Whipclaw

	ENERGY: 25 KEY 1	Whipclaw Send enemies reeling with a deafening whipcrack.	Strength:200 / 225 / 250 / 300
			Duration:N/A
			Range:5 / 7 / 8 / 10 m (cast range) 3 / 4 / 4 / 5 m (explosion radius)
			Misc:200 % (explosion radius range cap) 2.0 x (Ensnare damage multiplier) 50 % (Strangledome damage distribution)

• Info
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks
• Maximization

Info

• Khora cracks her whip toward the aiming reticle, creating an explosion up to 5 / 7 / 8 / 10 meters away in a 3 / 4 / 4 / 5 meters radius area around the first object or entity hit. All enemies within line of sight of the explosion receive 200 / 225 / 250 / 300 base damage, while enemies at the center are also disoriented briefly, causing them to be knocked back and ragdolled.
  • Cast range and explosion radius are affected by Ability Range.
    • Explosion radius cannot exceed 200% Ability Range.
  • Damage is distributed evenly between  Impact,  Puncture, and  Slash.
  • Damage also affects Objects, bypasses obstacles in the environment, and does not diminish with distance.
• Whipclaw has an innate 200% critical multiplier, 25% critical chance, and 20% status chance.
• Damage is affected by Ability Strength, the Melee Combo Counter, and certain melee mods.
  • As an example, with a maxed  Pressure Point,  Shocking Touch and  Intensify, the normal attacks of a rank-3 Whipclaw will deal:
    Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods) =
    300 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (1 + 0.3) = 1,630.2 damage.
  • The mods that affect Whipclaw include:
    • Damage (e.g.,  Pressure Point)
    • Physical damage (e.g.,  Jagged Edge)
    • Elemental damage (e.g.,  Shocking Touch)
    • Conditional mods (e.g.,  Weeping Wounds and  Blood Rush, but not  Condition Overload and  Healing Return)
    • Critical chance and critical multiplier (e.g.,  True Steel and  Organ Shatter)
      • Critical chance is rolled separately for each target hit.
    • Status chance (e.g.,  Melee Prowess and  Vicious Frost)
      • Both effects of  Proton Snap apply for the duration.
    • combo counter (e.g.,  Body Count and  Drifting Contact)
    • weapon augments (e.g.,  Justice Blades)
    • Riven
  • Bane Mods such as  Smite Grineer do not have any effects on Whipclaw.
  • Status duration Mods do not have effects on Whipclaw.
  • The armor-removal effect of Shattering Impact is not triggered by the damage from Whipclaw.
  •  Toxin or  Heat or  Electricity damage mods do not scale the damage of  Toxin or  Heat or  Electricity procs caused by Whipclaw. Each tick deals damage equal to  0.5 × Modded Damage.
  • The combo counter will reset when equipped with  Xoris.
  • Whipclaw's critical chance is affected by  Cat's Eye and  Charm bonuses.
  • Each hit from Whipclaw adds to the Melee Combo Counter.
  • The Melee Combo Multiplier increases Whipclaw's damage, but only a fourth of the bonus is added.
  • Whipclaw is not affected by the equipped melee weapon's stats and innate effects, weapon-specific mods (e.g.,  Vulcan Blitz), melee range mods (e.g.,  Reach) and attack speed mods (e.g.,  Fury).
• Ability Synergy:
  • Whipclaw inflicts 200% damage against enemies affected by  Ensnare.
  • Refreshes the propagation effect on ensnared enemies hit by Whipclaw.
  • If at least one enemy captured by  Strangledome is hit by Whipclaw, all other enemies in the same dome will each receive 50% total damage. Additionally, Whipclaw's Critical Chance and Status Chance will reroll on each enemy separately.
• Whipclaw will strike toward the aiming reticle at the end of the animation, landing the attack when the whip is fully extended.
  • The explosion radius is centered on the closest physical object or surface in the player's crosshair, or the farthest area Whipclaw is able to reach.
• Can be cast while moving and airborne.
• Casting Whipclaw is an upper-body animation that allows movement and parkour Maneuvers.
• Khora's whip visually consists of a handle that resembles the  Hystrix's model, alongside living metal spikes lining the thong, spine, and fall; four claw-like extensions comprise the lash of the whip, ending in the metallic adornments on Khora's body that match  Venari's selected battle posture. The whip is affected by Khora's chosen Appearance colors.
• Whipclaw's radial explosion, the whip's energy lights and travel trail, are affected by Khora's chosen energy color.
• Whipclaw is not affected by cast speed mods (e.g.  Natural Talent)

Known weapon synergies:

• Manticore's damage bonus applies to the ability.
• Lesion's elemental bonus buff applies to the ability, but won't be activated by it.
• Sibear's temporary status chance increase after a heavy attack will apply to the ability
• Furax Wraith's, Synoid Heliocor's and Fragor Prime's initial Combo Count affects the ability

Augment

Main article: Accumulating Whipclaw

Accumulating Whipclaw is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Khora's  Whipclaw that grants a stacking damage bonus to subsequent Whipclaws upon hitting at least 3 enemies in a single cast, which will decay after 10 seconds.

Rank	Damage Bonus	Decay Delay	Cost
0	+10%	10s	6
1	+15%	10s	7
2	+20%	10s	8
3	+35%	10s	9

Tips & Tricks

• Whipclaw's radial explosion forms when Khora's whip is fully extended. You can adjust your aim to hit your target or elsewhere during this animation.
• If your target is moving away too quickly during the animation, try to land the explosion on a nearby surface to catch your target in the area of effect.
  • The explosion's area of effect will bypass terrain and obstacles to hit enemies through walls, which pairs well with radar mods such as  Enemy Sense and  Animal Instinct to detect nearby enemies.
• Cast Whipclaw directly on an enemy to knock it backward when it is hit by the radial burst.
• Modify your equipped melee weapon with eligible Mods that Whipclaw can benefit from.
  • Equip  Pressure Point to increase base damage.
  • Equip  Blood Rush to increase critical chance. If you want more critical chance, equip  Sacrificial Steel as well.
  • Equip  Weeping Wounds if you want to increase status chance.
  • Equip elemental mods(not dual stat mods) and critical damage mods like  Organ Shatter,  Gladiator Might to increase damage.
• Whipclaw and your melee weapon both benefit from and contribute to the combo counter. Use both frequently to amplify their damage as you hit more enemies.
• Cast Whipclaw on enemies entangled by  Ensnare for double damage. Ensnared enemies that survive Whipclaw will propagate again to pull in new enemies.
• Cast Whipclaw on enemies captured by  Strangledome. The initial target takes full damage from Whipclaw, while all other enemies in the dome take half damage. Damage, critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance on all targets will benefit from your equipped melee mods.
  • Critical chance and status chance will proc on each enemy separately, inflicting them with potentially different damage amounts and Status Effects.
• Whipclaw's radial explosion can bypass Arctic Eximus bubbles to form inside directly.
• Equipping with a Helios with Deconstructor and equip 3 Gladiator set mods to increase crit chance no longer works as of Sisters of Parvos update.
• Equip  Arcane Fury on Khora to increase damage.

Maximization

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See Also

•  Khora