Kesheg

Grineer Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Kesheg
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Polearm
Mastery Rank Requirement	7
Max Rank	30
Slot	Melee
Trigger Type	N/A
Utility
Attack Speed	0.83x animation speed
Block Angle	55°
Combo Duration	5.0 s
Disposition	●●●●● (1.35x)
Follow Through	0.6x
Range	2.90 m
Noise Level	Silent
Sweep Radius	0.15 m
Normal Attack
96.4 ( 40%)
24.1 ( 10%)
120.5 ( 50%)
Total Damage	241 (50.00%  Slash)
Attack Speed	0.83x animation speed
Crit Chance	19.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.50x
Fire Rate	0.833 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	23.00%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	1,446
Slam Damage	1,205
Radial Damage	1,205
Slam Radius	8.0 m
Wind-up	0.9 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	723
Slam Radius	7.0 m
Radial Damage	241
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	241
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	POLEARMS_STANCE
Riven Family	Kesheg
Introduced	Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
Polarities
Sell Price	5,000
Stance Polarity
Users	Kuva Guardian
Variants	Kesheg
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Grineer Weapons Slash Damage Weapons Polearm Kesheg Melee Weapons N/A Weapons Kuva Guardian Base Silent Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

CODEX

Slice through mobs of unruly enemies with this fierce halberd; the signature weapon of the Kuva Guardians.

The Kesheg is the signature polearm of the Grineer Kuva Guardians.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	5	1,400	6,000	8,000	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 180			Blueprints Price:15,000
Chem Lab Research3,000
5,000	10	400	13,000	9,000	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Prereq: Sydon
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages

• Highest base damage of all non-Zaw polearms.
  • High and damage – effective against health and shields.
• Highest critical multiplier of all polearms.
• Long reach.
• Stance slot has polarity, matches  Shimmering Blight stance.
• Innate polarity.

Disadvantages

• Low damage – less effective against Armor.
• Low critical chance and status chance.
• Tied with  Guandao for the lowest attack speed of all polearms.

Tips

• Similarly to the  Nukor, the Kesheg is a weapon that sports a high critical multiplier, but a low critical chance that's difficult to improve. While most mods will make little difference due to improving the weapon's critical chance by percentages, this can be circumvented in a few ways.
  • Bringing a Kavat on a mission will greatly help, as both breeds have ways of improving critical hits.
    • Adarza Kavats'  Cat's Eye ability will add a flat 60% to the weapon's critical chance for a short while whenever it activates, greatly increasing the Kesheg's critical chance.
    • Smeeta Kavats'  Charm ability has a chance to temporarily grant its owner guaranteed orange crits (effectively giving any weapon exactly 200% critical chance) as one of its effects, which not only bypasses critical chance entirely but doubles the Kesheg's already above-average critical multiplier.
  • Using  Harrow's  Covenant, one can receive a flat bonus of up to 50% to the weapon's critical chance (or 200% on headshots).
  •  Maiming Strike or a Kesheg riven that sports the same effect can bypass the weapon's critical chance entirely, as it uses its own critical chance tied to the mod's level instead of the weapon's critical chance.
    • Furthermore, the Kesheg's long range makes it well suited to slide attacks.
  • While a less effective idea, ( Primed)  Fury can be used to increase how quickly the weapon swings, thus increasing the amount of hits per second and, by effect, the number of chances for the weapon to deal critical hits.

Trivia

• This weapon may be named after the Kheshig, the imperial guard for the Mongol royal family. The name translates to "favored" or "blessed". The Kheshig are thought to be the basis for similar institutions that existed in many of the societies that succeeded the Mongol Empire in the regions that it used to control.
• Unlike any other polearm, the Kesheg possesses a unique "Halberd" holster. Currently this holster can only be applied to the Kesheg.
• The Kesheg comes with a Kuva Cord fixed to it. This isn't considered a Sugatra and cannot be removed.
  • The market-available Kuva Cord Sugatra and the Kuva Cord attached to the Kesheg have different appearances, with the Kesheg's Kuva Cord being larger and having a different form.
  • The Market description for the Kuva Cord Sugatra, however, refers to the Kesheg as the source of the Sugatra.
• Unlike most Polearms, which feature a blade on each end and are used by twirling the weapon, the Kesheg's default attack animations involve it being jabbed and thrusted rather than spun due to it only having one blade. This anomaly is shared with the (Vaykor)  Sydon.
  • This special trait is lost when equipping most stances, which utilize spinning attacks.

Media

• Kesheg in Codex.
• Concept Art of the Kesheg.
• The Kesheg with additional Kuva Cords attached.

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Warframe KESHEG PoleArm Setup Discussion (U19.0.6)

Kesheg Skins

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Aphria
Tennogen

Diva
Tennogen

Heuris

Ion
TennoGen

Jotunheim
TennoGen

Kalynex
Tennogen

Lahnss
Tennogen

Lympharis
Tennogen

Osiris
TennoGen

Phorcys
Tennogen

Rashasi

Reshantur Cult Spear
Baro Ki'Teer

Skopos
Tennogen

Patch History

Update 22.6 (2017-12-07)

• Fixed polearms clipping on some Warframes when using the standard holster position.

Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 22.20.9 (2018-06-07)

See Also

• Kuva Guardian - The Grineer unit that utilizes this weapon.