The Orthos is a Tenno polearm that boasts a long reach and good status chance at the expense of critical chance and critical multiplier.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
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 20,000 |  4 |  500 |  850 |  700 | Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 180
|  Blueprints Price: 20,000
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages
- High Slash damage – effective against health.
- Good status chance.
- Stance slot has polarity, matches Bleeding Willow and Twirling Spire stances.
Disadvantages
- Second lowest base damage of all polearms, after Tonbo.
- Tied with Cassowar for the second lowest critical chance of all polearms, after Tonbo.
- Tied with Pupacyst and Serro for the second lowest critical multiplier of all polearms, after Cassowar.
- Below average attack speed.
Comparisons:
- Orthos, compared to Orthos Prime:
- Lower base damage (185.0 vs. 234.0)
- Lower critical chance (6% vs. 24%)
- Lower critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 2.2x)
- Lower status chance (18% vs. 36%)
- Lower attack speed (0.92 vs. 1.17)
- Different Stance Polarity ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (2 vs. 12)
- Higher disposition (0.85 vs. 0.6)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Orthos Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Orthos Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
NotesEdit
- The Orthos will extend slightly when drawn, and retract back after "sheathing".
TipsEdit
- Being one of the longest melee weapons (after Orthos Prime), the Orthos benefits greatly from Reach; a maxed out Reach will allow you to strike through multiple enemies, bypass Grineer Shield Lancer's shields, and strike Toxic Ancients without touching the poison cloud.
- The average range of this weapon with a maxed Reach is ~3.6 meters – about as wide as four Grineer/Corpus units standing in a line.
- Combines with Ash's maxed Smoke Screen or Loki's Invisibility for devastating attacks.
TriviaEdit
- In Greek mythology, Orthos (also known as Orthrus) is the name of a two headed dog, brother of Cerberus, which probably relates to the Orthos' two blades.
- Ortho- is a prefix in Greek which meant "straight", “upright”, “right”, or “correct”.
GalleryEdit
MediaEdit
Warframe - Orthos Animations
Warframe Orthos Review Gameplay
Warframe Orthos Animations.
Warframe Orthos Charge Attack Max Targets
Warframe Concept Art - Weapons
Orthos Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Update 26.0
Actual patch notes made a mistake on new damage number.
- Damage increased from 50 to 185.
- Range increased from 2 to 3.
- Status Chance increased from 15% to 18%.
- Critical Chance increased from 5% to 6%.
- Slam Attack increased from 100 to 555.
- Slide Attack increased from 111 to 370.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
- Follow Through reduced from 0.8 to 0.6.
- Fixed the Orthos (Prime) changing sizes randomly when cycling through skin options for it, predominantly the Forest-Camo and Tekelu skins.
- Fixed polearms clipping on some Warframes when using the standard holster position.
Hotfix: Specters of the Rail 1
- Fixed the Orthos icon in the Market.
- Fixed some weapons that expand on use not properly collapsing when use is finished (Glaive, Orthos, etc).
- Fixed an issue with the blade section of the Orthos not being able to be customized.
- Tweaks to Orthos hit sounds.
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0
See AlsoEdit
- Orthos Prime, the primed version.
Start a Discussion Discussions about Orthos
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Orthos or Fragor?
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Nice necro, bruh. -
i'm necro-ing the necro
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Orthos
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I think the Orthos looks far better then it's prime variant which is a bit of a bummer due to the fact that the prime variant is noticea...
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Get the Forest Camo, doing so will revert the skin back to the original Orthos.
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