Powerfist

Grineer

Powerfist
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Slow but very powerful melee attacks
General Information
Faction	Grineer
Tile Set(s)	Grineer Asteroid Grineer Forest Grineer Galleon Grineer Sealab Grineer Settlement Grineer Shipyard Orokin Moon
Type	Melee
Weapon(s)	Single  Furax
Statistics
Affinity	100
Cloned Flesh	100
--  -  +  +  +++
Ferrite Armor	5
Dmg. Reduction	1.6393442622951%
-  -  ++  +++
Body Multipliers	Head: 2.0x
Base Level	1
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	10
Introduced	Vanilla (2012-10-25)
Drops
Mod Drops	Target Cracker 0.17%  Seeking Force 0.03%  Bane of Infested 0.17%  Calculated Redirection 1.14%  Vaporize 1.14%  Grim Fury 0.17%  Malicious Raptor 0.03% 50  Endo 0.17%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Powerfists are similar to Butchers, but use a single  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 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 status effect when they hit, temporarily increasing damage dealt to health.

Spawning Tips

• 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
• Kuva Powerclaw
• Nightwatch Powerclaw

Tusk Predator	General		Drops
	Introduced	Undetermined	Mod Drops:  Flame Repellent 0.7587%  Trick Mag 0.7587%  Endo 0.7587%  Cleanse Corpus 0.2211%  Rifle Aptitude 0.2211%  Endo 0.2211%  Enemy Sense 0.0303%  Endo 0.0303%
	Tileset	Plains of Eidolon
	Weapon	Twin Krohkur
	Codex Scans	10
	Statistics
	Cloned Flesh	75
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	5
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	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
	Introduced	Undetermined	Mod Drops:  Calculated Redirection 1.1382%  Vaporize 1.1382%  Bane of Infested 0.1659%  Grim Fury 0.1659%  Target Cracker 0.1659%  Endo 0.1659%  Malicious Raptor 0.0303%  Seeking Force 0.0303%
	Tileset	Kuva Fortress
	Weapon	Ripkas
	Codex Scans	10
	Statistics
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	5
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	100
	Base Level	1

Nightwatch Powerclaw	General		Drops
	Introduced	Undetermined	Mod Drops: None
	Mission	Tactical Alert
	Weapon	Cleaver
	Codex Scans	10
	Statistics
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	5
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	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 ( 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

• Powerfist Codex Entry

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Patch History

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.

Vanilla (2012-10-25)

• Introduced.