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.

Tutorial version of Lancers exists, you will only encounter them in the tutorial level. The differences between the two versions of Lancers are that they use Latos instead of Grakatas, do a non-interrupting swat instead of tackle (in melee range) and don't throw plasma grenades.

Tips

 * Their tendency of throwing grenades is occasional. When hiding in covers, their likeliness to throw grenades is more expected.
 * These grenades can do serious damage at higher levels. At their maximum level, they can rip shields up to 200 at direct contacts.
 * When going on a mission with a sentinel, avoid plasma grenades as much as possible. Though the AoE may not damage the player when trenching (hiding in enviroments), it will frequently, heavily damage the sentinels due to nature of flight.

Bugs

 * If a Grineer Lancer is ragdolled by any source, observant players can hear the Lancer reload. This resets his Grakata burst count.
 * (Normal) He usually reloads after every set of bursts while standing.

Trivia

 * The Grineer Lancer has the most lines in the entire Grineer faction.
 * 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 millenia.
 * The grenades appear to have a cylindrical design, similar to those of human-made hand grenades of its old modern days.
 * Before Update 11, regular Lancers on the Grineer Settlement tileset was impossible, due to the level of every map being higher than 21, which were commonly replaced by Elite Lancers.
 * Ever since Update 11, these arid Lancers can now be seen and scan for the Codex, with levels as low as 14.
 * During Winter, in Update 11.5, Lancers are donned with antlers as a celebration of the Christmas season.