Lephantis

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Lephantis is a massive, multi-headed Infested boss created to fight in the Old War, introduced in Update 10.0.

It is found in the Assassination mission located in the Orokin Derelict. To fight Lephantis, the player must craft a Derelict Assassination key, which requires five Lephantis Nav Coordinates that are only obtained from Derelict missions. After defeating it and finishing the mission, the player will receive a Nekros component blueprint. Each of its heads are also capable of dropping Neurodes and Orokin Cells in addition to its main body, potentially totaling up to four resource drops.

AppearanceEdit

Lephantis is a large amalgamated creature with three heads: Infested Corpus, Infested Grineer, and Ancient Infested. All three heads are connected to a large spherical body, which has three legs positioned like a tripod.

During the mission, Lephantis may taunt the player with one of these lines:

• "Unburden yourself from this mortal coil, [player name]. Join Us."
• "Why do you destroy us? We are your flesh."
• "We are countless. Consume us. Be reborn."
• "We embrace you. Why do you defile us?"

BehaviorEdit

Throughout Phase 1, each of Lephantis's three heads will emerge of the ground before attacking, which causes knockdown to any nearby Tenno. In Phase 2, its main body can create shockwaves that knockdown.

Infested Corpus	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Derelict	Codex Scans	N/A
	Ability	Toxin Grenade Spawn Infested Pod	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Parry 38.72% Pressure Point 38.72% Eleventh Storm 7.52% Equilibrium 7.52% Provoked 7.52%
	Fossilized	P1: 1200, P2: 400
	++++++-‐‐‐‐‐
	Affinity	1000

The Infested Corpus head resembles a severely mutated Corpus helmet with a mouth taking up its entire face, with a set of tentacles on either side that cover it up when not attacking. It can spit deadly poison grenades at great distances, leaving behind clouds that deal high damage and ignore shields. It can also release Infested spawn pods similar to those dropped by Boilers which will spawn multiple basic Infested units over time until it is either destroyed or expires on its own, leaving behind a cloud of poison.

Infested Grineer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Derelict	Codex Scans	N/A
	Ability	Scythe	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Parry 38.72% Pressure Point 38.72% Eleventh Storm 7.52% Equilibrium 7.52% Provoked 7.52%
	Fossilized	P1: 1200, P2: 400
	++++++-‐‐‐‐‐
	Base Multiplier	Face: 2.0x
	Affinity	1000

The Infested Grineer head has a three-pronged jaw and wields a massive organic scythe-arm. It will either swing its scythe in a wide horizontal sweep or downward with an overhead strike. The scythe is capable of destroying obstacles in the arena as well as inflicting knockdowns with every hit. Its face is located below the jaw, which appears to be the Grineer that was merged into Lephantis long ago; it will only reveal itself when it attacks.

Ancient Infested	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Derelict	Codex Scans	N/A
	Ability	Sticky Bombs	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Parry 38.72% Pressure Point 38.72% Eleventh Storm 7.52% Equilibrium 7.52% Provoked 7.52%
	Fossilized	P1: 1200, P2: 400
	++++++-‐‐‐‐‐
	Affinity	1000

The Ancient Infested head sports a long, stout jaw as well as the "crown" that normal Ancients have on their backs. It will spit an arc of Spore Bombs that explode a second after hitting the ground. While the bombs have a wide radius and deal a high amount of damage, they do not ignore shields.

StrategyEdit

In addition to its high health pool and immunity to Status Effects, Lephantis has a mechanic which reduces the amount of damage players can do per shot, affecting the initial projectile and further reducing the damage for any additional pellets. As such it is advised to bring high ammo efficiency weapons.

Phase 1Edit

Throughout the fight, each of Lephantis's heads will emerge from the ground in intervals and attack, allowing players to hit them. They are all completely immune to damage except on their pink weak spots, which are only revealed when they attack: the Corpus head's weak spot is its mouth, the Ancient head's weak spot is its neck, and the Grineer head has two weak spots - the mouth and the "face", with the latter taking increased damage.

