Lavos/Abilities

Passive

• Valence Block
• Special Casting
• Rank Bonuses

Valence Block

Purifying himself from all ailments,  Lavos cleanses all active negative Status Effects and gains status immunity for 10 seconds upon collecting an Energy or Universal Orb. Picking up an Energy or Universal Orb has a cooldown of 5 seconds.

• Buff duration is renewed to full upon collecting a new orb.
• Valence Block buff icon and timer are shown beside Lavos' shield and health indicators.
• While activated, three serpent-like energy particle effects encircle Lavos' body.
• If Lavos is injured with missing health, Universal Orbs are collectible to heal him with no cooldown period in between.
• When Lavos' Companion is equipped with  Synth Fiber, all nearby Health and Universal Orbs will be collected, bypassing Lavos' innate orb pickup cooldown entirely.

Special Casting

Stats and Modding

 Lavos has no energy capacity and his abilities do not use any resource to activate. Instead, each of his abilities are free to cast with a cooldown in between uses. The  Ability Efficiency stat will instead affect the cooldown reduction effect from  Transmutation Probe and  Swift Bite.

• Mods which convert energy spent on abilities to shields, such as  Brief Respite or the Augur Mod Set, do not replenish shields.
• Because Lavos can still pick up energy orbs, mods or arcanes that benefit from picking up energy, such as  Equilibrium,  Energy Conversion, and  Arcane Energize, still function.
• Subsumed abilities injected into Lavos via the Helminth system will cost 0 energy, but instead incur a 10 second cooldown after cast and disable the elemental imbuement hold-function (see below) associated with the ability button.
  • On non-recastable abilities (e.g.  Roar), the cooldown begins after the ability's duration expires, unless modded with an augment that allows it to be recastable (e.g.  Piercing Roar).
  • On channeled abilities (e.g.  Gloom), they instead have a 12 second base duration.

The  Ability Duration stat will also affect the Status Duration stat uniquely innate to Lavos, which extends or shortens the duration of all status effects created by Lavos using his weapons and abilities.

Elemental Imbuement

Experiment and unleash volatile mixtures of the deadly elements. Hold down one of the four ability buttons (default 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ) to imbue a Primary Elemental damage type ( Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, and  Heat respectively) into the mixing vial displayed above Lavos' ability icons. Imbuement has no cost nor cooldown between uses.

• Elemental imbuement is available by default to Lavos at Warframe Rank 0 without requiring his abilities to be fully unlocked.
• Primary Elements are shown in the four smaller diamond-shaped icons below the mixing vial. When an ability button is held down, its diamond icon is briefly highlighted until the element is mixed in.
• Combine with a different element to produce a Secondary Elemental damage type:  Blast (2 +4 ),  Corrosive (1 +3 ),  Gas (1 +4 ),  Magnetic (2 +3 ),  Radiation (3 +4 ), and  Viral (1 +2 ).
  • Inputs can be in any order, or the hotkeys can be held down together to instantly produce a Secondary Elemental damage type.
• The Imbued Primary or Secondary Element is shown in the vial with a colorcoded emblem and plays a unique sound effect upon mixing.
• With an element in the mixing vial, Lavos' next ability cast drains the vial to add the Primary or Secondary Elemental damage type, onto the chosen ability dealing an extra instance of damage and status proc.
  • The same Primary Elemental damage type can be imbued onto an ability that already inflicts that damage type (e.g.  Ophidian Bite imbued with  Toxin,  Vial Rush imbued with  Cold, etc) to double the damage and status proc.
  • Imbued Primary Elemental damage types do not merge with the ability's innate damage type.
  • Non-damaging status effects inflicted by all of Lavos' abilities ( Cold,  Blast,  Corrosive,  Magnetic,  Radiation, and  Viral) will proc 3 stacks in a single application of elemental status.
  • Lavos' mixing vial is only cleared of its elemental contents upon imbuing an ability.
  • Elements can be imbued even if Lavos cannot use the ability.
• Imbuement is only available from Lavos' original abilities, therefore a subsumed ability replacement from the Helminth system will disable the associated element on the ability button.
  • Imbuement also cannot be applied onto subsumed abilities.

