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. - Stance slot has
polarity, matching 
Vermillion Storm, Four Riders, Malicious Raptor and Scarlet Hurricane (Conclave only) stance. - Only weapon with a 13.0x melee combo multiplier after 240 hits.
- Innate
and polarities.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Fourth highest base damage of all claws, behind
Keratinos, 
Garuda Talons and 
Garuda Prime Talons. - Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (32.00%)
- Above average attack speed (1.05x animation speed)
- High crit multiplier (2.60x)
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average total damage (188)
- Low attack range (1.80 m)
- Low disposition (●●○○○ (0.85x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Venka Prime (Normal Attack), compared to 
Venka (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage (188.00 vs. 140.00)
- Higher total damage (188 vs. 140)
- Higher base critical chance (32.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.60x vs. 2.00x)
- Higher base status chance (24.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Longer melee range (1.80 m vs. 1.75 m)
- Higher attack speed (1.05x animation speed vs. 1.00x animation speed)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 4)
- Lower disposition (●●○○○ (0.85x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))
Acquisition[]
Unlike most Prime gear, Venka Prime is permanently unvaulted, with relics being obtainable through Abandoned Derelict Caches in Corpus Railjack missions.
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Gauntlet | Blades |  Blueprint
|
|---|---|---|
 Axi V10 Rare Axi V7 Rare (V) Axi V9 Rare (V) Meso V5 Rare (V) Neo V4 Rare (V)
|
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)
|
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 15,000 |
 2 |
 2 |
 Orokin Cell15 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints 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.
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 35.1 (2024-02-20)
- Fixed weapons with a higher max Melee Combo Multiplier (such as Venka Prime) being unable to increase their Combo Counter beyond 12x (and resetting to 0) when using the Rauta and Tandem Bond Mod.
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.
