Kuva Brakk

Kuva Brakk
Statistics
Mastery	13
Slot	Secondary
Type	Shotgun Sidearm
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Ammo Type	Pistol
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	5.83
Accuracy	7.7
Magazine Size	11
Max Ammo	221
Reload Time	1.1 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (0.90x)
Normal Attack
5.85
3.25
3.9
3.25
Total Damage	162.5 ( 36%)
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Fire Rate	5.83
Pellets	10 (16.25 damage per pellet)
Status Chance	11.1%
Crit Chance	29%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Punch Through	0.5 m
Damage Falloff	100% damage to 10 m 4% damage past 20 m
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Introduced	Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Variants	Brakk

CODEX

This Lich-variant semi-automatic hand cannon delivers a lot of punch in a small package. Higher fire rate, magazine capacity and reload speed.

The Kuva Brakk is the Kuva variant of the Brakk Brakk shotgun pistol, featuring higher critical chance, status chance, fire rate, magazine capacity, and innate punch through, at the cost of overall base damage.

Characteristics

This weapon does primarily Impact Damage Impact damage.

Advantages:

• High Impact Damage Impact damage – effective against shields.
• Very high critical chance.
• Highest overall status chance of all secondary shotguns.
• Very fast reload speed.
• Innate 0.5 meter punch through.
• Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
• Ammo efficient.
• Innate and polarities.
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
• Comes with an additional bonus Impact Damage Impact, Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, Toxin Damage Toxin, Magnetic Damage Magnetic, or Radiation Damage Radiation damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.

Disadvantages:

• Low Puncture Damage Puncture and Slash Damage Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 4% from 10m to 20m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• Wide pellet spread cone makes the weapon ineffective beyond medium range.
• High recoil.

Comparisons:

• Kuva Brakk, compared to Brakk:
  • Lower base damage (16.25 vs. 20)
    • Lower   damage (5.85 vs. 9)
    • Lower   damage (3.25 vs. 5)
    • Lower   damage (3.9 vs. 6)
  • Lower total damage (162.5 vs. 200)
  • Higher critical chance (29% vs. 17%)
  • Higher status chance (11.1% vs. 5.1%)
  • Higher fire rate (5.83 round(s)/sec vs. 5 round(s)/sec)
  • Shorter range before damage falloff starts (10m vs. 11m)
  • Shorter range before damage falloff ends (20m vs. 22m)
  • Larger max damage reduction due to falloff (96% vs. 60%)
  • Larger magazine (11 round(s) vs. 5 round(s))
  • Larger max ammo capacity (221 round(s) vs. 210 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (1.1 s vs. 1.05 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 6)
  • Lower disposition (0.9 vs. 1.25)
  • Higher average damage per shot (268.32 vs. 234)
  • Higher burst DPS (1,564.31 vs. 1,170)
  • Higher sustained DPS (988.19 vs. 570.73)

Acquisition

Kuva Brakk is obtained by vanquishing a Kuva Lich who generated with one equipped. After the Lich is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.

While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Kuva Lich generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Lich to claim its weapon.

Notes

• As with all Kuva and Tenet weapons, the player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Kuva Lich or Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
• The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm).
• The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
  • Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
  • Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
  • Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
    • Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required to finish modding the weapon.
    • After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
      • Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
• Comes with an additional bonus damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This bonus stat ranges between 25%-60%, and is randomly generated by the Lich/Sister. It can be brought up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a modded damage type that is added after all other elemental mods, and will combine with the weapon's primary element type if it has one. The order heirarchy will set the weapon's primary element as second to last, and the Valence element as last, which can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
    • For example, if the weapon innately has Cold Damage Cold, using a Toxin Damage Toxin progenitor Warframe will change the weapon's base element to Viral Damage Viral.
    • However, if the weapon is modded with only Heat Damage Heat, the innate Cold Damage Cold will combine into Blast Damage Blast instead, with Toxin Damage Toxin as a leftover.
    • If modded with Heat Damage Heat and Electricity Damage Electricity, the weapon becomes Radiation Damage Radiation (modded Heat Damage Heat + Electricity Damage Electricity) and Viral Damage Viral (base Cold Damage Cold + bonus Toxin Damage Toxin).

*Note that the Primed and Umbra versions of a Warframe share the same element (including altered, exalted, spectral or enhanced forms such as Atlas using Rumbled, Titania in Razorwing, or Sevagoth's Shadow).

Tips

• It is recommended to bring a long-range primary, so you have an option for long-range engagements.
• Fire close to the enemy for maximum damage.
• This weapon is suitable for status and critical hybrid build
• When hunting for Kuva Larvlings make sure to bring the right Warframe for which element you want.
• Being projectile-based, Lethal Momentum Lethal Momentum and Zephyr Zephyr's Turbulence Turbulence with the Jet Stream Jet Stream augment can be used to extend the fall-off distance, giving it more range before losing damage.

Trivia

• This and the other Kuva weapons are the only weapons in the game which are built automatically without player input. 
• The characteristic to reach past the normal level cap of 30 is only shared with the other weapons in this set and the Paracesis Paracesis.

Media

Kuva Brakk Build 2020 (Guide) - The Buckshot Wonder

Kuva Brakk Skins

Nightwatch

Nusku

Perla

Patch History

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Greater than 100% Status having meaning

Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.

Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.

• (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 3.7% to 11.1%.

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Introduced.

See also

• Brakk Brakk, the normal counterpart of this weapon.