The Venka Prime are the Prime variant of the 
Venka, sporting higher damage, critical chance critical multiplier, status chance, and attack speed. It also uniquely has a higher Melee Combo Multiplier than all other melee weapons. It was released alongside 
Valkyr Prime and 
Cernos Prime.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - Only weapon with a 13.0x melee combo multiplier after 240 hits.
- Innate and polarities.
Advantages:
- Third highest base damage of all claws, behind Keratinos and Garuda Talons.
- Normal Attack
- Third highest crit multiplier behind Furax Wraith and Kuva Shildeg
- Very high crit chance
- Above average attack speed
- Third highest crit multiplier behind
Disadvantages:
- Normal Attack
- Below average damage
- Low attack range
- Very low disposition
Comparisons:
- Venka Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Venka (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (188 vs. 140)
- Higher total damage (188 vs. 140)
- Higher base critical chance (32.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.6x vs. 2.0x)
- Higher base status chance (24.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (284.25 vs. 161)
- Higher burst DPS (298.46 vs. 161)
- Higher sustained DPS (298.46 vs. 161)
- Longer Range (1.80m vs. 1.75m)
- Higher attack speed (1.05 vs. 1)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 4)
- Lower disposition (●●○○○ (0.80x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
 Gauntlet
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 Blades
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 Blueprint
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 Axi V10 Rare Axi V7 Rare (V) Axi V9 Rare (V) Meso V5 Rare (V) Neo V4 Rare (V)
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Neo V9 Common Axi S5 Common (V) Axi V5 Common (V) Lith C2 Common (V) Lith V4 Common (V) Lith V6 Common (V) Meso G1 Common (V) Meso S7 Common (V) Neo N7 Common (V)
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Axi S8 Uncommon Axi O3 Uncommon (V) Lith C5 Uncommon (V) Neo B2 Uncommon (V) Neo N4 Uncommon (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 15,000 |
2 |
2 |
 15 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On September 11th, 2018, it was announced that Venka Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on September 25th, 2018. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
- Venka Prime's relics were permanently unvaulted as of Update 29.10 (2021-03-19), being only obtainable through Abandoned Derelict Caches in Corpus Railjack missions.
Notes[]
- The Venka Prime has a modified melee combo multiplier that can reach 13.0x combo at 240 consecutive hits instead of the usual 12.0x combo at 220 hits.
Tips[]
- Warframe abilities that are affected by the combo counter, such as Landslide or Whipclaw, will benefit from Venka Prime's enhanced combo multiplier.
Trivia[]
- The Venka Prime is the first weapon to have a modified melee combo counter.
- Before the Update 26 melee changes, the Venka Prime combo multiplier scaled at 0.75x instead of 0.5x like other melee weapons. A similar version of this feature was brought back in Update 26.1 when the Venka Prime was given a cap of 13x combo multiplier instead of 12x.
- Venka Prime was announced alongside Valkyr Prime and Cernos Prime in a teaser, but when the full trailer was finally shown, Valkyr Prime was using the standard Venka instead of the Venka Prime.
Bugs[]
- Although the Venka Prime can reach 13.0x combo multiplier, mods that scale with combo multiplier, such as Blood Rush, Gladiator mods or Weeping Wounds, will stop scaling at the usual 12.0x combo multiplier.
Media[]
Venka Prime in Codex.
The sheathed form of a Venka Prime
Warframe VENKA PRIME THE BEST MELEE RIGHT NOW THE OLD BLOOD UPDATE
Venka Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.1 (2019-11-22)
- Increased the Combo Counter cap of the Venka Prime from 220 to 240.
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Mastery Rank increased from 8 to 14.
- Damage increased from 55 to 188.
- Range increased from 0.5 to 1.8.
- Status Chance increased from 15% to 24%.
- Critical Chance increased from 25% to 32%.
- Critical Damage increased from 2.5x to 2.6x.
- Slam Attack increased from 110 to 564.
- Slide Attack increased from 165 to 564.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
- Follow Through increased from 0.5 to 0.8.
- (Undocumented) Removed modified combo multiplier passive.
Hotfix 25.7.3 (2019-09-03)
- Introduced again in the Valkyr and Saryn Prime Vault.
Update 23.9 (2018-09-25)
- Venka Prime has entered the Prime Vault.
Update 19.2 (2016-12-01)
- Fixed Venka Prime not being drawn when spawning with only melee equipped.
Update 19.1 (2016-11-25)
- Valkyr Prime, Cernos Prime, and Venka Prime have been added to the Codex and are now linkable in chat.
Hotfix 19.0.7 (2016-11-22)
- Introduced along with Valkyr Prime and Cernos Prime.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also[]
- Venka, the standard version.
