PSA: I mention at one point "3 Builds". Originally I was also going to showcase a quick melee setup and a heavy attack setup, but relegated to just showing one build for purposes of keeping the focus of the video the same, and also because I found the other 2 to not perform as well as just using the first build. Appreciate you all lots - kyaii
Had a riven for a nikana with stats that put me at infinite x4 combo multiplier, but sold it a while back. How well do you think a heavy attack build with this multiplier would perform in normal SP?
Here's a tip for melee players. If you have a smooth scroll wheel option on your mouse bind melee attack to scroll as well as E. This way you can spin the scroll wheel and always be attacking at maximum speed, without getting tired of spamming E also. It also just feels 'right' to play with the scroll wheel, feels verryyy fluid. This method helps for super fast melees, Valkyr warcry, Volt speed and so on.
i tested this build with the kronen prime and its amazing. did a 3 hour SP survival on Mot with it with no issues. i feel like its actually better than the nikana prime simply because of the stance sovereign outcast. it slash both left and right with the 2 reach mods it feels a lot smoother. havent tested it on predeaos as i am yet to build it.
you can replace cd mods in melee for gas status and add red arcchont shards for cd. and to improove it even more you can replace nikana with any zaw exodia with same build(exept range mods you dont need it) and subsume mirage eclipce. that weapon can kill lvlcap with billions gas procs. while killig mobs youre leaving gas clouds that also killing enemies. try it and you wont be disapointed
Dragon nikana was the first weapon i fell in love with back in 2017 when i started playing the game. Back then was not even top melee weapon. And prime veriant was something i farmed first before every other prime weapon
Hey kyaii, amazing video as usual, but you should really make a video on the shedu! its a very good aoe and well damaging weapon, i would love to see your shedu builds and your thoughts on it, much love
Nice build. Fulmination instead of Anemic agility or jolt might be a little bit better on the epitath considering the range you use on your nikana. And you are using gauss so you should be fine about it.
primed fulmination is much better than the normal version, it gives 3 times the bonus of the normal one. so if you don't have the primed one, other mods would be better since it's a very small change in the aoe
@@kyaii Yes, but you're leaving so much damage on the table, and viral procs stack so well with slash procs, that you are leaving a lot of time to kill on the table unless you are 1-shotting, even with a viral primer. Just try viral on the melee instead of the primer, I think you'll be surprised
Any Warframe with grouping abilities, and the ability to tank. Grouping skyrockets your ability to kill with melee in a way that keeps up with the team. So zephyr is a decent option without even needing helminth, as her 2 groups, and her 3 redirects enemy projectiles, and her tornadoes are an insane damage increase and priming tool. Other than that, you can always run gauss, as with max redline he ignores all damage in the game (except toxin), has a melee attack speed boost, weapon swap speeds, and his 1 augment is a very good grouping tool.
Hey kyaii! I was just wondering what your thoughts on making a Tik tok was? You could make really compact quick 15 second videos that would 1. Get the word of warframe out, and 2. Get your name out on a different platform, giving them a taste of what they could come watch on TH-cam! Just a thought. Hope you are doing well, thanks for another great video :)
@@kyaii ehh I don't think it's worse. Sephan is amazing. You can use Arcanes and I believe the riven dispo might be a bit higher than the nikana prime.
Make an updated equinox video 😊, it ur first one still works then nvm. Also i love your vids and really think you are an underrated creator considering how small the warframe yt is community is. Im praying for your success 🙏🏾
Change it out depending on what faction your facing. Bane mods are multiplicative and double dip on status procs like slash, which nikana is very good at doing
hmmm hmmm i did a build and tryed that was arrond 437% crit chance i did most of steel path using nikana and excalibur umber this build go up to 240k damage per hit and 1 million 300 k for a finisher hit. if there is a boss it s better use heat even tho nikana have slash witch do true dmg but heat is good against most boss that have heavy armor if peoples don t have a good warframe
Nikana Prime is definitely one of the best performing melee weapons, but is it worthy of "you need this right now"? Personally, I'd say no. When it comes to combo/slash focused melee weapons there's probably 5-10 with performance that's functionally close enough to be indistinguishable.
