Kuva Nukor

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Nukor
Tradable (indirectly through Lich trading)
Innate Progenitor Bonus
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General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery Rank Requirement	13
Max Rank	40
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Max	210
Ammo Pickup	20
Ammo Type	Secondary
Disposition	●○○○○ (0.50x)
Fire Rate	10.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	77
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Normal Attack
21 ( 100%)
Total Damage	21 (100.00%  Radiation)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	7.00%
Crit Multiplier	5.00x
Fire Rate	10.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (21.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	29.0 m
Status Chance	50.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	BEAM
Default Upgrades	InnateDamageRandomMod
Riven Family	Nukor
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	5,000
Users	Kuva Lich
Variants	Kuva Nukor  Nukor
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

A highly-optimized Nukor that allows for the weapon’s microwave field to hit up to two additional targets.

The Kuva Nukor is the Kuva variant of the  Nukor, with improvements to its already high critical multiplier and status chance, and increased critical chance, magazine, and range, but with marginally lower damage. Its beam has also gained the ability to chain between multiple enemies.

Characteristics

This weapon deals  Radiation damage.

Advantages:

• Innate  Radiation damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
• Highest critical multiplier of all weapons in the game.
• Tied with uncharged  Epitaph and  Tysis for the highest status chance of all secondaries.
  • Innate  Radiation confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
• Beam can chain up to 2 nearby enemies within 9 meters from the initial target, each doing 50% of the main beam's damage.
  • Enemy corpses will still allow the beam to connect to nearby enemies.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
• 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,  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin,  Magnetic, or  Radiation damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Radiation damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
  • Damage cannot be increased with  Impact,  Puncture, or  Slash mods.
• Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
• Low critical chance.
• Uses the standard 210 reserve ammo capacity, giving it a low magazine-to-reserve ratio.
• Limited range of 29 meters.
• Pulsing weapon effect blocks the reticle, making it harder to make consistent headshots with the weapon shooting at moving targets.

Comparisons:

•  Kuva Nukor (Normal Attack), compared to  Nukor (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (21.00 vs. 22.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
    • Lower  Radiation damage ( 21 vs. 22)
  • Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (33.6 vs. 22)
  • Higher base critical chance (7.00% vs. 3.00%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (5.00x vs. 4.00x)
  • Higher base status chance (50.00% vs. 29.00%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (43.00 vs. 23.98)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (430.08 vs. 239.8)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (341.40 vs. 199.83)
  • Larger magazine (77 vs. 50)
  • More ammo cost per shot (1 vs. 0.5)
  • Less shots per magazine (77 vs. 100)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 4)
  • Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x) vs. ●●●●● (1.45x))

Acquisition

Kuva Nukor 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

• Kuva Nukor can proc an invisible Status Effect called Microwave that causes the part of the enemy hit to become larger.
  • Microwave procs have infinite duration, but the visual effect does not.
  • Microwave counts as an individual status for  Condition Overload,  Galvanized Aptitude,  Galvanized Savvy, and  Galvanized Shot.
• Upon striking an enemy, the beam chains up to 2 enemies within 9 meters of the main target. Each chain beam does 50% of the main beam's damage.
  • Headshotting the original target does not affect the chain damage.
  • The beam will not chain to a Nullifier through its shield should it connect with a target outside or partially enclosed by it.
  • The beam can also continue to chain to enemies even if targeting a dead enemy or an enemy who is dead but in a dying animation.
• Punch Through will cause the main beam to chain independently from each additional target hit, potentially doubling or tripling the total damage output when fired into a crowd. The chain from the target hit after the Punch Through can deal damage to the first target, and vice versa.
• The beam can damage Rampart from the front.

Kuva/Tenet Notes

• For weapons obtained from vanquishing the Kuva Lich or Sister:
  • 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 Lich/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. a Kuva Kohm might be called "Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm").
• Refraining from Mercy killing a lich candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential lich weapons until each has been refused, but only if the mission is completed. Weapons rejected from aborted missions will remain in the current cycle.
• For weapons obtained from Ergo Glast's shop:
  • The player must meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon, as it is claimed from an NPC shop rather than the foundry.
• 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 for some beginner-friendly builds as they typically use less mod capacity.
    • 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 damage stat.
  • For Lich/Sister-obtained weapons this is dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • For Ergo Glast shop a random bonus stat will be offered for each weapon and changed every 4 days (96 hours).
  • This damage stat randomly ranges between 25%-60%. It can be upgraded up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a base damage type and will be applied after all elemental mods for the purposes of elemental combinations.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• Weapons with an innate primary element and a different primary element provided by the progenitor both behave as innate elements and combine with each other. They will also recombine with modded elements in the following order:
  • Mod slot 1 → Mod slot 2 → ... → Mod slot 8 → Innate  Heat → Innate  Cold → Innate  Electricity → Innate  Toxin

HCET Priority Results from Modding an Element

Bonus Element + Modded Element	Innate  Heat E.g.  Tenet Spirex	Innate  Cold E.g.  Tenet Envoy	Innate  Electricity E.g.  Tenet Agendus	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Cold	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	Gas	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	Gas
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	Viral	Viral +  Electricity	Viral
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	Radiation	Blast +  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	Corrosive	Corrosive
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	Gas	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	Gas
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	Viral	Magnetic +  Toxin	Viral
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	Corrosive	Corrosive

Main article: Lich System/Progenitor (edit)

*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element

Tips

• While its base critical chance is low,  Primed Pistol Gambit will allow the weapon to critically hit ~20.1% of the time.

Media

Kuva Nukor Build 2021 (Guide) - Revisiting The Crowd Killer - Warframe

Patch History

Hotfix 30.5.2 (2021-07-07)

• Changed the Kuva Nukor description from "hit up to four" to "hit up to two" as it now hits two additional targets.

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

MELEE / PRIMARY BALANCE CHANGES

We are indeed touching 1 non-Melee item in the series of Nerfs, and likely to no one’s surprise it’s the Kuva Nukor. It’s a dominant Secondary with incredible power, which is warranted given its acquisition. It’ll keep all of its signature behaviour, but the general output is being notched down slightly with the following change:

• Chains targets reduced to 2 from 4
• (Undocumented) Chain damages changed from [75%, 42.2%, 17.8%, 5.6%] to [50%, 50%]
• (Undocumented) Now chain to 2 ennemis from the main target, instead of chain from the previous target in the chain.

Hotfix 29.5.2 (2020-11-20)

• Fixed the Kuva Nukor Critical hits doing more damage to chained targets than the initial target.

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

• Fixed the Kuva Nukor weapon progression showing as complete in the Codex when at Rank 30 instead of it’s true completed Rank of 40.
• Optimized the Kuva Nukor’s FX.

Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Nukor, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
•  Atomos, a Grineer particle cannon with a functionally equivalent chaining beam.
•  Amprex, a Corpus rifle with a functionally equivalent chaining beam.