Hirudo

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Hirudo
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Sparring
Mastery Rank Requirement	7
Max Rank	30
Slot	Melee
Trigger Type	N/A
Utility
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Block Angle	50°
Combo Duration	5.0 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.10x)
Follow Through	0.9x
Range	1.25 m
Noise Level	Silent
Sweep Radius	0.25 m
Normal Attack
19.5 ( 15%)
104 ( 80%)
6.5 ( 5%)
Total Damage	130 (80.00%  Puncture)
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Crit Chance	30.00%
Crit Multiplier	3.00x
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	11.00%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	845
Slam Damage	520
Radial Damage	520
Slam Radius	8.0 m
Wind-up	0.5 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	390
Slam Radius	7.0 m
Radial Damage	130
Slam Radial Element	Impact
Radial Forced Proc	Impact
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	130
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	SPARRING_STANCE
Default Upgrades	InfestedKogakeUpgrade
Riven Family	Hirudo
Introduced	Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
Polarities
Sell Price	5,000
Stance Polarity
Variants	Hirudo
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Infested Weapons Puncture Damage Weapons Sparring Hirudo Melee Weapons N/A Weapons Base Silent Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

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.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
30,000	1	3	1,100	4,600	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:15,000

Characteristics

Advantages:

• Second highest base damage of all sparring weapons, behind  Kogake Prime.
  • High damage – effective against armor.
• Good critical chance.
• Highest critical multiplier of all sparring weapons, and tied with  Atterax,  Destreza Prime, (Prisma)  Dual Cleavers,  Dual Ichor,  Dual Raza and  Dual Zoren for all melee weapons.
• 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.

Disadvantages:

• Low and damage – less effective against shields and health.
• Very low status chance.
• Short range.

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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 everytime 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 off of the Warframe's health at rank-0 and stacks additively with health mods like  Vitality.
• Critical strike life steal bypasses sentient immunity.

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.
  • 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.
• 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).

Media

• Hirudo in Codex.

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HIRUDO - Invincibility Trick Warframe

Hirudo Skins

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Patch History

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 22.19 (2018-05-02)