1 25 |
Whipclaw Send enemies reeling with a deafening whipcrack. Introduced in Update 22.18 (2018-04-20) |
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) |
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 10 meters under any circumstances, achievable with 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 25% critical chance, 200% critical multiplier, and 25% 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)
- Aura mods (e.g., Steel Charge, Growing Power and Power Donation)
- Physical damage (e.g., Jagged Edge)
- Elemental damage (e.g., Shocking Touch)
- Conditional mods (e.g., Weeping Wounds, Blood Rush, and Gladiator Set mods, but not Condition Overload, Healing Return, or Relentless Combination)
- 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
- Faction Mods such as Smite Grineer do not have any effect 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, or Tenet melee weapons with the Granum Attaché system.
- 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).
- As an example, with a maxed Pressure Point, Shocking Touch and Intensify, the normal attacks of a rank-3 Whipclaw will deal:
- 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. This also works on a Strangledome cast by an ally Khora. 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
- Kuva and Tenet Weapons' progenitor bonus 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.
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
This calculator feature is sunsetted on the wiki. It may not see further updates, but will be present on articles for the time being since some people still find use for them. See User blog:Cephalon Scientia/Sunsetting of Maximization Calculators for more details.
Input table not loaded. Javascript Not loaded
Result table not loaded. Javascript Not loaded