The Best Nokko Build in Warframe
Nokko is the newest Warframe to be added to the game, bringing an interesting suite of damage, area control, and survivability with his kit. While it will take some time to thoroughly test him at the more extreme difficulty levels that Warframe offers, this build will comfortably get you through the standard Star Chart and Steel Path.
Nokko’s Abilities Overview
Nokko has a unique passive ability that allows him to avoid fatal damage. When your health is reduced to zero, you transform into a small mushroom. During this time, you have a window to reach one of the other mushrooms you have previously placed. If you do, Nokko is reformed and brought back to life.
His first ability lets you place mushrooms that spew out viral-damaging spores, providing area control and damage over time. The second ability acts as a source of energy regeneration and also buffs ability strength, enhancing your overall power.
The third ability turns you into a tiny mushroom, granting a quick heal, invulnerability, a speed boost, and the ability to put nearby enemies to sleep. Finally, his fourth ability unleashes an enemy-seeking mushroom that explodes on contact, bounces between enemies, and can bounce off previously placed mushrooms to amplify damage.
Given this kit, the Nokko meta revolves around holding a position and capitalizing on overlapping areas of effect to maximize damage and survivability.
Recommended Arcanes
- Molt Augmented and Arcane Crepuscular: Both provide significant boosts to ability strength.
- Companion Shade or Huras Kubrow: These companions grant Invisibility, helping keep you safe while Arcane Crepuscular is active.
Subsume Ability
- Roar on your third ability
Arcane Shards
- A single Yellow or Tauforged Yellow shard is recommended to help with starting energy.
Mod Setup
- Dreamer’s Bond / Corrosive Projection: This depends on your playstyle. Dreamer’s Bond favors better team play, while Corrosive Projection is useful if you are struggling against armored enemies.
- Umbral Intensify: Provides a large boost to ability strength, forming the baseline for our output.
- Stretch (+45% Range): Range is crucial in this build to maximize coverage and overlapping effects.
- Augur Message: Offers increased ability duration. Alternatively, you can use Reach if you prefer more range.
- Primed Continuity: Significantly boosts ability duration, which is vital for Nokko’s kit.
- Augur Secrets: Further enhances ability strength.
- Primed Flow: Increases energy pool significantly, allowing you to spam abilities, especially important for Void Cascade runs.
- Overextended: Adds more range at the cost of some strength; this trade-off is balanced by the Arcanes and Subsume mods.
- Streamline: This mod slot is flexible. Use it how you prefer or to accommodate different subsume augments such as Tempest or Sonar.
Exilus Slot
- Cunning Drift: Adds more range, reinforcing the playstyle of controlling space and area effects.
Playstyle Tips
Your general strategy with Nokko is to arrive at the location you need to hold, activate Roar (which lasts about 50 seconds), and place two instances of the second ability to stack and double your buffs.
Next, deploy four mushrooms using your first ability to cover key entrances and exits. Then, position yourself in that spot and continuously spam your fourth ability.
Always keep at least three of the exploding mushrooms active, refreshing your abilities as needed. The fourth ability can deal impressive damage, especially since it can crit and benefits from bouncing mechanics.
This build is highly effective in Steel Path missions, lengthy Arbitrations, and solid Void Cascade runs. It’s a safe and reliable setup for the tougher content, providing survivability through his passive and a strong damage foothold thanks to the mushrooms.
Even if enemies use area-of-effect attacks, you’ll often have mushrooms deployed to rely on, making it difficult for Nokko to be taken down easily. In most cases, enemies won’t last long enough to pose a real threat.
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