Rhino Prime · The kit

Skin, roar, optionally freeze

Rhino is a beginner tank whose 2 is Overguard and whose 3 is still the best generic squad buff in the game. Learn Iron Skin first. Roar is the 2026 reason to keep playing him. Charge is either Ironclad math or Helminth bait.

Health

270 → 370

Shields

455 → 555

Armor

240 → 240

Energy

100 → 150

Passive

Heavy Landing

Landing from a height sends a shockwave that damages and staggers nearby enemies. Bullet-jump up, drop in, then Skin. It is flavor, not a build.

Rhino Charge

Rhino rushes a target, hitting everything on the path. Combos if you recast quickly. Ironclad Charge (augment) grants a huge armor buff per enemy hit — snapshot that with Iron Skin immediately after. Without the augment, 1 is a gap-closer and the first ability most people Helminth (Nourish is the usual replacement).

Cost: 25 energy
Ironclad: Armor per body hit, then Skin
Helminth: Common dump slot if you are not tanking

Iron Skin

Hardens Rhino in Overguard. It scales with Ability Strength and with armor, including Ironclad Charge and Umbral Fiber. You cannot be staggered through it the way old health-tank Rhino was. Iron Shrapnel lets you detonate the shell. Recast when it is low — do not wait for the pop in a level-cap hallway.

Cost: 50 energy
Type: Overguard
Scales with: Strength + armor

Roar

Buffs Rhino and nearby Warframes. The bonus behaves like a faction damage multiplier, so status weapons and ability damage both eat it. Duration is uptime, Strength is the number, Range is whether the Volt on the other side of the tile is included. Piercing Roar adds a pulse stagger. Do not Helminth this off Rhino.

Cost: 75 energy
Buff: Strength-scaled damage
Helminth: Rhino's subsume — keep it here

Rhino Stomp

100

A radial stomp that suspends enemies in the air. Damage exists; the point is the freeze. Duration is hang time, Range is the tile. Reinforcing Stomp refunds Iron Skin per target. Use it on objectives, not as your Exterminate plan.

Cost: 100 energy
Role: CC / objective pause
Augment: Reinforcing Stomp → Skin