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Rank Bonuses

Unlike most Warframes, when Lavos ranks up he receives a special set of rank bonuses which are indicated at the top-left of the Warframe Upgrade screen:

• +20 Health every three ranks, starting at rank 1.
• +10 Shield every three ranks, starting at rank 2.
• +10 Armor every three ranks, starting at rank 3.

At rank 30, this results in a total of:

• +200 Health
• +100 Shield
• +100 Armor

• Augment

Main article: Valence Formation

Valence Formation is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Lavos that allows weapons to gain the corresponding element of an ability whenever it is cast, with a guaranteed status effect.

Rank	Elemental Damage	Duration	Cost
0	50%	20s	6
1	100%	20s	7
2	150%	20s	8
3	200%	20s	9

Abilities

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Main article: Ophidian Bite (edit)

	1 8	Ophidian Bite Lash out with a toxic serpentine strike, consuming the target to heal Lavos. Hold to imbue all abilities with Toxin. Introduced in Update 29.6 (2020-12-18)	Strength:500 / 650 / 800 / 1,000 ( Toxin damage) 500 / 650 / 800 / 1,000 (imbued elemental damage) 7.5 / 10 / 12 / 15 % (damage to health conversion)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:10 m
			Misc: 100° (cone angle) 100% (Status Chance) 100% (Melee Finisher vulnerability)

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• Lavos' serpents uncurl from his arms, lashing outward in a 100 degree cone spanning 10 meters in front of Lavos. Enemies in direct line of sight and in range receive a venomous bite that inflicts 500 / 650 / 800 / 1,000  Toxin and 500 / 650 / 800 / 1,000 Imbued Elemental damage and Status Effects, while briefly opening the affected enemies to Melee Finisher prompts (default X ); each enemy bitten also heals Lavos' Health pool for 7.5% / 10% / 12% / 15% of total damage dealt. Casting Ophidian Bite triggers a cooldown of 8 seconds before the ability can be recast.
  • Cooldown timer countdown is displayed on the ability icon.
• Ability Synergy:
  • Hold down the ability key (default 1 ) to add  Toxin damage to Lavos' mixing vial at no cost, as the Imbued Elemental damage type for his next ability cast.
    • Utilize  Toxin as key ingredient to produce  Corrosive,  Gas, or  Viral damage.
  •  Transmutation Probe reduces Ophidian Bite's active cooldown for each enemy it electrocuted.
  •  Toxin status effects inflicted on enemies by Ophidian Bite enhance  Catalyze's damage.
• Casting Ophidian Bite is a full-body animation that restricts movement and other actions. Casting from midair causes Lavos to dive toward the ground to complete the ability animation while standing on a surface.
• Lavos visually spreads his arms outward as his serpents stretch and converge toward the aiming reticle, while a forward converging energy force pushes outward and venom-like liquid particles outline the ability's conical area, before the serpents retract and coil themselves around Lavos' arms. Serpents and energy particles are affected by Lavos' Appearance colors.

Augment

Main article: Swift Bite

Swift Bite is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Lavos's  Ophidian Bite that increases its Ability Range while granting an ability cooldown reduction for all of his abilities if at least four enemies are hit.

Swift Bite

Main article: Vial Rush (edit)

	2 5	Vial Rush Dash forward, crashing through enemies and leaving an icy trail of broken vials. Hold to imbue the next ability cast with Cold. Introduced in Update 29.6 (2020-12-18)	Strength:100 / 150 / 200 / 250 /s ( Cold damage per second) 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 /s (imbued elemental damage per second)
			Duration:4 / 6 / 7 / 8 s (residue duration)
			Range:30 m (charge distance) 14 / 17 / 20 / 24 (vial charges) 4 / 5 / 7 / 9 m (explosion radius)
			Misc: 2 m (residue radius)  Cold and imbued elemental status proc per second 3 ( Cold status effect stacks per proc) 0.5 s (cancel delay)
			Subsumable to Helminth

