Khora

• Khora cracks her whip toward the aiming reticle, creating an explosion up to 5 / 7 / 8 / 10 meters away in a 3 / 4 / 4 / 5 meters radius area around the first object or entity hit. All enemies within the explosion receive 200 / 225 / 250 / 300 base damage, while enemies at the center are also disoriented briefly, causing them to be knocked back and ragdolled.
  • Cast range and explosion radius are affected by Ability Range.
    • Explosion radius cannot exceed 200% Ability Range.
  • Damage is distributed evenly between Impact, Puncture, and Slash.
  • Damage also affects Objects, bypasses obstacles in the environment, and does not diminish with distance.
• Whipclaw has an innate 200% critical multiplier, 25% critical chance, and 20% status chance.
• Damage is affected by Ability Strength, the Melee Combo Counter, and certain melee mods.
  • As an example, with a maxed Pressure Point, Shocking Touch and Intensify, the normal attacks of a rank-3 Whipclaw will deal:
    Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods) =
    300 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (1 + 0.3) = 1,630.2 damage.
  • The mods that affect Whipclaw include:
    • Damage (e.g., Pressure Point)
    • Physical damage (e.g., Jagged Edge)
    • Elemental damage (e.g., Shocking Touch)
    • Critical chance and critical multiplier (e.g., True Steel and Organ Shatter)
      • Critical chance is rolled separately for each target hit.
    • Status chance (e.g., Melee Prowess and Vicious Frost)
    • combo counter (e.g., Body Count and Drifting Contact)
    • weapon augments (e.g., Justice Blades)
    • The +100 damage from Covert Lethality
    • Riven
  • Manticore's damage bonus applies to the ability.
  • Whipclaw's critical chance is affected by Cat's Eye and Charm bonuses.
  • Each hit from Whipclaw adds to the Melee Combo Counter.
  • Whipclaw is not affected by the equipped melee weapon's stats and innate effects, weapon-specific mods (e.g., Vulcan Blitz), Acolyte Mods (e.g., Blood Rush), the bonuses of Set Mods (e.g. Gladiator Might's stacking critical chance) conditional mods (e.g., Condition Overload, Healing Return), melee range mods (e.g., Reach) and attack speed mods (e.g., Fury).
    • The only exceptions to this rule are:
      • Mire and its passive ability to grant +10% Toxin damage, which carries over to Whipclaw. The toxin damage combines with any elemental damage from melee elemental mods.
      • Whipclaw's damage is affected by Venka Prime's modified Melee Combo Counter.
• Synergy: Whipclaw synergizes with Khora's other abilities for additional benefits
  • Inflicts 200% damage against enemies affected by Ensnare.
  • Refreshes the propagation effect on ensnared enemies hit by Whipclaw.
  • If at least one enemy captured by Strangledome is hit by Whipclaw, all other enemies in the same dome will each receive 50% total damage. Additionally, Whipclaw's Critical Chance and Status Chance will reroll on each enemy separately.
• Whipclaw will strike toward the aiming reticle at the end of the animation, landing the attack when the whip is fully extended.
  • The explosion radius is centered on the closest physical object or surface in the player's crosshair, or the farthest area Whipclaw is able to reach.
• Can be cast while moving and airborne.
• Casting Whipclaw is an upper-body animation that allows movement and parkour Maneuvers.
• Khora's whip visually consists of a handle that resembles the Hystrix's model, alongside living metal spikes lining the thong, spine, and fall; four claw-like extensions comprise the lash of the whip, ending in the metallic adornments on Khora's body that match Venari's selected battle posture. The whip is affected by Khora's chosen Appearance colors.
• Whipclaw's radial explosion, the whip's energy lights and travel trail, are affected by Khora's chosen energy color.
• Whipclaw is not affected by cast speed mods (e.g. Natural Talent)

Main article: Accumulating Whipclaw

Khora is a Warframe Augment Mod for Khora's Whipclaw that grants a stacking damage bonus to subsequent Whipclaws upon hitting at least 3 enemies in a single cast, which will decay after 10 seconds.

