Tipedo

With its crescent shaped blades flying in sweeping arcs and striking at tremendous speed, the Tipedo demands focus from those wishing to unlock its true power.

The Tipedo is a bladed staff weapon dealing mostly Slash damage, making it useful against Infested.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000‍5,000. It is also a requisite ingredient for Lesion.

Manufacturing Requirements
20,000	2	1,600	1	1	Time: 12 hrs
20,000	2	1,600	1	1	Rush: 30
Market Price: 125			Blueprints Price:20,000

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.

Advantages

High Slash damage – effective against health.
High critical chance and status chance.
Tied with the Prisma Obex and Nami Skyla Prime for the highest base attack speed multiplier of all melee weapons.
Stance has polarity, matches Flailing Branch stance.
Innate polarity.

Disadvantages

Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.

Comparisons:

Tipedo, compared to Tipedo Prime:
- Lower base damage (50.0 vs. 76.0)
  - Lower Impact damage (5.0 vs. 7.6)
  - Lower Puncture damage (5.0 vs. 7.6)
  - Lower Slash damage (40.0 vs. 60.8)
- Lower critical chance (20% vs. 24%)
- Lower critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 2.4x)
- Lower status chance (20% vs. 24%)
- Higher attack speed (1.33 vs. 1.17)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (3 vs. 10)

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

See Category:Tipedo Build to see how players mod this weapon.
See Category:Tipedo 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 MK1-Bo and MK1-Kunai cannot be used to craft the Tipedo.

TipsEdit

Its generous status chance makes it useful for slowing down enemies with North Wind.
When equipped with Clashing Forest, this weapon becomes a perfect anti-Infested melee weapon. Its high Slash damage, and its tendency to cause status and staggering is highly effective. Additionally, several combinations of Clashing Forest are especially useful against crowds.

TriviaEdit

The Tipedo is the first Staff-type weapon to deal Slash as its primary damage type instead of Impact.
This is the second weapon that requires two different pre-made weapons in order to craft, the first being the Redeemer.
The weapon's design is based on the Monk's Spade (otherwise known as the Crescent Moon Spade due to the inverted, crescent-shaped blade on the opposite end), which was used by traveling Buddhist Monks as a defensive weapon as well as a tool to give proper burial to people who died on the roads during their journeys and denied their last rites by their untimely demise.
- Contrary to the real world model, the Tenno version does not feature the inverted crescent-shaped blade, which was used to catch ambushers' swords or keep wild animals at bay. The Tipedo does feature a slotted double crescent blade instead which appears to serve a similar purpose.
The Tipedo appears to be used much like a Glaive (not to be confused with the in-game weapon of the same name), though with the distinction that Glaives are historically single-edged pole weapons while the Tipedo is double-edged due to the overall design being based on the Monk's Spade.
The Tipedo was first shown in a concept along with other polearms during Devstream 15.
Tipedo is the second staff to have Primed variant, first being Bo.

BugsEdit

Although the Foundry will claim that you can craft the weapon if you have a Bo Prime in your inventory, this is most likely a UI bug as it won't allow you to consume the Bo Prime to build the weapon.
Despite its name, Zaws cannot be named "Tipedo", due to profanity.