Lato Vandal INCARNON | Red Crit Quickdraw Headhunter
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Warframe Tier List - Lato Vandal
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by ninjase — last updated a year ago
A special version of the standard Lato pistol with a slower Fire Rate but offering higher Accuracy and Damage values. The Lato Vandal has been customized by the Tenno with a blue-green metallic finish and Lotus branding on the grips.
ITEM RANK
3060 / 60
APPLY CONDITIONALS
FIRE MODE
[Lato Vandal] Incarnon requires headshots in base form to charge up. The incarnon form creates ricocheting bullets that hit enemies 9m away with no falloff. This basically means for every bullet that hits the target, another 2+ bullets are spawned that go on to hit another two enemies. The total number or ricochets therefore increases with multishot.
Evolution II : Both perks work well.
Evolution III: Void's Guidance gives accurancy and recoil reduction which benefits incarnon mode. Ammo efficiency doesnt affect incarnon mode. Instant reload is very nice on non-incarnon mode but does not affect incarnon mode.
Evolution IV: All three seem to have some viability, depending on playstyle.
Survivor's Edge +6% CC/+12% SC is the most generalised for just shooting without gimmicks, offering the least damage potential and most comfort. This sets your CC to 168% (with max Galv Crossshairs) with a tier 2 headcrit multiplier of 24.2x.
Deathtrap Trigger +38%cc/+2.6CD is the strongest damage potential for a playstyle where you swap weapons very often, since the buff only lasts 4s. With max Galv Crosshairs while aiming down sight with headshot, you end up with 302% CC for guaranteed red crits (tier 3), with a tier 3 headcrit multiplier of 68.56x. This is roughly three times stronger than survivor's edge, but requires you to constantly swap weapons every 4s to refresh the buff.
Carnage Reign would provide slightly more damage than survivor's edge (12% more) if you use Secondary Encumber instead of Secondary Deadhead, requires alot of ramp up but still much less potential than Deathtrap (3x less).
Arcane
Secondary Deadhead: Gives -recoil, 360% dmg additive to Galv Shot and an additional 1.3x headshot multuplier, but requires headshots to upkeep. This is the best option if you love getting headshots.
Cascadia Overcharge: Gives +300% crit chance, without needing buildup. The only condition is to have overshields, which actually matches Haven Foray perk. Use this if you like red crits with Suvivor's edge, or Tier 5 red crits with Deathtrap Trigger.
Flexible/alternative mods
If you don't own one of the above mods, you can try to add one of the following:
Riven
The ideal rolls are +CD/MS/CC/FR/tox with a harmless negative such as -puncture/slash
Having either toxin or firerate on the roll helps you fit the riven over [Pistol Pestilence] or [Lethal Torrent] respectively, otherwise you may just have to drop [Lethal Torrent].
VIRAL HEAT: Best for 'general use' as Viral has a +75% damage bonus against Cloned Flesh (possessed by nearly all grineer and some corrupted), 50% damage bonus against Corpus Flesh (possesed by humanoid corpus) while heat has a +25% bonus against Cloned Flesh and Corpus Flesh. This bonus applies regardless of whether the enemy has armor or is fully stripped. Viral status also boosts all damage to armored or unarmored health by up to 4.25x at 10 stacks.
RAW CORROSIVE HEAT: Good against Acolytes/Thrax when you DON'T use armor strip. Corrosive damage ignores 75% of armor, has a +75% damage bonus agains Ferrite armor (possessed by most grineer except nox/bombard) and corrosive procs further reduce armor by up to 80% at 10 stacks. Just replace [Frostbite] with either [Jolt] or [Convulsion] (may need additional V forma slot)
*PURE TOXIN**: Good against steel path corpus since toxin ignores shields. Drop [Primed Heated Charge] and [Frostbite] for [Pathogen Rounds] + [Primed Expel Corpus] or anemic agility.
RADIATION COLD: Good against index robotics, unstripped Lua demolysts, Angels and potentially Archon/Eidolon if you were desperate. Swap [Pistol Pestilence] for [Convulsion] and rearrange [Primed Heated Charge] to the left of [Frostbite].
VIRAL SLASH: Can bypass armor, only really better than raw damage at higher and higher armor levels i.e. SP level 500+. Drop Primed Heated Charge for Carnis Mandible and Lethal Torrent for Primed Expel (optional). Example build: https://overframe.gg/build/467657/