Kain Highwind/Other appearances

With Final Fantasy IV being one of the most respected titles in the series, Kain Highwind has made more than a dozen appearances across compilations, anthologies, and other works from Square Enix. The following is a list of Kain's many appearances.

Final Fantasy XIV
The Wind-up Kain minion can only be obtained by registering a Collectors Edition of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord
Kain's dark side appears as one of the monsters that can be summoned by Mira after being purchased as downloadable content. He takes on his appearance from The After Years. Kain is a melee summon with somewhat low attack; however, with his fast speed and cost of one slot on a tower floor, investing some NP to summon and max out the levels of an army of Kains makes for a very effective melee force.

Final Fantasy Legends II
Kain appears as a wind-elemental God-type summon.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy


Kain appears as a playable character. He is officially on the side of Cosmos, but works with Golbez to help the Warriors of Cosmos survive to the next cycle of war by attacking and defeating them before the Manikins do, as they will not be revived if beaten by the manikins. Kain defeats Bartz, Firion, and Zidane, and he is implied to beat most of the other original Warriors of Cosmos, before Tifa, whom he rescues from an encounter with Ultimecia, talks him into returning to the survivors and admitting what he's done. At this time, Kain accompanies them to the Lands of Discord, and the group sacrifices themselves to seal the portal the manikins are emerging from.

Kain's first alternate outfit, Noir Dragoon, is based on Dark Kain, giving him dark blue and red armor, while his second alternate outfit, Light Seeker, is his "Hooded Man" attire, a blue and white robe with a brown cape.

Tetsuya Nomura stated prior to the announcement of Dissidia 012 that Kain was considered as a candidate to appear in the original Dissidia, either as a secret character or the antagonist representing Final Fantasy IV. He was ultimately excluded, but Tetsuya Nomura has said he personally wanted Kain in the game and that Kain would be in a sequel to the game if one were made.

Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015)
Kain is a playable character for the Arcade system, as a representative of Final Fantasy IV. He is classed as a Speed-type character.

Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia
Kain is set to appear as a playable character.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy


Kain appears as an unlockable character, and is unlocked by collecting Navy Shards, from Dark Notes only.

Kain has the highest raw strength tied with Sephiroth, and possesses good agility which can be boosted further. Most of his abilities focus solely on power, so the player can safely prioritise Kain as a pure enemy crusher. As a downside, he lacks a Limit Break and his ability slots are limited.

Type: Strength Ability Slots: 3 (2 Reactive, 1 Proactive)


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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
Kain returns as an unlockable character, and is now unlocked by collecting Turquoise Crystal Shards.

He is an Offense oriented character. Kain receives his Limit Break from Dissidia 012, Dragoon's Pride, dealing damage in proportion to his Strength, Agility, and Level.


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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy All-Star Carnival


Kain returns as an unlockable character, and is now unlocked by collecting Light crystal shards.

His limit, Dragoon's Pride, functions the same as before, now dealing damage to boss type enemies in proportion to Strength and Agility only.

Type: Power Summon: Odin

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Kain appears as a Legend character. He uses Jump and Double Jump to assist the player. The spear Kain is depicted with in his Yoshitaka Amano artwork and in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy is available as a weapon. It was given away as a reward for leveling up Kain to Lv.99 during Part 2 of the Shattered Worlds FF Special Event as an SSR ranked weapon called the Wyvern Spear.


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Final Fantasy All the Bravest


Kain is an exclusive character only available from the Premium Character Shop as a random downloadable content, he uses the Blaze Jump during battle.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper


Kain is a standard character, also appearing as an early boss. He is automatically recruited as the First Time Reward for completing Mist Cave on the Classic difficulty track. He has also appeared in the Challenge Events The Burning Blade and A Summoner Grown, although many players may have received a Greater Growth Egg in his place. The only advantage to his recruitment in these events was a much earlier acquisition of his Memory Crystal.

Kain is an excellent starting warrior with good HP, Attack, and Defense stats throughout his progression, with the added bonus of a high Speed stat. This allows him to strike most foes before they can strike back. Although spears are his preferred arms, Kain can also wield swords to deal just as much damage to an enemy party.
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Kain can use Combat abilities up to rarity rank 5, Celerity abilities up to rarity rank 3, and Dragoon abilities up to rarity rank 5.
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His default Soul Break is Double Jump which at the expense of one Soul Gauge segment deals physical damage to a single target equal to 140% of a conventional attack. The spear Blood Lance (IV) allows Kain to use Lancet which at the expense of one Soul Gauge segment deals physical damage to a single target equal to 400% of a conventional attack and absorbs 50% of the damage dealt as HP.

Kain can equip the following weapon types: daggers, axes, and spears. The spear Blood Lance (IV) allows Kain to use Lancet.
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He can equip the follow armor types: shields, hats, helms, light armor, heavy armor, and bracers.

He can equip accessories.

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Kain appears as a vision obtainable through summoning. A 3-5★ Rare Summon, his job is listed as Dragoon and his role Physical Damage. Kain has no natural resistance to status ailments or elements. His Trust Master reward is the Gungnir spear, which has an Attack power of 90.

His awakening materials are the following:
 * 4★: Beast Meat x20, Esper Cryst x10, Litrock x8, Heaven's Ash x3, Sacred Crystal x3
 * 5★: Litrock x20, Heaven's Ash x10, Sacred Crystal x10, Fury Seed x5, Holy Crystal x5

Kain's stats at his highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:
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Depending on his rarity, Kain has two (3★), three (4★) or four (5★) ability slots. He has affinity to White Magic (Lvl 1-3).
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Two of Kain's abilities can be awakened: Dragon Dive and Dragoon Spirit.

Upon awakening, Dragon Dive will have its original damage power (2.1x) increased to (2.6x). Dragon Dive will further raise its power to (3.1x). It requires Power crysts as materials.

Upon awakening, Dragoon Spirit will increase the damage boost (120%) for his Jump-type attacks to 150%. Dragoon Spirit will have an added effect of increasing Kain's elemental resistance to Fire, Ice and Lightning by 20%. It requires Support crysts as materials.

Kain's Limit Burst is a damage-type ability. He deals physical damage to a single target. Depending on his rarity, he may deal seven (3★) or eleven (4-5★) hits to the enemy.
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Kain can equip the following weapon types: daggers, swords, katanas and spears.
 * Equipment

He can equip the following armor types: light shields, heavy shields, helms, clothes, light armor and heavy armor.

He can equip accessories.


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Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Many cards are depicted with Kain and are lightning-elemental.

Triple Triad
Kain appears on Triple Triad cards in the version available via Final Fantasy Portal App.

Lord of Vermilion
Kain appears as a card and summonable creature in Lord of Vermilion II, along with other characters from Final Fantasy IV as part of a special cross promotion.

Heavenstrike Rivals
Cain, which can be promoted to Dragoon Cain, are units and their ability is Jump.