[Top 5] Warframe Best Kuva Weapons That Are Powerful

Updated:

20 Jul 2021

Kuva weapons are the enhanced versions of regular weapons, featuring improved stats and more distinct looks. Kuva weapons are obtained from Kuva Liches, the stronger and tougher versions of Grenier soldiers. While it is certainly not easy to obtain Kuva weapons, the grind and effort is definitely worth the price.

Generally, all Kuva weapons are much better than the regular ones. But, some perform a lot better than others.

Here’s a list of the top 5 strongest Kuva weapons.

5. Kuva Shildeg

Kuva Shildeg

Kuva Shildeg, a warhammer

Kuva Shildeg is a Warhammer and the only melee Kuva weapon in the game. Kuva Shildeg has one of the lowest innate base damage in-game, but it doesn’t stop it from ravaging enemies with an insane critical chance and damage multiplier. With correct mods equipped, this weapon can prove to be fatal to even the toughest enemies.

What it is good at:

It has the highest critical damage multiplier of all hammer weapons.
It has a very high critical chance and status chance.

Kuva Shildeg is obtained by defeating a Kuva Lich equipped with one. The item will be available in the player foundry after the Kuva Lich has been defeated. This applies to all Kuva weapons.

Here’s how to get Kuva weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfPbolGsPc

Kuva Shildeg details: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Shildeg

4. Kuva Brakk

Kuva Brakk, a secondary shotgun

Kuva Brakk is a secondary weapon shotgun. It performs exceptionally well for a sidearm in close combat. Kuva Brakk comes with a higher critical rate, fire rate, status chance, and magazine capacity that easily compensates for its reduced base damage.

What it is good at:

It has the highest status chance among all secondary shotguns.
It has a high critical rate, fire rate, status chance, and magazine capacity.
It comes with an innate multishot of 10 bullets.

Kuva Brakk is obtained by defeating a Kuva Lich equipped with one. The item will be available in the player foundry after the Kuva Lich has been defeated. This applies to all Kuva weapons.

Here’s how to get Kuva weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfPbolGsPc

Kuva Brakk details: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Brakk

3. Kuva Kohm

Kuva Kohm, another secondary shotgun

Kuva Kohm is an auto-shotgun that primarily deals slash damage. It spools up very fast and shoots up to 12 bullets in each instance. Its high crit chance and damage multiplier, when combined with high fire rate and status effects, make it undeniably one of the strongest weapons in-game.

What it is good at:

It has a high crit chance, damage multiplier, status chance, and fire rate.
It comes with innate punch through that helps to kill multiple enemies at once.
It primarily deals slash damage that easily disintegrates enemies with no shields.

Kuva Kohm is obtained by defeating a Kuva Lich equipped with one. The item will be available in the player foundry after the Kuva Lich has been defeated. This applies to all Kuva weapons.

Here’s how to get Kuva weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfPbolGsPc

Kuva Kohm details: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Kohm

2. Kuva Bramma

Kuva Bramma, a bow

Kuva Bramma is a Kuva bow with explosive arrows. This weapon can sometimes be a bit tricky to use, as its explosion at close proximity damages the user as well. But with good aim and distance, each arrow hit with success can nuke down an entire group of enemies.

What it is good at:

It has the highest base damage among bows, and its primary fire deals heavy blast damage to nearby enemies.
After the first explosion, it drops a few cluster bombs that also deal blast damage to any remaining enemies.
It has the second-highest charge speed of all bows.

Kuva Bramma is obtained by defeating a Kuva Lich equipped with one. The item will be available in the player foundry after the Kuva Lich has been defeated. This applies to all Kuva weapons.

Here’s how to get Kuva weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfPbolGsPc

Kuva Bramma details: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Bramma

1. Kuva Nukor

Kuva Nukor, a beam gun

Kuva Nukor is possibly the strongest secondary weapon in-game. It shoots a beam that chains between enemies dealing radiation damage. What makes it special is its critical damage multiplier, which deals 5x the base damage of the weapon. Moreover, it has a solid fire rate, long-range, and pinpoint accuracy.

What is it good at:

It has the highest crit multiplier of all the weapons and one of the highest status chance among secondary weapons.
It primarily deals radiation damage that chains through enemies and makes them attack each other.
There’s a noticeably huge improvement between the stats of the standard Nukor and the Kuva Nukor.

Kuva Nukor is obtained by defeating a Kuva Lich equipped with one. The item will be available in the player foundry after the Kuva Lich has been defeated. This applies to all Kuva weapons.

Here’s how to get Kuva weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfPbolGsPc

Kuva Nukor details: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Nukor