Scorpions are female Grineer units that wield Machetes. They deal high damage with their Machetes, and have a grappling hook that they can use to knock down Tenno and drag them. The fast hooks, knockdowns and possibility of continuous hook-spamming by multiple Scorpions can make them a deadly adversary, especially when backed up by other units.
Tactics
- As a Melee unit, Scorpions are fast in speed and can quickly catch up to their assailant.
- If a Scorpion attacks a player continuously, she can do a three-hit combo strike against that player.
- However, like all melee Grineer troops, the Scorpion suffers from a slow windup on her first attack, making it easily avoidable.
- Scorpions are able to pull players who are ‘off nav’, which means on boxes or other areas off the main path.
- If a Scorpion misses her target with a hook, there will be a 5 second delay before she reels back her hook, unless the hook strikes something.
- Grineer Scorpions will stop reeling their victims whenever these victims have received any damage from any source, no matter how small the damage may be.
Notes
- Scorpions also do decent Slash damage. By chance, they can damage health directly.
- As of Update 11, unlike the standard Butchers , Scorpions have decent armor values, mitigating most other damage types aside from Puncture damage.
Trivia
- The Grineer Scorpion may be named after Scorpion from the Mortal Kombat series, who can drag and stun an enemy with his spear attack.
- This is further construed by her tooltip (before the removal) that writes "Get over here!", a well-known batte cry from Scorpion.
- When they were first released, the Scorpion's grappling hook was completely unavoidable, guaranteed to hit, even through walls and obstacles, once the attack is triggered. Due to the outcry on the forums, the hook was changed to a fast but avoidable projectile in a hotfix.
- Humorously, their old description in-game was "Makes the hurt feel good".
- Their even former description in-game writes out "Get over here!"
- Oddly, the Scorpion would fire the hook below the warframe's abdomen towards the groin area.
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