Alad V

Salad V is a Corpus boss who resides on Jupiter (replacing J3-Golem). He is accompanied by a robotic pet/guardian, Zanuka, which he built from Warframe parts that he gathered.

Upon completion of his assassination mission, player will receive either the Valkyr Chassis, Valkyr Helmet, or Valkyr Systems.

Salad V
Salad himself appears as a man in a metallic blue robe, with a disc-shaped controller around his neck which powers Zanuka.

He has no offensive capabilities, and will simply attempt to run around the arena and stay away from the Tenno while Zanuka does the dirty work. He does however have a few defensive capabilities to help himself survive.


 * Electric Shield: Akin to Volt's power, he can summon a white energy shield to block bullets from afar.
 * Flame Pulse: When close enough to Salad, he will summon an AoE fire burst around himself to knock the Tenno away. It has little to no recharge time, meaning attempts to do close quarters attacks are futile and can always be defended against. The pulse does not seem to be avoidable by jumping.
 * Blinding Beam: A lightning bolt strikes from his hand and connects to a target Tenno. After a second, the target will be blinded for a few seconds as the entire screen flashes white.

Zanuka
Zanuka appears as a cyan armored robotic canine. It is highly aggressive and agile, capable of doing dodge rolls and jumping around terrain. It will continuously chase the Tenno while launching attacks. Aside from the basic claw strikes, it has several ranged abilities.


 * Missile strike: Launches several guided missiles, doing moderate damage. Due to their powerful guiding capabilities, the most reliable way to dodge them is still to hide behind cover.
 * Frost bomb: Launches a gray spheric bomb that explodes in a small AoE, applying Cold and slowing down any Tenno within the explosive radius temporarily.
 * Dispel bomb: Uses when a Tenno has deployed a self-buff such as Iron Skin. The bomb acts similar to the Frost bomb, but dispels active abilities on hit. Unlike the Stalker's Dispel, this one will not stagger the victim. It also affects Shade's cloak as well.

Quotes
Salad V has many quotes, more so than any other bosses. a full list can be found on the link above.

Strategy
Unlike with most other bosses, enemies will continuously spawn within the arena throughout the fight. However, the arena tends to start without any enemies waiting within.

Shielded phase
Zanuka possesses a nigh invulnerable shield, which can only be disabled after Alad's shields have been destroyed. During this phase, simply keep running away from Zanuka and attempt to damage Alad from a distance, as his Flame Pulse will keep close combatants at bay.

Similar to Jackal, Zanuka's shields are not actually invulnerable, and are simply extremely high and have severe damage reduction. It is possible to brute force your way through it with high-end gear, like the Brakk.

It is also suggested to bring a Mag with Shield Polarize to drain shields out of Alad V and Zanuka. Correctly modded, it will be able to instantly destroy Zanuka or kill Alad, or even both in the process (due to their high shields).

Health phase
After Salad's shields have been removed, Zanuka's shields will be disabled, allowing both to be damaged. However, Salad will never die until Zanuka is destroyed. In the event that the player continues to chase Alad and take his health down to zero, he will fall over into a Downed state, and Zanuka will rush to his aid and revive him. Upon revival, Salad's shields will be semi-recovered, meaning Zanuka will be invulnerable once more and the shielded phase has to be repeated.

As such, while Zanuka becomes an easy target when attempting to rescue Salad, it may actually be easier to ignore Salad after his shields have been disabled and attack Zanuka until it is destroyed, then finish off Alad at your leisure.

Though Zanuka is agile, most players will still be faster than it by a significant margin, making outrunning it the best strategy. As the Bombs Zanuka deploys are purely for support, the only real threat it possesses are guided missiles, which can be tanked with moderate shields. Simply kite until it goes down or disable it with control skills like vauban's bastile.

Lore
Salad V was introduced during The Gradivus Dilemma. The Corpus and Grineer fought a week long battle in which players could choose a side to fight for. The Grineer led by General Sargas Ruk won and the Corpus withdrew their support of Salad V's plans of gathering Tenno Cryopods. Salad V continued his experiments on Jupiter and used the Infested to stop any forces that tried to stop him. Frohd Bek contacted the Tenno to make a deal: if the Tenno destroyed the Infested then Bek would reveal Alad V's location on Jupiter. This message from Bek started The Hunt For alad V event in which the Tenno fought alongside the Corpus to defeat the Infested and in doing so revealed the Corpus Gas City tileset on Jupiter.

