Hosts

Hosts
A list of a majority of Hosts, including some secret ones. From the upper left corner to the right, they are: Invader, Prophet, Witness, Artisan, Drifter, Vestige, Dreamer, Visitor, Subject and Hot Rash.

Hosts are the characters that you are able to play as in HOURS. They can each be obtained by clearing their unlock conditions. There are currently fifteen hosts in the game, with six hosts obtained through special methods. Each host has a variety of abilities that differentiate each other, and they each synergize well with certain Tempos.

Basic Hosts

• Invader - Promotes a fast-paced, weaving melee combat with good DPS but little burst damage options and healing that requires you to get in close.
• Prophet - Promotes thinking ahead and outsmarting your enemies to land very slow but heavy-hitting attacks, which can be difficult to land against fast enemies.
• Witness - Promotes a variety of play styles with an abundance of obtainable abilities. Starts with an ability that grants shields rather than heals, which can be off-putting.
• Artisan - Promotes strategy with building placement and parrying, though lacking in personal combat ability and heals that can go to full health.
• Vestige - Promotes keeping your distance with long-ranged attacks that can be hard to aim, as well as unreliable healing.
• Visitor - Promotes a tanky play style that can deal massive damage in the right position, but has one of the slowest speeds in the game.
• Subject - Truly a jack of all trades thanks to its ability to brew potions, but for that same reason is hard to use well due to the memorization required.
• Parting - Promotes fast paced risk-reward based game play because of a unique gimmick with its stand, Easy Lover. Plays similarly to the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fighting game, Eyes of Heaven.

Achievement/Other Hosts

• Equinox - Very similar to the boss, Equinox, as a playable character. Promotes gameplay similar to the Invader, though with more emphasis on tanking attacks whilst attacking, thanks to its inability to be staggered and its fast and similar moves that also inflict life steal.
• Bloxxer - Very similar to the boss, Bloxxerman, as a playable character. Another great example of a tank. Boasts powerful ranged moves while being super slow. This host has 75 health, less than the typical 100 most others have so it’s recommended to try and conserve that, but if you want, you can still be a tank.
• Drifter - Very similar to the boss, Ronin Alpha, as a playable character. Promotes gameplay similar to the Invader and Artisan combined, with its fast paced moves and his ability to parry attacks.
• Dreamer - Promotes a glass cannon play style with limited resources, much lower health, and a passive that naturaly reduces its health and increases enemy health but one of the highest damage outputs in the game and an overwhelmingly powerful moveset. Requires Hands of Time.
• Hot Rash - A bit more than just the enemy, Hot Rash, as a playable character. Promotes a balanced gameplay with offensive moves, defensive moves, and now, a ranged move in the form of dual AK-47’s.
• Hellion - A bit more than just the enemy, Fiend Rider, as a playable character. Promotes gameplay similar to the Dreamer, with its low health pool and high damage output, making it another glass cannon, though with more of an emphasis on evasion with 3 evasive moves.
• Buffoon - A buffed version of the enemy Astral Hermit, with homing projectiles. Promotes variety, as most upgrades allows the player to "tap into" one of the skills of an enemy, usually along with an additional benefit.

Gallery

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A remake of the Host's icons (Made by Yoshi The Alex#2385)

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All HOST In the Actual Game

Trivia

• All Hosts have 7-letter names. Hot Rash is the only Host with a space in his name, therefore making him technically have a 8-character name.
• Equinox and Bloxxer are the only hosts with no true name. They use their boss counterparts' names instead.
• All hosts are supposedly right handed, except for Subject.
  • The dual-wielding hosts, Equinox and Invader, don't have a currently known dominant hand.

• All but one of the hosts' symbols have symmetrical balance, meaning if the picture is cut in half, the two halves would look the same, except flipped. Only Vestige's symbol doesn't have symmetrical balance.

• Bloxxer's true name description is a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood, being similar to what Dio says after stealing Erina’s first kiss.