Atlas — Tharros Fists
Endgame build. Tharros Strike subsume. Cone strip, heal, then Landslide the naked pack.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Steel Path Grineer, Demolysts, people who refuse to wait on Petrify
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Don’t build this yet
First Punches first
This loadout sits at Endgame. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.
Open First PunchesWhy this build?
Endgame for Steel Path Grineer, Demolysts, people who refuse to wait on Petrify
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Tharros is the 2026 strip-and-heal subsume for brawlers.
- Heap still wants rubble. Petrify or Path of Statues still matters.
- Epitaph Viral is comfort, not required once strip is 100%.
Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · solo level-cap · players without Helminth
Specialised investment for hard content
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Landslide Fists — Same fist grid as Rubble Heap. Viral primer (Epitaph) still helps.
Alternative if…
- You don’t have Helminth yet → First Punches
- Star Chart only → First Punches
- New account or low investment → First Punches
- This is too much Forma / cost → Rubble Heap — Optimised
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/4 · required — 4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth 0/1 · required — Subsume Tharros Strike (Styanax)
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Tharros Strike (Styanax)) · 1 shard · 3 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Plan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- TodayPlay First PunchesThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
- NextGet Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
- After that4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterViolet · Melee crit damageHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalTharros FistsEndgame · Endgame · 4 Forma
Farm the gap
- Punch augments — Path of Statues · Rubble Heap · Rumbled · Titanic Rumbler
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
Tharros Strike (Styanax) over Tectonics (2)
Full armor strip in a cone plus a heal. Landslide then actually kills armored factions.
Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.
- 3 Violet · Melee crit damage — The punch is the nukeArchon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Steel Charge
One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave
60 minutes
Steel Charge, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
Subsume Tharros Strike (Styanax)
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Steel Charge
Invasion / Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
Armored Steel Path. You have Styanax subsumed.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Tharros Strike is injected over Tectonics.
- First mission to practice in
- Grineer SP. You should see armor bars vanish.
2 button drills · 13 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Strip loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Tharros Strike (2) the pack — armor gone, health back.
- 2Landslide (1) through them.
- 3Petrify (3) if you still want rubble.
- 4Repeat. Do not stand still.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Tharros the cone
2Armor gone, health back.
- 2
Punch the naked pack
1Landslide.
Common mistakes
Tharros on empty air
It is a cone. Aim at the clump.
When this feels easy
- 1Keep HeapStrip does not replace rubble. You still want free punches.
Parts checklist
0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
17 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●atlasframe
- 2○Steel Chargemod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Blind Ragemod
- 5○Umbral Intensifymod
- 6○Rubble Heapaugment
- 7○Stretchmod
- 8○Overextendedmod
- 9○Equilibriummod
- 10○Primed Continuitymod
- 11○Arcane Furyarcane
- 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 13○Violet · Melee crit damageshard
- 14○Tharros Strikehelminth
- 15○Helminth · Tharros Strike (Styanax)unlock
- 16○Steel Pathunlock
- 17○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
- Steel Charge
missing · Invasion / Nightwave
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Umbral Intensifymissing · Finish The Sacrifice
- Rubble Heap
missing · Steel Meridian / Red Veil · 25,000
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Overextendedmissing · Orokin Vaults
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
- Tharros Strike
missing · Helminth
Full armor strip in a cone plus a heal. Landslide then actually kills armored factions.
Recommended
Optional
Watch it played
YouTube for this loadout
Atlas Build 2026 – Infinite Punching Destroyer
Landslide plus Tharros Strike armor strip. The 2026 Steel Path punch loop.
Helminth
Subsume Tharros Strike (Styanax) over Tectonics (2)
Full armor strip in a cone plus a heal. Landslide then actually kills armored factions.
Strength
~200%+ so Tharros strips
Duration
130%
Range
175%
Keep Path of Statues or Heap if slots allow; strip is the new 2.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 183%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 250%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- base
- Capacity
- 51 / 69
1 Umbral piece
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Atlas mods
- AuraSteel ChargeInvasion
- ExilusCunning DriftLua
- 1Blind RageVaults
- 2Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 3Rubble HeapSteel Meridian / Red Veil · 25k
- 4StretchDrops
- 5OverextendedVaults
- 6EquilibriumThe New Strange
- 7Primed ContinuityBaro
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Steel Charge | Invasion | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua | |
| 1 | Blind Rage | Vaults | |
| 2 | Umbral Intensify | The Sacrifice | |
| 3 | Rubble Heap | Steel Meridian / Red Veil · 25k | |
| 4 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 5 | Overextended | Vaults | |
| 6 | Equilibrium | The New Strange | |
| 7 | Primed Continuity | Baro |
Landslide Fists
Same fist grid as Rubble Heap. Viral primer (Epitaph) still helps.
Arcanes
Arcane Fury
Fist damage
Eidolon
Molt Augmented
Strength
Zariman
Archon shards
- 1
Violet · Melee crit damageThe punch is the nuke3 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Violet · Melee crit damage The punch is the nuke | 3 | EDA |