[Top 5] Warframe Best Melee Warframes You Should Get

Updated:

11 Sep 2021

[Top 5] Warframe Best Melee Warframes You Should Get

Although melee might look obnoxious when fighting against ranged enemies,but it is a necessity since you’re a space ninja. With gravity-defying powers and abilities, closing the distance is no problem. However, certain warframes have certain skill sets that excel in melee engagements. In this article, we will discuss the best melee warframes.

5. Inaros

Anakin's worst nightmare.

He is almost everything that Imhotep, from the 1999 film, The Mummy, can do; except for summoning mass undead soldiers since he can only summon less than 5. Inaros is a mummy-sand elemental themed warframe. He was initially a warrior of the Orokin until they started to kidnap children; an action he was against, thus making him turn on his masters.

His main and component blueprints can be obtained in the course of the quest, Sands of Inaros, or from Cephalon Simaris.

What Inaros excels in:

Multiple skills that grant life steal.
Crowd control abilities that open enemies to finishers.
Having the 2nd highest base health, behind his prime counterpart.

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4. Valkyr

There are a hundred ways for you to kill a cat, but in this case, it's the other way around.

Act like a cat, but 100 times more angry and violent. Rip and tear through enemy mobs with this ball of feline furry/fury. Valkyr is a feline-berserker themed warframe. She was captured by Alad V who experimented on her, thus, resulting in her current deformed form.

Her main blueprint can be bought from the market, while her components can be acquired by defeating the boss on Jupiter, Alad V.

What Valkyr excels in:

Has the 3rd highest base armor, behind Lavos and her prime counterpart.
Has invulnerability with lifesteal ability.
Can buff allies and self for attack speed and increased armor.

Where to farm Valkyr! (Warframe)

3. Wukong

An ability to spawn a clone, just to remind you of how lonely you are.

Imagine being so overpowered in lore that in the initial release, DE had to nerf you to oblivion and you still turned out to be near unkillable. Wukong is directly based on the Monkey King of the Journey to the West. All his abilities, including his passive, reflects some of his capabilities from the said epic.

All of his blueprints can be acquired from the Tenno lab at the Clan Dojo (assuming you have joined one).

What Wukong excels in:

Can absorb and reflect damage to mobs around him.
Great survivability with invulnerability and health regeneration abilities.
Using his clone to assist in missions as all abilities synergizes with it.

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2. Gauss

I'm fast as F boi.

When you move so fast that the enemies just spray and pray that they hit you; so, you derp them further by turning all incoming damage into battery energy. Gauss is a kinetic energy-runner themed warframe. Also called the saint of altra, Gauss earned his nickname when he was able to successfully put down an insurgency in Ceres by the orders of the Orokin.

His main blueprint can be purchased from the market while his component blueprints are dropped on disruption missions, specifically on rotation C at Kappa, Ceres.

What Gauss excels in:

Good crowd control abilities.
Self-buffs abilities that increase damage reduction, weapon fire Rate, attack Speed, Reload Speed, and Holster Speed.
Can completely strip enemy armor.

Where to farm Gauss! (Warframe)

1. Baruuk

Violence is not an answer unless you start shooting.

It’s never a good idea to agitate quiet monks, especially ones that can deflect/reflect your bullet/s, make your weapon explode, and blow your insides out, all in a single punch. Baruuk is a pacifist monk themed warframe. He is described as the reluctant hero or pacifist warframe with abilities that avoid conflict. However, upon reaching a certain limit, he can easily devastate mobs of enemies.

All of Baruuk's blueprints can be purchased from Little Duck on Venus; however, the main blueprint requires players to be at Agent rank, while component blueprints require Hand rank.

What Baruuk excels in: