Kikai Ouja

Kikai Ouja monsters is the second sub-archetype of the Kikai archetype. Compared to the Kikai Ouhi, kikai Ouja monsters focus on overwhelming with strength than numbers.

Kikai Ouja means Machine King in Japanese.

Play Style
The play style of Kikai Ouja monsters tends to be more brute force over swarming. The have effects like Union monsters which means they can equip to other Kikai monsters to the equipped monster gains additional effects. The can revive themselves from the Graveyard and equip to a face-up Kikai monster by removing a face-up Kikai monster. So, if you control 2 or more Kikai monsters, Kikai Ouja monsters enable the removal of monsters to activate more combos. You can uneqiup a Kikai Ouja monster but they will be Special Summoned into face-up defense position instead of attack position like a Union monster.

The have adequate ATK stats but nearly bad DEF which is the exact opposite for the Kikai Ouhi. They are not considered to be Union monsters even though they have similar functions. This is helpful because you can equip 1 Kikai monster with more than 1 Kikai Ouja monster.