Athodai

Tenno Weapons

Athodai
Tradable (parts and/or blueprint only)
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General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery Rank Requirement	10
Max Rank	30
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Auto
Utility
Ammo Max	48
Ammo Pickup	40
Ammo Type	Secondary
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.05x)
Fire Rate	5.00 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	24
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Spread	2.00° (1.00° min, 3.00° max)
Normal Attack
22 ( 31.43%)
48 ( 68.57%)
Total Damage	70 (68.57%  Heat)
Accuracy	Very High
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	32.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	5.00 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (70.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	300.0 m
Spread	2.00° (1.00° min, 3.00° max)
Status Chance	8.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Auto
Alt-Fire
88 ( 100%)
Total Damage	88 (100.00%  Heat)
Accuracy	Very High
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	18.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	12.00 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (88.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	2.0 m
Range	13.0 m
Spread	0.00° (0.00° min, 0.00° max)
Status Chance	24.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Burst
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	TNJETTURBINEPISTOL
Default Upgrades	TnTurbineInnateMod
Riven Family	Athodai
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Hotfix 28.2.1 (2020-08-01)
Polarities
Sell Price	2,500
Variants	Athodai
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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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 in a short-ranged cone. Headshot kills with the primary fire increase the weapon's fire rate and grant infinite ammo, but locks out the Alternate Fire.

Characteristics

• This weapon deals primarily  Heat damage.
• Primary Fire shoots fully automatic rounds.
  • Headshot kills with primary fire trigger the Overdrive buff, increasing fire rate by +100%, Recoil by +100% and Ammo Efficiency by +100% for 8 seconds.
    • Overdrive buff disables Alternate Fire for its duration, and cannot be refreshed.
    • Fire Rate and Recoil bonuses are additive to mods.
• Alternate Fire shoots a cone of energy, ejecting all remaining ammunition in the magazine in a quick burst.
  • Pinpoint accuracy.
  • Innate 2 meter Punch Through.
  • Cone has a thickness of 2 meters.
  • Prevents zoom.
    • This prevents the buffs from  Hydraulic Crosshairs and  Sharpened Bullets from affecting this mode as a result.
• Innate polarity.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Primary Fire tied with  Plinx for the fourth highest critical chance of all secondaries, behind  Akbolto Prime,  Knell Prime and a fully charged  Epitaph.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very high crit chance (32.00%)
  • Above average magazine (24)
• Alt-Fire (wiki attack index 2)
  • High magazine (24)
  • Very high fire rate (12.00 attacks/sec)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Alternate Fire has a limited range of 12 meters.
• Alternate Fire consumes 1 ammo per damage tick instead of 0.5, unlike most other continuous weapons.
• Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 2 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
  • Low ammo max (48)
  • Very low status chance (8.00%)
  • Low disposition (●●●○○ (1.05x))
• Alt-Fire (wiki attack index 2)
  • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
  • Below average total damage (88)
  • Low ammo max (48)
  • Low disposition (●●●○○ (1.05x))

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

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.

Athodai's blueprint and components are now available in Venus Proxima Abandoned Derelict Caches in Empyrean missions. All parts can be traded between players.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Blueprint	Venus Proxima Point of Interest / B	6.45%	~ 15 B Caches	103 ± 34 B Caches
Barrel	Venus Proxima Point of Interest / B	6.45%	~ 15 B Caches	103 ± 34 B Caches
Receiver	Venus Proxima Point of Interest / B	6.45%	~ 15 B Caches	103 ± 34 B Caches

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	1	1	Orokin Cell 5		Time: 1 Day(s)
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Notes

• Overdrive buff grants +100% fire rate and allows it to consume no ammo while firing, but increases recoil and disables the Alternate Fire feature. The buff lasts for 8 seconds.
  • The buff triggers only on headshot kills, and not other weakspots, such as the backpacks of most MOA variants. Similarly, shooting weakspots generated by either  Sonar or  Detect Vulnerability in places other than heads will have no effect either.
  • Overdrive's fire rate buff is additive to other fire rate increases, such as  Gunslinger,  Lethal Torrent,  Gauss's  Redline, or  Wisp's Haste  Reservoirs.
  • 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 ammo efficiency or infinite ammo buff (Energized Munitions Overdrive, Arcane Pistoleer, Reactant Buff), instead firing a single round.

Tips

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

Bugs

• Even though the passive's name in the arsenal is "Overdrive", the explanation is false as the passive ability does not trigger on every headshot, only on headshot kills, and does not remove but increases recoil.

Media

Hydroid Prime with the Athodai

Warframe Heart of Deimos Teaser-0

Patch History

Hotfix 31.0.3 (2021-12-17)

• Fixed the Athodai having the wrong firing sound. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1290701-athodai-has-the-wrong-sound-after-update/

Update 30.6 (2021-08-04)

• Fixed inability to equip the Secondary Deadhead Arcane on the Athodai.

Hotfix 29.10.3 (2021-03-23)

• Fixed inability to Trade the Athodai Blueprint and its components.

Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)

• Find the Athodai Blueprint and its respective parts on new Corpus Railjack Orokin Shield Derelicts!

Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)

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

Update 28.3 (2020-08-12)

• 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.

See Also

•  Knell and  Knell Prime similar buff.