Hirudo

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Hirudo
Untradeable
General Information
Type	Sparring
Mastery	7
Slot	Melee
Utility
Block Angle	50°
Combo Duration	5 s
Disposition	⬤⬤⬤◯◯ (1.10x)
Attack Speed	1
Follow Through	90%
Range	1.25 m
Noise Level	Silent
Normal Attack
19.5
104
6.5
Total Damage	130 (80%)
Crit Chance	30%
Crit Multiplier	3x
Attack Speed	1
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	11%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	845
Slam Damage	520
Radial Damage	520
Slam Radius	8 m
Wind-up	0.5 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	390
Slam Radius	7 m
Radial Damage	Impact 130
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	260
Miscellaneous
Default Upgrades	InfestedKogakeUpgrade
Riven Family	Hirudo
Exilus Polarity	None
Introduced	Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
Polarities
Stance Polarity
Vendor Sources

CODEX

Rip into the enemy with fists of razor sharp cartilage. Steals health with each critical hit.

The Hirudo are  Infested sparring weapons derived from the  Kogake which can steal health from enemies on critical hits.

Characteristics

• This weapon deals primarily  Puncture damage.
• Critical hits heal the user by 5% of the damage dealt. Critical hits also grant the Invigorated buff, which increases max health by 5% for 15 seconds and stacks up to 5 times.
• Stance slot comes with a polarity, matching  Brutal Tide.
• Innate polarity.

Advantages:

• Grants a 5% movement speed bonus when held (i.e. melee mode or quick melee).
• Normal Attack
  • Highest crit multiplier
  • High crit chance

Disadvantages:

• Normal Attack
  • Very low damage
  • Very low attack range
  • Very low status chance
  • Low disposition

Acquisition

The Hirudo's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	1	3	1,100	4,600	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:15,000

Notes

• Every successful critical hit with the Hirudo will return 5% of damage dealt to the enemy as health to the player.
• Each successful critical hit also increases the player's max health by 5%, referred to as Invigorated buff.
  • The health bonus lasts for 15 seconds, which refreshes every time the player lands another critical hit while the buff is active.
  • The Invigorated buff can stack up to 5 times, for a maximum of 25% additional health bonus.
• The Hirudo's max health bonus is scaled on the Warframe's health at rank-0 and stacks additively with health mods like  Vitality.
• Critical strike life steal bypasses Sentient immunity.
• Overguard blocks critical strike life steal.
• If a companion Kavat, Kubrow, or MOA has  Link Health equipped, they will also receive healing from Hirudo attacks, even if the player's Warframe is already at full health.
  • Since Sentinel companions cannot equip  Link Health, they cannot receive this benefit.

Tips

• Since it only requires Critical Hit to activate both abilities and it doesn't require to switch to melee and energy, mod with  True Steel,  Blood Rush or  Maiming Strike to increase critical chance and any damage mods to increase lifesteal.
  •  Berserker Fury is useful in heightening one's attack speed in order to initiate more critical hits.
  • A fully ranked  Blood Rush along with increased melee attack speed will easily allow one to heal faster than most enemies can deal damage.
• On most Warframes, a 25% base health buff is very insignificant.  Inaros, however, would gain 27.5 health per stack, up to 137.5 at max. This is, however, still insignificant when compared against Inaros's large health pool.
• Using a warframe with higher armor values can help one stay alive while finding a target for the Hirudo's life steal.
• Using this weapon with either stance equipped as  Inaros can make charge attacks quite effective, as landing a charge attack on an enemy who remains alive after it connects will instantly transition into a finisher, which will activate Inaros' passive to gain health on finishers.

Trivia

• The Hirudo's name appears to be a bilingual pun in both Latin and Japanese;
  • Hirudo is the Latin word for "leech".
    • Similarly, leeches make up the subclass Hirudinea in their phylogenic classification.
  • Its name may also be a portmanteau of the Japanese words Hiru (蛭), which also means "leech", and Do (道, which may also be read separately as Michi), which can mean "way" or more loosely "doctrine", and can be found in the names of some Japanese martial arts (e.g. Kendo, Judo). Thus, the Hirudo's name can be read as "The Leech's Way" or "'The Way of the Leech".

Media

Hirudo in Codex.

HIRUDO - Invincibility Trick Warframe

Hirudo Skins Edit

Tecton

Patch History

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Damage increased from 55 to 130.
• Range increased from 0.5 to 1.25.
• Status Chance increased from 5% to 11%.
• Critical Chance increased from 15% to 30%.
• Slam Attack increased from 110 to 390.
• Slide Attack increased from 220 to 260.
• Parry Angle set to 50.
• Follow Through increased from 0.5 to 0.9.

Update 21.7 (2017-09-09)

• Fixed an issue with the Hirudo innate abilities not working in Conclave.

Hotfix 19.5.1 (2016-12-22)

• Fixed stance polarity for Hirudo and added an extra Madurai polarization.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)