MapleStory Hayato Skill Build Guide - Remastered 2026

Hayato is a MapleStory class that originated from the Japanese version of MapleStory. Wielding long Katana blades, Hayato slashes and dashes towards its enemies, making it a really fun and mobile class to play.

With the brand new Remastered version of Hayato releasing in 2026, Hayato's Link Skill becomes one of the best for end-game players.

• Hayato Overview
• Hayato First Job Skill Build
• Hayato Second Job Skill Build
• Hayato Third Job Skill Build
• Hayato Fourth Job Skill Build
• Hayato Hyper Skill Build
• Hayato Fifth Job Skill Build
• Hayato Sixth Job Skills
• Changelog

Hayato Overview

Hayato was given a brand new revamp for patch V266 The Sengoku Warrior Reawakening.

Hayato was first released in March 2013 in patch 131 in GMS, a month after the release of the other Sengoku class Kanna. They use two types of weapons: the Katana as their main weapon and the Kodachi for the sub weapon. Hayato excels at mobility, with plenty of damage-dealing teleport skills to zip you around large maps and wipe out enemies.

In terms of training Hayato, they are a really mobile and fun class to play. There are a lot of cooldown skills to manage, but you'll be focusing on keeping up your Akatsuki Samurai buff by using [Bottou] skills intermittently. When you reach 5th job, this doesn't really become an issue anymore.

As a bossing class, Hayato is a decent entry. With the new remastered version, Hayato now has damage skills that put it in the top tier of classes for MapleStory. They have an short cooldown i-frame skill called Reactive Focus, and a couple of 5th job skills also carry short i-frames when activated. 

Check our our MapleStory Training Guide to help find the fastest maps to level up your characters.

• Weapon: Katana
• Job: Warrior
• Class: Sengoku
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Kanna, Hayato
• Legion Block: Critical Damage (1%/2%/3%/5%/6%)
• Link Skill: Moonlit Blade Learnings (When Critical Rate > 100% and Critical Damage > 50%, Critical Damage: + 7%)
• Primary Stat: Str
• Inner Ability: 20% Boss Damage

Hayato First Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in first job. Follow this build:

• [Shinsoku] Mist Slash (+1), [Shinsoku] Grazing Cut (+1), Battoujutsu Dash (+2)
• Battoujutsu Dash (MAX)
• [Shinsoku] Mist Slash (MAX)
• [Shinsoku] Grazing Cut (MAX)
• Aoryu (MAX)

In first job, your main attacking skill is [Shinsoku] Mist Slash. You'll want to add points into Grazing Cut and then max out Battoujutsu Dash as that is your flash jump skill, allowing you to get around maps faster.

Aoryu gives you a massive damage boost that's passive. (+100% Final damage!) 

Skill Description & Overview

Hayato Second Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in second job. Follow this build:

• Mist Slash Mastery (+1), Indomitable Vanguard (+1), Identify Weakness (+1)
• Polished Form (+1), Mushin (2)
• Mushin (MAX)
• Akatsuki Samurai (+1), [Battou] Crossing Draw (+1), [Shinsoku] Countercurrent Slash (+1)
• Mist Slash Mastery (MAX)
• Identify Weakness (MAX)
• Indomitable Vanguard (MAX)
• Polished Form (MAX)
• [Battou] Crossing Draw (MAX)
• [Shinsoku] Countercurrent Slash (MAX)

Mist Slash Mastery increases your first job Mist Slash attacking skill to deal more damage and hit more enemies. 

You then get a plethora of useful skills that you'll want to put at least 1 point into to get their passive damage boosts: Indomitable Vanguard, Identify Weakness, Polished Form.

Mushin is your Attack Speed skill that you'll want to max early for faster training.

Next you get the Akatsuki Samurai mode, which is activated when you use a Battou skill (Crossing Draw for second job). You'll get final damage increase when in this mode.

Skill Description & Overview

Hayato Third Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in third job. Follow this build:

• Mist Slash Mastery II (+1), Hitokiri Hundred Strike Legacy (+1), Endless Rain (+1),
• [Shinsoku] Crescent Moon Cut (+1), [Battou] Dark Moon Cut (+1)
• Mist Slash Mastery II (MAX)
• Hitokiri Hundred Strike Legacy (MAX)
• Endless Rain (MAX)
• [Shinsoku] Crescent Moon Cut (MAX)
• [Battou] Dark Moon Cut (MAX)
• Warrior's Heart (MAX)
• Reactive Focus (MAX)

Upgrade Mist Slash once more with the new Mist Slash Mastery II skill for a bigger hitbox and increased damage.

Then add a point into your passive damage boosters: Hitokiri Hundred Strike Legacy, Endless Rain.