Trivia

 * After defeating Salad V, Lotus responds by saying the J3-Golem defeat quote rather than the Salad V defeat quote. This could be caused by the fact that before Alad V was in the game the J3-Golem occupied his place in Jupiter as its boss.
 * It is said in Livestream 16 that Salad V hates Lotus (It is not surprising as all factions are hostile towards the Tenno and Lotus).
 * He is most likely an important Corpus character, if not their leader, then one of their most important commanders. Lore entries about the Fomorian and Arid Fear operations are signed by him, reason to believe he was responsible for these operations, either being the one ordering them or the supervising commander. In the lore entries written by his name is "Grineer relations" which could imply that is his role within the Corpus ranks. That is of course before Frohd Behk used the Tenno to overthrow him and take his position within the Corpus board.
 * Favors diplomacy and bribing over fighting, using his skills in linguistics to gain profits and defeat opponents, and uses his robotic pet as a primary means of fighting when the need arises (from Livestream 14).
 * His diplomacy skills seem to be sorely lacking, as evidenced from most interactions with even the Tenno that sided with Corpus in the Gradivus Dilemma event. Boasting about what he will do to captured Tenno cryopods, saying Tenno have no eyes for unknown reasons, and also talking about how much pains him to give rewards to Tenno that supported his cause.
 * As of The Gradivus Dilemma, he started working on a weapon project of some kind, which he mysteriously called the Zanuka Project. It turns out that the project is his robotic pet, after its name was revealed.
 * Alad V believes the Tenno do not have eyes. This could be a reason to the Zanuka Project, as Salad V has minimal knowledge about the nature of the Tenno and wishes to do research, not even knowing that the Tenno are inside their Warframes and not actually the Warframe itself.
 * This might also hint at the relationship between the Tenno and their Warframes.
 * This might also actually be an insult, having "no eyes" may mean not "seeing" the scheme of things. This could relate to the Tenno being the "Betrayers" for not embracing Orokin technology, as the Corpus do.
 * Despite the animosity between the Corpus and the Tenno, Salad V still treats them like potential business partners, as evidenced by his dialogue in the Gradivus Dilemma.
 * The fan base considers his slogan to be "Profit numbs the feeling."
 * He has created a forum account on the warframe forums to argue with General Sargas Ruk:
 * Aladvprofit.png
 * A leaked trailer was released in the forums as the showcase for the PS4. Though the original trailer  was released a short time after.
 * In the PS4 trailer, the letters on Alad V's neck piece translate to "ALADV GREG"
 * When downed will refer to Zanuka as a female.
 * The following depicted abilities on the "Profit" trailer are known to be false and do not definitely apply on Zanuka's actual attacks: Antimatter Drop on its first attack, non-stasis Rhino Stomp on its second and Dispel on its last ability use before its destruction.
 * It seems that Salad V is being replaced by Darvo, as the new chairman of the Corpus Board, the main aristocratic leadership on Corpus politics. His ranking was known on the Profit trailer as he makes a transaction among his fellow Corpus leadership through the Zanuka Project, although, this has changed as one of the chairmen from the board called Salad V an impeachment, specifically Frohd Bek, who is the actual father of Darvo, which resulted in The Hunt For Alad V. Exiled, his seat from the board is, thus, left empty.

Bugs

 * Zanuka has been known to disappear while being kited through the ducts leading up to the arena. When this occurs, Salad V is vulnerable to being killed.
 * Sometimes when downed, Zanuka will revive him, but he gets stuck in a shield and cannot be damaged except using slam attack of melee weapons.
 * Sometimes when Salad V is downed, Zanuka will revive him, but he will get stuck inside of walls and/or the floor and take no damage regardless of attacks.
 * If Zanuka is pushed out of the map, defeating Alad V will not be possible. It seems that Zanuka is still alive beneath the map if you push her off (tested with Soul Punch and Kestrel). Zanuka eventually appears near Alad V and revives him.
 * There's a chance that the blind effect employed by Alad V can get stuck on a character, this bug is fixed via revival.
 * Zanuka can be locked down for an infinite duration (or until it dies) with Trinity's Well Of Life. Energy Vampire can then be used to cause damage to Zanuka while also replenishing the energy of Warframes close by.