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• Lavos charges forward in a sustained slide steerable with the left and right movement keys (default A , D ) for a distance of 30 meters, while his serpents rapidly throw out up to 14 / 17 / 20 / 24 vials from his waist belt. Thrown vials fall toward Lavos' left and right sides in an arcing trajectory, shattering on impact with solid surfaces leaving a trail behind him; shattered vials leave behind a pool of frozen residue at their impact zone, each lingering for 4 / 6 / 7 / 8 seconds and spanning a 2 meter radius that inflicts 100 / 150 / 200 / 250  Cold and 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 Imbued Elemental damage and status effects per second, to all enemies standing within the pools. At the end of his charge, Lavos emits an icy explosion spanning a 4 / 5 / 7 / 9 meter radius that inflicts a single instance of the  Cold and Imbued Elemental damage and status effects, while throwing out a ring of vials that shatter around his destination. Casting Vial Rush triggers a cooldown of 5 seconds at the end of Lavos' rush before he can charge again.
  • Explosion does not require enemies to be in direct line of sight to receive damage and status effects.
  • Cooldown timer countdown is shown on the ability icon after Lavos completes his charge.
  • While charging, Lavos is still land-bound and will drop down to the lowest terrain elevation in his path.
  • While charging, Lavos will attempt to slip pass obstacles in his path to continue his way. If held in place by an obstacle for at least two seconds, Vial Rush automatically stops, triggering the explosion and throwing the remaining vials out.
  • Due to being a non-damaging status effect, Vial Rush's  Cold status procs will stack 3 times per application as part of Lavos' passive mechanics.
  • Vials have travel time as arcing projectiles that are affected by projectile-altering abilities such as  Mag's  Magnetize.
• Halt Lavos in his tracks during his charge, triggering the explosion and releasing all remaining vials around him by pressing the jump key (default Spacebar ) to instantly stop; alternatively, press the ability key again (default 2 ) after Lavos dashed for at least 0.5 seconds to end Vial Rush early.
• Ability Synergy:
  • Hold down the ability key (default 2 ) to add  Cold damage to Lavos' mixing vial at no cost, as the Imbued Elemental damage type for his next ability cast.
    • Utilize  Cold as key ingredient to produce  Blast,  Magnetic, or  Viral damage.
  •  Transmutation Probe reduces Vial Rush's active cooldown for each enemy it electrocuted. If enemies were electrocuted while Lavos is charging, the cooldown reduction carries over to Vial Rush's cooldown.
  •  Cold status effects inflicted on enemies by Vial Rush enhance  Catalyze's damage.
• Can be cast and interrupted while moving or in midair.
• Casting and interrupting Vial Rush are full-body animations that restrict movement and other actions.
• Nullifier Crewman and Isolator Bursa bubbles will interrupt Vial Rush if Lavos comes into contact with them.
  • Lavos will halt inside the bubble, triggering the icy explosion and releasing the remaining vials. Vials flung inside the nullification bubble will harmlessly disappear.
  • Vials touching the bubble from the outside will bounce away and land around it.
  • Residual pools fizzle away on contact with the bubble.
• Lavos visually assumes a sliding posture as he charges forward with energy trailing from his hands, while his serpents frantically flail in the air, rapidly grabbing and throwing vials from his waist belt. Upon stopping his charge, Lavos reels back as the icy explosion rapidly expands around him. Energy trails, vials, and residue pools are affected by Lavos' Appearance colors.
  • Residue pools resemble a cluster of floating frozen ice blocks with the broken vial at their center. When Vial Rush is imbued with a different element, unique energy particle effects emit from the pools representing the additional elemental damage type.
• Subsuming Lavos to the Helminth will offer Vial Rush and its augments to be used by other Warframes.
  • Subsumed Vial Rush includes the 0 energy cost, 5 second cooldown, as well as 3  Cold status proc stacks per application from the explosion and residue pools.
  • Subsumed Vial Rush does not include the hold-cast to imbue the next ability cast with  Cold damage.

