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Powerfists are similar to Butchers, but use a single Furax Furax instead. Like Flameblades, they tend to take cover until a player is close, which can allow them to ambush players. This is further aided by their faster sprint speed. Upon closing on players Powerfists will charge their melee to inflict massive damage, and then follows it up with a combo of quick melee. Powerfists have a much longer charge time than Butchers, but after their long charge they will attack like normal. They can also perform a powerful ground slam, knocking enemies up in the air and inflicting DmgElectricitySmall64 Electricity damage.


Tactics[]

  • They possess similar attack strategies as Butchers.
  • When Powerfists "prepare" to hit their target, their animation speed is set to be slower compared to other melee Grineer. This makes headshots surprisingly convenient.
  • Powerfists can deal a DmgViralSmall64 Viral status effect when they hit, temporarily increasing damage dealt to health.
  • Their electric status effects are guaranteed on their special slam attacks and deal scaling damage based on their level. As Sentinel companions are within range of the electrical arcs they are very susceptible to the damage and can outright be killed by proxy of the status effect on the player.

Spawning Tips[]

  • Powerfists, which only spawn in non-endless missions with a minimum mission level of at least 10, are most frequently found on Grineer Galleons near Mars, Ceres, Saturn or Sedna but may also appear on Grineer Asteroids (Saturn or Sedna) or within Grineer Shipyards (Sedna only).
  • Powerfists can be commonly found in Capture mission types, such as Cassini, Saturn. They also appear frequently in Sabotage missions, such as Enceladus, Saturn.
  • Mobile Defense missions, including Charybdis, Sedna, have a very high spawn rate for Powerfists. These can be potentially risky though as failing a mission yields no dropped mods.

Variants

Tusk Predator General Drops
EidolonPredator
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Flame Repellent 0.7587%
Mod TT 20px Trick Mag 0.7587%
Endo Endo 0.7587%
Mod TT 20px Cleanse Corpus 0.2211%
Mod TT 20px Rifle Aptitude 0.2211%
Endo Endo 0.2211%
Mod TT 20px Enemy Sense 0.0303%
Endo Endo 0.0303%
Tileset Plains of Eidolon
Weapon TwinKrohkur Twin Krohkur
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 75
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 5
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity ?
Base Level 1
  • They are a hybrid of both Scorpions and Powerfists, able to use both grappling hooks and ground slams.
  • Their Codex description is the same as that of the Flameblade.
    • Despite Codex description they cannot teleport.

Kuva Powerclaw General Drops
FortressPistonSawman
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Calculated Redirection 1.1382%
Mod TT 20px Vaporize 1.1382%
Mod TT 20px Bane of Infested 0.1659%
Mod TT 20px Grim Fury 0.1659%
Mod TT 20px Target Cracker 0.1659%
Endo Endo 0.1659%
Mod TT 20px Malicious Raptor 0.0303%
Mod TT 20px Seeking Force 0.0303%
Tileset Grineer Asteroid Fortress
Weapon Ripkas Ripkas
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 100
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 5
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1
  • Kuva Powerclaws will also spawn near any active Kuva Siphon, regardless of tileset.

Nightwatch Powerclaw General Drops
NightwatchPowerclaw
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
None
Mission Tactical Alert
Weapon Cleaver
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 100
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 5
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1

Bugs[]

  • Powerfist's charged melee and quick melee damage seems to be reversed. Tested on a level 10 Powerfist, his charged melee only deals around 60 damage whilst his quick melee deals over 200 damage.
  • Blocking while getting slam attacked by a Powerfist (DmgElectricitySmall64 Electricity damage) it will oddly send you flying farther than not blocking.

Trivia[]

  • Prior to Update 13.6 (2014-06-04), this was a very uncommon enemy type, normally appearing in small numbers in Grineer Capture missions and very rarely in Exterminate.
    • Update 13.6 (2014-06-04) increased the spawn rate of Powerfists, making them more common overall.

Media[]

Patch History[]

Hotfix 30.7.1 (2021-09-08)

  • Fixed script error when Grineer Powerfists die during the cast animation of their ground pound.

Hotfix 24.5.7 (2019-03-28)

  • Tweaked the following stats for the Nightwatch Powerclaw to fix them doing a one-hit KO to Grineer Defectors:
    • Decreased base Melee damage from 75 to 30
    • Decreased Slash Status Effect Chance from 15% to 5%
    • Decreased Critical Chance from 30% Chance (for 3x Crit) to 0

Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)

  • Grineer Powerfists will now slam the ground before entering melee range, setting off a magnetic proc to disorient his target. He is also really jealous of the Flameblade, but that’s life.

Update 13.6 (2014-06-04)

  • Grineer Powerfists have been sent in to reinforce more areas of the Grineer Empire!

Vanilla (2012-10-25)

  • Introduced.
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