The Venka claws are gauntlets with retractable blades inflicting high 
Slash damage.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - Stance slot has polarity, matching Vermillion Storm, Four Riders, Malicious Raptor and Scarlet Hurricane minor (Conclave only) stance.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- No numerical advantages.
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Lowest base damage of all claws.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low crit chance (15.00%)
- Low total damage (140)
- Low attack range (1.75 m)
- Low status chance (15.00%)
- Below average disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Venka (Normal Attack), compared to Venka Prime (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage (140.00 vs. 188.00)
- Lower total damage (140 vs. 188)
- Lower base critical chance (15.00% vs. 32.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2.00x vs. 2.60x)
- Lower base status chance (15.00% vs. 24.00%)
- Shorter Range (1.75 m vs. 1.80 m)
- Lower attack speed (1.00x animation speed vs. 1.05x animation speed)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 14)
- Higher disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x) vs. ●●○○○ (0.80x))
Acquisition[]
The Venka's blueprint can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 20,000 |
 Gallium4 |
 Salvage1,000 |
 Plastids500 |
 Forma1 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 175
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 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Tenno Lab Research 3,000
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5,000 |
Gallium 2 |
Salvage 400 |
Plastids 75 |
 Polymer Bundle600 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
| Prereq: Sybaris | |||||
 x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
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Trivia[]
- Venka translates roughly to "victorious" or "to win" in Esperanto.
- The claws retract up to the hands until used or equipped.
- The Venka was first seen as an accidentally leaked Codex entry in Update 13.0 (2014-04-09), along with the Serro and the Bo Prime, before any of the weapons were released.
- It is the first claw-type weapon introduced in the game.
- The damage of Venka is rather "not fixed" as it has 37.1 damage, causing damage to increase to 37.2+ reaching 38 at a very rare chance if tested on average damage per second on a target with no damage resistances and no armor.
- The Venka are similar to the traditional Japanese weapon known as "tekkō-kagi," which were a claw-shaped blade bearing variation of the loaded-fist (brass knuckle-style) weapons known as "tekkō."
- The Tenno Tekko, as they exist in the game, are more similar to a variation of short-bladed tekkō-kagi than tekkō. Given the cultural nuances and crossover between the Venka and Tekko, the variations in naming conventions are obviously apparent as to avoid player confusion and represent the in-universe evolution of the Tenno arsenal.[citation needed]
- The blades resemble the "P" in Tenno Script.
Bugs[]
- After using Warframe abilities, Claws won't show anymore, equipping them again will fix this. Tapping "Block" will also remedy this.
- Occasionally, when equipping the weapon in your hands, it will state that you have the Malicious Raptor stance equipped, even when you do not.
- Using Ash's Blade Storm with the Venka equipped will sometimes trigger a stealth attack on the target.
Media[]
Venka in Codex.
Love At First Slice
Tenno Reinforcements - Venka
Warframe Venka Pro Builds Update 13.9.0-0
Warframe Updated Venka Setup 1x Forma
Venka Skins
Patch History[]
Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)
- Fixed Sugatras not attaching correctly to the Venka’s left claw and most Hammer Weapons and Skins.
Hotfix 27.0.9 (2020-01-09)
- Fixed missing Venka Melee sounds.
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Mastery Rank increased from 3 to 4.
- Damage increased from 37 to 140.
- Range increased from 0.5 to 1.75.
- Slam Attack increased from 74 to 420.
- Slide Attack increased from 111 to 420.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
- Follow Through increased from 0.5 to 0.8.
Hotfix 25.7.6 (2019-09-18)
- Fixed Mesa being unable to use abilities or melee when using the Venka after casting Peacemaker.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Fixed the Venka Claws not being visible to Clients when they are the only weapon equipped.
Hotfix 13.9.0.2 (2014-06-26)
- Revised default position on Venka Tenno Claws.
Update 13.9 (2014-06-25)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also[]
- Venka Prime, the Prime counterpart.
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