This article is about a weapon/transformation device in Kamen Rider Build. |
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The Transformation Smoke Pistol Transteam Gun (変身煙銃トランスチームガン, Henshin Enjū Toransuchīmu Gan) is the personal weapon and transformation device of Night Rogue and Blood Stalk. It is also the personal weapon of Kamen Rider Evol. It combines with the Steam Blade to form the Steam Rifle (スチームライフル, Suchīmu Raifuru).
It is a simplified version of Kaisei Mogami's Nebulasteam Gun created by Takumi Katsuragi, who worked as Kaisei's assistant. It operates solely on Nebula Gas, rather than the original's combination of Nebula Gas and Bugster Virus[1].
Unlike the Rider System (Build Driver), the Transteam Gun (represented as Transteam System (トランスチームシステム, Toransuchīmu Shisutemu)) does not increase the user's Hazard Level (which when raised, can increase the power of the user). Hence, Transteam system users rely solely on their own skill, ability, and experience in fights.
The schematics for the Transteam Gun and its abilities are detailed in the 2nd file of Project Build.
Functionality
Transformation
Fullbottles are loaded into the Transteam Gun to transform. Night Rogue uses the Bat Fullbottle to transform, and Blood Stalk uses the Cobra Fullbottle. The transformation command is "Jouketsu" (蒸血 lit. Blood Steam). According to Gentoku Himuro, to use the Transteam Gun, the user needs to raise their Hazard Level first to a suitably high level, albeit not as high as the Build Driver requirement. [Night Rogue Chapter]
Users (chronological order)
User | Transformation | Episode Obtained | Description |
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Gentoku Himuro | Prologue: NIGHT ROGUE RISES | The first Transteam Gun. Was created by Faust scientists along with Bat Fullbottle, placed in a glass case. When Gentoku announced the founding of Faust, he smashed the case and took the Transteam Gun and Fullbottle to transform, christening himself Night Rogue.
He continued using it for 3 years, but lost it when it was presumably taken by Namba Heavy Industries Ltd. after his exile from Touto and given to Utsumi. | |
Evolto/Soichi Isurugi | Pre-series | The second Transteam Gun. Evolto had already been in possession of one for an unknown period of time by the start of the series. | |
Nariaki Utsumi | Theory of Conspiracy (briefly) Kamen Rider Build: Raising the Hazard Level ~7 Best Matches~: First Chapter |
Utsumi originally transformed into Night Rogue to act as Gentoku's decoy in order to keep his identity a secret, with the Transteam Gun being returned to its owner afterword.
Later, he would take Gentoku's Transteam Gun and transform into Night Rogue several more times in order to collect data on Sento. |
Finisher
The Transtream Gun has 2 finishers: the Steam Break (スチームブレイク, Suchīmu Bureiku) with the Bat Fullbottle or Cobra Fullbottle/Evolbottle and the Steam Attack (スチームアタック, Suchīmu Atakku) with any other Fullbottle.
When combined with the Steam Blade to form the Steam Rifle, its finishers are the Steam Shot (スチームショット, Suchīmu Shotto) with the Bat Fullbottle or Cobra Fullbottle/Evolbottle and the Steam Attack with any other Fullbottle.
- Cobra: Blood Stalk shoots a purple cobra energy blast that detonates upon impact.
- Steam Rifle
- Rocket: Blood Stalk shoots a powerful blast attack that takes the form of a rocket. The rocket flies around the enemy before coming to the ground for an explosion.
- Rabbit Evolbottle: Evol runs extremely fast in a circle around the enemy and fires at them with the Steam Rifle.
- Bat: Night Rogue shoots a steam bullet at the enemy.
- Cobra: Blood Stalk shoots a purple cobra energy blast that detonates upon impact.
- Cobra (Evolbottle)
- Elek Steam: Evol shoots a red and blue homing shot coated in electricity
Notes
- Being a transformation device that also doubles as a gun, it is similar to the Drake Grip, Diendriver, Break Gunner and Lupin Gunner.
- Particular aspects make it closer to the Break Gunner, as it was designed to transform into a Rider-like form as opposed to the other aforementioned devices, and could use the collectible devices used by protagonists and antagonists of the series.
- The transformation call, Mist Match, could be a pun on the words mist and mismatch.
- This is the first transformation device to be used by the series antagonists, capable of combining with a sidearm for more powerful attacks, and make use of the series collectible to augment its power.
- The closest comparison can be seen in Kamen Rider Chalice (being a series antagonist only by nature), when the Chalice Rouzer (the Rider's personal weapon) was inserted into the Chalice Arrow (the main weapon for the template of said Rider).
Appearances
- Kamen Rider Build
- ROGUE
- Episode 1: That One with the Best Match
- Episode 2: The Innocent Runaway
- Episode 3: Borderline of Justice
- Episode 4: The Testimony Will Be Zero
- Episode 5: Dangerous Identity
- Episode 6: Moonsault of Anger
- Episode 7: The Devil's Scientist
- Transformation Lessons ~The Laws Of Transformation Are Set!~ "Night Rogue Chapter"
- Episode 8: Memory Starts To Talk
- Episode 9: The Trap of Project Build
- Episode 10: Technology of Destruction
- Episode 11: Burning Dragon
- Episode 12: Theory of Conspiracy
- Episode 13: Who Takes Off The Veil?
- Episode 14: The False Kamen Rider
- Episode 20: The Devil's Trigger
- Episode 21: The Unstoppable Hazard
- Kamen Rider Build: Raising the Hazard Level ~7 Best Matches~
- Episode 24: A Man Called Rogue
- Episode 29: The Opening Bell Rings
- Episode 30: The Truth of the Pandora Box
- Episode 31: Surging Magma!
- Episode 32: Programmed Tragedy
- Episode 33: The Final Weapon: Evol
- Episode 34: The Severing Best Match
- Episode 35: Tower of Destruction
- Episode 39: The Unstoppable Genius
- Episode 42: Legacy of Doubt