The Stampede | Endurance Rhino Iron Skin Gating + Stomp Spam

by ninjase — last updated 2 months ago

Takes Rhino's ground-shaking abilities to the next level with altered mod polarities that offer greater customization.

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Orokin Reactor

APPLY CONDITIONALS

ENERGY: 150
HEALTH: 370
SHIELD: 555
SPRINT SPEED: 1

DURATION: 100%
EFFICIENCY: 100%
RANGE: 100%
STRENGTH: 100%

ARMOR: 290
Damage Reduction: 49.2%
EFFECTIVE HIT POINTS: 1,468

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The Stampede | Endurance Rhino Iron Skin Gating + Stomp Spam

This is an Endurance focused Rhino Build that uses a combination of spamming Stomp to AOE stun enemies and restore iron skin, as well as rely on i-frames from Iron Skin activation and breaking for survival. If you can get targeted by a strong enemy such as [Jade] eximus then absorb damage, you could potentially gain hundreds of millions of iron skin which could last a while if you keep refreshing it with [Reinforcing Stomp], even at levelcap.

On casting Iron Skin, you have 3 seconds of invulnerability where you absorb damage and convert that to Iron Skin. This should then last at least 3 seconds since it absorbed 3s worth of equivalent damage. Upon breaking you have a further 0.5s iframes from Overguard and another 1.33s of iframes from Shield Gate.

Therefore, the total amount of i-frames from a single cast of Iron Skin is about 5 to 8s. This means if you stand still and just take damage, you only need to cast Iron Skin once every 5 to 8s. If you then add in the insane crowd control of Stomp, you will only need to recast Iron Skin once every 30s to a minute of so when randomly get hit. This style of surviving should last all the way to levelcap (lvl 9999) and even has the potential to ignore toxin damage.

UPDATE FEB 2025
Arcane Truculence is optional and adds 10 viral stacks in 30m everytime you cast iron skin or regain overguard with [Reinforcing Stomp].

STAT BREAKDOWN

Duration
We want positive duration for uptime of Nourish and Roar.

Efficiency
Keep neutral as stomp costs alot of energy. Nourish + [Equilibrium] upkeeps energy. [Archon Stretch] is optional when running [Diriga] or other companion that procs electric.

Range
Stomp has a ridiculously high base range, so 145% range is sufficient for a 36m stomp. If you want you can go even higher up to 235 to cover 58m. Just note if you go too high, this can reduce KPM since you stop enemies from even reaching you in the first place.

Strength
Need high strength for Nourish and Roar.

Flexible Slots
Flexible options include:

More efficiency: Streamline
More range: Augur Reach
More strength: Augur Secrets
More duration: Constitution

Aura:

[Corrosive Projection] helps reduce armored enemy ehp by almost half (multiplies dmg by 1.8x and makes levelcap thrax EHP approximately 66mil vs 110 mil). Use this if you just need to push your damage over the oneshot threshold.
Brief respite is best default for backup shield gating
Ready Steel if doing initial combo slam (no crescendo build up)
Growing Power for more strength

Exilus

Ice Spring gives parkour velocity for mobility
Power Drift for more strength

HELMIINTH

Nourish - generally useful for energy economy and free viral for weapons
Shock with Shock trooper - adds non-combining electric damage and status
Brightbonnet - more strength to boost roar, gives energy. Make sure to run Arbuceps to double the bonuses.
Wrathful Advance - if you want a melee [Rhino] with nice mobility

ARCHON SHARDS

ONE Cast Speed
TWO parkour for mobility

For primary weapon platform [Rhino]:
TWO tauforged primary electric damage

For general platform:
TWO strength shards

ARSENAL

Roar double dips status DPS

This means status based weapons have the most synergy:

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The Stampede | Endurance Rhino Iron Skin Gating + Stomp Spam

The Stampede | Endurance Rhino Iron Skin Gating + Stomp Spam

STAT BREAKDOWN

HELMIINTH

ARCHON SHARDS

ARSENAL

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