Whipclaw

• 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 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 split between 30% Impact, 30% Puncture, and 40% Slash (more testing needed to confirm these numbers.)
  • 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., Steel Charge)
    • physical damage (e.g., Jagged Edge)
      • this is applied in the same way as with a normal weapon. As such, Rending Strike will contribute more damage than Buzz Kill for less cost, though not more than an elemental mod.
    • elemental damage (e.g., Shocking Touch)
      • Adding elemental damage to Whipclaw will cause it to deal damage in much the same way as a normal weapon, e.g. when using Gas damage, it will deal less damage to Heavy Gunners and can proc its status effect, while Corrosive will deal more and may proc its status effect.
    • 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)
    • combo counter (e.g., Body Count and Drifting Contact)
    • weapon augments (e.g., Justice Blades)
    • Riven
  • Manticore's damage bonus applies to the ability.
  • Whipclaw's critical chance is affected by Cat's Eye and Charm bonuses.
  • Each hit from Whipclaw adds to the Melee Combo Counter.
  • Whipclaw is not affected by the equipped melee weapon's stats and innate effects, class-specific mods (e.g., Covert Lethality), Acolyte Mods (e.g., Blood Rush), the bonuses of Set Mods (e.g. Gladiator Might's stacking critical chance) conditional mods (e.g., Condition Overload, Healing Return), melee range mods (e.g., Reach) and attack speed mods (e.g., Fury).
    • The only exceptions to this rule are:
      • Mire and its passive ability to grant +10% Toxin damage, which carries over to Whipclaw. The toxin damage combines with any elemental damage from melee elemental mods.
      • Certain zaws. Heavy blade and hammer zaws give a 70% multiplicative damage bonus while polearm and staff zaws give an 18% multiplicative damage bonus.
      • Whipclaw's damage is affected by Venka Prime's modified Melee Combo Counter.
• Synergy: Whipclaw synergizes with Khora's other abilities for additional benefits
  • 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)

Main article: Accumulating Whipclaw

Whipclaw is a Warframe Augment Mod for Khora's Whipclaw. Hitting 3 enemies will grant a stackable Damage Bonus to subsequent Whipclaws, which will decay after 10 seconds.

• 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 True Steel and Organ Shatter to consistently proc critical hits.
  • Equip Drifting Contact to increase status chance and delay the combo counter hit reset.
  • Equip dual stat damage and status chance mods such as Virulent Scourge to increase damage and status chance simultaneously.
• 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.
• Equip with a Smeeta Kavat or Adarza Kavat to take advantage of their Precepts' critical chance bonuses, further amplifying Whipclaw's potential critical damage.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Reduces cast range to 3.4 meters and explosion radius to 1.7 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 6.25 energy.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range increases cast range to 28 meters and explosion radius to 10 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 120.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 1236.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 1011.
  • Increases cost to 38.75 energy.

• Whipclaw does not benefit from Strangledome's damage bonus for abilities, while other abilities (including Strangledome's damage per second) benefit from the damage bonus.
• Whipclaw seems to behave erratically with the Gladiator Set Mods set bonus, as it will occasionally grant the buff normally and other times not at all