Talk:Nova (Warframe)/@comment-10719468-20130720004830

Most enemies get knocked down once from jump attack and then are immune to a second jump attack but using Kogake means you have three different ways to knock down enemies: charge attack, jump attack, slide attack. I've tested plasma sword, hate, orthos, dual ethers, kestrel, glaive and kogake with Nova and out of all of those, kogake feels like it has the most utility. Nova has no skills that knock down or stun enemies, so melee is the only way to stop them from moving. M. Prime slows enemies down but won't stop them. So although I am confused about which melee weapon to use with her, so far it seems Kogake will be my choice.

I love my high damage Hate, I love my high damage Orthos, I love my high crit damage Plasma Sword, but all of those are focused on damage, jump attack is the only thing that knocks enemies down and even then it doesn't seem that useful because then they just become harder to hit, where as Kogake has a high damage finisher. Kestrel is hard to aim, I was planning to use it first before Kogake to throw enemies into portals but it isn't very practical since the portal is made within melee range of where you are and kestrel is a thrown melee which misses a lot at close range. Dual Ethers were only good for slide attacks for me, and I can do that with every weapon now so don't really need them, they look good still though. Glaive is pretty useless for me, Nova is already very ranged with all of her abilities, I don't need it. I've also played with gram before and reaper prime and dark sword.

If you have comments or suggestions as to what I should use for my Nova I would love to hear them, right now my  choices are pretty much narrowed down to Plasma Sword or Kogake, and maaaaaaybe Orthos or Hate.

If I use Hate though I'd have the full stalker weapon set on me, and that feels really unoriginal so I'm trying to avoid it.