Lancer

Lancers are the most basic and prevalent form of Grineer infantry. They wield Grakatas and occasionally throw plasma grenades. Although mostly inaccurate with their grenade throws, they can easily down a warframe caught in the blast. Their armor is blue-green in color.

Tactics

 * Lancers possess the most generic combat tactics performed in the game. Hit-and-run, Shoot-to-kill and Cover-and-Flank are the basis of these Lancers.
 * As of Update 12, Lancers blind-fire at their targets; (a) if ever their cover is half of their standing height, almost completely covering most of their weakspots, (b) if standing near a post or an end of a wall, they will rotate their weapons sideways, hiding most of their bodies until moving sideways reveal them.

Tips

 * Lancers can be difficult enemies for new players soloing. They are somewhat resilient due to their Ferrite Armor, and their Grakata fires fast as well as easily damaging Shields. All this put together means that when a squad of several Lancers come from an alarm, they can overwhelm the newest players. To deal more damage, based weapons and mods can be useful, as can aiming at the head. Playing slower, using cover, learning maneuvers, and interrupting enemies activating alarms can help, as can finding a squad.
 * They occasionally throw grenades, when hiding in cover there is an increased likelihood that they will throw one.
 * These grenades can do serious damage at higher levels, at their maximum level they can do up to 200 damage to shields with a direct hit.
 * Lancers will blindly fire their weapons from time to time when in cover, which is highly inaccurate, yet it is possible to exploit this if the player manages to shoot them while they expose their sides when shooting.

Trivia

 * Before Update 7.8 Lancers wielded Bratons.
 * On Halloween, only in Update 10.6.0, their heads were replaced by angry pumpkins with a glowing orange light inside, even though Tyl Regor claims that the Grineer have not celebrated Halloween in millennia.
 * During Winter, in Update 11.5, Lancers are donned with antlers as a celebration of the Christmas season.

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