The fight begins with the Infested Corpus head appearing first, and the Ancient Infested head following soon after. When enough combined damage has been dealt to the Corpus and Ancient heads, they will temporarily retreat and the Grineer head will emerge alone. After the Grineer head retreats, all three heads will be able to emerge and attack together.

Phase 2Edit

Once all three heads have been defeated, the ground will rumble and all three heads will emerge at once, destroying the entire floor. Players will fall down into the ruins below, where the body of Lephantis resides. This area is darker and has small pools of electrified water, which cause players to take Electricity damage when stepping in them.

Phase 2 is much the same as Phase 1, except all three heads are present at the same time and they cannot retreat, attached to its main body which stomps around and rotates in its arena. Once a head is defeated, it will explode and leave behind a stump on Lephantis' body that will periodically spit out Spore Grenades.

Once all heads have been destroyed, the body of Lephantis will collapse and explode.

SummaryEdit

• Phase 1: Wait for Lephantis's heads to emerge and reveal their weakspot, then deplete their health.
• Phase 2: All of Lephantis's heads are now permanently active. Repeat above once more.

NotesEdit

• The Corpus head encountered during Phase 1 is slightly weak against Puncture damage.
• Lephantis' heads during Phase 1 are affected by  Bane of Infested and similar Infested mods, but they are unaffected by them in Phase 2.
• Limbo can be damaged by the Corpus and Infested heads' projectile attacks while in the Rift plane, so it is advisable to keep moving while in the Rift.
• Mesa cannot use her Peacemaker ability to damage the heads, as the ability targets the center mass of the body, rather than the damageable weak points.
• The Lephantis fight may be made easier through a combination of slowing abilities that extend the window to attack its weak spots for longer
  • Using the  Infested Impedance aura will slows all Infested -- including Lephantis -- by up to 18% at max rank.
  • WarFrame abilities such as Frost's  Snow Globe, Rhino's Rhino Stomp, and Nova's Molecular Prime. Trinity's Energy Vampire will also slow Lephantis in addition to providing energy.
  • With the Zenurik focus schools' Temporal Blast the Lephantis will be slowed up to 80% for 15 seconds at max rank.
• Titania can use Razorwing to stay airborne and easily avoid most of Lephantis' attacks while dealing high damage.
  • Targeting the heads however might become difficult, as Lephantis will re-position itself and seek after Titania's razorflies instead of Titania herself.
• Mirage with sufficient ability strength and energy can make the second phase much easier to survive with Eclipse, due to the lower area being considered completely in shadow.
• Banshee can potentially, although rarely, highlight a weak spot with Sonar, allowing for increased damage to it.
• Players can scan the individual heads in the first phase and scan Lephantis' body in the second phase. However, only the body scan counts towards the Codex entry.
• Using weapons that have innate Punch Through or using Punch Through mods can allow the user to shoot through invulnerable parts of Lephantis to hit the weak spots. This is only possible when weak spots are already revealed, as the heads otherwise have stages of total invulnerability.
• Using a Specter and having it hold position can be useful to keep Lephantis from rotating or moving around, although the specter will despawn after phase transition.
• If the player has attracted and spawned a Juggernaut, it is recommended to kill it before starting Lephantis' fight, as the Juggernaut will follow the player into the fight otherwise. This may make the fight significantly harder as Juggernaut's gas cloud attack affects a large area, which may be dangerous in the close quarters of the fight, and it can also spawn additional Infested enemies.
• If tackling solo, with one or more specters, be aware that this mission will auto-fail if the player does not kill an enemy within 15 minutes (heads do not count, specter kills do not count).