Main article: Transmutation Probe (edit)

	3 10	Transmutation Probe Launch a probe that converts Health and Energy Orbs into Universal Orbs that provide both, and ammo pickups into Universal Ammo Pickups. The probe shocks enemies in close proximity. Each electrocuted foe reduces other ability cooldowns by one second. Hold to imbue the next ability cast with Electricity. Introduced in Update 29.6 (2020-12-18)	Strength:100 / 150 / 200 / 250 /s ( Electricity damage per second) 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 /s (imbued elemental damage per second)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:3 / 4 / 5 / 6 m
			Efficiency: 1.5 s (Cooldown Reduction per enemy shocked)
			Misc: 15 m/s (probe speed) 3 s (probe duration)  Electricity and imbued elemental status proc per second 0.5 s (halt delay) 25 HP/EP (Universal Orb restore) 1x (Universal Ammo restore)

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• Lavos launches an advanced alchemical apparatus toward the direction of the aiming reticle. The Transmutation Probe is an invulnerable floating device that travels at a speed of 15 meters per second, lasting for 3 seconds, as it emits a field of electrical currents spanning a 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 meter radius. Enemies within the electric field receive 100 / 150 / 200 / 250  Electricity and 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 Imbued Elemental damage and status effects per second; for each enemy electrocuted, 1.5 seconds is removed from the active cooldowns on Lavos' other abilities. Press the ability key again (default 3 ) after the ability has been active for at least 0.5 seconds, to hold the probe's position at its current location. Casting Transmutation Probe triggers a cooldown of 10 seconds after the probe expires.
  • Electric field does not require enemies to be in direct line of sight to apply damage and status effects.
  • The probe's duration timer is shown on the ability icon and must expire before the ability cooldown begins.
    • Therefore, Transmutation Probe cannot reduce its own cooldown timer.
  • Each enemy shocked may only reduce Lavos' other active ability cooldowns once per probe, not repeatedly while they stay in the field.
  • Although appearing as a floating object, the probe is affected by gravity and will drift down to the lowest available horizontal surface as it travels.
  • The probe collides with solid obstacles in the environment, stopping its movement prematurely.
  • Halting the probe by pressing the ability key again will stop the probe's movement permanently until it expires.
• Standard Pickups on the ground that pass through the probe's field, including Health Orbs, Energy Orbs, and Ammo Packs, are transmuted into special Universal variants; Universal Orb provides 25 Health and Energy points, while Universal Ammo Pack replenishes 1x Ammo Pickup for all equipped weapons.
  • Universal pickup restore values are not affected by mods.
  • Universal Orb is considered both a health orb and energy orb, allowing it to trigger on-pickup Arcanes such as  Arcane Eruption and  Arcane Pulse, as well as activate mods such as  Health Conversion,  Energy Conversion, and  Equilibrium.
• Ability Synergy:
  • Hold down the ability key (default 3 ) to add  Electricity damage to Lavos' mixing vial at no cost, as the Imbued Elemental damage type for his next ability cast.
    • Utilize  Electricity as key ingredient to produce  Corrosive,  Magnetic, or  Radiation damage.
  • Transmutation Probe reduces all active cooldowns on Lavos' other abilities, including Helminth Subsumed abilities, for each enemy it electrocuted. If enemies were electrocuted while Lavos' other abilities are in use, but their cooldowns have not yet begun, the cooldown reduction is carried over to the cooldowns.
  •  Electricity status effects inflicted on enemies by Transmutation Probe enhance  Catalyze's damage.
• Can be cast and halted while moving or in midair. The probe will descend in a diagonal glide to the ground.
• Casting Transmutation Probe is an upper-body animation that allows movement while restricting other actions. Holding the probe's position does not play an animation on Lavos.
• Nullifier Crewman and Isolator Bursa bubbles are considered solid objects that block Transmutation Probe from traveling through them.
• Lavos visually summons the Transmutation Probe from his right hand as he throws the probe forward. The probe remains in perpetual motion rotating its upper half counterclockwise and lower half clockwise, while emitting two jets of gas for propulsion. Electrical currents forming the transmutation field encircle the probe in a similar pattern to electrons orbiting an atom. While in motion, the probe pushes a large spiraling energy force.
  • When a different element is imbued, the electrical currents adopt different appearances and energy particles representing the additional elemental damage type.
  • Transmutation Probe, gas jets, electrical currents, elemental particles, and energy force are affected by Lavos' Appearance colors.
• Universal Orb visually appears as a pulsating, rippling orb with a diluted blue outer layer enveloping a red inner core. Universal Ammo Pack shares the same model as those produced by  Protea's  Dispensary.

