Warframe offers many weapons, Warframes, equipment, and more for players to use across this compelling 3rd person shooter/ MMO game. There are efforts made by Digital Extremes to honor all type of playstyles and make the game as accessible it can to everyone.
Fist weapons feature heavily in Warframe, allowing players to beat their enemies up as they navigate through dungeons and large open-worlds collecting resources and completing objectives. However, not all fist weapons are made the same with some providing higher base stats than others. Players will want to collect the best fist weapons they can find to play how they want even on higher-leveled missions. Warframe is a game with great PvE multiplayer and is much more enjoyable to players when they use weapons that they like.
7 Ankyros
Not only the worst fist weapon but the worst melee weapon in the whole of Warframe, Ankyros is the perfect definition of "mastery fodder", ie a weapon players only used to gain Mastery Affinity. The Ankyros has low base damage (90) with primarily Impact damage.
Players may enjoy the high attack speed while using the Ankyros, but they should avoid a Warframe beginner mistake of getting attached to bad weapons, and move onto better fist weapons as soon as they can. The Ankyros is a requisite for both the Ripkas and the Tekko, so players will have to build it at least twice.
6 Furax
While almost as disappointing as the Ankyros, the Furax is slightly better than this weapon but still falls into the realm of being a Mastery Fodder weapon that players won't want to use for speedy ninja battles in late-game missions.
The Furax requires the player to have attained Mastery Rank 5 and can be bought from the market, making it easily accessible for all players. Players should move onto a better fist weapon as soon as they can, but keep the Furax handy to use it to build the Knux weapon.
5 MK1-Furax
Surprisingly, the MK1-Furax is better than its newer variant, which is something no other weapon types have done before in the game. The MK1-Furax is likely to be the first fist weapon that players come across, but it's advised to get the mastery for this and then discard in favor of a better fist weapon. The fist weapons are some of Warframe's best melee weapon types, but the MK1-Furax is a disappointing example of this.
The MK1-Furax can be bought without a blueprint from the market and doesn't require a Mastery rank. It has Vazarin polarity allowing players to use the Gaia's Tragedy and Seismic Palm.
4 Tekko
The Tekko is the first example of a decent Warframe fist weapon that can be used in medium difficulty missions in the latter planets on the Star Chart. They are also Atlas' signature weapon, making them ideal for players who favor Atlas due to the higher status chance mixing this Warframe and weapon grants the player. The Tekko may not be useful for Warframe's Steel Path, but it is useful even on later mission in the original Star Chart.
The Tekko can be bought from the market making it accessible to players and its Vazarin default polarity makes it ideal for mixing with the Gaia's Tragedy and Seismic Palm stances, Players should look to move on from the Tekko after a while, as there are better fist weapons to spend Forma and Orokin Catalysts on.
3 Furax Wraith
The Furax Wraith is the best variant of the Furax weapon family, and is a pretty decent fist weapon that players can use even on higher-leveled missions. It has heightened critical stats and increased Combo Count, and like all fist weapons deals Impact damage.
The Furax Wraith can be obtained from Tier 5 Cetus bounties. The components and blueprint can all be traded and when the Dog Days event happens they can be purchased with Nakak Pearls. The multiple ways to acquire this weapon means that players can expect to use them at some point.
2 Ankyros Prime
The Primed version of the Ankyros, this weapon enjoys much higher base stats meaning it is faster and stronger. The Ankyros Prime is the second best fist weapon in the game, so players should definitely look to acquire this when they can. Using Warframe's beginner mods can make this weapon even more powerful.
The Ankyros Prime has an Unairu stance polarity meaning players can use the Fracturing Wind stance mod. It also has two innate Madurai polarities on base meaning more mods can be used for less cost.
1 Tekko Prime
The Tekko Prime is the best fist weapon in Warframe and is a very strong melee weapon overall. Unlike the other fist weapons, this weapon deals Slash damage rather than Impact. It has Vazarin stance polarity, so it can be used with the Gaia's Tragedy and Seismic Palm stances, and it has two Madurai polarities in the mod slots. Mixing this with one of Warframe's best shotguns leads to a powerful build.
Players can acquire the Tekko Prime by doing Void Relic missions. As players will know many of the void relics available are vaulted or unvaulted on rotation throughout the year, so depending on when players are trying to obtain these they may not have the means to acquire the weapon if it is vaulted.
Warframe was released in 2013 and is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox One Series X|S.