Crescent Moon Cut is decent cooldown attack skill and you get a new [Battou] Dark Moon Cut skill. You can now stay in Akatsuki State for longer by using both your [Battou] skills.

Warrior's Heart helps with MP Recovery and Reactive Focus is a skill you'll be using mostly in bossing.

Skill Description & Overview

Hayato Fourth Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in fourth job. Follow this build:

• Mist Slash Mastery III (+1), Noble Sword (+1), [Battou] Full Moon's Rage
• Cleaver (+1), , [Shinsoku] Afterimage Slash (+1), Mist Slash Mastery III (+1)
• Mist Slash Mastery III (MAX)
• Noble Sword (MAX)
• Cleaver (MAX)
• Akatsuki Warrior (MAX)
• [Battou] Full Moon's Rage (MAX)
• [Shinsoku] Afterimage Slash (MAX)
• Noto (MAX)
• Deflection (MAX)
• Steel Resolve (MAX)
• Akatsuki Will (MAX)

In fourth job, you get another upgrade to Mist Slash with Mist Slash Mastery III, once again increasing your hit box and damage range.

Add points into Noble Sword for the extra attack speed, a new [Battou] skill called Full Moon's Rage and get some extra damage from Cleaver.

[Shinsoku] Afterimage Slash allows you to go backwards and forwards through enemies, but it does have a 12 second cooldown.

Max out Akatsuki Warrior for your free +15% all stat boost as well as Cleaver, Noble Sword for passive damage.

Deflection, Steel Resolve and Akatsuki Will are all defensive skills which are more useful during bossing.

Hayato Hyper Skill Build

Hyper skills are available at level 140. You get Hyper Skill Points as you level towards 200, but not enough to max all the skills, so choose wisely. These skills mostly help increase the damage of your current skills.

• Shinsoku - Reinforce
• Shinsoku - Boss Rush
• Battou - Reinforce
• Battou - Boss Rush
• Reactive Focus - Cooldown Cutter
• [Shinsoku] Silent Arc
• Akatsuki Blessing
• Bushido

Hayato Fifth Job Skill Build

Upon reaching level 200, you will now have access to the V Matrix, which acts as your new fifth job skills. Each class gets their own skills to use, along with boosting nodes to increase the damage of existing skills. To obtain new skills, you open up items called Nodestones, which drop from every mob in Arcane River. You have limited number of slots in your V Matrix, so you want to obtain perfect nodes for maximize your character's damage.

Hayato's Nodes should include:

• Shogetsu Form
• [Shinsoku] Crashing Tide
• [Shinsoku] Light Cutter
• [Battou] Wailing Heavens
• Trinode: Mist Slash, Full Moon's Rage, Crescent Moon Cut/[Battou] Dark Moon Cut
• Trinode: Silent Arc, Afterimage Slash, Grazing Cut/[Shinsoku] Stormcloud Splitter

All Sengoku classes should try to also obtain these:

• Twilight Bloom
• Princess Sakuno's Blessing

Skill Description & Overview

Hayato Sixth Job Skills

Once you reach Level 260, you can then go on to do the 6th Job Advancement Quests!

Once completed, you will unlock the HEXA Matrix system, allowing you to gain new skills, upgrade existing 5th job skills and start earning the new Sol Erda Fragment currency used to upgrade your skills.

[Origin Skill] Every sixth job class gets a brand new "Origin" skill, which deals a significant amount of burst damage allowing you to wipe out mid-tier bosses in seconds. Getting your character to Level 260 gives you a significant damage boost even with your skill level at level 1. It's well worth grinding to level 260, so check out the MapleStory Training Guide for the best spots ot train.

[Ascent Skill] A new skill that each 6th job class gets.

[HEXA Skills] Each class also gets new Hexa skills (also known as Mastery skills), which upgraded existing 4th job skills with either more attack power, extra hits or other attributes.

[Boost Skills] Boost Skills are used to boost previous 5th job skills.

[Common Skill] Common skills are new 6th job skills that all classes get.

Hayato obtains the following new sixth Job skills:

• [Origin Skill] Shin Quick Draw
• [Ascent Skill] Fleeting Breath
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA [Shinsoku] Mist Slash
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA [Shinsoku] Afterimage Slash
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA [Shinsoku] Crescent Moon Cut
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA [Shinsoku] Silent Arc
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA [Battou] Dark Moon Cut
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA [Battou] Full Moon’s Rage
• [Common Skill] Sol Janus
• [Boost Skills] Shogetsu Form Boost
• [Boost Skills] [Shinsoku] Crashing Tide
• [Boost Skills] [Shinsoku] Light Cutter
• [Boost Skills] [Battou] Wailing Heavens

Changelog

13/02/2026 - Updated skills based on V266 - The Sengoku Warrior Reawakening

15/03/2021 - First update