• Whipclaw's radial explosion forms when Khora's whip is fully extended. You can adjust your aim to hit your target or elsewhere during this animation.
• If your target is moving away too quickly during the animation, try to land the explosion on a nearby surface to catch your target in the area of effect.
  • The explosion's area of effect will bypass terrain and obstacles to hit enemies through walls, which pairs well with radar mods such as Enemy Sense and Animal Instinct to detect nearby enemies.
• Cast Whipclaw directly on an enemy to knock it backward when it is hit by the radial burst.
• Modify your equipped melee weapon with eligible Mods that Whipclaw can benefit from.
  • Equip True Steel and Organ Shatter to consistently proc critical hits.
  • Equip Drifting Contact to increase status chance and delay the combo counter hit reset.
  • Equip dual stat damage and status chance mods such as Virulent Scourge to increase damage and status chance simultaneously.
• Whipclaw and your melee weapon both benefit from and contribute to the combo counter. Use both frequently to amplify their damage as you hit more enemies.
• Cast Whipclaw on enemies entangled by Ensnare for double damage. Ensnared enemies that survive Whipclaw will propagate again to pull in new enemies.
• Cast Whipclaw on enemies captured by Strangledome. The initial target takes full damage from Whipclaw, while all other enemies in the dome take half damage. Damage, critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance on all targets will benefit from your equipped melee mods.
  • Critical chance and status chance will proc on each enemy separately, inflicting them with potentially different damage amounts and Status Effects.
• Whipclaw's radial explosion can bypass Arctic Eximus bubbles to form inside directly.
• Equip with a Smeeta Kavat or Adarza Kavat to take advantage of their Precepts' critical chance bonuses, further amplifying Whipclaw's potential critical damage.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Reduces cast range to 3.4 meters and explosion radius to 1.7 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 6.25 energy.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range increases cast range to 28 meters and explosion radius to 10 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 120.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 1236.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 1011.
  • Increases cost to 38.75 energy.

• Whipclaw seems to behave erratically with the Gladiator Set Mods set bonus, as it will occasionally grant the buff normally and other times not at all

• Khora thrashes her whip at an enemy target within 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 meters, binding it in living metal for 10 / 12 / 13 / 15 seconds. While ensnared, the target is completely disabled, as the living metal propagates and pulls in all nearby enemies within a 6 / 7 / 8 / 10 meters radius after a 0.5 second delay.
  • Cast range and spread radius are affected by Ability Range.
  • Ensnare duration is affected by Ability Duration, while spread delay is inversely affected (e.g. more duration lowers delay).
  • Casting speed is affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
  • Ensnare pulls enemies from behind obstacles and does not require line of sight.
  • Propagation always occur after the delay, regardless of any enemies actually being in range.
• Enemies pulled by the initial target are disabled for 75% of total duration, while extending the propagation effect to pull in and disable all unaffected enemies around them; enemies pulled by branch targets are disabled for 75% of the previously reduced duration, but do not propagate.
  • Reduced duration percentage is not affected by mods.
  • Subsequently ensnared enemies cannot be affected by the same instance of Ensnare again once freed, including the propagation effect from both the initial and branch targets.
• Synergy: Ensnared enemies receive 200% damage from Whipclaw and Venari. Additionally, ensnared enemies hit by Whipclaw will propagate again to pull in new enemies.
  • Whipclaw propagation refresh is considered as a new instance of Ensnare, therefore it will affect enemies freed from a previous cast.
• Cannot be recast on affected targets.
• Casting Ensnare is a full-body animation that stops grounded movement and other actions.
• The ensnared target is visually trapped within a cluster of spinning, living metal coils, while both the original target and branch targets glow faintly in Khora's chosen energy color.
• When Ensnare propagates, living chains briefly lash out from the source enemy to pull in new targets before disappearing.
• The living metal coils on the target are affected by Khora's chosen Appearance colors.

