Rhino — Squad Roar
Endgame build. Iron Skin stays up. Roar stays up. The cell deletes the tile. This is the 2026 Rhino.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
endgame / endurance groups, Disruption, anyone whose squad actually shoots
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Don’t build this yet
First Skin 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 SkinWhy this build?
Endgame for endgame / endurance groups, Disruption, anyone whose squad actually shoots
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Roar is still the best generalist squad buff in 2026. Helminth copies exist because people want this button on every frame.
- Iron Skin Overguard means you can stand in the lane and keep the aura honest.
- Do not swap Roar off this config. If you want Nourish, that is a different loadout.
Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · solo content with no guns to buff
Specialised investment for hard content
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Squad weapons — Roar multiplies whatever they brought. Heat inherit, Slash, Incarnons — you are the percentage, not the gun.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Skin
- New account or low investment → First Skin
- This is too much Forma / cost → Squad Roar — Optimised
My test
Did this still work for you?
Your note, in this browser. Separate from Codex verification — the stamp on the card is editorial, this is yours.
Readiness
Inventory unknown
Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.
- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/5 · required — 5 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/3 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 5 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 SkinThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
- NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
- After that4–5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalSquad Roar — EndgameEndgame · Endgame · 4–5 Forma
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 3–5 Tauforged Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Roar number and Iron Skin HP.Archon locked
- 1 Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed — Recast Roar without a cutscene.Archon 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 Growing Power
One named gap. The Silver Grove quest
60 minutes
Growing Power, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Growing Power
The Silver Grove quest
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
Steel Path. Your squad brought real guns and you are the percentage.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Blind Rage, a duration mod, and enough Strength that Roar looks embarrassing.
- First mission to practice in
- SP Disruption or a public Steel Path Survival. Watch other people's numbers.
3 button drills · 14 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
Roar loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Iron Skin (2). If it looks thin, Charge a pack first on the Ironclad config — here you just recast.
- 2Roar (3) as you enter. Check the buff icon. If a pickup-run teammate is 40 m away, walk closer and recast.
- 3Shoot. Stomp (4) only when something needs to stop moving (Nox, Eximus, a Defense target).
- 4Recast Skin before it pops. Recast Roar on cooldown, not after it expired in a boss phase.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Skin, then Roar as you enter
2Both icons on before the first shot.
- 2
Stand where the squad can hear you
3Range is a circle. If they left, recast on top of them.
- 3
Recast Roar on the timer, not on the corpse
Boss phases hate expired buffs.
Common mistakes
Subsuming Roar 'because Nourish is better'
Nourish goes on 1. Roar stays on 3.
When this feels easy
- 1Tau Strength shardsRoar scales forever. This is the investment.
- 2Molt AugmentedRecast Roar after the stacks land.
Parts checklist
0 of 14 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●rhinoframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Blind Ragemod
- 5○Transient Fortitudemod
- 6○Umbral Intensifymod
- 7○Primed Continuitymod
- 8○Stretchmod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Adaptationmod
- 11○Arcane Persistencearcane
- 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 13○Arcane Energizearcane
- 14○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 15○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 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
Growing Powermissing · The Silver Grove quest
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Transient Fortitudemissing · Same vaults as Blind Rage
Umbral Intensifymissing · Finish The Sacrifice
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
Recommended
Arcane Persistencemissing · Finish The Old Peace
At 700+ armor, incoming damage caps at 500/s. Azure armor shards or Health Conversion to the breakpoint. Pair with a heal (Grace, kit heal, or Gloom).
Optional
Watch it played
YouTube for this loadout
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Strength
~250–300% (Blind Rage, Transient Fortitude, Umbral Intensify, shards)
Duration
155–200% so Roar is not a chore
Range
145% so the buff actually reaches the hallway
Roar is a faction-style multiplier that also buffs abilities. Status weapons double-dip. Strength is the whole identity.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 313%
- Duration
- 128%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 54 / 67
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
Rhino mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 2Transient FortitudeOrokin Vaults
- 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 4Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 5StretchRoar radius. Teammates outside the circle are not buffed.Enemy drops
- 6Primed FlowBaro Ki'Teer / relics
- 7AdaptationSkin can break. Adaptation is the backup layer.Arbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove specters | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 2 | Transient Fortitude | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Umbral Intensify | The Sacrifice | |
| 4 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 5 | Stretch Roar radius. Teammates outside the circle are not buffed. | Enemy drops | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro Ki'Teer / relics | |
| 7 | Adaptation Skin can break. Adaptation is the backup layer. | Arbitrations |
Squad weapons
Roar multiplies whatever they brought. Heat inherit, Slash, Incarnons — you are the percentage, not the gun.
Arcanes
Arcane Persistence
At 700+ armor, incoming damage caps at 500/s. Azure armor shards or Health Conversion to the breakpoint. Pair with a heal (Grace, kit heal, or Gloom).
Roathe, La Cathédrale · 5 Maphica (The Descendia)
Molt Augmented
Kills add Strength. Recast Roar after it stacks.
Zariman bounties
Arcane Energize
Blind Rage is thirsty. Energize or Equilibrium.
Eidolon hunts / trade
Archon shards
- 1
Tauforged Crimson · StrengthRoar number and Iron Skin HP.3–5 Tauforged · Netracells / EDA - 2
Tauforged Amber · Casting SpeedRecast Roar without a cutscene.1 · EDA / Bird 3
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tauforged Crimson · Strength Roar number and Iron Skin HP. | 3–5 Tauforged | Netracells / EDA | |
| 2 | Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed Recast Roar without a cutscene. | 1 | EDA / Bird 3 |