Yep, and an innodem realistically outperforms if you can take advantage of the high follow through with grouping. All that aside, I love running nikanas so what can ya do
@@kyaii I disagree here a little bit due to sopfahn higher riven dispo, attack speed, crit chance and crit dmg and zaw arcane but it is warframe and better is subjective.
@@jadsidani4492With a primer you easily reach 320% base damage, which is practically twice primed pressure point and you don’t want the two of them together because of opportunity cost
@@kyaii you did splash statuses on them with epitaph, and only after that you did a light combo to kill 130 lvl grineers. it can be done much faster with a lot of things in the game
I personally wasn't gonna spend an hour in a survival to record this but the power of Nikana scales much higher than other 1 shots at base steel path cause it's slash bias
@@16Vagabond it's only because of over dmg when you hit someone for 2 billion dmg it counts as 2 billion on the board but it's a false reading what counts is the kill count now compare those and get back to me i think you'll find that your kills don't match the dps you're outputting, I'SD WADGER YOU GET OUT DONE ON KILLS 100%, with the glaive you kill things with a bleed proc that only does the damage that eqates to said hit points but it gets kills, whereas yours will get dmg but lack kills in comparison. its why it isn't in a top5 video not even top 10 that's why you''re top dps just by over dmg that means nothing. i bet you don't even own a glaive otherwise you would know of its TRUE POWER
@@jameshyman418 If you want we can put your theory to the test in game, I can guarantee I will outdmg you in any content with my fully archon sharded crit dmg spec godroll riven rabvee
@@kyaii Unfortunately for you, it is right adding a riven with a ⅘ disposition makes it more powerful than Nikana. You should know this unless you are a noob
No. Nikana Prime has not only a higher crit chance and crit multiplier but it also has a lower slash weighting of 78% compared to 90%. It also has lower base damage and crappy base forma. Rivens make it better, but also adding a good riven for Nikana Prime would still elevate it above Skiajati.
@@kyaii Just what I thought, noob; all those stats are easily buffed with a CC CD dmg riven and more forma lol. Nikana has a crappy dispo of ⅕ , not ⅘, so it cannot be buffed better than Skiajati. The game has been out since 2012, and you are making content on 4-year-old meta. Every other content creator has already made videos you just started 2x over. Enjoy the game, but you are late to the party.
PSA:
I mention at one point "3 Builds". Originally I was also going to showcase a quick melee setup and a heavy attack setup, but relegated to just showing one build for purposes of keeping the focus of the video the same, and also because I found the other 2 to not perform as well as just using the first build.
Appreciate you all lots - kyaii
Had a riven for a nikana with stats that put me at infinite x4 combo multiplier, but sold it a while back. How well do you think a heavy attack build with this multiplier would perform in normal SP?
The epitaph build in this video looks and seems better than the main video about epitaph build
Babe wake up kyaii posted a new video
W
Cringe
Here's a tip for melee players. If you have a smooth scroll wheel option on your mouse bind melee attack to scroll as well as E. This way you can spin the scroll wheel and always be attacking at maximum speed, without getting tired of spamming E also. It also just feels 'right' to play with the scroll wheel, feels verryyy fluid. This method helps for super fast melees, Valkyr warcry, Volt speed and so on.
Why would you use scroll wheel when you can just hold E, does it acctually atk's faster?
@@DavidMihajlovic22 I think he posted this way before automelee came out so that's why people used scroll wheel to melee
Only been watching you for a week and you’ve already become one of my top warframe TH-camrs. Great to see you growing quickly too you deserve it.
Much appreciated!
Speechless.. the quality is insane, actually best channel for any warframe player who want to start building frames or weapons
thanks bro 🙏
You just don't miss, I really needed this lol.
Always a good day when Kwaii posts a new vid
damn this blade is still top tier , i got it years ago , good to see it was worth the plats
Same
i tested this build with the kronen prime and its amazing. did a 3 hour SP survival on Mot with it with no issues. i feel like its actually better than the nikana prime simply because of the stance sovereign outcast. it slash both left and right with the 2 reach mods it feels a lot smoother. havent tested it on predeaos as i am yet to build it.