• Take advantage of Ensnare's long cast range to trap a group of enemies before you, Venari, your other Companion, or your teammates can reach them. Doing so ensures Ensnare has time to propagate after its delay.
• Cast on key targets such as Bombards to quickly disable them, while pulling any nearby enemies toward it.
• Ensnared enemies stand upright and will not move while debuffed, making this ability great for performing consistent headshots.
• Enemies around the initial target will have reduced durations on ther debuff, lasting for a shorter time the farther out they are.
• Cast Ensnare and follow up with Whipclaw to deal double damage and apply Status Effects to multiple enemies at once, while earning multiple hits toward the melee combo counter.
• Ensnared enemies that survive Whipclaw's explosion have their propagation effects refreshed. This causes them to propagate after the delay to pull in new enemies around them.
• Cast Ensnare on enemies near Venari or command her to attack a marked ensnared target for double damage.
• Cast Ensnare on enemies trapped by Strangledome to spread its effects to nearby enemies, allowing Whipclaw and Venari to deal double damage to ensnared enemies.
  • When Strangledome ends, ensnared enemies will be pulled to the original target if the debuff is still active. Use this opportunity to attack them with weapons, Venari, and Whipclaw.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 45.9 seconds and reduces spread delay to 0.16 seconds.
  • Reduces cast range to 10.2 meters and spread radius to 3.4 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 12.5 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 6 seconds and increases spread delay to 1.25 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases cast range to 84 meters and spread radius to 28 meters.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Strength has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Increases cost to 77.5 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 10.88 seconds and increases spread delay to 0.69 seconds.

• Khora commands her loyal Kavat companion Venari to prioritize a target on the aiming reticle for 25 energy, leaving Venari's mark above the target for 120 seconds. Once commanded, Venari chases the marked target if nearby or teleports to it if far away, while refreshing the special effect for her battle posture if it is on cooldown. When Venari reaches the target, she will perform different tasks depending on her battle posture.
  • Command energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Mark duration is not affected by mods.
  • The target is marked by a floating battle posture icon above their head.
  • Venari's mark cannot be recast on the same target while still active.
  • Venari's mark lasts until removed via duration end, Khora marking a different target, switching battle posture, or the target is killed.
  • Marked targets are prioritized by Venari over enemies afflicted by Slash with Hunter Command equipped.
  • When a target is marked, Venari audibly snarls in response.
• While Venari is alive, Khora passively gains a 1.05x / 1.1x / 1.12x / 1.15x movement speed multiplier. When Venari is killed, she will respawn beside Khora after 45 seconds or instantly by casting this ability using 50 energy.
  • Speed multiplier is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Revive energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency
    • Revive energy cost is reduced proportionately based on the remaining time until Venari respawns (e.g. 1 second remaining on timer = 1 energy used to revive Venari.)
  • Respawn time is not affected by mods.
  • Respawn time is displayed on the ability icon when Venari is killed.
  • When respawned, Venari visually leaps down from above landing next to Khora.
• All postures are available by default when Venari is unlocked at Warframe rank 5.
• Holding the ability key (default 3 ) cycles to Venari's next battle posture for no energy cost:

• Battle posture cannot be switched while Venari is dead, instead the respawn function overrides any input on the ability key.
• Casting speed on all animations related to this ability, on both Khora and Venari, is not affected by mods such as Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
• Venari does not benefit from the set bonus of Hunter Mods.
• Casting Venari's mark and summoning Venari do not play any animations on Khora, while changing posture is an upper-body animation that allows movement and parkour Maneuvers.
• Khora's metallic adornments and Venari's tail change appearance depending on the selected posture: Attack (long spikes), Protect (small stubs and hammer tail), and Heal (curved blades).
• While Venari is dead, Khora's metallic adornments are hidden from view and will reappear once Venari respawns.
• The following visual effects are affected by Khora's chosen Warframe energy color:
  • Venari's eye and regalia colors, mark icon color, as well as her death and respawn/teleport landing impact.
  • Khora's battle posture switching.
  • Attack posture Snare trails and Heal posture Revitalize glow.

