Kuva Tonkor

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Tonkor
Tradable (indirectly through Lich trading)
Innate Progenitor Bonus
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General Information
Type	Launcher
Mastery Rank Requirement	13
Max Rank	40
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Max	30
Ammo Pickup	3
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●○○ (0.90x)
Fire Rate	3.170 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	1.50 s
Projectile Speed	40.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade Impact
59 ( 100%)
Total Damage	59 (100.00%  Puncture)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	30.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.50x
Fire Rate	3.170 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Knockdown
Multishot	1 (59.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Status Chance	17.00%
Projectile Speed	40.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade Explosion
168 ( 24.93%)
204 ( 30.27%)
302 ( 44.81%)
Total Damage	674 (44.81%  Blast)
Crit Chance	30.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.50x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 7.0 m (30.00%)
Fire Rate	3.170 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (674.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	7.0 m
Status Chance	17.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE, AOE
Default Upgrades	InnateDamageRandomMod
Riven Family	Tonkor
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	8,500
Users	Kuva Lich
Variants	Kuva Tonkor  Tonkor
Vendor Sources
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CODEX

This Lich-variant grenade launcher hurls mayhem and destruction with an increased Reload Speed.

The Kuva Tonkor is the Kuva Lich variant of the  Tonkor grenade launcher, sporting increased critical chance, status chance, reserve ammo, and reload speed.

Acquisition

The Kuva Tonkor 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.

Characteristics

This weapon does primarily damage.

Advantages:

• Innate damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
  • Physical contact with grenades deal damage.
• Very high critical chance.
• High critical multiplier.
• Good status chance.
• Grenades explode in a 5 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
  • Grenades have a minimum arming distance of 6 meters, mitigating self-damage.
• Direct hits cause knockdown, whether or not the grenade explodes.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
• Fast reload speed.
• Can use the launcher-exclusive mods  Adhesive Blast and  Firestorm.
• 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 , , , , , , or damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe.

Disadvantages:

• Innate damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor.
  • Explosion damage cannot be increased by , or damage mods.
• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from ?m to ?m target distance (distances are affected by projectile flight speed).
• Low status chance.
• Grenades have travel time, heavy arcing, and needs to travel 6m before being explosive.
  • A grenade hitting an enemy without exploding causes little damage with little-to-no critical chance
• Explosions can cause self-damage.
  • Minimum travel length of 6 meters before being explosive should prevent accidental self-damage unless using  Firestorm or rapidly moving towards the grenade's impact area before it explodes.
• Extremely low magazine capacity of just 1 round, requires frequent reloading.
• Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.

Comparisons:

•  Kuva Tonkor (Grenade Explosion), compared to  Tonkor (Grenade Explosion):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (674.00 vs. 650.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
    • Higher  Puncture damage ( 168 vs. 0)
    • Higher  Slash damage ( 204 vs. 0)
    • Lower  Blast damage ( 302 vs. 650)
  • Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,078.4 vs. 650)
  • Higher base critical chance (30.00% vs. 25.00%)
  • Higher base status chance (17.00% vs. 10.00%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1563.68 vs. 893.75)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1042.45 vs. 525.73)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (861.31 vs. 443.44)
  • Faster reload time (1.50 s vs. 1.70 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 5)
  • Lower disposition (●●●○○ (0.90x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))

Notes

• The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Kuva Lich it was acquired from (e.g. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Tonkor).
• 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 Mastery Rank Experience, giving 4,000 points in total.
  • 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 Kuva Tonkor.
    • 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.
• Comes with an additional bonus damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich.

Main article: Lich System/Progenitor (edit)

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

Tips

• As with the standard Tonkor, the Kuva Tonkor's high critical chance makes it a good candidate for  Hunter Munitions.

Trivia

• The Grineer text on the side of its barrel translates to "Ravage".

Patch History

Hotfix 26.0.7 (2019-11-14)

• Explosion damage changed from 674 Blast to 176 Puncture, 270 Slash, and 228 Blast (undocumented).
• Fixed Kuva Lich weapons that do damage on both impact and explosion (Kuva Ogris, Kuva Ayanga, etc) doing significantly less overall damage than expected. This was due to the Elemental bonus only being applied to the "on impact" of the projectile itself and not the explosion.

Hotfix 26.0.4 (2019-11-05)

• Reload speed changed from 1.7 to 1.5

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Tonkor, the normal counterpart of this weapon.