Aquablades

	3 75	Aquablades Tear through foes with a trio of orbiting aquatic blades. Introduced in Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)	Strength:350 / 450 / 600 / 750 ( Slash damage)
			Duration:25 / 30 / 35 / 45 s
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 3 (number of blades) 5 m (radius) 3 (hits per interval) 0.5 s (interval time) 0.5 s (attack cooldown) 100 % ( Slash status chance)  Stagger on hit
			Subsumable to Helminth

• Info
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks

Info

• Yareli expends 75 energy to twirl out a swirling whirlwind of 3 razor-sharp Aquablades that form a protective ring around her for 25 / 30 / 35 / 45 seconds. Aquablades rapidly revolve clockwise around Yareli, striking all enemies within a radius of 5 meters in an interval of 3 consecutive hits within 0.5 seconds; enemies that receive all three hits are immune to further hits from Aquablades for 0.5 seconds. Each hit inflicts 350 / 450 / 600 / 750  Slash damage with a 100% Status Chance and  Stagger.
  • At max ability rank, if an enemy receives a trio of hits by Aquablades, it receives a total of 2,250  Slash damage with 3  Slash procs on individual timers dealing a total of 4,725 Cinematic damage over the course of 6 seconds.
  • Aquablades do not require line-of-sight between Yareli and enemies in range. The ring of blades phases through all terrain obstacles.
  • Aquablades' ring of blades affects enemies within its radius except the epicenter where Yareli stands, leaving roughly a small 0.5 to 1 meter gap. The ability area-of-effect is an invisible donut-shaped cylinder roughly the same height as Yareli herself.
  • Aquablades damage and break destructible Objects such as crates and resource caches.
• Ability Synergy:
  •  Sea Snares prevent snared enemies struck by Aquablades from being staggered away, allowing the blades to strike rapidly stacking multiple  Slash status effects.
  • Yareli casts Aquablades without stopping her movement while aboard  Merulina.
  • Aquablades can damage and bleed enemies drawn near Yareli by  Riptide.
• In Landscapes, deploying and riding an Archwing or a K-Drive while Aquablades is active will retain the spinning blades and will keep dealing Slash damage and stunning enemies.
  • This is also true when casting Aquablades before getting off a Railjack to fly via Archwing, giving an additional damaging source while engaging enemy craft in melee.
• Cannot be recast while active.
• Casting Aquablades is a full-body animation that stops Yareli's grounded movement and other actions.
• Aquablades is dispelled only if Yareli herself enters an ability nullifying sphere from special enemies, such as the Nullifier Crewman. Aquablades that physically enter the sphere are unaffected.
• Yareli visually clasps both her hands together toward the left, then slides her right arm away in a swift slicing motion, as her left leg lifts briefly for balance. Void-laced water and bubbles splash outward as the blades fade into existence inside a liquid current that forms around Yareli.
  • Aquablades visually resemble three glaive rings stylized with a wave-like design, each suspending in the outer orbit a thin slice of dense water shaped like sawblades. The blades surge and cycle through a circular liquid current laced with Void energy.
  • Aquablades and their Void energy are affected by Yareli's chosen Appearance colors.
  • While active, a continuous water surging sound effect with intermittent soft feminine humming tune plays on loop.
• Enemies successfully struck by Aquablades emit a splash of liquid globs and a water cutting sound effect for each hit.
• Subsuming Yareli to the Helminth will offer Aquablades and its augments to be used by other Warframes.

Augment

Main article: Surging Blades

Surging Blades is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Yareli's  Aquablades that allows her to recast the ability while active to throw a single piercing blade dealing damage and a guaranteed  Slash status effect in a small radius. The bubble's damage accumulates when any Aquablade directly hits an enemy.

Surging Blades

Tips & Tricks

• • Aquablades is a good option to infuse into Warframes using  Narrow Minded to greatly prolong self-buffs (such as with  Saryn's  Toxic Lash or  Gara's  Splinter Storm) and preferring a melee-centric play style, both because the blades can keep enemies staggered and thus open to Finishers, and because the blades' effective range is unaffected by the Ability Range penalty.
    • Infusing Aquablades into  Titania also allows her to make short work of low level enemies as she simply flies by them in  Razorwing mode.
  • Activate Aquablades before riding an Archwing or a K-Drive to make the riding Warframe deadly against enemies that get too close.
  • When using  Surging Blades, Duration-based builds allow the player to stack much more damage on Aquablades in its entire extended duration.
    • Yareli benefits even further from this build, as riding  Merulina allows her to spam thrown blades at no energy cost, racking up damage for free in the process. She can even forego of Efficiency builds and instead build on Ability Strength (such as by equipping  Blind Rage) to further amplify her blades.

See Also

•  Yareli