Xaku build
◈ Warframe · MR 0Broken Warframes adrift in the Void converged to create Xaku. Together, they deal high damage. Xaku proves that the sum of the whole is greater than its parts.
Base stats
| Health | 269 |
| Shield | 239 |
| Armor | 146 |
| Energy | 160 |
| Sprint speed | 1.02 |
| Mastery required | MR 0 |
Abilities
Passive: % Damage Reduction on AOE attacks and chance to avoid incoming weapon damage.
💡 Pandaahh's live take: the best pick on Xaku is a mass defense strip via Helminth over the 1 — Tempest Barrage (Hydroid) with its augment, or Terrify (Nekros) — his native strip (Gaze) being too fiddly in practice. Once defenses drop, kills are near-instant. A second school, from German creator Vernoc: keep Gaze (3) as-is — it creates a 0% defense zone (shields AND armor) over ~32 m around the bound enemy, and the ultimate (4) pauses all of Xaku's own timers while active, so the zone can last indefinitely by recasting the ultimate before it expires. He instead replaces the 1 (Xata's Whisper, stronger on OTHER frames than on Xaku himself) with Rhino's Roar, since the 2's stolen weapons aren't buffed by his native 1 anyway. Two build variants: a kill build (2 to steal ~15 enemy-scaled weapons, 3 to freeze defenses, an invisibility companion like Huras — the stolen weapons' shots don't break invisibility) or a farm build (spam the ultimate at max Range to destroy loot containers through walls across the map — one of the best pickup-resource farms in the game).
The 3 builds
🌱 Beginner
0–1 forma · market mods, Vor and early planets
5/5Energy Siphonaura: +0.6 energy/s (squad)
10/10Vitality+440% Health
10/10Redirection+440% Shield
10/10Steel Fiber+110% Armor
5/5Flow+150% Energy Max
5/5Continuity+30% Ability Duration
10/10Intensify+30% Ability Strength
5/5Streamline+30% Ability Efficiency
10/10Stretch+45% Ability RangeThe universal base: survivability (Vitality/Redirection/Steel Fiber) plus the four ability stats. All of these drop early (some from the market, others from enemies/containers on the first planets) and rank up without a potato.
⚙️ Intermediate
2–3 formas + Orokin Reactor · corrupted mods (Deimos) & Augur sets
5/5Energy Siphonaura: +0.6 energy/s (squad)
5/5Cunning Drift+15% Range10/10Vitality+440% Health10/10Intensify+30% Ability Strength
10/10Blind Rage+99% Strength / −55% Efficiency
5/5Fleeting Expertise+60% Efficiency / −60% Duration5/5Flow+150% Energy Max5/5Continuity+30% Ability Duration
3/3Constitution+28% Duration · faster knockdown recovery10/10Stretch+45% Ability RangePush Strength with Blind Rage (Deimos vault runs) offset by Fleeting Expertise. Constitution (Vor's Prize) extends duration. Tune the Strength/Range/Duration balance around your frame's key ability.
Arcanes
🔥 Expert
4–6 formas + possibly an Umbra Forma · Primed mods (Baro), Umbral (The Sacrifice), maxed Arcanes
5/5Steel Chargeaura: +60% melee damage (squad)
5/5Power Drift+15% Strength
10/10Umbral Intensify+44% Strength (Umbral set bonus)
10/10Umbral Vitality+100% Health (Umbral set bonus)
10/10Adaptation+10% resistance per hit (max 90%) to damage type received10/10Primed Continuity+55% Ability Duration10/10Primed Flow+185% Energy Max
10/10Transient Fortitude+55% Strength / −27.5% Duration
10/10Archon Stretch+45% Range · energy regen on Electricity ability damage10/10Blind Rage+99% Strength / −55% EfficiencyThe all-out build: Umbral set (2 pieces are often enough), Primed mods from Baro Ki'Teer, Adaptation (Arbitrations) and an Archon mod (Archon Hunts). Keep an eye on efficiency if you spam abilities.
Arcanes
Archon Shards — 5 slots (profile: Ability caster)
Variant: swap an Azure for a 🟣 Violet (Electricity damage → energy gain) if you run Archon Stretch.
⚠️ « Evergreen » builds generated per archetype — the meta evolves. Adjust to the mods, arcanes and shards you own. All 3 tiers only use real in-game mods.
📚 Guides mentioning it: Kuva Lich: weapon, element, and how to get rid of it