I’ve been loving the kronen primes stance too! I always get consistent slash procs. I just use Ash with wrathful advance for consistent red crits.
you can replace cd mods in melee for gas status and add red arcchont shards for cd.
and to improove it even more you can replace nikana with any zaw exodia with same build(exept range mods you dont need it) and subsume mirage eclipce. that weapon can kill lvlcap with billions gas procs. while killig mobs youre leaving gas clouds that also killing enemies.
try it and you wont be disapointed
you mean the sepfahn zaw melee
It's an amazing weapon, can take any health/armour based warframe through steel path with Amalgam Daikyu + Nikana combo
Dragon nikana was the first weapon i fell in love with back in 2017 when i started playing the game. Back then was not even top melee weapon. And prime veriant was something i farmed first before every other prime weapon
Decisive Judgement Chads represent.
love your vids ! to the point and detailled explanation of the setup. learning something each time
Here to show support
I run it with a daikyu with the amalgam target acquired mod on it since epitaph does enough and the lifesteal can actually come in handy sometimes
Very true, I should've mentioned that one.
Noice!!! Been saving all the nikana rivens I get
100% worth
@@kyaii uh it's 1/5 riven dispo tho
And I just got the epitaph and gonna use your build as a primer as well thank you
How about Prime compared to the New Duviri Nikana?
guandao prime next please!
Love these videos
Hey kyaii, amazing video as usual, but you should really make a video on the shedu! its a very good aoe and well damaging weapon, i would love to see your shedu builds and your thoughts on it, much love
Minor correction viral amplifies damage up to 325%, not 350%.
Ah yea, my bad
Time to update the build, now that Melee Elementalist and Melee Arcanes are around.
What would this build look like today with the new Galvanized melee mods and melee arcanes?
I traded a frost prime set for the nikana prime set; best trade I’ve done so far.
Yea that's a good trade!
Idk why i think its because iam big knightmare frame fan your builds are pretty similar to he's and its nice to see
Nice build. Fulmination instead of Anemic agility or jolt might be a little bit better on the epitath considering the range you use on your nikana. And you are using gauss so you should be fine about it.
@@Avoidthevoidx ok fulmination my bad
primed fulmination is much better than the normal version, it gives 3 times the bonus of the normal one. so if you don't have the primed one, other mods would be better since it's a very small change in the aoe
what if i done have jolt for epitaph?
The Riven that I have for my Skiajati makes the Nikana Prime look like a butter-knife. lol.
Must be a really good riven causes skia's riven dispo is only 3/5
Please do a build like this for Twin Krohkurs pleaseeee
Slash % doesn't matter when you're forcing slash procs, that's the whole point
not every attack force procs
@@kyaii Yes, but you're leaving so much damage on the table, and viral procs stack so well with slash procs, that you are leaving a lot of time to kill on the table unless you are 1-shotting, even with a viral primer. Just try viral on the melee instead of the primer, I think you'll be surprised
It’s so good he don’t need an arcane
I saw that equinox was your most used warframe do you have her builds posted on the channel
Yea I do
Could you do a video about Gyre next? Your builds are awesome.
I need to get her still! After though 100%
Sepfahn Zaw is the best Nikana in the game, higher base damage than primr with same base speed as skaijati, plus you can arcane it.
Facts but have to grind standing a lot more but I get ur point super good
I have a Riven Dragon Nikana that comes with a High Crit Chance with a riven disparity of 4.
PS I love Ur Vids
I like the new secondary arcane for more statuses, but the extra combo duration is also nice from dexterity... not an easy choice :)
which arcane?
@@Hejirah Secondary Encumber. 24% for an extra random status chance. Really nice to get CO going.
I heared that dragon nikana with a very good riven could be better than nikana prime. is it still true?
Do you plan to do a praedos video ? :)
What frame would you choose to support the Nikana prime optimally?
Any Warframe with grouping abilities, and the ability to tank. Grouping skyrockets your ability to kill with melee in a way that keeps up with the team. So zephyr is a decent option without even needing helminth, as her 2 groups, and her 3 redirects enemy projectiles, and her tornadoes are an insane damage increase and priming tool.
Other than that, you can always run gauss, as with max redline he ignores all damage in the game (except toxin), has a melee attack speed boost, weapon swap speeds, and his 1 augment is a very good grouping tool.
