Styanax · Loadouts

Styanax by progress

Progression path first. Specialist cards after. Each progression card is the peak you can run at that rung — not a second identity.

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Progression path

Starter0–2 FormaStarterExperimentalStar ChartLevel capShards optional

First Spear

Learn the frame.

Best for: Star Chart, first Styanax, post-Kahl craft

Rally Point on. Tharros Strike the pack (armor falls, you heal). Final Stand is a javelin rain — learn it on Star Chart, not on level cap.

Rally Point is the battery. Final Stand is the toy. Tharros is how armor dies.

Investment: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard

Inventory unknown · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Experimental — Interesting interaction — less proven or more demanding. Not the same as untested.

Dmg: 2/5 Dmg
Sur: 4/5 Sur
En: 3/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 5/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then First Spear — Star Chart.

Star Chart2–3 FormaModerateExperimentalStar ChartSteel Path

First Spear — Star Chart

First serious version.

Best for: Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.

Rally Point on. Tharros Strike the pack (armor falls, you heal). Final Stand is a javelin rain — learn it on Star Chart, not on level cap. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

Rally Point is the battery. Final Stand is the toy. Tharros is how armor dies.

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 specialised mods

Inventory unknown · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Experimental — Interesting interaction — less proven or more demanding. Not the same as untested.

Dmg: 2/5 Dmg
Sur: 4/5 Sur
En: 4/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 5/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Final Stand — Steel Path.

Steel Path3–4 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceStar ChartSteel PathShards optional

Final Stand — Steel Path

Your first endgame-capable version.

Best for: Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.

Tharros strips, Rally feeds energy, Final Stand rains the tile. Intrepid Stand dumps Overguard on every hit. This is 2026 Styanax. This is the peak you can run the day Steel Path unlocks — galvanized / arcanes, no Helminth.

Final Stand plus Tharros is Styanax. The rain on armored Grineer without 2 is a massage.

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 4 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 4/5 Dmg
Sur: 5/5 Sur
En: 3/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 4/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Final Stand — Optimised.

Optimised4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceNetracellsArchon HuntsHelminthShards optional

Final Stand — Optimised

Spend resources to push it.

Best for: Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.

Tharros strips, Rally feeds energy, Final Stand rains the tile. Intrepid Stand dumps Overguard on every hit. This is 2026 Styanax.

Final Stand plus Tharros is Styanax. The rain on armored Grineer without 2 is a massage.

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel)) · 2 shards · 5 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 4/5 Dmg
Sur: 5/5 Sur
En: 3/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 3/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Final Stand — Endgame.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.

Endgame5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathHelminthShards optional

Final Stand — Endgame

Only if you actually need it.

Best for: endgame / endurance, Sanctuary Onslaught, any packed tile, the hover-rain people came for

Tharros strips, Rally feeds energy, Final Stand rains the tile. Intrepid Stand dumps Overguard on every hit. This is 2026 Styanax.

Final Stand plus Tharros is Styanax. The rain on armored Grineer without 2 is a massage.

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel)) · 2 shards · 5 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 4/5 Dmg
Sur: 5/5 Sur
En: 3/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 2/5 Ease

Your next step: stop here unless a specialist card fits the mission.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.

Specialist builds

Not part of the path

Same frame, different job. These are not missing rungs — they are optional identities once the path feels easy.

Optimised4 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathDisruptionShards optional

Tharros Wall

Spend resources to push it.

Best for: Grineer Steel Path, Demolysts, squads that need a cone strip, health-gate comfort

200%+ Strength. Tharros Strike is a cone that peels armor and shields and heals you. You are the strip bot who also rains.

Tharros is one of the best cone strips in the game and it heals. Other frames Helminth this off Styanax.

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 3/5 Dmg
Sur: 5/5 Sur
En: 3/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 3/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Final Stand — Endgame.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.

Steel Path3 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceSurvivalDisruptionShards optional

Rally Battery

Your first endgame-capable version.

Best for: Long Survival, Disruption, friends on Blind Rage, the 'I brought Styanax to babysit energy' role

Rally Point is squad energy plus shields on kill. Duration so it never drops. You are the reason the caster never runs dry.

Rally Point is one of the best energy auras that is not Zenurik. Cast it.

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 3 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 3/5 Dmg
Sur: 4/5 Sur
En: 4/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 4/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Final Stand — Optimised.

Steel Path4 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceSteel PathShards optional

Axios Pile

Your first endgame-capable version.

Best for: Hallway tiles, Corpus ships, people who refuse to Helminth 1

Axios Javelin pins a target to a wall and sucks neighbors in. Tharros the ball. Stand the ball. You are a spear-shaped grouping tool.

Axios is not bad. It is just the first ability people sell. This config exists so you remember it groups.

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 3/5 Dmg
Sur: 2/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 4/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Final Stand — Optimised.