TriviaEdit

• Lephantis was previously known as the J-2000 Golem. It was originally going to replace the now retired J3-Golem boss on Jupiter, but was moved to the Orokin Derelict tileset instead.
• Lephantis was the first boss to not directly drop a blueprint. Players would always get a blueprint for one of Nekros's components as a mission reward once they reach extraction. Later updates have since applied this to the other bosses.
• In spite of Lephantis' renaming, the Nav Coordinates required to craft Derelict Assassination keys were still referred to as "Golem Nav Coordinates" until Update 16.4, where they were finally labelled as "Lephantis Nav Coordinates."
• Underneath the Infested Grineer head there is a person's face, akin to Dark Sector boss Mezner who also is fought in a large arena-type area and whose face is distorted and stretched over the Infested creature.
• Lephantis' taunt sounds are similar to those of Lieutenant Lech Kril, albeit more distorted.
• Originally upon defeating the three heads in Phase 1, the ceiling would break causing the floor to crumble from the falling debris. This was changed in favor of Lephantis breaking the ground directly.
• Lephantis is currently the second-largest Assassination boss in the game, beaten only by the Jordas Golem.
• A hologram of Lephantis can be seen in the Dojo Bio Labs. Furthermore, to the left of the hologram one of Lephantis' legs is enclosed within one of the containers.
• Each head of Lephantis may be a reference to The Three Wise Monkeys, with the Infested Ancient head covering the sides (which could represent ears), the Infested Grineer head covering an eye-like stalk, and the Infested Corpus head covering its mouth.

Patch HistoryEdit

Last updated: Hotfix 22.3.4

Bosses
Grineer	Planet	Captain Vor (Mercury/Ceres) • Councilor Vay Hek (Earth) • General Sargas Ruk (Saturn) • Kela De Thaym (Sedna) • Lieutenant Lech Kril (Mars/Ceres) • Tyl Regor (Uranus)
	Mission	The Grustrag Three (Assassin) • Ven'kra Tel and Sprag (Orokin Sabotage)
	Event	Balor Fomorian (Fomorian Fleet)
Corpus	Planet	Alad V and Zanuka (Jupiter) • Ambulas (Pluto) • Jackal (Venus) • Hyena Pack (Neptune) • Raptors (Europa) • The Sergeant (Phobos)
	Mission	Exploiter Orb (Orb Vallis) • Lynx (Orokin Sabotage) • Profit-Taker Orb (Orb Vallis) • Zanuka Hunter (Assassin)
	Event	Razorback (Razorback Armada)
Infested	Planet	Jordas Golem (Eris) • Juggernaut Behemoth (Eris) • Mutalist Alad V (Eris) • Lephantis (Orokin Derelict) • Zealoid Prelate (Orokin Derelict)
	Mission	Juggernaut (Infested Ship)
	Event	Phorid (Phorid Manifestation) • Hemocyte (Plains of Eidolon - Operation: Plague Star)
Orokin	Mission	Corrupted Vor (Void)
Sentient	Planet	Ropalolyst (Jupiter)
	Mission	Eidolon Teralyst • Gantulyst • Hydrolyst (Plains of Eidolon)
	Event	Condrix (Earth - Operation: Scarlet Spear)
Stalker	Mission	Stalker or Shadow Stalker (Assassin)
	Event	Acolytes
Unaffiliated	Mission	Wolf of Saturn Six

Infested
Walker	Charger • Leaper • Maggot • Runner • Undying Flyer • Volatile Runner
Crawler	Crawler • Electric Crawler • Lobber Crawler • Nauseous Crawler • Toxic Crawler
Mutalist proxies	Mutalist Osprey • Swarm Mutalist MOA • Tar Mutalist MOA • Power Carrier • Venin Mutalist
Ancient	Ancient Disruptor • Ancient Healer • Boiler • Brood Mother • Leaping Thrasher • Toxic Ancient
Archwing	Attack Mutalist • Mutalist Lightning Carrier • Mutalist Toxic Carrier
Event	Hemocyte • Zealot Baptizer • Zealot Herald • Zealot Proselytizer
Others	Infested Tumor • Zealoid Bastion
Bosses
Jordas Golem • Juggernaut (Behemoth) • Lephantis • Mutalist Alad V • Phorid • Zealoid Prelate