Hey kyaii! I was just wondering what your thoughts on making a Tik tok was? You could make really compact quick 15 second videos that would 1. Get the word of warframe out, and 2. Get your name out on a different platform, giving them a taste of what they could come watch on TH-cam! Just a thought. Hope you are doing well, thanks for another great video :)
Hmmm a tiktok could do well
I'll see!
Is there a place to farm those specific stances I’ve been searching for yrs
I’m kinda new I wanted to ask what’s better the dragon nikana or the kronen
does nikana prime go well with phantasma? and what nikana build
Quassus build next?
Was that 4.6x multiplier the base stat for that weapon?
Oops 😭
No it wasn't, forgot to remove the crit damage for that screen shot mb
@@kyaii I instantly went to go buy one thinking base was 4.6 lol
what about the Sephan zaw? I use that more than the Nikana Prime
Less slash weighting and overall lower stats make it worse imo.
@@kyaii you can use arcanes on it though
@@kyaii I really could never really tell a difference between them
@@kyaii ehh I don't think it's worse. Sephan is amazing. You can use Arcanes and I believe the riven dispo might be a bit higher than the nikana prime.
Make an updated equinox video 😊, it ur first one still works then nvm. Also i love your vids and really think you are an underrated creator considering how small the warframe yt is community is. Im praying for your success 🙏🏾
Thank you lots bro!
I have a recent Equinox build on the channel.
since melee gameplay is very spammy which combo u recommend using for most cases? neutral/forward/forward block/block (blind justice)?
Neutral has fast animation and forced slash
I dont understand the smite grineer when im gonna be missions of other factions. Is it even necessary to have? Just need an understanding
Change it out depending on what faction your facing.
Bane mods are multiplicative and double dip on status procs like slash, which nikana is very good at doing
Any update on this regarding Tennokai?
just use dreamers wrath
Kind of off topic but does anyone know if the amber archon shard that gives 100% effectiveness on health orbs works with equilibrium?
it doesn't
hmmm hmmm i did a build and tryed that was arrond 437% crit chance i did most of steel path using nikana and excalibur umber this build go up to 240k damage per hit and 1 million 300 k for a finisher hit. if there is a boss it s better use heat even tho nikana have slash witch do true dmg but heat is good against most boss that have heavy armor if peoples don t have a good warframe
Sucks this got made riiiiight b4 Syam came out =( how do you feel about that weapon??
not as good as Nikana Prime but a great weapon nonetheless
@@kyaii fast reply = my sub ....i can see why your getting Patreon love so early in your channels growth . Much Deserved !!!
Nikana Prime is definitely one of the best performing melee weapons, but is it worthy of "you need this right now"?
Personally, I'd say no. When it comes to combo/slash focused melee weapons there's probably 5-10 with performance that's functionally close enough to be indistinguishable.
Orthos prime is the way to go. It's super cheap, super easy to farm, and shreds steelpath.
Yep, and an innodem realistically outperforms if you can take advantage of the high follow through with grouping.
All that aside, I love running nikanas so what can ya do
You forgot the Sepfahn zaw which can be made into a nikana.
Which one is better?
Lucky for us Nikana Prime is better anyways.
@@Wonback Nikana Prime
@@kyaii I disagree here a little bit due to sopfahn higher riven dispo, attack speed, crit chance and crit dmg and zaw arcane but it is warframe and better is subjective.
@@v1k37 nah slash is king
Doesn't having the enemy ai paused grant stealth multiplier?
no, that is not true
Whats about the pressure point? Would it fit here?
Condition Overload
@@kyaii I mean can I use primed pressure point instead of smite? I guess that would yield more damage, am I wrong?
smite is a faction damage mod which is multiplicative and double dips on slash
What about a zaw nikana?
ash and nikana prime builds pls
Is this better than zaws?
How do y’all be getting the swinging animation
Press E 😭
@@kyaii nvm it was the stance
I dont get why you dont get pressure point on it to basically double your damage
Condition overload bro
Ah the added bonus from pressure point isnt good enough compared to the mod you switched it with?
