The Lato Vandal is the Vandal version of the 
Lato, gaining improved damage and accuracy in exchange for a reduced rate of fire.
This weapon can be sold for 
2,500.
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Rush:  50
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Acquisition
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This weapon was available to anyone who logged in during the Closed Beta (Excluding the Open Beta Weekend) upon the game transitioning into Open Beta (Update 7). It originally had no rank restriction, so anyone who logged in during the Closed Beta could acquire it, regardless of time spent playing the game.
After the game entered Open Beta, Lato Vandal was unobtainable until Update 22.18, in which it was added as a reward in Elite Sanctuary Onslaught, a game mode introduced in that update. All the parts can be traded, although players must have a Mastery Rank of at least 7 to acquire the blueprint.
CharacteristicsEdit
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages
- Good base damage.
- High critical chance and damage.
- Good accuracy.
- Good magazine size.
- Very high reload speed.
- Has a Polarity slot.
Disadvantages
- Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
- Low status chance.
Comparisons:
- Lato Vandal, compared to Lato:
- Higher base damage (46.0 vs. 30.0)
- Higher critical chance (26% vs. 10%)
- Higher critical multiplier (2.4x vs. 1.8x)
- Higher status chance (10% vs. 6%)
- Lower fire rate (5 rounds/sec vs. 6.67 rounds/sec)
- More accurate (23 vs. 18)
- Different polarities ( vs. None)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (7 vs. 0)
- Lato Vandal, compared to Lato Prime:
- Lower base damage (46.0 vs. 48.0)
- Lower critical chance (26% vs. 30%)
- Higher critical multiplier (2.4x vs. 2x)
- Lower status chance (10% vs. 20%)
- Lower fire rate (5 rounds/sec vs. 6.67 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (15 rounds vs. 20 rounds)
- More accurate (23 vs. 18)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (7 vs. 14)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Lato Vandal Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Lato Vandal Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
TipsEdit
- The Lato Vandal has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, making it a prime candidate for a Desecrating Nekros to bring along, as the game considers the cut corpses as separate entities, essentially giving multiple corpses to desecrate from a single enemy and thus yielding more chances to create more drops.
TriviaEdit
- As mentioned above, the Lato Vandal was originally rewarded to players who participated in WARFRAME's Closed Beta period, as a then-exclusive gift from DE as detailed in this blog post. This made it a surefire way of distinguishing players who played WARFRAME since the beginning.
- Prior to Update 22, the Lato Vandal had limited customization options, wherein the selected color would be combined with the existing Vandal colors.
MediaEdit
Warframe Lato Vandal
Lato Vandal Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Hotfix 22.18.7
- Lato Vandal Barrel drop rate reduced from 3.16% to 2.46% in ESO.
- Reintroduced as a reward from Elite Sanctuary Onslaught.
- Mastery Rank increased from 4 to 7.
- Status chance increased from 5% to 10%.
- Crit chance increased from 20 to 26%.
- Critical damage increased from 2x to 2.4x.
- Damage decreased from 50 to 46.
- Updated icon for the Lato Vandal.
- All Vandal weapons are now color tintable.
- Increased damage from 20 to 50.
- Increased Crit Chance from 8% to 20%.
- Increased Mastery Rank requirement from 0 to 4.
- The Lato Vandal has had its firing sounds remastered!
- Kintsugi and Nocturne weapon skins added.
Hotfix: Specters of the Rail 1
- Slightly increased the damage of Lato Vandal in Conclave.
- Conclave Skin added.
- Fixed the Lato Vandal Halloween Skin from appearing in the Market on its own.
- Lato series damage increased in Conclave.
- Updated fire sounds for the Lato Vandal.
- Damage decreased from 31 to 27.
- Crit Chance increased from 5% to 7.5%.
- Awarded to players who participated in the Closed Beta.
Last updated: Hotfix 23.6.2
See alsoEdit
- Lato, the original counterpart of this gun.
- Lato Prime, the prime counterpart of the regular Lato.
Start a Discussion Discussions about Lato Vandal
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The Lato Vandal's Drop Location is a bit too Grindy?
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It's not even a founders item, it's a beta players item... That said, I agree that it being it's current rarity is fine, it... -
If you can't handle the grind, then don't invest. If you want to invest, then learn. Don't be a whiny gamer about this title.
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Trading weapons like the Lato Prime/Vandal
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They have had qustions asked about the rewards like vandals/wraiths for events being reimplemented with the quest-versions of the events, bu...
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when it comes to this stuff they should allow people to remove the items they cant ever get again or stuff like xcal prime off the codex i mean...
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