Main article: Venari Bodyguard

Venari Bodyguard is a Warframe Augment Mod for Khora's Venari that makes Venari die in Khora's place at the cost of an increased spawn timer, but every enemy killed decreases the spawn timer.

• Khora's passive speed multiplier affects her regular movement speed, which also enhances sprint speed. Combine with high Ability Strength and sprint speed mods such as Rush and Armored Agility to gain vastly increased mobility.
• Keep moving and do parkour maneuvers while switching battle postures to evade incoming enemy attacks.
• By default, Venari will attack enemies and perform her battle posture effects on her own. Place a mark on your target to direct Venari's attention where you desire.
• Equip Hunter Recovery on Venari and place an Attack mark on a distant enemy. Venari will teleport to the target and immediately use Snare to attack it, quickly healing Khora in the process.
• Use Protect mark to knockdown and disarm dangerous threats such as Napalm and Tech.
• Heal mark allows versatile options to grant health regen in an area:
  • Use on an ally or Khora herself to have Venari follow suit.
  • Use on Venari to order her to stay put.
  • Use on Khora if Venari is far away to recall her back to your side.
  • Use on an ally in the distance to teleport Venari to the fray.
• Venari's Heal posture is able to heal static objectives such as Cryopods, Excavators, and Kuva Harvesters. Place a Heal mark on the objective to have Venari stand guard over it providing healing to it and nearby teammates. It can also be used to heal moving objectives like defectors and hostages.
• Cast Ensnare to group up enemies for Venari to attack them for double damage.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces command energy cost to 6.25 and revive energy cost to ≤12.5.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Reduces snare damage to 140, health regen to 20 HP/sec, and movement speed multiplier to 1.06x.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases snare damage to 1442, health regen to 206 HP/sec, and movement speed multiplier to 1.62x.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases snare damage to 1179.5, health regen to 168.5 HP/sec, and movement speed multiplier to 1.51x.
  • Increases command energy cost to 38.75 and revive energy cost to ≤77.5.

• Slash procs do not change Venari's target with Hunter Command equipped, even when no enemies are marked.
• Venari's UI will be completely hidden if Venari is dead and the player uses Transference to return to the Warframe.
• Venari's respawn function can rarely not trigger when Venari is killed, requiring Khora to spend a revive on herself to bring Venari back.
• Venari randomly stops moving when her heal aura is activated. This bug occurs for targets she automatically chooses to heal, as well as targets marked by Khora. Switching to Attack or Protect postures will reset her AI to normal.
• Placing a Heal mark on Khora or an ally sometimes causes Venari to toggle the healing aura on and off repeatedly as she edges toward the marked target.
• Venari is not going to collect items with Fetch mod. (only works well playing solo mode)
• Locked lockers unlocked by Venari via the Scavenge mod still appear as locked (red) despite being unlocked, and can still be opened.
• Sense Danger can sometimes make enemy markers appear outside of the minimap in the UI if Venari uses it and Khora moves away from the enemies.

