and katana.

sTRENGTHS & wEAKNESSES

ProsCons
High mobility: Hayato possesses excellent mobilitySkill cooldowns: Some of Hayato’s powerful skills have long cooldowns
Versatile playstyle: Hayato can switch between two combat stances, the Sword stance and the Katana stance, providing flexibility in gameplayComplexity: Hayato has a unique gameplay style with a variety of skills and combos, which may require more practice and understanding to fully master
Strong mobbing capabilities: Hayato has multiple area-of-effect skillsLack of party utility: Hayato’s utility in party play is relatively limited compared to some other classes
Good survivability: Hayato has a balanced amount of HP and defensive skills

Difficulty

ATTACK
DEFENSE
MOBILITY
DIFFICULTY

inner ability

Line 1Boss Damage +20%
Line 2Crit Rate +20%
Line 3+8% Damage when attacking targets with abnormal status

Hyper Skill

Hitokiri Strike – Cooldown Cutter

Hitokiri Strike’s cooldown is reduced

Hitokiri Strike – Persist

Increases the buff duration of Hitokiri Strike

Shinsoku – Boss Rush

Shinsoku Boss ATT is increased

Shinsoku – Extra Strike

Increases the number of attacks with Shinsoku

Shinsoku – Reinforce

Increases the damage for Shinsoku

Nodes

Trio Nodes should always be leveled first when possible as these provide the biggest damage boost.

Tri-NodesSkillSkillSkill
Primary Trio
Shinsoku

Hitokiri Hundred Strike

Rai Blade Flash
Secondary Trio
Falcons Honor

Rai Sanrenzan

Any Skill

NODE PRIORITY : CLASS SPECIFIC SKILLS

These Node Skills are 5th Job skills specific to the Hayato class. Priority is based on recommended order of skills to level first in order to maximize damage.

First SkillSecond SkillThird SkillFourth Skill

Iaijutsu Phantom Blade

Instant Slice

Battoujutsu Ultimate Will-God of Blades

Battoujutsu Zankou