Main article: Catalyze (edit)

	4 30	Catalyze Catalyst Probes erupt from Lavos and douse combatants in a fiery gel. Damage is doubled for each element afflicting an enemy. Hold to imbue the next ability cast with Heat. Introduced in Update 29.6 (2020-12-18)	Strength:1,000 / 1,500 / 1,750 / 2,000 ( Heat damage) 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,750 / 2,000 (imbued elemental damage)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:8.33 m/s (probe speed) 15 / 18 / 20 / 25 m (maximum distance)
			Misc: 9 (number of probes) 3 s (travel time) 5 m (gel mist reach)  Heat and imbued elemental status proc on hit 100 % (damage increase per status effect)

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• Lavos materializes a satellite ring of 9 Catalyst Probes that fan out in all directions, traveling in a zigzag pattern at a speed of 8.33 meters per second for 3 seconds to reach a maximum distance of 15 / 18 / 20 / 25 meters before dissipating. Catalyst Probes are invulnerable and intangible flying devices that continuously spray a mist of highly flammable gel that extends 5 meters above and below the probes, to coat all enemies coming into contact. Enemies coated by the gel receive 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,750 / 2,000  Heat plus 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,750 / 2,000 Imbued Elemental damage and guaranteed status effects of both. Damage is further increased by 100% for each unique elemental Status Effect active on an enemy before being coated by the gel. Casting Catalyze triggers a cooldown of 30 seconds after the probes reach their maximum distance and expire.
  • Damage is calculated by Damage = (Base Damage + Imbued Damage) × 2^{Unique Status Effects} × (1 + Strength Mods)
    • Proc damage is based on the portion of base/imbued damage. For example, imbuing  Heat does not double the damage for each heat proc, it merely applies two procs.
  • Status effects of Physical damage types ( Impact,  Puncture, and  Slash), as well as  Void,  Lifted, and  Nukor's unique Microwave effect do not increase Catalyze's damage.
  • Catalyze's  Heat and Imbued Elemental status procs are applied after the damage increase per status effect calculation.
  • The remaining travel time for all probes is shown on the ability icon and must expire before the ability cooldown begins.
  • Although the gel mist visual effect appears several meters in front of the Catalyst Probes, enemies must be passed over by the probes to be affected by the ability.
  • Catalyst Probes only travel along the horizontal axis centered on Lavos' torso when the casting animation completes. Probes phase through all entities and obstacles in the environment as they travel.
• Ability Synergy:
  • Hold down the ability key (default 4 ) to add  Heat damage to Lavos' mixing vial at no cost, as the Imbued Elemental damage type for his next ability cast.
    • Utilize  Heat as key ingredient to produce  Blast,  Gas, or  Radiation damage.
  •  Transmutation Probe reduces Catalyze's active cooldown for each enemy it electrocuted. If enemies were electrocuted during Catalyst Probes' flight time, the cooldown reduction carries over to Catalyze's cooldown.
  • Each type of elemental status effects inflicted on enemies by weapons and abilities enhances Catalyze's damage.
• Can be cast while in midair.
• Casting Catalyze is a full-body animation that restricts movement and other actions. Catalyst Probes will spawn from Lavos at the end of the casting animation.
• Nullifier Crewman and Isolator Bursa bubbles do not dispel Catalyst Probes on contact, but will protect enemies from the gel sprays within the spheres.
• Lavos visually summons the Catalyst Probes from his right hand, raising his arm from front to back while forming a crescent ring above him, then reaching out collecting the probes into an Ayatan-like formation before launching the probes out in all directions. Catalyst Probes appear as horseshoe in shape with a gel vial attached to the inside of the ring. Probes emit gel blobs and two jets of gel spray from their sides, while pushing a wall of energy-like mist in front of them as they slither forward through the air.
  • Enemies hit by Catalyze emit a special fiery combustion visual effect as they catch on fire.
  • Enemies killed by Catalyze leave residual energy particles that represent heat and the imbued elemental damage type.
  • Catalyst Probes, gel blobs, sprays, mist, combustion, and elemental particles are affected by Lavos' Appearance colors.

Strength Mods	Duration Mods	Range Mods

See Also

•  Lavos