Hiro Kitazoe/Abilities

Kitazoe is a skilled Gunner, being a member of the B-Rank No. 2 Unit, formerly an A-Rank team, and above Master Class. He is one of the few Gunners who can score points by himself thanks to his high trion levels. His only weaknesses are his size, which makes him a big target, and his relatively low mobility. He boasts a very high range for a Gunner, which allows him to target distant opponents either in order to pick them off or to create chaos in their general area, drawing them out and making it easier for his teammates to score. However, he can also fight proficiently at mid-range, especially by providing cover fire for his captain. He was able to easily outgun Tatsuya Kuruma in a mid-range confrontation, although the tides turned when the latter switched to Full Attack.

Kitazoe is proficient at multi-tasking, and was seen giving directions to Ema and Nire while assisting Kageura in combat. When fighting as a support he always has an eye on his captain to defend him promptly. Kitazoe was praised for his quick-thinking by Inukai, and in fact he proved himself capable of influencing whole battles right until the moment of his defeat: right before Ninomiya forced him to bail out, Kitazoe disrupted a fighting flow that was unfavorable for his captain and allowed him to score, while on another occasion he blew himself up right after suffering a lethal blow to take his assailant with him as well as to create an escape route for Kageura.

Aside from his skills with Triggers, Kitazoe's flesh and blood body makes him one of the two physically strongest Border members, the other being Reiji Kizaki. Despite his constitution, he was also noted to be a good runner as well as a capable dancer.