The Kogake is a 
Tenno sparring melee weapon.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000. It is also a requisite ingredient for the 
Hirudo.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Impact damage. - Stance slot has polarity, matches Brutal Tide stance.
Advantages:
- Grants a 5% Movement Speed bonus when held (i.e. melee mode or quick melee).
- Normal Attack
- High disposition
Disadvantages:
- Tied with Obex for the lowest base damage of all sparring weapons.
- Tied with Kogake Prime for the second slowest attack speed of all sparring weapons, after Korrudo.
- Normal Attack
- Very low damage
- Low attack speed
- Very low attack range
- Very low status chance
Comparisons:
- Kogake (Normal Attack), compared to Kogake Prime (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (120 vs. 242)
- Lower total damage (120 vs. 242)
- Higher base critical chance (20.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.8x)
- Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 38.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (144 vs. 272.97)
- Lower burst DPS (132.04 vs. 250.31)
- Lower sustained DPS (132.04 vs. 250.31)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (2 vs. 10)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.46x) vs. ●●●●● (1.40x))
Acquisition[]
The Kogake's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 30,000 |
 400 |
 3 |
 1,200 |
 500 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  45
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 Market Price: 125
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 Blueprints Price: 15,000
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Notes[]
- With the Kogake equipped, Tenno will utilize kicks in their melee attacks.
- Ground Finisher will hit the downed enemy six times, each hit dealing 17 Impact, 20.6 Puncture, and 0.6 Slashing (total 38.2, grand total 229.2). This is also able to hit multiple enemies. The damage of this is increased by Pressure Point, Spoiled Strike, and Finishing Touch.
- Wall attacks with the Kogake deal Magnetic damage.
Trivia[]
- The Kogake is possibly named after the Japanese kōgake, a type of armored tabi (Japanese socks) mainly used by samurai.
Bugs[]
- If equipped with any thrown secondary weapon, any idle animation where the Tenno flips/spins the secondary weapon will also spin the Kogake.
Media[]
Old icon
Kogake in normal stance holding a weapon
Tenno Reinforcement - Kogake
Warframe Kogake 2.0
Quick Fact Warframe - Kogake
Kogake Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 2.
- Damage increased from 35 to 120.
- Range increased from 0.5 to 1.25.
- Slam Attack increased from 70 to 360.
- Slide Attack increased from 140 to 240.
- Parry Angle set to 50.
- Follow Through increased from 0.5 to 0.9.
Hotfix 25.0.7 (2019-05-30)
- Fixed a residual issue that affected exactly 29 accounts as a result of the Kogake Riven fix in Hotfix 25.0.2.
Hotfix 25.0.2 (2019-05-23)
- Fixed the Kogake Weapon missing from progression for a lot of Tenno. Mastery has been restored and peace brought back to the universe!
- Fixed Kogake Rivens appearing as ‘Croniton’.
Update 8.3 (2013-07-04)
- Kogake slide attack is now a flying kick, the same one you may have noticed in the Tenno Reinforcement intro video on YouTube. Normal attack also includes an uppercut.
Update 8.2 (2013-06-28)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also[]
- Obex, a similar weapon.
- Hirudo, an Infested sparring weapon that is crafted using the Kogake.
- Kogake Prime, the Prime counterpart.
