Athodai

Tenno Weapons

Athodai
Statistics
Mastery	10
Slot	Secondary
Type	Pistol
Trigger Type	Auto Burst
Utility
Ammo Type	Pistol
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	5.0 rounds per sec
Accuracy	50
Magazine Size	24 rounds per mag
Max Ammo	48 rounds
Reload Time	2.0 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (1)
Normal Attacks
22.0
48.0
Total Damage	70.0 ( 69%)
Crit Chance	32%
Crit Multiplier	2.0x
Status Chance	8%
Charge
Total Damage	88
Crit Chance	18%
Crit Multiplier	2.0x
Status Chance	24%
Punch Through	2.0 m
Accuracy	100
Fire Rate	12.0 rounds per sec
Trigger Type	Auto Burst
Miscellaneous
Polarities
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 28.2.1

CODEX

Reverse-engineered from propulsion tech to pack a serious kick. Headshot kills trigger Overdrive, locking off secondary functions while maximizing your fire rate and ammo efficiency for a short time.

Athodai is a Tenno hand-cannon that shoots long-ranged laser beams, with an Alternate Fire function that discharges all ammo to burst-fire a short-ranged cone. Headshot kills with the primary fire increase the weapon's fire rate and grant unlimited ammo, but locks out the Alternate Fire.

Acquisition

• Athodai was acquired by watching TennoCon 2020 on WARFRAME's Twitch with a Twitch-linked account for 30 consecutive minutes, between 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, on August 1st, 2020. It comes with a free weapon slot and pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.
  • Due to thousands of players reporting missing Twitch drops, on August 6th, 2020 Athodai was distributed to all players if they were logged in to WARFRAME during TennoCon 2020, regardless if they watched the streams or not. This resulted in some players receiving two Athodai.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Heat damage.

Advantages:

• Innate Heat damage – effective against Cloned Flesh, Infested, and Infested Flesh.
• Primary Fire shoots fully automatic rounds.
  • High Puncture damage – effective against armor.
  • Tied with Plinx for the second highest critical chance of all secondaries, behind Akbolto Prime.
  • Headshot kills trigger the Overdrive buff, increasing the weapon's fire rate and granting unlimited ammo for 8 seconds.
• Alternate Fire shoots a cone of energy, ejecting all remaining ammunition in the magazine in a quick burst.
  • Good critical chance.
  • Very high status chance.
  • Pinpoint accuracy.
  • Innate 2 meter Punch Through.
  • Cone has a thickness of 2 meters.
• Innate  polarity.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Heat damage – less effective against Proto Shields.
• Primary Fire:
  • No Impact or Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
    • Damage cannot be increased with Impact or Slash mods.
  • Low status chance.
  • Relatively low fire rate.
  • Overdrive buff increases recoil and disables Alternate Fire for its duration, and cannot be refreshed.
• Alternate Fire:
  • Damage cannot be increased with Impact, Puncture or Slash mods.
  • Limited range of 12 meters.
  • Prevents zoom.
    • This prevents the buffs from  Hydraulic Crosshairs and  Sharpened Bullets from affecting this mode as a result.
• Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 2 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.

Notes

• Upon headshot kills, the pistol gets an 8-second Overdrive buff which grants increased fire rate and allows it to consume no ammo while firing, bypassing the need to reload, but increases recoil and disables the Alternate Fire feature.
  • No weak spots other than actual heads will trigger this effect.
  • Duration cannot be refreshed.
  • Overdrive takes precedence over  Arcane Pistoleer, preventing the Arcane from triggering.
• The Alternate Fire ejects all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst.
  • Because of this fact, increasing the magazine size of the weapon such as with  Slip Magazine and using recoil reduction mods like  Steady Hands can help to make its damage output more consistent and reliable.
  • Alternate Fire can be interrupted (preserving the ammunition left in the magazine) by rolling or quick melee.
  • Alternate Fire will not function under the effects of any infinite ammo buff (Overdrive, Arcane Pistoleer, Reactant Buff), instead firing a single round.

Tips

•  Hydraulic Crosshairs pairs well with the primary fire's Overdrive buff.

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Patch History

Update 29.0

• Updated Athodai’s description to indicate that “headshot KILLS trigger Overdrive”.

Update 28.3

• Fixed the Athodai Alt Fire only draining the Magazine down by 24 Ammo (the default) rather than drain the Magazine to 0 as intended when equipped with Magazine capacity increase Mods.