Styanax — Final Stand
Optimised build. Tharros strips, Rally feeds energy, Final Stand rains the tile. Intrepid Stand dumps Overguard on every hit. This is 2026 Styanax.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Don’t build this yet
First Spear first
This loadout sits at Optimised. 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 SpearWhy this build?
Optimised for Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Final Stand plus Tharros is Styanax. The rain on armored Grineer without 2 is a massage.
- Intrepid Stand is why the nuke is also a tank. Overguard per hit adds up in a packed tile.
- Axios is the Helminth slot on this config. Keep it on the grouping loadout.
Don’t use this for: new accounts · Star Chart only · players without Helminth
Helminth, shards, and a finished configuration
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: No exalted — Final Stand is an ability rain, not a grid. Precision Intensify is legal if you only care about 4 — full Strength is better if Tharros still has to strip.
Alternative if…
- You don’t have Helminth yet → First Spear
- Star Chart only → First Spear
- This is too much Forma / cost → Final Stand — Steel Path
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/5 · required — 5 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth 0/1 · required — Subsume Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel)
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel)) · 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.
Your next step
Next: Final Stand — Endgame
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Final Stand — EndgamePlan
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 SpearThe 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.
- FinalFinal Stand — OptimisedOptimised · Endgame · 4–5 Forma
Upgrade from here
Final Stand — Endgame
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Final Stand — EndgameFarm the gap
- Intrepid Stand — Intrepid Stand
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel) over Axios Javelin (1)
Axios is the grouping toy. Roar multiplies the rain. Nourish is Viral plus energy on top of Rally. You can keep Axios on the group config.
Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.
- 3–5 Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Rain and strip.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Tharros into Stand with no speech.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
Subsume Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel)
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. Intrepid Stand is bought. You want the tile to drown.
- Time to a playable copy
- After the augment and ~250% Strength.
- First mission to practice in
- SP Exterminate or Onslaught. You want clumps, not a hallway of singles.
2 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
Rain loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Rally Point (3). Roar or Nourish (1) if you subsumed.
- 2Tharros Strike (2) the pack so armor is gone.
- 3Final Stand (4). Hover. Rain. Direct-hit the heavies, let puddles cook the rest.
- 4You are airborne and loud. Recast Rally before you land broke.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Rally and the subsume
3Buffs on before you leave the floor.
- 2
Tharros, then Stand
4Naked pack, then rain. Overguard should tick up.
You will know it worked when: Hover. Javelin puddles. Fat Overguard.
Common mistakes
Helminthing Tharros 'because Roar is more damage'
Then the rain hits armor. Put Roar on 1.
When this feels easy
- 1Tau Strength shardsRain scales.
- 2Don't Precision-Intensify if Tharros still has to stripIt only buffs 4. Full Strength pays both.
Parts checklist
0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
19 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●styanaxframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intrepid Standaugment
- 5○Blind Ragemod
- 6○Transient Fortitudemod
- 7○Umbral Intensifymod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Equilibriummod
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 15○Roar (Rhino)helminth
- 16○Nourishhelminth
- 17○Helminth · Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel)unlock
- 18○Steel Pathunlock
- 19○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
- Intrepid Stand
missing · Steel Meridian / Arbiters of Hexis · 25,000 standing
Final Stand hits grant Overguard to you and allies. The tank-nuke augment.
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
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
Roar (Rhino)missing · Own Rhino
Axios is the grouping toy. Roar multiplies the rain. Nourish is Viral plus energy on top of Rally. You can keep Axios on the group config.
- Nourish
missing · Helminth
Axios is the grouping toy. Roar multiplies the rain. Nourish is Viral plus energy on top of Rally. You can keep Axios on the group config.
Recommended
Arcane Energizemissing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth
100-energy Stand plus Rally is still hungry on Blind Rage.
Optional
Helminth
Subsume Roar (Rhino) or Nourish (Grendel) over Axios Javelin (1)
Axios is the grouping toy. Roar multiplies the rain. Nourish is Viral plus energy on top of Rally. You can keep Axios on the group config.
Strength
~250–300% (rain damage, Tharros toward full strip ~200%)
Duration
155%+ Rally and Stand hang time
Range
145–175% so javelins find neighbors
Full Tharros strip is a Strength breakpoint (~200%). Check the Arsenal. Intrepid Stand Overguard scales with hits, not with hope.
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
- 100%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 55 / 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
Styanax mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1Intrepid StandFinal Stand hits grant Overguard to you and allies. The tank-nuke augment.Steel Meridian / Arbiters of Hexis · 25k
- 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 3Transient FortitudeOrokin Vaults
- 4Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 6Primed FlowBaro / relics
- 7EquilibriumThe New Strange
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove specters | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intrepid Stand Final Stand hits grant Overguard to you and allies. The tank-nuke augment. | Steel Meridian / Arbiters of Hexis · 25k | |
| 2 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Transient Fortitude | Orokin Vaults | |
| 4 | Umbral Intensify | The Sacrifice | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro / relics | |
| 7 | Equilibrium | The New Strange |
No exalted
Final Stand is an ability rain, not a grid. Precision Intensify is legal if you only care about 4 — full Strength is better if Tharros still has to strip.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength stacks into the rain.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
100-energy Stand plus Rally is still hungry on Blind Rage.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Crimson · StrengthRain and strip.3–5 Tauforged · Netracells / EDA - 2
Amber · Casting SpeedTharros into Stand with no speech.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength Rain and strip. | 3–5 Tauforged | Netracells / EDA | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed Tharros into Stand with no speech. | 1 | EDA |