• Khora cracks her whip downward to unravel a cluster of living chains, creating a stationary dome spanning a 5 meters radius around her that lasts for 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 seconds. Strangledome possesses 26 vertices where its chains connect, with each vertex able to capture a single enemy. Enemies within a 5 / 5 / 6 / 10 meters radius from the center of the dome are ragdolled, pulled by chains into the nearest unoccupied vertex, and suspended helplessly for the ability's duration.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Dome radius and grab radius are affected by Ability Range.
  • Number of vertices is not affected by mods.
  • Casting speed is affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
  • Strangledome will pull enemies from behind obstacles and does not require line of sight.
  • Players, allied AI, and crowd control-resistant enemies can move and attack through the dome unhindered.
• While captured, enemies are strangled by the chains taking 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 damage per second and receive 200% damage from weapons and abilities. In addition, captured enemies have a raised Threat Level, become susceptible to friendly fire, and taunt their former allies into attacking them.
  • Damage is evenly split between Impact, Puncture and Slash.
  • Damage per second is affected by Ability Strength.
    • Damage per second benefits from the damage multiplier, which results in Strangledome dealing double damage per second innately.
  • Damage multiplier is not affected by mods.
  • Friendly fire enables captured enemies to receive damage and Status Effects from their former allies.
  • When captured enemies are killed by the ability's innate damage their corpses are dismembered. This is a characteristic of slash majority damage.
  • When captured enemies die, they are released by the chains, freeing the previously occupied vertices to capture new enemies.
• Synergy: If at least one enemy captured by Strangledome is hit by Whipclaw, all other enemies in the same dome will each receive 50% total damage. Additionally, Whipclaw's Critical Chance and Status Chance will reroll on each enemy separately.
• Strangledome adheres to the following casting requirements:
  • If cast in midair, Khora will instantly drop to the ground to perform this ability.
  • Can be recast while active to create a new instance.
    • Khora can have up to 2 Strangledomes active at once. If attempting to create more than 2 Strangledomes, the oldest Strangledome created will be removed.
  • Casting Strangledome is a full-body animation that stops movement and other actions.
  • Strangledome is created 0.5 seconds after the casting animation ends, allowing Khora to move as the dome forms.
• Strangledome's default shape is a pentakis icosidodecahedron cut in half to form a dome.
• Each vertex of the dome will attempt to adhere to the nearest surface, reshaping the ability to conform with the environment.
• Strangledome's chains are affected by Khora's chosen Accents color.
• The electric currents jumping between vertices and glow on captured enemies are affected by Khora's chosen energy color.
• Strangledome is a separate deployable object from Khora. As such, Warframe ability nullification effects applied to Khora will not destroy Strangledome.
• Strangledome can only be nullified by Nullifier Crewman and Isolator Bursa null spheres.
  • Each chain inside the dome behaves as an individual connection, which breaks upon contact with nullifier spheres.
  • If enough chains connecting to a vertex are broken, that vertex is subtracted from the affected Strangledome's total vertices, therefore reducing the amount of enemies the dome can hold captive.
  • Once all chains break, Strangledome is completely nullified and its duration is forced to end.
• Enemies captured by Strangledome cannot prevent Tenno from capturing an Interception point, but can recapture it if an enemy is near the consoles even when strangled.

Main article: Pilfering Strangledome

Pilfering Strangledome is a Warframe Augment Mod for Khora that allows enemies caught in Strangledome a chance to drop additional loot when killed.

• Strangledome's short cast time gives Khora a powerful panic button when enemies are dangerously close.
  • Strangledome can be cast while sliding to keep Khora on the move.
  • Can also be cast while wall clinging to create a floating dome.
• Prepare domes preemptively where enemy presence is probable to capture more prey as they arrive.
• Since strangled enemies sway and flail about, it can be difficult to identify them at a glance and hit them accurately. Use the damage numbers dealt by the dome as a visual cue to help you gauge the amount of enemies caught by your dome.
• Strangled enemies receive double damage from abilities and weapons to help you and your team dispatch them quickly.
• Strangled enemies also behave as individual decoys that draw aggression from other enemies. Consider leaving some enemies dangling about as distractions to protect your team and any objectives nearby.
• Cast Whipclaw on at least one strangled enemy to deal half damage to all other strangled enemies in the same dome.
• Cast Ensnare on a strangled enemy to pull in new enemies from farther away, assisting Strangledome to capture them once in range, while allowing both Whipclaw and Venari to deal double damage to strangled and ensnared enemies within the dome.
• When a dome's duration is about to end, cast again to create a second dome that captures enemies as they become freed from the previous dome to keep them disabled.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 61.2 seconds.
  • Reduces dome radius to 1.7 meters and grab radius to 3.4 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 8 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases dome radius to 14 meters and grab radius to 28 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 100.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 1030.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 842.5.
  • Increases cost to 155 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 14.5 seconds.

• Whipclaw does not deal double damage against captured enemies, while other abilities as well as Strangledome's damage do benefit from this damage bonus.
• Captured enemies can swing wildly in an orbit when hit and not be pulled back closely to the occupied vertices.