@@jadsidani4492 Precisely, and because of diminishing returns
@@jadsidani4492With a primer you easily reach 320% base damage, which is practically twice primed pressure point and you don’t want the two of them together because of opportunity cost
First and I love your vids
Cap you ain’t really about it
Yes but I can't put exodia contagion on it 😢
True, but not the focus of this video.
Bro a ad pop up talking about Warframe
Ok, so, please let me know where to get it WITHOUT investing real money for it. In all my relics I have there is no Nikana Prime.
Grind relics and sell sets??? You don't need to spend any money but it sells for 200-300p
if u don’t mind me asking what is that warframe
Gauss. He's kinda like Volt, but with less of a focus on Electricity and more on speed and his battery. He's pretty fun to use.
Gauss, I've got a video on him.
0:07 bro are you joking? thats funny
No? Why?
@@kyaii you did splash statuses on them with epitaph, and only after that you did a light combo to kill 130 lvl grineers. it can be done much faster with a lot of things in the game
I personally wasn't gonna spend an hour in a survival to record this but the power of Nikana scales much higher than other 1 shots at base steel path cause it's slash bias
nidus build?
Literally Cleave and Dismantle
Wait so I need epitaph?
if you don't have epitaph, you can use kuva nukor. epitaph is only 20 - 30p though if bought from players
"This is a melee build so there's not much reason to run Naramon"
Sad but that do be how it is
Just build zaw... and put in exodia contagion
Tbh i think glaive prime is definitely nbr 1 but nikana is def nbr 2
Those are def the top 2.. personal preference
If you can even call the Glaive a "melee"
glaives are so cringe and eww
I had it ,selled it for 100plats
My really good Dragon Nikana riven with a -slash on it. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
rip.
@@kyaii it’s all good, rerolled and got +CC AND CD, it’s all good!
You could just build a Zaw.
True, but Nikana Prime is better IMO
Best melee Nami Skyla prime
best melee is zaw contagion
for starters thats an arcane ! and nah zaw just makes you think it's good ... ohhh big numbers makes you become a moth to a flame
@@jameshyman418 havent lost a dps battle to that overrated glaive prime yet
@@16Vagabond it's only because of over dmg when you hit someone for 2 billion dmg it counts as 2 billion on the board but it's a false reading what counts is the kill count now compare those and get back to me i think you'll find that your kills don't match the dps you're outputting, I'SD WADGER YOU GET OUT DONE ON KILLS 100%, with the glaive you kill things with a bleed proc that only does the damage that eqates to said hit points but it gets kills, whereas yours will get dmg but lack kills in comparison. its why it isn't in a top5 video not even top 10 that's why you''re top dps just by over dmg that means nothing. i bet you don't even own a glaive otherwise you would know of its TRUE POWER
@@jameshyman418 If you want we can put your theory to the test in game, I can guarantee I will outdmg you in any content with my fully archon sharded crit dmg spec godroll riven rabvee
@@16Vagabond HAHAHA ok no wisp and no invisible allowed frames and it won't be dps it'll be kills
First
(Dam apparently I am not the first one to comment, TH-cam lied to me 😢)
Cap you ain’t really about it
U DONT NEED IT. THE GLAIVE PRIME DEALS EASILY 100x DAMAGE.
and notice the EPITAPH, that's the real hero.
First
Incorrect the Skiajati has a higher riven dispo and can therefore be moded higher than Nikana , making Skiajati the most powerful of the two
That's just not right lmao
@@kyaii Unfortunately for you, it is right adding a riven with a ⅘ disposition makes it more powerful than Nikana. You should know this unless you are a noob
No. Nikana Prime has not only a higher crit chance and crit multiplier but it also has a lower slash weighting of 78% compared to 90%.
It also has lower base damage and crappy base forma.
Rivens make it better, but also adding a good riven for Nikana Prime would still elevate it above Skiajati.
@@kyaii Just what I thought, noob; all those stats are easily buffed with a CC CD dmg riven and more forma lol. Nikana has a crappy dispo of ⅕ , not ⅘, so it cannot be buffed better than Skiajati. The game has been out since 2012, and you are making content on 4-year-old meta. Every other content creator has already made videos you just started 2x over. Enjoy the game, but you are late to the party.